ANOTHER GIRL FOR THE GANG!

Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelli. So currently I am cheering for the Seahawks. Thank you for having me Seahawks fans. Go Birds! Go Hawks! And Liz. Sydney one day, went into my closet, took my ugs, cut the tag label off of my ugs and glued them onto her fake ugs. Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelli. And Liz. Hey, Liz. Hey, Cal, how are you? I'm freezing my butt-seaw. It is so cold. We've been so spoiled in the Midwest in Missouri this year because winter has been 45 degrees. It's been like, oh, I need this coat, but it hasn't been chilled to the bone. And this week it's back with vengeance. It's chilled to the bone. And it's had the worst morning because I had two press cars this week, the Ford Expedition and the Hummer. In total we had like six car seats installed between those two cars. And I understand that I'm the car, I'm the CPST, but like uninstalling car seats in the cold is a blue job. Like that is a job for the truck dad. I don't need to be. And I forgot to tell him before he left today that there were car seats in there. And then I had to, you know, I couldn't, there's no way until it warms up because like they come in the morning, right? And so then I had to, I was like dressed for my workout, like with my cute little leggings and like little like little lemon top. And I was about to go downstairs and work out and then I remembered about the car seats. I had to go back upstairs, had to like literally bundle up like I was on a ski trip. And I had to uninstall all these car seats. And it was so hard because like I didn't have the mobility with the gloves on, but then I would really freeze the gloves off. It was the worst experience of my life. I had to eventually just sit in the car and like wait for it to warm up and then like close all the doors to uninstall them. Yeah. I was going to say that's what I would do. If we said it once, we said it a million times like being a car viewer in the winter is so awful. Like we have some really hot days in Missouri and we're like screw this, like hate this blah, blah. I would take that, I would take the hottest day in Missouri to film a car tour over the coldest day and knee day of the week. No 100%. Like and I need to like film myself, like talking to myself in the future, like don't you dare complain when it's hot outside because this is not it. I know. So that was my morning. That was my freaking morning. And I was going to like put on makeup to record this and like look cute, but one I ran out of time because of the car seats in two. I'm doing something really exciting this afternoon. I'm going to get a facial. Good for you. Wait up. Prioritize your self-care. Well, ever since I got the hydrophacial and it was like not a fun experience at all because it was like, I talked about this. It was too much like that. I was like, yeah. It was like, it felt like a medical procedure. And that's just not what I was after. Like I'm trying to relax. I'm trying to like, you know, lower my cortisol, reduce my anxiety and the hydrophacial did not do that. So I'm just feeling like a regular, regular facial today. Okay. I'll be curious to know how you feel about it because what I recently got recently, it was like a year ago, the last time I got a facial and it was like a total spa experience. Like you've sent the quiet room, like you, whatever. Oh, I don't want to do that. That gives me anxiety. I don't want to do that. But that's what I'm saying. It was like a full spa experience and then I laid on the thing and whatever, the laid on the table and they did it and she did it. I was like, get me out of here. Like there are a million things I could be doing right now. I remember you just having a great time on a facial. So I'll be curious to know if you are able to relax. Well, and like it's so cold, like I can't imagine them like telling me to take my clothes off and like get under a heated blanket. Like I know, I'll just keep my clothes on. And get under this heated blanket, literally. Well, since I didn't know you were doing that and it only feels right. If you're going to go do a spa experience today, I should go do something for myself today. So I'm going to go get my toes done because a rule that I have is just set in place for my life. Um, is that when I am pregnant, I do not do my own toes. I get pedicures when I'm pregnant and granted I could do my own toes because I can still reach my toes. It's more of a rule for the like, you know, second or third trimester. But I'm like, let's just extend it. Like I'm going through so much right now. Let's just not even give me the choice. So I'm going to go get my toes done while you're doing that. Can I ask a question? Yeah. Why? Like literally no one's going to see your toe. Okay. So you know what? And I'm happy you're happy you're asking this. Since I got my hardwood floors redone, I cannot like mom. In socks in my house. So I have to just be barefoot all the time because I can't move around. I'm not, I'm not dexterous enough. Like I'm slipping. I'm sliding like, Sloan's climbing on the table. I got to run there as quick as possible. I can't be slipping in sliding in socks. So I always have bare feet around my house and I don't really leave my house. Okay. You're wrong for that. You need to get a house slipper. I have a house slipper and I need to get a new house slipper. I just like, I'm in between house slippers right now. And I need to, I need to just like order some on Amazon. It's like literally on my to do. Look at the ones. Are you seeing my screen? I can see your screen. I don't like how much of a platform I find platforms. I'm