What We Wish We Could Do! | Season 27

[SPEAKER_01]: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back once again to Homemaker Sheek podcast. [SPEAKER_01]: I gotta tell you guys, you've been bringing the comments this season. [SPEAKER_01]: Turns out, I don't know how to check the bon app. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you leave us comments on there, I'm sorry, I can't see them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't see them on Spotify. [SPEAKER_01]: You guys know how to make some ladies feel good. [SPEAKER_01]: Sweet sweet messages. [SPEAKER_01]: I did a post about our little podcast on my Instagram this week. [SPEAKER_01]: People's comments were just super kind and we meet here with you each Monday, Angela and I are talking to each other 2,000 miles apart.

[SPEAKER_01]: really we're just looking at each other in a computer screen, which is so lame, but still that podcast that podcast, it finds you guys. [SPEAKER_01]: It finds you out in the world and you're kitchen and you're garden with your family. [SPEAKER_01]: It's really, really special. [SPEAKER_01]: So thank you to everybody who left a sweet comments and sweet reviews this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is the podcast where we are rescuing the art of home making from the daily grind. [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we try to inspire you, sometimes we limit [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we try to inspire ourselves, sometimes we try to inspire ourselves exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: How are you today, my friend?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so happy. [SPEAKER_02]: We record on Fridays. [SPEAKER_02]: Friends, it's Friday and I'm so happy. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just been a monster week and I'm going out with friends this evening. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you're really good, I just am so happy it's Friday. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_02]: Very good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: What about you? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just did a workout, and I'm not recovered. [SPEAKER_01]: I shouldn't have done it so close to recording. [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of put the COVID-19 throw up, don't let's do that. [SPEAKER_02]: That's I actually feel so good right now because that is kind of how my I ruined my morning.

[SPEAKER_02]: I worked out really hard and then I looked at the clock halfway through the weight aspect of my workout and thought, oh snap, I have a French lesson in like 13 minutes and I'm sweating and gross and so I've ran up stairs like just cold stop in the middle of like goblet squats or as we call them on this show.

[SPEAKER_02]: grab a little squat. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [UNKNOWN]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: Goblin. [SPEAKER_02]: So he stopped. [SPEAKER_02]: I ran up. [SPEAKER_02]: I did a lesson. [SPEAKER_02]: It was a doozy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I had a huge bit of homework. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just working through some really tough stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: Then I went down, like hung out with the kids. [SPEAKER_02]: We had a great time this morning. [SPEAKER_02]: The kids' table made breakfast blah blah blah. [SPEAKER_02]: And like an hour and a half later said, I'm going to go finish that.

[SPEAKER_02]: that workout. [SPEAKER_02]: So I went back to it and that just trashed me. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, just trashed me. [SPEAKER_02]: So I, I just now like in the last 45 minutes, I have every covered. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm feeling quite spray. [SPEAKER_01]: It's quite spray. [SPEAKER_01]: It's quite spray.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sometimes they just get you. [SPEAKER_01]: So those are the little Bulgarians. [SPEAKER_01]: It's racked squats, I just, I just show up ladies and little I said, I do not, I just, I do not like Bulgarian splits squats. [SPEAKER_02]: If you want to hear me curse, that's your chance.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just, I just, I doubted out any further. [SPEAKER_02]: I hate that. [SPEAKER_01]: So hard. [SPEAKER_01]: They're so hard. [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, you do get this in door for in rush. [SPEAKER_01]: It does come, especially if I'm listening to good music, which I was really trying to get myself jacked up today, because it's been a doozy of a week here, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, I'm just a little worn out, but I was like, girl, you promised yourself you do this. [SPEAKER_01]: You're got to get in there and you just got to do it. [SPEAKER_02]: do you have workout music specifically? [SPEAKER_01]: I have a workout playlist. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I got a workout playlist and I was I was doing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was doing it but you know it does kind of give you that like flux of energy and some people call that cheating. [SPEAKER_01]: You're dang right it's cheating. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm any any technique that I can use to get myself more revved up to do it. [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what's interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to Stu about this this morning. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like that about arm day or chest. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like fine. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just go work. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a day. [SPEAKER_02]: I dread it. [SPEAKER_01]: I dread. [SPEAKER_01]: I got up this morning.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was my first thought was. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, it's leg day. [SPEAKER_02]: Me too. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: And my French tutor is like, how's your bizarre machine in French? [SPEAKER_02]: And I said bizarre machine like tell that to my legs. [SPEAKER_01]: Yuck. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love that. [SPEAKER_01]: I was I'd record. [SPEAKER_01]: Sheen Bizarre. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just fun. [SPEAKER_01]: We just do it. [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we just do things today. [SPEAKER_01]: I was trying to picture myself as an old woman trying to climb out of her shower and I was like, do it for her get it out of your shower.

[SPEAKER_02]: You do the like the lip you might have to knock the lip. [SPEAKER_02]: So you can just go to your walker right in. [SPEAKER_01]: No, I tell you what last Saturday, maybe if you follow me on Instagram, you saw this, but my sisters and my mom and my aunt and I, we all went to To visit my great aunt in her nursing home.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's 94 or 96. [SPEAKER_01]: She's 96 years old. [SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't grow up with grandmother's. [SPEAKER_01]: So my great aunts were kind of my stand-in grandmother's. [SPEAKER_01]: And they took very, very good care of us. [SPEAKER_01]: But, and so, you know, it's emotional, obviously.

[SPEAKER_01]: We went and we had a little bloody Mary party with her, because that's what she wanted. [SPEAKER_01]: So we come, we come walking into the facility and the lady and the counters, [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, is it somebody's birthday and we're like, no, we're just here to visit and my mom's sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like tray and it there's like the people just bearing this top and it looks like I'm bringing you in a tray of muffins and underneath this bacon and celery and sweet salt. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, tomato juice. [SPEAKER_01]: It was quite quite humorous, but that is adorable. [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, it was [SPEAKER_01]: Lovely and incredibly wonderful, but also when you're around somebody of that age, you know, when I was working out, I was thinking, I hate this and yet at the same time, Lord, thank you that I can still move my body like this, you know, her whole counter is just full of creams to help her aches and pains.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, look, it's coming for us all. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: It was a good reminder. [SPEAKER_01]: Be grateful for the skin that you're in right now. [SPEAKER_01]: Be grateful for this season of life where you can, where you can lift heavy things and participate in this physical way.

