WEBVTT 00:00:13.459 --> 00:00:15.519 Motherhood, where sleep is a rumor and laundry 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.019 is eternal. And somehow, we're supposed to be 00:00:18.019 --> 00:00:20.500 raising tiny humans through it all. We're here 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:23.339 to laugh at the chaos, cry when necessary, and 00:00:23.339 --> 00:00:25.579 remind you that none of us actually know what 00:00:25.579 --> 00:00:28.699 we're doing. This is No Manual, a momcast. Your 00:00:28.699 --> 00:00:30.579 mom friend group chat, but with microphones. 00:00:31.230 --> 00:00:35.030 Welcome back to No Manual Momcast. Today we thought 00:00:35.030 --> 00:00:37.450 it'd be kind of fun, since this week is Halloween, 00:00:37.770 --> 00:00:40.729 to just talk about Halloween. So we did put some 00:00:40.729 --> 00:00:43.509 question box up on Instagram and have some fun 00:00:43.509 --> 00:00:47.670 answers. Yeah, so we don't have like a real specific 00:00:47.670 --> 00:00:49.609 direction for this episode. It'll probably be 00:00:49.609 --> 00:00:52.270 a little more freeform and talking like fun things 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:54.090 about Halloween, what we're gonna do with our 00:00:54.090 --> 00:00:57.159 kids, what we did growing up. Okay, I can go 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:00.920 first for my mom moment. So this last week we 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.959 had a staff retreat for our staff at the church. 00:01:05.099 --> 00:01:09.239 And so we left our kids for two days, which it 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:13.099 was my first time away from Cruz overnight. And 00:01:13.099 --> 00:01:17.280 he is like fully breastfed, so exclusively breastfed, 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:20.859 other than a few bottles like for childcare, 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:24.659 but all breast milk. He never had formula before. 00:01:25.579 --> 00:01:29.099 And going into this, I did not have enough frozen 00:01:29.099 --> 00:01:32.500 milk knowing we were leaving for two days. And 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:35.560 so I had to like introduce him to formula, which 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.260 made me really sad because I was like – I didn't 00:01:38.260 --> 00:01:40.859 feel like I failed in any sense, but it's just 00:01:40.859 --> 00:01:43.040 like a – That wasn't the desire. Yeah, that was 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:48.180 not in my plan. So got him just used to the taste 00:01:48.180 --> 00:01:51.260 of formula like a couple days before. He loved 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:55.079 it, obviously. I'm so glad he did. And thankfully 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.920 with us being gone, he actually didn't end up 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.920 going through all of my frozen breast milk. I 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:02.640 don't know how that happened, but so he didn't 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.299 have to have any formula while we were gone. 00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:08.039 But yeah, really my mom moment is like, I think 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.800 going on this staff retreat, I was really anxious 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:12.879 leading up to it just because I didn't want to 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.680 leave my kids for two nights. Felt like. Obviously 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.180 these intrusive thoughts of like something terrible 00:02:19.180 --> 00:02:22.280 is going to happen. Just always like thinking 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.759 about the worst case scenario. And overall it 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.419 went really well. Like it was really good for 00:02:28.419 --> 00:02:33.080 me to have like a break kind of. I mean I was 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:37.000 working in a sense. But like just being able 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.560 to have a break and then come back. And it's 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.620 like we talked about it in last week's episode 00:02:41.620 --> 00:02:45.009 of like. being away from your kids almost like 00:02:45.009 --> 00:02:47.509 brings you back to neutral and like reminds you 00:02:47.509 --> 00:02:50.849 why you love your kids so deeply. And that was 00:02:50.849 --> 00:02:52.909 so true. Like when we, we got home yesterday 00:02:52.909 --> 00:02:57.310 and Colt was so excited to see us. We were so 00:02:57.310 --> 00:02:59.830 excited to see him and same with Cruz. Cruz was 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:04.009 so happy. And like, it just, we just had a great 00:03:04.009 --> 00:03:06.849 rest of the day because it was so like, we were 00:03:06.849 --> 00:03:10.550 all so excited to be back together. And so that 00:03:10.550 --> 00:03:12.639 was. That's my mom moment. And you did it. And 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:14.460 I did it. Yeah. That's sometimes the biggest 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:17.620 thing. Yeah. Yeah. So it was really tough leading 00:03:17.620 --> 00:03:19.819 up to it, but I think it was a good thing in 00:03:19.819 --> 00:03:22.639 the long run. Nice. Yeah. What about you? Mine 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.060 is that Lloyd is just obsessed with our cat, 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.159 Ricky, right now. Aw. Like, if she is upstairs, 00:03:28.379 --> 00:03:31.129 like, Ricky, come downstairs. Ricky come downstairs? 00:03:31.370 --> 00:03:34.750 I'm like, buddy, she's a cat. So even if I brought 00:03:34.750 --> 00:03:36.490 her downstairs, she's probably, if she doesn't 00:03:36.490 --> 00:03:38.689 want to be here, she's not going to stay. And 00:03:38.689 --> 00:03:41.370 he wants to give her hugs. He wants her in his 00:03:41.370 --> 00:03:44.270 bed. Just all the time he's asking for Ricky. 00:03:44.469 --> 00:03:47.789 And he loves Ricky so much. He'll say, I love 00:03:47.789 --> 00:03:49.849 you, Ricky. But he doesn't say I love you. He 00:03:49.849 --> 00:03:54.759 says, I put to do. So I put to do, Ricky. No 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.900 one else would understand that except for mom 00:03:56.900 --> 00:03:59.960 and dad, for sure. Maybe I'll try to get a recording 00:03:59.960 --> 00:04:02.360 of him saying that so you actually understand 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.539 that. It's like complete gibberish. We'll insert 00:04:04.539 --> 00:04:11.500 that here right now, Stuart. Yeah, but he just, 00:04:11.580 --> 00:04:15.099 he loves his Ricky Kitty. So cute. Just asks 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:18.120 for her all the time. What about Red? No? Well, 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:22.500 Red, he... Red's our boy cat and he is just less 00:04:22.500 --> 00:04:24.540 interested in the kitchen. Ricky will put up 00:04:24.540 --> 00:04:27.459 with anything to the point where we have to tell 00:04:27.459 --> 00:04:29.600 her, we're like, you can walk away. You don't 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.319 have to put up with him. grabbing your tail or 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.319 whatever you can walk away ricky also like we 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.040 don't want you to hurt him but you have claws 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.160 too like you could put him in his place oh for 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:41.439 sure and like there's a point where he needs 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:43.740 to that needs to happen kind of learn his lesson 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:46.019 and yeah we would trust like this sounds weird 00:04:46.019 --> 00:04:47.740 but we would trust ricky putting him in his place 00:04:47.740 --> 00:04:50.000 with her claws right because again she'll put 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.680 up with anything yeah um but red not so much 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.269 he just keeps his distance like he's not a mean 00:04:55.269 --> 00:04:59.709 cat he's kind of skittish sometimes so yeah he'll 00:04:59.709 --> 00:05:02.910 red just keeps his distance so lloyd still he 00:05:02.910 --> 00:05:05.149 likes red and he'll ask for red but not in the 00:05:05.149 --> 00:05:09.269 same way got it ricky nice so oh that's so cute 00:05:09.269 --> 00:05:13.410 okay do you like are you a halloween person um 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:18.459 Yes and yes. I feel like that is a no. Not that 00:05:18.459 --> 00:05:21.240 you don't like Halloween. I think Halloween is 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:25.439 fun. I think it's like the least favorite holiday 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.420 in my mind. Sure. I think it's going to be – 00:05:29.420 --> 00:05:32.040 that's going to be different as my kids get older 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.420 and it's like a fun like dress up, like fun thing. 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.879 But like definitely as an adult before I had 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.620 kids, it was like – I mean we didn't really. 00:05:44.060 --> 00:05:47.639 do anything for it we'd like it just was yeah 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.579 we'd get maybe a couple trick -or -treaters at 00:05:49.579 --> 00:05:53.040 our house but it was never like a big deal for 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.120 us and growing up like yeah I feel like growing 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:00.939 up we we celebrated it um we'd like dress up 00:06:00.939 --> 00:06:04.879 for school my siblings and I we would go trick 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:08.060 -or -treating but it was like I don't know. I 00:06:08.060 --> 00:06:10.720 just like never was like, oh, my God, I'm so 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.220 excited for Halloween. You know, I had like a 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:16.060 couple of friends that like didn't celebrate 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:20.660 Halloween for like religion purposes. But my 00:06:20.660 --> 00:06:23.500 parents never were like, this is like the devil's 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:26.879 holiday or anything like that. So what about 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.939 for you? So I love dressing up like I love a 00:06:30.939 --> 00:06:34.360 costume party. I've never been the person who. 