REVEALING THE TOP 4 FINALISTS FOR CAR OF THE YEAR

Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. You know when I get that a marriage it's not 50% it's both people giving 100 but it is about who's right and who's wrong sometimes and he's wrong. So I added it to the list and I like a little healthy friction it keeps things spicy. And Liz. I remember there was a time in my life how old was I? I had to have been in high school or college where like I considered getting a Victoria secret credit card. Your mom time all starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. And Liz. Hey everyone happy friday. I feel it's going to be back into a routine who's like loving a routine. Yeah. Yeah. It was just like a little taste of like what summer could bring. Oh. And I'm so unbelievably unprepared. Yeah. Okay. Summer. Yeah. I always forget that you have like school aged kids and then like throws a wrench into things. Yeah. And like at some point when you just have like the sheer number of children that I do is like I could have three babysitters here and I'm still going to get nothing done. Like I just can't my house can't take the wear and tear. So you have to find places for the children to go for everyone's sanity and sake. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let's just like not that let's focus on what we have when we have January which is going to just be a great month. I again, I'm not like doing a challenge like I absolutely never. But this is my second day in a row wearing a waistband with pants with buttons. Uh huh. You know for like no reason like I so didn't have to get dressed these past two days but I chose to and so far I'm loving it. You know I hate to say you get treated differently in public. So I saw a real and it says that women who were make up make 30% more like money and it's not about being pretty. It's not going to be attractive. It's about like having effort being a person who like dresses up. So again, I'm on day two. So like let me just level with you guys like I'm not I'm not asking anyone to join me and said challenge. I'm not asking anyone. I'm just sharing challenge. There's no challenge. But I plan to get dressed tomorrow. You know what I have found if you're not a gene person like you're like I do think I could stand to expand out of like leggings or yoga pants like dress pants like slacks like I get them from Amazon or not Amazon. I apacron B. Yeah. I'm wearing them right now because I I had I wanted to look nice today. Oh get into what I went to go do. But I was like oh I don't want to wear jeans. And so I just like through these like black slacks on with a sweater and I'm telling you I go into the coffee shop people are treating me differently. I've been treated differently today. For sure. Yeah. And I've treated myself differently. Most importantly. Yeah. Anyway so something I'm doing because last month I talked about how like I'm not rotating my clothes anymore because I just haven't been. And I like for some reason I've never thought to live in a world where I can just take clothes out of my closet and not get rid of them yet. You know like it just I've been living in a world of definite in terms of my clothing and see like keep it or get rid of it. Keep it or get rid of it. And I said I'm just going to like as I'm getting dressed every day if I try something on and I'm like oh I don't want to wear this I'm putting it in a bin. Okay. So I brought a bin up for my storage room. It's just on the floor in my closet like this is not not here for aesthetics. And my plan is just to kind of make like a purgatory. You know. So I'm not even taking out the summer stuff because like they have a spot. But like I put on these pair of jeans and I'm like I don't like these jeans. I like I don't want to wear these today. And I'm going in my head being like well what if I get invited to a Hawaiian themed party and these are the jeans that work with the shirt like I'm doing like that game that we do with ourselves. Yeah. So I put them in the bin. And my plan is what I'm doing is I go in my closet every day and I'm going through all of my pants because to me I think my pants are the bigger issue because the top is a top. Of course. Of course. I'm so exhausted with the pants and the hems and the wastes and the shades and the rep like there's so much variety in my pants and I find it exhausting. So I am going through my jeans. So yesterday I put on a pair of light washed made well jeans. Forgot about them. Haven't touched them. I put them on. They button. So it was already a good day. And I was like these are the jeans I'm styling today. So that's what I did today. I'm wearing these like little wider leger little genies. These are the ones I style today. Look I have a loafer. Oh wow. I might throw in a heel. You want a heel? Take it day to night. You could at this rate. So tomorrow I don't know what the next pair of jeans will hold. Is it a skinny? Is it a flare? Is it a rip? It doesn't matter. That's the one I'm styling. You know I think that's wonderful and I love that and I think we could all maybe just stand to try our pants on. I set on the last podcast how I wanted to make a video about me going through my pre-baby clothes and I saved