Midlife Moms Chaos (Bonus Episode)

In this BONUS episode of "Midlife Moms Pod," Melanie and Allison spend a Friday morning together discussing things that are chaotic in their lives. Topics range from end of school year activities, sprained ankles, lost and found dogs, and WW2 movies, to name just a few. 

We evaluate what everyday items bring chaos into our lives and how we wouldn't trade any of it for all the popsicles and coffee in the world.

Timestamps:

00:39 Early Morning Chaos

03:28 School Events and Fun Day

04:29 Midlife Mom Struggles

05:50 Dog Stories and Pet Chaos

16:25 Kids and Their Activities

19:35 College and Career Discussions

26:01 Homework and School Challenges

27:50 Daily Chaos and Mom Life

30:12 Differences Between Moms and Dads

31:39 Balancing Personal Goals and Parenting

32:56 The Never-Ending Mom Brain

33:30 Struggles with Sleep and Health

37:58 TV Preferences and Relationship Dynamics

49:29 A Day of Chaos and a Lost Dog

Find Midlife Moms Pod on Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your podcasts. You can also find us Buzzsprout where we have a full listing of all our episodes, Instagram (@midlifemomspod), and Facebook. Listen, like, and subscribe! We hope you enjoy the show!

Transcript

Hi, Midlife Moms Pod, this is Allison.

This week, Melanie and I are going to be releasing a bonus episode on Friday, in addition to our regular weekly podcast that's released on Tuesdays.

We had some extra content that we thought you would enjoy, and we wanna catch up on some of the topics that we've been talking about over the last couple of weeks.

So we hope you enjoy this episode today.

Thank you for listening to our show, and we hope you enjoy this bonus episode.

Welcome to another edition of Midlife Moms.

I'm so excited because I have things to say.

Well, it's a lovely morning.

I've been up since about five.

Why?

Well, my husband went away out of town today, and he left at five o'clock.

So I woke up to him saying goodbye.

And then I tried to get back to sleep.

And I had an early morning this morning.

I had a lot of events.

I'm not done with all of them right now, but fitting time in to record.

And I needed to wake up early today because I've got to get my son off to school.

Then we had to go to Publix.

And then I've got to be at school by eight o'clock for our event.

And I had my alarm set for 5.45, which was really only 45 minutes after he woke me up.

But I'm like, I'll just get another 45.

So that alarm went off.

And then, you know, on your iPhone, you have to set your alarms like back to back.

If you want to do snooze for whatever reason, I hit that and it doesn't go back off.

So it might be the operator error.

I'm not sure.

So I set my alarm again for six o'clock.

Well, that went off.

Then I didn't set it again.

I luckily woke up at 6.15, but I wanted to wake up a half an hour earlier.

Not running around.

Put my face on, right.

Get dressed up.

And make sure Matthew got ready for school, right.

Wanted to have a nice, casual, relaxing morning, but that did not happen.

Yeah, mine didn't either.

It's just chaos.

I heard Willow immediately this morning at six o'clock, and I'm like, nope, go lay down.

She laid down for a few minutes, and I'm like, forget this.

I'm going to get in bed with Emily and shut the door, like thinking the routine would be different.

So she goes and lays outside her door.

I can hear her, and I can hear her breathing, but she never barked or cried.

And then Emily's like, where's Willow?

And I'm like, don't say her name.

I'm trying to break her out of that.

Oh, yeah.

You know, I've seen shirts that say chaos coordinator.

And I'm like, I feel like that's me.

Yeah, some days are more chaotic than others.

And I only have one kid.

I know.

I cannot imagine if I had more than one, but I know people do it, and my hat's off to them.

Yeah, my husband's one of eight kids.

Oh, he is.

Yeah, his mom had four boys and then four girls.

Oh, wow.

So that's really chaos.

I would not want to deal with that.

That's too mean.

No, she must have had a lot of help.

Well, I think as the older ones got older, they helped because they're all adults now.

But when it was teenage years, the older ones helped with the younger ones.

It was too much.

Hats off to his mom.

She needs a nap.

But I'm doing good.

I mean, it's Friday, so right?

Today's Friday.

Yes.

I'm like, is it Friday?

Yeah, today's Friday.

Yes.

So, and they're having fun at school today.

They are.

It's a fun day where kids ruled the school.

So that's a big deal at our school.

And it was really cute to see the kids.

I gave one of the kids a hard time this morning because he came out to our little group and he's the principal for the day.

So I was like, Mr.

Principal, what do you have planned for today?

Do you have a lot of big meetings?

And he's like, I have one meeting.

And the principal, she was right next to him, and she goes, you have one meeting an hour.

Oh, so he has a meeting all day.

He has one meeting, but she said you have one meeting every hour.

Right.

That's funny.

And the kindergarten teacher and her helper, so her helper is the teacher for the day, they're wearing the exact same outfit.

Oh, that's cute.

Pink headband, the exact same flower dress.

They're carrying the exact same tumbler.

Yes.

That's hysterical.

It is hysterical.

That's really funny.

It's like, wow, this is-

I'm sure there'll be pictures of that.

I'm sure, yeah.

It's really funny.

My house is just out of control.

With Emily and her ankle.

Oh, that's right.

How's she feeling?

She's still hurting, so we're doing orthopedic soon, but it's hard to keep that age settled.

Still, yeah.

She does not want to sit still.

She doesn't want to do any of that.

So Tim went to the store and got stuff for our switch, and she did lay still for an hour and a half watching me play.

But if she plays, she's playing and jumping all around.

Oh, well that's-

You know, cause she's like excited, and she'll be doing something with the controller and get off the couch and jump back on.

I'm like, you can't do that.

Cause she sprained her ankle.

Right.

We don't know how she sprained her ankle.

She's not faking, is she?

Oh, no.

She's not, yeah, she's not that kid.

She doesn't want to be down.

She's one that wants to go to school and wants to do things.

And so-

Did you get her a scooter?

No, I didn't get her a scooter, because we said we're not getting her a scooter yet, unless the orthopedic says-

Recommends it.

Yeah.

So then I'll get an orthopedic note.

I'll hand it to him and say, here you go.

Because he's like, we're not buying a scooter.

We're not putting her in a boot either, because I don't want to put her in a boot if she doesn't need a boot, or if it's not the right boot, because you can mess your foot up even worse, if it's not like a-

And they don't really sell pediatric boots.

You can go to the store and buy an adult one, but you can't buy a pediatric one.

Oh, I know, they didn't have kid boots.

No, so I've looked all over, you can order them online, but that's about it.

So between her and, well, Willow last night, when we were talking on the phone, complete chaos in our house right now.

