Hi, Colleen.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you much.

I'm so excited.

I'm so excited to have you here.

I mean, I think I was telling you

before we started recording, like I came

across your stuff on, TikTok and ology.

Probably like, I don't even

know, time is funny, but it was

probably like over a year ago.

I just love the stuff you put out.

So thank you for taking the

time and being here today.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I've been on TikTok a little over three

years now and have been following you

and all of your wedding shenanigans

that you put out there and amongst

everything that's happening, like

you're really good comedic relief

for me, so I appreciate that.

Oh, good.

I love hearing that.

It's kind of goofy just how the

internet, I was just telling someone

it feels like, talent show on Phone,

you know, like you're scrolling.

And I just kind of like talent

showing when you're like in

elementary school and everyone's

like, Hey, check out what I got.

And then it's like the next

person, they're like, Hey,

check out what I have to say.

And it's just this funny world we live in

it really is.

You know, like I can envision myself

doing little somersaults on, the stage

in middle school being like, TA Yes.

And now here we are.

Oh my gosh.

So true.

I mean, you cover a lot of it too.

I feel like the world and everything

that's going on, it's just there's a lot

of negative things going on in the world.

Scary things.

And so I just, I feel like

maybe it's my way of detaching.

I don't know.

I don't know what it's, yeah.

But, um, but you know, and

things are really heavy right now and

they're really heavy for people of

all ages, especially in education and

that detachment piece, that's needed.

So we can get up every

day with a full bucket.

And get to work and keep changing lives.

So your detachment is my healing.

So I appreciate you so much.

Well, thank you.

I know.

I appreciate what you do too.

Can you tell everyone a little

bit about yourself, what you do,

and kind of how that pivoted into

what you share on social media?

Yeah.

So, this is gonna be my 15th year in

education and I've kind of always had

more of a social work type background.

And that's originally what

I got into TikTok for.

I was raising awareness to help build a

comfort closet for, kiddos in my school

that were from at-risk backgrounds.

So, I would put out items that we

needed, like toothbrush, socks,

toothpaste, deodorant, just to get

eyeballs on that Amazon wishlist link,

and then it kind of blew up from there.

And then.

After the election when everything

kind of in my world pivoted and changed

a little bit, so did my content.

because everything in the education

world is shifting and changing and I

wanted to let parents know, Hey, this is

happening in your neck of the woods, so

come on up to the front and hear about it.

So now I share more, educational laws

that are changing, things that are

adapting within the educational world.

I love that.

I feel like it's so important because

I've seen especially in your own content

too, people will sign off on things or

they're like, agree with something until

they really get to the nitty gritty and

they're like, wait, what's happening?

Wait, department of

Education's going away.

and they're like picking up these things.

They're like, wait, what

does that actually mean?

And they need people that are in it that

know the ins and outs to explain it.

Yeah.

And, and it's easy for every single person

to kind of wear a school hat in the sense

because they were a student at one point

in their lives, but the lens that they

see things through is that student lens

and maybe not what's behind the curtain.

So hopefully I can just pull that curtain

back for people and let them see the

nitty gritty of what things actually mean.

Yeah.

And so like of going back, what inspired

you to initially become an educator?

You said Did you start with social work

and you were kind of in that field and

then you kind of moved into teaching?

Yeah, so, I kind of was always

in the school social work realm.

And then just recently, a few years ago, I

kind of navigated more into the classroom

and now I work at a Catholic school.

So I'm a Catholic, English,

a second language director.

And what I do is I ensure kiddos

that do not have English as a first

language, have equitable education.

now more than ever.

That's extremely important.

I feel so passionate about this because

I also grew up in an extremely, like

poor environment, poor households.

So I know what it took to

like claw my way to get here.

And I know that if it's possible

for me, it's possible for other

kids if I can just be that adult

that I needed when I was younger.

So that's definitely what fuels me every

day that I get up and I go to school.

I love that I've, heard that quote before

about like, need to almost think about

who you needed as a child because that

should be kind of like who we are as

adults, because that's gonna kind of

put us back in that mind frame of like,

okay, I really need an adult to hear me.

I really needed an adult to

support me or understand me.

to make you feel seen and valid.

Yeah, absolutely.

I feel like that's such a pivotal

thing to remember because we get

kind of lost in the day to day.

And then especially as educators,

you want someone to really care.

Like, my daughter's too young for school

yet, but when she's in school, I'm like,

you want a teacher like that that's gonna

really think like, okay, they're gonna

hear everything I say or they're gonna

see me as a person, like even if I'm

quiet or, you know, those kind of things.

Absolutely.

And see the parent too, because the

parent is an important part of all that.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

So do you think, so I know you've kind of

posted before about your content changing,

especially after the election, but I

think even before the election you were

kind of, talking a little bit more about

what could happen, these kind of things.

So with working at a Catholic

school, is it hard to kind of.

Do you have to stay in line with

certain things or say certain things?

I don't wanna like get you in

trouble either, so I wanna make sure

you're saying things that are okay.

Mm-hmm.

are there guidelines like can you say

certain things online or where does

that fall in line with your teaching?

Well, I think in general that

is kind of just a teacher box

that everyone has to stay in.

when it comes to my Catholic faith

and where I align, at first was really

nervous to kind of like go out in

those waters and let people know like,

Hey, I'm not a public school teacher.

I'm a Catholic school teacher.

But once I showed people that.

I am here for all kids regardless of

religion, race, background, culture.

People started to see my authentic,

views that I wanted to present and

the information that I was giving

people and it was well received.

There are definite lanes that you

have to stay in, as a teacher.

And then I think my lane is just

a tad bit smaller being a Catholic

school teacher, but the things

that I am bringing are fact-based.

Educational laws to people.

So I'm really proud of that.

And I think as long as I

stay in my lane, I'm good.

And I've had a lot of wonderful

support from my school community.

they have backed me up 110%.

they believe that every child has the

right to a free and equitable education

as I do regardless of race and religion.

So it's been really good.

but at the end of the day, I'm an

adult and I have to be able to control

what I say to stay in that lane.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

No, I love it.

I love that they're, behind you.

'cause I mean, just in general with like

content creators, like just different

jobs, I've heard different stories where

they're like, you can't say this, you

can't post this, you can't do this.

so it's really good to hear that

there's like supportive, schools

and communities out there.

chair, like a pivotal moment in

your life that kind of shaped

how you approach teaching.

