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motherhood where sleep is a rumor and laundry

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is eternal and somehow we're supposed to be raising

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tiny humans through it all we're here to laugh

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at the chaos cry when necessary and remind you

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that none of us actually know what we're doing

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this is no manual a mom cast your mom friend

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group chat but with microphones Welcome back

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to No Manual Momcast. All right, so today we

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are, we've done this episode before, probably

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like what, six months ago -ish maybe? I think

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it was the summer, something like that, yeah.

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So we're talking all about what is saving our

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lives right now. And you know, some of these

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things might be repeats, can't really remember,

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to be honest. We did not listen to prepare. No,

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I did not. But you know, if it's a repeat. It's

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consistent. It's timeless. Before we hop into

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what's saving our lives, let's hop into our mom

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moments of the week. I can start. Lloyd has really

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been fighting brushing his teeth lately. It's

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one of those parts of bedtime that... Stuart

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usually has to handle it, but any time either

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of us have to handle it, we're just, like, so

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frustrated because Lloyd, like, bites his toothbrush

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or, like, does anything he can to brush his teeth.

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We're also full -blown in our car's obsession,

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so we've been starting to tell him that Lightning

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McQueen brushes his teeth. So, like, obviously,

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we don't, it's not technically a lie. Ka -chow!

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Because we're like, there is a scene where he

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gets bugs in his teeth and they're not in the

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teeth for the rest of his movie. So he probably

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does brush his teeth. So I was like, oh, maybe

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I can chat GBT to make me an image of Lightning

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McQueen brushing his teeth. But it won't. Great

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idea. It won't? It said it goes against like

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their content creation standards or whatever,

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something like that. How? The only thing I can

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think is it must be a copyrighted image issue.

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Because Lightning McQueen is probably. He has

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to be copyrighted, right? But still, I feel like...

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Pixar, if you're listening to this, we just need...

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Just one simple image. Yeah, quick image. Lightning

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McQueen brushing his teeth. I don't know how

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he does it since he doesn't really have hands.

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Yeah. Maybe it's like a car wash situation. I

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don't know. It's like a float in the air. I don't

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know. But we definitely are going to need that

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because... It's like, it reminds me of like VeggieTales

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whenever like they're holding anything because

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they don't have hands. But it's just floating.

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It's just floating next to them. Yeah, that's

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fine. I just need evidence that Lightning McQueen

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brushes his teeth. for lloyd because it kind

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of helps yeah like he still doesn't love brushing

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his teeth and still fights it but it helps like

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it's it's working two percent better than it

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was before so we'll take whatever we got but

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yeah chat gpt won't create an image of it what

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the heck so man yeah if anyone just like has

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something like that would love it yeah an illustrator

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maybe listening to this yeah yeah wow okay my

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uh mom moment so uh we turned colt's crib into

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like a big boy bed it's like a transitional bed

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so you pretty much just take off one wall of

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it and then they have like a little half wall

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that you can put And Colt still like doesn't

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really sleep through the night. He's usually

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up once a night and needs help getting back to

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sleep. But for some reason we're like let's,

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you know, let's just go for it. I was like he

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was hitting the side of the crib a lot and I

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think that was waking him up. And so we're like

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let's just try this because we do need that crib

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soon for Cruz. And so we're like going to move

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Colt into an actual like floor bed pretty soon.

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And so we're like, let's test this out. And it's

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actually gone really well. Like surprisingly,

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he stays in it. Like when he wakes up in the

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night, he's not like I figured he would just

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like walk out, like get out of bed and walk out

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of his room and like come into our room because

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he knows how to open doors and stuff. But he

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doesn't do that. He just like wakes up and he

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sits there and like calls for us, which is. I

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don't know why he does that because he can easily

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climb out. But it's like kind of ideal. Yeah,

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it works out great. However, of course, on a

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Wednesday night when there was youth group, I'm

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solo parenting all day long, put Colt to bed,

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and I was like, okay, got him to bed. Like it

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was good. All of a sudden I'm like I go downstairs

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with Cruz, start to get him in his pajamas. All

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of a sudden I hear Colt's door open. It's like.

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And Colt comes running out of the room so happy.

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Like he just like, I don't know, overcome the

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best thing ever. And he was like laughing as

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he's running down the hall, smiling at me. And

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I look at him and I say, Colt, turn your butt

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around. It is time for bed. I was like, you do

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not come out of the room without mommy or daddy.

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And he goes, he runs back to his room. He's like

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laughing and happy. Get him back down. Second

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time, opens the door again. And I was like, ooh,

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now I was upset. Because I was like, of course

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you do this on the night that I am solo parenting.

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That's always how it goes. Yeah, it's always

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the toughest bedtime. And just dad being in the

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house changes attitudes. For sure. I don't know

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what it is. Yeah. And so get him back in his

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room third time. I say, you do not leave this

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room unless mommy and daddy come in. And he goes,

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yes. And so then he lays down. I say, good night,

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buddy. I love you. Go out the door. Decided not

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to go downstairs. Decided I'm just going to stand

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there outside the door. See what happens. Yeah.

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See what happens. All of a sudden I hear him.

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He knocks on the inside of the door. I open up

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the door and he's like, peeks his head around.

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He goes, hi, mama. I'm like, oh my gosh. It made

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me laugh so hard because I was like. I mean,

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he didn't come out of the room. He did what he

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was supposed to. Yeah. But he just, I thought

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it was so hilarious. He just knocks on it. And

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then that third time, like go in, get him down.

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I think I ended up having to like hold his hand

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until he went to sleep. But man, that kid, he

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just cracks me up. And also I was like, that's

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the only time he's done that is the night I was

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solo parenting. Of course. Yeah. Other than that,

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he stayed, he's like stayed in the bed when.

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Yeah. And that's super impressive. He like fell

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out of it one time. But we put like a pillow.

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Yeah. So that it wouldn't be that hard. And it's

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not like it's high from the floor. And he like

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fell out. And like I could see on the monitor,

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he just like crawled right back in and laid back

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down. It's like. Great. So I think we're going

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to do the floor bed pretty soon. That's awesome.

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Yeah. I don't know if Lloyd would stay in this

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bed. Yeah. You can't even get him to stay in

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his chair at dinner. So. Yeah. I mean, we still

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like strap Colton. So it's. Yeah. I think this

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is not my mom moment, but I think we're going

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to have to get a second high chair. So that way.

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Lloyd can like stay strapped in because dinner

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is just a battle every single day right now.

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We ended up buying like a booster. Michael's

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grandma bought us like a booster seat for the

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chair. We have a booster seat, but it doesn't

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have a buckle. Oh, yeah. Maybe we just need to

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get a different booster seat or something. I

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don't know. Yeah. Well, let's just hop in to

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what's saving our lives. Yeah. Do you want to

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go first? Sure. Okay. So my first one is planning

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lunches the way I plan dinners. Oh. For me, like,

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I do most of the meal planning and, like, prepping

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and grocery shopping and all that for our household.

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And for dinners, I, like, sit down and I'm like,

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okay, Monday we're going to have hot dogs. Tuesday

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we're going to have pork chops. Wednesday we're

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going to have burgers, whatever. And then, of

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course, sometimes throughout the week it, like,

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gets mixed up. Like, oh, I forgot to defrost

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something, so whatever. But for lunches before,

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I had always just been like, I'll just, like,

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make sure I have lunch stuff in the house and,

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like, figure it out as I go. And then lunchtime

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always turns into, like, a disaster. because

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I'm hungry and Lloyd's hungry and everyone's

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crying and stressed and all of that. Um, so I

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finally started planning lunches similarly where

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it's like, even if it's like Monday is PBJ, Tuesday

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is chicken nuggets, Wednesday is PBJ. Yeah. You

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know, it could be, sometimes it's like just that

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simple, but that way when like lunchtime comes

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around, I just don't even have to think about

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it. It's like, okay, today's PBJ. And again,

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sometimes it like adjusts like, oh, we have leftovers.

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So we're going to have that today or whatever.

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And also on side note the feeding littles lunches

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book is super helpful it's not like a cookbook

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but it's more of like meal composition book more

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or less so it'll they give suggestions like what

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things to put together for a meal for your kids

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yeah um which is super helpful to just like get

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ideas and stuff and lloyd loves looking through

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it so he'll go through nice point out stuff and

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he's like i want that usually it's the cookies

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yeah oh always always yeah yeah so but that's

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my first one it's just Planning lunches more

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intentionally to make my... Day -to -day, a little

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less stressful. Yeah, that's good. And lunchtime,

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a little less chaotic and generally less tears.

