IS NEW YEAR'S EVE THE WORST HOLIDAY?
36 min
•Dec 31, 20255 months agoSummary
Kelly and Liz discuss why New Year's Eve is overrated, share their Christmas reflections and organizational tips for next year, and explore their new interests including football fandom and TV shows. They also reflect on personal goals for 2026, emphasizing self-care and intentional living.
Insights
- Holiday traditions in America lack meaningful substance beyond alcohol consumption; families are creating personalized alternatives focused on quality time and food experiences
- Post-holiday organization and planning systems (notes, checklists, storage strategies) significantly reduce stress and improve execution of future events
- Parents are increasingly curating children's gift experiences to reduce overstimulation and focus on quality over quantity of presents
- Self-prioritization and personal wellness are becoming normalized as parents recognize modeling healthy behavior benefits their children more than self-sacrifice
- Micro-hobbies and community participation (like sports fandom) fill emotional voids and provide social connection in modern life
Trends
Shift from quantity-based gift-giving to experience-based and consumable-focused holiday traditionsIncreased adoption of meal prep and food preservation tools (vacuum sealers) among busy parentsGrowing interest in subscription services for fashion and wellness (clothing rental, therapy access)Parents implementing strategic storage and delayed gratification for children's toys to manage overwhelmWomen engaging in traditionally male-dominated hobbies (sports fandom) for community and belongingIntentional living and word-of-the-year goal-setting replacing traditional New Year's resolutionsHealth-conscious consumerism with focus on quality basics (premium socks, supplements)Digital wellness concerns driving desire to disconnect from phones and social media
Topics
Holiday tradition redesign and family planningPost-holiday organization systems and note-takingGift curation strategies for childrenMeal prep and food preservation techniquesSubscription clothing rental servicesMental health and therapy accessibilitySports fandom and NFL playoffsPersonal wellness and self-care prioritizationParenting and modeling healthy behaviorGoal-setting alternatives to resolutionsContent consumption and entertainment choicesPremium basics and quality-of-life purchasesWork-life balance for parentsMaternity fashion solutions
Companies
Newly
Subscription clothing rental service offering 6 styles monthly for $98, with inclusive sizing including maternity opt...
Alma
Mental health platform with 20,000+ therapists nationwide, offering insurance-covered therapy with affordability focus
Bombas
Premium sock brand mentioned as Christmas gift with superior comfort and pressure support features
Living Proof
Beauty brand offering blow dry cream product gifted during Christmas
Minted
Stationery and calendar service used for organizing Christmas cards and address book management
Costco
Bulk retailer mentioned for purchasing rotisserie chickens for meal prep and vacuum sealing
Gap
Clothing retailer mentioned for children's long-sleeve t-shirts in red and green for holiday outfits
Fred
Children's clothing brand mentioned for casual Christmas clothing options
People
Josh Allen
Buffalo Bills quarterback whose wife is Haley Steinfeld; subject of Kelly's new NFL fandom interest
Haley Steinfeld
Actress and wife of Bills quarterback Josh Allen; reason Kelly chose Bills as her NFL team
Dylan Effron
Actor mentioned in context of TV show 'Traders' that Liz is interested in watching
Quotes
"I've never had a fantastic New Year's Eve. I'd rather be celebrating Presidents Day."
Kelly•Early in episode
"It's all that New Year's Eve is about is drinking. I've never had a good New Year's Eve even prior to kids."
Kelly•Early discussion
"I think it's really good for your kids to see you thriving."
Liz•End of episode
"I love being a part of something. It's giving like dancing with the stars to me."
Kelly•Football discussion
"I would rather have a hundred bucks. I'm not that big. I don't like them that much."