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.379 Like I have friends who are decorating for Halloween 00:06:37.379 --> 00:06:41.279 like September 30th kind of thing. Or earlier. 00:06:41.699 --> 00:06:43.540 See, I don't decorate for Halloween. I don't 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:45.899 decorate. Part of it is an energy thing. Yeah. 00:06:46.139 --> 00:06:48.500 I don't have the time or energy to do that. And 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:51.000 a storage thing. Yeah. We went through the neighborhood. 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:52.939 Like we were on a walk last night in the neighborhood 00:06:52.939 --> 00:06:55.720 like adjacent to us that is the rich neighborhood 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.540 that we can't afford. So many of them have just 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:02.430 giant. halloween decorations yeah that i'm like 00:07:02.430 --> 00:07:04.589 i've seen that at home depot and it's like 300 00:07:04.589 --> 00:07:07.970 bucks yes so your yard is like a thousand dollars 00:07:07.970 --> 00:07:11.410 just you know seeing what you've put up but then 00:07:11.410 --> 00:07:14.269 also where are you storing this yeah is my other 00:07:14.269 --> 00:07:17.949 question um like people are like full -on halloween 00:07:17.949 --> 00:07:21.009 like yeah yeah uh so i'm definitely not that 00:07:21.009 --> 00:07:24.949 no but i do love dressing up i think that's really 00:07:24.949 --> 00:07:30.399 fun one of the things so for me I grew up, I 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.480 was homeschooled for my entire schooling. And 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.300 while my parents were never the parents who were 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:38.379 like, we can't celebrate Halloween because, you 00:07:38.379 --> 00:07:40.980 know, Satan's holiday or whatever, which like 00:07:40.980 --> 00:07:43.100 I also have friends who that was their experience. 00:07:43.579 --> 00:07:46.879 The like group that we were a part of for homeschooling, 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.019 a lot of people did lean much more that way and 00:07:50.019 --> 00:07:52.639 were much more conservative in that capacity, 00:07:52.740 --> 00:07:55.019 I guess. But I think it's people like dressing 00:07:55.019 --> 00:07:58.250 up. So just like churches have fall fests instead 00:07:58.250 --> 00:08:00.769 of Halloween parties, we would have literature 00:08:00.769 --> 00:08:03.290 parties every year that would just coincidentally 00:08:03.290 --> 00:08:08.470 be around Halloween. But what it was is it was 00:08:08.470 --> 00:08:11.009 a costume party and everyone had to dress up 00:08:11.009 --> 00:08:13.389 like a character from a book. Of course. And 00:08:13.389 --> 00:08:15.829 also you had to guess people's characters. So 00:08:15.829 --> 00:08:18.910 you would go into it wearing your... I don't 00:08:18.910 --> 00:08:21.290 know. Give me an example of one of the. Okay. 00:08:21.410 --> 00:08:23.930 So let me think of someone. I was Robin Hood 00:08:23.930 --> 00:08:26.389 one year. Okay. So I would go and dress up as 00:08:26.389 --> 00:08:30.079 Robin Hood. You would be Nancy Drew. Yeah. And 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.980 so then you'd try to all guess each other's costumes. 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.000 So you would like write down who your character 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.519 was on like a index card or whatever and put 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.419 it in a basket. And then at some point in the 00:08:39.419 --> 00:08:41.200 night, like that was the game. So it's like kind 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:42.960 of masquerading where it's like you would pull 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:44.940 a name out of a basket and you'd have to figure 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:47.500 out who Sherlock Holmes is or who Nancy Drew 00:08:47.500 --> 00:08:50.879 is or who. Got it. So you wanted to be kind of 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:52.580 like an obscure character a little bit. A little 00:08:52.580 --> 00:08:55.799 bit. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah, like, Sherlock Holmes 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:57.259 would be a bad one because he's super obvious 00:08:57.259 --> 00:09:00.000 with his famous hat, right? For sure. But, yeah, 00:09:00.019 --> 00:09:02.559 so everyone had to dress up as... I think there 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.940 were probably some morals, like, something, like, 00:09:05.019 --> 00:09:06.899 a witch would be frowned upon, but you might 00:09:06.899 --> 00:09:08.299 be able to get away with it if it was, like, 00:09:08.299 --> 00:09:10.620 specifically one of the witches from... Is it 00:09:10.620 --> 00:09:13.740 Macbeth? Or Hamlet? One of those. Couldn't tell 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:17.460 you. Shakespeare? One of those. So, like, you 00:09:17.460 --> 00:09:18.759 might be able to get away with it if it was, 00:09:18.779 --> 00:09:21.220 like, that specific. Like, I am this character 00:09:21.220 --> 00:09:23.000 who is a witch. You might have been able to get 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.039 away with that. But it was supposed to be a character 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:28.379 from a book. And then also most people made their 00:09:28.379 --> 00:09:31.919 own costumes. Yeah. See, that's so fun. So like 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.700 my sister is a really good seamstress and my 00:09:35.700 --> 00:09:38.059 mom is too. So my mom made most of our costumes 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:40.860 growing up. And then once Caitlin was getting 00:09:40.860 --> 00:09:43.840 older, she started to make a lot of her own. 00:09:43.899 --> 00:09:47.179 And she made a historically accurate Scarlett 00:09:47.179 --> 00:09:52.019 O 'Hara costume, which is like crazy. Just the 00:09:52.019 --> 00:09:54.399 amount of work. Did she start like months in 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.159 advance? I think so. Yeah. It's very impressive. 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.480 Yeah. So there's lots of like hooks and eyes 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.799 and buttons and laces instead of zippers. Yeah. 00:10:03.299 --> 00:10:06.340 So. See I want to be that type of mom. Yeah. 00:10:06.419 --> 00:10:09.700 Who like makes really intricate Halloween costumes. 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:12.100 I mean when I talked to my mom this week she 00:10:12.100 --> 00:10:14.710 was like. never want to make a historically accurate 00:10:14.710 --> 00:10:20.990 costume ever again. Know that. My mom made our 00:10:20.990 --> 00:10:23.990 Halloween costumes as well. Usually they were 00:10:23.990 --> 00:10:28.049 fairly I guess simpler. Maybe not. I remember 00:10:28.049 --> 00:10:30.629 specifically one year I actually don't remember 00:10:30.629 --> 00:10:33.789 what I dressed up as but one of my brothers was 00:10:33.789 --> 00:10:37.289 Yoshi and he just wore literally like a green 00:10:37.289 --> 00:10:41.450 sweatsuit and then she made the tail of Yoshi 00:10:41.450 --> 00:10:43.950 but it was like What's funny is it was like a 00:10:43.950 --> 00:10:46.889 really dark green color, which is Yoshi is not 00:10:46.889 --> 00:10:49.429 dark green. And so everyone just thought he was 00:10:49.429 --> 00:10:51.309 like. A dinosaur or something like that. Yeah, 00:10:51.309 --> 00:10:53.570 like Godzilla or something like that. And so 00:10:53.570 --> 00:10:56.289 we had to explain. And then that same year, my 00:10:56.289 --> 00:11:01.929 other brother was the Hamburglar from McDonald's, 00:11:01.950 --> 00:11:05.950 Ronald McDonald. And that costume was hilarious 00:11:05.950 --> 00:11:08.129 because he's a redhead. So it was like it just 00:11:08.129 --> 00:11:11.059 worked out and it was funny. Perfect. Yeah. I 00:11:11.059 --> 00:11:12.860 don't remember what I was, but those are the 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:16.000 two like distinct costumes that I remember that 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.879 my mom like fully crafted herself mostly. So 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.620 I love being creative and I would love to like 00:11:23.620 --> 00:11:27.440 make costumes. Last year I tried to make my own. 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:31.299 And the biggest issue with that was I couldn't 00:11:31.299 --> 00:11:34.080 find a pattern for what I wanted. And I couldn't 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.779 even find like multiple patterns to put together. 00:11:37.100 --> 00:11:41.399 So last year. We were the characters from Emperor's 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.860 New Groove. So Lloyd was Kuzco as a llama. And 00:11:44.860 --> 00:11:49.340 then Stuart and I were Chica and Pacha. That's 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:52.480 her name or their names because I was pregnant. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.659 So we needed a pregnant costume. So I tried to 00:11:55.659 --> 00:11:57.759 make her dress, but I couldn't find any patterns 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:00.820 weirdly. It's not that weird of a, I don't know. 00:12:01.340 --> 00:12:03.379 So yes, if you're going to sew, use a pattern. 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.539 Yeah. That was a terrible, terrible mistake. 00:12:05.899 --> 00:12:08.879 Yeah. I don't know how to sew. So I think I would 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:11.080 need to start there. Yeah. I have a sewing machine. 