[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway. [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: It didn't really work, but I tried to tell myself. [SPEAKER_02]: Not, no, you're making me want, actually I'm going out tonight with a friend, two a place in door county that makes the best buddy Mary's well, and I might have to have one. [SPEAKER_02]: There might have actually didn't, I didn't even have one and forever forever forever, so that sounds nice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, here we are. [SPEAKER_01]: It's Friday. [SPEAKER_01]: It's Friday. [SPEAKER_01]: What else happened this week? [SPEAKER_01]: There was something that happened because I just said it, I just said it in my Italian lesson. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I went to the dentist for the first time in four and a half years.

[SPEAKER_01]: That happened four and a half years and if you're wondering if they shamed me, they did. [SPEAKER_01]: They did. [SPEAKER_01]: I called some make my appointment and the lady starts laughing and I said, what? [SPEAKER_01]: She's like, she's like, she's been four and a half years. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, I tried.

[SPEAKER_01]: I did this is me doing my best. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a little bit more productive, but this is just look to me. [SPEAKER_01]: This is just not the time of year for much. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not inspired to do much. [SPEAKER_01]: I went around my house and I cleaned and I was like, oh, well, I'm going to take some pictures while it's clean.

[SPEAKER_01]: of what the gray sky, you know, it's not like I have giant bouquets of roses on my table. [SPEAKER_01]: Like what are we taking pictures of right the garden? [SPEAKER_01]: Nope. [SPEAKER_01]: Not of that sun rays coming in through the clean windows. [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely not that. [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely not clean windows and definitely no sun.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, new. [SPEAKER_02]: Not here like smoky from the fireplace. [SPEAKER_02]: There's like film on them. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, some of my lungs look like, I don't know, let's just get through February together, shall we? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, do you don't have bangs? [SPEAKER_01]: So you don't have bangs?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have bangs. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: You're still okay about that in some stack last week. [SPEAKER_01]: Just [SPEAKER_02]: You are okay. [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's thank our sponsors and then I'm keen to dive into these comments. [SPEAKER_02]: So I want to thank American Blossom Linnons because I know I've been yapping about this all the time, but they have these new sheets and they're so beautiful to me and I got them they're white with navy blue piping [SPEAKER_02]: Which to me is the epitome of sheik.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Current through rocking and getting lots of compliments. [SPEAKER_01]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_01]: They grow quickly if you get tired of them. [SPEAKER_01]: Go for it, Shay. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, J.Frol's I wish I could. [SPEAKER_01]: But I have signed a contract in blood with my husband that I shant to this anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, look, I grew up with bangs. [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to post a picture of this on myself. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, my mom used to cut our hair. [SPEAKER_01]: And like, the bangs would start start the way back off the chunk. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I was talking about last week. [SPEAKER_01]: Half of your, yeah, basically a mole at this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, this is a family joke. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, it took us like 15 years to actually grow out the bangs, because you'd like have to do like an inch at a time. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what I mean? [SPEAKER_01]: Because it was so much of your hair. [SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: little shady history with with the bangs. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just know. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what? [SPEAKER_01]: You know when bangs look really good in the summer when you're all tan and like sun kissed and sexy and you're hanging by the pool in February. [SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, hey, I ran it out of ideas.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this is all I got. [SPEAKER_02]: they're stringy. [SPEAKER_02]: They need dry shampoo. [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: I just saw a picture of myself the other day tan from last summer. [SPEAKER_02]: Look at her. [SPEAKER_02]: Look at her. [SPEAKER_02]: Go. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at her go.

[SPEAKER_01]: Look at her go. [SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: It'll come again ladies. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's hold the faith. [SPEAKER_01]: Here's one for Kate from Casey and it said the lit we need is the abandoned [SPEAKER_01]: It is for the meanwhile in the sense that I have done so much research into how to get this book made and there is not as of now that I can find a financially feasible option unless people want to pay a hundred dollars a cop.

[SPEAKER_01]: because we wanted to look a certain way, it's a real problem. [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of self-published authors out there, and by the way, like I've already spent months going down the literary agent, what is that called? [SPEAKER_01]: Publish her out. [SPEAKER_01]: That's that's kind of out of the question for this book.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are kind of an island of one hero over at home in Christchek. [SPEAKER_01]: But, um, [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, the self-published market's really interesting. [SPEAKER_01]: I know there's probably some listeners who have self-published book and if you're doing like a little paper novel or something, there's some really, really great options for that for coffee table books.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my word. [SPEAKER_01]: I have a friend on Substack and she literally just had to publish, she self-published her book. [SPEAKER_01]: She wanted [SPEAKER_01]: is $105 a copy. [SPEAKER_01]: It's so frustrating because this is, I love books. [SPEAKER_01]: I can see our book on in my head and it makes me sad.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: I have another book too that I've written like three times and I just cannot find a way that financially makes sense to publish it. [SPEAKER_01]: It's really difficult. [SPEAKER_01]: really, really difficult. [SPEAKER_01]: They only way people can kind of get away with it now with modern publishing is if they sell 3 million copies.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's how they do it. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's tricky. [SPEAKER_01]: If anyone has any suggestions send them to me by all means. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you're up. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, this one I'm sort of geeked about. [SPEAKER_02]: This is from Artemis Snowdrop. [SPEAKER_02]: She left a comment last week and we were I was I was drooling over her name wondering if that's her real name and now I like this name even more [SPEAKER_02]: She says, not my real name, how my first name is Diana.

[SPEAKER_02]: So like, I'm a Greek and Roman mythology geek and this thrills me. [SPEAKER_02]: My first name is Diana and my birth month is in January. [SPEAKER_02]: So I just think that's so cool because Artemis is another name for Diana. [SPEAKER_02]: Your podcast and newsletter have really inspired me to create and beautify every day.