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Not always. Yeah, right. Mine, I guess I'll skip

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ahead because one of mine is similar. What's

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saving my life is just easy meals and then meal

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prepping, which I definitely do not do the meal

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prepping. Michael does the meal prepping. But

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we have, so we have a Blackstone. And so we'll

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go to Costco and buy like a huge pack of chicken

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thighs. then just like cook up the all the chicken

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thighs and then we'll use that like in variation

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for the week and then easy meals as far as like

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um we do a lot of like trader joe's meals um

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like the frozen meals um maybe like i love a

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like costco throw it in the oven yeah we don't

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do a ton i actually i'll do those for knight

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stewart's gone yes because there's less let's

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clean up yeah oh for sure i love a meal that

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you can just throw in the oven i also like for

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lunches too i try to keep it fairly simple for

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lunches for colt like honestly he eats he eats

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the same two or three lunches pretty much every

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single day it's usually like lunch meat and cheese

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some type of cracker and he Always eats a pickle

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for lunch. He loves pickles. Or we'll do like

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peanut butter and jelly, usually in Uncrustables,

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which I actually have one sitting next to me

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right now because I also enjoy them. Usually

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a pickle and then like cottage cheese. So like

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I'm like I'm hitting most of the food groups

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here. Yep. He likes it. He'll eat it. That's

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huge. Yes. And then I also eat pretty much that

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variation of lunch every day. So we keep it simple.

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Yeah. I almost never do a different. yeah lunch

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or meal then he has again maybe it's a little

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bit different where it's like unless yeah unless

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we're doing leftovers then a lot of times i'll

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do something different for myself but yeah i

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just can't imagine trying to make two meals no

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and usually it's like Colt is really into eating

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on his helper stand now. So it's usually we're

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just like standing in the kitchen and he's on

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his helper stand and I'm just standing next to

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him and I'm just like, I'll pull out the lunch

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meat and then like put some on my plate, his

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plate. And then he's like eating that. Well,

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then I pull the cheese out and it's just kind

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of like a eat as we go situation. And I mean,

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it works. It's not like the best thing, but it

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also. requires zero thinking for me and that's

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what i that's what i need yeah especially on

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work from home days and solo parenting it's like

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i need simple yes yeah same just as little like

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that's part of why we have the exact same breakfast

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every single day every once in a while it's like

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oh we have bagels that are gonna go to bed or

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something like that but otherwise it's scrambled

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eggs sausage and fruit yeah yeah i never have

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to think about what's for breakfast love it okay

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my next one is Having a day, quote unquote, to

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myself. So Wednesdays my parents take the kids.

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So I am still working on those days. So it's

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definitely not like a day to myself because I'm

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still working and I usually have one or two meetings.

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But the house is quiet and I can like focus on

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work. So if there's any big projects I'm working

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on, I can like actually focus on those as well.

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I also tend to get a lot of housework done on

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those days. mopping that doesn't happen nearly

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as often as it should or even just getting laundry

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put away yeah that's good and it also like i

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think one thing Maybe people are talking about

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it and I dismiss it. But one of the hard things

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about being around your kids all the time is

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that you like kind of forget that you like them.

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Like, you know, you love your kids. Yeah. But

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when you're around them all the time and they

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start driving you crazy because you don't have

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a second to breathe, you forget that you also

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like them. It's hard to like go back to neutral,

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I guess. Yes. Yeah. Because then you have a day

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like, you know, the days when you're solo parenting

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for 16 hours or whatever that you're like, just

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all the things are driving you crazy. Yeah. So

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you forget. No, this is like a really cool kid

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that I get to spend my time with. So I also think

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having that day away from them helps me get back

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to neutral. The evenings are kind of tough sometimes

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because their routine is thrown off and we're

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still figuring that out. But just having that

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day to myself and like, I have my own breakfast

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that's not scrambled eggs and sausage that I

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actually want. Or I'll go to King Soopers and

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pick up a lunch for myself. you know something

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you know something fun and different sushi or

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something not dino nuggets exactly yeah so it's

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just nice to have like a little bit of separation

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and yeah i think that's so healthy yeah it's

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not even really time to myself which is weird

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but it feels for sure like it is yeah and the

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like the productivity of things just increase

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so much it does yeah yeah and you're like how

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did i not get all this stuff done before i have

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no idea because now I'm pretty sure if I wanted

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to, I could get all of my chores done in one

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day. Yeah. And before I had kids, I felt like

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I could never get anything done. And I don't

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know. And like, I legitimately felt that way

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too. So I don't know what it is. Yeah. It's like,

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did my speed increase or was I just super lazy?

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Yeah. Who knows? No idea. Yeah. Okay. My next

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thing is Amazon. specifically Amazon Prime and

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what's weird is I didn't used to have my own

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Amazon account I would just always like text

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Michael or ask him to order something which now

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so I finally created my own Amazon account which

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is probably not like good for our bank account

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but like now I'm not like texting like hey can

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you order this I don't know this toy or like

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this coloring book or whatever I just like And

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now he's like, why are 10 packages on our doorstep

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every day? Definitely our Amazon purchases have

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increased and I need to limit my spending. That's

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another problem. Was Prime Day, did you get a

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lot of good things? The only thing I actually

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ordered was a new sound machine because ours

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broke, which is funny because I was chatting

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like with their help, I don't know, help text

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number last night. And Michael said he had done

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this before, but I was chatting with them and

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they just decided to send us a new one. So now

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we have, rather than having two with one that

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was broken, I replaced that one. Now we have

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three because they're sending us a new one. But

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it actually works out great because we need one

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for Cruz's new room. That's going to be... And

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you never know when you need an extra one. Honestly.

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Like humidifiers, we overnighted a humidifier

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one time because we already had one. Yeah. And

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then Zeta was sick. Oh, no. Zeta was just like

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really stuffed up when she was little all the

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time, even when she wasn't sick. And Lloyd was

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sick, but Zeta was still in our room, so we needed

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two. So, yeah. Yeah. You never know when you

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need extra stuff like that just in general. Yes.

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So I'm not like mad about it. It was a great

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deal with a Prime Day. So I was like, let's just

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do it. But that's the only thing I ordered, surprisingly.

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I put a bunch of other things in my cart. Didn't

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buy them. Put them in the safe for later. We'll

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try again later. Yeah, Amazon's been a real lifesaver.

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And honestly, like for Colt, if I'm like, hey,

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buddy, do you want to like pick out a coloring

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book to order? It's like a fun like thing for

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us to look at together. And then he picks one

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out. And so it's also nice. I have created wish

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lists for both of the kids. Oh, that's smart.

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With like my approved toys to then send to grandparents

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and aunts and uncles and stuff like that. Partially

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because a lot of times people are like, what

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do they want? And of course, whenever someone

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asks you that, you're like, I have absolutely

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no idea. But if I think about things like throughout

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the months leading up to birthdays or Christmas,

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then I can just add it real quick. Like, oh yeah,

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this book he was interested in or something like

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that. So then you can send that. out and it's

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toys that you've approved too hopefully it's

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that was a great idea i need to do that yeah

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i highly recommend that for kids okay what's

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your next one uh my next one is doing like little

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tidies during nap time so i know last time i

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talked about that i do like my 10 minute tidy

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or whatever at bedtime and i still do that and

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for a long time that was the only time i really

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tidied up during the day For me, I was like,

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why would I clean up earlier? Because Lloyd's

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just going to make the house a mess again. But

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then I started to notice like, oh, sometimes

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in the morning he'll only play with trucks, but

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in the evening he'll pull out all his books or

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vice versa or something like that. So a lot of

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times if I tidy up during nap time, then when

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I'm tidying up later in the day, it's just less.

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Sometimes it's not. Sometimes he also pulls out

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every single thing we've ever owned in the like

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four hours between nap time and bedtime. So I've

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been trying to tidy up during nap time. Not quite

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as much as I do at the end of the day, but just

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enough to like make the rest of the day not quite

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as messy. To help your sanity. Yes, exactly.

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Yeah, it's like this mess is actually an illustration

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of what my brain looks like. There's also studies

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that show that the amount of energy our brain

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takes to like... ignore clutter is like an insane

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amount really so that's why mess actually makes

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you feel like more exhausted and more stressed

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is because your brain is actively trying to like

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ignore the clutter yeah which i was like oh that

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makes sense that's why like bull stewart and

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i get more stressed out if the house is messy

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which of course is all the time yeah but yeah

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why if things are cleaner if like you naturally

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feel calmer yeah it's like it's an actual brain

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function thing i feel that 100 it is uh an example

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of, so in Cruz's new room, which is our current

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guest room, I'm trying to like, he is just growing

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so quick. He's just a big boy. So he, I need

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to switch out his clothes again because he doesn't

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fit in. What size is he? Uh, nine to 12 months.