going to twist my ankle. You've got like platformy looking uggs on these are fugs for Amazon. I really don't and I'm not one to like love an Amazon clothing. Do you have? I've talked about this at length. These are the ug ones. Like I don't know why you would ever spend more than $39 on these. Like if you have like that, like you lit money on fire. If you bought the real hugs and not these ones. And I'm sorry to tell you that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, I know. I'm just, I'm just in between. In between high school. Was it Sydney? Who one of our siblings? It was Sydney. Sydney. I'll tell the story. My mom bought. I had real, me and Kelly had real hugs because we were older. My, my, our younger sisters had fake uggs because they were growing like. Like they're feeding your feet or growing. Yeah. Your feet are growing. Like we were, we were what our size was. They were like that bear paw brand. Yeah. And they didn't have a label on them. Like whatever Sydney one day went into my closet, took my uggs, cut the tag label off of my uggs and glued them onto her fake uggs. And I know what you're thinking like, okay, like whatever. That is the, that was the biggest freaking deal. When we were in what were we probably eighth grade freshman year or something like that? Yeah. No. Right. Like that was such a crazy. I was, she grew, I mean, she didn't grow in my ugly. I could still wear them, but it was like what the heck? She took the best part off of the yugs, which was the ug label. That's that's sister. And if you don't know sister, you don't understand how likes. If, if you don't have a sister, you don't understand. Speaking of sisters, I'm going to have sisters. Oh my gosh. We have, oh my gosh. I found out that I am having a baby girl and I am so shocked. I'm floored. And I'm still like wrapping my brain around it. I don't know if anyone else has had this experience, but I do feel like. So when I found out I was having a boy with James, I was thrilled. I didn't care. I was just so happy to be pregnant. Like it didn't matter what I was going to have. Like I was so excited. Then when I found out that I was having a girl with Sloan, I was maybe even more excited because I always wanted a girl. And then I was like, I'll have one of each. This is the dream. Like this is wonderful. And then when I found out I was having a girl, I was like, oh my gosh. This is like now the dynamics of my family. Like the third one kind of seals in the dynamics of your family. Like, oh, we're a girl. We're a girl with a... I don't know how many kids we're going to have. We're a girl, heavy family. Yeah. I didn't know we were going to be a girl, heavy family. I didn't know what we were going to be. I didn't care what we were going to be. But it's just like, oh wow. And now I'm picturing Sloan and what that looks like for her. And I'm picturing James and what potentially not having a brother looks like for him. And there's just like so many mixed emotions surrounding this one gender. And I don't think it's gender disappointment. And I also don't think I would have... I feel like I'd be feeling either way if it was a boy or a girl. But it's just this very weird thing that I'm trying to like wrap my head around. Well, transparently, again, I have two boys, two girls. Like, couldn't be better. Couldn't be better. Totally. But I have a... I always felt a little... Again, it's not gender disappointment. But I wish that I would have... And this sort of sounds so bad. But I'm... Let me just say my... Let me just say my piece and then you guys don't have to like come for me, what I'm gonna say. But me and you were so close in age. That I was like, oh, I... I would think... I don't want to say it's better or I wish up. But like, Georgian Hattie and Fred and Libby are so close, but they're different gender. So like, the boys are further apart in age. And my girls are further apart in age. So the fact that like, you didn't skip one. And that you're gonna have close in age. Yeah. Like, I just don't know if my kids are gonna be... My girls and my boys are gonna be children's built in best friends like you and I were. Like, I have to look at my relationship with Sydney because there's this is our age gap. And I mean, I think it's already like, you know, as you get older, age gap gets less and less noticeable. But growing up, like, I wouldn't say Sydney and I were super close because like you and I were super close. No, I mean, I would say Sydney and I were actively not close because she was cutting the labels off of my eyes. Remember what also Sydney did to me in the back of Mom's van, which she wrote? Oh my gosh, Sydney was such a little devilish child. And that sounds harsh. And that's the only way to describe her. Also, Sydney had a sleepwalking problem. And she always wore these freaking nightgowns. It's like, little nightgowns and you had this crazy bedhead. And like, she was standing here in the dark. She was standing here in the dark. And like, lightning would strike and you would look next to your bed. Sydney would be there. It was so scary. Anyway, so then one time, this had to be, she was old enough to spell. Okay. And in the right well. And in the back of Mom's conversion van, she took a marker. And she wrote, kill Kelly. What? Didn't you write like kill Bill? Kill Kelly. Like she wrote, killed, and it was like me and Bill. Who's Bill? I don't know. And so then picture that. So then she's writing that. And then the next thunderstorm, I have a little like nightgown nightmare. Trial looking over my bed. Can I sleep with you? I don't know. So yeah, so like that's what had he, that's what had he and Libby