I think one thing that changed my view

on how I view all kids in the classroom

is my son was diagnosed with Tourette's

Syndrome when he was in kindergarten and.

As a parent, just hearing that diagnosis,

not knowing what that looks like, in

our lives, let alone in the classroom,

surrounded by, kids he does not know.

it really made me like peel back my

eyelids and open my eyeballs to every

single kid has something different

that's going on inside of them.

Every single kid that is in front

of me is going to feel one way

or another on a certain day.

And my son deserved to have a teacher

that was like, okay, you are different

and you're unique and that's wonderful.

And how are we going to ensure that

you get the exact same care and

attention as every single other kiddo.

In here.

And I think as we're looking at things

today that are happening politically.

We have to remember that we

are all just one diagnosis away

from having a unique child.

we're one car accident away from

having a child that might need to

be in a wheelchair that is going

to need different accommodations

and is going to need a teacher that

is, loving and caring and will do

absolutely everything for your kid.

Like they would for Susie Hugh, who

is always there 20 minutes early,

raising our hand star reader.

Mm-hmm.

Like every single child is different.

And I want my kid to have a

teacher that loves on him.

Like I love on every single baby that I

see every single day of the school year.

Mm-hmm.

So, like his diagnosis,

it was rough for us.

It was scary.

We didn't know what that would look like.

So that was hard.

yeah.

Such an important thing because you

said, anything can change in a minute.

I think.

A lot of times people just like look at

like, what's gonna affect me and me only?

Mm-hmm.

And if you look outside and say like,

well, how is this affecting other people?

Or how is it affecting that family?

Or how is it affecting this family

that leads to more compassion

and empathy and understanding.

I think that's really

what the world lacks.

Because, because, not to like generalize,

but I just feel like those are the

things I've observed is there's a certain

group of people that let's look at like,

well, it doesn't bother me, so I'm fine.

Right.

It's like what anything can

change, anything could happen.

Like you said, like emergencies

happen all the time I don't know.

Things, just can change quickly.

That's such a good thing to think about.

okay.

I wanna switch into the

wedding, kind of topic.

And as I was kind saying to you before we

started recording is I'm kinda shifting

these podcast episodes a little bit

different to like more conversations

in the beginning, but I still haven't

kind of figured it out a transition.

Sometimes it just happens naturally

and other times I'm like, all

right, so onto the wedding stuff.

So sorry if it seems kind of abrupt.

We're working on it.

No first timer here.

I think it seems fabulous.

Okay.

I was just like talk my way through stuff.

or like, what is it called?

Not talk my way through it.

I don't know, I just like when

I dunno what I'm doing, I just

keep talking and figuring it out.

Girl.

Same.

And you're hand talker.

So, oh my gosh.

The number of people, when I first

started making content that would

like, hate comments about like

me using my hands, I was like,

I dunno, I don't know.

Yeah.

It just happens.

I get the same.

And then my next video I come

out 10 times harder just like.

You thought it was bad before, just wait.

I know, right?

It's like, I will make sure I do it now.

Well, yeah.

And so one comment I got last night was,

because you know, I do like the skits

and stuff, but every once in a while I

come on and I'll like explain something

or I'll give like a little background.

Someone basically was like,

no one likes when you do that.

Like, don't come on and explain things.

We're here for the skits

and the skits only.

Don't talk and waste our time.

People are so rude

keyboard warriors nowadays.

Like, it's absolutely ridiculous.

It's, I know, it's crazy.

I just have to

laugh at the ridiculous ones.

Okay, so starting off,

let's do a little, wedding.

Would you rather Ooh.

Completely Just random.

So, okay.

Um, some of them might be a little

tied to being a teacher, but then

we're gonna do like other ones.

So here we go.

Okay.

Would you rather have to teach a

class of 30 kids in full bridesmaid

attire or chaperone recess in high

heels the day after a wedding?

Oh my goodness gracious.

Well, with the amount of dancing that

I do and the way that I get into shout

and put my hands up in the air, yeah,

I'm definitely gonna go with the 30

kids in the classroom like, yeah.

A bridesmaids dress.

I love a good dress up

any day of the week.

Yes, I know.

It's a fun excuse to have like

a princess day or something.

Right.

Like since Wynn is dressing up bad at

school, so I totally will take that.

But my 41-year-old body nowadays after

wedding dancing, I can't like, oh my gosh.

Beautiful day recovery and yeah.

No

fun.

Yeah, I know.

It's funny how that like just changes

all of a sudden, when people have

like the full wedding weekend, I

need like one big day and then I

need like a couple days of recovery.

Thank you.

Yes.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

after a good wedding,

Oh my gosh.

Okay.

would you rather give a wedding toast

with no preparation or do the Chacha slide

solo in front of the whole reception?

Oh my gosh.

Chacha real smooth now.

Mm. I would much rather.

I think just give a wedding toast.

I'm a group dancer, but solo

dancing, like my face drops.

Like my face gets serious.

it's not very cool to look at.

I don't think anyone would want

that, but hand me a mic and I, you

know, cheers the bride and groom.

That's something I can Get behind.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

would you rather attend a wedding

where the ceremony lasts three hours?

Or one where the DJ only plays kids?

Bop.

Oh, okay.

that's a tough one.

Oh man.

this is almost like, would you

rather go to a three hour PD or

do a kids bop after school hour?

Oh my gosh.

think I know, I think I'm gonna still

go with the three hour ceremony.

Oh, I

know.

At least.

it's quiet.

At

least it's quiet.

Oh my gosh.

I think I would go kids b really?

Every once in a while.

I don't know if it's 'cause

of my daughter's too.

And so every once in a while, like

I get really into those kids bumps.

I mean, we, I mean they, they are catchy.

They're, they're catchy.

Luckily she's really into Wicked now.

So we listen to the Wicked

soundtrack, but play, I love it.

But, I love a good, Disney,

so I don't know about Kids.

Bop we'll see how that would go.

But I

think it's because when I imagine kids

bop, like I imagine like kindergartners.

All up on me, you know, like

jamming with me with their hands

going down, you know, like yeah.

That's just the vision that

I have from the experiences.

So yours and mine, maybe

a little different.

Yeah.

Different vibe.

Yeah.

would you rather sit at the all

singles table with ex students?

parents, or be seated

next to the couple's ex.

Oh my gosh.