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Okay. Yeah. That's not too, it's not, it's not

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too, too big. He's six months old. And so I like

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have a bunch of the clothes like laying out on

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the ground. And Michael like sorted them all

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by size for me, which was nice. We didn't put

00:19:06.789 --> 00:19:09.069
them in the drawers yet. This morning, Colt literally

00:19:09.069 --> 00:19:11.269
just created a tornado in the room. The clothes

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are everywhere in the room. Nothing's folded

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anymore. It's just a disaster. And that's just

00:19:16.490 --> 00:19:18.589
a representation of my mind right now. Yeah.

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Yeah. That sounds about right. Yeah. So fun.

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Okay. My next one is. family coming to visit

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which can be like a really positive thing it

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can be negative in some senses too but for the

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most part like when family's coming to visit

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it it really does take a lot of like stress off

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my plate i feel like you've had a lot of family

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really since cruz was born yes it's been quite

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constant it's been pretty pretty much like probably

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every three -ish weeks there's someone visiting

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that's nice i would say and then they're here

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for like About a week. So probably about every

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month we've had someone visiting, which like

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by the time they get here, I'm like ready for

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extra hands to help again. And it really does,

00:20:03.130 --> 00:20:06.890
especially on like those solo parenting days,

00:20:06.970 --> 00:20:10.569
when then someone is there from my family to

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help, it like totally takes the stress off of

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how difficult those days can be. Even if it's

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just as simple like Michael's aunt is in town

00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:21.869
right now. It's as simple as like when I'm putting

00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:24.289
Colt down for a nap, I can know that she's like

00:20:24.289 --> 00:20:26.369
hanging out with Cruz. Right. You don't feel

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like you have to rush as much. Yeah. It's like

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I can really actually spend that one -on -one

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time with Colt, which is nearly impossible whenever

00:20:35.369 --> 00:20:39.190
it's just me trying to handle both boys. And

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I feel like pulled in different directions. So

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that really, I mean, it does save my life to

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have family coming to town. That's super nice.

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Yeah. So my next one, you said this last time.

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And I wasn't working. I wasn't back to work last

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time and now I am. So grocery pickup. That I

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have not. Actually, that's not true. I have gone

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into the grocery store since I've been back to

00:21:00.029 --> 00:21:02.130
work, but like. Not nearly as much. Maybe three

00:21:02.130 --> 00:21:05.329
times. Yeah. And I've not done a full grocery

00:21:05.329 --> 00:21:08.009
run except for Costco because you can't do drive

00:21:08.009 --> 00:21:11.349
up. Yeah. Our routine right now is I pick up

00:21:11.349 --> 00:21:14.029
on Fridays. I schedule it during my lunch break.

00:21:14.859 --> 00:21:16.779
We pick it up. Then I go to Sonic and get my

00:21:16.779 --> 00:21:20.079
sweet treat. Yes. And it's just, it makes life

00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:22.440
so much easier. Oh, yeah. Because also then like

00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.779
the actual process of like quote unquote shopping

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where you're like adding things to your cart.

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Like I can do that while I'm breastfeeding. I

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can do that while we're sitting and watching

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TV. And honestly, I think it's saved us money,

00:21:35.109 --> 00:21:37.769
too, because I'm totally like the go up every

00:21:37.769 --> 00:21:40.710
aisle shopper and be like, oh, this snack looks

00:21:40.710 --> 00:21:43.450
good or like, oh, maybe we'll make this. And

00:21:43.450 --> 00:21:46.529
it's easier for me to see like what's on sale.

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Yeah. I mean, they have it off of that. Yeah.

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So I can base it off of that or like go through

00:21:51.509 --> 00:21:53.450
your coupons and be like, oh, we can have this

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this week because there's a coupon for ribs or

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grocery pickup. It's just a game changer. It

00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.099
is. It's been, it's made such a big difference.

00:22:03.660 --> 00:22:06.980
And yeah. Cause then the other option is we would

00:22:06.980 --> 00:22:10.019
do it either on the weekends, which somehow it

00:22:10.019 --> 00:22:11.579
takes like seven hours to go grocery shopping.

00:22:11.579 --> 00:22:13.640
I don't know why. Yeah. Or Fridays when Stuart

00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:15.720
gets home from work. And then at that point,

00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:17.539
our entire Friday evening is shot. And by the

00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:19.640
time we like get home and make dinner, then it's

00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:21.799
bedtime. And we're like, what happened? Yeah.

00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:25.839
I swear. Like, so we go to Costco probably every

00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:29.680
other week or every three weeks. Yeah. And I

00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:33.099
swear it becomes like an outing for the day of

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like we either do this before nap time or after

00:22:35.619 --> 00:22:38.339
nap time. And then like the rest of our day is

00:22:38.339 --> 00:22:40.839
shot after that. And usually if we do it in the

00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:43.700
afternoon and we buy all this food, we end up

00:22:43.700 --> 00:22:46.099
getting takeout or like going through a drive

00:22:46.099 --> 00:22:48.339
-thru because it's just too difficult. So we

00:22:48.339 --> 00:22:50.880
also go – I think we usually go to Costco every

00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.839
other week. It's like our consistent routine.

00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:57.980
And we've kind of just like made it the like

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– pre -decided decision yeah if that makes sense

00:23:00.940 --> 00:23:03.619
that we're just gonna get dinner there yeah we'll

00:23:03.619 --> 00:23:08.099
go we'll eat there or last week stewart was working

00:23:08.099 --> 00:23:10.160
on a project so i went with the kids and then

00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:11.640
just grabbed a pizza and brought it home yeah

00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.059
that's so because one it's also way cheaper so

00:23:15.059 --> 00:23:18.920
cheap costco food court yeah clutch prices are

00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.400
unbeatable yeah and it's just more convenient

00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:22.619
because then you don't have to go home and cook

00:23:22.619 --> 00:23:24.519
something and then all of a sudden it's like

00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:27.039
actually bedtime and everyone's cranky yes so

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:31.059
yep Yeah, the one by our house, they're redoing

00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:33.720
the food court. So that's the one downside. So

00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:36.779
that's why I think that would be our normal plan.

00:23:36.980 --> 00:23:39.000
Yeah. But they like decided to remodel it or

00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.319
something. So, yeah. I mean, they haven't updated

00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.839
that Costco in like since I've been alive. Yeah,

00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:48.079
probably not. Okay, my next thing that's saving

00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.130
my life. It's not really like. a choice, but

00:23:51.130 --> 00:23:53.109
it just is, is that both of my kids are in the

00:23:53.109 --> 00:23:55.750
same size diapers. That's super convenient. Yeah.

00:23:56.009 --> 00:24:00.289
Yeah. So they're both in size four and I mean,

00:24:00.309 --> 00:24:04.069
Cruz is just, he looks like a toddler cause he's

00:24:04.069 --> 00:24:07.029
just a big boy. Um, and then Colt is kind of

00:24:07.029 --> 00:24:10.829
tiny for his age. So, um, it works out. Uh, the

00:24:10.829 --> 00:24:13.690
plan is to, is to really potty train Colt very

00:24:13.690 --> 00:24:16.369
soon. Cause he is, he for sure is ready. I just

00:24:16.369 --> 00:24:19.910
don't know if I'm ready. And then, yeah, just

00:24:19.910 --> 00:24:22.049
them being the same size diapers makes it so

00:24:22.049 --> 00:24:24.450
nice of like. I don't even have to think what

00:24:24.450 --> 00:24:26.809
diaper I'm grabbing. And you don't accidentally

00:24:26.809 --> 00:24:29.750
grab the wrong one. Yeah. And like we went, when

00:24:29.750 --> 00:24:32.069
we went to Costco, we just bought like two packs

00:24:32.069 --> 00:24:35.430
of size four rather than size two. Yeah. Which

00:24:35.430 --> 00:24:38.170
isn't a big deal, but it just is like that simple

00:24:38.170 --> 00:24:40.730
little thing. Sometimes those little things make

00:24:40.730 --> 00:24:42.210
the biggest difference. Cause you're like, I

00:24:42.210 --> 00:24:44.970
just have one less thing to think about. Yeah.

