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CC'S BIG ADVENTURE: GRANDPARENTING A TODDLER IS NOT FOR THE WEAK · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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  you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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  professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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  Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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  Welcome everyone to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast for
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  women over 50. Christine Stone is a
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  professional organizer, and I'm Eden Kendall, and we've been
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  waiting very patiently for this episode.
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  This is the one that when you get the recap of when Christine
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  went to take care of her grandson while her granddaughter
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  was brought into this world, she goes by the grandma named Cece.
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  So this is Cece's big adventure. And you even had to go through
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  some training before you took off this very important role.
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  Yeah, well, the first thing I was sent, I think it was a two
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  or three page document that she shared with me in notes.
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  And as I was reading it, I loved it because it let me know a lot
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  of things he doesn't like, not what he does like, because I
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  know what kids like. So that part I skipped through,
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  but what he doesn't like. So it was funny.
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  So what did I do? I printed it and brought it with
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  me because why? Because I'm over 50, so I still
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  print things. So I printed it and brought it
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  with me. I had it ready to go O my
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  husband made fun of Maine because we had a scheduled
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  C-section. An I of course you could go
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  ahead and laugh at me already had my bag packed.
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  And he said to me like a two weeks before her dude before she
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  was going to do it. And he said you're not having
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  the baby. Why is your bag already packed?
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  And I said, because I don't live there and if I have to jump on
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  an airplane, I can't start packing a bag.
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  I'll be too crazy. Of course he laughed.
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  OK, everybody laughs at me. That's fine.
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  So she had a scheduled date and I kept saying to her, I'm
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  warning you, we need a Plan B because I have to get on a
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  plane. So you can't just have me as
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  your plan A, we have to have a Plan B.
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  Mom, it's fine. We're already at the end.
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  We're only four days away. And here's me.
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  I had not had my hair colored in 2 1/2 weeks so I was so Gray.
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  So every day I kept saying please, my darling granddaughter
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  to be just wait until CC gets her hair colored.
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  After that come whenever you want.
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  So I go on a Thursday, she's not scheduled till Monday.
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  She goes to the doctor in the morning.
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  Oh no, we're fine, we're all set for Monday.
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  I said I still think she could come and he said no, no, no.
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  CC goes and gets her hair colored.
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  Literally at 6:45 or seven that night I get a call, which by the
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  way, I knew immediately. I knew immediately what it
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  meant. Her water broke.
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  I said Oh my granddaughter loves me more than anyone in the world
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  and she isn't even born yet because she let me get my hair
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  color anyway. So what did that mean?
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  I had to go into action. And by the way, the way I
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  behaved, I think I could rule the world.
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  I got on the last seat on the flight for the next morning.
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  She ended up having to call a babysitter in the middle of the
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  night, you know, to come and stay until I got there.
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  Thank God everything went well with the air travel and
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  everything. Although I must say, when you're
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  traveling alone because my husband wasn't joining for a
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  couple days schlepping my suitcase, I mean that that right
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  there is a Backbreaker when you don't have anyone to help lift
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  or do anything and you're having to do it all by yourself anyway.
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  So the fun begins when CC gets there and he of course, and I
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  know because I'm a mom, he they left in the middle of the night,
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  so I knew he'd be off his everything.
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  I mean, he wakes up, there's a babysitter there, I'm coming.
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  I mean, he knows something is not right.
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  So you have to first of all plan on that, which CC does, because
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  I had shipped a bunch of things from Amazon before I came like a
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  week before I came. So this is a tip everyone little
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  things, not big humongous presence.
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  I mean a bunch of little things so that every day he would have
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  something new to entertain him and it would be new, wouldn't be
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  something he already had. So he gets up from his nap and
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  that's when C CS big adventure began.
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  It was the funniest, weirdest 7 days of my life because for one
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  week I was brought back to being a mom again.
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  I mean, packing lunches, taking him to school, taking him to the
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  grocery store with me, getting in the, the car, you know, cart
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  at the grocery store, getting a cookie, a sprinkle cookie so he
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  could eat it. Well, I mean, it was hilarious
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  because you forget. You forget and it's something
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  you definitely. It's like riding a bike, except
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  you're older and you don't have the bendable ability to your
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  body to lift him in and out of the cart to get him in the car
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  seat. You know what I mean?
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  It's all the same, except your back's not the same, your neck's
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  not the same, your shoulder strength isn't the same, but
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  anyway. Plus.