00:12:11.139 --> 00:12:13.559 I can teach you. Thank you. Please. I feel like 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.610 that's like one of the. i know this is not actually 00:12:16.610 --> 00:12:18.730 true but like one of the qualities as a mother 00:12:18.730 --> 00:12:21.289 that like most moms just like know how to sew 00:12:21.289 --> 00:12:23.909 i don't know i mean i feel like at one point 00:12:23.909 --> 00:12:26.190 in time that was true because everyone like that 00:12:26.190 --> 00:12:28.590 was just a skill that you learned and now that's 00:12:28.590 --> 00:12:30.649 not just like a skill that you learn i totally 00:12:30.649 --> 00:12:33.409 i could probably like i could maybe hem something 00:12:33.409 --> 00:12:37.750 like by hand but like not a clue how to use a 00:12:37.750 --> 00:12:40.500 sewing machine couldn't tell you setting it up 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:42.440 is the hardest part and then once you get it 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.440 set up it's pretty easy it's pretty you're good 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.460 to go yeah yeah but learning how to thread a 00:12:46.460 --> 00:12:49.460 sewing machine is not for the faint of heart 00:12:49.460 --> 00:12:53.120 yeah sounds exhausting um okay so we we had a 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:56.000 question box and we asked a couple different 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:00.059 questions to you guys and i guess we could just 00:13:00.059 --> 00:13:02.299 kind of go through them and then do our answers 00:13:02.299 --> 00:13:05.899 too if you want so first thing was favorite costume 00:13:05.899 --> 00:13:09.320 growing up um and a few of your guys answers 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.600 so uh one of you said uh the statue of liberty 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:17.259 it's a good love that very regal yeah i want 00:13:17.259 --> 00:13:19.740 to know i wish we had gotten pictures of some 00:13:19.740 --> 00:13:21.980 of these i also want to know like hey also send 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:24.480 in a picture what like was this a storm was this 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:29.460 a party city Yeah. Or did you like have a robe 00:13:29.460 --> 00:13:32.340 or like sheets that you used? Like were you fully 00:13:32.340 --> 00:13:35.639 painted green? Would love that. Would love, love 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.299 that. Okay. Another one was Dorothy from The 00:13:39.299 --> 00:13:42.620 Wizard of Oz. Classic. That's a good one. Yep. 00:13:42.940 --> 00:13:47.200 And then love this one. This person used their 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.919 dad's World War II gas mask, painted it bright 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.379 red, and then wore it. they were an alien with 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:56.480 the gas mask. That's a good one. Like the big 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.720 eyes. I can see that. Yeah. It's also fun. And 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.340 I feel like our parents had less fun stuff like 00:14:02.340 --> 00:14:05.899 that. Just, and I know we're not going to have 00:14:05.899 --> 00:14:07.899 anything that interesting for our kids. I know. 00:14:08.340 --> 00:14:10.960 Like I don't have a gas mask. Definitely don't 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:12.460 have a gas mask. Just hanging around. Hanging 00:14:12.460 --> 00:14:15.320 around. And like World War II one is like intense 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:19.860 and creepy. yeah so that's super cool yeah that's 00:14:19.860 --> 00:14:23.620 cool okay what was your favorite costume um okay 00:14:23.620 --> 00:14:26.000 i just like had a list because i also asked my 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.539 mom for a few of her favorites that like we did 00:14:28.539 --> 00:14:31.259 growing up so i already mentioned i was robin 00:14:31.259 --> 00:14:34.539 hood yes we had read robin hood for school and 00:14:34.539 --> 00:14:37.960 it is one of my favorite stories and i feel very 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:39.759 passionate about robin hood but we won't talk 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.019 about that on here so that was a fun one one 00:14:43.019 --> 00:14:45.700 of my best friends growing up her and i did like 00:14:46.269 --> 00:14:49.049 a combined costume a couple times so one year 00:14:49.049 --> 00:14:51.950 we were abbott and costello and we memorized 00:14:51.950 --> 00:14:55.509 who's on first that's hilarious so we it would 00:14:55.509 --> 00:14:57.809 take a little bit of memory but i think we could 00:14:57.809 --> 00:15:01.289 probably do it again if we really if we really 00:15:01.289 --> 00:15:03.639 weren't tried I would like a video of that, please. 00:15:03.820 --> 00:15:08.059 Thanks. I'll call her up. And then another one. 00:15:08.100 --> 00:15:09.799 I don't know if anyone actually knows who Laverne 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.340 and Shirley are, but it was like a TV show from 00:15:12.340 --> 00:15:15.460 the 60s, I think. And so we were Laverne and 00:15:15.460 --> 00:15:18.620 Shirley one year. Could people like, people knew 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:20.559 who you were? Or did you have to like explain? 00:15:20.980 --> 00:15:23.080 Anyone our age, we had to explain. Yeah. And 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:25.940 then. Like the older generation. Yeah. Okay. 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:27.860 And then older generations always thought it 00:15:27.860 --> 00:15:30.080 was really funny too, because we were like. middle 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.940 school. Yes. Oldest. Yeah. Um, so older, anyone 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:35.879 who knew who it was, thought it was really funny. 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.019 Yeah. And then anyone who was like our age was 00:15:38.019 --> 00:15:40.259 like, what, what's happening? Or they would just 00:15:40.259 --> 00:15:42.779 be like, oh, you're, you're 50s, 60s girls. I'm 00:15:42.779 --> 00:15:44.559 like, well, I mean, I guess technically yes, 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.960 but no. Yeah. Let's see another one. I love the 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.500 Phantom of the Opera. Okay. Um, and so I dressed 00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:54.200 up as Christine one year. Nice. My sister made 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:57.059 my costume for that. This is a fun one. So my 00:15:57.059 --> 00:15:59.240 first Halloween costume ever was a chili pepper. 00:15:59.460 --> 00:16:01.700 Oh, nice. And my mom saved that. So that was 00:16:01.700 --> 00:16:04.100 also Lloyd's first Halloween costume ever. And 00:16:04.100 --> 00:16:06.879 then Stuart and I dressed up as Red Hot Chili 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.299 Peppers fans. Yes. So that was really fun two 00:16:10.299 --> 00:16:14.580 years ago. That's cute. And then one of my mom's 00:16:14.580 --> 00:16:18.399 favorites from when I was little was my sister 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.320 dressed up as the Tooth Fairy and I was a tooth. 00:16:20.539 --> 00:16:22.799 Nice. Cute. So that was super cute. Love the 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.100 partner costumes. Yeah, I love. I will definitely 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:29.139 like force my ideas onto the kids as long as 00:16:29.139 --> 00:16:30.980 they'll stand it. Yeah. I know there's going 00:16:30.980 --> 00:16:33.679 to be a day when like they want to do their own 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:35.720 thing and I'll be devastated. I want to be Lightning 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:39.159 McQueen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. What about 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.360 you? Okay. So yeah, growing up, my best friend 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:44.700 at the time, her and I would always do costumes 00:16:44.700 --> 00:16:47.720 together. Love it. And we were both really big 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.659 tomboys. And so they were, they were never like. 00:16:51.019 --> 00:16:53.980 we're both princesses. Or it was like one year 00:16:53.980 --> 00:16:56.860 we were army men together. The next year we were 00:16:56.860 --> 00:17:00.440 like baseball players. Oh no, we weren't baseball 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.659 players. We were the number one sports fans. 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:06.119 So we like, we just were like, we carried like 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.640 big signs around that said like, go, I don't 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:10.940 remember what teams, but yeah, baseball fans. 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:14.980 Kind of funny. But my favorite costume we did, 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:18.200 I remember it was sixth grade and it was an election 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.380 year and it was. She was John Kerry and I was 00:17:22.380 --> 00:17:26.200 George Bush. That's really funny. Yeah. Especially 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.660 for sixth grade. Sixth grade girls. Yes. And 00:17:29.660 --> 00:17:32.380 she had really short hair. So she just like spray 00:17:32.380 --> 00:17:35.960 painted her hair silver. And then I had like 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.259 fairly short hair, but I just like wore it in 00:17:38.259 --> 00:17:40.119 like a low bun. And then we like spray painted 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.900 my hair too. And then I remember we went to Goodwill 00:17:42.900 --> 00:17:46.619 and we bought like men's suits. And they were, 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.180 I mean, they didn't fit us. They were ginormous 00:17:49.180 --> 00:17:52.119 on us. I mean, because you're already not a big 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.559 person. So then in sixth grade. I was tiny. I 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.920 was tiny. And I'm wearing this like massive like 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:03.579 Navy suit jacket. And the only thing that like 00:18:03.579 --> 00:18:06.859 told people who we were, we made like little 00:18:06.859 --> 00:18:09.799 name tags for ourselves. That's so funny. Yeah. 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:12.819 And it just said like President Bush and then 00:18:12.819 --> 00:18:16.700 like John Kerry. That's so funny. I love that. 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:20.390 It was honestly, it was. So great and so memorable. 