00:24:44.970 --> 00:24:47.289
Yeah. Wait, are we out? Which size are we out

00:24:47.289 --> 00:24:49.210
of? Should we just buy both? Yeah. Yeah. All

00:24:49.210 --> 00:24:51.579
the things. Yep. Yeah, and it's nice because,

00:24:51.660 --> 00:24:53.740
like, sometimes I'll be, like, have Colt go grab

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:56.539
a diaper for either him or Cruz, and so then

00:24:56.539 --> 00:24:58.940
he doesn't even have to, like, not that he knows,

00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:02.180
but he's, like, he'll still grab one and be,

00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.680
like, Cruz diaper? And I'm, like, oh, yeah, that's

00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:07.180
great, buddy. Whereas it's, like, all over the

00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:09.579
same, buddy, but, yeah, it's great because he

00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:12.319
never grabs the wrong one. Perfect. Yeah, I love

00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:16.779
it. Okay, my next one is Sonic Runs. Ooh, nice,

00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:19.700
yeah. So we have a Sonic that's about... Four

00:25:19.700 --> 00:25:21.920
and a half minutes from our house. Love it. I

00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:24.619
think we can get to Sonic and back in less than

00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:27.140
10 minutes. Nice. But also if you order drinks

00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:29.880
on the app, it's always happy hour. So it's always

00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:32.259
half price if you order them on the app, which

00:25:32.259 --> 00:25:37.980
means you can get like a giant 40 ounce drink

00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:42.119
for like a buck 50. Yes. Okay. What's your drink

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:46.240
of choice again? So if I need caffeine, my go

00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:50.259
-to is Dr. Pepper. Okay. But Sonic also has a

00:25:50.259 --> 00:25:53.619
blood orange syrup right now, which if you do

00:25:53.619 --> 00:25:56.039
their lemonade with a blood orange syrup is that.

00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:58.259
So that's like really my go to drink. If I'm

00:25:58.259 --> 00:26:00.119
going to Sonic, that's generally my go to drink.

00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:03.940
If I need caffeine because I need caffeine and

00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:07.779
I don't drink coffee, then I'll get a Dr. Pepper.

00:26:07.940 --> 00:26:11.359
Nice. The girl at Sonic knows my car. Oh, for

00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.339
sure. So usually she's like there with my drink

00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:17.019
before I even park. And I mean, I don't go a

00:26:17.019 --> 00:26:20.240
lot. Is that an embarrassing thing or is that

00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:22.519
like a, you know what, I've made it. They know

00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:27.700
me. I mean, a little bit of both, you know. It's,

00:26:27.700 --> 00:26:30.380
yeah. I mean, I go twice a week. So it's not

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:32.940
like I'm going daily, but I go. That's me at

00:26:32.940 --> 00:26:35.900
Dutch Bros right by my house. Same thing. So,

00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:38.279
yeah, Wednesdays when the kids are gone, I go

00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:40.400
pick up a drink because that's the other thing.

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.279
I'm not going to load up both the kids in the

00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:44.619
car to drive over there and get a drink every

00:26:44.619 --> 00:26:48.380
day. That's way too much. But I go on Wednesdays

00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:50.720
when they're gone and then Fridays when I pick

00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:52.400
up groceries because we're already in the car

00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:54.579
and it's right next to King Soopers. Nice. So,

00:26:54.579 --> 00:26:57.660
yeah, highly recommend Glitterless Lemonade.

00:26:57.779 --> 00:27:00.880
I'll have to try that. That sounds good. A little

00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.339
bit tart, which I love. That's my preference.

00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:05.619
Yeah. And if you have the app, it's always happy

00:27:05.619 --> 00:27:08.859
hour. That's smart. I will just download the

00:27:08.859 --> 00:27:12.259
app for that reason. Yeah. I love it. Okay. My

00:27:12.259 --> 00:27:17.220
next one is play places. Yes. Yes. We have been

00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:19.799
just going to a lot of play places recently.

00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:24.940
Our routine has kind of been. So on Wednesdays,

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:27.579
Michael goes into work later because of youth

00:27:27.579 --> 00:27:30.750
group. And so we'll usually like go to either

00:27:30.750 --> 00:27:33.250
Chick -fil -A or McDonald's for breakfast that

00:27:33.250 --> 00:27:35.509
morning and then let Cole play on the Play Place.

00:27:35.509 --> 00:27:36.269
That's what we did this morning for breakfast.

00:27:36.450 --> 00:27:39.930
Yeah. And it's so nice because especially the

00:27:39.930 --> 00:27:41.710
Chick -fil -A that we go to with the Play Place,

00:27:41.829 --> 00:27:44.730
it's not one that like I have to go up in there

00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:48.170
with him. He can, he like can climb on everything

00:27:48.170 --> 00:27:51.769
easily himself. And so that's nice because we

00:27:51.769 --> 00:27:53.569
can just sit there and watch him and he has the

00:27:53.569 --> 00:27:56.410
best time and it's so fun. And I feel like that's

00:27:56.410 --> 00:27:59.700
like. Our outing for the day, especially on Wednesdays,

00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:02.220
because I'm not really taking the boys anywhere

00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:05.380
else on my own, except like a grocery pickup

00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:09.160
or a drive -thru somewhere. It's been fun, like

00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:12.609
a fun activity for... us to get out of the house

00:28:12.609 --> 00:28:16.009
and um also i feel like it's easier than a park

00:28:16.009 --> 00:28:18.210
because they're already kind of contained they're

00:28:18.210 --> 00:28:21.309
contained and most play places are designed for

00:28:21.309 --> 00:28:24.269
younger kids like there's just less spots for

00:28:24.269 --> 00:28:28.710
them to fall yeah i don't have to like stand

00:28:28.710 --> 00:28:31.109
right next to him as he's climbing up this yeah

00:28:31.109 --> 00:28:36.039
and it's enclosed and yep yeah so um I do love

00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:37.700
me a good play place. I know they're probably

00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:40.160
quite dirty, but... It's just building his immune

00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.839
system. It's fine. It's fine. It's totally fine.

00:28:42.980 --> 00:28:48.319
Yeah. And my next thing is Cars pajamas for every

00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:53.500
day of the week. So... The same ones or different

00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:55.940
variations? Well, so here's what happened. There

00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:58.000
was... Lloyd's all about cars right now. Yes.

00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:00.460
Specifically like the actual movie cars. Okay.

00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.319
We love Lightning McQueen. And so there's like

00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:06.279
a $5 pair of Lightning McQueen pajamas at Walmart.

00:29:06.420 --> 00:29:07.880
And we're like, obviously we got to get them

00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:10.019
for him. For sure. And then it turned into this

00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:11.859
thing where he would be in like actual tears

00:29:11.859 --> 00:29:16.319
and not like a tantrum, like actually sad the

00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:18.160
nights that they were dirty and he couldn't wear

00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.490
them. So. I decided to just buy a bunch of cars

00:29:22.490 --> 00:29:24.710
pajamas so that we don't have that problem. So

00:29:24.710 --> 00:29:28.190
not all of them are like Lightning McQueen branded.

00:29:28.269 --> 00:29:31.569
So we have one pair that has like construction

00:29:31.569 --> 00:29:34.670
trucks on them, which he loves, road builders.

00:29:34.829 --> 00:29:37.430
So we're all about that. There's one pair that

00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:40.829
has like classic cars all over them. So he's

00:29:40.829 --> 00:29:44.690
fine. Our like backup pair if I haven't done

00:29:44.690 --> 00:29:47.589
laundry is we have one that has Yetis driving

00:29:47.589 --> 00:29:52.369
snowmobiles. Obviously. Obviously. So, and he'll

00:29:52.369 --> 00:29:54.750
settle for those, like, worst case scenario.

00:29:54.750 --> 00:29:58.750
If all other seven pairs are dirty. Yes. He,

00:29:58.769 --> 00:30:01.549
like, every night, car's pajamas, car's pajamas.

00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:05.210
That's so cute. And Stuart always, like, looks

00:30:05.210 --> 00:30:08.450
at me first, like, I think we can, yep, car's

00:30:08.450 --> 00:30:10.190
pajamas are clean. They're clean. We're good.

00:30:10.390 --> 00:30:13.529
We got some. So, yeah, we have a pair for pretty

00:30:13.529 --> 00:30:15.509
much every day of the week. That's cute. And

00:30:15.509 --> 00:30:18.490
he gets very excited to wear them. I love that.

00:30:18.750 --> 00:30:20.750
And it makes bedtime easier because we don't

00:30:20.750 --> 00:30:24.069
have all the tears when laundry hasn't been done.

00:30:24.170 --> 00:30:26.650
Hey, it's like a choose your battles type of

00:30:26.650 --> 00:30:29.250
situation. Like I could just spend like 30 bucks

00:30:29.250 --> 00:30:33.430
on some different jammies or, you know, put up

00:30:33.430 --> 00:30:36.170
a fight every single night. So 30 bucks it is.