I actually would take the

parent table for sure.

Yeah.

Without a doubt.

I have been really blessed with

wonderful parents I did eight years

in public school and I'm still

connected to so many of my public

school parents that I love and adore.

And the last like five years

in the Catholic school system,

I've been really lucky, so.

Oh good.

I bet that table's really fun.

Signed up.

Yeah.

like all those parents,

like letting loose.

I bet it would be like a great table,

right?

Yes.

Love that.

A

for everybody.

Yes.

Okay.

Would you rather wear a neon bridesmaid

dress that clashes with your skin

tone or have your name spelled

wrong on every wedding program?

Oh my goodness.

So I am the worst speller in the world.

I can totally see me misspelling

something in my own wedding.

I probably did to be honest.

I also wore the wrong colored

bridesmaid's dress in my

cousin's wedding two years ago.

So I've done that as well.

but I'm still gonna have to go

with if that bride wants me to

wear, the worst color in the world.

But she is like, this is my vision.

I've got you.

I'm ride or die for the bride.

you strike me as someone that would

be like a really great bridesmaid.

you're like hands on.

You're like, what do you need?

I got you.

Like, I just get that vibe from you.

Well, until, until literally you see

that I bought the wrong color, which

is before we're walking down the aisle.

So there when you're

walking down the aisle,

oh my gosh.

We walked into like the get ready room

where all the dresses are hanging up.

And the maid of honor comes up to

me and she's like, oh, Pauline.

Have you seen your dress?

And I'm like, yeah, it's hanging up.

It's so cute.

She's like, it's the wrong color.

So everyone had gotten

like a shade of sage.

Okay.

And mine was just a different

shade of sage green.

And

you could tell So it from

different like places or like,

she told you oh, get it sage.

And just sent like a picture of

what she liked and then everyone

just went and got thrown or, so I

confirmed via text and

I've always got receipts.

I pulled that out and before I bought it

I was like, this is the color correct.

And she said, correct.

But the bride, my cousin,

she was so relaxed.

She's like, I don't care.

cause I'm crying at this point.

Aw.

She's like, I don't care.

You're walking down the aisle.

You know, I'm like,

I'll stand in the back.

I don't have to be in the wedding.

Like, oh,

was it that different?

it was like one shade lighter.

you could,

you could tell,

you could tell I ruined the

wedding pictures for sure.

Oh.

But you know, this is the family.

She was a great, I mean, she's just a

great person, so I got really lucky.

but yeah, whatever the bride

needs me to do, I'm gonna do it.

Oh my gosh.

I feel like, especially now too, it's

like I've seen it more weddings where the

bridesmaid dresses don't exactly match.

I know.

I actually love that.

Yeah, I know.

I feel like it's adding

a little more uniqueness.

I think, like at my wedding it was from

Birdie Gray, which is like, you can order

them all online, they're under a hundred

dollars you can pick like a color scheme.

So like, mine was like mov, but

there's like three shades of mov

and people are like, what color?

I'm like, I don't care.

any of them.

Any of them,

they're gonna look so pretty.

I feel like gone are the days where

people wear the exact same dress.

Right.

Maybe I'm sure it happens

here and there, but

Yeah.

And in my wedding, I just did black satin.

All the girls just had to do a black

satin and it needed to be like t

length and didn't care other than

that, so yeah, it was really unique.

I love the non-uniform look.

Yeah.

And that's probably the Catholic school

teacher in me coming out being like,

eh, we don't need a uniform up in here.

We're

done with the uniforms, please.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

Okay.

Let's move into some wedding

hot takes and stories.

You said you have a story of

how you met your husband at a

wedding, so let's get into that.

Okay, so I met Mr. Borger.

we were both in the same wedding party

for my cousin almost 16 years ago.

And, he kind of clocked me right away

and was that's the girl I wanna marry.

So we got to the reception,

danced a little bit.

there was definite connection early on.

We both went our own ways.

the next week he called my

cousin, old school, got my number,

called me on the telephone.

I heard this man's voice

who does that anymore?

So un heard of these days.

I know.

And he asked me out on a date and

we have been together ever since.

But yeah, he went up to my cousin who

was the bride, and said, I just want

you to know I'm gonna marry that girl.

And

oh my gosh, that's like a romantic story.

I know I love, love.

Oh my God.

So how is he connected to the wedding?

Like was he like a groomsmen or He

was I guess your cousin's husband.

Yes, friend.

He was, a longtime childhood

friend of the groom.

Okay.

So now they get to be at family

functions together and we're

like pretty our kids together.

So it's.

wonderful.

I love that when they're already

kind of like connected, so there's

like no extra introduction.

you got an in, he's got an in.

and then for you, it was a family wedding,

so your family was probably already there.

did he like meet your parents then

at the wedding and everything?

I don't know if he necessarily

like, met them at the wedding.

Yeah.

But was invested in the fun that

my family can have for sure.

We are in good time, so I love that.

Yeah, he was there for it.

Oh, that's awesome.

I love that story.

'cause like, usually when I ask people

crazy stories, they're like, I mean, I

try to not put people on the spot, but,

I love that it was like

a positive good story.

Yes.

Because I always tell people, I'm like,

people just remember these crazy moments.

That's why I share them.

But like for the most part, there

are so many great wedding stories

and like fun moments and just

like, wild moments about, yes.

Things hanging out.

Awesome.

I love that.

Okay, let's get into

some wedding hot takes.

Okay.

These are people send me on Instagram.

We'll just kind of react together

and see uh, what our thoughts are.

Okay.

This one says buffets over plated

dinners faster, more variety and Fewer

awkward chicken and steak dinners.

so there was one summer, like my

husband and I had been married for maybe

like two years, and we legit had 10

weddings from like May until September.

mm-hmm.

He's five years older than

me, so my friends were in like

prime time wedding season.

Mm-hmm.

And it was almost every single wedding had

the same chicken with that white gravy.

I think it might.

Oh yeah.

Like on top with the mashed potatoes

and everybody thinks that they're

doing something special when

they're not, like it's just boring.

But one of our friends catered

in Qdoba at their wedding.

And I have never forgotten it.

I have never forgotten the Qdoba wedding.

And I hope that if this airs they

hear this and they know how special

their Qdoba wedding was to me.

So, I'm a fan of a buffet, you know,

poor girl from a poor neighborhood.

We loved our buffets growing up.

so I don't mind a good

buffet at a wedding.