Yeah, Willow, so her, what, you're...

Newfoundland.

Newfoundland, I always want to say Norwegian.

My Newfie.

I have a Norwegian forest cat slash Maine Coon.

Well, maybe that's why you don't call it a bear.

Right, so last night, we were talking about large breed versus small breed.

So Melanie's got the Newfoundland, who's a big bear.

Yeah, she looks just like a teddy bear.

I wouldn't say she looks like a teddy bear.

I'd say she looks like a bear.

A grizzly bear?

A grizzly bear.

A teddy bear to me is a small little thing that-

Well, she's lovable like a teddy bear.

She's very lovable.

And then I have my little pipsqueak Poppy, who's really my arm dog.

That's the same size as Willow's head, let's say.

That's the best way to describe it.

It would be funny to get pictures of them together.

Together, it would be funny.

Poppy's not really a dog person though.

Like she, or dog dog.

Yeah, is she scared or she just doesn't?

She's not scared, she's just indifferent.

So I think that if she spent time with Willow, they would get to be friends.

But if she sees a dog walking down the street, she is not like the other dogs that go wandering off to go smell the other dog.

She just stays right on the sidewalk with me.

And she's like, I don't care.

I know there's a dog over there, but I don't want to go over there.

Willow likes all animals.

If she sees a dog walking down the street or whatever, she'll look, but she's not like, I'm going to go over there and hang out unless I tell her she can.

But she's such a Velcro puppy.

She sticks to me.

Yeah, living with a giant breed is totally different than a little breed, because you literally have to walk over her in the kitchen.

New Finlands are known to drool or slobber.

And if she does that and then shakes her head, it can go all the way to the ceiling.

So we have bibs that she wears, not for look, for actual purpose.

I saw a thing the other day, a video where the girl's like, and we have bibs for all holidays, and we have a drool cloth in our pocket and a grooming brush in the other pocket.

Yeah, that's my life.

So.

Yeah, whereas I don't.

Yeah, Poppy is not a drooler at all.

She's so tiny though.

It wouldn't matter.

It's not like-

Her voice is just very loud.

Well, and then the other day, I was telling Emily what Willow did to you when you were at the house, where she had had a treat, and then you had that big-

Oh, I had a big Willow burger.

Yeah, like the Goober slobber thing.

That's living with a new one.

But I told Emily about that.

She thought it was hysterical because she thinks Willow is so funny anyway.

Oh, it was gross.

Her best thing though is when she slobbers Tim, because that is hysterical because he pretends like he's talking like her.

You know, like goes into his dog talk.

So Emily cracks up about that.

I'd love to watch those Instagram accounts where the dad is the one that takes care of the animal, but the dad doesn't like the animal.

So, for instance, there's people who post on Instagram.

I'm probably not explaining it correctly, but they'll like post a picture and they'll be like, you know, so-and-so didn't want the dog.

And then the dog's like laying on them.

He's got his neck, and the dad's like rocked, got his arm rocked around him.

Yeah, so I love those because it's just, you know, my husband can tell me, I don't want another dog as much as he, but then I find him kissing Poppy, like on the couch.

You know, Poppy was not his idea.

Poppy was my idea.

So, yeah, he was not quite.

So we lost our dog.

We had a boxer, and we lost her about eight years ago.

It'll be nine years this summer.

And I know this because we went to Naples for a weekend, and we were staying at the Naples Beach Club, which doesn't exist anymore in Naples, but it's right on the water.

So you like open your door, and you're right on the beach for the water.

Beautiful.

So my birthday is in July, and we went there for my 40th birthday, and we got a call from my vet that my dog had passed away.

So she died.

Yeah, our boxer died that evening.

He went in to wake her up, and she was gone.

Was she sick, or was she just old?

No, she was 12 and a half.

And boxers, that's about the average lifespan, but it was awful because we didn't get to say goodbye to her.

Yeah, that's hard.

So it was very traumatic.

And she was Brent's dog when we got married.

He got her from a breeder, which I don't agree with, but that's another discussion.

So he got her, and then, of course, I inherited her when I married him, but she became my Velcro dog.

She loved him, but she would always sleep with me, and I would snap my fingers or call her name, and she'd come running.

Because you were mom at that point.

I think they know who mom is.

Oh, yeah, we bonded.

Like as soon as I met Beansie, and Brent and I started dating, and I went over to his house, I mean, we bonded.

She was up on the couch with me.

We were like laying together, sleeping together.

I slept with her before I slept with my husband.

So what made you decide to get a little dog?

So then, yeah, so she died in July, and I hate it not having a dog.

It's awful.

And then in October, I found her on an ad online and on Facebook from, I got her from the Docs and Rescue of South Florida.

And she was, I mean, she was just the perfect, she took a great picture.

You swiped right.

I swiped right on her dog Tinder.

Not that I have any idea about apps.

I don't even know if swiping right is.

I don't know if that's the good thing or the bad thing.

I don't know.

We didn't have to do that as we were doing.

Yeah, I accepted her ad, and then I drove down to Fort Lauderdale to get her, and she was found on the streets of Miami.

So she is like a tough city girl.

So we brought her home.

The second I saw her, I fell in love with her, and I was like, oh.

So I brought her home and Brum was like, what is this?

Would he have wanted a bigger dog or he didn't want a dog?

He didn't want a dog at that point because he was still grieving Beasley.

Yeah, but I feel like when that happens, the best way to get is to get a different dog.

And then you're still doing the same things.

I think the grieving process is you're not walking a dog anymore.

You're not eating a dog anymore.

You're not loving on the dog anymore.

It's so quiet.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Sometimes I wish for quiet at my house where there's no barking.

But speaking of chaos, right?

So I missed the chaos of the house.

So when we got Poppy, she became chaotic because she's a higher-energy dog, and she barks when she doesn't get her way, which is all the time.

She doesn't get her way.

Well, and her bark is so...

No!

I think it's so quiet.

Really?

Yeah, but think about it.

Your small dog breed...

I mean, your dog does bark loud.

The house rattles when she barks.

And Tim's like, what does she want now?

And I'm like, let me look.

Hello, what would you like?

Well, that's me too, because Poppy will be barking.

And she's like, what does she want?

I just took her out.

And I'm like, I don't know.

Let's get through it.

She's hungry.

She needs to go to the bathroom.

She just wants to complain.

Right.

She wants to complain, or like when you came over today, she wanted to see who was here.

So I mean, that's just a dog.

But my thing is, is last night was ridiculous.

And all it was was she wanted me to go upstairs with her to go to bed.

Yeah.

I want her to be able to go to bed on her own.

