Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms a Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy. How are you?

I'm doing wonderful.

Good.

Me too. We're going on a trip tomorrow. By the time you guys hear this, we'll be back.

Yes, exactly. Yeah, I'm a little in that pre-trip mode. Everybody knows that mode. I don't really have to even explain it.

But you know, you just get in that stress mode when you're about to go out of town

and you have to get things ready and things ready for your kids if they're not coming with you.

And it's just a lot of things. But yeah, I'm super excited. We are going out of town because,

and I don't think we even mentioned this one time before this episode. We normally never do.

We really keep things close to the best. I know. We really do.

Yeah. But surprise, Melissa and I were invited to be a part of podcast movement this year.

So it's in Nashville and it is, it's this weekend. Well, actually, by the time you listen to

this, you've already missed it. So we did a terrible job of announcing that we were going to be

there. But we are or we did. And yeah, we're super excited to go. We're leaving tomorrow. So we are both kind of

in the same boat, I think. But I'm doing well and very happy. Oh yeah. I just looked down at my

hands and I have my hands clasped, you know, like my fist, like Arthur in the cartoon, you know, like

the angry fist. That's how clenched my fist are. And I think it's a stress thing, getting

everybody ready and like washing kids clothes and like they're not coming with me. But I know that

if they don't have clean clothes, right. I know what's going to happen. Exactly. So it's getting

all those little fun things done. And then overpacking because you don't know what you're going to want to wear and what if you change your mind. Of course. Shoes are these going to be comfortable? I need to be comfortable. And then, you know, throw in my Rothies, of course. Hat tip to Rothies. And, you know, but it's going to be so much fun. I'm very, very

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