00:18:20.630 --> 00:18:21.390 And did you guys come up with this on your, like, 00:18:21.430 --> 00:18:24.369 there's no, like, influence from anyone. That's 00:18:24.369 --> 00:18:28.250 so. Yeah. Yeah. That was my favorite costume 00:18:28.250 --> 00:18:32.009 and the one that I will, like, remember for the 00:18:32.009 --> 00:18:35.049 rest of my life. And, I mean, we didn't, like, 00:18:35.130 --> 00:18:37.430 other than trick -or -treating, that was, I think 00:18:37.430 --> 00:18:40.130 we wore them to school. Yeah. And nobody really 00:18:40.130 --> 00:18:42.029 understood except, like, the teachers thought 00:18:42.029 --> 00:18:44.809 it was hilarious. Right. Yeah, I feel like, like 00:18:44.809 --> 00:18:47.069 I said, with. A couple of the costumes I've had, 00:18:47.130 --> 00:18:48.809 and just in general, I've had a lot of costumes 00:18:48.809 --> 00:18:53.089 where it's, like, parents and teachers all think 00:18:53.089 --> 00:18:55.250 it's really funny. Honestly, isn't that the goal? 00:18:55.390 --> 00:18:57.609 I feel like that should be the goal. Yes. Like, 00:18:57.609 --> 00:19:00.069 how can we make the adults laugh? Yeah. Like, 00:19:00.130 --> 00:19:02.269 how do we make this as niche as possible? Yeah. 00:19:02.309 --> 00:19:05.309 So, yeah, it's so, like, a niche thing to. Yeah. 00:19:05.390 --> 00:19:07.670 I like a good niche costume. Yes. I'm trying 00:19:07.670 --> 00:19:10.009 to think some of the other, like, funny niche 00:19:10.009 --> 00:19:12.839 stuff that I've. done throughout the years one 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.759 year i was dana scully from the x -files nice 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.759 one year we did a bunch of my friends and we 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.579 were the seven dwarves that's good i've always 00:19:21.579 --> 00:19:24.480 wanted like a full group halloween costume and 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.039 i when i was thinking about this and like costumes 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:28.980 that i've done and wished i've been able to do 00:19:28.980 --> 00:19:30.980 and stuff i've always wanted to do the characters 00:19:30.980 --> 00:19:34.000 from clue but the only time i had a friend group 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:35.319 that was big enough that we could have pulled 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:38.079 it off None of them would have gone for it. Like 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.220 they weren't dress up people. Okay. And that's 00:19:41.220 --> 00:19:43.220 like a, those costumes are, I feel like are kind 00:19:43.220 --> 00:19:45.619 of like you really got to, like if you're Colonel 00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:48.180 mustard, you gotta, you gotta commit. Yeah. This 00:19:48.180 --> 00:19:50.700 isn't just like, can you just put a suit on and 00:19:50.700 --> 00:19:53.519 pretend you're this person? Yeah. Like, yeah. 00:19:53.579 --> 00:19:57.279 You need the full yellow vibes. Exactly. Yeah. 00:19:57.339 --> 00:19:59.019 So yeah, none of them would have gone for it. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.380 Maybe one of them would have, but yeah, it wasn't 00:20:01.380 --> 00:20:03.200 like, I would not have been able to pull it off. 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:05.759 So, but I do love a group costume like that. 00:20:05.819 --> 00:20:09.890 Me too. I know. I'm hoping, like, as the kids 00:20:09.890 --> 00:20:12.009 get older, I mean, you guys have already done, 00:20:12.049 --> 00:20:15.190 like, your family costumes. Michael's not a huge, 00:20:15.210 --> 00:20:18.390 like, dress -up person. Well, he's not. Yeah, 00:20:18.490 --> 00:20:21.589 I know, right? Like, so before we had kids, I 00:20:21.589 --> 00:20:23.630 feel like we always kind of had to dress up for, 00:20:23.650 --> 00:20:27.650 like, for Fall Fest at church. And so one year 00:20:27.650 --> 00:20:32.559 I was Salt and he was Pepper. And it was like 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:34.299 the simplest thing. He wore all black, which 00:20:34.299 --> 00:20:36.440 he wears most of the time. Yes. And I wore all 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:39.059 white. So he didn't dress up. Yeah. We just put 00:20:39.059 --> 00:20:42.660 like a P on his shirt and an S on my shirt. And 00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:47.339 then one year we were, I was like a hipster girl 00:20:47.339 --> 00:20:50.200 and he was a Hydro Flask. Love it. Literally. 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.000 Just put the Hydro Flask logo on his black outfit. 00:20:53.180 --> 00:20:57.000 Perfect. Things like that. Stuart, well, he can 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.740 get super into costumes too, which is really 00:20:58.740 --> 00:21:02.380 fun. So the first year we were married, I was 00:21:02.380 --> 00:21:04.599 a circus ringmaster and he was a bearded lady. 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:08.720 Nice. So we like got him a dress and he put on 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:11.019 lipstick. I got to see a picture of this. The 00:21:11.019 --> 00:21:13.920 worst part is we got married in 2020. So we literally 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:16.079 had like one other couple over for Halloween 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.500 and that was all we did because no one was like 00:21:19.500 --> 00:21:22.019 throwing parties or anything. Yeah, right. That's 00:21:22.019 --> 00:21:24.299 so funny. Trying to think other things that we've 00:21:24.299 --> 00:21:26.980 done. I think that was one of the funniest ones. 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:31.140 That's amazing. I love that. Let's hop into the 00:21:31.140 --> 00:21:34.759 next question. So we asked like funny Halloween 00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:38.480 stories. Can you think of? I think I came up 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.539 with this question and then I was like, I have. 00:21:40.740 --> 00:21:43.319 You're like, I have none. I can't think of. Okay, 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:46.799 I have one funny Halloween story. It was me and 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:48.500 my friends and we were going to a Halloween party 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:52.519 at our friend Brayden's house. And we'd been 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.539 to his house before to like hang out. So we get 00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:57.819 to his house. We pull up. There's like other 00:21:57.819 --> 00:22:01.400 people going into the party. So we walk into 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:03.480 this house. Like the doors just open. So we walk 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.200 in. And there's like someone giving a tour of 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.509 the house. So we just like. we're like we've 00:22:10.509 --> 00:22:12.190 been here before we'll just like go along with 00:22:12.190 --> 00:22:15.190 the tour and then all of a sudden like my friends 00:22:15.190 --> 00:22:16.569 and I like look at each other and we're like 00:22:16.569 --> 00:22:21.009 do you recognize that person and we're like no 00:22:21.009 --> 00:22:24.630 like oh my god my my friend Kimber I remember 00:22:24.630 --> 00:22:26.950 she looked at me and she's like oh my god I think 00:22:26.950 --> 00:22:31.059 I think they moved And we're like, oh my gosh, 00:22:31.140 --> 00:22:33.700 we're just in, we legit were in just someone 00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:36.599 else's home. Like our friends did not live there 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:38.960 anymore. Yeah. Someone else's Halloween party 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:42.180 that they had just like let us into and we just 00:22:42.180 --> 00:22:46.119 were there. And so we legit just like snuck out 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:48.759 the back door and then like ran to our car. They're 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:51.500 probably telling this story. Oh, for sure. Remember 00:22:51.500 --> 00:22:53.700 that year that just like a bunch of random kids 00:22:53.700 --> 00:22:55.099 showed up at our house and then disappeared? 00:22:55.339 --> 00:22:57.559 Yeah. We've, we've totally talked about that 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:00.160 before that we're like, I'm sure they're like 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.839 telling their friends about it too. And I remember 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:05.380 one distinct thing is that the lady who was giving 00:23:05.380 --> 00:23:10.299 the tour, she had like a French accent. That 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:14.500 sounds like you're making it up. It legit sounds 00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:16.660 like a made up story, but I promise you it is 00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:19.299 not a made up story. So then we get back to my 00:23:19.299 --> 00:23:21.759 friend's car and we're like, we call our friend 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:25.220 Brayden and he's like, yeah, I moved like a month 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:27.170 ago or something like that. And we're like. okay, 00:23:27.250 --> 00:23:29.349 well, can you send us a new address? Because 00:23:29.349 --> 00:23:31.809 we have no idea where you live now. And how old 00:23:31.809 --> 00:23:33.410 were you when this happened? In high school. 00:23:33.769 --> 00:23:35.490 Because that's also such a high school boy thing 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:38.750 to invite you to a party, not mention, knowing 00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:40.670 you've been to his house before, not mention 00:23:40.670 --> 00:23:43.490 he's moved or provide the new address. I'm like, 00:23:43.609 --> 00:23:45.730 is that like a, was that a non -purpose thing 00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:47.849 or a frontal lobe, not development? Probably 00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:50.349 just a frontal lobe. Yeah. Like just assume we 00:23:50.349 --> 00:23:54.009 know where he lives. Yeah. So that, that was 00:23:54.009 --> 00:23:57.390 my funniest Halloween story because, I mean, 00:23:57.390 --> 00:24:00.890 it just was legit crazy. That's so funny. Yeah. 00:24:01.049 --> 00:24:03.369 Yeah. I don't think I really have any like crazy 00:24:03.369 --> 00:24:06.700 stories. Go trick -or -treating every year. Have 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:09.799 you ever been given like a toothbrush or toothpaste? 00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:13.299 So in the neighborhood I grew up in, there was 00:24:13.299 --> 00:24:16.799 a dentist in one of the like cul -de -sacs. So 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:18.319 he would give out a toothbrush every year, but 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:20.119 he would also give out a bunch of chocolate. 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:22.240 So it's like he would give you a handful of chocolate 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.039 with your toothbrush. Nice. So like that's acceptable. 