The Bird Show.

All right, before we get to our regularly scheduled program, if this text message doesn't sum up parenthood, I don't know what does.

All right, I'm going to be leaving here soon to go walk my kid into school for his first day of pre-K.

My mama heart is heavy.

It's light and heavy.

It's bittersweet.

It's all the things.

It's all the emotions. It's all the emotions. It's all the

feels. So last night I put my son to bed and I line up our staircase, right? His room's at the top of

the stairs. I line up the staircase all the way down the stairs with his stuffies and signs that

says, woohoo, first day, pre-k, go Jimmy, be brave. You rock. Be kind. We love you.

So I'm looking at my handiwork last night and I'm like, yeah, mama, you did that.

This is an idea I've had for a while and I'm like, you, you, you did that. My husband sends a text.

He woke up at 618 on his own. Not in a great mood yet though. Was not a fan of his stuffies being on the stairs. No. Took him out of the routine. Like were they all on shelves and stuff like that? Is how he normally sees him? Well, they were on like, well, some of them were like, yeah, in his room, but I snuck him out. He didn't know. And then others are in like this like giant basket in his playroom or whatever. And he never plays with these stuffies, y'all. Like the top tier stuffies are in the bed with him. All right? He sleeps with horsey. He sleeps with Hammerhead. He sleeps with Bronosaurs and he sleeps with baby turtle. Those are the four, right? The core four are in his bed with him. Everybody else is pretty much chopped liver. They're side characters. So I line them up and I put the size. I'm like, oh, he's going to think this is so cute. Yeah, from Bart was not in all caps a fan of his stuffies being on the stairs. And I was like, well, please try to get a photo of him with his sign because I made a sign that says first day pre-k like I do every single year.

If not, we can do it after school because we've a thousand percent done that.

And he was like, I got video.

Fantastic.

No good deed goes unpunished.

There you go.

Even as a parent.

Speaking of parenting here, okay, so a lot of you guys are feeling it today, the same way Kristen is, the same way Cassie is, you know, watching your kids going to school for the first time. Doesn't even necessarily have to be the first time, right? But there's a bit of like, it's a loss, right? It's a loss, but it's also a gain for sure. Because your kid is going to school for the first time. They are growing up and that's the bad thing also. They're growing up. Our little babies are growing up. And they walk into school. Maybe they turn around and acknowledge you. Maybe they don't. It's also bittersweet. But there are some that will get over that bitter sweetness and they will be so happy when they get home because it is so quiet.

And they get to do things around the house without hearing,

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