what? Three years ago at this point. I found the box in my basement because I was looking for something and I just like pulled out the first thing that was sitting on top. Size six faux leather express pants and I was like these are worth holding on to and I can already tell you like they're so dingy express like does it does express even so close anymore. Like I cannot wait. This is going to be such good content. I cannot wait to go through this box of clothes that I was like I got to keep this stuff. And at this point you need to keep them in other 10 years because like it's just going to get like we can do the real but let's not get rid of anything. I want to show these to our girls one day. I'll just show them the real. You say that you are such a throw away. Kelly after I had James Kelly was like I don't know why this was helpful. She goes I'm going to come to your closet and work you're going to try everything on and we're going to throw half your clothes away. Which is like such a crazy donate. Donate okay get out of my life which is a crazy thing to do tell anyone to do when they're postpartum. Anyway we did it and I gave a lot of the clothes away to my sister in laws and now like they'll show up to a family event in my old blue sweater and I'm like well I wish I would have kept that stupid blue sweater because it's really cute. Kelly told me to get rid of it because like oh it didn't look good on me too much postpartum. Okay I don't remember doing that. I'm not denying it. I'm not denying it. You remember we sat in my bedroom and we tried every piece of clothing in a week. Two months and I do think there was a level that is helpful because it's also toxic to be postpartum and look at all the clothes that don't fit you. That's also my intentions are pure. I was just interesting to see because I think you were really hasty then and now you're like on this weird like hey let's not get rid of the faux leather express pants. I'm sorry I tried to take that back. Let me let me stay consistent. I take that back. I get rid of it. Can't believe you kept it this long. Anyway speaking of things we thought so on today's episode we have a lot coming at you. We are going to be doing our last three transactions. We are going to be doing industry news. Ditch the drive through general banters and I think that's kind of what's on the dock. You know it's Friday so we're not like trying to do too much but we're also trying to do enough. Totally. So anyway that's what I'm up to close purgatory. I plan to get dressed tomorrow and it's like my sister and law once told me you make better food decisions in jeans. So for nothing else you know we're all on our New Year's diet and I double I just think differently at a restaurant in a pair of jeans and in a pair of leggings is all I'll say. Yeah. Just in like an awareness kind of way. Like it's kind of like when people used to like tie a string on their finger to remember something. What? Have you ever heard that? No. That's like an old and a thing. They used to like tie string on their fingers they would remember to do something. That's a good idea. Yeah. So I'm saying like that's me wearing jeans. Okay. It's just remember. Summer's coming. Now that's so interesting. I've never heard that. The thing that I did today was I went to a preschool tour which is like crazy to think that I'm even at the age that I could have a kid in preschool and here's thing. Some people might be like it's all early. He's two and a half like enrollment is open and like there's wait lists and all this stuff and like I've never done it. So I went through the school. I did cry when I was there because like I can I saw like boys playing like to get like the girls were sitting in corner playing together with boys or playing together. I just can't believe I almost have a preschool aged kid and they were talking a lot about how they have to be like ready for kindergarten and that's why we go to preschool is to because this school is like you have to qualify to get into kindergarten and like these are the things you have to be able to do and I'm like I felt you know when you become a mom for the first time and you're like who allowed me to like take care of this thing like who granted me permission to take care of this thing I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like who granted me permission to like teach a kid how to recognize his name or like learn his letters and numbers and shapes and I'm like how and how am I going to do this? I'm not a teacher and now I feel like and now I feel like it's on me that I have to teach him how to do all these things. Okay well do you want me to sympathize with you or do me talk you off a ledge? No I want you to talk me off a ledge there's nothing to sympathize with I just didn't know it's just like one of those things. I'm getting the hang of this motherhood thing I can keep kids alive. Well not to so I think that's school's being a tad dramatic kindergarten readiness is kind like you don't know this because like you're not on the side of Instagram but like we could bring busy toddler ones to talk about it it's kind of like a hot button issue like the term kindergarten readiness. Okay and it gets like fleshed out there to parents like