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  You know what, you build that as they grow.
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  So if you're only here there intermittently, you know you're
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  not going to get that. It's not.
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  It's one thing if you're lifting a child every day and as they're
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  getting bigger, you're getting stronger.
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  You know, you're just like, here you go, he's a toddler now.
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  How about it? Right.
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  And that's kind of they did. We just had to be thrown into it
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  because it didn't go the way we had all expected it.
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  So I just, you know, so I just tried to keep him busy because
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  my husband was coming the next morning and my daughter says,
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  hey, if you want to keep him busy, he has a birthday party
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  tomorrow. You and dad can take him to the
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  birthday party. I said, oh, OK, where's it at?
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  She goes, oh, it's in, it's in the neighborhood.
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  OK, fine. So and she goes and he really
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  wants to go. I go.
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  Well, if he really wants to go, we're going to take him.
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  Now I told my husband we have to take him to a kids birthday
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  party. I, I just have to tell you, if
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  I, if anyone could have been a family on the wall, I took so
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  many videos just because I had to send them to my daughter to
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  document everything because it was so funny.
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  So that night, of course, he gets up in the middle of the
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  night. That's another thing that you
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  forget, OK? And I knew he would get up in
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  the middle of the night every night just because he's out of
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  his routine, he's out of everything.
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  And I was fine with it. So what did I do?
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  I went in there and I said, OK, you have to go back to sleep
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  because we have so and so's birthday party tomorrow.
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  Well, that was all I had to say. And he goes, OK, And he rolled
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  over and went back to sleep. So now I couldn't get out of the
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  birthday party. No way, no way, no way that was
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  happening because my husband looked at me at one point said
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  should we really go? And I go, oh, I don't have a
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  choice now. I That was my bribery at night.
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  Your credibility would be. Shot right.
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  So we get in the car first of all, the car seats a whole
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  nother thing because they don't make them like they made them
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  back in our day. I mean it's like rocket science
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  to figure out these car seats and they swivel and they move
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  and he basically was like CC no, it goes here and you like he's
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  telling me how to because I don't I don't know any.
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  So I'm listening to him tell me how to connect the car seat.
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  No, this strap goes through here CC like OK, so anyway, we have
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  the the address on our phone going and we're driving and
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  we're driving. I'm like she said it was in the
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  neighborhood. We keep driving.
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  I go, this is not in the neighborhood, we must be going
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  to the wrong place. So he goes, well, let's just
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  keep driving and see where the address she gave us takes us
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  because it was on the invitation.
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  Well, well, well, it's not. AI kept thinking, oh, it's
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  probably a cute little backyard neighborhood party.
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  No, we pull up and it's one of those gymnastics bouncy house
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  balls in a pit running around screaming place.
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  Now, I hated to go to those places when my kids were young.
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  It it, I couldn't stand them. But same.
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  I would do them, but I really, really, really tried to avoid
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  them if the kids didn't absolutely want to go because I
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  just couldn't stand those places.
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  Yes, I remember wondering why my mom always got a headache at
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  those places. And then I remembered all right.
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  I realized later, why? Because they give you a
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  headache. They give you a headache.
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  And so I didn't know it was at one of those places.
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  So it was still very hot where, you know, where she lives.
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  And I didn't wear socks. And you have to take your shoes
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  off. Yeah, my husband had socks on.
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  He had socks on my, my grandson. But I didn't have socks on.
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  So I immediately like, oh, my God, I'm going to get every
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  staph infection. MRSA everything, but I couldn't
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  be the only one with my shoes on.
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  They don't let you wear shoes because they're all these mats
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  on the Oh God, just talking about it is giving me the the
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  crepes. So anyway, he goes running off
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  immediately and I'm like following him around, right?
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  No one else is all by the way. All the other parents could
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  careless what they're doing, where they're at.
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  They're sitting on their phones no problem, like not worrying.
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  And I am literally falling around my grandson like a crazy
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  person because he gets into those balls and they're like
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  covering his head and I'm like, Oh my God, he's going to
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  suffocate. Someone's going to step on his
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  head. There's my husband sitting on
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  his phone, like looking at his phone because there's a football
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  game on and I tape it showing my kids.
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  I'm having flashbacks of your childhood because he's doing the
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  same exact thing he did when you guys were young.
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  He's watching the football game on it, but he when the phone, he
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  would listen to it like on a radio.
