Speaker 1: Apogae Production, Welcome back to you another episode of am
Speaker 1: I of ad Mum podcast. This is a weird one too,
Speaker 1: because the next school holidays is the big long summer holidays,
Speaker 1: and that's generally the holiday where parents take some time
Speaker 1: off work over Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 3: I found that this year in particular, the more people
Speaker 3: that I spoke to that do have school age kids
Speaker 3: that were like, I'm just so exhausted, we just needed
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks home.
Speaker 2: And so then that leads you into term four.
Speaker 3: Because term four naturally is busy for majority of you
Speaker 3: know grades, whether it's grade twelve or grade one, it's
Speaker 3: a busy time. Christmas all the rest comes into play.
Speaker 3: Speaking of that, you've got birthdays up in that.
Speaker 1: Ye yeah, And I just as I'm looking at you,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have done absolutely nothing for Christmas. I've
Speaker 1: done absolutely nothing for Birthday either.
Speaker 3: I need to probably bring that up in another podcast
Speaker 3: because I think I have a feeling I have to
Speaker 3: address before Christmas Santa issues.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Unless you've got any advice as to how to have
Speaker 3: that discussion, please send it to us on Instagram. But
Speaker 3: otherwise I'll give you the wrap. Up of the Santa
Speaker 3: discussion post having it.
Speaker 1: Okay, wish me luck, good luck? Am I a bad
Speaker 1: mum for in doing the tough time?
Speaker 3: Just one one tough time or lots? It like an
Speaker 3: ongoing saga.
Speaker 1: Well, actually, I'm gonna start this with a positive okay.
Speaker 1: And this is so it's a wild thing to be
Speaker 1: saying after we've done this podcast for so many years
Speaker 1: and our kids were so little. I think Elsie was two,
Speaker 1: she was.
Speaker 3: Just three, remember, because I was like, it's not terrible twos,
Speaker 3: it's those horrible threes. I got through the two's generally okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then the threes hit and it was just like, so.
Speaker 1: Our four kids were about three, five, and ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 1: So now navigating teenagers is a whole different Kellorfish. But
Speaker 1: this is a real milestone. Both of my kids now
Speaker 1: have jobic.
Speaker 2: Oh that is so good. That is so good.
Speaker 3: We were talking about it, like the last conversation, we
Speaker 3: were just going too bad, it's so sad, you need
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm not paying for a cecent.
Speaker 1: I got to a point where I was threatening so much.
Speaker 1: I was like, when you're sixteen, you have phone bills
Speaker 1: not being paid you be cut off to start paying rent.
Speaker 1: Like I went all in whatever with the threats. They
Speaker 1: both have jobs now, and I was like, I'm happy
Speaker 1: to pay their phone bill because what I wanted to
Speaker 1: see was the effort, you know, the first time that
Speaker 1: Actually it was a really nice moment when Amelia got
Speaker 1: paid for the first time and none of us really
Speaker 1: knew when paid they was for her, but she got
Speaker 1: an alert that money had gone into a bank and
Speaker 1: she had I've been paid, and she was so excited.
Speaker 1: And what she said was, which is like, we've been
Speaker 1: saying this, like we've been banging on about this feeling,
Speaker 1: and just they couldn't have possibly understood it until they
Speaker 1: actually went through it. But she went, it just feels
Speaker 1: so nice that I've got money in my bank that
Speaker 1: I've actually made that I haven't had to ask you for.
Speaker 1: I haven't had to, you know, say please, please please,
Speaker 1: can I do this? And you say no, I've just
Speaker 1: got the money in there. I was like, see, that's
Speaker 1: the feeling. It's the nice thing knowing that your hard
Speaker 1: work is actually paid off and you've got a job.
Speaker 1: But it's just the interesting part and this is where
Speaker 1: and enjoying the tough time was because I've spoken very
Speaker 1: openly kids in general, I feel like need to do
Speaker 1: a tough job to start with. They get everything handed
Speaker 1: to them on a plate. These days, kids, they get
Speaker 1: so spoil and if you look back to when we
Speaker 1: were kids, we did the hard graft, we did all
Speaker 1: that shit stuff. And so they're working in a fast
Speaker 1: food place, wonderful. And Amelia's first shift was just you know, learn, learn,
Speaker 1: being shown around all that kind of stuff. Second shift,
Speaker 1: I went, what did you do today? Like, how was it?
Speaker 1: And she was like, she comes in like she's been
Speaker 1: at war. She comes in in a little uniform, which
Speaker 1: is so funny because it's like I've been banging on
Speaker 1: about them being old enough to get a job for
Speaker 1: so long, and then when you see your child in
Speaker 1: a work uniform, it's like, oh wow, she's actually just
Speaker 1: a little girl in.
Speaker 2: A uniform, so so good when.
Speaker 1: She comes in and then what you have to do?
Speaker 3: She went, I was on fries, on fries, just one section,
Speaker 3: just on fries for how long?
Speaker 1: Three hours?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Yeah, she's still like fries.
Speaker 1: And then and then she came home and she comes
Speaker 1: in and then she's gone, yeahs on fries like telling
Speaker 1: me about it, and I went, you stink, you absolutely stink,
Speaker 1: and she was like, oh know. And it was just
Speaker 1: like that when I say enjoying the tough time. It
Speaker 1: was like, this is resilience, right, this is needed, This
Speaker 1: is necessary for life and work ethic and everything that
Speaker 1: goes with it. But it's it was almost like the
Speaker 1: fact that she's stunk. I was like, this is brilliant.
Speaker 2: Did she actually smell like fries?
