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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad
Speaker 2: Mum Podcast. It's an interesting time for the podcast. When
Speaker 2: I say an interesting time for the podcast, it's an
Speaker 2: interesting time for mums and dads. Yeah, because it's that
Speaker 2: Christmas long school holidays. What do we do with them do?
Speaker 2: Everything's so expensive, They're going to be bored anyway. Christmas
Speaker 2: presents need to be bort But then.
Speaker 3: You've got to try and juggle everything as well because
Speaker 3: you've either got the kids. You can't do the kids
Speaker 3: and the Christmas present at the same time, So then
Speaker 3: you're trying to palm them off to go and do
Speaker 3: the Christmas shopping to then come back to be able
Speaker 3: to then wrap it.
Speaker 1: Don't come in the room whilst I'm trying to wrap
Speaker 1: the present. It's just a big fucking free for all.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just turn of thought because my kids are
Speaker 2: at home, they're on school holidays already. My first thought was,
Speaker 2: oh shit, I didn't tell them not to go into
Speaker 2: the laundry cupboards because that's where their Christmas presents are
Speaker 2: and I haven't wrapped them yet. And then I had
Speaker 2: a little laugh at myself, thinking as if they're going
Speaker 2: to go into the laundry cupboard.
Speaker 1: I was like, you beat me, talk as if they're
Speaker 1: going in the laundry.
Speaker 2: It's where we keep that mop and the buckets.
Speaker 3: So silly of you to think that your kids are
Speaker 3: going to be in the laundry. Am I a bad
Speaker 3: mum for being extremely unorganized?
Speaker 2: Oh this is not like you.
Speaker 1: Christmas?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really excelled one year. There was only one year.
Speaker 2: I feel like where you did all the Christmas shopping
Speaker 2: on lay By in the June July sales.
Speaker 1: That big frenzy they have halfway through the year.
Speaker 3: That is pretty good though, especially if your kids are
Speaker 3: of that age where they are quite consistent about what
Speaker 3: they're like, Like maybe one of them is very consistent
Speaker 3: with the lego and you get Legot fifty percent off.
Speaker 1: Very rare, but at the same time so good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just like literally wheeled it into those ladies that
Speaker 3: do the wrapping for you.
Speaker 1: Yep, donated some cash, walked away with presents wrapped.
Speaker 2: See this year, I had done absolutely nothing, Yeah until
Speaker 2: the weekend, and I got everything done on the weekend.
Speaker 1: It was only like a week or so ago.
Speaker 3: And you were like, we were about to just record
Speaker 3: a podcast and you're sitting here and you looked at
Speaker 3: your phone because you got onto Instagram for some reason.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, someone else has put up a Christmas
Speaker 3: tree and you didn't even have a Christmas tree up. No,
Speaker 3: now you're sitting here telling me a week later.
Speaker 1: Oh look at me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, got my Christmas tree up and I finished
Speaker 3: all my Christmas shopping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all in one weekend. Well luckily it was a rainy,
Speaker 2: miserable weekend. I mean that shopping center was disgusting.
Speaker 1: It was like, hell, it gives me anxiety that stuff.
Speaker 2: It was so busy. I was in Camar getting a
Speaker 2: few things and Holly called me. She was at home
Speaker 2: on this particular day. This is on the Saturday, and
Speaker 2: I was doing shopping for them for the kids, and
Speaker 2: she called me and she was asking me, like some
Speaker 2: question about something, and I went, I can't be on
Speaker 2: the phone to you right now. I'm in Kamar and
Speaker 2: it is so busy it's making me itchy. She was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll get off the phone.
Speaker 3: I was like, this is itchy, weird. I've heard just
Speaker 3: was just people everywhere. I genuinely get like that when
Speaker 3: it's that busy in those shopping centers because we're all
Speaker 3: under one roof.
Speaker 1: That's weird, isn't it.
Speaker 3: But I think about like all the germs being contained
Speaker 3: into one area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just go.
Speaker 2: And no one's careful about staying away from you either,
Speaker 2: Like I really noticed that, like people just brushing past you.
Speaker 2: No one gives my shit.
Speaker 3: Being in each other's space. I don't even care about
Speaker 3: the germ part. I just like, just don't touch me,
Speaker 3: like we don't need to touch. Yeah, you don't need
Speaker 3: to accidentally run into my heel with the trolley because
Speaker 3: you weren't watching.
Speaker 2: And also when it's that busy and people are like
Speaker 2: just dilly dying, like walking slowly. I actually said at
Speaker 2: one point, I got shit to do. Way, I was like,
Speaker 2: excuse me, can I just get through? I just want
Speaker 2: to walk a bit faster, Like they were right in
Speaker 2: front of walking so slowly. I was like, why are
Speaker 2: you walking slowly in this situation? This is horrible. This
Speaker 2: is a horrible situation. It's so busy, there's people everywhere.
Speaker 2: Why do you want to prolong that?
Speaker 3: Because I think that some people would genuinely go there
Speaker 3: just to past time.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was just horrible. But what I
Speaker 2: found was if I go somewhere and I buy the
Speaker 2: first present and I'm like, Yep, that's what I want
Speaker 2: to get. Yep, that's great. Oh Black Friday cell E
Speaker 2: even better. Like there's nothing I love more than going
Speaker 2: to the checkout with something that I want to buy
Speaker 2: and then going oh, yeah there's twenty percent of yeah, perfect,
Speaker 2: so good. I was just on a roll, Rach, I
Speaker 2: was on a roll. I was like, yep, tick tick tick.