Go to bed.

But what am I saying?

I still lay down with them.

Well, she's obviously a Velcro dog, right?

So she's not going to go.

And there are nights where Poppy's like that too, is that she won't leave me alone.

And sometimes I'll just shut everything off and just make the house quiet.

So Poppy doesn't sleep with us.

She sleeps in that crate in her own room.

But she prefers that.

So she really was like, that's her comfort zone.

And she buries herself in her blankets.

So like she's napping right now, but that's what she likes.

Well, Willow hated a crate because we did crate train her because she's big.

So we were like, if you've got a six month old, 60 pound puppy, they can destroy things.

But she never was that.

She didn't destroy a lot of stuff.

But to get her in her crate, she literally had a whole charcuterie board in there because I was just trying to get her in there and she refused.

So she literally laid in front of her crate, asleep one day because she just laid down one sleep.

There was a piece of pepperoni.

There was like four pieces of cheese.

There was three biscuits in there.

And she was not having it.

She wouldn't go in there.

And she had a whole charcuterie laid out for her.

She refused.

So then finally, when she got, I guess she was about a year, we just took it down because she slept in the bathroom upstairs with us.

So she'd never used it unless we were gone.

But I'm like, she's not destructive when we're here.

Right, yeah.

And so, yeah, I mean, but now most of the time she's with me.

It's funny, some dogs just take to that crate and others do not want anything to do with it.

And she'll, if I let her sleep on the bed with me, she'll sleep for a little while.

And then like two hours later, she's panting.

Yeah, she wants to go back in her crate.

How old is she?

She's probably about nine.

We're not really sure.

So that, you know, to add to the chaos, we got her in October.

And then I found out I was pregnant in February and we just had this dog that she was kind of like a year and a half when we were having problems with her.

So it was very chaotic.

It still is today, but Matthew loves her.

And yeah, so she's probably nine and a half, maybe 10.

She's starting to get like...

Great.

So anyway, yeah.

So other than dogs...

What else is chaotic in our lives?

What else is chaotic, adding to the chaos?

Well, Emily has her belt testing tonight for martial arts and she's probably not gonna be able to do it because of her ankle.

No.

So, but she wants to go anyways cause she wants to do it with her class.

You can pay to do it by yourself or like Tim and her would have done their belt testing together cause he's belt testing tomorrow.

But she doesn't want to do that.

She wants to do it with her group.

Yeah, but if she's not gonna be able to...

Well, she can tell her instructor that's part of their line and then they'll modify things for her.

But she's already got all her stripes.

So pretty much she's already passed all of her stuff she needs to know.

So it's just a graduation type ceremony for belt testing.

Something fun for her to do, you know?

But it still stresses me out because I'm like, okay, I don't want her to injure her leg anymore.

And is she gonna forget?

Because if she's doing something and she's focused on something, I don't want her to forget that her legs hurt.

Because at that age, even when they're sick, they don't lay down.

I mean, I don't know how Matthew is, but I can't keep them lay down.

She will not.

The only time I will say that she was so sick with COVID, she was sick, now only 24 hours, mind you.

She fell asleep on the couch and she never falls asleep during the day.

And I'm like, oh no, she's sick.

Because if she falls asleep during the day, I'm checking temperature, I'm asking if she's okay.

Or if she sleeps in.

But yeah, I just feel like everything is chaos into the school years coming.

And it's like, okay, what do we do?

Do we do camps?

Do we not do camps?

Because we've got recitals coming, we've got just a ton of stuff is, it's crazy.

Like I feel like I can't catch up.

And then of course school ends, and then it's like, okay, what now?

And there's nothing to do.

Well, I'm really going day by day at this moment.

Well, you got a full like four days just today, I feel like.

Really?

Yeah, as much as you're doing today, I feel like you could have made that be four days.

I know.

And yeah.

You need a nap.

I will need a nap.

And then tomorrow, we've got two baseball games.

We've got another baseball game on Sunday, but it's contingent on what game we win, if we win games tomorrow, because it's a championship.

So I'm not sure what time those games are on Sunday, or if there will be games.

Now, do you think Matthew will want to be a baseball player?

Like, you know, as he goes through school, is that what he wants to do?

Like going to college and playing on their team or?

I don't know.

Is he not?

I don't have, like, we don't pressure him that way.

Well, no, I mean, normally that age, I mean, Emily tells me straight up what she wants to be when she grows up, and, like, her thought process of what she wants to do that.

Maybe boys are just different.

But I haven't asked him, so, gosh, you know what?

I just made a face, because I'm like, oh, gosh, is that a bad parent?

No.

I have not asked him.

But let me just say, I'm going to say that.

There are no bad moms.

They're just different moms.

Right.

How they parent, how they do.

Right, so the only thing I can tell you is that he models his cousin.

So his cousin is 17, and he's a junior in high school, and he plays baseball in high school.

So if you were to ask Matthew, yes, he wants to play baseball in high school.

Right now, he's on the fence about college because I went to UF, and I tell him I went to UF, but his cousin and his whole cousin's family went to Florida State.

So there are times where Matthew is like, no, I want to go to Florida State.

And I'm like, but you're Florida.

You bleed orange and blue.

If you know anything about Florida rivalries, Florida State and Florida just are rivals, like big time rivals.

But at this point, it doesn't matter.

He'll have to go to the campus when he's older and then decide on his own.

Right, exactly.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if I was going to college today where I'd want to go.

You would go to UF?

Would I go to?

Would you go back to UF?

I mean, I would, but that was my...

I mean, I have recollections of it, but I did go.

I saw my friends a few weeks ago back in Naples.

We went for a little high school reunion thing.

I think we talked about that before.

And one of them's got 17-year-olds, and his daughter was looking at colleges, and he was telling me about University of Georgia, and they went touring there, and he was like, that campus is beautiful.

And I was like, Georgia, really?

Because that's also another big Florida rival.

And this guy also went to Florida.

He's like, I know, I know, but I'm telling you that Georgia is prettier than Florida.

Yeah, but he said, I think she's gonna go to Florida anyway.

But I know there are other colleges out there that are-

I feel like it also has to do with what you wanna do.

It does.

You know, like where you go.

The girl I adopted Willow from, this is her last year, and she will be a vet, and she went to UF.

So, I mean, UF is known for the veterinarian school.

Right.

So, I think it just depends that too.

And I didn't think that way when I was going to college.

I didn't have any idea what I was gonna major in.

So, I know some kids nowadays, they go to college thinking of, okay, well, I'm gonna major in this, so I need to go to a school that specializes in that.

But I was really across the board.

I did not know what I was gonna do.