have to look forward to. Wait, totally. Another unhinged thing Sydney did was there was like a show in tell. Oh, no. And like second grade. And Sydney got like sent home or called mom or whatever. Because Sydney brought ninja throwing stars. I guess Craig had ninja throwing stars. Like as like, they were like a collector's item. Like he didn't use them, but they were like, Craig was older, whatever. That's what he had. He had these ninjas throwing stars. And Sydney stole them and brought them to school. And my mom gets a call like your daughter brought a weapon. In second grade. I know which a bit dramatic. A bit dramatic. I mean, come on. A bit dramatic. But Sydney who knows between the kill Kelly, we don't know how there was a pill in her class. Like I don't know. She was I mean crazy. She was sitting here to defend herself because yeah, it's all indefensible. She has some splain in to do. So anyway, that's I'm, but I'm so excited. I'm so like I love girls. Like I always wanted girls. I love sisters. I'm just like I'm so excited to have my little besties. So baby girl coming in August. Today's episode is brought to you by Quince. These days I'm all about quality over quantity. You guys know I am decluttering my house. 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She's like such a fun Instagram follow and like I'm never I'm not naming any more babies and I still love following her and she has a podcast and they had the funniest take the other day because they were talking with the name Olivia. And like Olivia is like such a beautiful name. It was also like one of the most popular names out there and this other girl in the podcast was like yeah everyone wants the Olivia alternative and then their Maui and they don't like it because they just want they just like the name Olivia. Totally. And I think something that naming bebe does a good job of like kind of hitting home is like you have to hear a name and then sit with it. Like we're so quick to be like, take no don't like it and sometimes you just have to like chill for a second like you don't it's just as long as not an immediate no just like sit with it. That's what I've been doing like any name that I don't have an immediate like horrible gut reaction to I put it on a list and that's that's my approach. Some suggestions that I do have for naming baby I talked about on my stories about how Maui like had this girl name and I was like where did you get this name from and he was like it's one of my top five favorite Roman emperors and my DMs were like oh are all husbands the same because apparently many a ladies have had this conversation with their husband about them wanting to be named after Roman emperors. Well Roman emperors are Roman emperors wives. No it's a Roman emperor. It's like a derived from. Oh okay yeah yeah yeah. I don't want to say the name because I don't think well I mean I don't think we're going to use it but I also like whatever I'm not going to say it yet. What do you know? Anyway I think naming baby needs to look at a list of Roman emperors and give us like cute modernized takes on it so when our husbands are like can we name our child Maximus or Titan or whatever there's like well okay like let's play with this like how can this be cute and then we can you know have a happy meeting totally. That's my free content idea. I also think naming a third child really kind of sets the tone for your naming style. For example Georgian hadie could have gone in a lot of different directions once we had it Fred to the mix. Yeah it totally changed the vibe of Georgian hadie. Yeah which is why I felt like Libby I don't know that was like so hard naming Libby and I'm so happy and like that was a list that was a list in our submission because I loved Elizabeth but I was going to do Betty as her name Elizabeth color Betty but then I would have Freddie and Betty. Freddie and Betty Rubble like it would have been bad. So Libby's like a little cuter too. She said so I'm so happy. You know what I don't think our names all go together like mom and dad did not do it so plain so like Kelly Elizabeth Craig Sidney and Grayson like what even is that? Sidney and Grayson are such wild cards. They yeah they got creative. 100% well they had five kids. Okay so I'm trying something today called the Olsen Talk have you heard of this? Okay so all these like fashion, influencer, girl, pop some following they're always like this sweater is amazing for the Olsen Talk and I'm like what is an Olsen Talk? Like I'm thinking it's like a way you tuck it into your pants. No it's when you just keep your hair in your clothes. So I see that you are going for the Olsen Talk. I don't think it's in regards to just like a sweatshirt with no makeup on. I think you're supposed to do it when you're like kind of like fabulous and you have like a sweater and then you look like effortless. Yeah because it's but like it's it feels like such a tuck that like would only exist within like Instagram posts. Like if I saw someone at a coffee shop in a sweater with their hair tucked into their sweater your clothes is really like does she know her hair is tucked into her sweater? Yeah but I agree like in the curated post I'm like oh she does look like she just threw it on and ran out the door. It's so chic and a paparazzi photo. I would say you look unfinished right now. Okay I'll pull it out then but honestly it was kind of giving me actually it was kind of giving me warm like I'll be totally for real. I thought it was going to be overstimulating but like there's something so cozy about it. Okay that reminds me of something so crazy I saw an Instagram you know when you see