Holidays with Littles & Looking Back...

[SPEAKER_01]: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Home Maker Sheek podcast. [SPEAKER_01]: We're recording this on Friday, Angela and I are both kind of screaming to the finish line of this week. [SPEAKER_01]: So what we're doing, it feels like it. [SPEAKER_03]: It feels more like, I'm in the dust, like, it's some sort of gladiatorial scene.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm all dirty and grimy on the ground. [SPEAKER_03]: Trying to reach the mark. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_03]: I've got dirt buggers and gross. [SPEAKER_03]: A bad manicure? [SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm just scribing like what I look at, like if in this Roman movie of me, the homemaker, making it to Friday.

[SPEAKER_01]: this is the podcast where we're rescuing the art of home making from the daily grind Angela. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, I'm gonna let you be cool. [SPEAKER_01]: I've got lipstick on. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm here. [SPEAKER_01]: I've got lipstick on. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'm. [SPEAKER_01]: We're excited to just hang out with you for the next hour.

[SPEAKER_01]: I Angela reminded me that I told you last week that we would talk about kids at the holidays. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, wait, wait, wait to commit us, Jay. [SPEAKER_01]: But also, we've just been really enjoying hanging out this season. [SPEAKER_01]: Really just just hanging out.

[SPEAKER_03]: It feels like, I don't know, four years ago, I'll make her shake. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm really, really, I know I say it every episode this season. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm really enjoying it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going back to old school, every thing, I wrote about this on my stack on Friday, which is going out today, but listening to this on Monday, and I sat down the other day, I made myself a cup of tea.

[SPEAKER_01]: I pulled out my Tasha tutors garden book, Tasha tutors gardens, and I sat down with it. [SPEAKER_01]: And I swear to you, I made it one in half pages in. [SPEAKER_01]: Before I got up, got paper, redesigned one of my gardens, bought some fox glove seeds and poppy seeds, which I've been hoating off.

[SPEAKER_01]: I knew I needed to sew them in the garden before the snow came. [SPEAKER_01]: Before I had just a running list of all these tasks that I wanted to do outside. [SPEAKER_01]: feeling. [SPEAKER_01]: I remember years ago, you got into a rut with your garden, and then you realize that you'd cut yourself off, not intentionally, but cut yourself off from the things that used to motivate you to go and garden.

[SPEAKER_03]: Remember this? [SPEAKER_03]: No, I remember saying recently that for some reason I cut myself off from it during the season Like we're all okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I watched gardeners world like during the winter. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yeah, I can't And then I watch it in the spring because we're pacing we're pacing you know right as far as his climate and mine It's just usually works out a little bit at the beginning [SPEAKER_03]: or just, you know, just after, um, and then I don't.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, then I stop, and it's when I stop, then that gardening has naturally gotten hard. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: I know exactly where I was gone, baby. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and that's really when I need the drug. [SPEAKER_03]: Like that's when I need my manteed, and my tasha, and my books, and my scribblings, and notations, and, right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: So, why did we do that? [SPEAKER_01]: When we need it is when we walk away, and when it's February, and we can't do jack. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: We get ourselves all amped up. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: All dressed up. [SPEAKER_03]: All the fans open with shopping carts full.

[SPEAKER_01]: Plants don't ever be able to afford. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: I got this. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I'll plant a tunnel of flowering pair this spring. [SPEAKER_01]: What? [SPEAKER_01]: Girl, you can't even weed your tomato bed. [SPEAKER_01]: What are you talking about? [SPEAKER_01]: what are you talking about um but my point is my point in that story was you know I've been really trying to think back go back to homemaker shake five years ago go back to Angela five years ago Angela ten years ago Angela 15 years ago I knew Angela 15 years ago and she was like this incredible inspiration for me I would go to her blog [SPEAKER_01]: I would check out what she was doing, how she was decorating for Christmas.

[SPEAKER_01]: There were sources of inspiration that were like an infusion. [SPEAKER_01]: It was like being plugged into an outlet. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you remember those? [SPEAKER_01]: I love it. [SPEAKER_01]: When you say those things, I love you so much. [SPEAKER_03]: You're so good. [SPEAKER_03]: I like who do I like?

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I like me now, but there are chapters where I was just grossiously creative. [SPEAKER_01]: And when your kids were little, I mean, we'll tie in the kids here. [SPEAKER_01]: When the kids were little. [SPEAKER_01]: you did a post at halfway farm and it was just of these little white velvet stockings that you had and you used gold puffy paint to write their names on them and you stepped them full of greens, at least for the photograph.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I know Angela, I know some of this, it's not saying it's staged, I'm saying she makes a photograph. [SPEAKER_01]: just like that's how she made it into magazine. [SPEAKER_01]: She wouldn't make a room. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they knew in all of the magazines, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: But um, and you're incredible at staging those things to give the presence of something. [SPEAKER_01]: But I remember your kids were little then, you'd sewed them dresses, you'd made them their stockings, you'd worked really hard to kind of create your own family. [SPEAKER_03]: dynamic in your own family nostalgia or yeah brand atmosphere something like all those words kind of may launch together I still use those stockings I love those stockings and they're so sentimental because growing up at the farm my grandparents farm there were stockings with glitter done with Elmer's Glue and Glitter yeah with the family names on them and so I just thought [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm doing this for my kids and I did the five and then I got pregnant with junior and I was like, I get really weirded out about stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Everything's got a match. [SPEAKER_03]: I have a belly cast for all my kids except junior because he was early. [SPEAKER_03]: And I always wanted to like take them and get them all like spruce stop and because, you know, I got all my newty ladies behind me. [SPEAKER_03]: Blaster tape, you do that with when you're pregnant, but I wanted them to look like sculptural And I'm so pissed that he was born early I don't have one for him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it makes me so mad But they're so beautiful big boobs in the big belly. [SPEAKER_03]: I love them But the stockings I thought well, what am I gonna do now? [SPEAKER_03]: I'm having this little surprise peanut here and so [SPEAKER_03]: I did. [SPEAKER_03]: I found the fabric and knocked one together and you can see the little loop at the top.