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:27.460 Yes. Just a toothbrush, not acceptable. Yeah, 00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:30.359 right. Yeah. Like please still make this fun 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:33.579 for me as a child. Yeah. We would go trick -or 00:24:33.579 --> 00:24:36.130 -treating. I probably went trick -or -treating 00:24:36.130 --> 00:24:39.700 like maybe every other year. I didn't go. It 00:24:39.700 --> 00:24:42.380 wasn't like I had to go trick -or -treating. 00:24:42.579 --> 00:24:44.680 So our neighborhood was the one that gave out 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:46.579 full -size candy bars. That's so fun. So we definitely 00:24:46.579 --> 00:24:49.319 went every year. I don't know if I ever got a 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:52.240 full -size candy bar in all of my years of trick 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.559 -or -treating. One house was notorious for doing 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:58.579 king -size candy bars too. I think Costco has 00:24:58.579 --> 00:25:01.099 full -size candy bars on sale this year. So I 00:25:01.099 --> 00:25:03.380 think that's what we're going to try to do. Fun. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.660 That's so fun. Like as a kid. As a kid to get 00:25:06.660 --> 00:25:09.259 like a full Hershey's bar. That's so fun. fun 00:25:09.259 --> 00:25:11.839 yeah it's way better i we might do that because 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:15.099 our neighborhood where we live it's really not 00:25:15.099 --> 00:25:17.319 a big trick -or -treating neighborhood but we 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:21.299 i mean last year we got we got a few and i'm 00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:24.460 pretty sure last year we had our dog still and 00:25:24.460 --> 00:25:27.640 and he would just like bark it anyone who knocked 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:30.319 the door rang the doorbell so we just put like 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.940 a bowl yeah out and let kids grab and The bowl 00:25:33.940 --> 00:25:36.460 was for sure empty when we went and like picked 00:25:36.460 --> 00:25:39.559 it up the next morning. But who knows how many 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:42.779 kids actually came by. Like I bet it was like 00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:45.660 five kids and they just like took all the candy. 00:25:46.019 --> 00:25:47.180 Which honestly, fine with it. I know. I was like, 00:25:47.220 --> 00:25:49.759 I don't really care. It's also any, this is, 00:25:49.779 --> 00:25:51.740 or I guess this is the second year we're in this 00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:54.259 house. And prior to this house, we've only lived 00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:56.619 in apartments. So we've bought candy every year 00:25:56.619 --> 00:25:59.519 and then we like maybe have one kid stop by. 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:00.920 And then you have a ton of candy for yourself. 00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:05.619 Yeah. But. always way too much. And before, since 00:26:05.619 --> 00:26:07.920 I was a student leader for so long at church, 00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:10.200 I would just take all the extra candy and hand 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:12.839 it out. And then you'd always find like the one 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:14.940 middle school boy here, like here, take it all. 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.420 I don't want it back in my house. Just take it. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:20.259 But I'm not anymore. So maybe I'll just like 00:26:20.259 --> 00:26:22.000 give, if we have leftovers, we'll give it to 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.119 Michael to take to youth group. Yes. No, they, 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.529 those kids would love it. Okay, what can you 00:26:27.529 --> 00:26:30.730 think of like a favorite Halloween memory? It 00:26:30.730 --> 00:26:34.230 could be like more recent with kids or... I mean, 00:26:34.230 --> 00:26:36.329 it is really fun like coming up with costumes 00:26:36.329 --> 00:26:38.970 for our family. This is the first year we're 00:26:38.970 --> 00:26:41.309 going trick -or -treating. I think last year 00:26:41.309 --> 00:26:45.170 I had like kind of a weird moment where I had 00:26:45.170 --> 00:26:46.829 a second of disappointment because I was like, 00:26:46.869 --> 00:26:49.450 oh, we can't really like go to Halloween parties 00:26:49.450 --> 00:26:51.950 on Halloween anymore. And I was like, no. we 00:26:51.950 --> 00:26:53.750 yeah we're gonna be taking lloyd trick -or -treating 00:26:53.750 --> 00:26:56.390 and so that was really fun to like have that 00:26:56.390 --> 00:27:00.190 like realization and like a second of disappointment 00:27:00.190 --> 00:27:03.069 to be like eclipsed by like this really exciting 00:27:03.069 --> 00:27:04.769 thing if that's gonna be super fun in the future 00:27:04.769 --> 00:27:08.690 yeah i'm excited to like see halloween through 00:27:08.690 --> 00:27:13.390 our kids eyes and just like the fun yeah fun 00:27:13.390 --> 00:27:15.490 trick -or -treating yeah i'm trying to think 00:27:15.490 --> 00:27:17.710 if there's like a specific memory i have i always 00:27:17.710 --> 00:27:20.119 remember my dad would take us trick -or -treating 00:27:20.119 --> 00:27:22.779 and my mom would stay home okay to hand out candy 00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:26.099 yeah and then I already talked about like the 00:27:26.099 --> 00:27:29.480 Halloween party like not Halloween party that 00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:32.359 we'd have growing up that was always like it 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.440 sounds super nerdy I mean it's pretty nerdy but 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:38.400 it was always super fun and like oh I guess one 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.180 of the things like about that specifically so 00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:44.779 it was always potluck style both for actual food 00:27:44.779 --> 00:27:48.779 and then for games so like every family was supposed 00:27:48.779 --> 00:27:50.960 to bring some sort of game so like someone would 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.279 bring bobbing for apples which i don't think 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.559 anyone ever does anymore no um but one of the 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.279 the game that my parents i don't know if they 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.599 came up with or how they found it but what they 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:04.920 do every year is they get one of those like huge 00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:09.400 rolls of paper and like they'd start they'd write 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:11.720 on it you know once upon a time and then people 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:14.619 could come and write just like additions to the 00:28:14.619 --> 00:28:17.160 story and then towards the end of the night the 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:20.240 kids would act it out cool um so just be like 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:22.799 really ridiculous but it was also a very wholesome 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:24.900 crowd so it was like you could get away with 00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:28.200 it yeah um i'm like i know other friends that 00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:30.400 like in groups that like that would have gone 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:34.740 bad very quickly so that was like a fun thing 00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:37.420 that we always did yeah that's a good memory 00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:41.619 yeah we never i never like uh really did the 00:28:41.619 --> 00:28:44.099 same thing every year i feel like especially 00:28:44.099 --> 00:28:46.119 in high school i feel like it was kind of like 00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:49.839 maybe we'd go trick -or -treating as high schoolers 00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:52.769 which like We definitely stood out as like the 00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:56.430 older kids. I was never like a partier in high 00:28:56.430 --> 00:28:59.369 school or anything. And so we we didn't really 00:28:59.369 --> 00:29:02.349 go to like parties to like go and get wasted 00:29:02.349 --> 00:29:06.109 or anything like that. But I do remember this 00:29:06.109 --> 00:29:09.190 one year we we went over to one of my friends 00:29:09.190 --> 00:29:11.890 house. It was just like a bunch of girls and 00:29:11.890 --> 00:29:14.670 we we all just hung out and had fun. And everyone 00:29:14.670 --> 00:29:17.960 had like really cutesy costumes and stuff. And 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.440 because I was still kind of a tomboy, I dressed 00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:23.359 up as a person from the insane asylum. Love it. 00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:26.579 Yeah. I just. See, and that's my thing with Halloween 00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:29.740 parties is you have to have a party where people 00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:32.160 are at the same vibe as you. Yeah. Like either 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:36.900 is this like cutesy, like not, I mean, kind of 00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:38.380 mean girls vibes, like not necessarily like. 00:29:38.809 --> 00:29:41.730 mean girls in like yeah the inappropriate capacity 00:29:41.730 --> 00:29:44.750 or whatever but just like yep oh you just wore 00:29:44.750 --> 00:29:47.430 a t -shirt and put on ears yeah is that your 00:29:47.430 --> 00:29:49.750 vibe are you like going full in for a costume 00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:52.950 yeah i remember i think like my best friend was 00:29:52.950 --> 00:29:56.049 like wonder woman or something and i legit was 00:29:56.049 --> 00:29:58.950 wearing like i asked my stepmom who is a nurse 00:29:58.950 --> 00:30:02.829 to get me a hospital gown and she brought me 00:30:02.829 --> 00:30:05.549 a hospital gown and i legit wore that and like 00:30:05.549 --> 00:30:09.109 teased my hair really big and just like I'll 00:30:09.109 --> 00:30:10.809 have to show you a picture. We're going to have 00:30:10.809 --> 00:30:12.710 to come up with pictures for some of these. Yeah. 00:30:12.710 --> 00:30:15.609 This is really funny. But I just remember like 00:30:15.609 --> 00:30:18.230 walking into this like party with my friends 00:30:18.230 --> 00:30:22.450 and everyone's like a ballerina, like Wonder 00:30:22.450 --> 00:30:25.910 Woman. Yeah. And I'm just like wearing a hospital 00:30:25.910 --> 00:30:30.349 gown. So, so bad. But like. You were creative 00:30:30.349 --> 00:30:35.099 though. I guess. Yeah. It was not. you can never 00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:38.480 wear that costume now but no no yeah definitely 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.559 I was a weird kid but you turned out okay I maybe 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.900 I don't know I will say this is like actually 00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:49.240 a sad memory but uh there was one year in high 00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.700 school that my sister and her now husband then 00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:55.099 boyfriend uh they were gonna throw a Halloween 00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:58.579 party at my parents house and so I was like kind 00:30:58.579 --> 00:31:01.400 of in on it and we actually had a group costume 00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:05.150 the three of us but So I invited a bunch of people 00:31:05.150 --> 00:31:08.630 and I had one friend show up. Oh, dang it. That 00:31:08.630 --> 00:31:11.029 was not a good. Not a good. Not a good Halloween. 