00:30:36.210 --> 00:30:38.990
It makes them happy. One of the things I heard

00:30:38.990 --> 00:30:42.569
that I tried to like live by as much as possible

00:30:42.569 --> 00:30:45.720
is. the two great tragedies of childhood are

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.559
never getting what you want and always getting

00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.079
it when you want. So I'm like, this is the, you

00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:53.140
get what you want. Yeah. And it's just, it's

00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:55.460
such a little, it's a little thing and it brings

00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:58.309
him so much joy. So, yep. Yeah. There we go.

00:30:58.390 --> 00:31:01.289
I love that. Yeah. Colt hasn't like quite obsessed

00:31:01.289 --> 00:31:04.609
over anything like that yet. Like he has things

00:31:04.609 --> 00:31:06.930
that he really likes, but nothing where it's

00:31:06.930 --> 00:31:10.009
like he has to be the Mickey Mouse pajamas every

00:31:10.009 --> 00:31:13.750
night. He wants to wear his dino shoes and cars

00:31:13.750 --> 00:31:19.529
clothes. I love it. Okay. The next thing, speaking

00:31:19.529 --> 00:31:21.630
of Mickey Mouse, next thing saving my life is

00:31:21.630 --> 00:31:25.299
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. That is like Colt's go

00:31:25.299 --> 00:31:28.240
-to show right now whenever I let him watch TV.

00:31:29.140 --> 00:31:33.359
I'm not like entirely annoyed by it. I love a

00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:35.539
kid's show that doesn't annoy us. Yeah, it's

00:31:35.539 --> 00:31:40.160
like kind of fun. I don't know. I can see how

00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.180
it will annoy me. soon but there's like so many

00:31:44.180 --> 00:31:46.960
cute phrases that colt like sings along to like

00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:50.019
og or the current one well we've seen both okay

00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:52.519
i think we're in the more current one right now

00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:55.599
which i'm like i know it's so overstimulating

00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:59.220
because of so many bright colors and but it's

00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:03.180
so fun with uh yeah him singing like singing

00:32:03.180 --> 00:32:08.730
along to it saying oh toodles yeah it's just

00:32:08.730 --> 00:32:11.130
like kind of fun for me to watch him watch it

00:32:11.130 --> 00:32:15.309
um and it's also like our go -to like if he's

00:32:15.309 --> 00:32:18.250
not playing independently and I have to feed

00:32:18.250 --> 00:32:22.349
Cruz and he's like just not having it he'll watch

00:32:22.349 --> 00:32:26.380
that for a little bit and so it's not like the

00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:28.880
most ideal but it is saving our lives they also

00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:31.819
have he loves at the grocery store they have

00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:35.079
like mickey mouse snack packs um which i always

00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.240
i was like i'm never gonna be the parent to buy

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.740
like these like themed snack packs because they're

00:32:40.740 --> 00:32:43.839
like but you'll eat it so yes but and they're

00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.380
like 3 .99 a piece of course and it's literally

00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:51.359
like little mickey mouse crackers cheese and

00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.680
apple slices i'm like i could do that easily

00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:56.460
at home but the fact that it comes into mickey

00:32:56.460 --> 00:32:59.480
mouse shape it's like the best thing ever so

00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:02.359
he when i when we do have them which is like

00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:05.220
i don't know every couple weeks i'll buy like

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:08.839
two of them he goes mickey mouse snack pack mickey

00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.289
mouse snack pack Maybe you need to get some like

00:33:11.289 --> 00:33:13.289
Mickey Mouse stickers and just put them on things.

00:33:13.329 --> 00:33:17.490
That's so smart. Like, hey, this banana is Mickey

00:33:17.490 --> 00:33:22.609
Mouse. Yes, that is so smart. But he, I mean,

00:33:22.609 --> 00:33:25.150
he loves Mickey Mouse. I told Michael, I was

00:33:25.150 --> 00:33:26.930
like, we're going to probably need to take him

00:33:26.930 --> 00:33:30.410
to Disneyland in the next couple of years, potentially.

00:33:30.690 --> 00:33:33.230
Neither of us are like, we don't really like

00:33:33.230 --> 00:33:36.720
Disneyland. I can see how people love it with

00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.819
their kids. But also I think you might be terrified

00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:43.119
of like the, of Mickey Mouse, like actually seeing

00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:45.359
Mickey Mouse. I mean, Mickey Mouse at the parks

00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:48.660
is like seven feet tall. Yeah. Yeah. And this

00:33:48.660 --> 00:33:51.660
is a tangent, but last week at church there,

00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:55.640
we went to visit Michael for a bit and they were

00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.099
holding a, like a youth event that they do every

00:33:58.099 --> 00:34:00.940
month. And there was, one of our students was

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:03.400
dressed up as a bear and like one of those. Big

00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:05.539
bear costumes that like blows up with the fan.

00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:10.940
And Colt was terrified, like sobbing, so scared.

00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:14.280
Yeah. Poor, like I felt so bad for him. By the

00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:16.579
end of like the time there, he was able to go

00:34:16.579 --> 00:34:19.500
up to him and just like. touch the touch the

00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:22.420
bear but he's like fixated and is still talking

00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:25.059
about it so I'm like Disneyland yeah Halloween

00:34:25.059 --> 00:34:27.320
we're like Halloween it's gonna be a toss -up

00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:29.559
we're gonna either be very terrified of Halloween

00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.239
or love it and then same thing with Disneyland

00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:34.699
as we're talking about it I'm like I think if

00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:37.739
we went now he would be absolutely terrified

00:34:37.739 --> 00:34:40.519
yeah and there's not i mean i guess they do have

00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:42.360
like kids areas and stuff but i feel like there's

00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.119
less to do at this young yeah yeah we might wait

00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.739
till he's like maybe four yeah four or five or

00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:51.639
something so yeah mickey mouse clubhouse love

00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:54.139
it mickey mouse clubhouse all right my next one

00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:58.000
is leaving earrings so this is kind of a weird

00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.699
one but i know we've talked about a little bit

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:04.519
on mic and definitely more off mic like I'm in

00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:07.179
a phase of just like nothing really fits. I don't

00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:10.619
know what to wear. Yes. Even if the clothes that

00:35:10.619 --> 00:35:13.900
I had before fit well now, my needs for my outfits

00:35:13.900 --> 00:35:15.599
are different because I'm keeping up with a two

00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:18.659
-year -old and an eight -month -old. So just

00:35:18.659 --> 00:35:20.260
like figuring out how to get dressed every day

00:35:20.260 --> 00:35:24.340
is kind of the worst. But I did notice that the

00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:26.519
days that I put on earrings, like no matter what

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:28.300
I'm wearing, if it's jeans and a t -shirt, if

00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:31.440
it's sweats, it just looks slightly more put

00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:33.840
together. Yeah, that's good. But for some reason,

00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:37.460
like putting in earrings every day is just, again,

00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.780
sometimes just that one extra step is too much.

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:45.659
But because Instagram knows my thoughts. um i

00:35:45.659 --> 00:35:49.159
got targeted ads for leave -in earrings that

00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:50.920
are made with like a good enough metal that they

00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:54.199
don't irritate your skin but also not like a

00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:57.059
fine like a precious metal so yeah they don't

00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:58.480
tarnish or anything like that so you can wear

00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:59.880
them in the shower in the pool and blah blah

00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:02.940
that's nice um and so i got a couple pairs of

00:36:02.940 --> 00:36:05.940
those and have just been like i've just put one

00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:08.139
pair in so far um and just been wearing them

00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.219
Makes you feel a little bit more put together.

00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:14.920
Yeah. It's just like a little thing. And again,

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:16.400
I don't have to think about it in the morning.

00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:20.159
It just like already exists. And it makes pretty

00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.559
much every outfit look a little more put together.

00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:25.280
Like a little more classy. Yeah. I don't know.

00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:27.000
And I'll just take whatever I can get at this

00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.059
point. Yeah. I don't even know when the last

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:31.599
time I wore earrings was. My mother -in -law

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:33.400
got me a nice pair for my birthday, so I've been

00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:35.719
wearing more because she gave me those. Nice,

00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:37.980
nice. And then I was like, those I know I can't

00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:39.980
wear just, like, all the time. Plus, they're

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:42.340
the kind that, like, they're a normal kind, so

00:36:42.340 --> 00:36:44.159
when you, like, lay down, they just, like, poke

00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:48.639
you in the head. Yeah, that's a really good idea.

00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:51.679
One thing that's saving my life is overnight

00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:55.269
face masks. Yeah. So going off like the self

00:36:55.269 --> 00:36:58.429
-care kind of vibe. So I'm really into these

00:36:58.429 --> 00:37:00.989
like collagen face masks right now. I don't know

00:37:00.989 --> 00:37:03.010
if you've seen those, but you like you put them

00:37:03.010 --> 00:37:05.110
on and they're like white. And then if you sleep

00:37:05.110 --> 00:37:08.070
in them like overnight there, they go clear because

00:37:08.070 --> 00:37:10.590
like all the collagen like goes into your skin.

