Ever Evolving Easter - E33

Clancy Denton  0:00  
Welcome to the loud quiet. Ooh, empty nester. Okay. What does that mean?

Rick Denton  0:06  
I think that actually probably is the theme of the empty nest. What are we doing? Let's do this. Let's do this thing. is this Recording. yes, Okay,

Clancy Denton  0:15  
great. sans, children just us. we need to tissue box up here. Follow along on our journey and maybe you know we can learn from others. I don't have a clue how to be empty nesters if this is the loud quiet, living the empty nest,

Rick Denton  0:30  
everybody welcome to episode 33 of the loud quiet thank you all for listening. Thank you for watching. Again, 33 episodes and here we are recording another episode of the loud quiet.

Clancy Denton  0:45  
Yeah, this one I'm so it's Monday, after Easter. We don't We usually record on Sunday when we're dressed for church. I've done my hair. So yes, I've wet hair don't care. And so we aren't going to be the time. I mean, I have been. You texted me later in the day today. And you said okay, I'm gonna leave early so we can get home and record I was like, oh, no, I forgot we were recording today because I was in the midst of laundry getting food ready for this week doing all you know, trying to get back when you get back on Sunday.

Rick Denton  1:20  
Yeah. You know, the glamour of living the empty nest on display right here in front of everyone. It turns amazing when your kids leave, right? Everything's just

Clancy Denton  1:32  
cocktails and dinner out every night. And now we're about to have turkey smoked sausage. Yeah, but ya know, we thought that we talk this weekend since it was Easter, you know, some of our past traditions, how things have changed. And you know what we did this weekend, hope everyone had a great Easter and just got to spend some nice quality time with family. And, you know, I do think that is one Easter and Christmas too. But I know Easter because I have several friends who don't go to church at all. But they still celebrate Easter, because they celebrate the non religious aspects

Rick Denton  2:16  
of it. Is it is so family and like you said Christmas is family thanksgiving is family. And it could be just because that's what you think of Eastern I think of family. Right? It's getting everybody together. And maybe it's because No, actually I don't have a good reason. It just It always feels like a family gathering. And

Clancy Denton  2:36  
I think a lot of stores acknowledge Easter over some of the other holiday. You know, it seems like everything is pretty much

Rick Denton  2:45  
there's still close. The target was closed. Costco was closed. Pick your put Yeah, your groceries. They

Clancy Denton  2:51  
are on Christmas day too. But yeah. Easter to some people is not a holiday, you know, but so there you go. So that's yeah, we're just gonna talk about his talk

Rick Denton  3:02  
Easter talk traditions, changing traditions. And that's what you know, when we were talking about that. We, I think I've mentioned here on the show have not. I grew up in a faith oriented family. We went to church, it was part of our rhythm. We always went to church. And yet, and I didn't think this was weird. We never went to church on Easter.

Clancy Denton  3:24  
And I remember when you told me that the first time I was like, What are you talking about? Because I knew your family. And I was like, because both of your grandmother's are very, very strong believers, your mom, your dad, your whole family, but your grandmother's and the one in particular whose house y'all would go to? I was shocked that y'all didn't come to go to Easter serve.

Rick Denton  3:46  
So and that's where, you know, Easter for me growing up was we had family so my dad's mom, so my Nana. She grew up in Quitman, Texas. Quitman is where Malmo and Popeye so my great grandparents lived. So when I told my mom Popeye, that's the generation I'm talking about, we would go to quipment. So imagine this being small Texas town, and then not even being the house in town. This was a house on the edge of town that had a tank out back where you could fish land to walk across as I got older, and by older I mean like 11 or 12 years old, get in the pickup truck and drive around town type thing. That's what we did. And so we wasn't just my immediate nuclear family, it was Nana's children and their children would converge on this house and it amazes me to think about it now how persnickety I can be about Okay, wait, now let's all go to a hotel or something like that. How many people we shoved into this house. Easter though, was about getting together eating hunting for Easter eggs and then just enjoying being in the country and being there with family. Not or maybe I have this kind of vague fuzzy memory maybe when I was four, six, something like that, that we went to a church and equipment. But for us to have grown up, so we're the opposite the Christmas and Easter only family that our tradition was not Yeah, we're we're the anti see. I don't know where the are like anti capitalist. I don't know what that is but we did not go to church. It was just a family gathering around Quitman to get together with a family. Yeah, so much fun. I loved it. Great memories from they're not church memories.