[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't quite match, but I do have six stockings and they get hung up every year. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't stuff them with real greens anymore because I curse at myself when I have to take the real greens out and put in the stocking treats because they're all crispy and gross, but there are 15-year-old pine needles down in the bottom of them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, bottom of those stockings, but it looks so good when they're full of greenery. [SPEAKER_01]: I love that his little hook doesn't match because that actually is part of the story that tells that part of the story. [SPEAKER_01]: That's part of the story. [SPEAKER_01]: We had this surprise baby.

[SPEAKER_01]: We weren't thinking we were going to need another stocking and now we need another stocking which, actually, I love that. [SPEAKER_00]: And hmm. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Those are really, those are sweet things. [SPEAKER_01]: And I sometimes when I need the good juju, I'll go back.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll just browse your little. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I think this maybe isn't true for everybody, but I find when I was a young mother, they were particularly influential years. [SPEAKER_01]: Those first, let's say even five, seven years of [SPEAKER_01]: marriage, motherhood, or having a space your own, stepping out of your teenage years, stepping into this next phase of life, wherever that falls.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're just incredibly influential years where you're trying to take in, well, what, how do we do this? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: What does Thanksgiving look like for our family? [SPEAKER_01]: What does Christmas look like for our family? [SPEAKER_01]: What are our traditions? [SPEAKER_01]: What?

[SPEAKER_01]: Who are we? [SPEAKER_01]: Who am I as a homeowner? [SPEAKER_01]: And once that's established, it's really nice. [SPEAKER_01]: I actually was just telling Angela right before we push record that I'm really not in the sequiring phase. [SPEAKER_01]: I have a lot of wonderful things that I've collected over the years.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not saying no to stuff because I like, I like a special like phasing out crust really overly crusty things things that are for, you know, run out a little bit and replacing them with with nicer versions. [SPEAKER_01]: I love that. [SPEAKER_01]: But it's not the same stage that you're not in that like accruing.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're not making cast of your belly anymore. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: It's different. [SPEAKER_01]: It's just different. [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes I want to remember what that was like. [SPEAKER_01]: So like reading Tasha to the resgardons, it takes me back to when I was starting this cottage garden and being like, what am I doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: What do I want it to look like? [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know, thinking back to like what those pieces were for home making, what those pieces were for the holidays. [SPEAKER_03]: I do think it's good to go back because you do grow so much over a period of time. [SPEAKER_03]: You do change and there's very good things in that.

[SPEAKER_03]: You also lose things. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, because you're human, you're forgetful. [SPEAKER_03]: You lose your way. [SPEAKER_03]: And so I think it is really good to go back to a lot of different things. [SPEAKER_03]: Whether it's for me, like, I'll go back to certain basions. [SPEAKER_03]: I'll go back.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's really, really important for me to, um, um, this, whatever, maintain my way and keep my closet clean. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, because I want to wear the clothing in my closet, you know, a lot of my clothes are really old. [SPEAKER_03]: I've had them for a long time. [SPEAKER_03]: I want to wear them.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love them. [SPEAKER_03]: It's good for me to stay in that space. [SPEAKER_03]: Because I kind of, if I don't, you know, if I lose, if I gain 10 pounds over the holidays or whatever, or I let my closet go to pot for six weeks or whatever, I lose a bit of myself. [SPEAKER_03]: I lose something that's [SPEAKER_03]: So, that's just a small picture, but I think even with gardening or whatever you're into it is good to go back because your life is busy and it gets full and you forget yourself.