See, I didn't know what I was gonna do when I went to college either.

And the guidance counselor, because I just took my core classes.

That was my thing.

I'm gonna go take my core classes, then decide what I wanted to do.

And the guidance counselor would not leave me alone about it.

Well, you have to pick a major.

I'm like, I don't wanna pick a major.

In high school?

In college.

Oh, in college.

Yeah, and I didn't wanna pick it.

I just wanted to take my core classes and see what I wanted to do.

And apparently you're not allowed to do that.

No, because you have to declare major.

So I didn't do that.

I was like, I'm not doing that.

So then they mess with me so bad.

I'm like, I'm gonna stop going to college for right now.

And instead I wanted to do something in the medical field, but I didn't wanna be a nurse.

So then I went to massage therapy school.

Did that, got my license, went back and got my neuromuscular certificate so I could work on people that were in pain than just like a spa massage type thing.

And then eventually opened my own massage therapy clinic.

So that was the route I took.

And then I got hurt and that all flipped over, but we can talk about the whole other segment.

They just messed with me so much because I didn't at that point.

I mean, it was all over the place.

I wanted to be a judge for as long as I can remember until I realized that most of the time those judges were attorneys before they were a judge.

And I'm like, yeah, I don't want to do that.

I don't want to be an attorney.

But then of course, in my school age brain, you're thinking you have to be like a defense attorney or whatever.

Yeah, I had no idea about being a lawyer.

I just imagined you were in court and I didn't want to be in court.

Well, my mom and both of my aunts, they're sisters, they all worked for attorneys.

All different attorneys.

My mom worked for the attorney for the hospital at Baptist.

My aunt, Judy worked for, she worked for an attorney, but he did like contracts for like buildings and stuff.

And then my aunt, Connie, she was, I think he was a defense attorney.

Some kind of criminal attorney.

So there's all different ones out there, but I didn't think about that.

If I could give advice to kids these days, it would be investigate further.

So if you think you might want to do something, but you have an idea in your head, just talk to other people to see what there is actually out there.

Because I, so then after I graduated and I got into the workforce, I did marketing for a little bit.

And then I did, I got into magazine production for travel.

Yeah, which was actually my, what I majored in.

I have a journalism degree.

So I did that for a little bit, but I also contemplated being a paralegal because that was interesting to me.

But yeah, I, you know, if I could go back in time and being a journalism major back in the nineties was totally different than what it is today.

We did not talk about social media that that did not exist when I went to school.

So I am like a dinosaur.

Yeah, newspapers, I had to design a newspaper.

I worked at a newspaper for a little bit.

I mean, nobody does that today.

I know, I was telling Emily the other day, I said, you know, our Google was books.

You actually had to look up something, find your A and like, and she went, what?

And I'm like, yeah, we didn't, you know, we did not have a Google or a Wikipedia or none of that.

I feel like social media is good on some aspects and then other aspects that can be just not a good thing at all because with those filters that they have now.

I was doing some work for the PA board yesterday, and I logged in to the PA board Google account.

And in my Google drive, I saw my son's email address.

Did you know that our kids have an email address for the school?

No.

So they each have their own email address, and he sent me an email, so it was in my drive, but it was his grasshopper presentation that he did when he had to do the insect.

But I found out yesterday, yeah, they even have their own email addresses.

So he's seven years old, and he has his own email address.

Like I could send him an email, and he would get it when he logs into his Google account at school, because they have Chromebooks at school.

Yeah.

Yeah, I didn't have that in school.

Not in that.

No, I don't even remember like, I mean, let's think of when we were in school at elementary school.

Right.

But that's the thing, that's also another is, we've talked about homework before, and that adds to my chaos too, is because I have to make sure he's gotten his homework done.

Right.

Well, yesterday we were doing homework because I kept him home, you know?

Uh-huh.

But I'm like, you still need to do your homework for Friday, and you know, Thursday night, Right.

You didn't send Friday.

And there's a little thing on there that you can take a picture, and it teaches you how to do the thing, you know, it sends up a video.

And because Emily's like, well, we didn't go over that.

So I'm like, let's just watch the video.

Was it the shape one?

And that, you know, normally she'll learn it in school, but then I'm...

We were doing that last night at...

Lord have mercy, I'm having to teach it.

I'm like, where's your dad?

Yeah.

I can teach you science, and I can teach you language arts.

I caught on pretty quick, but we did not watch the video.

And math?

No, I don't want to do any of that.

You bring me a science project any day, and I will rock it like nobody's business, but...

And I rock math.

But yeah, that also adds to the chaos, because we were doing that last night at 8 o'clock when he should have been in bed.

Because he thought, this is the other thing, is that they get, for doing good things at school, they get homework passes.

Yeah, Emily got one on Monday.

So he thought because he got a homework pass and used it Tuesday, that meant he didn't have to do the Tuesday homework.

And it was like, no, sir, that means you don't have to do the Tuesday homework Tuesday night, but you've got to make up for it the next day or the day after that.

No, that's what I told her.

That is not true.

And I was like, yes, we need to ask the teacher because I said the same thing.

And I was like, that's right.

I'm like, if you use a homework pass, she's like, you don't use that.

You don't do the homework at all.

And I'm like, I don't think that's the case.

I'll ask her today because I'm going to see her in 15 minutes.

What else causes chaos in your life?

We started out with the dogs.

Poppy is very stressful in our house.

She adds a lot of chaos.

Well, chaos in my life is if I don't do certain things during the day, I want to plan out working out.

But that gets on the back burner when I'm doing other stuff.

Oh, yeah.

And then I'm like, I really need a nap.

And Tim's like, you can take a nap Monday through Friday from 8.30 until 2.15 if you want.

And I'm like, don't threaten me with a good time.

I'll take a nap.

So what else brings chaos in your life?

Not enough sleep.

My problem is that I don't know, I get in way to bed and then I feel like that's my time, you know?

Right.

And then you stay and watch shows or do something you enjoy because you're mom all day and then once they're asleep.

Yeah, I can't wait for 8 o'clock.

That's when Matthew goes to bed.

And some nights I'm all talking him in and being like, I love you so much son.

Like, you know, have a good night.

But other nights, I'm like, Brent, you take care of that.

Just my mom battery is done.

But yeah, and I feel like we have that, like moms just, I guess, because moms are required to be there at all times, like sometimes I don't know if even Tim thinks about it.

Like, he'll just go and like, he'll be like, Oh, I'm going to the store.

Yes.

But what if I said, Okay, I'm going to the store, there would be a whole line of like questions, and you know.

Does he, does he go to the store?

Does he tell you he's going to the store or ask you, Hey, do you need anything at the store?