I know.

I was just saying to someone, like

when I was younger at weddings, I

was like, years from getting married,

I was like, oh yeah, I wouldn't,

I don't think I would do a buffet.

I like the plated dinner.

And then as I got older I

was like, I love a buffet.

Like I just love it.

And then of course when I got

married I did a taco bar and I

was like, this is where it's at.

Oh, you did the, you did

the taco.

There are people that came to your

wedding that 20 years from now are

gonna be like, I went to a taco of our

wedding and it's going to be you girl.

Yeah.

That is the wedding that

they are referencing.

It's yours.

I was just like, I. Never really was a

big fan of plated dinners unless they're

like, I don't know, every once in a while.

Yeah.

Like surprised me.

Really good.

But I also worked at a hotel for,

gosh, three years in college.

I would saw all the banquet foods and

I saw them and not like saying they

were gross or anything, but like I

saw how they would keep 'em warm and I

just, I don't know, just not my thing.

And so I was like, when there's a

buffet though, you take what you want.

Maybe go for seconds, get a

little guacamole in there.

We're good.

Yes.

I'm here for it.

I'm here for it.

And I love that you did.

I can't believe it.

You did Taco.

I know.

You're

seko.

Dopa.

I was like, yes.

It was pretty close.

It was like a local

place, but it was perfect.

Like perfect.

Yes.

Yeah.

And people appreciate it.

And pizza for a late night snack.

Yes.

the best weddings that bring out that

11:00 PM like fill your belly up snack.

The best.

Yes.

Oh, it's the best.

okay.

This next one says, not every

wedding needs a first dance.

Some couples just wanna party, so let them

I agree.

Like if you don't want

to do it, don't do it.

This is your special day.

Who am I to say that you have to do

something to make me feel special

or this whole thing makes sense.

Yeah.

That doesn't make any sense to me.

I know, and I've heard of

parents fighting back on it and

being like, no, you need this.

And it's like they don't wanna

be the center of attention.

They don't want that big moment.

it's okay.

Like no one should be forced to

do anything at their wedding that

they aren't comfortable with, or

that just doesn't interest them.

Right.

Did you do a first dance.

I did.

Yes, we did

too.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love it.

I love, I love a first dance.

Yeah.

But if they

don't want it, they don't want it.

Yeah.

A hundred percent.

We did a I'm gonna mess

up the word choreographed.

We practiced ourself.

Oh my gosh.

We are not

dancers either of us.

I'm not.

Okay.

So when are you posting that to TikTok?

I might have years ago.

I'm trying to think.

I might have to repost it.

I'm gonna get my scroll game

on.

I know.

I

gotta think about what I posted it.

probably not in a long time 'cause

people were like asking about it

once so we watched YouTube because I

was like, okay, one lesson I always

learn brides, if you're listening

was take some kind of dance course.

You don't have to like pay for it.

If you are doing a first dance,

you don't have to like pay for it.

There's free ones on YouTube, right.

and so we started doing that,

like just to learn like the steps.

So we, because I've gone to so many

weddings where you can tell they've

literally never danced together.

Right.

They stand there and they

just like look awkward.

They just sway and they're

like leaving lots of room for Jesus.

You know?

It's

like, come on guys.

let's not have that first time you guys

ever like, get in a room, dance together,

be like in front of a hundred people.

Right?

Right.

So like I knew I didn't

want that awkward moment.

So like, we did our step practicing

and then as we were watching, or

like YouTube, it was like suggestive

videos and it was like Taylor

Swift, oh gosh, what song is it?

pick your voice in.

It's

can, I'm gonna sing it and I can't sing.

Can I go where we can?

I can't sing.

Hold on, hold on.

I'm a swifty.

Give it to me.

Be this clo forever and ever.

And, and take me.

Huh?

And with a, that called

you're my, my lover.

Lover.

Lover.

I knew we'd get there eventually.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it was to lover.

Love that.

Yeah.

And there was a

really cute dance on YouTube

and they showed what to do.

So we did like a little spin.

He like picked me up in the end.

Oh.

And we didn't tell

anyone we were doing it.

So it was likes you

had like your, baby moment from

dirty dancing where he like Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Little less graceful than that, but Yeah.

But I do love that you told brides that

they could just get on YouTube, like

they don't have to spend their money.

Yeah.

Just hop on YouTube.

I love that you remind people

of that it doesn't have to

break the bank to be special.

Yeah, exactly.

Like, we literally did it in

our apartment living room and we

just practiced like every week.

I think we was like, Monday nights

we're gonna practice our dance.

Yay.

Okay.

next one is no ring, no

bring is totally fair.

Sorry to your new hinge date of two weeks.

What are your thoughts

on No ring, no bring.

Oh my thought.

Okay.

So my husband did not get invited to

a second cousin of mine's wedding.

We were not engaged.

We got engaged the next month.

Okay.

And during the time I was like, I can't

believe they won't let me bring him.

why would they not?

Mm-hmm.

And now that I have children of my

own and I see the cost of things I see

more of like that behind the curtain.

Mm-hmm.

I

can see that and I can

respect it for what it is now.

Yeah.

I tell you.

But when I was in the moment, it felt

like, oh, my partner isn't allowed to

be here, but I can understand it now.

I can respect it now.

Yeah.

No, I, I totally get that.

I had a similar thing, it was

my second cousin's wedding.

Gosh, I don't even know

how long ago it was.

My Now husband and I were just

dating, but we were living together

for years and they like it was weird.

It was like they invited all of us,

I can't remember, there was something

weird about it, we were like, oh, I

didn't know if they like, didn't know

his name or something like, weird,

but like I had been with him like

longer than this couple had been.

So like they'd met him many times.

this is your person at this point box.

Yeah.

This is like very clearly my person.

Yeah.

Like he like plus one of the other

weddings in the family, like, he'd

been to their house and then this

second cousin, it was like a fairly

like quick which no hate or anything.

Of course.

that's awesome.

Right.

But it was fairly quick.

So like, they had been together like a

short time and like he wasn't invited

and I was like, oh, I'm just making sure.

And again, now looking back, I was

not like super close with them.

So I was like, I get it.

And I ended up just going

with my mom and my sister.

Yeah.

Which, you know, tho those

can be fun times too.

