Speaker 1: Apod Jake Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am
Speaker 1: I a Bad Mum? Podcast?
Speaker 2: New Week.
Speaker 1: I have done absolutely nothing towards Christmas. Nothing, not a thing.
Speaker 2: We've still got time, I know I have time.
Speaker 1: Remember that year I was so impressed with you. Remember
Speaker 1: that year that you lay by all your Christmas gifts
Speaker 1: for the kids in like June July and then paid
Speaker 1: it off and then literally picked it up in December,
Speaker 1: so organized paid the ladies at the charity fifty dollars
Speaker 1: to wrap it all. How reallyhing.
Speaker 2: Ah, I can tell you this year it is not
Speaker 2: like that at all, And that memory of that year
Speaker 2: even makes me relaxed, Like just the that you sold
Speaker 2: that to me then I was like, why wouldn't you
Speaker 2: do it any other way? That sounds blissful. I've got
Speaker 2: a slight issue, though, and that is because the ages
Speaker 2: in which my children are now, they're not just wanting
Speaker 2: that bulk by from Target of toys. And that year
Speaker 2: was kind of like I got lucky because they were
Speaker 2: still into toys. They still wanted different toys, Like my
Speaker 2: girls were definitely you know, a Lego here or there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're not wanting that toys anymore. So that takes me
Speaker 2: into another whole space, like you're in another whole world
Speaker 2: of presence. But I'm kind of like in that.
Speaker 1: Middle in between, stay in between.
Speaker 2: I'm not a baby anymore. I'm not wanting toys.
Speaker 1: But also I think, especially with Gracie, is that I'm
Speaker 1: wanting stuff that probably is an age appropriate right now
Speaker 1: a hundred. But I'm wanting it because I see all
Speaker 1: the other girls and the older girls having it. So
Speaker 1: i want the white Fox.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: However, I'm not old enough to wear it yet. Yeah
Speaker 1: I could, to the point now. I looked at Amelia's
Speaker 1: shoes the other day and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: really want to get myself a pair of those, And
Speaker 1: I was like, she's at school all day, just wear them,
Speaker 1: Just wear them.
Speaker 2: I'm not far off that I'm okay with sharing things
Speaker 2: to a degree, but I want to share all.
Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for because they'll be stealing
Speaker 1: your stuff. I know you won't be able to find
Speaker 1: it when you want to wear it, or it will
Speaker 1: be damaged because I don't give a shit because you
Speaker 1: paid for it.
Speaker 2: I'll just have to get a lock box. Yeah you
Speaker 2: did from Bunnings and stew it all the way. Yep.
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mum for not knowing what to
Speaker 1: do with them?
Speaker 2: Is this in general or is this just because you're
Speaker 2: coming into that wonderful time of year.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Make them get extra days at work?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. And so I'm panicking a little bit
Speaker 1: because literally it's school holidays, like school holidays is pretty
Speaker 1: much here. Yeah, and there's still a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: before I take a break. Yeah, And I don't want
Speaker 1: them just sitting on screens all day, and so I
Speaker 1: really am struggling to think what the hell am I
Speaker 1: going to do with them? It's a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like they go back to school after Australia Day.
Speaker 1: It's January, like end of January.
Speaker 2: And it's only the start of December.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to working now, because they've both
Speaker 2: got part time jobs, is there a system in which
Speaker 2: they can request additional hours or like pick up shifts
Speaker 2: when people are not well or is that just delegated
Speaker 2: one hundred percent from the workplace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. So this particular workplace have so many
Speaker 1: kids working for them, and they're all casuals. So they
Speaker 1: literally each week they have a look at their app
Speaker 1: they don't even they don't speak to a person. They
Speaker 1: have a look at their app and they see which
Speaker 1: shifts they've been assigned, And.
Speaker 2: We just want to put it out there on the
Speaker 2: record that they are not working in like a TIMU
Speaker 2: or machine factory.
Speaker 1: When you say there's so.
Speaker 2: Many kids in Yeah, they're not working in there. They're
Speaker 2: not working in a factory of that. But yeah, so
Speaker 2: there's a lot of that particular age group that are
Speaker 2: probably looking for the same sort of stuff, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so they just get what they've given. So
Speaker 1: some weeks they might have two shifts, some weeks they
Speaker 1: don't have any.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just remember back to my first part time
Speaker 2: job and I was like I was only given certain shifts.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, no, I'm really I want
Speaker 2: to work like I want to work every minute that
Speaker 2: I can because I was chasing the cash.
Speaker 1: I said to Holly the other day, I was like,
Speaker 1: don't forget to put because you can request like if
Speaker 1: you're going on holiday or whatever, you can block out dates.
Speaker 1: I said, don't forget to request Christmas Day off, and
Speaker 1: she went, no, I want to work Christmas Day. So
Speaker 1: do you know how much money you get for working
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. I was like, yeah, it's Triple Time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. That's a lot of money
Speaker 1: fast food by the way, just for anyone that didn't know,
Speaker 1: just to mac donald if you don't know, it's macas
Speaker 1: Mickey D's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd probably be an easy shift. I would say
Speaker 2: for Triple Time. I'm just going to say, I don't
Speaker 2: know how many people would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to put it out there,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to say that that. I was like, sadly,
Speaker 1: I think you'd be surprised.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't mind, like maybe a few hotcakes for Brecky,
Speaker 2: but like really for the whole anyway, be.