[SPEAKER_03]: So when you go back you get to go, oh yeah, I take a lot. [SPEAKER_03]: The way Tasha planned to put that one little corner and I remember, now I wanted to do that. [SPEAKER_03]: I went my own way, you know, like it's good to remember. [SPEAKER_01]: It is good to remember. [SPEAKER_01]: It's really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: After the the summer in the garden, which just it took a lot for us the summer to just keep all the business wheels moving. [SPEAKER_01]: It looks romantic on the outside. [SPEAKER_01]: That's great. [SPEAKER_01]: We did our job. [SPEAKER_01]: But [SPEAKER_01]: Behind the scenes, you know, there's payroll and taxes and emails and all kinds of deadlines and all kinds of things, you know, and it took a lot out of us this summer a lot and I, it's not that I fell out of love with my gardens, I just forgot that I loved them, I forgot what they did to me, what spending time in them did to me, because gardening here in August, it's brutal, it's not.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember our thing, it's hot, it's hot and you've lost, you've just lost, you've lost against the harvest, the weeds, the heat, it's very difficult. [SPEAKER_01]: That being said, it's good to remember that you love those things. [SPEAKER_01]: And the way that I remember that I love those things is by caring for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's easy to, for example, it's easy to resent your laundry [SPEAKER_01]: If you go resentable, when it's resentable, it's going to help you go. [SPEAKER_03]: You have to maintain it. [SPEAKER_03]: Like the closet, like my butt, you know, like... You know, you do it. [SPEAKER_03]: You have to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have to do it. [SPEAKER_01]: You're mine and I love you. [SPEAKER_03]: Get into light. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: That is home making. [SPEAKER_03]: Right, it's maintain, like, not the directory of maintaining, but like the why, why? [SPEAKER_03]: Because you love this space or you're trying to create a space you love or yeah, that's a big time.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll tell you what, it's hard, here's one of the hardest pieces, whether it's the holidays, whether it's your garden, whether it's your home, whether it's your bank account, whether it's your closet. [SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to get perspective when you're up to your eyeballs. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw this picture of my own kitchen.

[SPEAKER_01]: The other day on the internet. [SPEAKER_01]: And my first thought was not, oh, that's my kitchen. [SPEAKER_01]: My first thought was, oh, that's a cute kitchen. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not in your boat as a picture. [SPEAKER_03]: That one picture that's on Pinterest that was just pinned like a bajillion times and one winter I was, I need some inspiration for my garden and I go on and I'm like, ah, that is so beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you about it your beds were lined with river rock and you had planted this apple tree for Aiden and you had bet the branches over the pathway and I remember studying that garden because that's the picture Okay, it was the first time that I was introduced to [SPEAKER_01]: that sort of style of gardening, that much of a European kind of style of gardening, I guess.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: And so I remember studying that picture for for a long time and thinking, wow, if I could ever get a garden to look like that, wouldn't that just be something? [SPEAKER_01]: I have a lot of gardens that look like that. [SPEAKER_01]: But now my expectation of myself is higher, because [SPEAKER_01]: Now what?

[SPEAKER_01]: Now what? [SPEAKER_01]: Now what? [SPEAKER_01]: And you can only raise the bar so high because you are just human and at some point it really ceases to be pleasurable. [SPEAKER_01]: When you're just lashing yourself, yeah, as opposed to enjoying spending time enjoying some of the things that you've built.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm definitely at that phase. [SPEAKER_03]: Like it is time for enjoyment. [SPEAKER_03]: Dang it. [SPEAKER_03]: wrap it up, or as I want to enjoy it, girl. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: That's, um, if y'all have been the same to the podcast for a while, you know, I'm not, I'm actually not the biggest holiday person, but you know what?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm feeling it this year. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think part of it is just have, I've genuinely have been trying to devote myself to, you know, [SPEAKER_01]: to sing the blessings that are right here. [SPEAKER_01]: So not about scrapping forward to the next thing. [SPEAKER_01]: So thank you by the way for all your suggestions on the faux Christmas tree.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to do. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I got one. [SPEAKER_01]: It's in the box, but I'm actually going to put it up this week because we won't decorate it with all of our Christmas ornaments, but I want to have it up or hosting Thanksgiving. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think having a nice beautiful lit tree in the living room is a very festive, wonderful way to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And anyway, it's just it's. [SPEAKER_01]: it's a good it's a good season. [SPEAKER_01]: It almost takes just as much effort to like stop clawing forward as it did to claw forward in the first place. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it makes total sense. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like wait where is she going with this?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it does. [SPEAKER_03]: That makes a lot of sense. [SPEAKER_03]: But it may be for certain personalities. [SPEAKER_01]: Certain personalities, it reminds me of that, that scripture that talks about like, who is the pot to say that the pot or why have you made me this way? [SPEAKER_01]: But that's what I feel like.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, why does this have to be my first challenge? [SPEAKER_03]: Where is that? [SPEAKER_03]: It's like, it's Joe Biao. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's take a second to say thank you to the sponsors of Home Maker Sheek podcast. [SPEAKER_01]: We're doing a lot of cleaning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Remember the name I flubbed up big time last week and it's the celly fish because she says I'm cracking up I do have a difficult handle. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a cellist. [SPEAKER_01]: celly is a plural of cello. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's supposed to sound like jellyfish. [SPEAKER_01]: celly fish.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cute. [SPEAKER_03]: Which I I'd never got that. [SPEAKER_03]: I, I just, I'm terrible at that. [SPEAKER_03]: I had an Instagram sale last night live and I'm trying to let call out people. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm always so grateful when they show up and I'm looking. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, yeah, hi Sue, like, I tried to pick out some recognizable word in the handle because I [SPEAKER_03]: my brain will not cooperate.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so embarrassing. [SPEAKER_01]: I worked as a florist for 10 years. [SPEAKER_01]: You know this. [SPEAKER_01]: And I got this. [SPEAKER_01]: So we used to, I used to calligraphy people's names on their cards, etc. [SPEAKER_01]: And I got one one time and it said, it was to Bob. [SPEAKER_01]: And I just said to the person ordering the flowers, I said, you know, it's so nice for just a normal name to come across our desk because we get the most [SPEAKER_01]: It's B-O-B-B, and I just was like, no way.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if she was doing it to spite me, but I swear, I was like, honestly, B-O-B-B. [SPEAKER_01]: What, or- [SPEAKER_01]: What are we going to be? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not at all. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Ellie says, Ellie Brooks, as someone with an 18 month and three-year-old, I so appreciate hearing that it's not just me whose house is in a constant state of derailment.