And it was fun, you know, like

unexpected fun moments without, the

old ball and chain that's fun too.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And I do think there's a difference

between, you had been dating your now

boyfriend for years and I was almost

engaged versus like, oh, two weeks ago

I met Jimmy, down at the gas station.

Yeah.

Can he come too?

that's

different to me.

I know.

I just read this crazy Reddit story

this morning where it was like.

This girl was demanding to be invited

to her boyfriend of a few months

wedding, like, or his friend's wedding.

And he was like, oh, I

don't get a plus one.

And she's like, well, I'm your girlfriend.

I should be able to go.

And he's like, well,

they didn't gimme one.

I'm a groomsman.

I don't really wanna start anything.

And she's like, no, if you really

like me, you need to like bring me.

And that's where I'm like,

it's only three months.

Mm-hmm.

He's probably only

least friends for years.

I don't see why you have to

automatically give a plus one.

Right.

I agree.

I agree with that.

it's very nuanced.

I think in a lot of it, it's

not all black and white.

It's kind of like each individual

thing is gonna have different.

Rules.

Right?

we didn't do kids at our wedding.

We had a no kid wedding.

but our final total, even after we got

all the nos for our RSVPs, we were up

to like 370 people with no children.

Woo.

and that is hard for people to grasp too,

what do you mean I can't bring my kids?

Yeah.

But when

you are from such a ginormous family

When you eliminate those kids,

you're able to say, okay, my second

cousins can now come and, you know.

Yeah.

So I think we have to remember to pull

back the curtain on everything and

kind of say there's always more back

there than what we initially think.

Oh my gosh.

375 people,

too many.

That is insane.

it was like 360 people.

Too many.

Let me tell you, if you were

to do it again, do you think

you would do it a lot smaller?

I would do it so differently.

it would be much smaller, quaint,

and just a few close people, and I

would probably want to do a surprise.

And just if you wanted to show

up at this random thing I invited

you to, you get to come to my way.

Oh, I love that.

Yeah.

I love that.

I know, I think it's with age, we're

kind of like, because I always tell

people if I were to get married in

my early twenties or something, I

think I would've gone way too big.

Invited way too many people.

Mm-hmm.

I had just been outta college

or something, so I'd probably

had like all my college friends.

Yes.

My bridesmaids.

And it's like now here I am, 15 years or

ish out of college and I'm like doing the

quick math out of college and I'm like.

Half those people I don't

even talk to anymore.

So I'm like, I would not have

wanted them at the wedding.

'cause then they're gonna be

all these pictures like, Right.

And that's exactly how it,

and I'm blessed and lucky and it's

easy for me to be, to say now,

like, oh, I would do it differently.

But that's because I got that moment.

Mm-hmm.

You know, I got the big moment

of, all my friends, all my family.

But yeah.

I don't talk to the majority of

the people that were there at

no fault of theirs or mine life.

Just, I'm just, yeah.

You know, just happens.

Mm-hmm.

Did you get pushback with

the no kids at your wedding?

I did.

There were a couple people

that gave me pushback.

a couple family members

and a couple friends.

one of my bridesmaids had had her

daughter like two weeks before the

ceremony, so she brought her daughter

to like, feed her parents came

things like that didn't bother me.

Yeah.

But if I knew if I let.

One family bring their two kids,

then the next family had, and then

before you know it, it's 500 people.

Right.

And you know, so it's not that the

children, it was more so just I

needed the number as low as possible

to be able to invite all those

people I no longer see anymore.

Right.

And then you wanted to be equal

playing ground for everybody.

Right.

For everybody.

Totally makes sense.

Yeah.

That's one thing people don't realize.

And a lot of the stories I get, they're

like, just make me the exception.

Oh, my kids are fine.

It's like, well, you don't

understand if I let you bring

your two kids and then yours.

And then I read a story the other day

where an aunt was told it was just the

aunt and uncle, and then she RSVP'd for.

Her adult children who are four kids,

their significant others and their kids.

so she wrote in on the card

15 or something, extra people.

I can't

like you're not talking

to one extra person.

You're talking three extra tables.

Two extra tables,

yeah.

Like in what world and in what mind

does that aunt think that that is okay?

Like I can't wrap my mind around

people that do things like that.

But there's people out there that do it.

Mm-hmm.

All the time.

Yes.

It's crazy.

it's again that mind frame of me.

this is gonna affect me if I can't

do it this way, or Oh, it's fine.

Right.

I'm the exception.

She loves me so much.

Yeah.

I'm her favorite aunt.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's so funny 'cause when I'm

like acting them out, I'm like,

oh gosh, this is so dramatic.

I'm making this 10 times

worse than it probably is.

And people will comment and they'll be

like, no, that exact thing happened to me.

Or like, that is exactly what, yeah.

Talk that way.

Yeah.

I'm just like, oh man, this is wild.

Okay.

Let's get into this week's

wedding story submission.

So, as always, I've not read this yet, so

feel free to stop me at any time and react

or we'll just kind of react together.

Okay.

Here we go.

Hello Krista.

I just wanna say I love your skits.

I have a story that still

blows my mind years later.

I'm not sure if it's juicy

enough to be considered drama,

but it was wild for sure.

Back in October of 2013, I started dating

a man who was seven years older than me.

I was 23 and he was 30.

He had a younger sister who was

exactly one month older than me.

She was the baby of the family and

never did anything wrong in their eyes.

She was also a teacher, which becomes

important later because I'd always wanted

to be an elementary school teacher,

but had to pay for college on my own.

Most of his family lived in New York or

Florida, which also plays a role later.

Okay,

hold on.

So we've got a 30-year-old man.

Mm-hmm.

Dating a 23-year-old.

23-year-old?

Yes.

Okay.

And sister, who's also 23 is my Okay.

Teacher.

Got it.

Out of state relatives?

Yes.

Okay.

By May, 2014, my then boyfriend

had been in and out of the hospital

several times for various issues, even

having surgery to remove his appendix.

He thanked me for being by his side

through everything and bought me a nice

coach bag to show his appreciation.

I had never owned a designer purse before.

Then he asked my youngest sister for

help planning something my sister knew.

I absolutely hated surprises

and told me he wanted to

propose and ask for suggestions.

So she's just like, this

is what he wants to do.

Okay.

They met in October, 2013 by May, 2014.

So is it like a year and.

No, not even, no, that's

just like six months.

Oh, that's like six months later.

November, December, January, February.

Yeah, that's like five, six months.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Okay.

