Mark your calendars and stock up on tissues, This Is Us fans: the Pearson family is officially coming back to your TV screens on Tuesday nights.

It's been more than three months since we ugly-cried during the season 2 finale of our favorite NBC drama. Since then, we've uncovered a lot of details about what season 3 of This Is Us will bring. We'll finally get some answers about those cryptic flash-forwards, we're going to see a lot more of Jack, and it sounds like a lot of time will be spent oversees in Vietnam.

The hiatus from the Pearson clan in-between seasons is never easy for This Is Us fans, but we finally have an end in sight. NBC just announced the premiere date for season 3, and we couldn't be more excited. This afternoon, the network shared a video of a calendar to its This Is Us Facebook page.

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The clip shows the month of August, with two dates highlighted in red: Jack's birthday and the "Big 3's" birthday. Then, the calendar flips to the next month and zooms in on September 25: "This Is Us premiere 9/8 c". The caption of the video reads, "You're invited..."

Assuming this isn't some sort of cruel joke (never forget that time the show's writers fooled us into thinking that Jack makes it out of the fire), you should mark your own calendar for September 25. And we'll remind you one more time about those tissues—you're going to need them.

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Kelly O’Sullivan is the senior editor for The Pioneer Woman and manages the website’s social channels, in addition to overseeing content strategy and news.