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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.