Jan. 12, 2025

We Are The Hansons What our Sundays Look Like

We Are The Hansons What our Sundays Look Like

In this episode of We Are The Hansons, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at our Sundays-a-day full of family, tradition, and football, from preparing everyone for the chaos and preparing snacks to cooking dinner. Sundays in our house are anything but boring. We'll share how we balance faith, fun, and football, why Sundays are so special to us, and how we handle the ups and downs of being passionate Packers fans. Whether you're managing a big family or just love football season. you won't want to miss this episode.

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Welcome back to We are the hands In's Sunday's in

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our home, our mix of family.

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Food and football.

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Today we're diving into what Sundays look like in our

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big family, especially during football season. Whether it's managing the

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chaos of the game day snacks for figuring out how

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to keep everyone entertained during commercial breaks, Sundays are never

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boring in our household. I'm going to start off today

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by explaining what it's like. So usually our morning routine

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on our Sunday mornings, we start off very slow. Our

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mornings are very slow, starting well as slow as we

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can get.

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I guess with thirteen kids, we like.

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To just hang out, relax, drink coffee, you know. Sometimes

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we'll do breakfast kids they tend to just watch cartoons

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or whatever. And sometimes we'll talk about the day ahead,

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especially if it's game day for the Packers. We try

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to screeze in some family time before games start. Whether

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it's a short you know, chit chat with all the kids,

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or even just sitting around in our pajamas. It's about

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setting the tone for the day, prepping for the game. Well,

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let me just say, usually the guys are just hanging

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out and doing them whatever. I'm usually running around like

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a chicken with my head cut off, because you know,

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I'm the mom, and I try and make sure that

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everybody is happy. We got food we like and it's

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just a great day. So game day in our house,

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we do a lot of snacks. Like today we did

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cucumber sandwiches. We did Korean corn dogs, and some of

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you might not know what that is, so I'm gonna explain.

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You take a string cheese and you put it on

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a stick.

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Then you make a batter that's.

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Kind of it's not super thick, but it's thick enough

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that when you are done, it sticks to the cheese.

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Then you crunch up some hot.

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Cheetos, the flaming hot Cheetos, and then you take your

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stick of cheese with the batter on it, and you

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roll it in the crushed up flaming hot cheetos. And

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once you get it all coated with that flaming hot cheetos,

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then you drop it in the deep fryer and you

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sit and you watch for the cheese to start bubbling

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out the little cracks in the cheetos, and then you

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take it out. And I like to dunk mine in

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honey mustard. It is so good, guys, it is so good.

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And we also do chips and salsa. Sometimes we'll do

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pizza for lunch, and then I jump into starting dinner.

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Usually it's chili. If we don't do chili.

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Then it's something that everyone decides together because we like

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to have good food on game day. So today for

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the game, we may or I made white chicken, chili

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and fried bread. Fry bread is just bread dough. You

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ball it up, you stretch it out to look like

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a pancake kind of, and then you drop it in

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the deep fryer. Deep fry it until it's done. You

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got to make sure it's not dowe inside, and then

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you can put butter on it. When it comes out,

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you can put peanut butter on it. You can put

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jelly on it. My guys, they all like everything on it.

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They like butter, peanut butter, and jelly. So that's what

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fry bread is. The kitchen becomes the hub of activity

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as I prep for everything. So everyone has their favorites

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and we try to make a mix that works for

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all of us. It's a great time to get the

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older kids involved in, you know, seeing what is done

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in our family. I mean the food we make the traditions.

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A lot of times the older boys will come in

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and say, how'd you make that? And I just tell

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them because I want them to be able to carry

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on the tradition.

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The younger kids love to just play, they like to

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color draw.

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It's kind of boring for them, I think, but they

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love to enjoy the food. So watching the game, I

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don't really watch the game.

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I check in.

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Every now and then in the living room to see

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what the score is, but I pretty much stay in

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the kitchen away from the chaos because there's never hardly

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anybody or in the kitchen during the game unless it's

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on a break, halftime, or the game ends, so I

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just kind of stay out there. There's a lot of

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yelling in my living room during the game, so.

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It's just much quieter in the kitchen.

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When the Packers play, it's a full family affair, all

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the boys and my older daughters.

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They go to the living room too, and they all

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gather there.