Kelly•Lions Super Bowl bet story
Full Transcript
Welcome to the Carpool podcast with Kelly. I love football. You're so into it. No, it's giving like dancing with the stars to me. And I just love being a part of something. And Liz. One of my goals for 2026 is to finally finish Desperate Housewives. Oh my gosh, Elizabeth. I'm on the last season. I just like I want it to be done. I'm like honestly so sick of it. Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool podcast with Kelly. And Liz. And happy New Year's Eve, a little NYE. Probably the most overrated holiday in my opinion. I've never had a fantastic New Year's Eve. I'd rather be celebrating Presidents Day. Like or what's early. It's always like have worst holiday. It's the worst holiday. I always have the highest hopes and like this is going to be the best night of the year. And maybe things will be different now that I have kids because like I'm not just trying to like have like the craziest party night of my life because that's what it like that's literally all that New Year's Eve is and has been like a Christmas Thanksgiving. Like drinking is involved, but like it is the entire new. It's all that New Year's Eve is about is drinking. I've never had a good New Year's Eve even prior to kids. I post kids. It's just 50% of the time we do nothing 50% of the time we do something that's cold and we're up too late. And I think I'm just like really disappointed in us like as a culture and as a country because that's like how do we not have better traditions than drinking for the last day of the year till midnight? Like where's the amazing food cuisine? Like the only foods I can think of are black eyed peas and collard greens that you eat on New Year's Eve. Like and that's fine. Like I've had those before they're good. We have better cuisine in America that like in my opinion should be like a traditional thing that we do. We don't have any traditions in this country on that day. I guess the ball dropping, but like what is the ball dropping? What is the ball? I don't know. And I'm not staying up late enough to watch it. And that's partially the problem. I'm partially the problem because I don't like staying up late or drinking anymore. But you know that mom and dad used to do that actually maybe as our kids go to get older we could start a tradition for them is I remember one New Year's Eve they had our older cousin babysit us and some of our other cousins that were our age came over. And we had so much fun with like our older cousin watching mom and dad like had plans of course. Our older cousin was watching us. We had like pizza. We had like sparkling grape juice and like our cousins came over and it was actually so probably the best New Year's Eve I've ever had. I do remember that now you're dragging my memory. In like 2007. Sure. But it begs the question like what were mom and dad doing? I guess maybe like I'm just kind of in no man's land right now. Like no one's having a party. I mean we're going to invite anywhere. No. Not to brag but I actually did get an invite somewhere to Tyler sister's house but we're going to mom and dad's house. And actually I think we're going to have a good New Year's Eve. So like what's on our docket is we're going to the farm with our parents but actually like our younger siblings are all coming to Grayson and Craig are both coming. Sydney's back in Australia. Bummer. But we are doing smash burgers. I'm getting my fryer back out and I'm frying potatoes. Love it. And I told mom I would dip some strawberries because chocolate covered strawberries did feel kind of NYE coated. I agree. And then we're just going to like you know be with the kids and we'll get the kids some Welch's sparkling. Mom says she's going to get us some voot which is like that fancy champagne. Love it. So I guess kind of thinking like we do have a good New Year's plans and like actually it's kind of going to be really fun. I am looking forward to it this year just historically it hasn't been the best. And I don't know if this is a universal feeling or we're just like New Year's Eve grinches. Here's the thing I love New Year's. I loved a new year. I love a vision board. New Year's Day. Incredible. The first Monday of the year the fifth watch out everyone. Love it. That is my favorite. January 5th like the Monday after New Year's Eve might be my favorite day of the year. I can just feel the productivity in my veins. Yeah. You know. Now totally. We had such a great holiday season mainly because not to make everyone jealous but the Stumpy crew survived everything Thanksgiving and every Christmas thing that I wanted to do without being sick. Didn't miss a single thing which could be a record. I don't know if since I had kids I've been able to make it to every little function. Every party every this. We haven't been sick. Flu A and norovirus have not found us yet. I am so scared. I have such fear of it this year. I don't know why I think it's just really bad this year. You should have fear of it. A healthy fear is good. I think a healthy fear of being sick is good. We're prepped. I've got everyone you know I have myself my family as prepared as possible. We've got freezer meals. 