00:31:11.069 --> 00:31:14.750 Not a good year. But it was. I mean, the party 00:31:14.750 --> 00:31:17.029 was fun. I just had no friends show up. Yeah. 00:31:17.390 --> 00:31:20.589 Oh, gosh. Halloween. I feel like Halloween is 00:31:20.589 --> 00:31:23.430 one of those holidays where, I don't know, you're 00:31:23.430 --> 00:31:25.930 either like really into Halloween or you're really 00:31:25.930 --> 00:31:28.970 like it's you could take it or leave it. I feel 00:31:28.970 --> 00:31:32.160 like now I'm kind of a take it or leave it. person 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:35.019 honestly like I thought it was fun dressing up 00:31:35.019 --> 00:31:39.099 when I was younger I think it'll be fun to like 00:31:39.099 --> 00:31:41.720 have the boys dress up um especially as they 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:44.480 get older and stuff but I like I mean I haven't 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.759 even really put thought into like this halloween 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.480 much yeah and i'm like it's just around the corner 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:54.740 um okay so what what would you say are some family 00:31:54.740 --> 00:31:58.480 any or fun like halloween family traditions that 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:02.099 you either have or want to put into place so 00:32:02.099 --> 00:32:04.359 i mean growing up we always carved pumpkins and 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:06.819 then my mom would bake the pumpkin seeds oh yes 00:32:06.819 --> 00:32:09.640 so i would like to do that I mean, right now, 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:12.099 like the idea of carving them is not like ideal, 00:32:12.180 --> 00:32:14.900 but I know some people like paint them with little 00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:17.119 kids. So we might try to do something like that. 00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:19.559 That's smart. I don't know if I want to go to 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:21.299 a pumpkin patch. I know that's like part of it 00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:23.319 for some people. Yeah. That's what I put down 00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:25.960 for us. Is going to a pumpkin patch. Yeah. I 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.099 just, and we honestly didn't do that a lot growing 00:32:29.099 --> 00:32:33.460 up. I think that it will just be fun with little 00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:36.660 kids to go to like Anderson Farms or something 00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:40.069 like that. yeah so yeah i do like carving pumpkins 00:32:40.069 --> 00:32:43.730 stewart was telling me last night that his mom 00:32:43.730 --> 00:32:47.849 always had like she had a book of carving patterns 00:32:47.849 --> 00:32:51.269 or whatever and that she would only let them 00:32:51.269 --> 00:32:53.430 carve anything out of the book and so i was like 00:32:53.430 --> 00:32:55.799 oh like Was this when you were like a little 00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:57.839 kid? Cause I would get it for like a little kid 00:32:57.839 --> 00:32:59.420 where you're like, I'm doing all of the carving. 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:01.579 So like, I'm going to limit your options because 00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:04.680 I'm not on something too complicated. And he 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:06.279 was like, no, that was like until we stopped 00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:09.910 caring about carving pumpkins. So she just stuck 00:33:09.910 --> 00:33:12.549 with this rule forever. That's funny. That's 00:33:12.549 --> 00:33:16.049 funny. We carved pumpkins growing up, but I always 00:33:16.049 --> 00:33:19.809 did like the simple like triangle eyes and just 00:33:19.809 --> 00:33:22.430 the regular mouth. I feel like as a kid, I was 00:33:22.430 --> 00:33:24.730 really creative about it. And now every year 00:33:24.730 --> 00:33:27.369 or the years that we have carved them in the 00:33:27.369 --> 00:33:31.490 last few years, I just like draw a blank and 00:33:31.490 --> 00:33:33.890 can't think of anything. Yeah. Yeah. So, but 00:33:33.890 --> 00:33:36.160 yeah, so we'd always carved pumpkins. And then 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.720 the neighborhood I grew up in, we would do, I 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:41.799 think we called them boo bags, but you do like 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.420 a brown paper bag with like some treats in it 00:33:44.420 --> 00:33:47.059 and anonymously leave it on someone's door. And 00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:49.900 then there was always like a paper ghost that 00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:51.619 you were supposed to put on your door once someone 00:33:51.619 --> 00:33:54.380 like hit you or whatever. And then if you got 00:33:54.380 --> 00:33:56.619 one, you were supposed to like do the same thing 00:33:56.619 --> 00:33:57.819 to other neighbors. Take it to somebody else. 00:33:58.140 --> 00:34:00.160 Which I was like, that's, that is super fun. 00:34:00.730 --> 00:34:02.869 And then I realized almost all of our neighbors, 00:34:02.970 --> 00:34:05.869 including us, have ring doorbells or, like, some 00:34:05.869 --> 00:34:09.010 sort of video doorbell. Yeah. So you just, like, 00:34:09.030 --> 00:34:10.769 can't do it. You can't do it anonymously anymore. 00:34:11.070 --> 00:34:13.050 It's like, do you, like, buy a ski mask? Like, 00:34:13.050 --> 00:34:16.110 how do you? Yeah, there's not really. Do I look 00:34:16.110 --> 00:34:18.309 like I'm going to rob your house right now? Yeah. 00:34:18.610 --> 00:34:21.030 There's not really a good way to do it anonymously 00:34:21.030 --> 00:34:25.449 anymore because everyone has cameras and doorbells 00:34:25.449 --> 00:34:28.130 and stuff like that. Which, again, us too, so 00:34:28.130 --> 00:34:30.780 I'm not, like. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. But 00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:33.139 I just thought that was a funny like generational 00:34:33.139 --> 00:34:35.860 thing. That is funny. Yeah. I don't think, I 00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:38.159 don't know what traditions will really put in 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.019 place. I do wish there was like a classic trunk 00:34:42.019 --> 00:34:44.980 or treat around here. I haven't really found 00:34:44.980 --> 00:34:47.500 one. I'm sure I could, but yeah, we'll probably 00:34:47.500 --> 00:34:49.360 try trick or treating this year for the first 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.360 time. We'll see how it goes. I think Colt's going 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.320 to be terrified actually of other people in costumes, 00:34:55.380 --> 00:34:59.199 but I think we'll give it a whirl. And if it 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.320 goes bad, we hold off. Yeah. And it's only once 00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:02.920 a year, so maybe by next year he'll be fine. 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.900 I know. If it goes bad, like, hey, we'll go to 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:08.840 one house and, you know, call it a night. He 00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:11.519 doesn't really know what he's missing. I'll probably 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:14.119 eat all the candy anyways. Yeah, Lloyd's definitely 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:15.920 not going to eat all of his candy. No, absolutely 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.079 not. You can have one piece and then we'll call 00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:20.920 it a night. Did you guys have rules for what 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:24.840 you could, like, eat candy after? So my siblings 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.820 and I. I think we did. I don't remember like 00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:30.320 what it was specifically. I remember having my 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.920 Halloween candy for a long time after Halloween. 00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:35.800 I remember that too. Like I do remember after 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:38.380 we would trick or treat, we'd get home and we'd 00:35:38.380 --> 00:35:41.159 like all dump our candy and trade candy. And 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:43.539 that actually is one of my favorite memories 00:35:43.539 --> 00:35:46.760 is like trading candy with my siblings. I always 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.000 wanted all of like the chocolate and I'd trade 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.059 like. all the gummy things and stuff for all 00:35:54.059 --> 00:35:55.820 the chocolate. I was a big chocolate person. 