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There's a lot of cheering, a lot of screaming, a

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lot of let's just say, hooting and hollering.

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We'll leave it at that.

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Like I said, the little ones, they barely pay any attention.

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So it's not just about the game. It's about just

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being together and our family. It's fun. Of course, with

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the family our size, someone always steps out to settle

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an argument or to you know, just take a break

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away from the game when it gets stressful, and that's okay,

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and we all just say, you know, there's a mix

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of teaching the kids how to handle the disappointment gracefully

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if the Packers lose. We have two sons that are

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not Packers fans. One's a Bears fan and the other

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one is an Eagles fan. So my Eagles fan son,

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he didn't get to be here tonight to watch the

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Eagles and the Packer game, so when he came home

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from work, you could only imagine he was digging in saying, I.

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Told you we were going to win.

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I told you this, I told.

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You that we beat you guys, blah blah blah.

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So it's just fun for them to enjoy time together,

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and I'm grateful for that. Balancing the chaos at our house,

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there's not really any balancing. Not everyone in the family

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is a football fan, and that's okay. So we've learned

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to divide and conquer. Some kids you know, they play

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outside or whatnot. Some work and some do coloring and whatever.

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Most of the bigger ones are usually in the living

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room cheering on the Packers or obviously the Bears or

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the Eagles. For us, the key is flexibility. We keep

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the focus on making it fun. We make it a

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family oriented day, no matter who's invested in the game

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or not, because even though some might not be interested

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in the game, they you know, during breaks, the older

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kids will play with the little ones ball or you know,

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run outside and throw football around for a little bit

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until the game starts again.

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It's just fun wrapping up the day here.

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So once the game is over, I'm usually pretty much

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wiped out because I've been cooking and running around keeping

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the little ones in line, you know, picking up after

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the bigger ones, just because they're so invested and I'm

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trying to keep up to make sure that they're in

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an over abundance of stuff to do after the game

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is over, so I try and keep things cleaned up

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throughout the day. The kids are usually pretty good about

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bringing their dishes out, cleaning out their bowls, throwing their

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trash away, but every now and then, you know, it

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doesn't happen Sunday evenings. After the game is over, Usually

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everybody is starts getting hungry again, so everyone will pick

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and go through and eat periodic stuff just to fill

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their bellies again before they all go home and sleep

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and get rested up for the next day for work.

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Sometimes we'll have just a talk after the game on

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what the Packers could have done better, and usually it's

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the guys and I just sit there and kind of listen.

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Or if the Packers get treated differently by the referees.

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There's always that that they discuss. Or who needs to

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get kicked off the Packers team. That's a big discussion here.

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Some of the kids say this person needs to get

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kicked off, and some say this person needs to get

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kicked off. It's just how they feel because they're angry

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at that person because that person either didn't do a touchdown,

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didn't catch the ball, didn't do what he needed to

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do to make a win. We like to end the

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night just relaxing after the game. Usually the boys are

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pretty quiet after they discuss how things could have went

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better or you know whatnot or how they got screwed

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over by the re fs. Once everybody is calmed, down

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and accepts the fact that.

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We didn't win or we did win.

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Everybody's happy after we win, so everybody's in a good mood.

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If we don't win, everybody is in a bad mood

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and they're just quiet. So you just kind of stay

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to your well, I stay to myself after the game

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when we lose, just because I'd rather not listen. So

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the best part of our day, though, it's just a

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small tradition we have always had since the kids were

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old enough to know what football is about. The handsome

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Sunday family tradition has always been a big thing.

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The kids enjoy it.

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They it's a time that they can all get together

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and do something they all love to do. So that

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is pretty much our family tradition. And it also helps

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them reflect and connect before the new week starts. And

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I like that because it's a day that they can

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all just relax, enjoy food, enjoy time together, eat, just

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have a good day. They don't have to worry about working,

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clean and nothing because I do pretty much everything on Sunday,

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So Sunday during football season for some of our favorite days.

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They remind us of how important it is to come

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together as a family. Even in the midst of the chaos.

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Whether it's worth celebrating the packer win or teaching the

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kids how to handle a tough loss, these moments bring

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us closer, and they really do. I want you guys

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to know that I appreciate you guys all tuning in

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till we are the Hansends, and we'd love to hear

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what Sundays look like for your family. Until next time,

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take care and cherish the little moments.