[SPEAKER_02]: I deleted all social media except for Pinterest and Spotify, renaming my accounts and giving my Pinterest boards titles that feel that feed the creative part of me as I am rediscovering as I am rediscovering as a young mom. [SPEAKER_02]: Pardon me. [SPEAKER_02]: Tyum is extremely limited with babies and it somehow helps me feel artistic through the day.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for the inspiration. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's like this. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: That's so great. [SPEAKER_01]: Just kiss your little babies for me. [SPEAKER_01]: OK. [SPEAKER_01]: Please do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Here's another one from Emily and May. [SPEAKER_01]: I love this because you guys get to, it's a way for us to sort of get feedback on the show.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's also a way for you guys to connect with each other. [SPEAKER_01]: Because again, you're probably listening. [SPEAKER_01]: We're creating this in isolation. [SPEAKER_01]: You're listening in isolation. [SPEAKER_01]: So these comments are fun because they kind of bring this little community together.

[SPEAKER_01]: Emily May says, I've been a long time listener from 2020 and have listened to every podcast many of them twice. [SPEAKER_01]: It's been fun to come alongside you in motherhood. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a few years behind you with my kids being 2, 5, 8 and 11. [SPEAKER_01]: You both have truly made me a better housewife, heart posture is a phrase that I often use from you and that has really changed my attitude towards homemaking.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love this. [SPEAKER_01]: I love this, Emily May. [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening. [SPEAKER_01]: I love this is to me this is the perfect example of water over a rock, you know, we can get caught up in these like, oh, 30 day challenge for this, but really what shapes us is what is kind of coming over us over and over and over and over again long term.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Dana Glenn wants and this I actually thought at this this morning when I woke up What I don't want my problem is but Dana Glenn says we need an update on Stu's German airport saga. [SPEAKER_02]: Are there any news on charges? [SPEAKER_01]: This is funny. [SPEAKER_01]: This is like the third time these last few days this has happened to me where I thought of some obscure thing and then it gets brought up What is that Nothing you know what I don't think he's done any [SPEAKER_01]: I'm currently trying to deal with his legal matters from not, get providing proof of a rabies vaccine to the animal control.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he's just an all around criminal this man. [SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, just, I don't even know what I'm doing with him. [SPEAKER_01]: This is too much of a wildlife for me. [SPEAKER_01]: No updates yet. [SPEAKER_01]: However, and this is very important. [SPEAKER_01]: As of April, Alaska Airlines is now flying direct.

[SPEAKER_01]: Lord have mercy from Seattle to Rome, which means that we no longer have to change planes and Iceland, Paris, London, Frankfurt. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. [SPEAKER_03]: Hallelujah. [SPEAKER_00]: I love direct flights. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: You're one up one down. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_01]: One down. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Leah Sherwood. [SPEAKER_01]: For a lit girl series, you could draw on your friend Jennifer Scott, a series of episodes that are lessons for home making. [SPEAKER_01]: Gleaned from that is such a good idea.

[SPEAKER_01]: For all listeners, little women is a beautiful place to start, but also some less obvious options like Lord of the Rings and the Secret Garden, all have lessons that we can play. [SPEAKER_01]: Leah, this is Hinton on all the things for me. [SPEAKER_01]: Little women is Georgia's favorite book.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh, Lord of the Rings is Stewart's favorite book. [SPEAKER_01]: He's teaching through it right now and actually I'm going to put a link in the Show notes because he's doing a little free thing on sub-sec where he's walking parents and families through the Lord of the Rings because he's teaching it right now and so he's doing a 12 week series through the Lord of the Rings if you want to geek out [SPEAKER_01]: And I am reading the secret garden in Italian right now, so I love this idea, but this could be a great way to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So people don't necessarily have to read the book with us. [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: Fantastic idea, Leah. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: I like the, yeah, I like the lessons for how making gleaned from like my angles, hello. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: Remember when we had Brian because Lowski on years ago, and it was lessons on dieting from Jane Austen, yes, the Jane Austen diet, Jane Austen diet.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there you go. [SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking about Brian the other day, and him and Georgia are still pen pals. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's so cute. [SPEAKER_01]: He is the best pen pal. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, his letters are just unbelievable. [SPEAKER_01]: And I just thought the kind of people that you want to be on social media to like stay up to date with are the ones that aren't on social media.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: Makes me sad. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I would literally have to send a snail mail letter or an owl to Brian to be like, Hey, apparently, how are you? [SPEAKER_00]: And owl. [SPEAKER_01]: How's it going? [SPEAKER_00]: That's funny. [SPEAKER_01]: I wish he had an Instagram.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Can we do this last one though? [SPEAKER_01]: This one's cut one. [SPEAKER_01]: Which one? [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the postpartum. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Help us us her out. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Elizabeth says, I'm in that phase of fashion where I'm 16 months postpartum, nothing fits.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to lose weight. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just now out of that constant out of constant breastfeeding. [SPEAKER_02]: I need new real bras, not the grungy nursing bras. [SPEAKER_02]: And I want to wear things that I feel good in, but it's such a weird time of life. [SPEAKER_02]: What on earth did you girls do during this time?

[SPEAKER_01]: I wore maternity pants for like three years after I had my kids. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I did a little bit. [SPEAKER_01]: Then I wore nursing bras still. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: They rotted off my body. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_01]: I hate this for me. [SPEAKER_01]: And I want you to do better than me.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was, but I want you to be a better human. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the things I would do different. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the things that I would do different. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: First off, get you a real bra. [SPEAKER_01]: Something that makes you feel nice. [SPEAKER_01]: If you are part of the IBTC, then I recommend third love.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very nice. [SPEAKER_01]: Those are very nice. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's think about this actually in terms of fashion. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm really into Elizabeth? [SPEAKER_01]: I am really into like straight, Lucy kind of trouser look and things, but like of a like a linen fabric that you tie at the waist.