We are going, went

along.

Okay.

She gave him several ideas, so

I wouldn't know which one he'd

pick or when it would happen.

He also asked my biological dad for

permission, which was odd because

I'd always been closer with my mom.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

You would think he would know

that, but maybe not in five months.

I mean only six months.

Who knows?

Yeah.

in June, 2014, he proposed and I

said, yes, his youngest sister.

so now his youngest sister planned

a visit to our town in July, 2014

to see one of her guy friends.

she messaged her brother.

Okay.

I'm like drawing my head.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Duh.

Oh my gosh.

Saying she wanted to see him and meet me.

Okay.

So they hadn't met.

And she's getting ma. Okay.

So she has yet to meet even

his family at this point?

Yeah, and they're engaged.

okay.

So she was just giving us

background on the sister, but at

this point they hadn't even met.

So he meets this girl and

proposes in six months.

She hasn't met the family.

Maybe they don't live, comes in town.

Right.

So she comes in town

when she wants to meet.

We planned everything around her

visit, but when she arrived, she met

up with her friend and blew us off.

Oh, okay.

To this.

Oh, it gets better.

I have never met her

to this day.

Hold on.

Pause.

Pause one.

They're still together.

I don't know if she

just wrote to this day.

I've never met her.

oh.

So I'm like really confused,

we're talking 11 years later.

And that 2014, unless I'm reading, is

weird, flabbergasted.

Like, so there's nothing to

indicate if they are still

together, except the phrase.

To this day, I still have not met her.

Yeah, Okay.

Let's see what happens next.

But I'm pretty sure she means

like she just blew her off

that time and then that was it.

I don't know.

Okay.

She says we set our wedding date

for Saturday, October 25th, 2014.

So about a year after they met, no one

from his family was able to attend.

a So Sister blew them off,

doesn't go to meet her.

And then no one from his

family can just make it red.

That's red flag.

Red flags are everywhere for me.

They're, popping.

I'm sorry to this.

I mean, I don't know what happens next.

So, I'm sorry to this person

that, sent this in, but I'm just

like, this is all very fast.

Yeah.

And weird that his family can't show up.

Right.

And I think the age is like,

the red flags are like popping

and I'm like, hold on a second.

So I'm excited to hear what comes next.

Yes.

'cause I'm trying to put

it all together in my mind.

Yeah, same.

I know I've got like the family

tree going on right here.

Yeah, drawing here.

okay.

so no one from his family was able to

attend, but they planned to watch the

ceremony live on his sister and like, oh,

2014, is that like what on, like,

how do you watch it live in 2014?

Yeah,

because Facebook Did you like Zoom?

Like I don't even remember Facebook

Live in 2014 because was I in 2014?

Oh, I was having a baby.

Okay, you're like where?

Yeah, I was having a baby.

You were.

But yeah.

How do you I don't know

because I remember, okay, I

was working at trade show.

I honestly think it was 2014 one

of my first jobs outta college.

my manager, I worked in marketing

and she was like, look at this

new app where you can live stream.

And I remember her showing me,

and that was before Facebook

Lives and stuff, because then I

think it was bought by Facebook.

she had something, she had something,

something maybe even like FaceTime

and you could FaceTime then, right?

don't even know.

I

feel like I still had

a flip phone back then.

Like with the A, B, C texting,

you know, like, dun, dun dun.

Oh my gosh.

You had to hit it like three.

I mean, you're so young.

Did you ever have a phone like that?

I'm not that much younger

than you, honestly.

Oh, you look amazing Ellie.

How you tell me you're younger than me?

I'm turning 35 this year.

Okay.

Yes.

You are a baby.

You are a baby.

Is that what, five years?

That's not seven.

Seven.

it's funny though.

I see seven.

Oh, okay.

Well, I don't know.

Yeah, it's all, it's alright.

It's all I feel like I'm

at the age where like.

I was gonna say I have friends in

their twenties, but I'm like, I don't,

I guess I have some friends in their

twenties, but I have friends in their

four, you know, like it's Right.

You're

now to the point where

you can go both sides.

Yeah.

I mean, I had an hour long

conversation with my like 85-year-old

neighbor last night and it was

the best, like, I love chatting

with her age doesn't matter to me.

Yeah.

it's funny, I like see 2014 and

it also feels like yesterday and

then I'm like, wait a second.

I have to remind myself,

we're like in the 20.

That was a long time ago.

Yeah, it was a while ago.

Oh my gosh.

okay, she says, then on his sister's

birthday, September 26th, we're giving

some personal details though, so

hopefully they don't listen to this.

he was in the hospital again.

I had no cell service and was too focused

on my fiancé The next day I reached out to

her, to which, her belated happy birthday.

So I'm confused.

So.

She says they never met.

Maybe they just mean in person.

So she talked to her.

I think she has to meet in person.

yeah, because she came in town

in July, the sister blew her off.

Mm-hmm.

And then I'm thinking

September he gets sick.

And then the wedding is in October.

Yeah.

That's what it sounds like.

Yeah.

So, so they just haven't met in person.

They're a, B, C, texting

each other, right?

Yeah.

On their flip list.

Texting.

okay.

So she reached out to Wish her a

belated happy birthday and apologized

for missing it the day before.

She completely lost it on me,

calling me a horrible person for

ignoring her on her birthday.

No hard pass.

Yeah.

we're not like five or six years old

where we like, at this point, if she

was praying 24, you can survive one

day.

Right.

And your brother's in the hospital.

Yeah.

Like, that's another flags.

Huge red flag.

Yes.

where are his parents in all of this?

like she hasn't really mentioned them

except that they're just not coming.

They're not coming.

Which is weird ' cause it says

family's in New York and Florida.

They're in, Kansas City.

It says.

Then she insulted me saying she was a

teacher and I was too dumb to finish

college and get my teaching license.

Oh no.

Just missing a birthday by one day and

being with your brother in the hospital.

Oh no.

College.

you go to college, it does not make

you any smarter than anybody else.

I don't get that many Gives, gives you

a set of tools to be able to do a job.

It doesn't equate to being

smarter than anybody.

Right?

Yeah.

And don't, I just don't get

that mentality of like mm-hmm.

Oh, I went to college and you

didn't, it's like you probably went

to college 'cause you had either a

privilege to go to college, right?

You had funds to go to college.

you don't know the full story of,

and you'll just choose not to.