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I remember these two days after Christmas something so sweet that happened at Christmas is Charlotte asked me Kelly and Grayson to be bridesmaids and And our brother Craig asked our sister Sydney to be his best man and I posted this on my stories and everyone's like I'm so confused. What does this mean? Okay, Craig doesn't have any brothers He only has four sisters. He chose one of the sisters to be his best woman It's darling is what it is. It's darling But I have to explain it to you It's cute and it's sweet and everyone's darling and it's so Craig and Sydney coated like the people people were asking me on my stories like if they're as close as me and you and it's like no, of course not But like they're as close as Greg could be to anyone You know so true and Charlotte was Sydney's friend. That's how they met. Yeah, that's so fun so Can't wait it was it was a very sweet moment I wasn't expecting to be a bridesmaid because like that's a lot to like, you know, he's I mean She still asked three of us like he she is his four sisters like that's crazy. I was like, oh, she's not gonna want me I'm just like this like I'm an old woman now. She's gonna want all our like 20 year old friends and she asked all three of us It was so kind. Yeah, it was really sweet and I'm ready But we still have so long but I'm excited for the wedding festivities to start, you know Like a shower and like I guess we'll go on like a bachelor rat. Maybe like I don't know so crazy. I mean we're We're bridesmaids so we're expected So what did you get for Christmas? So I got a vacuum sealer I got a vacuum sealer to and a coffee maker Charlotte was my secret Santa. She got me a really fuzzy blanket, which I love And I got a griddle We had the kind of year where mom gets me and Elizabeth basically the same thing That's like a funny try right now going on social media It's like I see we're sisters and that's like they hold the same stuff So us because I also got a griddle and a vacuum sealer. I'm so jazzed for my vacuum sealer I need to start watching some tutorials on it. I Think it's gonna change everything. I think I know about freezing food because I think you can do so much more when you vacuum seal it I priority number one is I want to get my butt to Costco I want to get four rotisserie four five dollar rotisserie chickens and spend $20 and I'm gonna shred them into like six or seven bags of like rotisserie chicken that I can just throw in whatever I need to throw in I cannot wait to do that. I want to do it I'm more excited than vacuum sealing that I have ever been about canning my own jalapenos like I'm honestly about to I'm about to sail that ship because I think this vacuum sealer is gonna change my life. No, I think so too. I'm really excited It's gonna change the way we cook too. It's gonna totally change the way we cook. I Seriously, I'm so happy for it So I got a vacuum sealer or a griddle and then I really wanted some socks And I asked mom for bombas because I've heard amazing things and I'm so sad to report They are better than I was expecting and I will slowly be transitioning. I will slowly be transitioning all my socks to bombas They just like put pressure on your feet and like certain spots. They're just so comfortable and I find a sock to be such a low-lift luxury like a clean new fresh good a sock Incredible Incredible like we could not have like such a boring Set of Christmas gifts, but like I'm so jazzed about them like what a sign of just like being so old I Know I had some fun with Sydney had my me for secrets Anna and Sydney gave me This blow dry cream that she's obsessed with from living proof and it's amazing So like that was like fun like try a new beauty product. 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Isn't that far away get started now at hello Alma comm slash carpool That's hello Alma ALMA comm slash carpool carp ool So let's go over our Christmas notes What are you taking away from this season? Well, I have copious notes. I have not yet organized them. Um, so Probably like next year leading up to Christmas. I'll be able to give you like a more organized like what I'm planning on doing but just like off the bat What are my biggest takeaways was? And I mean this was such love to my daughter Libby, but she really limited my Creativity in the kitchen this year in 2024. I had written down all these things that I made like I made my checks mix I made these cookies for the neighbors I made this amazing sweet potato goat cheese caramelized onion quiche Like I did all these things last year in the kitchen because I had a 10 week old baby who was probably asleep the whole time This year I accomplished none of that because Libby refuses to let me be in the kitchen She literally refuses it. I have never had I think it's a combination of Libby is a climber and a busy baby And my new house is so much different than my old house where The old house it was so much more like open concept like if she was in the living room I was in the kitchen I could see her my new house just isn't set up like that Um, I cooked nothing. I literally couldn't eat I could barely get my life together to make pigs in a blanket for mom's house Like it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing Um, so my note for myself was in terms of food see 2024 notes because Libby allowed you to cook nothing Okay So yeah, I mean, I don't know what your kitchen experience was this year, but if I'm in the kitchen Libby is Destroying the pantry crying at my leg and it's hard. I don't it's hard to cook Like I have a baby there like I can't be like doing things on the stove when a baby trying to crawl up my leg That's starting out. She won't sit in her high chair anymore. She screams in the start throwing food. Um Yeah, no she is it was not my year. It was not my culinary year. Thanks to Libby Okay, um, well a couple of notes that I have is uh, just the constant like don't delay the joy Like you never know like we never got to see Christmas lights because we got sick Um, so you just like never know if and when you're gonna get sick. So just like Don't wait do it all I'm also just like I'm Doesn't matter when I put my Christmas decorations up like the day or two after Christmas all of it is coming down I can't stand to look at it. So put it up early Because you're excited to do I'm so excited to put it up. I'm so excited to take it down Like it's just two very enjoyable things. So I'm not gonna be like bullied by people on the internet Who are like why are you putting them up so early like that's so annoying like screw you? I'm putting them up. I'm gonna be happy because