we're supposed to be doing something and they're fine you know my daughter haddy she's not even in kindergarten like haddy's not even in kindergarten like yeah think about haddy she is so mature like she's ready for like I mean she will be ready for kindergarten but like she's not even there yet. Yeah that's true okay so I think it's like James is not going the James you know is not the one going to kindergarten. Okay yeah that's so true. You know what I mean like no yeah and he's like so smart um like Jordan's in kindergarten like the difference between Georgia and James. Oh I would like kill to have a James James be a George right now. No it's like so good and I did nothing I did nothing. Okay I think the most important things I think the most important things you can do is be a present mother and I think the chips will fall where they may and I think you're gonna do what you need to do but no I would not get out a flash card at age three. I know that's what I was like I had no idea. It sounds like this preschool is trying to sell it's a sales pitch you're getting sold which is fine preschool is good. I love preschool but like of course they're going to tell you all the things they're going to do to prepare them for kindergarten. Sure. But like okay it sounds like you're job then. Yeah. I've never once ran through the ABCs with my kids they learned it at school now they do them. Okay okay but you know and you read to them and like you sure you can like practice writing his name but again all these things I was like oh my gosh I didn't it I didn't know and until you have just again I'll say again how do you not even name kindergarten and how do you can write her name I was a ABCs yeah and all these things just kind of happened. They do I mean James it's like to walk I think James can loosely sing his ABCs so like I know it just like happens but it just felt like a lot coming at me but anyway that's what I did today. Well that's really exciting um hope that you can get them into a preschool I'm so excited because next year all my kids will be or my three big kids will all be at the same school it's so fun. I'm in this weightless of it all too I'm like oh my gosh like yeah well you can rest in the bowl we're like trying to recruit. Yeah you guys are like yeah I know it's fine it'll be fine that's plan. 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So my first one is the one I'm the most excited about. So my husband I shared this on my stories briefly but like my husband broke a butter dish in my house. Oh yeah. And he broke it for the most moronic reason. So like we leave our butter on the counter. I feel like you're you're you're you either leave your butter in the counter or you leave your butter in the fridge. We grew up in a butter on counter household and I've carried that into my household. So I have a nice butter dish that always stays out our butters at room temperature. If you didn't know you can do that you can do that. So nice because you always have soft and butter. Are you a butter on counter household? Of course. Yeah, okay. Um and at my husband is so I guess is anal the right word. Is that like the word I'm thinking of? Maybe that's such a gross word. I know I like that word. No but like that's what you call that particular. He's so particular. And I always say like you have so many rules. Like why do you have all these rules? He's has so many rules and systems and like he's so involved in things he shouldn't. I know he's need to be involved in. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So his rule has less opinions on things. Like I'll get into it in a second. But so his rule is once the butter runs out of the butter dish let's wash the butter dish every single time. I'm over here being like I'm just going to slap a new thing a butter on it and move on about my day but his rule is you have to wash it. Okay. So we ran out of butter. He washed the dish and then he was like I'm going to stick this in the fridge so it cools it down so the butter doesn't melt right away when we stick it on the butter dish. What? I'm over here being like the whole point is that the butter melts so it's softened. Yeah. That's what he said. So he sticks the clean butter dish that he just washed on the round of butter into the fridge. But he like put it on top of the ketchup. So then I come in guns ablaze and trying to get some kids some freaking chocolate milk. I open up my fridge. The butter dish flies out at me and shatters on the ground. I was like who put the butter dish in the fridge on top of an unstable surface. The whole thing was so stupid. So now I have crying kids and I'm having to get the dice now because I don't have ceramic butter dish all over my kitchen floor. So to get him back I first I have a running list on my phone titled Things Tyler Broke because I just think it's really important to you know when I get that a marriage is like it's not 50% it's both people giving a hundred but it is about who's right and who's wrong sometimes and he's wrong. So I added it to the list and I like a little healthy friction it keeps things spicy. And then I bought the McKenzie towels blue check butter dish. Yeah I did. Yeah so then I bought a hundred dollar butter dish. So