Yeah.

He will ask all that.

Yeah.

Or does he ask, like, what else do you have to do today?

Like, is this an okay time for me to go to the store?

He didn't ask that, but he'll be like, should I wait until you're done doing whatever you were thinking of doing before I go to the store?

No.

Go do whatever I have to do?

No, because typically he will go to the store like during the day when Emily's at school.

But like on the weekends, let's say, which we pretty much do things all together on the weekends.

But if we're just hanging out or something, he'll be like, oh, I'm going to go to the store.

And we're like, well, we want to go too.

So he's like, are we the three of us?

Or is it Willow too?

Because everywhere we take Willow, it's, you know, if we take her somewhere, yeah, any trip that takes 10 minutes, we're gone an hour because people flock to her.

I don't know.

I just feel like moms have a different, different way.

Like we're always on, we're always the mom, you know, like dads, I think they don't think about that.

They go out in the garage and work in the garage or they don't even be like, okay, where's the kids?

Which I have to say, he's very hands on dad.

Like he does.

And he does a lot at home too, like, wait, I mean, I was playing ill in a chair the other day.

So that he was doing it all.

You know, it was kind of funny because I saw some similarities between what your husband does at home for the household and what my husband does at home for the household.

But there is something different where like I don't ever stop thinking about where Matthew is.

Right.

So I always think we're MNAS.

Where is she?

Right.

And on the weekend, if we're all home, I will not just get my purse and walk out the door.

Right.

Knowing that Brent's home with Matthew, I have to tell him or I have to kind of think about, okay, well, what's he doing?

And then make my plans around that, but he doesn't do the same for me.

Because I don't think dads think like us.

Moms are always moms, no matter if we have our kids with us or not.

Right.

Like right now, I'm like, okay, Emily's in school.

She's always in the forefront of my mind, you know?

But I don't think, I mean, dads are good dads, but it's like, they don't think like moms because...

Yeah, their brains must just be wired a little differently.

Yeah, they are.

Yeah.

And I've never read anything about it.

I'm no expert.

Me either.

This is just my observation.

My husband's great, especially with Matthew, but there is a difference, and I've told him this before.

There is a difference between him and me.

He will get up at seven in the morning and he will walk right out the door and go for a run.

But I cannot do that.

Well, number one, I'm not a morning person.

But number two is that I would never leave the house, not tell him where I'm going.

So like he'll just go out for a run.

Right.

And let me just say, I wouldn't be running anyways.

If I'm running, he's going to follow me because something's chasing me.

Yes.

But we kind of get into this argument because he wants me to, you know, well, I want to work out.

Right.

But he's kind of like, you said you were going to work out.

He's kind of he is my coach, I would say, because I'll tell him, hey, I'm going to start eating better.

And he'll be the nag.

See that.

And that's hard.

That's hard.

I'll say, okay, I must start tomorrow.

But don't talk about it.

I don't want to talk about it.

I want to do it on my own.

Well, right.

And he'll be remind me.

He'll be like, you said you were going to go out for a walk tonight.

And I'm going to walk to the store and get some chocolate.

And then I roll my eyes and I'm like, yeah, I said that at 6 30 this morning when I had just gotten up and I was like, oh, today's gonna be a glorious day.

And then life happened.

Right.

You're always mom, no matter what.

And I try to think back, okay, what was I like before I was a mom?

I don't really remember like how I was, you know, like was I, you know, get up in the morning?

No, I was not a morning person.

I'm still not a morning person.

But I was like, yeah, and I had a job.

Like I was working at a job, right?

But you could probably do whatever you wanted.

Well, meaning, right, you know, besides making sure whatever dog you had at the time was taken care of.

Right.

But now I'm in charge of like a little human that I'm like, she's okay.

And that again, the small brain, it's mom brain once.

And like, okay, so at night, Tim could sleep through a freight train coming through the house.

And so could Emily, because we were never quiet when she was little.

Me as soon as she came home, the smallest noise, I wake up and I'm like, okay, is that her?

And I'll listen.

And I go, so I don't know if moms even get a good night's sleep anymore.

I don't know.

I like to think that I do, but I wake up tired.

So I know I don't.

And I probably need a CPAP.

So because I have sleep apnea, and you don't have a CPAP and sleep apnea.

I have not been diagnosed in recent years, but at one time in my life, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea.

Yeah, I probably do.

I'm going to admit this on the airwaves.

I've been told I snore sometimes.

And probably it goes with weight too.

I need to lose weight.

But before I had Matthew, I was really diligent about going out for walks and pushing myself and timing myself.

So like, I would go out and I would say, okay, I'm going to walk three miles today, and I'm going to do it within this amount of time.

And I am not like that anymore.

Because your mom brings it.

But I probably should be.

I'm just so dang tired.

Yep, it's your mom's brain.

And I can't remember anything.

Don't ask me to remember anything unless it has to do with Emily.

If it has to do with Emily, I can tell you exactly what's going on.

Anything other than that, I don't remember.

Really?

I can't recall it.

Really?

Yeah, anything.

I can't tell you what I wore yesterday.

Yeah, I've been doing a little better in that area lately just because I'm at work.

I'm learning a new system.

I had to basically learn a new job.

I'm getting certified.

I haven't taken a certification test.

And it's hard.

It is hard.

Yeah.

I've done a lot of learning over the last, I'd say, four months.

So I'd say that I'm kind of using my brain a little bit more than I used to.

Maybe that's why you're tired.

It could be.

Because your mom brain and then you're doing all this other stuff to get your brain up.

It's at work.

It's really, I just get a really bad headache.

So the other day, speaking of being tired, I don't know if I told you this or not, but I was driving Emily to martial arts after I picked her up from school.

And she does her homework as we're going to martial arts.

And I told her, I said, you read your book, right?

And I'm just going to lay back in the seat for a minute because I am so tired.

I cannot stay awake.

Like I was almost felt like I hadn't slept in days, right?

My eyes were just shutting on her.

And so I leaned back and did that.

And I woke myself up because I think I was so asleep that I snored or something.

And it scared me.

And I woke up thinking it was something else.

Really?

And I looked at Emily and she was laughing and I'm like, was I asleep?

And she goes, oh, yeah, Mommy, you were out because I always like, don't open the door, stay in it, which I would have heard.

Yeah.

But she's like, you passed out cold.

You were so asleep.

Oh, my gosh.

And I've never done that before.

And normally I don't because I'm very aware of my surroundings.

Because I'm like, first of all, I have Emily with me.

And second of all, I just am like that person.

I'm always looking at what's around.

Now I passed out.

