You're listening to The Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. We're two former next door

neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in,

have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. In honor of Mother's Day, we thought it would be

fun to share about things that we hope our kids learn from us.

So we're going to just go back and forth and talk about some things that we really hope our kids learn from us before they leave our houses, from the serious to the silly.

But before we get started, let's check in with what's going on around the neighborhood for you.

I wanted to share that just recently, Chris and I had an awesome day date to plan summer.

Ooh, this is a great idea.

This worked so well.

So I, you know, have lots of plans and thoughts and love to organize.

And I think I can do a great job planning summer.

But what can happen is I can get overwhelmed with so many choices.

Yeah, and I get very focused on like wanting it to be the most perfectly efficient,

you know, all those things and then can get overwhelmed about how much we're going to

spend and all that stuff. So bringing Chris in and both of us using our strengths just helps

so much. I feel like he is so great about kind of

cutting through the overwhelm and boiling it down to like what matters or this seems like this

would really work well for our family, like looking at the finances with me. Like here's a budget.

So you do whatever within that budget. So that was just so great. And I just, I love having his buy-in,

too. Of course, it's also his summer. And so you can help plan. Yes. And I think I can get

carried away with maybe making too much of a schedule for things. And he's good about like,

you know, we don't have to have something planned every single week. Right. So that was really good. And then also part of that is I did

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