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  So anyway, so I finally tell him we can't go in those balls
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  because I'm worried someone's going to jump on top of you.
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  OK, so he doesn't go in the balls.
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  Meanwhile a little girl is getting suffocated in the balls
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  and she's screaming for her mom and her mom's not paying
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  attention. So I had to go rescue someone
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  else's kid out of the balls, right?
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  I grabbed her out, I pulled her out, she's crying and she went
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  and ran to her mother. So now I'm rescuing other
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  people's kids. So then he's running around with
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  all his friends. They're running around.
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  Then they get to the bounce house and this one little boy
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  like starts body slamming everyone like he's AWWE
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  wrestler. And I'm like, Oh my God, he's
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  going to break his arm while she is in the hospital after
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  surgery. And now I'm going to have to
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  take him to the hospital and we're going to have to get a
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  cast. It's going to be a nightmare, My
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  husband finally says. You have got to relax.
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  You've got to let him be who he is and stop hovering, do you?
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  Even know me, Mitch, Do you even know me?
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  I said I can't help it. He goes, well, you're going to
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  have to help it because you're hovering and it's not healthy.
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  He needs he's a little boy. And then I remembered that's why
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  I'm crazy because I had girls, yes, they didn't like to do this
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  stuff. They didn't body slam each
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  other. They didn't, they didn't do the
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  things these boys are doing because you know, it was all
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  boys and like one girl. So that made me realize This is
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  why I'm anxious, because this is what boys do and I didn't have
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  boys. And yes, I was given, I was
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  given that talk to you by my husband because I didn't have
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  brothers. So yeah, I know you had
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  brothers, but you didn't have sons, so.
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  But I didn't have brothers. But OK, first of all, I think it
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  was a different day and age. Like I don't remember.
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  We didn't have bounce houses. We didn't have those.
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  We didn't have that kind of stuff.
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  When you went to a kids birthday party, it was a backyard
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  birthday party. I mean, that's it.
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  There was no other really kind of birth until you got to be
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  like, I don't know a teenager 12134 but when you were this age
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  it was someone's little house with, you know, so that now by
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  the way, this is the 1st birthday party he had been to
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  that was like this. He had never been to any other
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  birthday party. So I we get in it's cake time.
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  Everyone goes running like a pack of wolves to the little
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  cake birthday and him and this other little friend are just
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  standing there. Everyone's taking all the seats
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  and I'm like, they don't know. He's 2 1/2.
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  He doesn't know where to sit. So I have to like, oh, OK, this
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  is where we sit. This is what we do.
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  He's I'm like, this is your little juice box.
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  My husband is like it because no other parents are doing this.
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  There is not a soul around that is doing this.
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  So then they said to the parents, do you want cake?
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  And of course, all these other men don't want cake.
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  My husband's like why aren't they eating cake like.
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  Carbs. He's like, I always eat cake at
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  birthday party. I go, well, do you want
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  something? Well, no, not if nobody else.
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  So this became a thing. Why aren't they eating cake?
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  And I'm like, well, you know, it's a different time.
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  They're not going to get that sugar, like you said, the sugar
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  in the carbs, whatever. We got back from that birthday
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  party so exhausted and we still had like 3 more hours to
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  entertain him because the birthday party, you know, didn't
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  end at 5:36 and ended early. That's the part you don't
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  realize is the amount of entertaining you have to do to
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  it. You do because you had a boy.
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  But here's the here's the other part of it too, because in in
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  another episode, we talked about resting, needing a rest.
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  When you have a toddler or an infant, there's no rest.
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  No rest, No rest at all. Unless they're resting, which.
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  And that was another thing. The week we came, he had just
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  gone down to a one hour nap and she when she was on a schedule.
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  So by the time I put him down, I had to run back up there and get
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  up and everything was upstairs. And so going up and down, up and
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  down. And I didn't want to, I didn't
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  have the heart to tell her that my foot had been bothering me.
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  And I got in with the doctor after the trip to like get an
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  injection. I didn't want to bother her with
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  that. So here I am going up and down
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  this I'm on my Celebrex. I mean, like literally on I'm
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  putting like, you know, salon paws on my, the top of my feet,
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  like salon paws on my back, on my shoulder.
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  We're like, between Mitch and I, we have so many salon paws on us
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  that we look like weirdos. OK, because.
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  Pain patches. The pain patches.
