Speaker 1: Apogha production.
Speaker 2: O'kme back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 3: Podcast?
Speaker 1: The question we continuously ask am I A Bad mum?
Speaker 4: We like to really sit and ponder if we're actually
Speaker 4: doing it right or just basically messing the whole shit up.
Speaker 1: I feel like by the time you've realized that you've
Speaker 1: messed stuff up, it's kind of like too late.
Speaker 2: That's why I talk often.
Speaker 1: About becoming a grandparent. When eventually we become grandparents, you're
Speaker 1: gonna fix that stuff up. Look at you with your mum, right,
Speaker 1: your mom will give you advice now on your children.
Speaker 2: But yeah, shouldn't do that with you.
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, what was this morning's She was commenting
Speaker 4: on Ntella? Oh yeah, I was like, I looked at
Speaker 4: her and I was like, really, Natella out of every Like,
Speaker 4: my kids are pretty damn like you know, we're very
Speaker 4: protein driven in the morning, especially for breakfast. Mum, you
Speaker 4: offered to make them pancakes, So what do you expect
Speaker 4: that they eat on it? And she went, oh, gosh,
Speaker 4: anything but Natella.
Speaker 1: But telling you, my dad stayed at our house and
Speaker 1: the girls were a lot younger, and I remember him
Speaker 1: saying he gave them natella on toast and I said, Dash, like,
Speaker 1: that's not what we normally give him for breakfast, and
Speaker 1: he said what and genuinely right, he went, what is healthy?
Speaker 2: It's full of nuts?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Mom, this morning was a complete opposite
Speaker 4: to that, Katie. And then I had that moment of
Speaker 4: going but you gave us We had way worse than natella.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about your choices now when you
Speaker 1: go for more healthy options or you don't have certain things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've read so much about vegetable oil and how that's
Speaker 1: so terrible and it's in like everything so and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of a bit like, well, unless you're a multi
Speaker 1: millionaire with a chef or someone that can go through
Speaker 1: all those ingredients and make sure you're eating the best stuff,
Speaker 1: it's just not doable. It's not doable in terms of
Speaker 1: cost for starters, and it's also not practical, like you
Speaker 1: could then never eat out, you could like, it's just
Speaker 1: too hard, it's too hard.
Speaker 3: To do that.
Speaker 2: But when you look at your choices now, do you
Speaker 2: look back and.
Speaker 1: Go, oh, I mean, look at the first half of
Speaker 1: my life from when I was eating that, I don't.
Speaker 4: I genuinely have a giggle because Mum's other thing that
Speaker 4: we grew up on afternoon snack.
Speaker 3: We had two minute noodles, right, two minute noodles.
Speaker 4: So now we've put an option of whole meal two
Speaker 4: minute noodles to make it a little bit healthier, and like,
Speaker 4: my girls only get it as a way off treat.
Speaker 4: I think we were having it, Luke and I were
Speaker 4: having it like every other noon after school. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was why she was parenting us. Now fast forward to
Speaker 4: having my two around. These are the worst things that
Speaker 4: you could ever be giving them.
Speaker 3: And I was like, don't worry about the damage that's
Speaker 3: already been done. Here, I'm down, I'm damaged. Don't worry
Speaker 3: about my kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I was like, here, I am going through
Speaker 4: the markets to get organic vegetables and like, oh gosh,
Speaker 4: don't beat the kids whole mail two minute noodles.
Speaker 3: Why the MSG doesn't hurt anybody?
Speaker 2: MSG coming out of our ears?
Speaker 3: Am I a bad mom? Or looking forward to school holidays?
Speaker 3: This is this is a fun one, Katie.
Speaker 4: So I am genuinely looking forward to school holidays. And
Speaker 4: this is the reason why I had somebody else in
Speaker 4: our family say that they were willing to take the
Speaker 4: kids camping.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, yes, have you booked it? Where are you going?
Speaker 3: This is exciting.
Speaker 4: You also did the wrong thing by saying it in
Speaker 4: front of the girls, so they heard that. So you're
Speaker 4: going to let them down if you don't take them. Now,
Speaker 4: this person that I'm talking about is Sam Dad a
Speaker 4: dad aka dad, and I genuinely and like now encouraging
Speaker 4: it so much that it's actually so obvious because I
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, no, where are you camping? Like this
Speaker 4: would be so good? And he goes, well, you could come,
Speaker 4: and I was like, nope, no, that was never.
Speaker 3: On my posce.
Speaker 2: You're that you're the fun guy.
Speaker 3: You're the fun guy.
Speaker 2: You do the fun stuff.
Speaker 3: You love camping. Yeah, you bought swags just for the
Speaker 3: three of you.