like a post on Instagram and you're like this is going to change like I learned something new it's going to change my life. You know like the pepper jackets that have the fur around the hood. Uh-huh. And we all wear the fur outside. Did you know we're supposed to be tucking the fur inside? It's supposed to flip in and I did this the other day it works. You flip it in so it's around your face and around your ears and then your head is warm and wind is not like penetrating your ears because the fur is not the fur on the outside doesn't do anything. I thought it was always just like oh fashion I guess it has a purpose you're supposed to flip it in. Do it. Oh do it. It keeps you so warm. I'm learning so much. Okay. It's a being who I learned. Um okay I know we have like some advice questions and like other stuff to get to but I just have like a couple more things on my dump. Yeah. And I was taught thinking about this other day. I was at the grocery store with Libby. And isn't it just so interesting like the brands and the companies that just like don't have to advertise anymore or just have like completely stopped advertising. When I was a kid every other commercial was for tick-tax. Every other commercial was for a Kit Kat. Yeah. Where are those commercials? Have they just like reached enough market share where they can just stop like where is the give me a break? Like why have they just stopped advertising? Give me a break about Kit Kat Bart. I do wonder was it because maybe they were trying to advertise to like children and we were watching children's stuff. Like this Kit Kat still advertised with Nickelodeon. I just like haven't seen a Kit Kat come across my desk. No I get that. I get it. Yeah. And forever and I was inundated with it at one point in my life. Mm hmm. Yeah. No tick-tax I haven't seen any advertisements. And then I'm thinking like think about like brands that just like literally don't have to advertise because like they're just the only one people think up. Such a niche example. Jiffy Cornbreadmix. I would literally I would never buy another thing of Cornbreadmix as long as I'd live. Like I would just never buy that. I would only buy Jiffy. Yeah. But like Jiffy hasn't done a deading thing. They've been upgraded their packaging since the 70s. So true. Like do they even have marketing departments? Well I mean they do because they've just been bought out by like craft or like some bigger company. Sure. But like there are people like working on a team for Jiffy. For nothing. No I don't know. I don't know. She looks so interesting. I don't know. And I actually happen consuming more commercials lately because I am absolutely obsessed with the show traders. So much I haven't stopped talking about it. So much so that like I'm all cut up on the current season so now I'm watching Dylan F. Run season. First of all, Dylan's amazing. And I am so sad. You slandered him so hard. I slandered. I'm disgusting. I'm disgusting. I slandered him so hard. He is a great he's great on the show. But this season is freaking wild of traders. I'm it is such a good show. If you are postpartum like it is the perfect postpartum show. Because I find it a little hard to like get in and out of like you can't like watch an episode of night. Like you need to kind of just rot. Okay. Like you need to bed rot. And if I was postpartum bed rotting, this is what I would be watching. Now you have not stopped talking about it. So last night I went ahead and logged into my p-coc account. And then I was like oh because I have a free one through it's my Instacart and then I had to upgrade. So but then I watched the trailer and I'm like oh god this looks kind of dumb. And so I didn't watch it. So you didn't watch it? No. So I need you to tell me that it doesn't look dumb. Well it's a little theatrical I will say that. The theatrical I'm like okay I can't buy into all this. But I kind of love the guy who hosts it. Like he always just has these like amazing outfits on and like it's a little like I don't know why they're talking about murder and like I don't know why it's a little theatrical. But the premise is really good and it's just like I can't really explain it. It's just a good show. Okay. And I'm so tired of like I just I feel like there hasn't been like good TV put out in a really long time and I'm just like really I don't like very scary. I don't like scary or like gory shows. I don't like overly like smuddy shit. Like I just don't watch any of that. I'm trying to protect my peace, protect my content. Totally. And there's just like nothing. Like there's just not a show I want to watch. So that's why I got so into dancing with the stars because I'm just like it's just like I hate to say like good clean fun. It's just good clean fun. Okay. It's all that it is. Well when I was like I don't feel like pain for a subscription right now. This looks theatrical. I went to Netflix. Excuse me. I also finished Jesford Housewives and have not watched something else other than dancing with the stars or the summer I turned pretty at all. So I'm like there it has to be so much stuff on Netflix that I haven't even touched. Like let me dive into that and I'll let more episodes of Traders come out before I get into it. I watched an excellent movie. It's new. Oh, okay. See I'm interested in the movie. I'm interested in the movie. Let me tell you about it. The people we meet on vacation. I read that book. It's a movie and it's excellent. And I said I clicked on it because I had saw someone post on Instagram like a clip of the movie and they said, romcoms are back. Yeah. Okay. And it got me so excited and I have to say I agree. It was not it was it was adult. So like their adults they're not teenagers because I find it sometimes hard to get into the teenage 100 percent. 