00:37:11.250 --> 00:37:15.039
And I swear and I don't know if it's like. because

00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.500
it's like a wet face mask but like when you take

00:37:18.500 --> 00:37:20.219
it off in the morning I feel like my skin is

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:23.219
so glowy and I just feel like I'm like I just

00:37:23.219 --> 00:37:25.840
did something so good for myself because I just

00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:29.360
like had all this collagen go into my skin and

00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.940
I just like took care of my skin overnight um

00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:38.719
and yeah I've I saw them on Instagram I mean

00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:41.530
all the All the influencers I follow have been,

00:37:41.550 --> 00:37:44.250
like, promoting these face masks. So finally

00:37:44.250 --> 00:37:48.050
bought them. And the one downside is I feel like

00:37:48.050 --> 00:37:50.050
you kind of have to, like, lay on your back at

00:37:50.050 --> 00:37:52.050
night. Yeah, I definitely sleep, like, on my

00:37:52.050 --> 00:37:55.269
face. Yeah, yeah. At least until it's, like,

00:37:55.309 --> 00:37:58.650
actually, like, set on your face. Then you can

00:37:58.650 --> 00:38:00.250
kind of, like, turn on your side. But you definitely

00:38:00.250 --> 00:38:03.389
can't be, like, a full head in the mattress type

00:38:03.389 --> 00:38:06.670
of sleeper that night. But yeah, when I wake

00:38:06.670 --> 00:38:08.630
up, I'm like, I feel like I've already accomplished

00:38:08.630 --> 00:38:11.650
something. Whenever I take off this face mask

00:38:11.650 --> 00:38:13.989
and I'm like, I just look like I'm glowing. I

00:38:13.989 --> 00:38:15.610
don't even need to wash my face right now. No.

00:38:15.650 --> 00:38:18.809
Yeah. I'm like, I just feel ready for the day.

00:38:19.510 --> 00:38:22.090
So if you haven't tried out the collagen face

00:38:22.090 --> 00:38:25.570
masks, highly recommend. They're only like $13

00:38:25.570 --> 00:38:27.829
.99 for four of them. Oh, that's not bad. On

00:38:27.829 --> 00:38:30.150
Amazon. Yeah. One of my big Amazon purchases.

00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:33.639
That sounds great. Yes. I'll have to get the

00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:35.599
link. I probably won't wear them overnight. Yeah.

00:38:35.619 --> 00:38:37.739
You can do them for like, I mean, they say like

00:38:37.739 --> 00:38:40.119
30 minutes and it's still, it just doesn't turn

00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:42.340
like clear. So you're not getting as much of

00:38:42.340 --> 00:38:45.199
the collagen, but it's still like doing the same

00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.159
thing. Yeah. I'll have to check it out. Yeah.

00:38:47.219 --> 00:38:50.960
All right. My next one is Stuart just in general,

00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:55.800
helping with the kids. And also as a side note,

00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:01.400
he has been working on, you can see them. the

00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:03.760
bookshelves in our like studio space they look

00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:06.099
very very good good job he like custom built

00:39:06.099 --> 00:39:09.739
them which also means for the past like pretty

00:39:09.739 --> 00:39:12.980
much month every minute that he's not working

00:39:12.980 --> 00:39:15.719
and he has been like working on these for me

00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.280
um because they're my anniversary gift and but

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:21.960
he's finally done with them which one super thankful

00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.019
to have bookshelves that look super nice but

00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:26.179
also that means he's kind of like back in the

00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:28.380
game with helping with the kids and coming up

00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:30.300
with ideas like let's go to the park and let

00:39:30.300 --> 00:39:34.380
lloyd go down the slide 87 times or last week

00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:36.059
the past couple weeks have just like not been

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:38.159
great but so last week was super exhausting and

00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.500
so on friday He texted me while he was still

00:39:41.500 --> 00:39:43.039
at work and was like, hey, come up with something.

00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:44.539
Or like, why don't we both think of something

00:39:44.539 --> 00:39:47.380
to do tonight and we can figure out, like, get

00:39:47.380 --> 00:39:51.059
a house and do something fun. So we went to Anderson

00:39:51.059 --> 00:39:54.860
Farms, which is, I think they're open like summer

00:39:54.860 --> 00:39:57.659
and fall, but it's like a very fall type place

00:39:57.659 --> 00:40:00.719
where they have like a petting zoo and a pumpkin

00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:04.739
patch. And you can rent, we didn't rent one,

00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:07.639
but you can rent a fire pit and most of the activities

00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.960
that are. In the base ticket price are stuff

00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.340
that Lloyd wanted to do. There was a slide that

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:18.960
is built into a combine, and he's obsessed with

00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.679
combines right now. He was super excited to see

00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:24.920
that, and we got to see real tractors and stuff

00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:28.849
like that. Cool. So yeah. So back to Stuart,

00:40:28.969 --> 00:40:31.210
like he had just been like, Hey, it's been a

00:40:31.210 --> 00:40:33.590
rough week. Let's do something. Yeah. And been

00:40:33.590 --> 00:40:37.289
super like proactive about, about that. And Lloyd's

00:40:37.289 --> 00:40:39.889
obsessed with him right now too. So yeah. Which

00:40:39.889 --> 00:40:41.750
is super sweet and fun to see. That is sweet.

00:40:42.210 --> 00:40:46.230
Uh, Michael is actually my next one too. So yeah,

00:40:46.309 --> 00:40:47.909
I feel like going off of what you said, like,

00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:51.630
I feel like Michael is just, he's just so fun.

00:40:51.789 --> 00:40:56.349
Like he's just a fun dad. And I know like, For

00:40:56.349 --> 00:40:59.690
me, I know I'm a fun parent, but I can't come

00:40:59.690 --> 00:41:02.969
up with nearly as much like fun random games

00:41:02.969 --> 00:41:05.869
like in the house like that Michael comes up

00:41:05.869 --> 00:41:09.690
with. And especially after a long like work from

00:41:09.690 --> 00:41:12.530
home day and Michael comes home and he always

00:41:12.530 --> 00:41:14.630
like I know he's exhausted from the day, but

00:41:14.630 --> 00:41:16.829
he always just like kicks into high gear like

00:41:16.829 --> 00:41:20.710
dad mode and is like helping cook and clean and

00:41:20.710 --> 00:41:24.469
also be the fun parent. And he's just really.

00:41:25.150 --> 00:41:28.309
really good at like all honestly all of those

00:41:28.309 --> 00:41:31.530
things all at the same time and he's just so

00:41:31.530 --> 00:41:34.389
fun for cole and cole is also obsessed with him

00:41:34.389 --> 00:41:37.510
right now yeah um every morning lloyd wakes up

00:41:37.510 --> 00:41:41.510
go see dad at work yeah yes nobody we we don't

00:41:41.510 --> 00:41:43.610
go to dad's work like that's the thing we don't

00:41:43.610 --> 00:41:45.769
go to his work we've never gone to i mean maybe

00:41:45.769 --> 00:41:47.969
once but not that you'd remember that's funny

00:41:47.969 --> 00:41:52.190
yeah we uh sometimes on on wednesdays like the

00:41:52.190 --> 00:41:54.960
long solo parenting day for me, we'll sometimes

00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.219
go and visit Michael at work. And so every day

00:41:58.219 --> 00:42:02.619
after nap time on solo parenting days, Colt will

00:42:02.619 --> 00:42:05.840
wake up and go, see daddy, go see daddy. And

00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:08.500
I'm like, either yes or no, depending on the

00:42:08.500 --> 00:42:11.940
day. But I think he thinks that every single

00:42:11.940 --> 00:42:14.900
day we get to go see daddy, which we don't, but.