[SPEAKER_01]: This time of year, a little bit trickier, but spring summer fall, I love them. [SPEAKER_01]: And what I love about them too is they look really sharp, but they, [SPEAKER_01]: they're adjustable. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you need to go out a little bit, you can go out a little bit if you need to come in a little bit, you can do that too.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you're feeling your oats, you can tuck your shirt in. [SPEAKER_01]: Like you have this nice little ruffle waist, which is really helpful to kind of create the visual of a waist. [SPEAKER_01]: You can also dress them down with just a tank top or a nice white t-shirt or something of the sort.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the only thing I try to remember with those is because there's sort of loose, I try not to wear a loose and loose together. [SPEAKER_01]: So your pants are loose. [SPEAKER_01]: I would. [SPEAKER_01]: The somehow the shirt needs to be structured so that it makes sense, but I think a couple pairs of pants like that could go a long way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Lyndon, drostring. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm trying to think of the the pairs I have. [SPEAKER_01]: Not a fan of the drostring you hated drostring. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't I don't like this silhouette from the side. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to see that bunch of a bow tie. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, that isn't bothered me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I wear them a lot. [SPEAKER_01]: I have a pair of pants like that. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you guys have seen them on my videos there. [SPEAKER_01]: They're basically this color of blue. [SPEAKER_01]: They're bright blue. [SPEAKER_01]: Every time I wear them, I get so many compliments on them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, but even if you didn't have a tie waist, that's fine. [SPEAKER_01]: I like the bunchy, I think the bunchy waist can be done really well. [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what I like in the last thick waist is that we're mean. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I think they call it potato sack waist.

[SPEAKER_02]: So what is that where you meant when you said it ruffles out like the one that kind of comes out like this? [SPEAKER_01]: Not like it doesn't like come out, but I mean come out, but I mean it's, it's not, it's more than in a last in a waist. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: No, do you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you guys know what I'm talking to him out Every time we start talking about this. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm picture something I'm picturing something really specific So I think I'm being too literal or something Then in trials are bunch ways. [SPEAKER_01]: What do you call that?

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah, I think, okay, I know what you mean. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so here's what I'm going to do. [SPEAKER_02]: I I after this is probably not an option for Elizabeth, but I'm I'm desperate and I do go to France for my job twice a year and in ten weeks I am getting a profiting in France [SPEAKER_02]: And it's this boutique and a young woman and an old woman or a old woman don't come in to look at your boobs and help you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait. [SPEAKER_02]: No, because the young woman's gonna like keep you, you know, from looking to old and the old woman is going to be sensible. [SPEAKER_02]: So they specifically put two ages to you. [SPEAKER_02]: to balance things out and I'm quite excited because I don't think I've ever had a bra that fits I don't have any like top flesh top as much as you know what I mean like my boobs are like this open or my bra is like this open there's like a little cavern in the cup [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I can't wait.

[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I, you know, if I was Elizabeth, I would go out get some, I don't like uncomfortable underwear either, bras and panties have to be super comfortable for me. [SPEAKER_02]: Super. [SPEAKER_02]: So get something really comfortable and maybe like two and a half outfits that make you feel good that are practical for being a mom that has like children pulling on you [SPEAKER_02]: It's got to work.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's got to work and at the working car series and I mean, you've got to be able to move. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: When I was telling myself the other day when I was working on kind of cleaning through my closet was like, look. [SPEAKER_01]: Is every outfit going to be a no.

[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't need to be. [SPEAKER_01]: However, it can be cleaned. [SPEAKER_01]: It can be stained free. [SPEAKER_01]: It can be. [SPEAKER_01]: without your ripped collar. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, there's a time in a place for that and it's the garden or the gym. [SPEAKER_01]: But in terms of just dressing for the day, what we can, how much it can like help us feel better if it's just like a nice clean white t-shirt.

[SPEAKER_01]: That'll take you a long way. [SPEAKER_01]: And so my Elizabeth might as well get rid of the grungy and just even replace it. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to solve all of these problems today. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: You can also just go to Target and get some white t-shirts. [SPEAKER_01]: Just gets in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you get a few things to fit and you'll fill and you shower and you brush your teeth. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you'll feel a lot better and she says, what did you do during this time? [SPEAKER_02]: What I did was I did have, you know, because it took with each child. [SPEAKER_02]: It took longer to lose the weight.

[SPEAKER_02]: So like the first child, it took, um, two and a half months to lose 45 pounds. [SPEAKER_02]: It was miraculous, you know, and then I gained about 50 with each one. [SPEAKER_02]: And then like each one, it took longer. [SPEAKER_02]: I think the last child would look like nine months a year to lose it all.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, it was crazy. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but so during that like shrinking time, I had, I would always make sure that I just had like two go-to outfits for a church or for dinner, for going to my mom's just something or I didn't feel like I was wearing survival mode. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I was just thinking how I got through it was actually started buying.

[SPEAKER_01]: elastic-wasted skirts. [SPEAKER_01]: I like midi-length skirts, and I like high-wasted skirts for my my body type, so I would just wear like white, target-white tank tops or target-white t-shirts or target-white button-ups with these skirts, because there was something about it was very comfortable for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could wear it with Birkenstocks or flip-flops or high heels or whatever I wanted to, or little white pennies, was very comfortable, but it pulled me out of the current. [SPEAKER_01]: moment of, you know, feeling kind of grumpy. [SPEAKER_01]: I would grungy. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'd also say, so do that. [SPEAKER_02]: I think skirts are a great idea. [SPEAKER_02]: Elastic skirts. [SPEAKER_02]: And then my advice with the t-shirt would be see a picture of yourself because there is something about a t-shirt. [SPEAKER_02]: Not everybody looks or feels great in them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, so I don't actually wear them. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, because sometimes they they read dumpy even if it's a nice brand new crisp white t-shirt like or you know it's like it's on the arm affects some people even where I'm they're like they're not really t-shirts because they come down to the elbow what are those called that's what I wear.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like a three quarter three quarter a little longer than three quarter yeah, especially when you're breastfeeding to like, you know, you're big and it's just it the t-shirt doesn't read right. [SPEAKER_02]: And so find like a really soft cotton white button up that has a little bit more structure and it's super comfortable and it's still very casual, but it gives you like, shape, yeah, while your body's all like mubble, mubble, mubble, mubble everywhere.