Doesn't matter when they go up. They're coming down the same time. I I started putting mine away On Christmas day like this evening of the 25th. I was I took the stockings downstairs like I You know what it is? It's it's all of the presence in wrapping paper and everything like your house feels so much more full That you're like I have to take down Something I have to put something away and I don't know where to put these toys. So I'm putting my Christmas decorations away Um, do you want to like popcorn or like do you want to go already? You want me to go? Oh, well, you can say one now um Okay, I kind of had like a crazy thought but I'm a really big um Perfume person and I like to get perfumes like mark mark certain areas in my life So I thought what if I got a perfume that I only wore during the Christmas season And like every time I smelled it like it would remind me of Christmas Like it doesn't have to be an expensive one like just like a body spray But like I only spray it from Thanksgiving to New Year's and then it's like go until next year That's an interesting idea. I know I thought that'd be something fun for me. So I think I might do that. I wrote that down. I said Get a perfume to wear during the holidays question mark We'll see. It's the holidays. I know that's what I'm saying um I pulled my Christmas cards out my framed Christmas cards and I the last three years I have gone vertical in the first year. I went horizontal So I said I need to do a horizontal Christmas card next year So just make sure you're getting the photo to do a horizontal one. Um Yeah I need to go back to I need to go back to horizontal too. I mean you shout that to your list because you'll forget You're right Okay I also just like going off the Christmas cards. I also just like Wrote in anyone's address who like sent me a card and they weren't in my minted calendar or my minted address book um And I like I wrote down their address and their name and like who moved and I'm going to add them to my minted For next year. Love that um Okay, one thing that I wrote down is I think I so I already did kind of like a a mini recap so far how I need the boys to have long sleeve red gap t-shirts or green t-shirts that just like go with the girls more casual dresses, but on the same sense I Wish I would have had some more festive headwear for the girls Like I didn't have any Christmas headbands for haddie and she's so cute in headbands And I like couldn't find like the red bow So just like taking inventory before the Christmas season making sure I have the right headwear To go with their outfits is a note that I have for myself And just overall like my kids needed more Casual Christmas clothes. I had way too many and of course you don't need to do this But this I just have fun with this like I they had like three nice outfits to wear to like a church a Christmas the concert like we had three nice outfits But then it was like oh, we're going to you know a friend's house tonight Like I would have loved to put all my kids in like a casual Christmas t-shirt and like Yeah, like only fred had won that fit him this year like had he had no casual Christmas clothes so Just need to make sure I do that next year. Yeah. Yeah You know the rest of mine are pretty just like you know your Christmas lights all your lights are out on your tree So just like remember that. Um, good for you. Hope You know, whatever. I don't really have many more other than that. Um, that's Those are my takeaways Okay, I do have just two more um so in terms of uh Stockings Now, I don't know who like does stockings in like your house as in like you listeners It our house santa does our stockings So I will be riding to santa and I'll be requesting that stockings only contain consumables because The last thing we needed was more Stuff like little trinkety stuff. I just didn't like it. I know like I feel like Even though I feel like I always am scaling back what I'm getting my kids things are just popping out of nowhere like it's still they still have too many things and I also kind of had the realization this is just for me I would rather like when they do open presents. It's like really exciting things Rather than just like wrapping stuff So it looks like they have more presents because then it just takes longer. It's more trash things get overlooked It's more overstimulating for everyone and I may feel differently when my kids are older and they start asking for like more specific things but like for example One of my kids got new underwear. I'm not sure I needed to wrap that because I'm telling you like I mean no shade if you do but like for just me I'd rather them have two presents that they're opening and they're two things that are really cool because kids were not excited to open up underwear Like it just wasn't exciting for anybody. Yeah. So then in terms of the stockings. I just felt like old st. Nick like put extra junk That we didn't need And I think like my new tradition is going to be it's consumable. So a consumable to me Our bath bombs. I love putting I love when they get bath bombs in their stockings like that's really fun and treats and candy because like That's fun That's fun like treating snacks that I would never give them and like that's just gonna gonna kind of be Our new stocking tradition. I'm done with the quote-unquote stocking stuffers. I honestly hate that word. I hate that term Because it's just so it was just a bunch of crap Mm-hmm. So stockings are consumables Okay, my last thing Is I just wish I would have been a little bit more organized in my bags. So like When we do go to teller's parents christmas or to our mom's christmas Our parents christmas we spend the night at both of them, which makes it really fun But I should have the bags more organized by like The day that we need them so like for example on the 25th So with the 24th we went to mom and dad's house the 25th we went to church with them the