00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.860
uh when we do it's like the best thing ever and

00:42:17.860 --> 00:42:20.519
he and then his his listening ears turn on and

00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.639
he's like ready to go put gets his shoes on and

00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:26.780
he's like go see daddy now like sure buddy let's

00:42:26.780 --> 00:42:29.519
go we'll go yeah yeah i also this is kind of

00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.780
a tangent but i also realized so for our life

00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:36.820
stewart gets up before printing and is like gone

00:42:36.820 --> 00:42:40.079
for work before the rest of us are up Pretty

00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:42.800
much every day. And then on Sundays, he plays

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.619
drums at church, which means he also gets up

00:42:45.619 --> 00:42:48.539
before the rest of us. Yeah. And so on Sundays,

00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:50.920
Lloyd wakes up and I'm like, buddy, do you want

00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:54.320
to go to church and see dad? And I don't do that

00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:55.900
the rest of the week because that's not where

00:42:55.900 --> 00:42:57.619
he is. He's working in a wood shop the rest of

00:42:57.619 --> 00:42:59.619
the week. So we don't get to go see dad, you

00:42:59.619 --> 00:43:05.579
know, working with power tools. But I think Lloyd

00:43:05.579 --> 00:43:08.349
thinks. that Stuart's full -time job is playing

00:43:08.349 --> 00:43:11.329
drums that's so cute because that's the you know

00:43:11.329 --> 00:43:14.010
that's what he sees when we go see him he's playing

00:43:14.010 --> 00:43:16.630
drums so I think I'm pretty sure right now Lloyd

00:43:16.630 --> 00:43:18.769
thinks that his full -time job is at the church

00:43:18.769 --> 00:43:21.449
playing drums every single day I love it that's

00:43:21.449 --> 00:43:24.550
so cute which is adorable and I guess we can

00:43:24.550 --> 00:43:26.610
let him think that for now yeah that's fine you

00:43:26.610 --> 00:43:29.210
know someday he'll no harm he'll figure out that

00:43:29.210 --> 00:43:31.500
that's not what dad does every day That's so

00:43:31.500 --> 00:43:33.880
funny. He's like, why does dad have to come home

00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:37.119
from his drum job and then take a shower? Yeah.

00:43:37.139 --> 00:43:39.699
Because he has wood chips all over him. Yeah.

00:43:40.579 --> 00:43:43.940
That's so funny. Okay. Things to look forward

00:43:43.940 --> 00:43:48.559
to, just in general. We don't have any big trips

00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:51.320
planned or anything like that. But also, I've

00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.940
kind of noticed that smaller things to look forward

00:43:53.940 --> 00:43:57.449
to are almost more beneficial. because they happen

00:43:57.449 --> 00:44:00.769
more often but even like we have a halloween

00:44:00.769 --> 00:44:02.650
party coming up in a couple weeks so it's like

00:44:02.650 --> 00:44:06.090
oh you know that's gonna be fun yeah so when

00:44:06.090 --> 00:44:08.769
days feel just like super mundane and repetitive

00:44:08.769 --> 00:44:12.969
and a little bit groundhog day yeah there's something

00:44:12.969 --> 00:44:14.989
it's like oh that's something different that

00:44:14.989 --> 00:44:16.730
we have coming up we're gonna hang out with friends

00:44:16.730 --> 00:44:18.489
we're gonna get dressed up it's gonna be fun

00:44:18.489 --> 00:44:21.170
well it's gonna run around with other kids yeah

00:44:21.170 --> 00:44:24.159
and actually October has been kind of crazy for

00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:25.599
us. I feel like we have something every single

00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:28.300
week. But yeah, just like some little things

00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:30.119
to look forward to. That's a little bit outside

00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:33.719
of just our normal routine. That's smart. Yeah,

00:44:33.780 --> 00:44:36.920
I think it helps a lot. And again, we don't have

00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:38.800
anything. I think probably the biggest thing

00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.460
we have coming up is my sister and her husband

00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:43.239
come out for Christmas, but that's not for a

00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:45.380
few months anyways. Yeah. And that's like the

00:44:45.380 --> 00:44:47.260
biggest thing. So everything else is just still

00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:51.429
pretty small. But I think it does help. Helps

00:44:51.429 --> 00:44:54.050
break it up. It helps break it up. And then on

00:44:54.050 --> 00:44:56.570
weeks like this week that I was telling you before

00:44:56.570 --> 00:44:58.389
we started recording, it's just been like kind

00:44:58.389 --> 00:45:00.489
of a rough week. Like Lloyd's been in a little

00:45:00.489 --> 00:45:03.469
bit of a mood. Both kids have been super clingy.

00:45:04.210 --> 00:45:07.389
Then I just have like, okay, you know, Friday's

00:45:07.389 --> 00:45:10.829
coming and we have this going on. So, you know.

00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:13.679
I just have to get there, you know, and I don't

00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:15.099
want to have that attitude for everything all

00:45:15.099 --> 00:45:17.139
the time. But it is helpful when it's a rough

00:45:17.139 --> 00:45:19.579
day to be like, OK, just have to make it to Friday

00:45:19.579 --> 00:45:23.780
and then. Yes. Yeah. So that's been huge. I feel

00:45:23.780 --> 00:45:29.400
that. OK, my next one is baking and not on my

00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:32.840
own, but with Colt. That's so fun. Yeah. Which

00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:37.090
is. A hundred times messier for sure. And takes

00:45:37.090 --> 00:45:40.289
three times as long. Yes. And honestly stresses

00:45:40.289 --> 00:45:44.469
me out sometimes in the moment. But he loves

00:45:44.469 --> 00:45:46.809
it. He has a cute little apron he puts on. And

00:45:46.809 --> 00:45:49.750
also it's like it breaks up the day. It's like

00:45:49.750 --> 00:45:52.650
an activity that I like don't have to think a

00:45:52.650 --> 00:45:55.809
ton about. And then also like we've been making

00:45:55.809 --> 00:45:59.349
so we have a zucchini plant outside. And so we've

00:45:59.349 --> 00:46:02.110
been making a lot of zucchini bread. Of course.

00:46:02.250 --> 00:46:05.869
And so that's like our go -to. I made a zucchini

00:46:05.869 --> 00:46:08.530
ragu the other day. Ooh, you'll have to send

00:46:08.530 --> 00:46:11.289
me the recipe if you have one. Oh, I think we

00:46:11.289 --> 00:46:13.010
got it from HelloFresh, but I have the recipe

00:46:13.010 --> 00:46:14.969
so I can send it to you. Because I thought of

00:46:14.969 --> 00:46:16.909
you guys. I was like, oh, they still have zucchinis.

00:46:16.909 --> 00:46:19.449
Yeah. Yes, we're not getting nearly as many,

00:46:19.530 --> 00:46:23.110
but zucchini bread has been a big one because

00:46:23.110 --> 00:46:25.820
it's like. it's fun to bake and then Colt loves

00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:28.639
it. Like it's a fun little treat and it's just,

00:46:28.659 --> 00:46:31.340
yeah, it's a fun activity that we've been doing

00:46:31.340 --> 00:46:34.199
together, especially on solo parenting days.

00:46:34.260 --> 00:46:37.400
Um, because yeah, I can put like Cruz in the,

00:46:37.539 --> 00:46:41.340
in his little like activity center and then Colt's

00:46:41.340 --> 00:46:43.579
up on his helper stand and we're like baking

00:46:43.579 --> 00:46:46.340
and it's just, I don't know. It's a fun, I feel

00:46:46.340 --> 00:46:48.420
like it's like a core memory for me that I'm

00:46:48.420 --> 00:46:51.639
going to like when I look back on their childhoods,

00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:53.849
like I'm going to think about. baking zucchini

00:46:53.849 --> 00:46:57.949
bread together and how fun that was so yeah we'll

00:46:57.949 --> 00:47:00.650
see what else we bake whenever there's no zucchinis

00:47:00.650 --> 00:47:04.050
left but i have plenty of things like chocolate

00:47:04.050 --> 00:47:07.050
chip cookies oh yeah my mom has a great recipe

00:47:07.050 --> 00:47:09.900
for chocolate chip cookies Love me a good chocolate

00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:12.219
chip cookie. I've forgotten every single thing

00:47:12.219 --> 00:47:16.559
I've ever baked in this moment, but I've got

00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.739
some good ones. I love it. Okay. What's your,

00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.239
is this your last one? This is my last one. So

00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.440
you have Wednesdays as your solo parent night.

00:47:24.619 --> 00:47:27.780
Most Thursdays are my solo parent night. Stuart

00:47:27.780 --> 00:47:31.539
has rehearsal for church and I haven't done this

00:47:31.539 --> 00:47:35.820
every week, but having someone over like having

00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:38.940
a friend over or grandparents or something like

00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:42.159
that makes a huge difference yeah like during

00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:44.579
bedtime routine or just like some time during

00:47:44.579 --> 00:47:47.559
the day usually like dinner time dinner time

00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:50.840
so even not necessarily bedtime um i mean it

00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:52.659
kind of depends on like who it is and what the

00:47:52.659 --> 00:47:55.059
situation is but like i had a friend over a couple

00:47:55.059 --> 00:47:59.070
weeks ago and we just like watched a movie all

00:47:59.070 --> 00:48:01.949
of us together and like ate dinner on the couch

00:48:01.949 --> 00:48:05.090
and Lloyd spilled his dinner on the couch. Classic.