So I called Tim and I'm like, so I've just been asleep in the car at Martial Arts for like 30 minutes.

It's like, what?

I was like, I don't know.

I just all of a sudden I couldn't handle it anymore.

Like my body was up to a point and I was out.

Well, I was tired last night and I went to bed.

And Brent's always told me this is that you fall asleep the second your head hits the pillow.

I do too, if I lay down.

Yeah, and I fall asleep on the couch.

That's all I need is, and I've said it before, all I need is a pillow and a blanket and a cat on my lap.

And usually the cat will watch TV with me at night and cuddle up, but I went to bed.

Well, I fell asleep first on the couch and then I went to bed and just fell right asleep.

I didn't even know what hit me.

Right, yeah, that's what Tim always laughs.

He's like, when we try to watch a movie, he's like, don't lay down, don't lay down, sit up.

But I remember even in my 20s, I dated somebody when I lived in Massachusetts and we would go over to friends' houses and watch movies.

You'd go to sleep?

Oh my God, I went to sleep.

Well, first of all, we would be watching golf or something.

I remember that.

We went over to one of his friends' houses and I was watching golf with them and I could not keep my eyes open.

Well, that's a snooze fest.

It's kind of like Tim watching Bering Sea Gold or something.

Have you seen?

Oh, I love that show.

It's okay if they're actually finding stuff, but I don't want all the talk and all.

You don't.

Just let me see the gold you're finding and move on.

Right.

No, so every time I'm like, I really can't sleep, Tim's like, I'll turn my show on for you.

No, I fall asleep during World War II movies.

You dream of like...

Oh, see, sometimes I had a horrible dream one night because Tim was watching The Walking Dead in the bedroom and normally he doesn't.

And I dreamed, I guess, from the time he was watching that I was running from people, like running.

Yeah, I tune his movies out because I'll usually put my AirPods in and listen to a podcast.

Talk about chaos.

You just happen to have to watch a World War II movie.

Yeah, I don't really have my own TV to watch.

I watch TV on my phone.

What?

Yeah, this is how, this is my setup, my phone.

I get Xfinity Mobile here, and then I put my ear pods in and I will watch it.

Well, here's a question.

Why don't you make him watch something on his phone and you watch the TV every so often?

Because that won't happen.

Why?

He's a monopolizer of the television?

He monopolizes it.

We will have to question him about this when we interview them.

He'll just be like, well, and you know what the problem is, is that, you know, I don't know what the saying is, but when you let something go for so long and then you try to change it, there's a phrase for it.

But it's like passive, passive acceptance or something, when you just don't say anything about it right away and you just let it fly, and then, you know, it just becomes like that's what it is, and that's what's happened at our house, is that I never said anything about it and never really cared.

I mean, I've never really cared about TV really before, but I can remember watching The Office, but I don't really watch.

Do y'all watch shows together?

There are no shows because he doesn't like anything other than World War II.

Now, I will say that we watch YouTube, so he'll flip through YouTube and watch little videos and skits and stuff like that, but it's very random.

So it's not predictable.

So he'll be watching, there's this couple that live on a boat in Australia.

I can't, Skit and Fran, I can't remember what their show is.

That's my friend Sarah Falls, them too.

Yeah, so I'll watch that with him.

And so I'm watching it for a while, and then he turns it, and he'll turn it on something World War II.

Then I'm like, well, I guess that's over.

I don't know what the fascination is in that movie genre.

I don't know, but if anybody has knowledge about it, I would love to hear from you.

That's why I hate that.

You can find me on Midlife Moms Pod, all one word.

No spaces, underscores or anything on Instagram, please DM me.

I'm trying to think what Tim watches.

Tim watches The Walking Dead.

I won't watch that with him, but we do watch like Suits, that was good.

I tried to get Brent into Breaking Bad.

I watched all of that myself.

On my phone, I tried to get him into Mad Men.

I watched the whole thing by myself.

Did you try to get him to watch Suits?

Have you watched him?

I have not watched Suits.

I never got into that.

He doesn't watch any of the reality TV with me.

Yeah, so we really only watch YouTube together, like if he's watching something that I also enjoy.

You know?

So it's a wonder we're married and we've been married for 14 years.

Tim and I will watch certain shows, but I don't like shows that aren't relaxing.

I don't want to watch The Walking Dead.

I mean, it probably is very good material because we probably need to prepare for our apocalypse.

Is that what it is about, the apocalypse?

Well, Breaking Bad was good to watch the first time.

Have you ever watched that?

I watched some of it.

So I watched the whole thing, but now, and that was before I had Matthew.

So now that I have Matthew, I will not watch Breaking Bad again because it's too suspenseful, it's too gross.

It's too dark for me.

Same with Sopranos.

I loved Sopranos and I watched the whole entire thing, but he will watch little clips on YouTube about the Sopranos and I can't watch it.

I'm like, no, you've got to turn it.

I don't know what it is.

Did you ever watch Dexter?

No.

That was good.

And I'm not a gruesome person, but I really liked that.

I tried to get him to watch Schitt's Creek.

I told him, I was like, you would love this show.

It's funny.

And I know his humor.

I know he would like it, but he won't give it a chance.

Is that?

I don't know.

It's just, yeah.

Has he always been like that, or has it been?

Since I married him.

He was probably like that before.

I was just wondering if it was like, as he got older, he changed, or if it was like, he was always set in his ways.

I don't know.

He got married late, so he was probably already set in his ways.

But he's just, he told me he's always liked Hitler, and always liked like World War II stuff.

And I said, maybe you're Hitler reincarnated.

Isn't that awful?

Either he was a soldier in World War II in his prior life.

That could be it.

I do believe we have prior lives.

My stepdad watches a lot of war movies and things like that.

But he's older.

Is he like a history buff or anything?

On other subjects?

No.

Oh, he doesn't care about anything else to do.

Well, we're gonna ask them questions, and we're gonna figure that out when we ask them questions.

But that is something I did not know before I married him.

I did not ask this question while we were recording.

I mean, it's not a normal question you'd ask.

He gave me no signs to indicate that he was into World War II.

So what did y'all watch when y'all dated?

I don't know.

I knew you were gonna ask me that, and I can't remember.

You should ask.

But we didn't watch a lot of TV back then because...

Y'all were getting to know each other in other forms.

We were getting to know each other.

Yeah, right?

Yeah, I mean, I think that would come up.

Like, y'all would be sitting in his house, or your house, or whatever.

You'd be like, let's turn on the movie, and it's a World War II movie.

You'd be like, is this always what you watch?

No.

And I'm thinking back to when we were dating, but we lived in Naples, and his sister and husband and all their family lived in Fort Myers.