00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:59.039 I feel like that's such a like key part of childhood 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:02.519 is trading candy. Yes. And then I remember, so 00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:05.659 I'm the youngest sibling and I just, I think 00:36:05.659 --> 00:36:08.000 my siblings would always like short me, like 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.079 short change me. I'm the youngest in like all 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:12.619 the groups. Yeah. Yeah. Kids in the neighborhood, 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:14.980 siblings, everything. I'd always get like way 00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:17.420 less candy. I'd end up with way less candy. But 00:36:17.420 --> 00:36:20.090 I, then I remember we'd all like, put all of 00:36:20.090 --> 00:36:22.010 our candy in like one of the big like gallon 00:36:22.010 --> 00:36:25.389 Ziploc bags and then we'd write our name on it 00:36:25.389 --> 00:36:27.170 and then we just like keep them in the kitchen 00:36:27.170 --> 00:36:30.329 like up on the counter and then every night for 00:36:30.329 --> 00:36:33.489 or whenever we would get dessert we'd yeah you 00:36:33.489 --> 00:36:35.670 could either have I don't know a cookie or something 00:36:35.670 --> 00:36:37.369 or you could have a couple pieces of Halloween 00:36:37.369 --> 00:36:39.869 candy yeah and I think I would have mine for 00:36:39.869 --> 00:36:42.780 like Probably months, honestly. It felt like 00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:44.619 it for sure. I don't know if that's actually 00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:46.340 how long it was. Yeah. Yeah, we would always 00:36:46.340 --> 00:36:49.239 trade candy too. We would also use, did you use 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:51.280 pillowcases for trick -or -treating? Yes. Yep. 00:36:51.820 --> 00:36:54.599 Definitely. classic yeah and my mom had like 00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:58.719 a basket that we would then put all of our candy 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.900 and like my it was just my sister and i so it's 00:37:00.900 --> 00:37:02.940 like so you trade candy with the neighborhood 00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:05.099 kids and then we'd like put it all on the same 00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:08.320 thing because we didn't really there was i think 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.280 there was a few things where it's like if there's 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:12.840 one that you like definitely like that's yours 00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:15.920 and then it's kind of like the family candy thing 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.280 that's another thing My parents always gave out 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:23.360 full -size popcorn bags, which is a weird hit. 00:37:23.539 --> 00:37:27.780 Kids get so excited. Like homemade popcorn in 00:37:27.780 --> 00:37:30.960 a little Ziploc bag? No, just a microwave popcorn 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:33.840 bag, but the full -sized one instead of the mini 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:37.159 ones. That's funny. Which is the fact that it 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.090 was a different thing. It's different. The mini 00:37:40.090 --> 00:37:42.949 ones are like, they always burn anyways. But 00:37:42.949 --> 00:37:44.909 kids get, even to this day when they've done 00:37:44.909 --> 00:37:47.849 it, kids get so excited. Was it something that 00:37:47.849 --> 00:37:50.809 like maybe one year it was like, oh crap, we 00:37:50.809 --> 00:37:52.909 forgot to get candy. Let's just grab what we 00:37:52.909 --> 00:37:55.369 have in the pantry. I don't think so. I would 00:37:55.369 --> 00:37:58.130 have to ask my mom where it started. And it might 00:37:58.130 --> 00:38:00.250 have just been, it's something different than 00:38:00.250 --> 00:38:03.230 what everyone else is doing. And again, I had 00:38:03.230 --> 00:38:06.739 a full -size candy bar neighborhood. was probably 00:38:06.739 --> 00:38:09.320 mostly that just like to stand out kind of a 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:10.579 little bit. Yeah. Just do something a little 00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:12.880 bit different. And that's actually a really good 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.420 idea. And then kids loved it. So, Hey, I might 00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:19.579 actually like take her up on that one. Yeah. 00:38:19.579 --> 00:38:22.340 Yeah. They would just get a big Costco pack. 00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:25.289 Yep. Yeah. And then. Maybe that was part of it 00:38:25.289 --> 00:38:27.849 is then when there was leftovers, it's not leftover 00:38:27.849 --> 00:38:30.170 candy. Yeah. Because like my parents eat popcorn. 00:38:30.250 --> 00:38:31.670 We would always have popcorn for movie nights 00:38:31.670 --> 00:38:34.449 and stuff. So maybe that was part of it is any 00:38:34.449 --> 00:38:37.070 leftovers were stuff that they would already 00:38:37.070 --> 00:38:39.230 eat and want in the house. Yeah, that's smart. 00:38:39.409 --> 00:38:42.429 I love that idea. Yeah. Some of you said like 00:38:42.429 --> 00:38:45.809 carving pumpkins with family, going to pumpkin 00:38:45.809 --> 00:38:51.079 patches. And that was kind of like the. majority 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.960 of answers this year i don't know if it'll be 00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:55.920 a tradition we'll see it would be i think it'd 00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:58.659 be fun if it was stewart's brother and his family 00:38:58.659 --> 00:39:01.480 live like 15 minutes away from us or something 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:03.920 like that so we might try to start like a cousin 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:06.820 trick -or -treating tradition So that's what 00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:09.639 we're doing this year. Big cousin can show Lloyd 00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:12.019 the ropes of how trick -or -treating works. Now 00:39:12.019 --> 00:39:14.659 that I'm thinking back on trading candy and stuff 00:39:14.659 --> 00:39:18.000 like that, that's a super fun thing to do with 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.400 cousins too. I didn't have cousins close by growing 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:23.440 up. That's so fun. Yeah, last year, since we 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:25.579 don't have any family in the area, unfortunately, 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:29.059 and Colton and Cruz have one. really young cousin 00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:32.300 but the other cousins are all older but last 00:39:32.300 --> 00:39:34.739 year I just thought of this memory Halloween 00:39:34.739 --> 00:39:37.280 was I think it was on like either a Saturday 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:39.300 or Sunday or they just like said you could dress 00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:42.360 up for church oh yeah wear your costume to church 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.219 and so we got Colt just like a spirit Halloween 00:39:45.219 --> 00:39:49.260 costume but he was an elephant That's so cute. 00:39:49.420 --> 00:39:51.519 It was so, so cute. The costume was like definitely 00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.059 too big for him, but it had like these big old 00:39:54.059 --> 00:39:57.480 elephant ears. It was like a little headpiece 00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.519 that he wore with like big old elephant ears. 00:39:59.860 --> 00:40:02.840 And I remember, so the classroom he was in at 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:05.559 church has like these tables, but they have like 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:09.460 seats inside the tables. So it calls it their 00:40:09.460 --> 00:40:13.400 stadium seating. Yes, yes. And so I remember 00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:16.460 distinctly picking up Colt from church or from 00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:19.539 Sunday school. And we, Michael and I look in 00:40:19.539 --> 00:40:22.440 the classroom and Colt is just like sitting in 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:26.559 that, the stadium seating. And he's the only 00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:29.940 kid wearing a costume. And he's just got these 00:40:29.940 --> 00:40:32.840 big old elephant ears. And it's just so cute. 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.840 And I mean, he was so little that like he didn't 00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:39.019 really understand. He's like, I'm wearing a costume. 00:40:39.219 --> 00:40:41.219 And no one else is. No one else is. But it just 00:40:41.219 --> 00:40:42.300 was hilarious. It would be really nice to not, 00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:45.019 to have that level of like unawareness to an 00:40:45.019 --> 00:40:47.489 extent. Yeah. Like, I don't care. Lack of shame. 00:40:47.690 --> 00:40:51.210 Yeah. I love it. But that was really cute. Still 00:40:51.210 --> 00:40:52.690 don't know what the boys are going to wear this 00:40:52.690 --> 00:40:55.929 year in a few days. So. We'll figure it out. 00:40:56.030 --> 00:40:58.710 You know, we'll figure it out. But yeah, I feel 00:40:58.710 --> 00:41:02.349 like Halloween, I mean, for the last few, since, 00:41:02.449 --> 00:41:05.030 honestly, since high school, it's been kind of 00:41:05.030 --> 00:41:08.869 like a here. Yeah. It's not a big deal. But now 00:41:08.869 --> 00:41:11.610 I think with kids, it's going to be. Yeah. More 00:41:11.610 --> 00:41:14.969 fun again. Yeah. Yeah. I think so many things 00:41:14.969 --> 00:41:17.550 are so much more fun with kids. Oh, for sure. 00:41:17.949 --> 00:41:20.630 Yeah. As much as like, I am really excited to 00:41:20.630 --> 00:41:22.429 come up with costumes for them and like force 00:41:22.429 --> 00:41:25.530 them to be like the like family costume that 00:41:25.530 --> 00:41:28.050 I want or whatever. Yep. But also like looking 00:41:28.050 --> 00:41:30.510 back at some of the things that I did. almost 00:41:30.510 --> 00:41:32.269 all of the costumes that I listed that I did 00:41:32.269 --> 00:41:36.030 as a kid, I came up with. So I'm excited to see 00:41:36.030 --> 00:41:38.650 like what that is for my kids. Like I do want 00:41:38.650 --> 00:41:40.449 to encourage them to be creative and not just 00:41:40.449 --> 00:41:43.469 be like a normal, like do something like kind 00:41:43.469 --> 00:41:45.690 of fun and interesting from like a book or something. 