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Speaker 3: I do have a slight problem at the moment, which
Speaker 3: is more due to timing of the year, but it
Speaker 3: is coming out Halloween.
Speaker 2: You participating, Yeah, well, I'm concentrating on Birthday in November
Speaker 2: and then Christmas, which I've done nothing for.
Speaker 3: Okay, Halloweens before that. Yeah, I know that, just like
Speaker 3: only a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 2: I just I sort of get away of not doing
Speaker 2: much of Halloween anymore. There was definitely a time where
Speaker 2: we would all dress up as a family and we'd
Speaker 2: all go to or treating and they'd want the decorations
Speaker 2: and stuff, which, by the way, I see people who
Speaker 2: absolutely love Halloween and they go all out. I really
Speaker 2: cannot justify spending money on Halloween stuff when it's one night.
Speaker 1: It's one day, one day.
Speaker 2: Christmas decorations you can have up for a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks longer if you want.
Speaker 1: If you have one of those people.
Speaker 2: I feel like Halloween is literally one day you've got
Speaker 2: the one day.
Speaker 3: We are in a situation where same thing, we're still
Speaker 3: like backtrack from you in that situation of the girls
Speaker 3: enjoying it. Then also the fact that we're in an
Speaker 3: estate where everyone not everyone, but we have a large
Speaker 3: portion of it that have young kids that like Halloween
Speaker 3: that then expect lollies.
Speaker 1: From our house. Yep, I don't have the heart to
Speaker 1: even just like close the gate and pretelose and pretend
Speaker 1: that I'm not there. But this year've come.
Speaker 3: Up with a little like sort of a sticky point
Speaker 3: in the sense that Gracie wants to do her own
Speaker 3: thing and not be a part of the family. And
Speaker 3: I was sort of like, well, I don't think we
Speaker 3: should do anything because it's also a dance night. And
Speaker 3: I was like, but I paid for dance, like your
Speaker 3: dance lissons. I paid for them.
Speaker 1: That is like priority at the moment, and time does
Speaker 1: dance finish? Six thirty too late?
Speaker 3: I've already given all the candy out to every other
Speaker 3: person's children that are walking the streets taking them. I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, like, we have people at I would say
Speaker 3: like maybe quarter past five five o'clock and then it's
Speaker 3: peak out five to like six point thirty, maybe the
Speaker 3: stragglers at six forty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I genuinely last year got a knock
Speaker 2: on the door, opened it, saw the kids dressed up,
Speaker 2: and went, oh shit, it's Halloween.
Speaker 1: Did you throw them a loaf of bread or something?
Speaker 1: Oh shit, it's Halloween. I've got no here take it.
Speaker 2: No, Because I always keep the lollies that the kids
Speaker 2: get heaps from the previous year. I was just putting
Speaker 2: them all out again. I don't let them eat that
Speaker 2: many lollies on the years because they have been trick
Speaker 2: or treating, so I just keep them in a contentment.
Speaker 2: They just come out again, Babe, they're off probably about
Speaker 2: seven years old.
Speaker 1: Am I a bad.
Speaker 3: Mom for resenting giving up my Friday Night?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Friday night lights?
Speaker 2: No, you're not a bad mum for resenting. I would
Speaker 2: absolutely do the same.
Speaker 3: So Friday Nights for us is now little athletics like
Speaker 3: I started that last year. Put my name down for
Speaker 3: the committee this year.
Speaker 2: Yeap.
Speaker 1: I haven't been to one meeting. Worst committee member ever?
Speaker 2: What does that involve?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I said to them I definitely put my name down
Speaker 3: for the committee and I'm happy to be a part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: Just don't give me any jobs.
Speaker 2: So you're just a name. You're just like a name
Speaker 2: on the committee members board. You don't do anything. There's
Speaker 2: committing to any.
Speaker 3: I commit every Friday night when I turn up and
Speaker 3: take my child to the under tens group, and then
Speaker 3: I have to sort of do the recording or like
Speaker 3: the measuring, and it's not just my child doing it,
Speaker 3: it's everyone else's.
Speaker 2: So what does the rest of the committee do.
Speaker 3: They are really proactive, and really it's a really good committee. Actually,
Speaker 3: they all are really lovely people that just get in
Speaker 3: and like they run the Friday night so there's like
Speaker 3: from the sausage sizzle to like the guy handing out numbers, and.
Speaker 2: So they find it really beneficial having a part of it.
Speaker 1: I'm a big part of their team.
Speaker 3: And I think it's already been week five, maybe week four. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I've been once to take my child to little athletics.