Clancy Denton  5:37  
And I don't I mean, I know we did, we did Easter egg hunts, we obviously went to church. And you know, at that, you know, the thing I remember about Easter was always finding your dress to wear to church, that's what I remember is getting the dress getting the white shoes. Sometimes I think I had a couple of times that I wore little white gloves. So and I think I did have a couple of hats, certain tests. I remember the, the shopping and that aspect. And, and yes, you know, my mom, obviously always cooked and so we enjoyed that which, you know, continued as our kids got. Did you

Rick Denton  6:18  
on? So growing up when you were doing that? Were y'all always at your house?

Clancy Denton  6:22  
I don't remember ever traveling for Easter doing anything? Yeah, no other time because we again, we're the one part of our family that lived away from everybody else. So there will be no time to drive all the end by and you know, at that point. One of you know, one of my grant Well, I mean, they were still alive. But yeah, we and sometimes I do remember them coming to us. Yeah. But we did not do a huge family gathering at Christmas time we did. Because those were my cousins. We would always go back there. But Easter No, because, you know, that was just not I think that was probably before the times you had Friday and Monday off you probably just had Saturday Sunday. So trying

Rick Denton  7:08  
to get from, for you the extended family.

Clancy Denton  7:11  
Yeah, right. I mean, it's from San Antonio, that would have been a 13 hour trip, or whatever.

Rick Denton  7:16  
Now I will say I have some very strong memories of those drives from Austin to Quitman. Which there were two choices. You either went up through the interstates because you could drive you know the big roads through Dallas, or 79 cutting through East Texas. And that's where I learned both the I think the skill of doing it. And the ability to just squash your fear when it comes to pass on a two lane road in East Texas, because I guarantee that my dad cut it close on some of those passing moves. And I'm sure that when you've been in the passenger seat when I've been driving, there's probably been some white knuckle moments of that cars coming fast that car is coming fast get over get over is there's

Clancy Denton  8:01  
white knuckle moments just when we're trying to get to the airport on the Tollway or you like to drive my car and weave in and out of every little spot that you can get no, that's not

Rick Denton  8:11  
fair. We're, we're exaggerating a little bit here. But the the passing was so there, there's an Easter memory is being able to pass on those roads. The fact that y'all gathered at your house and always did that. That is what kind of kept going with our family, you me our family and then our kids. What Easter was before the kids left.

Clancy Denton  8:35  
I mean, they still you know, like I said, we'll get into our Easter this year because it was different. But, you know, up until last year, you know, they still do it. My dad still hide eggs, and each kid has their own color of egg. And there's three the three Tanner Tegan and Carter. And they, you know, go and hunt their color of egg and I and then we do the casket Verona's which we are aiming to describe that for that's okay, so yeah, so if you don't know what those are, it's a confetti filled eggs. And so yes, there's always confetti. I mean, when Tegan had her super long hair, she'd be finding confetti in her hair even after she showered for days.

Rick Denton  9:21  
It's just Yeah, so find it in clothes after the after the

Clancy Denton  9:25  
and they you know, the we actually talked this weekend about the you know the missing Bibi's ham and mashed potatoes and that kind of thing. So

Rick Denton  9:34  
your dad would always do such a good job of hiding those. Well sometimes he did a really really good yeah,

Clancy Denton  9:40  
because then nobody could remember where they were and I actually saw a meme about that that said I'm getting at the age now that I hide the eggs and it doesn't matter because

Rick Denton  9:49  
I I'm old enough that I can find my own eggs that I had. He would graduate the difficulty of the based off of the age of the kid and it those kind of those are the touches that I will remember. Obviously, I know our kids will remember that. Just getting it's that cementing of family traditions done, right? I mean, it's not like I'm really getting deep in sociology here it just, those are the things that connect us to Tanner and Tegan. It's what connects Tanner and Tegan to their BB and pop up. It's what connects me to the memories of my Nana and my my grandma and my extended family.

