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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad
Speaker 2: Mum Podcast? How many weeks a week got left of school?
Speaker 2: It's the only school holidays again.
Speaker 1: Two weeks. We've got two weeks.
Speaker 2: I don't know what we're going to do in this
Speaker 2: school holidays because we need to work. Like a lot
Speaker 2: of parents, and I don't know about you, but kids
Speaker 2: expect us to take all the time off that they've
Speaker 2: got off, and I'm like, that doesn't happen in the
Speaker 2: real world. No, people that work actually have that amount
Speaker 2: of holidays per year. And I feel like you try
Speaker 2: and take some time off at Christmas because that's such
Speaker 2: a massive long holidays. And we went on holiday in
Speaker 2: the June July school holidays. So this September October one quiet,
Speaker 2: it's like, we have to actually work.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for your sake they have a job.
Speaker 3: They have a job, because it would just be perfect
Speaker 3: timing for them to just get two weeks of work
Speaker 3: in the bank. Yeap. When that first paycheck comes in,
Speaker 3: when you've got that first job, there's nothing beat.
Speaker 1: That feeling because you're like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: My mum never questioned the money that was coming in
Speaker 3: or what I was doing with it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I have said to the girls because they
Speaker 2: were like, oh, well, you're just gonna take it off
Speaker 2: as anyway, and I was like, no, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to take it off you. I said, I think it
Speaker 2: would be a sensible idea to save half spend half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're also coming into Katie wanting a car, So
Speaker 1: that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's why all I'm saying is safe, safe safe, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because otherwise you're going to be on an electric scooter.
Speaker 1: You want to be on a scooter?
Speaker 2: You can't even afford that yet?
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mom for blowing the cover?
Speaker 3: I a few weeks ago went away to Sydney for work.
Speaker 3: With the particular work that we do, it's like twelve
Speaker 3: hour days and you don't get that break because we
Speaker 3: start really early in the morning and we finished kind
Speaker 3: of like eight thirty at night, and then by the
Speaker 3: time we're doing that, you know, the kids are on
Speaker 3: their way to bed. So I'm just it's that overlap
Speaker 3: of not being able to chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just to explain to people, this is
Speaker 2: like a fitness brand and you go to things like
Speaker 2: all the marathon charity runs marathons and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So by the time I've done a day sort of
Speaker 3: at the ex bot, I just don't get to FaceTime
Speaker 3: them or like chat because I don't have my phone
Speaker 3: for the whole day.
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy town.
Speaker 3: So anyway, long story short is I got a text saying,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Mom, You'll never believe.
Speaker 3: And then there was the photo and it's Elsie with
Speaker 3: no tooth and she's lost another tooth because we'd stalled.
Speaker 1: The teeth had stalled yea a.
Speaker 3: While we had an orthodon appointment and I sort of
Speaker 3: looked at him and was like, why are they stalling?
Speaker 1: She hasn't lost one in so long she's done.
Speaker 2: It took Colley six months to lose her last baby teeth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I just got the text and it
Speaker 3: was later over and it was like, yeah, she was
Speaker 3: so excited, so excited she lost the tooth.
Speaker 1: Finally and Mom, yay, I.
Speaker 3: Get to put it out for the toothbairy tonight and
Speaker 3: it's so exciting.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get some money.
Speaker 3: But you were away when I was away, So Nanadee
Speaker 3: had the girls. That was all good, and then say
Speaker 3: ten thirty comes along and I was just in bed
Speaker 3: and I was about to shut down completely. And I
Speaker 3: don't even know why, but I had that moment because
Speaker 3: it's usually when I sort of forget at home if
Speaker 3: I'm the one meant to be doing it. And I
Speaker 3: sort of sent my mother a text and said, Hi, Mom.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the truth.
Speaker 3: Don't forget the two dollars and the tooth, so well please,
Speaker 3: I know, I said, hopefully I'm not waking you up,
Speaker 3: but I just thought of it, so I thought I'm
Speaker 3: going to text you to remind you.
Speaker 1: She said, actually, just going to do it now. Thanks
Speaker 1: the reminder. I was like, perfect, good night, going to sleep.
Speaker 1: All went well in your head? You're like, that was
Speaker 1: just so easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all good.
Speaker 1: I should work away more often. I'd got to cover it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all fine. Else's gonna be happy. In the morning.
Speaker 1: Elsie was pumped in the morning, absolutely pumped.
Speaker 3: Spoke to her, My gosh, got this, Oh great, you
Speaker 3: know this is all before seven am.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's so cool. YadA, YadA YadA.
Speaker 3: At the same time, she was bugging me about a
Speaker 3: sleepover on that coming weekend for some reason, and I
Speaker 3: hadn't answered her yet, and there was a reasoning why,
Speaker 3: she went over to NaN's phone just before going to
Speaker 3: school and picked it up and opened her messages.
Speaker 1: This is what she tells me.
Speaker 3: Anyway, she opened up the phone, she opened up the messages,
Speaker 3: read the message that I'd sent Nan in the night
Speaker 3: before about the toothso and then she did the old
Speaker 3: voice to text, Hi, Mam, this is Elsie. I've just
Speaker 3: read the message. Oh no, I just read the message
Speaker 3: you sent Nan last night. I can't believe the tooth.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you keep telling me the tooth fairy
Speaker 3: is real?