there you go. Don't put that in the fridge. Do not share that. I was afraid when that we registered for nine years ago. We got married now we have this one. There's so much that's crazy about that story. Number one for me is that your husband would ever even know that the butter ran out to then wash it. Is he a buttering toast like Maddie doesn't I don't maddie's I don't think has ever used our butter dish. So he cut like so cook breakfast in the morning. Tyler makes I really would just listen to this podcast but I love him so much. So Tyler makes eggs every morning. He he makes eggs every morning. That's all awesome. Okay. Okay so that's what he's using the butter dish for. So anyway it arrives today like I'm so thrilled and I know he's gonna hate the butter dish too which is the cherry on top because it's just like different like if it was up to him he would have ordered like six of the same butter dish and like stuck him in our basement. He's so weird. Oh my gosh that's so funny. Yeah. Okay well excited for your new bougie butter dish. Uh me too. Something so boring that I bought that has been so great is I got a Wi-Fi extender. Oh yeah you did. Yeah Kelly and I were having such issues recording the podcast which is why like the last couple of episodes we haven't been able to clip because like I my Wi-Fi wasn't working. So I just like went on Amazon and bought a Wi-Fi extender which I didn't really as you could do hooks up to my Wi-Fi and now I have great Wi-Fi and like the dead zone of my house. Yeah so what's that about? So does your Wi-Fi cost more? No I don't think so. I mean I think that the extender was like about like a hundred dollars like but I you know it's okay because I had to do it for the business um but it's like working now. No I understand but I don't understand how it's working. So it like I don't know how it works either it's connected to my Wi-Fi and then I put it in my office. So the extenders in my office and then I connect my computer to it's called like our Wi-Fi extension. So it's kind of like a different Wi-Fi that it's connected to. I don't know but it's really been great. That's awesome. I just I thought I was gonna have to call AT&T and like go through a whole thing but turns out I just had to buy one off Amazon. Well my next thing is twofold. I recently so Fred's birthday is coming up and you know ever since like we know one of my micro hobbies of the past year was my birthday banner. Did you ever order one? No. You need to get one. Okay well no one's birthdays coming up. Okay well I'm gonna be until June. So Fred's birthday is coming up and I saw on Amazon these Mary Posah number candle holder sets and I saw these in a boutique. I saw these in a boutique one time and I'm like that is such an incredible gift like if I had that I would have it for forever like then you then you're always ready to go for anyone's birthday. So I finally I had an Amazon gift card I pulled the trigger on it and I got these stunning silver candle holder sets and I was so jazzed because I'm like I can make any number now because it comes with a zero through nine. So I can do 10. I can do 29. I can do 34. I can do 21. I can do anything except 11 22 33 44. I was like oh I can't do that. Someone put it on Instagram. So I post that to my stories and then Mary Posah the brand reached out. Oh love. No they did not force me. They did not force me. They actually didn't do anything. They said yeah we sell singles but most people just buy a second set. How much is the one set? $60. Oh gosh that's expensive. I know well that's what especially for two sets. Like for $60 I was like okay well like how much is the birthday candle? $5 for like one of the number ones. Maybe it's a lot. I don't buy this. I don't normally just do this maybe. I've only ever had to get up to six so I've just always like bought like the little birthday candles. But yeah but whatever. Okay so you bought two. No so here's what I'm doing. I think it's a good thing to just like add to like I wish I would have asked for this for Christmas from mom because it's a great gift. So another birthday who's coming up as our brother and now is this something that Craig would want? No but now that Craig's getting married I can just like wrap him. Now he's a household. I can just get a household gift. So I'm buying one. Hopefully they're not listening for Craig for his birthday. And then when George turns 11 I will borrow for the one from Craig and Jarwin. Well now I think they're so cute and I think this is a good idea. However something that I do because we always celebrate the Marine Corps birthday every year and I always buy candles for the year. So it was like 250 was this year. But the last several years was 249, 248. So I bought those candle numbers at the grocery store and so then I had a two and a four and an eight and then I just had to go the next year and buy a nine and then the next year. So now I have like multiple candle like you can reuse those candle numbers. You know 100%. I just think it's like what's your vibe? Is your vibe like the silver with like white candles on top or is your vibe like confetti candle? Well I'm not saying that I'm not going to go buy those as well because I think that's a good