And that it's ally.

Okay.

And there's no one's smarter

if we're going or not going.

Right?

Oh

yeah.

That, that would, be like a,

I would feel that as a knife.

Mm-hmm.

Like that comment to me

that would stay with me.

I feel like I'd carry that for a while.

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

it says, after that she

blocked me on everything.

My fiancé was upset for a moment and then

defended her saying That's just who she

is, and she'll come around Soon enough.

No, someone that says that

they're not coming around And

that's also like, that is your

fiancé

Mm-hmm.

This is the person that you're

getting ready to say I do to And

you're just, he's just gonna be

okay with people being mean to you.

Yeah.

And see, this is where, again, I don't

know the rest of the story, so I'm

sorry if it works out a different way,

but like, I hope, I don't know, maybe

it doesn't work out, but like someone

that jumped the gun really quickly

to someone that was much younger than

him and was like, let's move fast.

Six months from now we're getting engaged.

My family's not gonna be there.

I don't know.

I'm getting some bad

vibes and I don't, yes.

So

I live by the rule that whoever

you date, if you can subtract that

amount of years and you wind up under

the age of 18, it shouldn't happen

yet.

So, so if you subtract her

age by their distance Yes.

Yeah.

Of seven years.

Yeah.

Then I'm like, Hmm, that's

icky to me a little bit.

Mm-hmm.

not to say that it, won't work

out, and I hope that it did,

and I hope that they're happy.

But that age gap, the life experiences

that people have are so vastly different.

Yeah.

You know, a 30-year-old to a

37-year-old, they've had a lot

of similar life experiences.

you minus that number and it's

like, okay, they've been a, grown

adult for a long time, so it's not

necessarily the number that I get.

Tripped up on.

Yeah, it is.

How much life experience is attached

to those numbers?

No, that's a really good point.

'cause people are always like,

well, my parents are this or that.

And it's like, it's a good point

of like, well, when did they meet?

How did they meet?

what were they at in their cause

yeah, I'm thinking like 23.

I was like freshly.

I mean, I graduated at 23, so I

was like, freshly outta college 30.

Like, you've been in the,

job field for a while.

Yes.

And you know what you want in life,

you know this man, he may be like,

yeah, that's the woman that I want.

I'm going after her.

I'm gonna get her.

But was she ready for that?

Could she see the red

flag of hey, your fiance.

He is not supporting you right now.

And I think that comes with life

experience, just growing into your

own as a woman and the value that

you bring to the table, you know?

Yeah.

So, I know.

It's a little, Hmm.

interesting.

Okay.

She says she never watched our wedding.

Okay.

So they got married and to this

day, I haven't spoken to her

since September 27th, 2014.

So we're talking about 11 years.

So they

got married still.

I'm so happy that they are happy.

I wanna put that out into the

universe, but I'm still so confused.

Well, there is still more.

Oh, okay.

Let's go something.

We can see what's so she said

she hasn't spoken to her.

I even visited their

mother's house Oh, oh.

In New York in February

of 2015 where she lived.

I still never saw or heard from her.

Interesting.

She lived there and then didn't show up.

You refused to come by

in November, 2014, I asked for a divorce

and thanked his dad and stepmom for trying

to help us through our marriage troubles.

can I give a I knew it.

I was like, can I applaud it?

Like, yes girl.

and maybe it was the sister,

maybe she was looking at it all

being like, I can't support this.

I can't, but No, no.

Nope.

I can't validate that

sister's comment in my mind.

The comment I

tried.

Yeah, I know.

And it's like, where does

that come from though?

Either like where I have a

lot of questions still too.

it says his stepmom threatened to

have his dad, my now ex father-in-law.

End my life if I ever

contacted her son again.

What?

Because she asked for a divorce that

just a whole family sounds very toxic.

And red flag.

She

dodged a bullet.

literally it sounds like

she dodged a bullet.

Yeah.

Because the mom is like,

I'm gonna enter your life.

So she

also very threatening, like Right.

Trolling maybe?

Yeah.

No, that whole 30 to 23, my

flag went up immediately.

I knew it.

Mm-hmm.

I saw your face too.

And you're like, wait, so she's 23?

He's 30 Oh, six months later they went.

Okay.

Okay.

so they were married for, wait,

they weren't even married a month

because it says their wedding

date was set for October 25th.

She filed for divorce in November,

so it wasn't even a full month.

Oh my okay.

Does she include like, where am I now?

do we get to Hear like the healing

part of all of this because, um,

no, but there's a little bit more.

Okay.

Because like a little more of a paragraph.

Let's see.

it says we got back together for

a little while, but never spoke to

his dad, stepmom or sister again.

I later found out his older siblings

were annoyed at how much their

younger sister got away with.

I mean, at 24 she threw a fit because

her brother was in the hospital and I

wished her happy birthday a day late.

It wasn't like I'd forgotten entirely.

Side note, I graduated a few years later

after divorcing her abusive brother.

Okay, now we're getting a

little more of the context.

Yes.

And I'm working on my master's degree.

I also ended up teaching for a few years.

Yay.

Yes, queen.

I love that.

That was

a happy ending because you know what?

You saw your worth and you saw like, I

went out of this situation and I'm glad.

It was not even a month that you

were just like, you know what?

I'm out.

And I hope this is a lesson too for

people listening that like, 'cause

I've had friends before that are like,

well, everything's already paid for.

We have to go through the wedding.

It's like, it's never too late.

just if you are in a bad

relationship, it's okay.

and that goes like both ways too.

Like as a boy mom, having only boys,

I want them to know that as well.

they bring worth to the table too.

And they need to be love and respected.

And if they need me to fake a heart

attack as I'm lighting that wedding

candle so that they can run out of

the back door, I, ugh, I will do it.

I will do it for them.

It's never too late for happiness.

Yes.

No, I totally agree.

I feel like obviously, we don't know the

full situation here, but the fact that

she threw in that he was abusive, abusive.

Which I kind of got the vibe

he was controlling or something

because of, the moving so quickly

and, him being a lot older.

But, yeah, that's a scary situation.

So always listening to your gut about it.

I hope she had someone on her side that

was like, Hey, this doesn't seem right.

Right.

' cause it sounds like they went

to his dad and stepmom for like,

helping through marital issues.

So I don't know if she had anyone

on her side that was like, Hey,

this guy is not right for you.

Like this Also having Yeah.