So we would go up there every weekend, and we would basically spend the weekend up there.

And of course, we were swimming in the pool, we were drinking, we were partying, we were on the boat.

We did not watch a lot of TV.

Right, well, that makes sense, why you wouldn't ask that.

Right.

Because I mean, if you had a questionnaire today versus when you were dating, you know what I'm saying?

So if I had a chance to redo it, and I learned a lesson, my lesson would be, okay, ask these questions.

Right.

Right.

So, no, really, he's a great husband.

And that wouldn't be a deal breaker.

I was gonna say, you're allowed to have flaws in that.

Right, and that's just a flaw.

It's his flaw.

It's his flaw, right, I mean.

But he can't get past it.

When I first started dating Tim, he was, he had earrings and long hair and wore combat boots.

And band t-shirt.

Oh my gosh, that's funny.

Tim still wears his band t-shirts.

They're just newer and don't have holes.

And he don't wear combat boots anymore, because that was his, I guess they called it headbanger, but I don't, I mean.

Yeah, so it was kind of funny because I was all EXP with kids and little cute socks and all put together.

And then there was him who, you know, black jeans, combat boots, a band shirt, long hair, long earring hanging out of his ear.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, and now, of course, and his brother, when we got married, had his hair.

And he's like, you can't walk down the aisle with long hair like that.

So he chopped it.

Yeah, and then he's had short hair ever since.

Oh, yeah.

But I don't care how long his hair was, you know?

Yeah.

So it didn't matter to me.

But yeah, yeah.

And we got married really early.

I was 21.

Tim was 23.

I was 34 and Brent was 41.

Yeah, so it finally roped him into getting married.

But it was you.

It was just me.

Like you signed up for this, buddy.

You knew what you were getting from day one.

Right.

That's what I told them.

I'm like, you love me and you know it.

Like you knew who I am.

This is how it goes.

But our lives, hopefully, will settle down a little bit now that summer is around the corner.

I want to do a lot of beach days.

Yeah.

I'm down for that.

I am down.

I'll drive us on the beach.

We'll go in the jeep and get on the beach and just stay.

I need one of those beach carts.

I've been looking for those lately.

Like the wagon ones?

Yeah.

I thought about getting one of those for Willow.

Oh, really?

That's a silly question.

I was going to ask, would she get in?

Yes, of course she would get in.

If she could go, yeah.

Yeah, she would.

But I thought about it because of her hips.

She can't walk that far.

So it's hard to walk in sand too, and especially down here, the beaches, you park in the parking lot, and then you've got to walk like a mile to the beach, I feel like.

Yeah.

Well, on the other day, when we went to St.

Augustine Beach, people were being pulled out left and right because the sand was so soft.

Yeah.

But I don't know why they were letting them on the beach because you're not supposed to get on the beach unless you have four-wheel drive.

There was a car on the beach, and I'm like, that's not a four-wheel drive.

And they were having to pull them out.

So I don't know how they got on.

It's typically they stop them.

Right.

I follow that page.

There's a Facebook page stuck on St.

Augustine Beach, and yeah, I always look at the cars and I'm like, how did they get on?

Yeah, I don't know how, unless somebody's not at the booth right then to let you on.

People are scared.

I don't think I could drive on the beach after seeing this Facebook page.

Well, you wouldn't drive your car on the beach.

Some people drive Superoes on the beach.

Is it a four-wheel drive?

It's an all-wheel drive.

Then you should be okay.

I wouldn't have gone last time.

Like, here's the deal.

I'll get on the beach first, and I'll call you and say, okay, the sand is good for your Superoo to get on.

Or I'll say, don't get on.

It would be my luck to be stuck.

Yeah, but then I could pull you out.

Right.

Because you're with me.

But I don't want to get put on that Facebook page.

Because they'll put you on blast if somebody's pulling you.

So yeah, they don't care whether you're stuck or someone's pulling you.

They'll be like, look at who's stuck here now.

Yeah, but then you go on and comment, I have an all-wheel drive Superoo.

Well, that Superoo is, I was gonna say good in the winter, but I've never driven my car in the winter.

It was a Volkswagen I drove in the winter, and that was really good.

And that was not even all-wheel drive.

Yeah, when we lived in North Carolina with snow, I would call in.

We're gonna say, I'm from Florida, I don't have drive in snow.

And then Tim would take off too, and then we'd go do donuts in his truck.

Really?

Yeah, I had a Jetta, and it was awesome in the snow.

This thing was made for snow, but it wasn't all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive or anything.

It was a five-speed though, so it was manual.

Fun.

I had one of those.

Those were the days.

Yeah, I don't know why they don't make that anymore.

Like, what is it?

People are lazy.

Oh, that's true.

I'll get one one day, but...

Need to get a Jeep, then we'll go to the beach.

I know.

Eep it out.

I know, I'm scared, but...

Scared of what?

Well, just getting a used Jeep that requires some mechanical work.

Well, let me just tell you, here's what the Jeep guy told me when I bought my Jeep.

The Jeep is the most accessorized vehicle on the planet.

You literally can modify it to know it.

Oh, right.

They've got everything you can think of for a Jeep, but it's the most accessorized Jeep.

Yeah, but it doesn't mean mechanically.

I know.

But old Jeeps would probably be easy to work on.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I don't have any experience working on a car.

Talk about chaos.

You should.

What?

I bought an old Jeep.

Her name's Chaos.

Yeah, it could be Chaos, yeah.

Well, last Sunday was a day of chaos, speaking of.

So I was at your house.

Oh, that's right.

Right, we were working on that stuff.

And then I drove home.

I've been gone almost all day.

And I pulled into my driveway.

There's a dog walking on the sidewalk.

You've never seen it before?

Just do-de-do-de-do-de-do walking.

And you've never seen it?

No.

Nope, so I opened my door and I'm like, hey dog.

Well, my son was out with all of his friends.

And so I said, hey, Kyson, can you check on that dog to see if it has a collar?

And he's like, it does.

I said, well, just reach out and see if the dog will let you, like, cause it looked friendly.

It didn't look, it was just do-de-do-de-do-de-do.

So Kyson was actually able to grab the collar.

Well, he didn't do it forcefully or anything, cause he was kind of like petting the dog's back as he was walking by.

So that's how I knew the dog wasn't gonna attack him.

So he didn't have a name tag, had an old expired rabies collar from the city.

And I'm like, because-

Now you got a dog.

You know, I'm like, I can't just let this dog keep going down the road.

I mean, I have too much of a heart, like I can't with animals.

So I got out, I took over the dog, I asked Matthew to go get the leash.