[SPEAKER_01]: a lot. [SPEAKER_01]: So it would just be like, that's the one that you can just pull your boob right out the top sleeve. [SPEAKER_01]: Just caught in chart. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it could just go. [SPEAKER_02]: See for me, that never had enough structure. [SPEAKER_02]: I looked terrible.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like in a photograph, I'd be like, oh, that is not what I was going for. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, swing it on this. [SPEAKER_01]: They call that. [SPEAKER_02]: swing it on this. [SPEAKER_02]: I always do better with a few buttons and a collar in the show world. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I was cleaning through my.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to go down this rabbit trail too much, but I watched this video about a family of six who moved overseas. [SPEAKER_01]: And in the process, they were preparing their own home to be an Airbnb. [SPEAKER_01]: Now, what fascinated me about this was just this cleaning and purging process that they had to go through in their home to be able to account for turning, imagine turning your home into an Airbnb like the exactly the cupboards, the drawers, the closets, the trim, the holes, the paint, the you name it, they had to, they had to account for it all, tell you what, those are some scary eyes to look at your home with and just be like, [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just pile stuff in front of that hole in the wall, so.

[SPEAKER_02]: A strategically placed laundry basket does a world. [SPEAKER_02]: Make it wicker and you've styled it. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: So when I was going through my clothes, I was like, would you pack this? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, or would you practice and listen to the next thing that's helping or hurting yeah, yeah, another thing to is I would take I just would pack up this stuff I couldn't fit into yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: because that is challenging to get back to fighting weight if that's what you're interested in, okay? [SPEAKER_02]: And so it can be kind of like discouraging. [SPEAKER_02]: And then once a month, every three weeks, I would check it out and see like, ooh, what can I fit into this? [SPEAKER_02]: And then I would add the pieces back into my closet and it made me very exciting.

[SPEAKER_03]: Excited. [SPEAKER_02]: because I worked really hard to get back to said fighting weight. [SPEAKER_02]: So I want to talk about this, Shay. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to talk about domestic skills. [SPEAKER_02]: We wish we had closet organization. [SPEAKER_01]: Right out of the gate. [SPEAKER_02]: So these might be things like that we romanticize.

[SPEAKER_02]: We admire in someone else. [SPEAKER_02]: We dream about or things that we just know we're not for going to get around to learning. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, or yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: So, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So let's let's start with the beautiful like the warm fuzzy the beautiful skills we admire I will start I cannot crochet or knit okay at all I don't know if I want to know how.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think maybe someday, I mentioned last week getting my sewing machine to end up, I'm much more keen to go back to sewing, but that is crocheting and knitting is something I cannot do and sometimes it makes me feel bad because my daughters do tinker with it and I can't help them. [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I know most I feel like most people can and I can't I don't know if that's accurate or what but yeah, I mean I think it's a it's a past time it's such a lovely past time something to do with your hands I think unlike sewing it doesn't have to be this kind of or production yeah production it's like you can just sit and watch if movie with your family and [SPEAKER_01]: And knit or crochet.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a good one. [SPEAKER_02]: I grew up with my mom. [SPEAKER_02]: My mom. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm a child of the 80s. [SPEAKER_02]: I grew up with my mom cross stitching. [SPEAKER_02]: Like the cross-touch bag should this very sweet canvas bag and all her little what are they called looms and Those the floss you know the all the colors.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'd love to going to the store and standing in front of that wall of Yeah, I think they were called it floss right like all the different loop deloops of colors. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh such such great memories I remember going to an airport once to pick someone up [SPEAKER_02]: And she had to scan her bag or whatever.

[SPEAKER_02]: She got busted for having little tiny scissors in her bag. [SPEAKER_02]: And her, because she brought her crossage bag to like sit there and wait for the flight. [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, I'll never forget that. [SPEAKER_02]: But my mom did all the samplers, you know, the ABC and all the colonial, that real 80s, like Martha Stewart, Mary, Emily, and colonial, but I think samplers are totally trending again right now, too, which is kind of crazy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that funny? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you see it. [SPEAKER_02]: I could get into cross stitch. [SPEAKER_02]: I could I could sit and do that, but I because that's that just like quiet methodical you just can do it while the family's watching a movie or whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I Okay, I want to say you don't keep coming to my mind.

[SPEAKER_01]: The homemade or talent that I wish I had was just not being psychotic about thing [SPEAKER_02]: Just wrote a sub-stack about chilling out and managing today, she, I wrote one, did I, I just published it right before you leave my from last Tuesday, because I've lamented. [SPEAKER_01]: I just found myself at the bottom of the barrel this week, you guys, and it was nobody's fault.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was just, I just really keep [SPEAKER_01]: thinking about how we are in the forest of parenting right now, just by nature, where we are. [SPEAKER_01]: And there's always the thing about the homemaker is like, most of us, who are homemakers, most of us, are working in some capacity in the home out of the home, but we have other obligations outside [SPEAKER_01]: I think some people find it easier than others to actually be able to focus on that work when their home is not quite where it needs to be at that moment.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some people are able to, like, segment their mind in a way that I can't quite. [SPEAKER_01]: And I remember something I shared the guy with you last week. [SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this a little bit, didn't we? [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's always on my mind because it's just the season that I'm in.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you guys have been in the podcast like, you know, like, the season's changed. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, before we were having different struggles and this is just this is just the stream in which we find ourselves currently. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I am a stew's like, if you pour syrup, you're like a pancake.

[SPEAKER_01]: The syrup goes over the whole pancake. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Think about pouring a syrup over a waffle and like you could pour into each compartment. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, look, the little work compartment. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, look, the little, I need to put gas in the car compartment.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, look, cleaning the living room compartment. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, look, what's for it? [SPEAKER_01]: No. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a pancake. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm a pancake. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a pancake. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you give a Shaya Piangek? [SPEAKER_01]: It's very difficult to be in this work.