Clancy Denton  10:27  
Yeah, and we have to Tegan and my mom's birthdays are four days apart, and they're early April. So a lot of times Easter fill either on one of their birthdays or around. So we've also done birthday celebrations on I can think of Tegan with her sweet 16 balloons at my mom's house. And I made them both a cake that was, you know, because it was my mom's birthday the next week. So we've incorporated that into some celebrations as well. And, you know, a couple of years ago, we did go out to Tanner sophomore year, we decided to go out there because Arizona, they don't get they don't it's not Baylor, they don't get Friday and Monday off, he gets nothing off. So there's no way that he could get back to Dallas. And back out, you know, so yeah, so because

Rick Denton  11:18  
Tegan would being in high school at the time had the days a week, and it was just easier for the three of us to travel. And that's weird, because you and I both grew up in a tradition of being at home that and now or at homes, even Quitman was still home

Clancy Denton  11:35  
that being in my parents house, because that's where we were I mean, besides COVID Because COVID year we couldn't so we catered in here and it was just the four of us. But then that was the first year that we have not been to my parents house since the kids were we moved into this house and even before that over Yeah, so environment since Tegan was probably born, right. And I was so

Rick Denton  11:57  
only tradition they knew. And by extension, the traditions that we knew were very, it felt

Clancy Denton  12:03  
weird. The first tile no

Rick Denton  12:07  
good, though. Like it was it was it? You know, one of the things that I liked about that very first one was, and this is weird coming from the guy that said we never went to church, but we made sure we found a church that was up there. And it was actually an opportunity to help maybe a college kid. Yeah, hey, there's this church thing that is a part of who you are and your heritage. And it was, especially with him being in college that year, and no doubt about it again, what this trip was like, being able to be all together. So while we couldn't be all all together at your parents house, which I delighted and love. It was really great to be able to at least have 10 Because I don't know that we could have gotten Yes, of course we could have but the difficulty level of getting him back. Well,

Clancy Denton  12:54  
I'm getting them both back this year. Well, I was talking about software. Yeah, but and it also is nice now that churches have gone to Saturday services for Easter betcha because that was not a thing. When I was growing up. I didn't remember you weren't there. Well, it didn't matter if you church.

Rick Denton  13:15  
I leave it Mike kid mind. I probably thought that it was a church holiday. I bet you I might have even thought that

Clancy Denton  13:29  
for Easter. Oh, I

Rick Denton  13:31  
wish I could go back and ask my little 69 year old brain or something like that.

Clancy Denton  13:38  
I'd be interested to know, it'd be interesting to see what your mom's perspective was on that because I know your mom and I know your mom's mom. I wonder if that was uh, I wonder if that'll, you know, that'd be interesting to know. But anyways, so let's talk about is that yeah, now, it's nice that their Saturday services and we actually once that started, we opted going to those and sometimes because we were we would serving on Sunday. Yes. Yeah. But other times because they do like regular people to come because Easter is a big visiting holiday for people just try church. So but yeah, we love this. And there were some Saturday services. And then Sunday morning, it was nice to just get up and have you know, the Easter baskets here and then head to my parents. So I and it has worked for us when we have been out in Phoenix. Yeah, and

Rick Denton  14:32  
that's what this so the junior year when just to quickly touch on that when we did get to experience back with your parents. It was weird. Tana was in Japan. Yeah. So it's still weird. I there was a part of me that wish that he would have gone to a Japanese Easter service. What would that have been like to be in Japan? I think it was even traveling that maybe outside of his home base of Kyoto. So but we were able to go back to our traditional style minus Tanner last year, but this year, Tegan is a freshmen at University of Arizona as listeners and viewers who certainly know, and then Tanner, a senior at Arizona State, well, that's an hour and a half away from each other. It's not easy to get both of them back on a school that is a Friday active class day. So we were like, Let's go out to Arizona again.