[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how much I strive. [SPEAKER_01]: Ellie, I love this. [SPEAKER_01]: I wish I could just snuggle and smell your little babies, but also it's going to get so much worse. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, tell them about the pictures I sent you the other day. [SPEAKER_01]: I, Ellie, I want you to go search the Ellie, I think it was like the Ellie at home stead mess and I posted this blog post back in the day when I had maybe one or two kids and I was like, oh, come messy.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are, but I love them so much. [SPEAKER_01]: And Georgia had just like pulled this box of toys down and strewn them all over the floor and I thought, okay, well that's a mess. [SPEAKER_01]: Angela sent me a series of maybe six or seven photographs the other day of her home after homes after homeschooling her kids and I mean it looked it looked like a school bomb.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it looked like. [SPEAKER_01]: It's coats, pencils, jackets, glasses, books, games, books, games, [SPEAKER_03]: And that is with me picking up all day and telling people to do likewise. [SPEAKER_01]: I threatened, I said if anything's left in this, I had to just mop it. [SPEAKER_01]: It was disgusting and I said I have to be able to vacuum the rear and mop this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anything that's left in this room, I am throwing away. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I do that. [SPEAKER_01]: I put it all at the front and yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Ellie, you're in good company. [SPEAKER_01]: Please just squish your sweet little babies for me. [SPEAKER_01]: I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do. [SPEAKER_01]: I do. [SPEAKER_01]: I know people who have babies hate when people who don't have their babies anymore say this, but I genuinely do wish I could just go back. [SPEAKER_01]: and I could just hear their sweet little voices and sniff their sweet little heads and give them little baths.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna need to stop, Shay. [SPEAKER_03]: It's, you can't do this. [SPEAKER_03]: What? [SPEAKER_03]: But I'm just gonna start crying and ruin, I can't do it, okay? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I truly at last night she wanted to pretend like she was my maid. [SPEAKER_01]: So she washed my face for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, she put on my face ladies made. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my ladies made she turned down my bed for me She put some oils on my feet and brought me some tea. [SPEAKER_01]: It was quite sweet And then I said honey why don't you go get ready for bed and she's like no I just thought you need to brush your teeth.

[SPEAKER_01]: You need to shower [SPEAKER_01]: you need to change out of your clothes and she's like, I'll do that later. [SPEAKER_01]: And I had this memory of her being a little baby and just I bathed my kids every night. [SPEAKER_01]: I loved bathing them. [SPEAKER_01]: I loved like putting the day right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would just throw them all in the bath and just bubbles everywhere and I'd take them out and like, it might be like, [SPEAKER_01]: wrap them up in towels and powder their little bombs. [SPEAKER_01]: I just loved it. [SPEAKER_01]: I was like doing dishes at the end of the night. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at this beautiful little thing and it smells good and it's so sweet.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna nurse it to sleep and it was just... [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, love our babies. [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of babies in the holidays too, do you remember when your kids Christmas gifts used to cost like 7.99? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, from like the toy aisle and Aldi, you could buy four things five in below.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I remember. [SPEAKER_03]: I have the most adorable. [SPEAKER_03]: They have all submitted their Christmas lists so far. [SPEAKER_03]: And juniors is by far the cutest day. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know where it is. [SPEAKER_03]: I should read it on air. [SPEAKER_03]: It's so cute.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have one here for Owens. [SPEAKER_01]: Owens turns 13 this next week. [SPEAKER_01]: Bless em. [SPEAKER_01]: I need to turn 13 on Wednesday. [SPEAKER_01]: And I love. [SPEAKER_01]: My little homeschool children. [SPEAKER_01]: I love them. [SPEAKER_01]: Owens birthday list. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm reading it right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: A real sword, a Viking horn, a watch, like a Ram horn. [SPEAKER_01]: Got like Boramir. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, like a watch, a jacket with lots of pockets to store rocks in and anything to do with dragons. [SPEAKER_03]: God bless the best and the best I love it is I can't remember what it is it was just like [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's a real. [SPEAKER_03]: He's really coming to terms with Amelie not being here next year. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I hate this. [SPEAKER_03]: It's awful. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to kiss Amelie cry. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do everyone for the next year to four years to 10 years cry. [SPEAKER_03]: He's like wait.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to be 13 or 14. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to be 14 when she comes back and she's like in the corner crying because she's like he doesn't realize I'm [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's awful. [SPEAKER_03]: It's freaking awful. [SPEAKER_03]: So he made something was about amelias. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she's list.

