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Hey, Liz.

Hey, Cal. How are you? You know, Liz, I'm great. Thanks for asking.

I just got back from Haddy's field trip. And it's such a cute little field trip because they take the preschoolers to the dollar tree and then they pick out a present for their parents.

It was just like a cute fun sentiment. Two things. First of all, I know this like isn't news

to anyone. Dollar tree is not a dollar. Nothing under a dollar 25. Most things, a dollar 50 to three dollars.

Now, we only had a dollar.25 to spend per kid.

It was exhausting.

Because, like, things that should have been $1.25 were $1.50.

And this girl, so, like, you get paired up with different kids who aren't your kids.

Like, I was shopping with this little girl.

And she's like, I want to find my dad a coffee mug.

And I'm like, surely we can handle that.

They were all $1.50. I finally just gave her an extra quarter. I gave her my Aldi's quarter. I said, we have to just be done with this. Yeah. Like, and then I did tell the teacher, I was like, I think whatever donation you need to get these kids all $1.50 to spend, I'm willing to do that. I mean, how many kids are there? There's like 20 kids. You need to throw $5 at the problem, so I can spend $1.50. I said I like to be solution-oriented, and I will happily give you $5. I was like, I'll even do it next year. I won't even have a kid here. It's fine. Like, let me just do that because like it was, I was just, I mean, it's a good enough lesson where it's like, no, you can't get the $5 item. But there was nothing for $1.25. Nothing. Yeah. Yeah. So I have no idea what I think I think this.

I think the school just needs to like go with inflation and like everything's expensive. So.

Well, and you know these schools are always asking for money. So I'm like, can they ask every parent for a quarter?

Um, and so I have no idea what had he got me because, you know, like she was with a different mom. So it's just a fun little field trip. And the way that it's just my Super Bowl, because I, I pull up to the preschool and, you know, the parents who aren't going leave the car seat. So I just see 10 car seats. And I'm cracking my knuckles. And I'm like, let's go. It really should count towards your CPST sort of like recertification.

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