Clancy Denton  15:20  
Yeah. And I don't think that was ever even a question that we would do that we had already planned that, you know, I'm sure we, yeah,

Rick Denton  15:28  
there had been a moment that we are doing, and especially

Clancy Denton  15:30  
they both even as a senior Tanner complains, you know, that he has Friday classes. Well, you know, Japanese? Yes, he has on Friday, so and Tegan does have class, both on Friday. So yeah, there would have been yes, we could have done it. It would not have been pleasurable for anyone to get them back here. So. So yeah, so we flew into Tucson on Friday. And right around the time, you know, she was finishing up all of her gym and laundry and that kind of stuff.

Rick Denton  16:02  
I was laughing about Denver, but yes, we eventually make it to there. Oh my god, they have travel is fun. Yeah.

Clancy Denton  16:12  
Connections are not but yes. So

Rick Denton  16:14  
Clancy and I are very fast at getting to airports, even if we may have sacrificed a few people along the way to get between what literally not exaggerating one of the airport to the other airport. If you've been to Denver, you know how long that is. But we did make it to Tucson. And it was nice because we made it there. To 230 Something like that. She was wrapping up stuff, like you said, just getting out of the gym getting them in laundry.

Clancy Denton  16:34  
Yeah. And we're like, Okay, what do you need to do? Target? Okay, so, and for those of you who have been listening along the way, you know, Tegan did get to move I think we talked about that. You know from her not so great situation.

Rick Denton  16:51  
So yeah, roommate not so those that are new listeners. So unpleasant roommate situation. She's in a phenomenal Yeah,

Clancy Denton  16:59  
so we here she is in her new room. I was like, you're gonna be one of the few people that have two pictures. To share pictures. Yeah. So she she loves her new dorm actually really likes her new dorm loves her new roommate, which, you know, we're like, Oh, do we get to meet her? And she said, Oh, she just ran out to go do errands. So we're like, okay, so picture up, went to Target. And then we came out a target. She said, Oh, I meant to get something else. We're like, well, Walmart's right around the corner. We'll just go into Walmart. So I mean, we are walking into WalMart, chit chatting, talking and we hear this Tegan and then we turn around. It's her new roommate. So going into WalMart, so we got to meet her. She's very pleasant. Super sweet. Yeah, just talking very nice. Yeah. Good.

Rick Denton  17:47  
She was staying with her because she's their

Clancy Denton  17:49  
local. Yeah, so she was going home with her family.

Rick Denton  17:52  
It was it was just fun. And to see. Even without the words or anything, just to see the smiles that existed, maybe they're unlikely to be lifetime friends or anything like that. To see the the, that that last little piece that you needed to make a college experience complete. And happy was there and we got to see it by going into a room like you just showed which it's actually I kind of glad she moved dorms. It's an older dorm, but I kind of like this situation a lot better. The room is great, where she is location wise. And so that all of that just being able to be brought together. Made us feel great on Friday, the first getting there and just seeing that just

Clancy Denton  18:33  
seeing her like you said she just has. She was already happy. She was having a great had a great first semester great friends was we've talked about, but this time, you could just see. There was just a different air around her. And so yeah, it was it was nice to nice to see that. So when to target. She, we came back and hung out in our hotel until it was time to go and pick up, pick up some of her friends. And then the other ones were meeting us. So we went and

Rick Denton  19:06  
well I had a strong hand and choosing because we talked about last week, those of you that haven't heard last week's episode, but it was the madness of March. And so that's very basketball oriented. Well, Duke advance to the Sweet 16 Duke didn't get the Thursday game. They got the Friday game. Well, that meant that we were going to truly be at dinner at the exact time of the Duke game. So my only request was can we have a place with TV and we did we found yard and

Clancy Denton  19:31  
it was great. Food was great. Fit All replacement big

Rick Denton  19:35  
group that we had of

Clancy Denton  19:36  
some of the TVs. I told I was actually being cute. Yeah. So yeah. And I was telling Rick, it was so funny because one of the boys that we have come to know now because he always comes with us. And he said, Oh yeah, my mom's mad her bracket. You know, her teams didn't make it in and Tegan was like, Oh, what are your mom's teens? And he said, Well, North Carolina. Then she goes on,

she like put her finger up till she's like, No, no, no, don't talk about that in front of it.