00:41:45.769 --> 00:41:48.070 Yeah. Yeah. To see like what they're interested 00:41:48.070 --> 00:41:51.389 in. And hopefully once we're out of like the 00:41:51.389 --> 00:41:54.650 newborn and toddler phase. I'll have energy to 00:41:54.650 --> 00:41:57.210 make costumes to make them. Yeah. Because that 00:41:57.210 --> 00:41:59.949 is like definitely a core memory is my mom would 00:41:59.949 --> 00:42:02.969 spend like months making costumes and people 00:42:02.969 --> 00:42:04.909 would always ask her about it. Like, why would 00:42:04.909 --> 00:42:07.409 you do that? Like that takes so much energy. 00:42:07.570 --> 00:42:10.849 But then for us, especially like as girls, we 00:42:10.849 --> 00:42:13.389 still play dress up quite a bit. So she was like, 00:42:13.449 --> 00:42:16.010 they will wear them until either they don't fit 00:42:16.010 --> 00:42:19.130 or they are falling apart. Yeah. And then half 00:42:19.130 --> 00:42:21.320 the time they come up with. something else to 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:23.539 use them for once they're falling apart so like 00:42:23.539 --> 00:42:26.059 it's turns into something else yeah so it's worth 00:42:26.059 --> 00:42:28.260 it to spend all this energy because it's not 00:42:28.260 --> 00:42:30.179 just a Halloween costume it's something that 00:42:30.179 --> 00:42:32.800 they yeah it's like until they can't use it anymore 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.619 that's a cute a cute thing yeah it's fun nice 00:42:35.619 --> 00:42:39.360 well yeah I mean you kind of told us you guys 00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.079 told us some of your Halloween stories but ultimately 00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:45.630 yeah this was just a fun fun kind of episode 00:42:45.630 --> 00:42:48.989 to bring to the table and hopefully you guys 00:42:48.989 --> 00:42:52.489 all have fun with your families this week for 00:42:52.489 --> 00:42:55.710 halloween and um make some good memories some 00:42:55.710 --> 00:42:58.550 good core memories yeah yeah yeah you want to 00:42:58.550 --> 00:43:02.590 jump into our wins i would love to um okay so 00:43:02.590 --> 00:43:05.210 i talked about my mom moment went to staff retreat 00:43:05.210 --> 00:43:09.730 and so my win uh so it was a two -night retreat 00:43:09.730 --> 00:43:14.380 the second night I slept seven hours straight. 00:43:14.699 --> 00:43:17.360 And that was like. When was the last time that 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:19.179 happened? I think it was last staff retreat. 00:43:19.460 --> 00:43:21.019 Oh, okay. That makes sense. Like a year ago. 00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:25.360 Yeah. And so I just, I think I went to bed at 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:28.860 like 1130 and I woke up at 630, just like so 00:43:28.860 --> 00:43:31.699 wide awake. Yeah. And I just was like, oh my 00:43:31.699 --> 00:43:35.650 gosh, I just. Wow. I felt so glorious. And you 00:43:35.650 --> 00:43:37.329 didn't have like a panic moment in the middle 00:43:37.329 --> 00:43:41.969 of the night of like. No. I just was out. That's 00:43:41.969 --> 00:43:45.030 so nice. Oh, was it in the mountains? Yeah. Sleeps 00:43:45.030 --> 00:43:46.630 so much better in the mountains. And the air 00:43:46.630 --> 00:43:50.710 was like cold and crisp. Perfect. What's funny 00:43:50.710 --> 00:43:53.309 though is so Michael and I were not able to share 00:43:53.309 --> 00:43:56.329 a room at staff retreat. So they like split guys 00:43:56.329 --> 00:43:59.500 and girls. And it's funny because I remember 00:43:59.500 --> 00:44:01.840 waking up at 630 and I like checked my phone 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.079 because I went to bed before Michael went to 00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:06.920 bed. And he had texted me at 430 in the morning 00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:11.099 saying that he was going to bed and that he would 00:44:11.099 --> 00:44:13.500 not be coming to breakfast. Like, why did you 00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:16.119 do this? Yeah. And so he then went home from 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:19.519 the retreat like exhausted. And you're like, 00:44:19.619 --> 00:44:23.360 I am very well rested. I feel so good. I was 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.639 like, I just got a full night's sleep. and yeah 00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:30.219 and he it's so funny because we like left that 00:44:30.219 --> 00:44:32.519 next morning so we had to be out of our rooms 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:36.920 by like 9 15 and he said that he woke up to housekeeping 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:41.019 cleaning around him in his room which is also 00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:43.300 just like a weird decision on housekeeping yeah 00:44:43.300 --> 00:44:45.280 he said they'd already cleaned the bathroom at 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:47.699 that point and that they were like it was like 00:44:47.699 --> 00:44:51.170 a bunk room for his his room And that they were 00:44:51.170 --> 00:44:52.929 already like stripping the sheets on the other 00:44:52.929 --> 00:44:56.130 bunks. And he was just like asleep at his bunk. 00:44:56.929 --> 00:45:00.349 I'm like, that is so awkward. That's super awkward. 00:45:00.449 --> 00:45:02.690 I would be so embarrassed. I'd be mortified if 00:45:02.690 --> 00:45:04.369 I woke up and housekeeping was cleaning around. 00:45:04.449 --> 00:45:06.889 Yeah. Oh, my gosh. But then he's like, yeah, 00:45:06.949 --> 00:45:08.590 then I just got up really quick and like threw 00:45:08.590 --> 00:45:10.630 everything in my bag and just got out of there. 00:45:11.130 --> 00:45:13.369 Makes sense. I mean, that's kind of all you can 00:45:13.369 --> 00:45:15.550 do at that point. Or help clean. I don't know. 00:45:15.610 --> 00:45:17.269 I know. Like, hey, do you want me to strip the 00:45:17.269 --> 00:45:20.269 sheets on my bed? that was in three seconds ago 00:45:20.269 --> 00:45:24.710 yeah yeah but uh yeah loved a good full night's 00:45:24.710 --> 00:45:28.809 sleep that sounds glorious yeah okay mine is 00:45:28.809 --> 00:45:32.449 also sleep related we are weaning off nursing 00:45:32.449 --> 00:45:36.710 to sleep okay um it like tough kind of came out 00:45:36.710 --> 00:45:39.650 of like necessity where anytime i'd put zeta 00:45:39.650 --> 00:45:42.050 down for a nap it would like she would nurse 00:45:42.050 --> 00:45:45.730 forever just to go to sleep and of course it's 00:45:45.730 --> 00:45:48.480 like you know how it is she's not actually nursing 00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:50.599 the whole time no she's just latched on for like 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:52.179 an hour and anytime you move she's like wait 00:45:52.179 --> 00:45:55.559 wait wait yeah a little bit and so it got to 00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:58.480 the point of course with i'm working but also 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:02.500 i can't leave lloyd alone for that long you know 00:46:02.500 --> 00:46:04.860 for an hour at a time yeah so it just got to 00:46:04.860 --> 00:46:06.019 the point where i was like this isn't realistic 00:46:06.019 --> 00:46:08.400 anymore like and that's how it was with lloyd 00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:10.059 too i was like i nursed him to the sleep until 00:46:10.059 --> 00:46:11.420 there came a point where it's just like this 00:46:11.420 --> 00:46:14.139 isn't working anymore so now i still nurse her 00:46:14.139 --> 00:46:17.619 before like naps and bedtime but It's like I 00:46:17.619 --> 00:46:19.360 nurse her until I can tell she's like actually 00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.039 done eating. Yeah. And then I set her down. And 00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.239 for the most part, it's been working. That's 00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:27.280 good. I mean, it definitely, there was like a 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.760 rough week. But most days I'm able to just like 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:33.340 set her down. And, you know, sometimes she's 00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:36.679 already like drowsy and mostly asleep. But we've 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:38.659 had a few times when she's like wide awake and 00:46:38.659 --> 00:46:42.480 gets herself to sleep. That is just downright 00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:46.650 impressive. It's so nice to just not. be like 00:46:46.650 --> 00:46:50.909 tied to that yeah yeah that's awesome that's 00:46:50.909 --> 00:46:54.130 good i'm gonna have to take any advice because 00:46:54.130 --> 00:46:57.409 yeah last night last night since we'd gotten 00:46:57.409 --> 00:47:00.590 home from the retreat yesterday i was nursing 00:47:00.590 --> 00:47:03.170 cruised to sleep and he was like for sure done 00:47:03.170 --> 00:47:05.829 and so then i just like kind of like unlatched 00:47:05.829 --> 00:47:07.909 him but then all of a sudden his mouth is just 00:47:07.909 --> 00:47:11.409 like searching and he's like give me more yep 00:47:11.409 --> 00:47:14.750 that's how zayna is yeah and then i'm like fine 00:47:15.210 --> 00:47:17.809 usually if i can get her like up quick enough 00:47:17.809 --> 00:47:21.150 on my shoulder then she's fine it's almost like 00:47:21.150 --> 00:47:24.190 just being in that position and close enough 00:47:24.190 --> 00:47:26.889 that she's like it's like it's right here obviously 00:47:26.889 --> 00:47:30.320 yeah Let us know any more Halloween stories you 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:33.139 guys have. It's fun. If you liked the themed 00:47:33.139 --> 00:47:36.019 episode, let us know. If you hated it, also let 00:47:36.019 --> 00:47:38.159 us know. Yeah, that's fine. We're not offended. 00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:40.719 Yeah, we're just trying different things. See 00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:44.179 what it's like. Yep. Well, that's enough oversharing 00:47:44.179 --> 00:47:46.820 for today. If you enjoyed hanging out with us, 00:47:46.860 --> 00:47:48.940 hit subscribe so you don't miss the next round 00:47:48.940 --> 00:47:51.619 of chaos. And if you're listening while hiding 00:47:51.619 --> 00:47:53.500 in the bathroom from your kids, no judgment. 00:47:53.539 --> 00:47:56.130 We see you. Thanks for joining us on No Manual 00:47:56.130 --> 00:48:00.130 Momcast, where motherhood is messy. At least 00:48:00.130 --> 00:48:01.309 we can laugh about it together.