[SPEAKER_03]: The another one was like that baby sister would be nice to me or something like that. [SPEAKER_03]: That's what he calls Juliet and then he they have this turtle that I got them last year two years ago whatever and he said number four is like a wife for James. [SPEAKER_02]: It's so cute.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was just shuffling through my favorite word. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it's on the other side of the room. [SPEAKER_03]: It is the most adorable thing. [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, then the girls are like, Victoria's secret pajamas. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, this new whatever water bottle.

[SPEAKER_03]: Please hug this, hug that. [SPEAKER_03]: Final, like, I'm not. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm teasing them, but you know, it's not cheap. [SPEAKER_03]: It's not cheap, and it's not cute. [SPEAKER_01]: anymore. [SPEAKER_01]: It is a cute. [SPEAKER_03]: There's no like which Thomas trainer are you missing this year?

[SPEAKER_03]: How shall we add to your wooden train collection? [SPEAKER_03]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: And it just slips through your fingers. [SPEAKER_01]: It just slips through your fingers and then they get big and weird and [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Aloo. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Aloo. [SPEAKER_01]: I says. [SPEAKER_01]: Aloo. [SPEAKER_01]: I say smile. [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: But this one's funny. [SPEAKER_01]: Love this show. [SPEAKER_01]: I've been listening to you guys since I was praying for a husband and now baby number two is on the way for our little family.

[SPEAKER_01]: That makes. [SPEAKER_01]: That's so wonderful. [SPEAKER_01]: She says thanks for your encouragement and mentorship from afar Also, I kept thinking this episode title was food and panties. [SPEAKER_03]: It was food and pantries Again, just say in what you want to see your brains just like I got this food and panties [SPEAKER_03]: Because we would do a show called, we would do a show called, but how many times have we talked about just buying yourself new underwear?

[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, like mine is a fever pitch. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's just like the inside flap. [SPEAKER_03]: It's inside flap. [SPEAKER_03]: It's just flapping. [SPEAKER_00]: I was a spider on that. [SPEAKER_03]: I you are a grown ass woman get you some new panties just in the Costco Isle man whatever you got to do Why that's so hard.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my goodness. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I like a big pair of underwear [SPEAKER_03]: Not a grainy penis, but every house would love to hear. [SPEAKER_03]: No, they're cute. [SPEAKER_03]: I like a good one. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, they're cute. [SPEAKER_03]: They're like, they're just think like Marilyn Monroe, like that shape, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: They're like, I don't like, can be like, it's a kind of stay in place and that's already a serious issue for me. [SPEAKER_03]: But I have these really pretty ones that have like a lace panel like around the side, okay? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, they're splitting, so then the side opens up like this, and then like my hip fat goes like, sticks out the side, and I don't realize it's time walking around during the day, like, what is that feeling?

[SPEAKER_03]: What? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and then you just have to remember when you get dressed, that take when you get into your pajamas, that might like throw them away. [SPEAKER_03]: Don't put them back in circulation. [SPEAKER_01]: Throw them away. [SPEAKER_01]: But it is like it's getting harder to keep things just smooth.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's two. [SPEAKER_01]: There are just more lumpies and things. [SPEAKER_01]: I was wearing a sports brother other day. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_03]: Now. [SPEAKER_01]: Is that better? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I was saying I was wearing a sports brother other day.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I work out. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what shoulder armpit fat situation happens as you age, but like my word, like what is this that back shoulder blade skin issue, it's a thing, don't shake your head like you don't know what I'm talking about, no, I don't. [SPEAKER_03]: I have other issues.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I don't have to have that one, Shay. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't wear some sports bra when I work out. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm so over that. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm just wearing a t-shirt, man. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's what I told you today. [SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, look, if this is, we're turning one problem into another here.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's just, let's just eliminate the middle man. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: And we'll just wear our little candy while we work out. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like we're holding up a lot of weight. [SPEAKER_01]: So, [SPEAKER_03]: I know not everyone can do that, but like I have enough torture in my life.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't need that. [SPEAKER_03]: I did I just threw them all out because it made me depressed every time I'd get dressed to work out. [SPEAKER_03]: Talking it down and just feels getting it off when you're all sweaty too. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh heck no. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: No I'd rather just wear like a snug tank top. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know something. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: I know not everyone can do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: No that's fair. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I mentioned last week that I, what's this last week already that I made burritos for my kids, but fellow traveler over on subs.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I think you just told me over the phone. [SPEAKER_01]: I, well then why does she say she says, Shay, salsa Verde dumped over a pork roast or chicken and slow cooker and shredded for the tacos. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, super good. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Talking about this. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't remember.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, fellow traveler, maybe you can remind me, but I put four packages of ground beef in my inch to put dumped in a jar of salsa Verde. [SPEAKER_01]: And just called it burrito filling and then I just wrapped it in tortillas and grilled them in a little skillet for lunch and for co-op lunch is the next day and my kids.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was the man. [SPEAKER_01]: It was awesome. [SPEAKER_01]: It's the easiest lunch I've ever made. [SPEAKER_01]: Fantastic. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, last one, okay, be posted this. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, to more talk about littles and just parenting in general, I love Angela's comment that being dogmatic can often backfire.