Because we're gone and go to the bar or the bathroom or something. And he was like, oh, and I said, it's fine. Is it and Tiki does. He went to Duke and, and this kid was like, Well, my cousin goes to North Carolina. So that's why my mom, like, you know, and

Rick Denton  20:23  
I did ask y'all later, though, y'all did back away from that, as opposed to leaving me with like, Wait, this, this this cliched sports dad is forcing us to go eat at a place that has TVs? He doesn't allow me to talk about Carolina? No, no, this is the kid who

Clancy Denton  20:36  
stayed in the week because the game was finishing in the cars. We were dropping him off. And he was like, Oh, can we stay and listen to it? So yeah, I know. He was fine. But so yeah, it was great. Had a great time got to meet one of her friends that we hadn't met yet super sweet. All just again, we just I really like her. I just love her kids and, and the support that they all give to each other. And they're just They're fun. They're funny. They're just really a good group of kids. So.

Rick Denton  21:07  
So that leaves us you know, go home. Then Saturday, we drive up to Tempe with Tegan with us. And we actually talked about recording. As we've done the road trip, y'all again, y'all that our listeners and viewers have seen our road trip videos, we decided not to this time, especially with Tegan in the back. And that was that was good to get up there. And then it was the four of us together. And we were initially talking about doing some grad photos, whatever didn't quite work out. But we did. We did some some grocery shopping and that sort of thing. And then we went to a place a sandwich shop that we like. And that was the place where I kind of had this moment of I looked around and thought there's no reason why when you send two kids off to school, that you should be able to just easily gather as a family and just it just felt normal and good. And the family that we had pre empty nest here, it was this moment to get the four of us together. And I just I even said it to the table. I said do realize how lucky we are that we can just come together here. And I know you kids may at some point like okay, Mom and Dad, it's time for y'all to go. I want you I know that y'all remember, remember these family mounts and we hadn't even done quote, you know, Easter yet. And

Clancy Denton  22:19  
I do it again. We've probably mentioned it but I just I love Tanner and deacons relationship, because they are, they have a lot of things in common. But then they are total opposites on you know certain things. But she was even she told me she said I was even talking to one of my friends the other day about how she has a brother of the same age. And she was talking how they're close. And Tina said, Oh my gosh, yeah, you know, my brother and I are really close, we text back and forth. They read each other's papers, you know, they, they just i A warms my heart. how connected they have stayed, and hopefully we'll stay and read and rely on each other. I mean, they they leave, you know, there's things that we aren't privy to probably their conversations that they have, you know, even it's

Rick Denton  23:15  
not even necessarily bad or you know, they're talking about stuff that Oh, I can't talk to my parents because they actually can talk to us now and stuff. It's just the insider ball that they can talk to each other about being in college or the topics that they care about. Well, and

Clancy Denton  23:27  
I even made the point of Tanner just didn't seem himself that morning. And when we dropped him off, I was commenting to you and Tegan goes, Oh, well, he told me he's, he had to take cold medicine last night because they had one of the roommates parents dog was staying with them. And she said he's super allergic to it. And so I was like, oh, so she was so he was kind of still coming. He leaned over and told me he was still coming off of the cold medicine. You know, we're sitting there going, is he hung over now he was on or is he stressed about there? There's a lot of things. And we can talk about that when we get to dinner with his roommates. But But yeah, but so she knew you know, she filled us in on what was going on with them. So yeah, that was good. And yeah, we just had a nice afternoon then we all went back to change to get ready for Easter service and

Rick Denton  24:22  
which we do this at school for those that if there's a listener in the Arizona area and this specifically the valley we go to Scottsdale Bible. This is We're veterans right we've been twice Yeah. So I know nothing really about it. But it was a it just was such a great experience to bring the family their

Clancy Denton  24:36  
high energy music. The pastor is very good. Very, almost like a teaching pastor I we've enjoyed Yeah, the two sermons we've heard have been really good and both on Easter but but I do I enjoy. I enjoy that church and the vibe. I don't I don't know that I can be a regular attender there

Rick Denton  24:59  
Well, we've been twice on Easter. Yeah, it's like the service on steroids. Sure.