00:48:05.130 --> 00:48:08.349
But it just makes it a little bit easier. Kids

00:48:08.349 --> 00:48:11.889
are better behaved I feel like. And it like it

00:48:11.889 --> 00:48:15.190
helps your like mindset and attitude towards

00:48:15.190 --> 00:48:18.449
things. Just having another person around. Yeah

00:48:18.449 --> 00:48:20.289
there's someone else to like redirect things

00:48:20.289 --> 00:48:23.710
if things are going chaotic or whatever. So again

00:48:23.710 --> 00:48:26.820
it doesn't happen every week. But when it does

00:48:26.820 --> 00:48:28.900
happen, it just like makes such a big difference.

00:48:29.059 --> 00:48:32.639
Yeah, that's good. Okay, my last one, this is

00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:37.699
going to sound so cheesy, but this podcast. And

00:48:37.699 --> 00:48:41.420
I feel like it's important to have something

00:48:41.420 --> 00:48:44.900
outside of parenting. And obviously we're talking

00:48:44.900 --> 00:48:49.039
about parenting, but this is like my hobby, I

00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.519
guess. is this podcast. It's so hard to find

00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:54.980
hobbies and do things whenever you're just like

00:48:54.980 --> 00:48:58.920
in the thick of it. But I was talking to Michael

00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.780
about it today and he was like, he was like,

00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:04.039
yeah, I really think that's, it's good for you

00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:06.840
to go and do this. And I was like, yeah, I do

00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:10.239
too. And so I, yeah, I think that it's just important

00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:13.639
to find something, whether it's a hobby of some

00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:16.869
sort or, but I feel like this is my hobby. yeah

00:49:16.869 --> 00:49:19.429
for this season yeah me too and it it really

00:49:19.429 --> 00:49:22.409
does it does help me not only the fact that we

00:49:22.409 --> 00:49:25.510
get to do something outside of parenting in a

00:49:25.510 --> 00:49:28.409
sense but also that we're like talking and relating

00:49:28.409 --> 00:49:31.929
to each other yeah on lots of different points

00:49:31.929 --> 00:49:34.530
and sides of motherhood so yeah i'd agree yeah

00:49:34.530 --> 00:49:36.489
it's always fun to like hear other mom's stories

00:49:36.489 --> 00:49:40.030
and all of that yeah and come up with new ideas

00:49:40.030 --> 00:49:43.550
yep yeah well uh we'd love to hear what's saving

00:49:43.550 --> 00:49:47.570
your life Let us know on Instagram. Yeah. Yeah.

00:49:47.630 --> 00:49:50.889
We'll try to put a question box up. Yep. Let's

00:49:50.889 --> 00:49:53.909
do it. Well, do you want to do your win of the

00:49:53.909 --> 00:49:57.070
week? I would love to. Okay. This is something

00:49:57.070 --> 00:50:00.469
we've been working on for a while with Colt and

00:50:00.469 --> 00:50:03.480
it just. hadn't happened until recently and I

00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:06.820
feel like embarrassed to say it but we finally

00:50:06.820 --> 00:50:09.880
transitioned Cole off of bottles and he's just

00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:13.559
over two but man that kid loved his bottles so

00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:18.380
much and it was such a fight trying to do it

00:50:18.380 --> 00:50:20.980
almost not that we were trying to do it too early

00:50:20.980 --> 00:50:23.760
or anything because I mean he's just drinking

00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:27.360
whole milk and he he really would have them at

00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:31.590
like nap time bedtime and he just like hated

00:50:31.590 --> 00:50:34.530
sippy cups for the life of him drinks water out

00:50:34.530 --> 00:50:37.190
of sippy cups just fine but when it was milk

00:50:37.190 --> 00:50:41.809
it was like a big deal like he hated them so

00:50:41.809 --> 00:50:43.630
much i don't know if it was like how the milk

00:50:43.630 --> 00:50:46.809
was coming out of it or what but then like one

00:50:46.809 --> 00:50:48.969
day i was like you know what buddy i was like

00:50:48.969 --> 00:50:53.050
this cup is so cool like to just a dollar 99

00:50:53.050 --> 00:50:57.159
sippy cup from walmart or whatever And I was

00:50:57.159 --> 00:50:58.619
like, do you want to try your milk in it? That

00:50:58.619 --> 00:51:00.519
would be so cool if you did that. And he was

00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:03.480
just like, yes. And I was like, okay. I was just

00:51:03.480 --> 00:51:05.300
like, didn't make a big deal of it. Poured the

00:51:05.300 --> 00:51:07.280
milk really quick, gave it to him. He like drank

00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.320
it fine. And then the next day I was like, I

00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.500
like didn't even like say anything about it.

00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:14.900
Just poured it right into the same sippy cup.

00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:18.440
Washed it obviously. And he just like grabbed

00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:20.960
it and like went up to his room. I was like,

00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:24.019
oh my gosh. I was like, did I just, did I just

00:51:24.019 --> 00:51:27.659
do this? I was like, did we just, like, get rid

00:51:27.659 --> 00:51:29.840
of bottles for him? That's so great. And he just

00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:33.360
hasn't said anything about them, hasn't gone

00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:34.360
back to it. We're never going to mention them.

00:51:34.460 --> 00:51:37.900
Yeah. Obviously, Cruz, like, Cruz still has bottles,

00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:41.619
and he's, like, he likes the same ones that Colt

00:51:41.619 --> 00:51:45.119
liked, the Dr. Brown's bottles. And so, like,

00:51:45.260 --> 00:51:48.659
he still sees them, but, like, he hasn't, like,

00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:53.079
made a big deal of it. If he's seeing Cruz use

00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:56.719
them, then that would make it harder. Yeah. But

00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:58.480
I think maybe because we, like, made it, like,

00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:02.139
oh, man, like, that sippy cup's so cool. And

00:52:02.139 --> 00:52:04.079
he's like, yeah, you know what? That is cool.

00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:07.280
I am a big boy. So I don't know what we did.

00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.199
But finally, I feel like that was, like, a burden

00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:12.880
that, like, I was feeling, like, kind of embarrassed

00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:17.599
about. Slash also, like, I knew. We needed to

00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:19.880
transition him. Right. Which like our next thing

00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:23.280
is getting rid of his passy, which that is like,

00:52:23.300 --> 00:52:26.079
I feel like that's going to be a huge fight and

00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:28.519
I'm not ready for it, but. You'll get there.

00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:31.559
Yeah, we'll get there. Yep. Okay. What is your

00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:35.380
win? My win. So we're like obviously trying to

00:52:35.380 --> 00:52:37.420
teach Lloyd manners, like please and thank you.

00:52:37.500 --> 00:52:40.599
And he's pretty good at it. And the one thing

00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:43.199
we've never prompted him to do, but he started

00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:46.199
picking up naturally is saying, bless you. that's

00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:49.659
so cute and it's so cute so he'll even say bless

00:52:49.659 --> 00:52:52.239
you to the cats and he also like always says

00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.239
like the person or cat i guess that he's saying

00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:58.019
bless you too so like if i sneeze bless you mama

00:52:58.019 --> 00:53:03.139
bless you dad bless you ricky like it's and it's

00:53:03.139 --> 00:53:05.880
just that's so cute because again like please

00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:08.199
and thank you we like have to prompt him to say

00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:10.980
um he'll say it on his own sometimes but we've

00:53:10.980 --> 00:53:12.880
never told him to say bless you to someone so

00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:15.300
he's just like so he just like picked up that

00:53:15.300 --> 00:53:17.760
that's what we say when someone sneezes that's

00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:20.880
so interesting and even the first time he said

00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:22.300
it to me i was like what are you saying because

00:53:22.300 --> 00:53:24.559
of course like he's two so his words are still

00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:28.059
like yeah you know jumbled you know how it is

00:53:28.059 --> 00:53:29.579
anytime they have a new word you're like wait

00:53:29.579 --> 00:53:32.139
i think well let me figure out what this means

00:53:32.139 --> 00:53:35.300
um so it's definitely that i was like oh i you

00:53:35.300 --> 00:53:37.699
said bless you that's that's thank you buddy

00:53:37.699 --> 00:53:41.840
it was really sweet and so cute Pretty much anytime

00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:45.019
someone sneezes, he says, bless you. For some

00:53:45.019 --> 00:53:46.679
reason, it's cutest when he says it to the cats.

00:53:46.820 --> 00:53:51.820
Yeah. Bless you, Ricky. That's adorable. Yeah,

00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:54.260
that's my win. It's just this naturally polite

00:53:54.260 --> 00:53:57.000
thing that we didn't even try to get him to do,

00:53:57.019 --> 00:53:59.320
and he's doing it on his own. You're like, I'm

00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.800
the best mom. My kid's so polite. It's all me,

00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:06.440
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