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  So anyway, you're going up and down those stairs, which is a
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  whole nother ordeal, but we, my daughter kept saying and then
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  you could take them here and they and I go, honey, is there
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  any way we could just hang out with them and go to the park in
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  the neighborhood and not take him somewhere?
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  Because I think young parents, they can take him.
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  You know, you can go to the museum, you could go to the zoo,
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  you can go to. And by the time you get them
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  ready at 2 1/2, you are so exhausted because you have to
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  have everything there. It's not like a 5 or 6 year old.
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  It's the whole prep work. So anyway, it was the
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  entertaining and then, you know, keeping the routine, the bath
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  routine, the book routine. Every night we had to read the
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  No Hitting book, every night the No Hitting book because we were
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  learning on why you don't use your hands and we ball them up
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  in a big fist and then release them for relaxation.
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  Is that right? Is that right?
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  OK. That's right.
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  And then do. I need the no hitting book.
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  The no hitting book. And.
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  Hey, the book works. So you got to love the the book
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  and then the C-section book on why mommy can't hug or lift or
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  do anything. Well, she can hug, but she can't
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  lift anything. So every night I had to read the
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  these are books he picked out. Same to every night.
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  I could. It was his idea.
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  Every night. Every night I'd say go pick out
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  your books and every night it was the no hitting book and the
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  mommy's C-section book. I did not know there's a Mommy
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  got AC section book. Yes.
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  Of. Course, I know there's a book
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  for everything. There's a book for everything.
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  So then the next morning my husband decides let's go out to
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  breakfast on a Sunday for brunch.
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  OK, well, let's just say on Sunday at brunch, like 11:00,
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  every restaurant was an hour wait, you know what I mean?
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  And I kept saying let's just go home and I'll make him some
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  pancakes. No, my husband was determined.
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  So we drove from restaurant to finally, my my grandson said no
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  more driving. No more.
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  Yeah, no more driving. I said he can't take it anymore,
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  let's just go home. No, we'll get into this one last
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  one. So by the time he thought we
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  were leaving and getting back to the car, he said no more driving
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  and he started crying. I said he my husband is still an
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  old man time we're OK, we'll wait an hour.
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  We have a 2 1/2 year old toddler.
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  You can't just wait. So I think you forget that you
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  can't just do what you normally do as an older person.
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  You have to work around their schedule.
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  So anyway then my husband would take him to the park for like 2
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  hours. Finally he came back and he
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  goes. I don't think I'm going to be
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  able to walk tomorrow. He said why?
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  He said he wanted to play tag and I didn't want to say no.
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  So we just ran and I chased him for like 2 hours and I am in
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  such pain and I'm I said why did you do it for two hours?
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  Because he wanted to. So I just think that the younger
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  generation does not understand like this generation has kids in
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  their 30s, which puts you in your late 50s, sixties, early
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  70s and you are not who you were.
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  If I was 50 years old or 49, that's a whole different ball
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  game. So going and kind of being a
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  mom, a real mom without the mom, there was a challenge.
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  But you know what I'm telling you?
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  I I have to be proud of myself. I said, you're going to suck it
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  up and you're just going to be like a robot.
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  You're not going to sit and you're not going to think about
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  it. But the one thing that made me
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  laugh the hardest, and that was when you texted me and you said,
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  hey, do you think you could hop on a quick podcast on the phone?
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  You know it'll. Only talk about the golden.
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  Bachelor to talk about the golden bachelor.
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  It'll only be like 15 minutes. I in my myself was saying she
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  has no idea what we are going through over here.
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  We are in another world, like we're hanging on by a.
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  Friend find your response. I want to see if I can find
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  this. I think I tried to be nice, but
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  I was like you. Were like there, yeah, but it
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  was like a no effing way kind of response, but it was like.
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  I mean, we, we're literally. Being nice.
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  You were nice about it, but it was like pretty.
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  I mean, honestly, I had not even had time to wash my hair.
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  I didn't like I my tip for anyone Now, if you live where
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  your grandkids live, it's a whole different story.
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  I'm talking about if you travel to go out of town to see them.
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  I mean, there are so many things I would give advice on one,
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  learn how to to do the car seat before they leave or get
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  instructions because that we got so confused on that because the
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  straps got all tangled. We couldn't figure out how to
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  swivel it. I mean, that's my first thing.