idea. I'm just saying like or alternatively. Totally. You can just reuse them. I think and you know me I'm always like the one I'm always hope like trying to accumulate things that my kids will fight for one day. Which like I don't know where I get this from because like what are some things we would fight for at mom's house. Her jewelry. Well yeah of course we have we all have our eyes on our favorite pieces of that. I know great some things she's getting one thing and she's like so dreaming. We're gonna do it like ladies and we're gonna do a pick for pick. Yeah. Like hot like it's freaking Halloween candy when that time comes. Yeah. Um no but just like I don't think about like I honestly like one like sentimental thing. Well and you know what I think I think it will actually like happen throughout the years like you got her Halloween candy bowl and then you know what she just dropped off at my house like boxes of Christmas decorations. She gave me that penguin countdown thing on the egg. What? Yeah she just gave it to me. So now I have the penguin countdown. Well you know what I want is I want those Halloween trees with the eyes. Oh yeah. I want the tall nutcracker. Okay fine. I want. It's not included. There are three other siblings. No I don't know it's just something funny because it's like I can't I don't I can't think of I mean I guess holiday stuff. So maybe that's why it's so important to be investing in like holiday decor. Not even expensive stuff but just like because that's the stuff that you'll remember because like your taste are gonna change like your kids are gonna want like you're like you know like your home goods pain. Yeah it's true. It's true. Like they're not gonna want that. Yeah but they might want our Halloween and Christmas and Easter stuff. My Lennox cookie jar. It's giving heirloom. It's okay. So what were we doing? Oh we're doing last three. Okay so my three transactions. Okay um this next one that I bought is kind of personal but when I told you that I bought this your reaction was unexpected. So now I just like feel like I have to say I just so like I can be told I'm not crazy. I told Kelly that I placed a Victoria secret order because I like to get my underwear from Victoria secret because I've been buying the same like type since I've been in high school and it's just like I've tried I do like skims. I have like two pairs of skims but like my Victoria secret is like so my tried and true and I just had like no one is buying Victoria secret underwear and I'm like I feel like that's where everyone's buying underwear. I hadn't heard the name in 10 years five years like Victoria's secret like what is even the website look like anymore like I was so right I was so shook to my core that you were buying Victoria's secret. Well and it doesn't come across my desk very often and I totally buy it for that. Talk about a fall from grace. I will never forget like you know how they say like you remember where you were when like certain things happen. I remember where I was the day that Victoria's secret said we're gonna stop selling swimsuits and get into that leisure. Yeah. I remember where I was. I was in my parking lot in college and we were doing the little thing because they used to have those cute little ruffle butts. Swim bottom. The mix and match. The mix and match and we would spend hours mixing and matching hours. There was a time in our life where the only place to buy a swimsuit targets are always had like okay swimsuits but like a good nice swimsuit that you were going to spend some coin on was Victoria's secret and when they said it was like they opened the floodgates for every other any other brand to come out beyond top and they lost I have to imagine so much money. Well they just like stopped do they were like no we're gonna go in on active wear. That was the stupidest idea and I've never gone back since. Yeah and then like the fashion show and just like it's truly such a fall from grace like they were such I remember there was a time in my life. How old is I had it been in like high school or college where like I considered getting a Victoria's secret credit card and our dad is like you could have one credit card but I was like okay but I could have had two credit cards because I would love to get the point so I could redeem stuff at Victoria's secret. Can you imagine the chokehold they had on us they had us for lounge wear they had us for underwear they had us for beauty products they had us for those little pink dogs they had us for those pins you would get a coupon in the mail for a free underwear do you remember those days yeah seven for 28 I'm there remember like their sale was like the biggest sale at the mall it's insane you'll have to let us like wins but like is the quality the same or have you know what they were they were they were just delivered so it's I I need to I need to try them out. I kind of took a hey this with trying other brands like just have hated them all probably need to buy anywhere more regularly I am personally maybe how they are now they're doing a five third five for 32 which feels steep to me yeah you know and like it was for it spent a hundred dollars and get free shipping so I'm like well I could probably use two bras