next morning I wish I would have had all their church clothes in a separate bag packed because instead I'm rifling through their two their four overnight bags To find their their church clothes and like it was just too much So and then of course like making sure you bring Stuff home So you get all your pieces so I did bring a laundry basket this year and like as soon as they opened a present I went in the laundry basket and then it went to my car and that was helpful Yeah, that reminds me One more thing my kids are young so this is why I'm able to do this but like they got a lot of presents from like aunts and uncles and I have already put a lot of them in the storage room Because they're so overwhelmed by the amount like they're not going to play with them all and on a rainy day in march I'm going to pull out one of their one of their presents and it'll be a new fun thing to play with Um, it's just it's way too much all at once for them and it's overwhelming for them. It's overwhelming for me So I literally put probably half of their Christmas presents away in the storage room and they will see them in a few months Okay, one more thing I had that kind of goes off of that is I need to be more mindful next year about making sure my kids have They're all opening Presence that they can play with right away or they're all opening presents that they can't play with right away Like for example, mm-hmm mom and dad got georgia new fishing pole. Well, he couldn't play with that at their house When Tyler and I gave our kids their presents I got had a slime kit But like we were absolutely not opening the slime kit at that exact moment But like george got a lego set or george got George got something that he could open right right away and had he had something that she could open right away at mom and dad's house So like I just need to make sure it's equal Mm-hmm Because that caused that caused some friction and that was just annoying that was annoying for me because then like George can't play with his president and had he wants to open everything she got and then like what is george supposed to do? Good notes good notes. So that was a big thing And that was christmas But like overall like first of all the notes are just so helpful Like I love taking notes on my life and tyler kind of got into my notes this year too Because when we would like leave something like I have a lot of other notes that are just so specific to the event that we went to You guys wouldn't take anything away from it Tell her to be like hey add add this to your notes for next year. I'm like, oh you're into my notes now. Are you? Oh, no, it's a it's a fun. It's a fun thing. It's fun thing to look back on Oh, and I'm also just so obsessed with football right now so I Love football It's giving like so into it. No, it's giving like dancing with the stars to me And I just love being a part of something so first of all you have to follow this girl named simon's playbook on instagram she is so Amazing she makes it so easy digestible and so fun um my lions are out of the playoffs which is really sad for me, but Again, I was happy I was a part of it And I forgot to say one thing I got for christmas Was dad handed me this like receipt and he goes here's two thousand dollars And I was like, what are you talking about? And he hands me this receipt and last time he was in vegas He put a hundred dollars on the lions to win the super bowl. This is when they were still in it He's like if the lions win you'll get two thousand dollars from this bet And then they got out I said dad next time I'll just take the hundred dollars. I'm not that big. I don't like them that much No, that's I would rather have a hundred bucks That's cute. I know wasn't that cute Anyway, let me tell you what I was chat gpt teen yesterday Because I think it's fascinating and it's football coded here. You are it's like not only industry news But now it might be some football news. Um, I had to redo it though. Hold on which teams Have never won a super bowl. How many NFL teams do you think there are first of all? I don't have a guess 32 okay 12 have never won a super bowl. Oh, wow. Okay. I know which is kind of crazy um and four Have never been to the super bowl Oh Oh my gosh, it's so funny. Hold on you're gonna die Hold on Well the lions Which is so sad for me I didn't know that I don't know if I would have like picked them as my team if I knew they'd like they've never been to a super bowl before The browns have never been to a circle the lions the jackson filled jaguars never heard of them and the houston texans never heard of them Mmm up until like this year when I started to get into football Now here are the 12 teams that have never won Arizona Cardinals Atlanta Falcons the Buffalo Bills Now the Bills are my new team that I'm cheering for because let me tell you something so sad about the Bills I think it was like 1991 to 1994 There were four consecutive years that the Bills went to the Super Bowl and lost every single time They went four years in a row and lost four years in a row And they've haven't been back to the Super Bowl since and they've never won And you know who the Bills quarterback is This man named josh allen and you know who josh allen's wife is yes Haley steinfeld so I'm a bills fan now. You guys will be happy. That's who I've picked Uh, the panthers have never won the bangles have never won the browns the lions the texans the jaguars the la chargers The Minnesota Vikings which is crazy in the Tennessee Titans. Okay So Those are like your fun football facts So who's like looking like they're in the Super Bowl going to be in the Super Bowl this year? Well, we're just in the playoffs So the way the playoffs work is the a fc and the nfc both get to send seven teams to the playoffs And most of those spots are clinched except there's two spots open And those are going to be like really big games in week 18. Yeah, that's right. I