Speaker 3: You've done on a roll because you've been given a list,
Speaker 3: or you're on a roll because you just like ideas
Speaker 3: centrals just popping into your head. Like if that's me
Speaker 3: when I walk into Kmart, ideas central is that creative
Speaker 3: part of my brain just fucking floods away. It's just
Speaker 3: dawn and I stand in there like a deer in headlights,
Speaker 3: going oh god, I don't um. And then I find
Speaker 3: myself just going, oh this is too much. I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna leave now because the preparations not being done, Rach.
Speaker 2: I don't just get a list. I get a Canva presentation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is Amelia's sent me Christmas wish list, accessories and
Speaker 2: other than a photo of the item. Skin care and
Speaker 2: makeup clothing.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, there's a lot on that page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a Canva presentation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very different though to where I'm at.
Speaker 3: I just get like the random letter that's been handwritten
Speaker 3: and you can't really read some of the things to you,
Speaker 3: like say.
Speaker 2: I used to go through the catalog remember catalogs.
Speaker 1: Loved catalogs. Big circle around what you need?
Speaker 2: Yeah, love that circle it.
Speaker 3: Else, would like from Santa her room to be redone.
Speaker 2: Santa do that? I don't know, like Santa redecorating?
Speaker 1: You just setting me up for failure.
Speaker 2: Was he going to come in and like paint walls
Speaker 2: and stuff that's what you want. I don't know that
Speaker 2: he does that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they listen to this podcast. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I really have to breathe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So no wallpaper, just like new styling in her
Speaker 3: room and she made me go round bed, bathroom table.
Speaker 3: I think she thought she felt like she was on
Speaker 3: the block. She really likes the block.
Speaker 1: And you know how on the block.
Speaker 3: They walk around and they're like they stage everything, so
Speaker 3: they sort of try everything out.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we were doing that.
Speaker 3: We were taking photos of the items that she wanted,
Speaker 3: like a three hundred dollars, Like what do you call them?
Speaker 3: Let you put your feet on like an ottoman, like
Speaker 3: a poof for it, whatever that thing is. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what she wanted a three hundred dollars just because
Speaker 3: it was fairy, and I was like, oh, yeah, see,
Speaker 3: we could probably find that and came out for a
Speaker 3: bit cheap.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean. You made a mistake going into
Speaker 2: bedbu on the table.
Speaker 3: I was just trying to get some ideas of like color,
Speaker 3: because she was like, I wanted to make my room pink.
Speaker 1: But you see, this kid is not really ever been
Speaker 1: a pink kid.
Speaker 3: So I feel like by getting a pink room, it's
Speaker 3: going to be something that wants to be changed in
Speaker 3: about six months and I'm not doing both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go to Kmart. Camar's got great stuff.
Speaker 3: So that Canva thing, going back to what it was,
Speaker 3: that Canvor thing would be great. I was on Pinterest
Speaker 3: putting together a collage of the room that she possibly
Speaker 3: like ideas.
Speaker 1: You know what Gracie said when she saw it, Oh
Speaker 1: you never did that when I wanted a new room.
Speaker 3: I was like, mate, you've changed your room designed forty
Speaker 3: five times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is really interesting and maybe this is a
Speaker 2: thing that is going around at the moment because Holly
Speaker 2: did the exact same recently that she wanted her room
Speaker 2: to be changed. Yeah, and then she put together some
Speaker 2: ideas as well. This is the thing, right, This was
Speaker 2: the great thing about it. When she started putting these
Speaker 2: ideas together, she thought she would have to pay for
Speaker 2: it herself. So she did take ideas from kmart lamps
Speaker 2: and she put stuff together in like a little I
Speaker 2: don't know what she did it on, but she did
Speaker 2: the same thing on like a little college put it together.
Speaker 1: You can do that now, just like out of interest.
Speaker 3: If anyone else is thinking about doing their own bedrooms
Speaker 3: and not their kids, you can do it on Pinterest.
Speaker 3: You put together literally Look, they have an option now
Speaker 3: to do a collage. Yeah, in your Pinterest account. Anyway, Look,
Speaker 3: let's go back to me being unorganized. Still haven't done anything.
Speaker 3: We're in a really hitty age group. Nine to eleven
Speaker 3: is hard because like they don't want toys, no, but
Speaker 3: then they don't need bike, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, got rollerblade.
Speaker 2: But you also don't want to make them too old
Speaker 2: with some of the skincare makeup clothing that they want
Speaker 2: mobile phone.
Speaker 1: Not getting mobiles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's going to get a Berna phone mate, and
Speaker 3: it's going to be the biggest Berna phone she's ever seen.
Speaker 1: It's going to be like Nokia Exist.
Speaker 2: Okay, give it a few months. When she starts high school,
Speaker 2: you will change your mind because she will be the
Speaker 2: kid that's got the great big nockier and you will
Speaker 2: be the embarrassing mum.
Speaker 1: I'm going to own it. I'm going to rock it.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know, Okatie, I'm so on organ eyes
Speaker 3: and even like you're talking about being at chirm Side
Speaker 3: at Westfield over two days of your weekend with that
Speaker 3: many people. I try and time it so that i'm there,
Speaker 3: like on the twenty third when they start that twenty
Speaker 3: four hour shopping and when no one.
Speaker 1: Else is there. How good is that?
Speaker 3: But this year I haven't got time on the twenty
Speaker 3: fourth like I normally do all the wrapping. If I
Speaker 3: haven't been to a shopping center and let the ladies
Speaker 3: wrap it for me, I usually am that person that's
Speaker 3: wrapping it like midnight or twenty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have that opportunity.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 1: I have to be a little bit more, maybe just
Speaker 1: wrap on the twenty third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just going back to the mobile phone thing, because
Speaker 2: you will be buying a mobile phone. I guarantee in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, you will be buying her a mobile phone.
Speaker 1: I'm getting her a nockout, I don't care.
Speaker 2: You might as well get her a pager.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna whatever works