too so like I just kind of committed because I know knew I wasn't going to be frequenting there again for a while that's so crazy I miss them you know what they're also like I was looking at some of their bras and I'm like can you guys just class it up a little bit like they have in the middle of the bra they have this like bedazzled v s and I'm like who is wearing this yeah buying the bedazzled v s like you are a brand that matters and then I feel like the problem with Victoria secrets like you know then they're like okay we're not going to touch up our models we're going to be more inclusive and it's like like what was just like a little too late you know what I mean because it was like they were the last ones to do it and it felt like you were just like doing it because you had to not because you wanted to but it's just like that aesthetic doesn't match like the vibe like it's like you're supposed it's like this is honestly that might as well start using AI models at this point yeah it's weird it's weird but I'll let you now that I've put it out there now that I've aired my dirty laundry I will give everyone an update on how the quality is thanks Liz okay okay my last transaction was a good old-fashioned trader joe's haul that's right I went to TJs for the first time and probably six months I just haven't been frequenting a trader joe's I see this again if you live in St. Louis to me there's not one that's conveniently located nothing's coming across my desk ever like I'm always going from where I live to where they're located in St. Louis I'm always going out of my way we need one in Baldwin that's what I need okay Baldwin Ellisville would work well for me town and country like that area I just think all the parking lots in those areas are like fine though and so trader joe says it really like to put locations where parking lots are functional they're so crazy so anyway I went to Trader Joe's and I'll be honest it wasn't as good as I remembered it being um I felt a little uninspired felt a little complicated if I'm being honest it's just like I'm looking for just ingredients and like they're constantly throwing like a truffle oil on something it's like I'm just like looking for regular regular ingredients um and like I didn't eat I was kind of like so overwhelmed I couldn't even like go to like the five items or less Instagram account the things I only spend $78 which feels really good um and I bought six bags of the potatoes with peppers you really have to go in there knowing what you want because it can get really overwhelming because you're reading so many labels and like trying to figure out what something is and it feels like nothing was going together like I'm like picking up a carnitas that's marinated in basil tie and then there's like red chili oil and then there's like it's just like what how do I make a meal out of all these items it's so weird yeah you really need to go in with a plan like you really need to like go through five items traders five items less Instagram or like her course book surely no one's doing like their weekly halls there because like that's crazy I think if you had like a rotation like you of meals you could because I used to do that but I also lived alone yeah so maybe it was different but yeah I I've also lately found it to be just like kind of overwhelming and hard to go there if you just like go on a win like you really have to know what you're doing so um that was my last transaction last transaction that I did was I like James is a need of new jammies um it's been forever since I order him new jammies outside of like seasonal ones um and I've been like loving bird speeds but I was like what patterns does little sleepy's have nothing new it's been forever since I've ordered anything little sleepy says nothing new so I placed a pretty good order from Kate and Lane okay they have some really cute prints right now for boys I think and um yeah it's it's so nice because he's just at this age like the 2t3t like they just last and closed so much longer I know it's so nice so I'm like okay well I'll just like place a hall and like yeah it's gonna be you know they were they were all 20% off too but um you don't spend like a hundred dollars but like he's gonna be able to wear these for like actually a year so I need to I need to oh I'm gonna be in a bad across roads with George because it's like when is he too old to wear like those tight little jammies and like when does he just wear like t-shirt you disgusting yeah no one talks about that I have not seen any content on how sad it is like I will be that mom when it's like it's like trying to get like your three month old back into their newborn outfit like I'll be trying to get George yes like I'm matching a little sleepy set I'm hoping one day it'll just wake up and give me the egg like men and pajamas too and I'll just stop he might be ready to maybe but not yet no not yet um but this is a reminder like if you are like a holiday jammie person like all the brands have their Easter out they have their St. Patrick's Day out um there are some cute ones. 