Speaker 1: We'll say at home and iron everyone's school uniforms.
Speaker 4: I do all the jobs, so like and not go camping.
Speaker 2: How long are they thinking of going camping?
Speaker 3: A week?
Speaker 1: He was planning a week like seven day Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a long time for camping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, best of luck. But the last time they went
Speaker 3: camping was for what two nights?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, don't have all your hopes tied
Speaker 1: up with seven days because my experience of camping, and
Speaker 1: I haven't been for a long time because of my
Speaker 1: very convenient analogy, but my experience of camping has always
Speaker 1: been you plan for a certain amount of days and
Speaker 1: I'm home after two.
Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah, So they went for two days.
Speaker 4: On the last camping trip, he ended up booking a
Speaker 4: tiny home, so it was like a property with a
Speaker 4: tiny home on it, just in case the girls didn't
Speaker 4: want to camp.
Speaker 3: Oh, so they got a tiny home.
Speaker 4: They got the pocket of land, he said, which was
Speaker 4: good because then you've got the pocket of land. You
Speaker 4: don't have to think about where you're going to go
Speaker 4: camping the rest mind you. This was like eight hundred
Speaker 4: dollars for his tiny home for two nights.
Speaker 2: What and I was only slept in a tent outside.
Speaker 4: I was like, Maye, what the actual fuck is wrong
Speaker 4: with you? They have swags like whatever the swags are,
Speaker 4: and I think Sam bought himself double swag biggest mistake
Speaker 4: because then he had someone in the swag both nights
Speaker 4: and it was like one night, one girl, Elsie first night,
Speaker 4: Gracie second night, and they were all sleeping outside the
Speaker 4: tiny home, but in their swags.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so now.
Speaker 4: They're planning seven nights Katie. But I'm feeling like I'm
Speaker 4: going to just like jump the gun. I'm going to
Speaker 4: get way too excited. But I figured, if I just
Speaker 4: booked something, if I just go somewhere, not my.
Speaker 2: Problem, like Fiji.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you yeah, if you cancel your own
Speaker 4: camping trip, not my problem. You told me you were
Speaker 4: going camping. Yeah, no, you organize this, yeah problem, they're
Speaker 4: on you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So seven days, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Of course, I'm looking forward to school holidays.
Speaker 4: I'm not even going to be with them for a
Speaker 4: week of the school holidays.
Speaker 3: I'll take one week, you take the other.
Speaker 2: Is it the first week or the second week.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It would be better if it's the second week because
Speaker 2: because you'll do Oh no, it be better if it's
Speaker 2: the first week.
Speaker 1: Because then you get your time and then you get
Speaker 1: time with the kids and then they go back to school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's kind of like school holidays gives all
Speaker 4: of us holidays, right. I don't know if you ever
Speaker 4: think about this in terms of the breakdown, but we've
Speaker 4: talked about it before. School holidays for an adult means
Speaker 4: no lunchboxes, no school run drop off timing, no driving
Speaker 4: in traffic just to get to that one because the
Speaker 4: traffic even lightens up. I don't know if this is
Speaker 4: all over the world, but Brisbane it's like it's like
Speaker 4: no one goes to work, no one goes to anywhere
Speaker 4: in the mornings that they're school holidays and so like
Speaker 4: there's so many things that we don't have to do.
Speaker 4: So technically you're on holidays whilst they're on holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I certainly did do a lot of getting
Speaker 1: up taking them to vacation care. First of all, it
Speaker 1: was a drama because they hated going, and then they
Speaker 1: compared it to Albert so and So's mum is home
Speaker 1: and him blah blah blah blah blah. So I would
Speaker 1: always have to pushback and the arguing over why did
Speaker 1: they have to go to vacation care and other people don't.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, there's still plenty of people have to
Speaker 1: go to work during school holidays and have to do that.
Speaker 1: But then there's also the cost of it, Rach because
Speaker 1: after school care or holiday care, vacation care works out
Speaker 1: so much more expensive, especially over the Christmas school holidays.
Speaker 1: If you've p like if you ever weeks and the
Speaker 1: kids need to go to vacation care for like five
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: There's so much money. When is school holidays?
Speaker 1: By the way, when have we got about three weeks?
Speaker 4: Three weeks I think technically classified as winter holidays?
Speaker 3: I think is it?
Speaker 2: Yes? And the girls say to me, as they do
Speaker 2: every school holiday, are we going anywhere this school holidays? Well?
Speaker 1: I did have a look at flights to Bali and
Speaker 1: they were going to be eight thousand dollars and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's seven.
Speaker 2: Thousand dollars on our sick cat. So what do you want?
Speaker 2: The ants will be no holiday or a cat.
Speaker 3: Maybe pick up a few extra shifts.