[SPEAKER_01]: I grew up in that environment in no bueno. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we were trying not to do that. [SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to see the good stuff here. [SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to see the good stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: I think the holidays are kind of an easy time to be able to do that with littles because it is so magical for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: And whatever you're doing in the holidays, you are creating that family atmosphere that we were talking about. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: You're creating it somehow. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, someone said to me once you only get 18, you know, Christmas. [SPEAKER_01]: So is that it?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's really true. [SPEAKER_01]: And it maybe when you have a little one, it sounds like a lot, but then it becomes not a lot, even when your kids are seven, eight, nine. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I shared this a while back, but we were speaking with our business manager and he said, okay, let's just pull back.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's try to get perspective. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what are we looking at in 10 years? [SPEAKER_01]: What are we kind of want to be doing? [SPEAKER_01]: And I just said, well, you know, we'll be homeschooling and we'll be kind of doing our thing. [SPEAKER_01]: And he was just like, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nope. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Not so much. [SPEAKER_01]: No, I know not everybody's kids leave at 18 and it's not like we're going to be booting ours out, but right, but the goal is that they do launch into the world, become independent, beautiful contributing humans. [SPEAKER_01]: And it just like was like a kick in the face like, what do you mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, that's where I met with my holidays. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be just absolutely greedy. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a little waste. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be greedy. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: I got greedy a long time ago.

[SPEAKER_03]: I told my mom, you know, I actually had to tell people. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how serious they took me, but you know when I interned like nine, I thought that at that. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, maybe just nine more. [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody back off. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like, and yeah, I get really got really possessive and now I'm glad I did.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: So, okay, let's think about back to when our kids were really little. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you remember the kinds of things that you did with them at the holidays that felt like you were building that, like you were filling your your cup you remember, um, yeah, I remember, uh, and I still do I think a lot of the things and some.

[SPEAKER_03]: way, if not the same way, you know, I would get a big role of paper, white paper, and we'd make a wrong wrapping paper. [SPEAKER_03]: So today's version of that is like when I get the paper out it's either like under the tablecloth at a meal or I get it out for the dessert hour and the game hour and people can doodle and draw and do all that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I like to have a big roll of wrapping paper white paper. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we just use do wrapping paper. [SPEAKER_03]: I still do paper chains. [SPEAKER_03]: I love paper chains. [SPEAKER_03]: I do too. [SPEAKER_03]: I think [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, when do you put your tree up by the way? [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't. [SPEAKER_03]: So I, uh, we get the tree right after the holiday after Thanksgiving. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: So all the decor will go up before then. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And then the then we put the go. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Tree.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: With that up. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, I love when they were little. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, they get big and [SPEAKER_03]: You know, you want to give it to them like for the holiday, but it's so nice to see them running around in a little jammies clean jammies before the holiday I loved that just I loved picking out new sleepers of course, you know, I was thinking about the flame retardants and all that crap would ruin it for me, but like I just love a brand news set of pajamas for the kids yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love new sleepers. [SPEAKER_03]: I love it when they all had new pajamas. [SPEAKER_03]: I felt like the best mom in the world if everyone wants to like clean new pajamas I don't even think my kids wear pajamas now. [SPEAKER_03]: It's just like sweatpants t-shirt [SPEAKER_03]: I remember like the year A and was like, yeah, I don't need pajamas, mom, I don't wear pajamas, yeah, what, wait, but they're plaid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like, we used to always get our kids' pajamas from Hannah Anderson because they had those their own piece, like tied on the ankles, like they're just, and I would always get the boys matching ones and the girls matching ones, but then, this is what I'm saying, [SPEAKER_01]: And then they didn't, they're my girls didn't want to match, but now my boys do, but then one of them is now the size of a little man.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so he can't, I can't find pajamas that fit both the pre-pubescent boy in the, Pubescent boy. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So sweet. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, isn't it kind of funny? [SPEAKER_01]: These are like the almost like the cliche. [SPEAKER_01]: pieces of things that you're like, oh, this is totally what a mom would want you to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to watch them up at Christmas Carol with popcorn and hot chocolate and everybody's in clean pajamas and I don't care if that's cliche. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I want to do. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: yeah we just less couple weeks we've canceled like a bunch of subscriptions right uh streaming subscriptions but as a family we all looked at each other when like Apple came up on the shopping block because it's like the only way you can watch the Charlie Brown ones [SPEAKER_03]: So as a family, like, in Unison, we're like, apple after the holidays, like, the music is the same every year.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I like add to it. [SPEAKER_03]: Like now, there's LaVe mixed in with Harry and Ella and Charlie Brown. [SPEAKER_03]: Charlie Brown Christmas is the perfect Christmas CD. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm on a V. It is, it's perfection. [SPEAKER_03]: I play it [SPEAKER_01]: That's one of those things that's great with little so because then it becomes the sound track.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it becomes their soundtrust. [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you do when they're little, it becomes the foods you cook at your table, the music, the way you set up your home and decorate your home. [SPEAKER_01]: Your traditions of going to get a tree or setting up a tree or the movie that you watch.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you don't realize you're just doing it for one year and you're just saying, oh, yeah, let's watch that movie. [SPEAKER_01]: But it's so much bigger than that. [SPEAKER_01]: Because what you're actually doing is literally [SPEAKER_01]: You're getting them the things that they will be nostalgic about whether or not they like them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, sweet string popcorn. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_03]: I love that. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: I love stringing popcorn. [SPEAKER_03]: We do the commanders. [SPEAKER_03]: I love that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: It's like the same Christmas cookies.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody gets there too, but frosting. [SPEAKER_03]: It's a mess. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: The same kind of simple [SPEAKER_01]: simple, beautiful things. [SPEAKER_01]: And I guess that should be maybe good news is that it doesn't really have to be, it doesn't have to be new, it doesn't have to be inventive, it doesn't have to be some grand special thing, new thing every year.