100 percent agree. Their adults it was you know it's like one of those books like like you said you've read and that's like all these romance movies that were or romance books that were all into like just make those mood just make those movies. It was excellent. It was good clean fun. It was so good. Such a good movie. I'm going to watch it with Tyler tonight because last night he's like watch the movie and I was like please I'm watching Traders like scroll your phone. I have to finish this. But I could tell he wanted to watch movie with me and I kind of shut him down. So I'm going to tell him. Yeah it was really good. And it's what I'm saying like get me in and out. Get me in and out. Like I can't to these. It can't to be showed. Yes like the summer and her pretty I liked like God they drag it out and what I want. I did. He's like I want to be bought into two characters that should be together. I want to have the will that they want they and then I want the they will. And I mean enemies tell me I want to move on with my life. 100% 100% So it just I'm very encouraged that that potentially rom comms could be coming back. And I just hope and pray. Okay, this episode is brought to you by Skylight. 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Yep, you got it. That's five kids under six when all is said and done. We currently have a Chevy Suburban in a Mazda CX five. We need to always have a Mazda CX five. We need to try the Mazda CX five and for something else, ASAP. It would be lovely for you to tell me exactly what I need to do. Okay, so they want something that can fit all five kids that's smaller than the Suburban? I don't know if that's really what they're asking for. I mean, maybe they fit a couple kids, but. Okay, hands down. Like the choice here is so obvious to me. Yeah. Do you want to try? No, you can go. Let's say it on three. One, two, three. Minivan. Volkswagen Alice. Oh. Oh, I assumed. Okay, I don't think they want a minivan because I think if they were going to buy a minivan, they wouldn't have bought a Suburban. Because yes, I think when you have five kids in Car Seats, you don't really get a lot of. Okay, well, we'll give them to them. If you want to have something cute, fun, like zip around town, and that can fit all five kids if needed, but like really maybe just for like the older kids, so like go to and from like a secondary car, the Volkswagen Alice Bench seat, Chef's Kiss. I have no notes for you in that car. It has five seats because it's got two in the third row, three across the bench. It's a three across machine. It has a car seat till it sells enough trunk space. There is nothing there's nothing not to like about it for you. Like that is the only option in the full size minivan market. I guess you could maybe convince me to do a Honda Pilot with the bench, but actually you can't because it doesn't have a car seat tilt. So like so obviously it's the Volkswagen Alice. Okay, for you. Yeah, I was thinking more of it. Obviously they have a Chevy Suburban. They're one in training in Mazda CS5. I don't think they want another full size SUV, but something that'll be cheaper, but can still fit all the kids easily. Well, then sure, then either do a Carnival or an Odyssey. Yeah. But the problem with the minivan is the good Bench seats, a.k. the Odyssey and the Carnival don't have car seat tilt. And doing three across in a third row is significantly harder and more cumbersome, especially as the kids get older. Then it is in the second row. So it's all coming up at list. Or if you just like want another full size, it's obviously expedition. Yeah. I'm locking in. Okay, Kyle, this next one, advice, third child new car. I feel like it's when you add that third child into your life that you actually need to start thinking about. Totally agree. Totally agree. So, um, well, that's when some cars completely stop working. Like, hold every car, can handle the two car seats. Like, are you squished? Is it, are you out of room? Like X, Y and Z? Sure. But like when you go to three, there are cars that just no longer work. There's no cars that no longer work. There's car seats that just no longer work. And it's like you just have to get new car seats. So let's read this one. I have two kids who both use the Duna as newborns. The Duna has since expired and we're pregnant with baby number three. So we're officially back in the market for a new infant car seat. Adding another layer to this week recently got a new car, a 2024 Ford Expedition Platinum with a bunch too. Oh, okay. So this one's about car seats. Perfect. My current kids are two and four, both in Chico 360s, one rear-facing, one forward-facing. I plan to put the forward-facing child in the middle like George and my rear-facing on the passenger side. I'm planning to buy a harness to booster seat for my oldest T's four and we don't need this spinning feature in the middle seat, which would also free up some space since the 360s pretty wide. I've been looking at the Chico My Fit and the Greco transitions, but I'm trying to think ahead. If we were to have a fourth child, this seat would likely need to move to the third row, which is not a ripple headrest and the advice there. For the infant seat, I was considering a baseless option like a Greco Gogamax or the joyment. I like the idea of having the open seat when the baby isn't riding with us. That said, I'm not married to the baseless idea, there's a better option overall. We really don't have any major restraints or filters helping a snare of things