know things about football now Wow, you're this is so it is exciting. It is exciting. It's my new It's my new micro hobby Yeah And last night tyler's like not a sports guy at all And i'm like, hey, i'm gonna like turn on the game like the bills because it was the bills versus the eagles last night Oh my gosh, the bills lost because they tried to go for two instead of one Crazy I was there watching it, but it didn't really matter because they were still already in the playoffs anyway Me and tyler were sat on the couch. He actually he wasn't into it Fourth quarter rolls around we are both cheering for the bills. So that's fun Yeah, so i'm just i'm having fun being part of something So I hope the bills go and I hope the bills win like that's who i'm right That's who I want to see you take this all the way okay And so that's what I've done It's really just kind of like filled my dancing with the star void football Well, you told me that you want to watch math singer this season Well, it's just like I want to watch math singer. I possibly want to watch traders Isn't that the show that dylan effron was on? Yeah, but I don't know what it's about I don't know if it's traders or traders Like is it traders like you're trading or is it traders like you betrayed someone? I don't I have no I have no idea So much to get to i'm so behind on like so much con I need to finish my book I would like to i'm gonna try to read more in 26 Um Yeah, I have a lot to do I have a lot a lot of content to consume But my one of my goals for 2026 is to finally finish desperate housewives Oh my gosh, Elizabeth. I'm on the last season. I just like I want it to be done. I'm like honestly so sick of it Yeah, it gets along in the two like yeah, let me just say this way like your best episodes are behind you I'm I'm bored Yeah, no, I I was bored too by the end of it. It gets a little long. I need to move on with my life And I don't know. I'm not like ready to like talk about all the things I want to do in 26 yet Like I need to kind of take today and tomorrow and kind of reflect on myself a little bit Sure, gotta get my health in order a little bit more. I'm feeling better but I'm still not 100 I still feel like I'm at 100 back and like I started some new like supplements and some new medicine I'm also like not ready to talk about that If I don't know if I ever will be but I'm just trying to Figure that out But you just gotta be the CEO of your health and I always say that I always say that You haven't said that in a while actually Okay, well, I should start saying it some more You should for someone. Yeah, you haven't said it in a while Yeah, um Well, I posted on my stories that I would love to hear some people's words So let me read a couple of words that have been sent in case because there's a lot of Oh, yeah, that's good. I'll like that and if you guys don't know what we're talking about Elizabeth and I are really big Like word of the year people So not so much like resolutions But more just like what's the word you're gonna take with it take it to take into 26 And something that we've done in the past is then we get a mug Like a coffee mug that says our word on it. So like we drink our coffee out of the word that says the muggle says our word Yeah, so some that I have been sent on instagram intentional Is a lot of them, you know, like disconnecting from your phone phone addiction being present Resilience and Discipline are appearing a lot Slowing down balance less just I think we're all kind of feeling I think we're all kind of feeling that um Of course a lot about taking care of your health people are saying I've had three kids. It's time to focus on me um Being content is is a big one too. I think that we're all kind of feeling that um Self-care expand curate manifest surrender Balance those are some of the Some of the results that I got which I just I love to I love to see it also. It's just like such a reminder that we're really all You might feel alone in your feeling like You're overwhelmed with your life or You're not content with your life or you're not healthy enough. Everyone's feeling that right now Yeah, so you're not alone in that I'm very much trying to figure it out I very much relate to like I feel like I I don't want to say like my word is like me or like I want to be selfish this year But I do just feel like I've given so much to my children the last couple of years And one thing about our mom is she always prioritized herself and I have Even more respect for her now because like I know that was probably so hard and I'm so proud of her for choosing herself In the times where she could have chosen us because also we were fine and I think it It's really good for your kids to see you thriving It's really good for your kids to see you thrive Yeah, I mean I mean you have to lead by example like you have to lead by example Because that's actually gonna probably Like I feel like seeing mom and dad prioritized their marriage and their health so much in life Has taught me more than if they were just gonna like tell it to me You know like you you got I gotta see it. I gotta see it in action Yeah, I think that's a good one Yeah I'm sorry. I think 26 is gonna be a great year I am so optimistic. I always get optimistic though And 25 was a good year for me. I mean we had ups and downs as they do but for the most part Mostly mostly always mostly ups. Well guys, that's gonna be our episode for today. I Oh, no, one of my kids is crying um TBD if we have an episode on friday question mark probably not though I would say this is my only option with child care this week. So probably not But we'll be back next week with your regular two episodes. Yeah, and that'll be fun Yeah, so thank you guys so much for listening to our episode today We hope you guys have a fabulous new year's eve a fabulous new year's day and we will see y'all next week. 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