[SPEAKER_01]: So when things aren't right in the home is what I'm getting at, it can be really difficult to keep. [SPEAKER_01]: to be able to do your other things. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's actually a talent and a skill or a muscle that I need to work on developing for this next season to be able to close a door and not be like, hey, this is a giant reflection of who you are as a home maker.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not. [SPEAKER_01]: The living room is dirty. [SPEAKER_01]: It'll take you 20 minutes to clean up and run the vacuum through, chill out. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think there's two different conversations there. [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's the trap and the lie of thinking that it's a personal always thinking.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes it is a personal reflection, but always thinking that it's a personal reflection on you as a homemaker. [SPEAKER_02]: And then there are people who's brain works better when they're in a tidy environment. [SPEAKER_02]: Like this guy, I was talking about last week [SPEAKER_02]: if you have if you're geared up neurologically this way.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I mentioned him last week and so I know people are still maybe questioning that. [SPEAKER_02]: His name is Kyle Cox on Instagram. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: And he does these reels. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you scroll down there's one where he's got a green hat and like a burgundy coat or sweatshirt on and he's outside and it's clearly winter in the background and it's in that series of reels that you'll find the one about being able to focus in mess.

[SPEAKER_02]: very, very interesting. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's tricky and it might be like a silly, silly skill, but it's one I would like to have because it's either that or be grouchy for the next eight years. [SPEAKER_01]: So I would prefer to get you some GABA and retrain those pathways girlfriend.

[SPEAKER_01]: But in the more beautiful sense, [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm very detail oriented when it comes to food. [SPEAKER_01]: But in other things, like I don't so because you have to like go slow and pay attention. [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just like, I don't know, I can't I can't I can't I can't I that's it that is definitely a training.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes when I'm out in the garden, I'll be weeding like the most minuscule straight little weeds and you're like, OK, girl, what are we [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe start top down like maybe deal with that six foot weight over there and say it's about to slow see it's all over your garden seven years of seeds.

[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So I can't be too oriented when I want to be, but I think that is a that is another skill that could use some could use some tending. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, real practical real practical. [SPEAKER_02]: I can fold a fitted sheet, but don't you want to but it's not a pretty sight I start out as first two.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh, so amazing and then the last two and a half one and a half moves I'm like this is turning into job of the hut like this is Just not what it's supposed to look like and also all the tutorials I've watched on it are like lay it out on your bed laying out on your floor No, no, you do this thing where you [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, you go like this, you put your fist in each corner, I put my fist in the corner, do it, and then I have to lay it down to like fold the funky side and a kilton.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like to get so good at it. [SPEAKER_02]: Because I don't have room, you know, there's a lot of bedding going on around here. [SPEAKER_02]: And if it was like freaking flat, I could close the drawer. [SPEAKER_02]: You know?

[SPEAKER_01]: Here's something I'd like to get better at. [SPEAKER_01]: I can cook, I can cook. [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't need a recipe. [SPEAKER_01]: I know what I want to do. [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes I surprise myself. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I don't measure salt. [SPEAKER_01]: Like it's all by feel I pinch.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right now. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's like how much this much. [SPEAKER_01]: That's so much sexier anyways. [SPEAKER_01]: It's so fun. [SPEAKER_01]: It's like you're dancing, you know, and you're just going to jump. [SPEAKER_01]: I can not do that with baking. [SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm like baking a sandwich.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm measuring everything. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw this on it. [SPEAKER_02]: I saw this real the other day. [SPEAKER_02]: It was like one minute long of like dead silence. [SPEAKER_02]: And she has a recipe like handwritten recipe on the countertop. [SPEAKER_02]: I think Chelsea sent it to me and she's baking.

[SPEAKER_02]: She's got the teaspoon in her hand. [SPEAKER_02]: She just went down and it says one teaspoon of baking soda. [SPEAKER_02]: She picks the baked. [SPEAKER_02]: She picks back up. [SPEAKER_02]: She's like looking at it. [SPEAKER_02]: She thinks for a second. [SPEAKER_02]: She looks back down.

[SPEAKER_02]: It shows the words. [SPEAKER_02]: One teaspoon of baking soda. [SPEAKER_02]: Back and forth. [SPEAKER_02]: She picks up the baking soda. [SPEAKER_02]: She thinks about it for a second. [SPEAKER_02]: She looks back down. [SPEAKER_02]: One teaspoon of baking soda. [SPEAKER_02]: Like this goes on and on and on.

[SPEAKER_02]: She scoops it. [SPEAKER_02]: She dumps it in. [SPEAKER_02]: She looks back down. [SPEAKER_02]: One teaspoon of baking powder. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what it's so awesome to him. [SPEAKER_02]: It made me laugh so hard. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's, but baking is science. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's not as like, ooh, I know it's not as easy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see. [SPEAKER_01]: To the music because I don't know any white sugar. [SPEAKER_01]: No white sugar, no brown sugar, no molasses, no succinate, no rapid, no nothing anymore. [SPEAKER_01]: So you're so funny. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what our single baking recipe.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have to. [SPEAKER_01]: huts with enough to get it. [SPEAKER_01]: I use maple sugar, coconut sugar, date sugar, honey, maple syrup like there's so many and easy. [SPEAKER_01]: Are they one to one or maybe sugar is? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maple sugar is one to one, coconut sugar is, but it's always a factor.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you see a recipe and you're like, I know mine's going to not quite look like that because I'm not using bleached sugar. [SPEAKER_01]: Mine's brown. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Browner. [SPEAKER_01]: More brown. [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: So there's that factor.

[SPEAKER_01]: I also have a dairy intolerant child, and so I have to bake everything with olive oil. [SPEAKER_01]: Everything. [SPEAKER_01]: Peanut butter cookies? [SPEAKER_01]: Olive oil. [SPEAKER_01]: Chocolate joke cookies. [SPEAKER_01]: Olive oil. [SPEAKER_01]: And so every recipe, it's almost like I never make it the same way twice, because I'm trying to go off of stuff and adapt stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've got quite a good little archive now with baked stuff in the cooking community. [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of that was created before I knew that Georgia had the dairy intolerance, [SPEAKER_01]: more of a friction point. [SPEAKER_01]: Like I can bake bread. [SPEAKER_01]: Easy. [SPEAKER_01]: That's fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's instinct. [SPEAKER_01]: But just like fussy or things. [SPEAKER_01]: Like I never make like you make these incredible cakes for your birthday, for your kids' birthdays. [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm always just like, this is country cake. [SPEAKER_00]: My little country, rustic. [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I like to cook.

