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So my family has had to make so many adjustments to our daily life since I have started season 34 of Dancing with the Stars. I'm just not able to be there as often as I used to be.

You know, I used to regularly pick both of them up from school, take them to karate, take them

to baseball. On the weekends, I was always at their baseball games, and we could have playdates,

and we would, you know, do movie nights. And now I just haven't really been able to be too present. I am,

if I'm not at rehearsal, I'm doing an interview for Dancing with the Stars, like our master

interviews or our OTFs. Or I have press with these other two guys. Or I'm doing one of the many

podcasts that we do. And I, you know, or I'm

seeing the PT, you know, or I'm in a wardrobe fitting or I'm at a hair and makeup fitting or we're

in camera blocking. Like there's always something to do. And my dad called maybe about two weeks ago.

And he said, what I really want to know is how are the kids handling it?

Because this is such a total change for them.

And at the time, the very honest truth was they were thriving.

Like Jensen was doing great.

Mom's out of the picture.

Everybody's getting along fine.

I mean, everyone was stoked.

And like, I felt really good being able to be like, wow, it's such a relief to not have all

of this, you know, day-to-day constant house pressure, like taking care of the

house pressure, taking care of the kids pressure. And I've really, what a selfish, but like,

selfish in a great way thing I've been able to do to just really like, what a gift. I've been

able to focus on this. And it's been just about me and it's felt really good.

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