down, which is making it hard to choose. So I guess my main question is, in your dream world, what are the two best car seats to buy? One infancy and one forward-facing, slash-haronist to booster seat. My other child will stay in his Chico 360. Oh, this is a tough one. So I think the Joy-Mint latch is chef's kiss. Like I would tell you to do that. I will be purchasing a Joy-Mint latch for my third. It is such a great seat. Like I'm so excited. Notes, I have none. Your second question is a lot more complicated. A harness to booster seat that is slim enough to go in the middle seat now. Will transition good enough to the third row when needed? I don't love any of the, I don't really have a great option. And I would personally just tell you to keep them in the Chico 360 in the middle. And then when they're ready for a booster, I would get the Dio and a Cambria or the Nune Ace. Because those work with Honorable Hattershades in the third row. And then by the time maybe the babies out of the mint latch, they can go to the routine one and then your kick go to the booster seat in the third row. Yeah. And I'm going to lock in with that answer. Yeah, you know, car seats are expensive. So I don't like say this like super like willy-nilly. But like sometimes it's like you have to think about, okay, well, if this kid is in this seat right now, then this kid can move to the seat. And maybe the seat no longer works in my car. But then we have an extra seat in my husband's car for when he has to take one or two of the kids. Or we have a seat for a grandparents car. You might just have to, I mean, I think it's smart that she's thinking, thinking ahead. Like always for cashier families growth. But you know, also sometimes it's just like what gets me through the right now. 100%. Can I go back to my dump for like two seconds? Yeah. Okay, so I was scrolling Instagram the other day. And there is something called a world clap day. Have you heard of this? I've really never heard of it like last world clap day. Right. Okay, so it's only of note because the world clap day is when everyone across the world does a single clap at one time. But it's all my birthday. It's August 16th, 2026 10AM New York time. And we're all supposed to do one clap across the entire world. Like as soon as it hits 10AM. As soon as it hits 10AM. Yeah. See, I feel like we should just like clap for a minute. 100% agree. Like just the single clap, it's going to be all off. Yeah. But I want to try to get somewhere public so I can like see if anyone else is like in on the world clap day. You just do that. I mean like I don't want to be like stuck in my house and like rural Missouri. Like let's like go to the mall. Okay. On a world clap day at 10AM. A lot of people at the VR time. That'd be 9AM or time. Okay. Or maybe if anyone clap. Maybe we can like go do something. Maybe we'll like go into breakfast here birthday and then like we'll do world clap day while we're there. So fun. Kind of fun. So fun. Something to think about. Kind of like the eclipse. Why is it giving it? Why is it giving it clips? I just love being a part of something and like I just hope that something that like I pass on to my kids. Like just the importance of being a part of things. Like that's why I'm watching traders and like that's why I'm so into football right now because it's just so fun to feel connected to people. You know? Yeah. Speaking of football, I don't know much. But I do think the game is a tick rigged. Like the refs have so much power. Like sometimes I just think it should go to a vote. Yeah. No. Yeah. The refs can just like totally obviously change the outcome of a game. Yeah. And like the bills people are feeling like if I had any more skin in the game other than like I became a bills fan five days ago like I don't know how I could wake up and go to work today. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And then I'm like cheering for the bears. They lose. So now I thought the bears won. No, the bears lost. Oh. To the ramps who I hate. No, we hate because they love St. Louis disgusting. I refuse. So now the four teams left are the Broncos who I can't share for because my ex boyfriend was a Broncos fan. I've never heard Kelly say my ex boyfriend could you've had like two. Even though he was a brother since you were 16. And he was a Broncos fan. So pass. Um, the Patriots which like sorry, boring, boring, the ray amps which I can't cheer for. So now all my eggs are in the Seahawks nest. I need the Seahawks to win. Here's something interesting about the Seahawks. Here's your, can any camera can also squeeze in some Catholic knowledge I'm going to tell you. The last two times a Pope has been elected the Seahawks have won the Super Bowl. Now that's interesting. So when Pope Benedict was elected the Seahawks one, when Pope Francis was a elected the Seahawks one, now we have Pope Leo and the Seahawks are. That would be crazy. Yeah. God's team. Well, I know but Pope Leo liked the Bears and the Bears lost. Well, you know, Pope Leo's not God. So so true. When you think about it, um, he's also not a ref. So like, I don't know. So currently I am cheering for the Seahawks. Thank you for having me, Seahawks fans. Go birds. Go hawks. Okay, Kyle. Well, are you ready? Wait, do you have any industry news? No, I gave you all of it. Oh, that was only not your doing anything. Let's just get to ditch the drive-through because I have some good ones. Oh, okay. I had some too, but I'll let you do it. Well, let's just both do it. Well, I was going to read some of the people have written it. Okay, read one and then I'll say mine. Okay. Sorry, I'm looking at the Seahawks