It’s just Becky and Allyson this week (Katie’s off living her best conference life), but we’re not flying solo, we’re welcoming our very first guest! After a quick catch up that includes kindergarten chaos, Moana Jr. auditions (95 kids?!), and a week that felt like a full moon fever dream, we bring in Alex Baker (@ketchuptocancer) for a conversation that’s equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring, and unexpectedly hilarious. Alex shares how losing his wife to stage 4 colorectal cancer changed everything and how he turned grief into forward motion through running, fundraising, and his mission to “catch up to cancer” (yes, there’s ketchup involved). We talk charity marathons, the pressure of fundraising, why forward is a pace, and how a wild idea (and 5,000 ketchup packets) grew into something way bigger than he ever imagined. Bring tissues… and maybe a mustard-only hot dog.

This week is all about weather chaos and the whiplash that comes with it. From thunder sleet in Texas to snow covered Indiana mornings, and Florida kids somehow overheating in January. We’re catching up on how wildly different (and equally unhinged) winter looks depending on where you live. We talk school delays, panic grocery runs, sundress worthy recess, remote learning curveballs, and what happens when winter shows up without warning. Same friends, same chaos… just a very confused forecast.

This week is a full on catch up with all the chaos we swear is “normal” at this point. Becky officially enters her sourdough era (starter, folds, the whole nine yards) and brings two kindergarten stories that prove you truly can’t be prepared for what five year olds will say, especially when bathroom help is involved. Allyson shares a birthday weekend tradition that takes a turn when one kid gets sick plus a surprise snow day and the very real Indiana obsession with delays (weather… or basketball… or both). And Katie recaps marathon weekend: carb loading, expo crowds, and a finish line moment that turns into a “guardian angel” story, complete with salt tabs, a Boston Qualifier, and a new coffee date. Same friends, same chaos… and somehow, it all comes full circle.