[SPEAKER_03]: that is so people talk a lot about the stress of the holidays and the expectations, but that's actually like the big bonus is that old is good. [SPEAKER_03]: Repetition is comfort. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, gosh, how was the last year's birthday? [SPEAKER_03]: Does it need to be bigger better?

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not a bigger, better birthday person anyways. [SPEAKER_03]: But you know, there can be this sense of needing to one up. [SPEAKER_03]: And the holidays, you don't have to do that. [SPEAKER_03]: There's so much comfort in doing it like you did last year. [SPEAKER_03]: And that's a relief.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's actually kind of what your kids want to. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, I want to talk about this. [SPEAKER_00]: Thanksgiving dinner mom. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: But let's thanks. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thanks. [SPEAKER_01]: Tupes and co for also being a sponsor of homemaker sheet podcast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've had Dolores on the podcast before and one of the things that Dolores says that I really, [SPEAKER_01]: And look, we did an entire episode, excuse me, an entire season, called it doesn't just happen. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think the same is good to remind ourselves for the holidays. [SPEAKER_01]: Our kids aren't just going to magically have [SPEAKER_01]: nostalgia for holidays at home.

[SPEAKER_01]: We actually have to work on creating that like you have to submit to the cookie making mess. [SPEAKER_01]: You actually have to put the music on and light the fire and set time aside to watch this movie as a family or or go out and do this particular activity. [SPEAKER_01]: And that might can feel like a lot of work but things take work, good things take work.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, I imagine there's people listening that need to say, maybe less, yes, less, yes, is, less, yes is, honestly, yes is during the holidays. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, because sometimes I have friends or I'm listening to people's schedules. [SPEAKER_03]: And I think called 100 people hate Christmas.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, there's there's a lot to say yes to and there's a lot to, [SPEAKER_03]: that could maybe be said no to. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: I said no to something this year and already, and advanced to no six weeks ahead. [SPEAKER_03]: No. [SPEAKER_03]: And the look on the person's face was like, excuse me?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm busy that day. [SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean? [SPEAKER_01]: Six months away or six weeks away? [SPEAKER_01]: No. [SPEAKER_03]: It was just, it was, you and I said some, I'd never said no to something that most people don't say no to around the holidays [SPEAKER_03]: That was what was right for us, you know?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did the same thing recently. [SPEAKER_01]: Stu's brother lives about three and a half hours away from us, and he wanted us to come up for Christmas. [SPEAKER_01]: And I just said no. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be home on Christmas morning. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be home on Christmas morning.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's important to me and it's one of those things like we work really, really, really, really hard during the everyday and even though it's a lot of work for us, it's also a day of enjoyment and I think we forget about that even Thanksgiving or hosting Thanksgiving this year. [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of forethought that goes into it, but [SPEAKER_01]: That forethought, those things, even buying the grocery is setting them menu, et cetera.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those can be enjoyable things, which I think we forget. [SPEAKER_01]: We think work is bad, work is hard, and only pleasure is pleasure. [SPEAKER_01]: But I think that's maybe not true. [SPEAKER_01]: I think, yeah, there's a lot of tasks that we have that can be pleasurable if we allow them to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, or maybe things to be reframed. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Because you're going to have to go grocery shopping. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to do the dishes, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: And these are activities that are full of effort. [SPEAKER_01]: But, um, [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I really hosted so much when my kids were little.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that was still kind of my mom's territory when we had a bunch of little kids and I'll tell you what, we've had a tradition in our family when we had little kids because my sisters had little, so I had little, there were a lot of babies. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, three Christmases in a row, the stomach fluent through our family.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember one specifically, my mom had put all this work into a beautiful Christmas Eve dinner. [SPEAKER_01]: The kids start dishing up and we just hear this. [SPEAKER_01]: Splat in the kitchen. [SPEAKER_01]: It's happened here. [SPEAKER_01]: It went everywhere. [SPEAKER_01]: Like no one wanted to eat the food because it went everywhere.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then it subsequently went through every child. [SPEAKER_01]: This happened three Christmas in a row. [SPEAKER_03]: And my mom was like, Can we all go or do it in quarantine before we see family? [SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, uh, and we're done and we're done. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which kind of brings up another topic.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we should we can't touch on this today. [SPEAKER_01]: It actually takes a little bit more effort to try to keep your family's health above. [SPEAKER_01]: above the waterline during this time of year. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's, it's awful. [SPEAKER_03]: It is an extra, an extra job.