Speaker 3: We've missed like three to four weeks of Friday nights
Speaker 3: because Friday nights, you know how they just back up,
Speaker 3: they're just busy. And then she was away and Cloncurry
Speaker 3: and then so it's just a number of things. So
Speaker 3: then when I finally did turn up on Friday night,
Speaker 3: I got the old.
Speaker 1: Ah, I didn't think you were coming back. Didn't think
Speaker 1: you were coming back.
Speaker 3: As I was driving there, I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: I love I love.
Speaker 1: What we do. I love what we give our kids,
Speaker 1: the opportunities that all the rest.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, Friday nights are tough. Friday nights are
Speaker 3: so tough.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would sign up for them to
Speaker 2: do anything on a Friday night. I think I would
Speaker 2: just tell them that it's not on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I tried that for so many years, and then
Speaker 1: she really wanted to laugh.
Speaker 2: Then they got older.
Speaker 1: Now they're smart, they go, Mom's just telling us shit.
Speaker 2: It's like when they get to that point where they
Speaker 2: can actually tell the time, and so when you tell
Speaker 2: them it's like eight o'clock, they're going to bed and
Speaker 2: it's actually six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, idea, it's a dead giveaway.
Speaker 3: Mum.
Speaker 1: The sun is still.
Speaker 2: Well, it's summer.
Speaker 3: I think the way that I look at it is
Speaker 3: now when we go on a Friday night, the only
Speaker 3: positive is that.
Speaker 1: There is no I'm trying to think of it. Oh,
Speaker 1: the sausage sizzle.
Speaker 3: I don't have to cook dinner for the kids because
Speaker 3: my kids love the sausage sizzle. So that's my positive
Speaker 3: to Little Athletics is that they feed my children. I'm
Speaker 3: still paying for it, of course, but they at least
Speaker 3: I don't have to cook.
Speaker 2: I've got a friend, in fact, we've got a friend
Speaker 2: whose daughter does gymnastics on a Friday night and he
Speaker 2: takes a flask with wine in it, like a water bottle,
Speaker 2: Like it's disguised as a water bottle.
Speaker 3: I think it's a dead giveaway though, when you rock
Speaker 3: up every Friday night with the same water bottle, it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're doing it too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you get happier and happier, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get more friendlier and you want to chat
Speaker 3: about random things.
Speaker 2: And then you get by with your kids.
Speaker 3: I would love to have one on the way to
Speaker 3: like Little Athletics, or before going to the I've still
Speaker 3: got to drive there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that's the thing that's only really helpful and
Speaker 2: doable if you live in walking distance of the place that.
Speaker 1: You're going to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely don't. So, yeah, that's the Friday nights
Speaker 3: of I guess it's until the end of February for us.
Speaker 3: I think it's February or March. It goes through till
Speaker 3: so there goes the Fridays.
Speaker 2: I held off, I think probably until the girls were
Speaker 2: like maybe seven or eight. I held off from any
Speaker 2: weekend sports.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, we're not doing things like Saturday
Speaker 2: morning at six am, Like, that's not happening in this house.
Speaker 2: We doing it, and we then did have yeah with
Speaker 2: ice skating, Yeah, ice skating and dancing, we had Saturday mornings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it did get.
Speaker 2: To that stage and now and now, rach we're at
Speaker 2: the stage where Amelia on Saturday has a shift from.
Speaker 1: Eight till eleven, so.
Speaker 2: She nationally needs to be dropped at work all different things.
Speaker 2: And even she was like, ugh eight am. I went, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you'd be done by eleven, that's what time you
Speaker 2: normally get out of bed. She was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll have a whole day still and of her money
Speaker 2: and yeah, see, how good because teenagers don't like to
Speaker 2: get up in the morning. And Rache, I'm surprised that
Speaker 2: Holly even got a job because when she went to
Speaker 2: her interview, they asked her what days and time she
Speaker 2: could work, and she was like, I can work anytime,
Speaker 2: like outside of school hours, anytime. And she went, oh, really,
Speaker 2: that's excellent, So like six am, and Holly went, no, jokes, right,
Speaker 2: And I cannot believe she got off of the job
Speaker 2: after this. Holly went, oh, no, maybe like twelve.
Speaker 3: Oh that's it, start at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I said to her.
Speaker 2: When she said to you, oh, watch her like six am.
Speaker 2: You just say yes, yes, absolutely, anytime. I can do
Speaker 2: anytime six am is absolutely fine. What you've said now
Speaker 2: is nah, I don't want this job badly enough that
Speaker 2: can't be asked. Definitely not getting up earlier, sending an
Speaker 2: alarm for it. So pop me in in the.
Speaker 1: Afternoon from twelve. I can't. My body actually doesn't work
Speaker 1: until twelve.
Speaker 2: And what time can you work till?
Speaker 1: Like one?
Speaker 3: Three hours