As we are feeling extra anxiety this week and not sleeping well, we decided to do a light-hearted episode about our daughter Echo in honor of her birthday. We talk about her wild side, her short fuse, and why we call her an animal whisperer.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• (0:35) Do you feel like quarantine has got you down?
• (01:15) Spoiler alert: Echo didn’t turn into a mermaid last week.
• (6:30) Echo is delightful, but has a short fuse.
• (9:30) Echo writes letters to us, similar to the letters I used to write to my own mom.
• (11:30) She is the animal whisperer of our family.
• (15:00) Echo’s nickname since birth is Gecko, and it’s the only nickname in our family that has stuck.
• (19:00) She can be a challenge because she has a little bit of ADD and needs to move, and it’s hard to keep her attention.
• (22:00) Echo is the queen of magnificent flip-outs.
• (26:00) We needed a chill episode this week because Rochelle is stressed out and not sleeping.
• (29:00)Rochelle does not want to send the kids back to school in the fall if there’s isn’t a vaccine.
• (29:30) Scott is just a few weeks away from his 39th birthday.
• (31:00) Scott has a kind heart and tells a story of feeling sadness for a pizza delivery boy.