Also having that like third party,

it's nice that his parents were

willing to help, but I feel like they

should probably have had therapist

or something come in and Right.

Really sit them down Yeah.

And be like,

this is what we're looking at here.

Yeah.

But I'm glad she got out of that

because that could be very bad.

Oh my gosh, yes.

and again, it's that life experience.

Like you just don't know.

At such a young age, sometimes

you do, but most part, you

don't know what you don't know.

Yeah.

And it's hard to see those

things until that frontal lobe is

developed, which is like 25, So wild.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's wild how like, at least like my

grandparents' age, they were like married,

having kids like 19, 20, and that was

like what they were expected to do.

And they went to college to get their

MRS you know, that was their job.

Mm-hmm.

And it's just Wow.

'cause they were still

children in my eyes.

I'm like, you're at 19, 20, 21.

Like, you're still a kid, right.

You're just a baby.

Like you are still I'm still

folding clothes for my college kid.

I'm like, there's no way you

can get married right now.

Like.

I am folding your t-shirts for you.

you're not ready.

You're not ready.

Yeah.

it's wild.

well that was a wild story.

Thank you to this person for sending

that in because it was a different

kind of story that we've got, and

I think it's good to kind of get

all the angles of these kind of

stories, and I'm really proud of you.

So, yeah.

Good job writer in person.

What do you call the, submitter?

yeah, story submitter or like, op,

like original poster, but I guess

they're not really posting it.

They're just sending it to me, so, yeah.

Writer in.

Good job.

Writer in.

We're proud of you.

Yeah,

we got, we've got great grammar over here.

Oh my gosh.

The number.

It's really in intimate over here.

Intimate.

Which honestly intimate.

I think you could do something with that.

worked in marketing the past like 13

years, so I always think of things

you could do a mint at wedding.

It's called an intimate,

intimate listening.

Oh, it's so

intimate here.

I love it.

If you're listening, do it and then tag

me in it so I can see all of your love.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh, I love it.

Okay.

I always end these on, a couple of

confessions that people send in.

So let's read these and then

we'll get on with our days.

Okay.

This says, I kind of regret who

I picked to be my maid of honor.

I would've still had her

as a bridesmaid, but yeah.

Oh, I, I think that's normal.

we kind of touched on that earlier.

Just your life just changes and unfolds

in different ways that you just don't know

how you're going to need different people,

and it's okay that she was that person

in your life, in that moment and that

it might be someone different right now.

Like, it's okay that both of those

happened, and both of those can be true.

Yeah, I'm kind of reading it as she

hasn't gotten married yet, and she like

asked them, that's how I'm reading,

but maybe I'm reading it wrong.

she asked them to be in the wedding

and so like the wedding's coming up,

but they're like, and she wants to take

it back and like, maybe it's like the

maid of honor's not really stepping

up, but I think that's too, it's like.

Expectations and communication too.

Or maybe that maid of honor just doesn't

really know what to do or, you know.

Right.

Or you're just not as

close with that person.

It's hard.

yeah.

It's hard and you don't wanna

hurt anybody's feelings.

Yeah.

this says I plan to cut my mother-in-law

out of my life, regardless of

what my fiance wants to do.

Oh, Ooh.

that's a, therapy for sure.

I feel like.

Right.

yeah.

I mean, I feel like if it's valid where

like the mother-in-law's done something

like terrible turn, just treats her

poorly, then I feel like the fiance

should be backing her up and like Right.

Being that buffer.

I feel like it should never be between the

daughter-in-law and mother-in-law because

this is about the son or something.

Right.

Right.

There's

something

going on

and it shouldn't just be about her.

Yeah.

And so it's gonna be almost impossible.

To just cut out the mother-in-law if

the fiance is still talking to her.

Right.

So then I need like, figured out of

like, who is he gonna fully support?

What's the issue here?

Right.

Unless you guys just don't get along,

then I don't know how that would work.

But

then you have to figure out you're

gonna form a family together.

Mm-hmm.

Like, you've gotta figure it out.

Gotta figure it out.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

okay.

This last one says, my grandma being my

biggest supporter for eloping helped me

elope and deal with all of the backlash.

I love a good grandma.

Like, is there anything

better than a good grandma?

there's not, hands down top

five things a good grandma.

you can't beat it.

Yeah.

And one that helps you elope and then

says, not only am I gonna help you do it

and I'll help you plan it, but a grandma

that says, you go and then I'll tell

everyone I did it and I'll take the heat.

go live your life.

That's an amazing,

you need that.

I remember, it's kind of funny, I grew

up Catholic and so like with Catholic

parents, it's like you don't move in

before you get married, like, right.

Mm-hmm.

Like you child, my grandma's Catholic,

my parents, you know, like that.

So this is nothing against that.

It was just like how like

I was raised, you know?

And I remember though being like,

I'm so close with my grandma that

when my husband and I now husband,

we were gonna move in together.

I told her first and she was

like, that's great honey.

I'm so proud of you and my

parents were fine with it.

I'm the youngest.

So they were like, by

that point, they were like

right by that point they're

just like, get out of here.

Yeah.

But I was like, it was just funny.

Like, I told my friends, I was

like, yeah, I told my, now she's 90.

But at the time, she was.

Gosh, how long have I

been with my husband?

It was, she was like probably

80, but I like told her first

and she was like, that's great.

I'm so proud, so excited.

See top five.

You've got one.

She's great.

Yeah, you've got one.

I've got one too.

My grandma, for her 80th birthday

five years ago, she's still here.

she jumped out of an airplane.

She went skydiving on her way and

we all went and

yeah, she even, you know, got a

second set of dentures so that if

they fell out, she would have her.

She was ready.

She visited all of her doctors to

get like the, okay, but there's

nothing better than a good grandma.

That is amazing.

Oh my gosh, I love that.

Well, thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you.

This was so much fun.

I truly enjoyed it.

Good.

Oh, I'm so glad.

it was so much fun hanging out with you.

And can you tell everyone again

where they can follow you, find

your content, and then anything

fun you're kind of working on?

Yeah, so again, my name is Colleen Boer.

You can find me on Instagram at at Miss

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And if you are looking for

educational news that is happening

in this political climate, I am

the teacher you want to follow.

'cause I'm gonna give

it to you like it is.

I love it.

Awesome.

Well thank you so much.

This was awesome.

Thank you.

Have a wonderful night.

You too.