[SPEAKER_01]: And all in the summer I'll put little flowers on top, or I'll do something. [SPEAKER_01]: But um, [SPEAKER_01]: Like the big elaborate cake cake cakes. [SPEAKER_01]: No way. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even in the ballpark. [SPEAKER_02]: No, well, that sugar. [SPEAKER_02]: You can't do that sugar free.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, try that with iron corn flour and olive oil and maple sugar. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a brick. [SPEAKER_01]: New, ain't gonna have a brick with paste ain't gonna happen. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: What about, um, skills you might actually learn someday.

[SPEAKER_02]: on your horizon, any, any that may be don't work for this time of life or or making home again. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: I mentioned, I'll, well, you think I mentioned a few weeks ago seeing this ad on Insta for alterations. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: And so that is on my radar for some day.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know about when, but I did get the machine, I'll choose that. [SPEAKER_02]: But I just think I used to have this woman that altered everything for me. [SPEAKER_02]: And it was this period, like Junior was a baby. [SPEAKER_02]: And this was this time of my life where I just felt like everything looked so great because, for example, I'd buy like a [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like a six or eight in size top like in tops, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: So I would buy some 12 size 12, 14, whatever, clearance blazer. [SPEAKER_02]: I just I'd loved the fabric like it TJ Maxx. [SPEAKER_02]: I thought the fabric was great quality. [SPEAKER_02]: I liked the liner and I would take it to her and she would alter it to fit me perfectly. [SPEAKER_02]: And it was amazing.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I would love to be able to do that because especially with being someone who likes vintage clothing [SPEAKER_02]: Second hand clothing, a lot of times the size is just not right, but the quality is phenomenal. [SPEAKER_02]: And I would love to be able to take control of that and do that.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's definitely on my horizon. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is an interesting question. [SPEAKER_01]: I haven't really thought about a new skill that I would like to acquire. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, and so when I think back 10 years ago in case I know some of you because the comments we already read are in the stage of life for you little kids and I feel sad in a way that that earlier version of myself was was as hot of a mess as she was as much as I had together there were just still so many.

[SPEAKER_01]: you know, okay, let me give you the grossest grossest example I can think of. [SPEAKER_01]: You guys like that kind of stuff, right? [SPEAKER_01]: One time, one time, when we moved into this house, the downstairs, we had turned into the kids's room and then that didn't work. [SPEAKER_01]: So it became like our homeschool play room, which is now our bedroom, but this is where our laundry room was and.

[SPEAKER_01]: The laundry pipes would always freeze and so it would back up onto the floor of the bathroom. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, one time this happened and it shorted out a chest freezer that we kept it down there. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, oh, it gets so much worse. [SPEAKER_01]: This one, because this is just, this is as deep as it goes.

[SPEAKER_01]: It shorted out the freezer and I didn't know this. [SPEAKER_01]: And so everything in the freezer went really, really, really off. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, because it was when we did very often. [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just meat. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just meat. [SPEAKER_01]: It was.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was only had pigs. [SPEAKER_01]: So we had butcher these pigs. [SPEAKER_01]: Tell me there weren't pig heads. [SPEAKER_01]: There were pig heads. [SPEAKER_02]: I knew it. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_02]: I've had a pig head in my freezer. [SPEAKER_02]: So when you open it and you're like, this is a horror movie.

[SPEAKER_02]: Closing it. [SPEAKER_01]: There were two pig heads in my freezer. [SPEAKER_01]: Now. [SPEAKER_01]: They eventually, I can't remember now how, but like the freezer turned back on, so it like defrosted and rotted and then froze back. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh. [SPEAKER_01]: And so not only, like, we had to chisel these pig heads out of the free, the stuff like that where you're just, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is where you duct tape the freezer and you just get rid of it. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_01]: And that wouldn't really happen. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: Like I wouldn't be like this. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll deal with it six, seven, whatever, how many days passed.

[SPEAKER_01]: There were just some moments in fact, but I was so, I was just, [SPEAKER_01]: stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, but and and you're like, but you're also in this time of life where you can't just throw away the freezer. [SPEAKER_02]: No, financially. [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_01]: Like there's just five.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's worth now, man. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I wish I could remember what it was just for the sake of the anecdote. [SPEAKER_02]: But the other day, oh, it was just how we always lose power here. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, the whole country's been going through these storms and up here, we had, we have the normal amount of snow that we normally get, but we've had like minus 40 degrees and wind.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I told Joel at one point, he said, if the power goes out again, I'm out of here. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not little house on the prairie any more, it was fun when the kids were little when their teenagers all they do is complain, I'm going to go to a hotel in town because it's just our property where the first to go and the last to get it turned back on.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going down the road to Otele and I'm gonna swim. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna live my best jacuzzi life. [SPEAKER_02]: And I have paid my dues. [SPEAKER_02]: I have spat out six children. [SPEAKER_02]: I have had pig heads in my freezer. [SPEAKER_02]: I have butchered and sewn and fermented and done all the things, cloth diapers.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't, I have grit coming out of my eyeballs. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't need to prove it anymore. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's just the to a hotel stage where you're like when I when I was learning all these things and again y'all may be here now like Oh, I wanted to tell everybody about it and I wanted to develop all these skills.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and I wanted to Oh, they're out. [SPEAKER_01]: They've done Ben develop. [SPEAKER_01]: They don't be in develop. [SPEAKER_01]: That's still got 19 gallons of sour crop in my cold room to prove it. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, vintage. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, 2013. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even vintage that work out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so so this stage feels really nice because there there were a lot of moments in that stage when we look back and do and I will just shake our heads and be like, How did we serve? [SPEAKER_01]: How did we survive that? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: How did we survive that and what were we thinking?