Speaker 1: Can't I was like thinking, family pack what are they called?
Speaker 2: Get a cheesy family Christmas.
Speaker 1: I don't know who is having Meccas for their Christmas
Speaker 1: Day lunch, but there would definitely be some people.
Speaker 2: The part of me that would attract me to want
Speaker 2: to go the air for lunch on Christmas Day is
Speaker 2: just the ease and the convenience, because you know how
Speaker 2: stressful Christmas Day is when you're cooking for however many
Speaker 2: people you've got at your house. Yeah, that ship is stressful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do this is just reminded me. It's completely off topic.
Speaker 1: But back in the day in England, my mom and
Speaker 1: dad built a house. So they bought a block of
Speaker 1: land and they built the house. Yep, there's laws around.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can do this here. But we
Speaker 1: lived on the back of the block of land in
Speaker 1: a caravan for a year. What the hose? Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a few more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And for Christmas Day, my mom went, there's no way
Speaker 1: I'm cooking a full Christmas dinner in a caravan. We
Speaker 1: went to the supermarket. Everyone got to pick their favorite food.
Speaker 1: Just grab your favorite food, sausage rolls, like oh shit,
Speaker 1: that was all easy to do and just lay it
Speaker 1: out on the table and that was Christmas dinner. Or
Speaker 1: we didn't quite go to macas, but I mean, each
Speaker 1: their own.
Speaker 2: I'm down with it. The ease inconvenience for me. Look,
Speaker 2: as a parent, now you've got to get through the
Speaker 2: presence in the morning. Then you've got to feed everyone
Speaker 2: for breakfast. Do you know.
Speaker 1: I had a funny realization because Christmas obviously with kids,
Speaker 1: so Christmas Eve is a big night. So I found
Speaker 1: that a big I would be wrapping to Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: I'd like be up there with a glass of wine wrapping,
Speaker 1: and then I'd forget to label a present and be like,
Speaker 1: next day, the fuck was that one for?
Speaker 2: And then she'd have another wine's.
Speaker 1: It would just get worse and worse. But I would
Speaker 1: leave the wrapping to Christmas Eve, which is stressful. Then
Speaker 1: you've got Christmas Eve itself where your kids won't go
Speaker 1: to sleep because mom was so excited. They'd get so
Speaker 1: excited for Santa coming. We'd walk up the street in pajamas.
Speaker 1: We'd have a look in the sky. We'd point out,
Speaker 1: you know, an airplane with lights and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: there are is, Like he's coming, quick cut of sleep,
Speaker 1: go sleep. I remember Channel nine did this really great
Speaker 1: news story one year where it was breaking news and
Speaker 1: then it was like there are too many kids still awake,
Speaker 1: Santa can't land, and like they went they did this
Speaker 1: like whole story. They like shot it at the airport.
Speaker 1: They were showing you know, delays with planes taking off
Speaker 1: because they were waiting for Santa to land his slave.
Speaker 1: But he couldn't land because too many kids were still awake,
Speaker 1: and so all the kids were like we have to
Speaker 1: go sleeping to sleep. It got to the point where
Speaker 1: Amelia in particular, got so excited on Christmas Eve she
Speaker 1: literally couldn't sleep, like she'd get upset about it because
Speaker 1: she could not sleep. She wanted to go to sleep,
Speaker 1: and she couldn't get sleep because she was so excited.
Speaker 1: Jay and I would get drunk because we'd have to
Speaker 1: stay up so late. We'd get drunk, and then we
Speaker 1: would have to go to sleep and set our alarm
Speaker 1: for the middle of the night to be able to
Speaker 1: do the Christmas stuff while she was asleep, because she
Speaker 1: was still alive at am. Honestly, the other day, rach
Speaker 1: I was talking about the fact that we have teenagers
Speaker 1: now and they sleep in a little bit longer, and
Speaker 1: I think Christmas Day, I think they'll still get up
Speaker 1: at you know, if they got triple time, certainly not
Speaker 1: going to be four am like it used to be.
Speaker 1: The amount of years rage that I remember having breakfast
Speaker 1: on Christmas morning, eating to try and sober myself up
Speaker 1: because I was still drunk from the night before.
Speaker 2: Mary Chris, mom's over there, Mary Chris, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: she's heart messed this morning.
Speaker 1: We would literally get up open the presence. I'd be like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: that's done. I'm going back to bed.
Speaker 2: Yep, kids, you're going to be good. You will just
Speaker 2: keep playing with your toys. Mom's just gonna have a
Speaker 2: little nap. She'll be back in an hour. Jay's probably
Speaker 2: seen their curse years.
Speaker 1: They're like, why do we always have to have an
Speaker 1: afternoon nap? On Christmas Day? I was like, do you
Speaker 1: know how much sleep we had? But two hours sleep?
Speaker 2: Wrap it up, kids, My Christmas Days