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walls in like we know he completely like reated the entire house like he has so many man hours in here and he's like it took so much time and money to get these walls like patched and painted and repaired he's like I don't want to go around like putting nails in them and I'm like totally like I understand we're gonna take our time but like at some point things need to be hung pieces need to be bought now it is a double extra because I wouldn't love to like admit this to him but like I am grateful because it has really made me take my time with things because I would have just gone it probably like gone pretty crazy and like yeah gone to home goods bought a bunch of stuff through a bunch of on the walls and I'm like oh I don't like that they're actually yeah my walls are stunning there's like four things hung on them but now I'm starting to like want to do more things and I'm like hey maybe we should like hang something here like I might get like you know a sideboard for the foyer or you know just like just thinking about home improvements I saw another funny real and it goes my wife's love languages acts of renovation yeah and I'm like that's me that's my love language so my new plan is I have like all these vision boards in my canva like how I want to decorate this area how I want to decorate that area and my new things I'm just going to print them out and hang them on the walls because I want my guests to know like this is not what I wanted to look like this is either like what I have the budget for at the moment or like why I'm so tired to convince my husband to let me hang something up here and I'm just going to kind of like collage my home with with with my inspiration I think it's a good idea no and I think it will tell my guests like oh this is a girl with plans this is like there's there's things happening here even though they're just you know conversation starter that's what I thought because like out by the pool I tried to tell Tyler Hey we should think about landscaping he's like well we're not going to get landscaping until the kids are old enough to pull weeds and I'm like no we absolutely are also well so I think they're old enough to pull weeds but then it's like I'm going to put it on there so people are like oh is it your plan for the pool I'm going to be like yeah we're on the wait list I don't know when they're going to be able to get us in and I'm just going to say that yeah because I need I need I need some forward motion in my life in that capacity yeah no it's it's it's manifesting it's yeah I like I think that's a really good idea actually thanks thank you thank you thank you okay do we have any industry news today where we spill the hot teagoyne on the auto industry yes we did oh yes we did so it is time for industry news and that industry news is going to be the car mom car of the year we have our finalist we are ready to announce them and we are ready for you to go vote it was let me just get us out of the way a star studded year the four finalists I I love all of these cars mm-hmm like I'm kind of sad these cars are all falling on the same year it's kind of like dancing with the stars like it's such a bummer like an Alex and a Robert should win that with Robert's situation it really is it really is okay so here's how this works we have selected the finalist now to be a finalist you have to have been redesigned and available for sale in the 2025 model year so for example the key a tell you ride is not on here the the wagon here is not on here because those cars are not available for sale the Toyota Grand Highlander is not on here because it did not get redesigned this year so like that's kind of how we do it so it's a small pool of cars that we choose from which is why we select the finalist and then you guys and our team pick the winner okay mm-hmm the finalists are in no particular order the Nissan Armada the Honda Passport the Ford Expedition and the Hyundai Palisade mm-hmm tough what we're looking for who got redesigned in a in a stunning way and in a family functionality way who made changes that were worth making yeah who listened to the needs of families who improved um and and also who do you like the looks of which tech do you like like it doesn't it's not necessarily so family friendly forward because it is about just like the entirety of the car so I've done tours of all of these vehicles um so you can go watch the tours go review them and then please please please vote this is the third year we've done this and let me tell you something the manufacturers are listening because like Chevy the Chevy Traverse one at last year they were so excited like they like put it on their website I don't know if they put on their website but I had heard it was somewhere in it was somewhere that we saw it yeah and it was one of the things that really um made us want to redesign the logo because once we were like oh like this is the car I'm carved you're like this is a big deal like this is motor trend we felt like our our logo had to be able to compete mm-hmm yeah so it was kind of our plan so i'm so excited we'll be in a soon we'll put a link to vote um i mean it's gonna be like all over the carmoms instagram and stuff but we'll put it in the show notes yeah and we're gonna be doing some content next week um about the four finalists okay great you