Comedy Through the Chaos: Parenting Edition

Hello and Happy Saturday Cadresphere. Oof. My framing is not good today and I look shiny. Let's see if we can fix that while we get to know one another. Hello everybody. Happy Saturday to you. I am Ms. Shannon. I am housed out of the great state of Minnesota. I'm a variety of word related things like a comedian, a corporate speaker, a voice actor. But you can't tell that right now from listening to me because I have not warmed my voice up at all because I haven't even been talking to the cat. Today you are the first people I am talking to.

I'm also the proud parent of an adorable 17 year old boy who happens to be high supports on the autism spectrum. Hello, Speak Wonder, how are you? I am de shining. My light was like ooh girl, girl, you look the most shiny. Ah, but that is a. I'll call it a glow. So don't worry, I like glowing. But I don't need to come to that. Not even the cat? No, I hadn't even talked to the cat today. The cat came in, yelled at me as usual to give them wet food and I did it without any words. It was too early in the morning, but hello to you my friend.

Hello to you my friend. Happy Saturday. I wanted to share a little epiphany that I had as we are continuing here, that it's not a competition. You shine as well my friend. But thank you very much for the compliment. I appreciate it. Sometimes it's just good lighting and a good filter. Today it's. It's good lighting. It's good lighting. It's good lighting my friend. So I wanted to share a little epiphany as we round out the month of August where we've been having a lot of conversations about savoring different moments.

Epiphany. Yes, you'll like this one. So I put a little video in the Cadre community that you can go and find at your leisure. And so yesterday we are. We'll flash forward first of all, set the stage. So coming up next Tuesday is going to be our first day back to school for the 2025, 2026 school year. So that is what I'm spending this weekend doing. Just some last settling moments, recharging, you know, getting my kiddo all set up and then we're going to go back to school on Tuesday. And I am encouraged about that.

Even though sometimes school. Yeah, I know. August did just fly by. Speak Wonder. So you know of course that transition back to school can be tenuous very often and that happens, you know, here, and I know it happens with a lot of families. Anytime you're going through a big transitional shift and that happens to happen often during changes in the season. You know, we only have a couple more weeks of official summer and then we are on into fall. And even if fall is your favorite season like it is for me, it's still, you know, a big shift and you start going, okay, well, what am I going to do in this next season?

And especially if you're in a part of the country that has a harsh winter like that, like we do here, it can be very anxiety driven for people. So, you know, this weekend playing it mostly chill, hanging out with you, hanging out with my kiddo, cleaning the house. Because I've been really busy, not only doing my normal career stuff, but working at the Minnesota State Fair. So things have been a little different. So last night as we are want to do my kiddo and I, I kind of go through some different grooming things.

So last night I asked him if he was ready for me to cut his hair and we would do our little back to school haircut that we do. So I get out our trimmers and I cut his hair and bring it up and just tighten them up a little bit, which I do fairly often. And it got me thinking about a in my head back to school haircut that was in my head a long time ago. A long time ago. And I remembered that I had posted a video of me giving him a background.