So he got me a leash and there we go, we have a dog.

So I'm like, okay, where does this dog belong?

So Matthew and all of his friends were like, we'll walk him around the block.

Can I walk him around the block?

I said, sure.

So he's going out, trotting around the block.

I was on my phone because we have a neighborhood Facebook page.

So I was trying to see, did anybody lose this dog?

Mind you, it is almost time for dinner.

Like Brent has made dinner and he is waiting for his family to come sit at the table and eat dinner with him.

So nobody was looking for a dog.

When Matthew and his friends came back, I took a picture, posted it on the Facebook group page, said, hey, anybody missing a dog?

Then I got in my car and I went around the street, my window's down, and I tooled around the neighborhood for about, well, it was only gonna be just one or two loops.

But I ended up an hour and a half in the car, driving around the neighborhood, looking for anybody who was outside, stopping them, asking them if they were missing a dog or knew who this dog was, nobody.

So now after an hour and a half, I'm like, okay, I have to make a decision here because what am I going to do?

So I texted my vet and I was like, here's the deal.

So I texted them, I've got, you know, because somebody said, well, maybe he's got a chip.

Oh yeah.

And the dog stunk.

So it would have to get a bath.

And I was about to give up on life.

Like really, it was, I was at the end of my rope.

My parents also came over because they were down the street eating at Stonewood and they had had their appetizers and they're sipping their wine.

So they're like, oh, we just want to come over and say hi because I live right here.

And so they pull up and I'm running around trying to look for this dog.

Poppy comes with me.

So at this point, I had come back from going around circles with my car.

And I'm like, okay.

So Poppy came out with me.

I let her go to the bathroom and my parents left because they were like, I don't want anything to do with this, no.

And Poppy is walking ahead of me.

I can't keep up with her.

The kids are taking the dog around the circle.

So at this point, I'm like just giving up and I thought, okay, what am I gonna do next?

What's my next step?

Well, I don't know where the dog is.

I get Poppy back.

Oh, my dad says to me, as he's pulling around the corner trying to get out of the neighborhood, he goes, your dog just pooped.

You should clean that up.

Not that he offered to help clean up or anything.

He was just making sure that I knew it, which I could see the dog was going poo.

And I always clean up my poo.

So I'm like-

Your dog or the dog you found?

My dog, my dog.

My Poppy.

So I'm like, okay, I'll get it.

And he said, well, make sure you clean it up with a bag.

I screamed at my dad.

I was so frustrated.

This was like chaos just exploding.

And I was like, I got it.

I'm an adult.

This is my dog.

I know what to do.

I was having a breakdown.

So I walk, turn around, get Poppy, turn around the corner, walk back to my house, which is just like, you know, three houses down, let Poppy in the house.

I hear somebody down at the other end of the street.

And I'm like looking over there.

It's this woman walking down the street and she's calling, Ollie, Ollie.

I ran down the street and I was like, are you missing a dog?

She's like, yes, I'm missing a dog.

I said, what color is it?

She said black.

So I had the dog on my phone and I'm like, what's black and white?

It's an Aussie.

Is this your dog?

And she goes, yes, where is he?

I was like, well, my son and his friends have him.

They're walking him around the block because we're looking for his owner.

Oh, I've been painting in my house.

I didn't know he got out an hour and a half later.

I'd say, lady, you owe me some hot food.

An hour and a half later.

I'm like, okay, she goes, where's my dog?

I said, well, my kids are walking.

At this point, I just called them my kids.

I'm like, my kids are walking him around.

I said, I'll, you know, but I'm not getting back in the car to drive around and find them again.

I said, they'll be back in just a minute.

Well, 10 minutes later, they come around.

And she's like, oh my God, hi.

Well, he was deaf.

Oh, he's going blind.

He's about 15.

No wonder why he was so sweet.

Because he didn't know where he was.

He had no idea.

He was probably like, I on paint fumes.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

Did she even say thank you?

You know, I don't recall a big thank you.

So I want to say no, but I was just glad that the owner was found.

Well, you did your good deed.

I did.

But if I check mark, but if that dog had not found me that day, what would have happened?

Like, would he have gone home or would he have just gone out to Bay Meadows Road and gotten hit by a car?

Oh, yeah.

It goes on in my head.

I caused my own chaos too, but that was chaotic.

Yeah, but then you if you didn't do anything, then you'd be worried about that.

Oh, yeah, I can't be like, oh, my gosh, I'm going to see that dog somewhere.

But I had hoped my vet was going to be like, why don't you just bring him over here and we'll hold him for the night.

But he didn't offer that.

Well, like this chaos.

And that was after a nice relaxing day at your house.

Relaxation, we had cookie dough.

We ate cookie dough and sat on the porch.

Someone made me a smoothie.

We were waiting on hand and foot.

That's right, he did wait on his hand and foot.

We had a smoothie, some cookie dough.

It was a nice, lovely day.

Nice breeze on the floor.

So then after the dog, we like come back in here, you know, Brent's frustrated because he had dinner, hot dinner on the table, and it was cold and we had to eat it.

And Matthew was running late because we had school the next day.

I was like, you know, it just, I mean, that's life.

You cannot have a rigid schedule and just you got to go with the flow.

Yeah, you just have to.

And I try to do that, like on the summer I do that, but during the school year, if Emily doesn't get her sleep, she doesn't function good with that.

So then that, you know, she's upset or things that normally don't make her upset, make her upset.

Right.

You know, she likes her schedule.

But last night, speaking of schedule, I think I told you this, where she said she wanted to be a vampire.

So she didn't have to sleep at night anymore.

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

Yeah, she's pretty funny.

Tonight, I'm just looking forward to a night.

It's been a hectic day, chaotic day.

You should get you some cookie dough.

I have one more errand to run, which is to go pick up Matthew at school.

And then tomorrow, two baseball games out in the hot sun.

We're doing martial arts until 11.30, I guess.

Oh, so you'll be done before I will.

And then we'll be doing nothing.

I've got to get her off her feet.

Yes.

I'll go home and play Mario?

Luigi Mansion 3.

Oh my God.

So addicted.

Anyway, well, I guess I'll sign off.

Okay, so this has been another fun-filled episode of Midlife Moms Pod.

Find us, we post every week.

You can find us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

We post pictures on Instagram too.

What's our Instagram handle?

Oh, don't ask me.

It's midlifemomshod.

No underscore, no dash, no.

All one word.

All one word.

That's right.

And find us under the blue square.

Put the two girls on the front.

Yeah, the blue square with the two girls and the microphone, so yes.

All right.

Well, we'll see you later.

We'll see ya.

Bye.