A first grader hands a bus driver a note—“Call 911. My mom is being held hostage.”—and everything stops. We walk through what happened, why a quick-thinking adult matters, and the unglamorous systems that make help possible: routes, names, addresses, dispatch, and the calm to act when rules say “no phones.” That story threads into our life in schools—Kefla’s first IEP in a decade, the anxiety and pride of getting the details right, and the daily tug-of-war between data demands and the five-minute rituals that actually move learning forward.
We talk vocabulary gaps you can hear in a room, how standards crowd out synonyms, and how a simple circle—“How are you, really?”—teaches feeling words, builds trust, and quietly makes readers. We even bring AI into the mix: useful when your prompts have shape, a burden when teachers are already sinking. And because life isn’t just heavy, we veer into homecoming plans, chili season supremacy, a cursed chicken Philly quest that ends in hangry surrender, and a house divided over Napoleon Dynamite and Adam Sandler. Marriage gets its humor chapter: Tulum misadventures, kids improvising duct-tape casts, and why you shouldn’t sit by us at serious events. We close with EV tire lessons (rotate them!), spa bucket lists, and a simple truth—this podcast is our weekly ritual of noticing, laughing, and building a small legacy our family can revisit.
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