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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of am I A Bad Mom? Podcast?
Speaker 1: Am I Bad Mom?
Speaker 2: For not having a topic, so we're just going to
Speaker 2: do a fun roundup.
Speaker 1: A fun Friday roundup of am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 3: We're covering everything that you can absolutely think about has
Speaker 3: happened over the last couple of weeks around the households
Speaker 3: of ours.
Speaker 2: I'm actually not really looking forward to school going back.
Speaker 2: I've been quite cruisy. It doesn't feel stressful, like the
Speaker 2: mornings aren't a rush and things like that. I'm also
Speaker 2: feeling a bit guilty, like we haven't really done anything
Speaker 2: this school holidays.
Speaker 3: I think naturally, families have quite a structure to them.
Speaker 3: I go, yes, I know that I've always got something
Speaker 3: on in the September holidays because dance tends.
Speaker 1: To fall on it.
Speaker 3: So I extend it out by an extra day or
Speaker 3: two and we make it like a little four or
Speaker 3: five day sort of week in Noosa. Take Elsie up
Speaker 3: to all of that. So that's fun. But like these
Speaker 3: middle holidays are never one that our family tend to
Speaker 3: do or plan a holiday in.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I think maybe for each family would be obviously well different,
Speaker 3: Like you guys tend to go away in the start
Speaker 3: of December holidays every year and then the like September
Speaker 3: ones and stuff. And you've also got girls that are
Speaker 3: just like the age is just so different now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's finding stuff that they're interested in, Like they
Speaker 2: want to do fun adventure like stuff. Yeah, like adrenaline type. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like they're like going on boats and jet.
Speaker 3: Skis and yes, all the expensive but at the same
Speaker 3: time it's like winter. So then it makes it really
Speaker 3: hard when someone said to me at the start of
Speaker 3: the kids going to school, oh my gosh, life is
Speaker 3: going to fly by when they're at school. It is
Speaker 3: because we operate in this structure of term one, term two,
Speaker 3: term three, term four, fill the gaps in between, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, the year's done. We're practically
Speaker 3: there again. I'm getting emails now about like dance concert
Speaker 3: and dance photo day and the consumption of my life
Speaker 3: to dance.
Speaker 1: Like it's always at the end of the year. It's July.
Speaker 1: I know, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like, this is because term three will fly by all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, we're in September holidays. Term four, Well,
Speaker 3: you're on the high rate of Christmas again, like it's flying.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm not coping.
Speaker 2: With this, isn't it for like mums that are buying
Speaker 2: toys for Christmas presents? Isn't it like that time of
Speaker 2: the year where yeah, doing like lay by sales.
Speaker 3: And stuff right now, like where the big toys sales
Speaker 3: are on and you lay by them for Christmas?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you clear or have you got any knowledge on
Speaker 1: this la booboo trend going on?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 1: I love your face. You're like, no right to what
Speaker 1: is wrong with you? Have you seen them? It's like
Speaker 1: a little doll, Like this little little.
Speaker 3: Doll thing that grown women, Katie, grown women walking around
Speaker 3: the streets of Melbourne have attached to their designer handbags.
Speaker 3: What yes, Yeah, I was looking going like what are
Speaker 3: they got on their bags?
Speaker 1: Why do they have them?
Speaker 3: And I text my daughter and said, do you know
Speaker 3: what these ugly dolls are? Sorry for anyone with a laboobo,
Speaker 3: do you know what these ugly dolls are? I said
Speaker 3: that people have hanging off their bags and Gracie goes,
Speaker 3: of course they do, Mom, They're everywhere, like they're really popular.
Speaker 3: I said, well, obviously they're really popular. I've seen them
Speaker 3: on everyone's handbags, like this is this is wild. But
Speaker 3: she knew all about it, this trend that's going on
Speaker 3: at the moment that I did not know because I'm
Speaker 3: a mom, and clearly I am not up to date
Speaker 3: with this stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't understand like someone is clearly doing some great
Speaker 2: TikTok advertise think for this stuff, because it was the
Speaker 2: jelly cats. A jelly cat is essentially a really overpriced
Speaker 2: stuff toy. Like, how good is the marketing that we've
Speaker 2: got people in their twenties having parties I know where
Speaker 2: they all buy soft toys that are really made for
Speaker 2: little kids.
Speaker 3: I know, it's crazy because these jelly cat keyrings that
Speaker 3: you put on your bag to like sort of go like, guys,
Speaker 3: look at me, I've got a jelly cat key ring.
Speaker 2: Seventy dollars Katie, Yeah, well we fell over. I was like,
Speaker 2: seventy dollars so expensive. Okay, So my girls are just
Speaker 2: slightly different. But water bottles right, Oh, when we think
Speaker 2: about marketing and TikTok, how Frank Green became.