Clancy Denton  25:04  
So anyways, but yes, but this was the weirdest Phoenix weather though that we have ever had. We've never had, when now, when we visited Tegan Brees? Yeah, I'd say and I will say when we've been to Tucson a few times we have commented, gosh, it's really windy here. Not like North Texas, but this was like North Texas. Crazy. I mean, we tried. We tried to pick a picture outside and for those y'all listening, I mean, you think I wore my hair to the side? No, that's the wind blowing. What's your wind blowing? In the air?

Rick Denton  25:42  
My hair is blowing, too. Oh, nevermind.

Clancy Denton  25:44  
I mean, it was so windy. So then we went inside.

Rick Denton  25:47  
I do what? Well, what? Notice how blue that sky is? Yeah, it was yeah,

Clancy Denton  25:51  
it was beautiful. Sunny temperatures. Just the women. Yeah, yeah. So then we got a better one inside where hairs not going crazy. So and it was so funny. Because I knew what you were wearing. You didn't know what I was wearing. But and then Tegan we bought this dress at American Eagle like before she even went to school last summer. And so we were all and then Tanner came out to get in the car was like, Oh, good. You got the memo. I mean, we were all kind of color coordinated. It looks very nice. We're all in our pastels for Easter. So think that cleanser to coordinate I know I did not. And someone asked me that today. They're like, oh, did y'all as a No, I didn't like send out wear pink or purple? No, it just all ended up.

Rick Denton  26:39  
And it really was great service a great to be with the family. Just that I mean, that's just to be there.

Clancy Denton  26:44  
Yeah, the family and and I find myself you had your moment at lunch. I find myself getting emotional when they're on either side of me at church. And you know, you

Rick Denton  26:55  
didn't see there was a tear that leaked out of my eye. Yeah, there actually was. So it I'm trying

Clancy Denton  27:02  
to trying to get the Jesus back.

Rick Denton  27:05  
Hey, kids, how was it? What do you think of it? Turns like, that was a really good message. So you hear phrases like that, you know, the seeds are there. Yeah. Seeds are there. So then what do we do after church? We go have a big ol Italian meal with his roommates. And that uncle's house? We talked about it before, but it's just great to see his friend and Tegan there. And yes, there's Negroni there's wine. There's pasta we are we are we are celebrating Easter, we are celebrating friends and festive way. And

Clancy Denton  27:36  
it was the waitress even as she said, Oh, are you all celebrating? We're like, what we're here for Easter. But you know, all these boys are about to graduate. So and so then she was asked, Oh, what's everybody doing after college? And, and God, I wish I would have taken a picture. Because when they all when the three came in that were meeting us there, I was like, it looked like the Backstreet Boys had just walked in because they had been at a White Party. And I so wish I would have taken a picture of Tanner and his backup dancer.

Rick Denton  28:05  
Blink 182. Yeah, that's making men

Clancy Denton  28:09  
even. Because they came in one. And I was like, Where have y'all been hit? And they're like, Oh, we're at a white white party. So. But yeah, but it's, it's fun listening to them, talk about what their next things are going to be and, and you can tell the the stress is bubbling there a little bit because, you know, you think, oh, senior year, I shouldn't be done while all four of these boys are in the Honors College that they all have a thesis that, you know, Tanner said that's the most I've written ever. And so he had just submitted his the other three I think had submitted theirs too. But you know, he has to defend his thesis later this week. And so you can tell there's things that I think he wanted the last semester of senior year to be blow off and it's not so

Rick Denton  29:03  
and I remember even that about my senior year is it wasn't a blow off. These are still college classes in their upper level and sometimes even graduate level. So the classwork does not go down. And that's different than high school as you can kind of have high school. What does the relief starts it's probably the intersection of a graph where the relief will start to kick in right about the time that the anxiety kicks in. I have I've built these relationships with these people across four years. And that will definitely need to be an episode in the future as we watch them going through that, but it

Clancy Denton  29:35  
is fun, because we've known these boys now you know, they were freshmen roommates, and they've roomed together in some form or fashion now they're all back together senior year and so you know, these boys have bonds that they'll be bonded for life and, and they're just again, great boys, great families. So it was fun getting to talk about you know, listening to them Be like, oh, graduation week, it's gonna be so much fun and then we're all going Vegas and we're doing it you know, so it's just it was fun listening to

Rick Denton  30:04  
did you go to Vegas for your graduation year? No, I don't. I went to North Hilton Head.