Speaker 1: Fries? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I wonder if you get to that point, Like I
Speaker 3: remember my first job was at the cheesecake shop, and
Speaker 3: I got to the point where I was like, if
Speaker 3: I have to smell so sweet again, like just that sweet,
Speaker 3: sweet sweetness, Like I'd go home and I'd literally smell
Speaker 3: like my hair smell like cheesecake, and because you'd be
Speaker 3: obviously serving out the front, but not only that, I
Speaker 3: had to help out with like getting stuff out of
Speaker 3: the ovens and like moving boxes of like you know,
Speaker 3: Pavlovas and things like that. So super sweet. But I
Speaker 3: was like I got to the point where I was
Speaker 3: like I am so oversweet. Yeah, whereas like for the girls,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be like fries or like yeah.
Speaker 2: Because I ve half the time. How are they going
Speaker 2: to go cooking burgers with people?
Speaker 1: No? You know what happens? And this is I honestly
Speaker 1: because I've got a friend.
Speaker 2: Are you going to scar me to the point that
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ever eat it again?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But I've got a friend who used to work at
Speaker 1: the same place when she was a kid. So whatever,
Speaker 1: that was twenty whatever. Yeah, thinking I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: the math in my head, thinking.
Speaker 2: Twenty younger than we are.
Speaker 1: And she said at the time it was girls out
Speaker 1: front and the boys were in the back. And we
Speaker 1: had a chat about it. I was like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: no way that would happen now, of course that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be allowed. Yeah, still the same girls out front, so
Speaker 1: she doesn't have to make the burgers. Thats the boys
Speaker 1: out the back.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Do you know what else happened? Rachel and I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Help, but smart I had to clean the toilet.
Speaker 1: No, she had take the bins out, you know, not
Speaker 1: fun but dressful. Whatever. Was a woman. There was a
Speaker 1: woman that went through the drive through. So she was
Speaker 1: on the drive through this particular day because they learned
Speaker 1: it all the woman that went through the drive through,
Speaker 1: and she was so mad about her order taking too
Speaker 1: long that she turned around to Amelia and stuck her
Speaker 1: fingers up at her. What really is telling me?
Speaker 2: I was is wrong with these people? What did you do?
Speaker 1: She was like, I just I didn't make eye contacts.
Speaker 3: Imagine that she comes in and she's like, got fired today?
Speaker 2: What force sticking up my finger? That's driving off? Who
Speaker 2: was doing it to me?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that is so exciting. Now both of
Speaker 3: them have got obviously a job, right. Yeah, So we're
Speaker 3: just waiting on Holly's pay day to drop and then
Speaker 3: it'll be full steam ahead for the car fund that
Speaker 3: they're going to be looking at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so big plan to save lots of cash. So far,
Speaker 1: Amelia has been paid twice and she owes us money
Speaker 1: because she borrowed it before being paid.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. So the car fund is going well.
Speaker 1: Not yeah, okay, I did say, because the rule was
Speaker 1: spend half, save half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be.
Speaker 1: Able to do so you're still rewarded, like you still
Speaker 1: feel like it's because not fun saving all your money.
Speaker 1: But I said spend half, save half, and the first payday,
Speaker 1: I said, just spend your first payday because like, that's exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: both working, and you know that.
Speaker 3: Is a milestone for all of you, everyone in the household.
Speaker 1: And it's just so funny. You're seeing them come in
Speaker 1: the door in the uniform and I'll be like, your
Speaker 1: dinner's in the microwave.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, what a day. I'm so tired. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that Amelia said the other day,
Speaker 1: she's like, I feel so sorry for my manager, and
Speaker 1: I went, why she went? She got there before I
Speaker 1: started and she's still going to be there two hours
Speaker 1: after I finished. And I was like, because she did
Speaker 1: a three hour shift, mate, most people do.
Speaker 2: Eights three hours? Is that all they work? Three hours
Speaker 2: and they're out of there.
Speaker 1: I think it's all they're allowed to do.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, twelve hour days on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: We're still protecting our kid, Oh gosh.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm very proud of them, and I look forward
Speaker 3: to hearing how they keep going with this car fund.
Speaker 2: It's a very exciting time that they're coming into.
Speaker 3: I can't wait until we start doing podcasts on how
Speaker 3: the driving lessons are going, because they are gonna be
Speaker 3: a hoot.
Speaker 1: I said to the girls, you will definitely be doing
Speaker 1: at least one, hopefully more than that, driving lessons before
Speaker 1: you get in my car. Yeah, why everybody else's I said,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the reason why, because i will sit
Speaker 1: there in the car with you, and I'm just basing
Speaker 1: this off of everything else in our lives that we
Speaker 1: talk about. You will turn around to me and you
Speaker 1: will tell me that I've got no idea.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, you're like one or two lessons.
Speaker 3: I'd be like a month worth of lessons with somebody else,
Speaker 3: because they listen better for somebody else than they do
Speaker 3: for us. So a month worth of like lessons with
Speaker 3: somebody else, and then you can get in my car
Speaker 3: and drive with me, because then you've got a month's
Speaker 3: worth of backing from somebody else. Like the classic stereotype
Speaker 3: of a driving instructor in my head is like an
Speaker 3: older gentleman who's sitting there and hand loves to drive
Speaker 3: and just knows everything about the road and the rules
Speaker 3: on the road, and you know, let him do those
Speaker 3: early stoppy, starty jumpies one and then by the time
Speaker 3: that they get into your car a month later, I
Speaker 3: sitting Yeah, it might be a little bit more smooth
Speaker 3: sailing Geez, they're going to be a good podcast.
Speaker 2: Actually, what we might do
Speaker 3: Is put a little recorder in your first one so
Speaker 3: that everyone can listen to