uniform. It's so good. I love this one. I love it when people take a actual drive-through meal and just make it at home. 100%. So this is KFC Bulls. I was just thinking about, you know why? Because I saw an add on TV. KFC is still advertising. You need mashed potatoes. Crispy chicken. Frozen popcorn strips. Chopped what I use, make your own, like whatever. This is a make your own mashed potatoes. Use bag mashed potatoes. Gravy, jarred from a pack or homemade. Corn, frozen, canned works well. Seasoned with butter, salt and pepper. If you like shredded cheddar. Simply in order listed, layer the prepared ingredients in a bowl and serve. I love what this is what I call combination cooking when you're just combining things. Yes. I'm using the Bob Evans ready mashed potatoes. I'm using the Just Bear Chicken nuggets. I'm using canned corn. I'm using a pre-made gravy. I need to make this. Okay. I'm going to make this this week. That sounds first of all, delectable. Comfort meal. You know what to be great with, a side of Carman broccoli or canned green beans. Choose your own adventure there. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm so happy you read that one. I know that one was excellent. That's what it's, that is what did the drive-through is about for me. Yeah, that's such a good one. And like, everyone in your family will eat that. Elizabeth and I were talking about this today. I'm forever chasing the high of my whole family sitting around the table, eating a dinner that I made. Like, it is. It's emotional. 100%. I've cried watching my family all eat like a steak that I prepared. Yeah. Like a single tear has left my eye. There is nothing more satisfying. And like, tell her to always like, why aren't you cooking every night? I'm like, because I'm addicted. I'm addicted to the high of you guys eating my food and telling me how good it is. Yeah. And I don't think he knows the power that he holds because like, when he comes in and he looks at the stove and he goes, bae, but like he likes what I made. There's no, there's nothing else in the world that could top that field. I know. I'm like, I'm like so sad for me because I, James, no one in my family likes to eat. I could literally, I'm not kidding, not make dinner and no one would notice. In fact, they would probably enjoy that I didn't force everyone to sit down and eat something like, Maddie needs a one meal a day. My kids really need two meals a day, which is the craziest thing, because I have such a three square meals a day plus snacks in between person. That's how our whole family is. We all sit down for meals. We're eaters. In my kids, I will prepare them food for dinner. They won't eat it. They will go to bed and they're fine. And I'm kind of like trying to understand that maybe I saw this thing on Instagram and I was like, you know what, if your kid gets like one really good meal in a day, sometimes that's fine. Sometimes parents think like, oh, well, I just want them to eat. So like, let me give more animal crackers, more snacks, more whatever, whatever, just so they have calories in their belly. And this Instagram was saying they're like, that's relating to like childhood obesity and everything. And it's like, they actually don't need as much as you think, which is weird. And so it's like, don't just like try and fill them up with calories that aren't good for them. Like, if they're not going to eat, they're not going to eat. And so all's to say, I never get that. And my husband, like, only likes me. So I'm not like preparing like a fabulous vegetable that like, maybe you would say, wow, this is incredible. He's a very plain eater. And my kids don't eat. So. If you'd like to have me over for dinner, I will happily come. When you're ready to cook again, if you want me to bring my family over, my family, they're eaters. I don't know how I got so blessed, but they all, they all house it even Libby. I mean, like, Sloan was a good eater for a little bit. And now she's like, just choosing not to eat, just throwing everything on the floor. I'm sad for you. It will change. It will change. Eventually you will have like, you will have like a gaggle of hungry kids who are going, you're going to make a meal and they're going to love it. We'll see. I mean, Maddie's parents both only eat one meal a day. Like the same Johns just don't eat. They just don't eat. Well, it's not too late for, I don't know. We'll figure it out. We'll just get really good at making one fabulous meal a day. Okay, I don't want to like make you feel bad, but like, I would like to tell you the experience I had last night. Great. Go ahead. Well, fine. I'll just rub it in your face until you both make it a slept until 730 this morning and slept through the night. So take that. Now tell me about how everyone ate your meal that you made. Couldn't be me. You could check my aura ring. You would have thought I had a newborn last night. How do you do it? Pissing me off. Coming into my bed. I'll try to come into my bed. And I don't, we don't want our kids leave with us. I'm not doing that game. I'm not doing that game. George has gotten smart though. And he will just sneak into the end of my bed. Like, my feet are and I'll just wake up and I'll accidentally kick up. Darry me crazy. Anyway, last night, I made a meatloaf. Now meatloaf is one of my favorite foods on this earth. Like the Costco meatloaf, chef's kiss, it's amazing. So good. My meatloaf from home, pretty good too. I do half pork sausage or ground pork, half ground beef. I don't really have a recipe. I just like add seasonings, breadcrumbs and eggs and squish it until I like the consistency. A little bit of milk if I have