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  Learn the car seat. Next, I would say briber bribery
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  works every time. Having those gifts hidden away
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  in a closet worked like a charm. Whether it was to go to bed, to
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  take a bath, to get dressed for his little preschool, whatever
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  it was. Having something new that he had
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  never seen before, or having something he couldn't wait to
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  get home to and play with something new was key key, key
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  key. Only bring comfy clothes if
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  you're traveling. I actually bought brought a
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  normal pair of jeans like with normal shoes.
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  That was a joke. I was in sneakers and like you
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  know athleisure, you know the whole entire time and never
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  changed outfits from the minute I woke up in the morning until
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  night time because you never got to sit for 5 minutes.
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  No ahead of time you're getting no sleep.
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  So since you're getting no sleep, up your immune vitamins
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  before you go, while you're there, and once you get home
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  because the chance of getting sick is like 99 out of 100
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  because you are so physically and emotionally exhausted by the
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  time you leave. Now, one thing I can say, it was
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  probably the most memorable trip I'll probably ever have the
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  whole time because normally the parents are around, you know
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  what I mean? Normally it's not us alone being
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  in charge. So we had honestly the most
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  memorable trip with him alone because he was an Angel for us.
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  My daughter didn't believe it, but he was an Angel for us.
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  And when they got home with a brand new baby that shifted 150,
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  which I told her is going to happen because you're bringing a
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  new baby into the house and he doesn't understand.
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  So having that time alone with him without anybody else there,
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  I have to say, was priceless. And we're only now looking
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  forward to him getting older and older and older where we can
• 24:17
  actually go and do a lot more fun things.
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  But being a grandparent, it's 63.
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  I mean, that is not for the week.
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  It is not for the week. So this is what you have to look
• 24:30
  forward to, my podcast friend. OK, well I do look forward to
• 24:34
  it, but I do also think that it sounds very, very scary.
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  And I did find your text and it was basically we are the cutest
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  most exhausted humans on the. Planet.
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  Yeah, I mean, it, it, it, it was a lot of work, but a lot of fun.
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  And let's just say this, both of us for 24 to 48 hours didn't go
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  out of the house. We just needed major recouping
• 25:01
  once we got home. But you know what?
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  And, and The thing is those are really solid tips.
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  Normally we do like an organizational tip, but those
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  were such good tips that you gave that there's no doubt in my
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  mind too. And I know that you have gone up
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  and help them organize their house or for both kids to get
• 25:21
  ready for both kids. So, you know, did did you, did
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  you enjoy your time with your grandson, helping him put things
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  away at the end of playtime and things like.
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  That I mean, and he actually is really good at that.
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  He likes picking up things and putting them back.
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  Yeah. I mean, also, of course, while
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  he was at his little school, I would reorganize things for her
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  and, you know, go to the grocery store, clean out the pantry, do
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  everything. So it's kind of nice when your
• 25:54
  mom's an organizer because you know you're going to come home
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  from the hospital with things all done.
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  That is nice. That is very nice.
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  Well, I'm glad you you successfully conquered this big
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  challenge, this big athletic feat.
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  And you and Mitch, you might have come through it in a
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  battered and a bruised and foggy kind of dreamlike state, but you
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  did it and you fond memories. We did it and so good.
• 26:23
  Good. Congrats.
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  Thank you for bringing us C CS big adventure that yes.
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  It was definitely a big and by the way, you never know what you
• 26:31
  can do until you're put in a situation to do it, meaning even
• 26:35
  the travel, I don't think I've ever booked travel and been
• 26:39
  ready to just jump on a plane to go somewhere that best in my
• 26:43
  entire life. And I was a flight attendant, so
• 26:46
  that says something. Well I guess I guess that brings
• 26:49
  us to this. We want to remind you that we do
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  have our uncluttered and unfiltered ladies only Facebook
• 26:54
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• 26:58
  in. We have all the other socials as
• 26:59
  well. And if you would share just one
• 27:03
  share one episode with 1 friend, that would help us grow our
• 27:07
  community, which is just good for everyone.
• 27:10
  And we love doing that. And if there's ever an episode
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  or a subject matter that you want us to cover, please do
• 27:15
  reach out and let us know. So I guess remember this, if you
• 27:20
  think that that you know, you have the energy and the and the
• 27:26
  strength to get through a week, 7 days with a toddler, that's an
• 27:31
  idea. Well, you should probably let it
• 27:33
  go. And don't look back.
• 27:38
  Awesome.