know who who are they meet the finalists mm-hmm so okay are you guessing that's happening it's huge i'm so excited i love carve the year um it's always so exciting and i can't wait to see who everyone votes for so the first year we did it was 2023 and that was the hunda i'm sorry that Volkswagen Atlas last year 24 was the Chevy Traverse and then this year will be one of those four finalists so exciting love it okay go well are you ready for a ditch the drive-through where we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of your dinner rat i am do you have one or am i bringing one oh see this way i hate us because like we both had one last week and like we or last episode we both shared them yeah well what could we be ditching the drive-through with what am i making for dinner i'm really in my like musco era mm-hmm i'm kind of in my every once in a while something different some nights era and i'm fine with that last night for dinner we had um homemade pizza i like buying store-bought pizza dough that's kind of been a minute thing yeah yeah that's fun trailer does trailer does has a great one all these has a great one pills barriers is great like they're all better than like a frozen pizza but like not as much work as like making your own dough so last night and i kind of like to make my own pizzas recently because George does not like cheese as everyone knows it's right up there with my husband i like you name the hang things on the wall like two very annoying things in my life right now um so when i make the pizza i can leave like you know a quarter of it cheese free for George mm-hmm and he just like sauce a lot of meat and let us on top how strange so that's what we had for separate last night we had a meat lover's pizza no cheese for George i added a little hot honey because i'm a lady and it was delicious this would be fun and just like feels a little bit more homemade too about just like making it that way yeah yeah that was always the best night when mom would bring home pizza crust and we all got to make her own pizza is growing up i know that was so fun and i also love using the non but i don't know something that just like one like just to one pizza and then i we didn't have enough so then tell her to make a frozen pizza from downstairs i'm telling you we're scabbing Jane we're scabbing this week i simply can't get every aspect of my life together in one week like i'm wearing a waistband and i worked out two days in a row like what else do you guys want for me yeah and i have to make dinner yeah i can't do at all it's too much for one person to do it's so i'm crawl that's one thing i'm crawl walk running so like i got my life a little bit more together we're gonna have fabulous dinners next week i can feel okay okay i'm happy and i love my kids having such opinions on food lately George he's just i can't i really can't wait for you to have a six-year-old it is my favorite age i'm upset he's so fun right now and he goes mom if you were to make a chichi pie pie i'd gobble it all up you made poppy seed chicken i gobble that all up to and you're like finally someone to fricken tell me what to make for dinner because you ask your husband and he says i don't care oh yeah tell her's like let's go out tonight it's like no we're ditching the right i want to make my family a home cooked meal i just want to someone to tell me what to make so anyway dora and you know how that was a huge milestone for me for my kids to request chicken poppy yeah i submit i need to submit it we're churches doing a cookbook i need to submit my recipe oh that's so cute you should i know i need to yeah i need to okay okay so i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry with pizza transparent lead tonight for last night i made spaghetti and meatballs in tonight i am dordashine like my friends coming over with her kid and we're gonna like dordash so you're always dordashine can my rural girls unite dordash i could dordash if i wanted to um yeah no it's amazing it's amazing i just live in a really wonderful area where like everything is like will be in my will be at my front door within 20 minutes so it can't even like fathom it's it's incredible we like just got two day amazon delivery yeah well so yeah it sounds like we're not ditching the drive through tonight um i'm trying to think if i have anything else that i could make what are we having tonight we're having bolognese tonight because i bought the turkey bolognese are about bolognese sauce at trader joes oh okay i was gonna say how do you make bolognese sauce but you just bought these ice i'm on sauce okay so okay well we're kind of lame you know what maybe you guys should write in i haven't seen a lot of submissions come through my desk lately if you want to submit your own digital drive through you can run to hello at the carmom official dot com and we will start reading those and with that that's gonna be our episode so thank you so much for listening to the carpool podcast and we'll talk to you next time yeah bye thank you for listening to the carpool podcast with kelly and liz make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode and if you enjoyed writing with us tell everybody you know there's room in the car for everyone