Speaker 1: Oh something. She's just absolutely waiting for me, and I,
Speaker 1: as a parent, had no response.
Speaker 2: Does Gracie still believe?
Speaker 3: No? But none, I think because she's nine and I
Speaker 3: was sort of wanting to her, And it's the same
Speaker 3: with both of the girls. I just wanted them to
Speaker 3: get to that point themselves, and then when we have
Speaker 3: that conversation, I would tell them. But I wasn't going
Speaker 3: to tell them when they're young young, because that takes
Speaker 3: the fun.
Speaker 1: Out of it.
Speaker 3: Gracie and I had a agreement that if you believe,
Speaker 3: you receive, and if you don't believe, you won't receive.
Speaker 3: It's simple as that don't ruin it for others.
Speaker 1: And it was just simple.
Speaker 3: And now I'm then getting abusive text messages from my
Speaker 3: other daughter saying, I can't believe you've been telling me
Speaker 3: that the tooth Fairy is real. I just read your
Speaker 3: message to nine last night.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my gosh, this has left
Speaker 3: me in such a pickle because I was like, what
Speaker 3: is the right or wrong thing to do?
Speaker 1: Katie?
Speaker 2: First of all, I'd say, don't do your own head in,
Speaker 2: because every kid's got a story of when they realize
Speaker 2: this stuff, and that just happens to be the one.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Secondly, I'd probably divert some of the blame and say, Nanade,
Speaker 2: what are you leaving your phone lying around for? And secondly,
Speaker 2: you need a password on it that the kids don't know.
Speaker 1: This was Katie, This was me one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I was like what And then I like quickly like
Speaker 3: finished up what I was doing and walked away, and
Speaker 3: I like then I rang and was like hi. I
Speaker 3: was like, what is that a message about? You know,
Speaker 3: YadA YadA, and Mum goes, look, I'm sorry. She picked
Speaker 3: up my phone and just opened the messages.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Elsie Valentina, you do not open
Speaker 1: other people's phone. That is rude.
Speaker 3: And number two, that is her personal phone. You don't
Speaker 3: read people's messages. And that is your own fault.
Speaker 2: Now it's your fault.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, under connect didn't handle it as well as
Speaker 3: one would hope.
Speaker 2: But on the plus side, have a think about how
Speaker 2: you feel every December getting that annoying elf out, to
Speaker 2: put it in all the different and having to remember
Speaker 2: to put it in a different position and be creative
Speaker 2: with it every single day. Maybe that was your last year.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing, Katie.
Speaker 3: So it came up about the tooth very only I
Speaker 3: did not elaborate, okay, and we you and I had
Speaker 3: talked about how this year was going to be else
Speaker 3: last year, and then I was going to use I
Speaker 3: think it was your bra who was it, remember cousin
Speaker 3: or something, and how they wrapped up the elf living
Speaker 3: at their house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what you could do. This ticks all
Speaker 2: the boxes. You could say that the elf is now
Speaker 2: moving on to you know, like you blame cost of living, right,
Speaker 2: so you could cost of living has made things really
Speaker 2: expensive and there are households around the world that can't
Speaker 2: afford to get their kids Christmas presents anymore. Oh, you
Speaker 2: got to explain the whole stand to think but cost
Speaker 2: Oh no, okay, this is better, this is better. Scrap
Speaker 2: that cost of living means that Santa's not able to
Speaker 2: give everybody what he would normally want to give them
Speaker 2: at Christmas time. So some households and some kids are
Speaker 2: suffering a little bit because they're not getting what they
Speaker 2: used to get. So Elf on the Shelf is stepped
Speaker 2: in to save the day, and he is now visiting
Speaker 2: the homes. Oh yeah, where they don't have a lot
Speaker 2: of money and they don't have many presents at Christmas time,
Speaker 2: something along the lines of that. It's work in progress.
Speaker 1: We'll come back on that. We've got a few weeks.
Speaker 2: But there's definitely then, you know, a whole He's doing
Speaker 2: a good thing. He's doing a good deed. Isn't it great?
Speaker 2: He's going to those houses where those kids don't have anything.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna go with like I lost it
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 3: He moved out, he got a girlfriend grown, they've got
Speaker 3: to have a baby, they've got to find their own
Speaker 3: place to live.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have time to play in the flower anymore
Speaker 2: making snow.
Speaker 3: Ain's not being Yeah, it's not terrorizing our house. If
Speaker 3: you have any stories of how you wrapped up Elf
Speaker 3: on the shelf living at your house with your kids,
Speaker 3: please share.
Speaker 1: Them with us.
Speaker 3: Please share them because we can then share them on
Speaker 3: here with other people. If you're going through that same
Speaker 3: stress of having Elf on the shelf, return back on
Speaker 3: the first of December into your household.
Speaker 2: We never did del you know before.
Speaker 1: Actually, don't mind it, you know. I say that now
Speaker 1: because where or are we in like September. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm saying it. Ask me again in December.