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why having a nice broad is so important. [SPEAKER_01]: Or just take a broad body off and being like, look, right here I stand, I can do another, here I hang. [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [SPEAKER_01]: I am enjoying this particular sense of things.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there's still a lot of things to get good at now that, for example, not sexy, but billpagging. [SPEAKER_01]: like managing your receipts, you know, your finances, setting up your businesses and appropriate tax things. [SPEAKER_01]: And blah, blah, blah, blah, not like the funnest part about home making, but super helpful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Feels good. [SPEAKER_01]: Super helpful, you know, and when it's accounted for, you feel really, really, really good, like laundry. [SPEAKER_01]: So there's things like that one, like, okay. [SPEAKER_01]: There's been so much hot mess. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's put that aside. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's enjoy where we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Give things. [SPEAKER_01]: And then, and then spend a few more years getting good at it. [SPEAKER_01]: Why would we? [SPEAKER_01]: What would we track a change in anything? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So, um, I mean, there's small things I would like to write a lot more handwritten notes.

[SPEAKER_01]: For example, I go through kind of fluxes, but it's not a really solid habit. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you have, um, do you have stationery? [SPEAKER_02]: I got a whole bin labeled stationery about all the people's going to say because that really helps having the stationery in a pan you really enjoy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got my favorite right. [SPEAKER_02]: It really does help. [SPEAKER_02]: I found. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, then you have no excuse. [SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: I have no excuse. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's also like a genuine, it's delightful for me to write them. [SPEAKER_01]: It's really delightful to me when people write them to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a trait that I admire in people. [SPEAKER_01]: So that's one that I would like to get better. [SPEAKER_01]: A small one, but this might be silly. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to get better at chopping firewood. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not very good at it. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's that sounds great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could do it, but it's it doesn't look so good. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, when it's like, you know, this is my 13 year old. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just like, just give me the axe. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: Just give it to me mom. [SPEAKER_01]: Just go outside. [SPEAKER_01]: Just go ahead.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll bring you the fire. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so maybe a little bit of that. [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe to be in a little bit better. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll get in squids. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to change a tire. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_02]: Like I feel like I should know how to change a tire that is what I would say and I have to check my oil and crap like crap like that I can change my oil.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could change my air filter. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I don't know how to change a tire could you put air in your tire at a gas station. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, even on me, Lee can do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I could make you feel bad. [SPEAKER_01]: But I think I could.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just one of those things. [SPEAKER_01]: There were certain like man territory things in my face. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, like taking out the garbage. [SPEAKER_01]: I will not do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's man territory. [SPEAKER_02]: It's man territory, but I don't like waiting for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_01]: I get quite dramatic about it. [SPEAKER_01]: I leave it open. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, I sit up by the bat. [SPEAKER_02]: I like put it in front of the back door like a fun getting out soccer. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was on my own when I do it. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, could I absolutely do I want to know I do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's funny. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty darn good with power tools, but I'd like to get better. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like air compressors. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like air compressors. [SPEAKER_01]: What do they have to be so loud? [SPEAKER_02]: They're so loud. [SPEAKER_02]: It really, it's a struggle for me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no windows are shaking and oh, there are certain things. [SPEAKER_01]: I, one of our cash and legs fell off yesterday. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, not yesterday. [SPEAKER_01]: It's been like a month. [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, finally, yesterday, I was like, oh, don't do it myself. [SPEAKER_01]: So I flipped the couch up.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I look at this hole and I'm, [SPEAKER_01]: figure it out in my mind how I'm going to fix it and the leg had a like a big metal poke bar and it shoved up into this hole, but it had kind of stripped out. [SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, yes, yeah, here's what I'm going to do. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to put a wall anchor into this hole.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'll re-screw. [SPEAKER_00]: Get it girl. [SPEAKER_01]: The couch leg with glue into the wood anchor. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: So I stick the wood anchor in. [SPEAKER_01]: I got the right sides. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm feeling quite good. [SPEAKER_01]: I got glue all over the couch like, whoa, yeah, here we go.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_01]: And I realized the hole was like eight times too small. [SPEAKER_01]: This couch like I was going to say this must be a monster wall anchor that you found going in there. [SPEAKER_01]: So what are we hanging a Buick? [SPEAKER_01]: What do I do? [SPEAKER_01]: I grabbed the wall anchor and I pinch it and I tried to pull it out and I break two nails in the process rip them right off.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was just [SPEAKER_01]: And I got so angry and Stu came home and he just will have to take. [SPEAKER_01]: He was just like, why? [SPEAKER_01]: But I, but sometimes it takes me throwing a tantrum to get done. [SPEAKER_02]: Because then he just said, I call it the whole maker special.

[SPEAKER_02]: Or you do it bad on purpose. [SPEAKER_01]: Then they get in there like, oh, come on. [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, did you think I was going to work? [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, I was going to make it work. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you understand? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, Joel, his forte, obviously, meaning, and if I like paint really bad, if he walks in, I'll do a horrible technique.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to paint, right? [SPEAKER_02]: So just give me the brush. [SPEAKER_01]: You're just very sick yourself with this, but yeah, but you know what? [SPEAKER_01]: Jokes on him, because the leg is fixed, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Cost me two nails. [SPEAKER_01]: My guy's not gonna be happy about that, but say lovey.

[SPEAKER_01]: Funny. [SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, here's what we want you to do in the comments. [SPEAKER_02]: We want to we want you to share your home making aspirations with us. [SPEAKER_02]: So share with us the domestic skills you wish you had and we will read the funniest and the sweetest ones on next week's episode.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are many. [SPEAKER_01]: There are many, and do it on Spotify because for the love to do it on Spotify. [SPEAKER_01]: Here we go. [SPEAKER_01]: All right, ladies. [SPEAKER_01]: It's Monday. [SPEAKER_01]: You can do this. [SPEAKER_01]: Have a great week. [SPEAKER_01]: And we will be back with you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Next Monday. [SPEAKER_01]: Cheers.

What We Wish We Could Do! | Season 27

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