Clancy Denton  30:12  
I did go to I did study abroad Europe that summer. So that was and then No, I graduated in December and started working. So now Yeah,

Rick Denton  30:23  
that'll be it. We should we will need to talk about that. What was our summers when we see what he goes through and see what that was

Clancy Denton  30:30  
like? Yeah, so yeah, that was a good and

Rick Denton  30:32  
flew back the next day. Yeah, there's another much to that just nasty cold weather.

Clancy Denton  30:36  
Strange rain and cold. But it was nice because we had already done our Easter sorry. Yeah, no, I feel bad for and I know back here wasn't the greatest weather either, but But yeah, so yeah. Took Tegan back home and, oh, she she treated treated us in quotations to goodies at her little market that you know, we pay

Rick Denton  31:01  
for. Thank you for allowing me to spend my money.

Clancy Denton  31:04  
So yeah. What did our Easter lunch consist of? Oh, geez. It's No, you were helpful seeing everything. I ate the cheeses to protein bar popcorn cheese

Rick Denton  31:21  
and some trail mix but even finished that ate the cheese. Heath Bar.

Clancy Denton  31:25  
Yeah. That was our that's why we did. Yeah. So but I do I put a text when we already talked about from Tanner. But you know, as soon as like I said when we got to Tegan it was I need to go to Target. And then I when I we were driving to Tempe, you know, I know. I said you know what? He hasn't asked for his cheeky grocery store. Ron said before? Yes. So I texted him. I said, Do you have any errands? Oh, absolutely. Some groceries. So I went to Trader

Rick Denton  32:00  
Joe's we go to spend our money. Yeah. All right.

Clancy Denton  32:04  
There's not. I mean, like we like we realize we're only out there two more times. Yeah. So I know.

Rick Denton  32:11  
And I was telling it to you. Well, I was talking to you about the grocery shopping. You're right, though. When we were leaving the Hilton Garden Inn. We were like, Yeah,

Clancy Denton  32:17  
we won't. Because our again, our lady that we know. She's like, Hey, I didn't see your early, earlier day. And we're like, Oh, yeah. But that was probably the last time we're saying there.

Rick Denton  32:26  
Wow. But yeah, yeah, we got one more. But you know,

Clancy Denton  32:30  
when we were sitting there at dinner, I said Tegan, I said, you know, now it'll just be your weekend. And Tanner goes, Oh, that's the best because then you get all the end. She said, Oh, yeah, I know. I get all the meals. So

Rick Denton  32:42  
I still and we'll have to talk about this. I do not want to give up on Phoenix because I love Phoenix.

Clancy Denton  32:48  
But we're not going to fly into Phoenix on an maybe on a Thursday and then had to her on Friday. I'd be both

Rick Denton  32:55  
sushi Holic. Yeah. So it was it was good to see them. It was a good Easter weekend traditions a change, right? The other traditions have a way of evolving this. This tradition, even as an empty nest, we're trying to find ways to make it family. And I do I want it to be with BB and pop up and have that ongoing in the future as well, when we can't make that happen. I want these traditions even as they evolve to still stick with family even as we've entered this phase.

Clancy Denton  33:28  
And it's interesting to see, you know, I'm not sure what we'll do next year where we have one that's still making a decision about some things and

Rick Denton  33:40  
so it'll be probably we're gonna get if we're all domestic. We're gonna get us all together somehow. Japan was

Clancy Denton  33:46  
overall domestic. I don't see anybody doing that next year, but

Rick Denton  33:50  
I didn't

Clancy Denton  33:53  
rely on you. Well, okay,

Rick Denton  33:55  
I've got a client in the poll. You and I need to. All right.

Clancy Denton  34:01  
For next Easter, right, yeah.

Rick Denton  34:04  
I think we'll find a way to get all of us together. Well, yeah,

Clancy Denton  34:07  
we'll figure out something.

Rick Denton  34:10  
Well, Easter traditions, another another moment to be explored on the loud, quiet, empty nest.

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