[SPEAKER_03]: An extra thing on the to-do list. [SPEAKER_03]: It's, you know, every day I'm like, did everyone take the right amounty today? [SPEAKER_03]: Did everyone take their right amounty today? [SPEAKER_03]: Did everyone take their right amounty today? [SPEAKER_03]: Like, four drops under the tongue, 5,000 whatever their calls every day.

[SPEAKER_03]: Minimum. [SPEAKER_03]: You know? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and like I said, can we all just quarantine? [SPEAKER_03]: Can we just calm down before we're going to see family? [SPEAKER_03]: So we don't have to give the gift that keeps on giving. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, please. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my word.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's actually, I mean, honestly, I feel like you could do an entire episode just on kids being sick on holidays because it's inevitable. [SPEAKER_01]: So I would say if you're going into the holidays with little have a plan B. [SPEAKER_01]: Kids have snobby noses, you can't go to moms.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's Plan B? [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe have a chicken in the freezer. [SPEAKER_01]: You can like roast while you make some chicken soup and sit on the couch and watch them up at Christmas carolers. [SPEAKER_01]: Have a plan B. [SPEAKER_01]: All of us need a plan B because, wow, it really does happen.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't complain for just one second. [SPEAKER_01]: Sure. [SPEAKER_01]: I cannot stand the amount of sugar that comes out of the holidays. [SPEAKER_01]: It makes me angry. [SPEAKER_01]: Why is this the only way that we feel like we can relate to children? [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: Candy sugar or like homemade dessert? [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's candy. [SPEAKER_03]: I know they're all, I know they're all the same. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, people don't typically make things by from scratch anymore. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, honestly, shit, I like not to dog people, but like I went to a church potlock recently.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm looking at the table thinking, I guess we just don't anymore do we? [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm not, I don't say that to be judgey, like I don't know what somebody's weak was like no matter how judgey that sounds. [SPEAKER_03]: I meant it more as like an observation, like while we really just don't do this anymore.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what it's like to need to buy something pre-made, but when the homemade is the exception, I don't know, and the rewarding kids with candy and [SPEAKER_03]: at every move handing them something with blue-like or red and green colorant at this time of year really really upsets me a lot because it's not a big amount.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not even enriched flower and white sugar which even that like okay I'm tying to myself a little bit but that's okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what it is. [SPEAKER_03]: That's not what I'm talking about. [SPEAKER_01]: I finally bought a bag of suckers that are still very much a treat, but they're not like complete garbage from my health food store.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I told my children, if somebody gets you candy, you bring it to me and I will give you one of these instead. [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to meet each other halfway. [SPEAKER_01]: I will let you have a sweet treat which I'm not inclined to do because [SPEAKER_01]: you just did because a thing okay fine you that doesn't deserve candy you memorized John three six yeah exactly you're just a bag of martians I don't want you to have a treat for that you do want to have a treat for that so we're each gonna meet each other halfway and you're gonna eat one of these candies instead and I will let you have one but from now on we're done here because it's not the same it's not the same candy that you and I had when we

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not, it's not just sugar, cocoa butter, milk, right? [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like that anymore. [SPEAKER_01]: I just tell my kids and they just have to make some up with your stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: It is, um, that's a different topic. [SPEAKER_01]: But okay, Friday night. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, time to go make supper.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, what is first supper? [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know yet. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's Friday night. [SPEAKER_03]: It's usually outdoor like we make pizza oven. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it says, but look, that sounds all really wonderful. [SPEAKER_03]: And thus you don't start your go. [SPEAKER_03]: No, it's just, it's, that's me.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so messy. [SPEAKER_03]: And it's a lot to roll out seven crusts. [SPEAKER_03]: And then I, you know, I'm in the oven. [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm like, okay, you're just down, bring a plate out next. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then it clean up and they insist on sprinkling the flower on the butcher block.

[SPEAKER_03]: keep it on the marble. [SPEAKER_03]: Keep it on the marble. [SPEAKER_01]: Polydays with little rants and raves. [SPEAKER_03]: Stand the flower in the cracks of my butcher block. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it just makes me crazy. [SPEAKER_03]: Why, Mom, I'm like, do you clean it? [SPEAKER_03]: Or you like, just put the knife trying to get it out.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's a very old butcher block. [SPEAKER_03]: Open spaces. [SPEAKER_01]: Follow us for more holiday inspirations and positivity. [SPEAKER_01]: We love our families so much. [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for joining us ladies. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what we're going to talk about next Monday.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to commit myself to anything. [SPEAKER_01]: There. [SPEAKER_01]: There. [SPEAKER_01]: So there. [SPEAKER_01]: What we will hang out with you here next Monday. [SPEAKER_01]: So we will be able to have a wonderful week. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for your comments, your shares, your likes of the podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: They keep [SPEAKER_01]: They keep it going. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Angela's yawning. [SPEAKER_01]: It's time to go. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_01]: Carry on, ladies. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you next week. [SPEAKER_01]: Cheers.

Holidays with Littles & Looking Back... | Season 26

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