to. For the glaze, I do ketchup, a little balsamic vinegar, a ton of brown sugar, put it on their pop it in the oven for an hour. It's honestly so easy. It's honestly so easy. They hoovered it. The kids ate like three-fourths of it. And like, I had a couple of bites and then tolerate the rest. Like, I barely even got eaten any of my own loaf. And I brought up the point, which like, this is, if you take nothing from me, my advice, my platform, I wanted to be this. And I did talk about some of my stories. So I apologize if you're hearing it twice. If you are ever at a fancy restaurant, I'm talking like, if there's a tablecloth, if there's specials, if it's a diner, I'm not saying this. If it's like a nice restaurant, and they have meatloaf on the menu, 1000% order it. Yeah. I got this advice because Bricktops in St. Louis has incredible meatloaf. And one time I was out to dinner with friends and he was like, the meatloaf was so good you have to get the meatloaf. And I'm like, this is like a night out. Like, I'm obviously not getting a meatloaf. Like, come on, like, I'm obviously going to get like the steak or like the pasta. This is the night out. So like, trust me, get the meatloaf. Didn't get it. Try to meatloaf. Insane. If someone is willing to put the words meatloaf, which is a horrible name on their menu, it's going to be good. Similar to like when we had to rebrand sloppy joes to Iowa slingers, what could we bring in the meatloaf? I mean, meatloaf really like accurately describes what it is though. But it needs to be like a beef. It needs to be like a baked, like the word baked. A beef baked. A beef baked. Even a baked loaf is better, but that's so it's like bread baked meat. It's a meatloaf. It's a meatloaf. It's so good. Anyone my whole family ate it, they loved it. And I am like staring down the barrel of my deep freezer right now, which has so much cube steak, like I'm swimming in cube steak. Yeah. I probably have like eight packs of cube steak. What are you going to do? Well, I asked Instagram and all people had some good ideas. Okay, good. It's just I like learning how to cook with different, more challenging cuts of meat. Like a roast is a roast. Like you throw it in the crock pot. You know what I mean? Yeah. A cube steak, it's like tenderized round steak, I believe. So I might try to do, I mean, you could do chicken fried steak, but like I just don't want to dredge in flour. Like I just don't want to do that. So I'm going to try to do like a beef stroganoff with my cube steak. It's kind of my vibe. Oh. Okay, I love a beef stroganoff. My mind off. Yeah, like to be stroganoff too. So just looking forward to my whole family eating it, loving it, telling me how good it is. And I'm really sorry for you. And I have no advice on how to get this, because I don't know what I did, really. No, you're just, you are just like I'm telling you, like the stumpies are eaters, the sun trups are eaters. I'm married in eater. You married in eater. I married it like, like Tyler is the one who like when we're out at dinner and like you didn't eat the rest of your steak, like you hand Tyler your plate. Tyler will eat everyone's leftovers. Anyone's leftovers. I mean, that's a highlight. Yeah, so like that's the man you married. Maddie eats the same amount as me slash less. How is this much bigger than mine? I don't know. It's ridiculous. It's honestly ridiculous. So I just don't have, I don't have eaters. Honestly, I would love other people to have. I would love if anyone else feels the same way. I would love for you to sound off, because I actually feel like something's wrong. But I'm trying to convince myself that everything's fine. But I don't know what to do. No one eats in my house. Maybe so I am. It's I'm my fourth child, as all of you know. And I am looking into hiring two consultants. One, for getting Fred to go poop on the potty and two to get let me just out waiting a bit for 45 Kelly Molly. Molly's blood trader. You know, because she knows you're being ridiculous for no reason. I mean, because I'm being like everyone who like, I'm like being a mom of three, mom of three, like trying to buy a ball of vaccine 90. Like I'm just like you are. You are. Kelly now listening to reason right now. You are and she and she can tell Molly Tartal, Marley Tartalagia. She's she's my sleep trainer. The name sounds so familiar. Maybe I've just seen you post her. Because I tag her all the time because people are always asking. She has helped me with James and Sloan when they were babies. And now she's helped me with James as a toddler. And James was sleeping on my bed every single night. And the past three nights, he is not only putting himself to sleep, but he's sleeping in his bed all night until 730 the next day. Yeah. And Molly, I mean, I don't want to like give away what she told me to do because like, that's her whole thing. But it's like she basically told me to give me like two big tips of how to do things differently. And it has changed my life. So you just you never know like what she's going to tell you. Like she just understands sleep. Yeah. She just gets it. So you should talk to her. Right. So I'm going to talk to her. And I'm going to do both. My pride is swallow because one thing I mean is I'm tired. Yeah. I'm tired. And that's why the he exists. That simply has to bear. I was like, we've ran beyond for far too long. Yeah. Far too long. Far too long. So that's our so thank you so much for listening to the Carpool podcast. And we'll talk to you next time. Did you just say that's our so that's our so I would have gone with Epi. That's our no. 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