Speaker 1: Really really Stanley?
Speaker 2: Now Stanley, Like my girls have both called Stanley j
Speaker 2: My husband Jay has got Stanley God, I.
Speaker 3: Love those reels that are like, they're so funny of
Speaker 3: people with Stanley cups and it's like, look at me
Speaker 3: going to the gym with my Stanley cup and they
Speaker 3: they're lugging this huge like thing that looks like the
Speaker 3: size of them that's a Stanley cup.
Speaker 1: I don't get Stanley cups. I am not on the trend.
Speaker 2: And you know what's really impractical because they keep going, Mommy,
Speaker 2: are you gonna get Stanley I'm like, absolutely not because
Speaker 2: they're not practical. You can't put them in.
Speaker 1: Your bag rate.
Speaker 3: So you know what I am on the trend for though, yeddies, yetti,
Speaker 3: stubby callers have you.
Speaker 1: They work a treat.
Speaker 3: They're so good and now you can get like a
Speaker 3: oversized stubby cooler. But for wine bottles, have you seen them? No,
Speaker 3: they actually work. They actually work, so you can hide
Speaker 3: your Stanley full of wine inside your cooler that looks
Speaker 3: like a wine coller.
Speaker 2: Guess what I bought, right, I am so happy with
Speaker 2: my purchase. I needed a new water bottle for home
Speaker 2: because I take water up to put on my beds
Speaker 2: on the table at night.
Speaker 1: I bought wait for it, like.
Speaker 2: This is the water bottle of a water bottles, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to Kmar.
Speaker 2: Was going there already and I bought one of those
Speaker 2: great but it looks like Stanley. Yeah, bigger than the Stanley.
Speaker 2: It's got two options. It's a straw, but also you
Speaker 2: can put the stopper on it, though it actually doesn't
Speaker 2: tip up in your bag. So there were a few
Speaker 2: color choicters.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I really like the beige.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go beige.
Speaker 2: And then I saw the stage color. The green color
Speaker 2: was also on special. So this water bottle was only
Speaker 2: like fifteen dollars to start with. I got it for
Speaker 2: nine nine.
Speaker 1: I am so happy.
Speaker 4: I was in the kitchen last night and I had
Speaker 4: the girls Stanley's on the draining board, Jays Stanley, and
Speaker 4: I lined my sage came up on up against it
Speaker 4: and I looked at it lovingly, and then I looked
Speaker 4: at the girls and Dan I.
Speaker 1: Went, look mine.
Speaker 2: Mine was nine dollars.
Speaker 3: Do you want to actually why we're doing about kmart
Speaker 3: and those moments of like goodness where you can find
Speaker 3: in gamart, because if you find something on special in gamart, you.
Speaker 1: Practically feel like you've won the lotto. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like it was free, it might as well be free.
Speaker 3: So we were in there and the girls obviously going camping,
Speaker 3: didn't have any gun boots because it happened to be
Speaker 3: pouring rain on the day that they decided to go camping.
Speaker 1: So I popped it came out really quickly to grab
Speaker 1: some like.
Speaker 3: Gum boots, and then we're in the section where the
Speaker 3: kids slashed.
Speaker 1: Well, my girls are in women's shoes.
Speaker 3: Now we picked up the gun boots and we were
Speaker 3: walking past the kids section and there happen to be
Speaker 3: like the rip off Birkenstocks, but the clothes toe ones,
Speaker 3: they're white and fluffy. Anyway, long story short, Gracie goes, Mum,
Speaker 3: can I get these? They're on special for seven dollars?
Speaker 3: And yeah, if you can find your size and the
Speaker 3: kids section absolutely go for gold. You can have them
Speaker 3: for seven dollars. Anyway, do you go through them? There's
Speaker 3: only a five left and then an eight, and the
Speaker 3: eight is swimming on her, but the five is too small,
Speaker 3: and I said to her, well, I don't know, She goes,
Speaker 3: I'll just.
Speaker 1: Get the ones from the lady section.
Speaker 3: So the exact same shoe Katie is in the lady
Speaker 3: section for twenty dollars and the kids ones exactly the
Speaker 3: same seven dollars. I was like, looked, I went, no,
Speaker 3: you can either wear the kids ones too big or
Speaker 3: too small for seven or no, I'm not getting a
Speaker 3: twenty dollars version.
Speaker 1: Squeeze your foot.
Speaker 2: On seven, squeeze them in, or have them like clown shoes.
Speaker 4: Either way, fine with either.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not spending a stra No, I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, affecting more money on them being the
Speaker 3: bright side, not doing that