Speaker 1: Apod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am
Speaker 1: I A Bad Mum Podcast. We are on the downhill
Speaker 1: slide towards the Christmas holidays never ending some holidays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well for you, you've got an extended we always
Speaker 2: talk about this. I only got a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: We've got a big few weeks in the household of Grazie.
Speaker 2: Wrapping up being a primary school child. Yeah, and moving
Speaker 2: on to the next stage.
Speaker 1: Oh, Rachel, I remember that last day of primary school.
Speaker 1: Make sure you take sunglasses because where waterproovement scara. It's
Speaker 1: very emotional. I remember actually it was like they had
Speaker 1: an assembly or there was some sort of ceremony, and
Speaker 1: then at the end of that, all the year five
Speaker 1: stand down to wave goodbye to them, and they all
Speaker 1: walk out and it's like this big thing, and then
Speaker 1: the kids are crying and you're crying.
Speaker 2: I remember speaking on this podcast way back when on
Speaker 2: the first day that I dropped her over there, and
Speaker 2: I remember clearly sitting here with you and you're going
Speaker 2: I was absolutely normal, and I remember walking now, just
Speaker 2: to give you a brief of where we are, like
Speaker 2: my house is at the back of the school, so
Speaker 2: we are on the cul de sac at the back
Speaker 2: of the school, so I'm very close, just to give
Speaker 2: you proximity, like I'm very close. I've walked her over
Speaker 2: to prep, I've waited you see them into class. You
Speaker 2: do all that, Katie. I remember walking across that oval,
Speaker 2: and I remember telling you I felt like someone was
Speaker 2: like literally stretching my umbilical cord to this kid so
Speaker 2: hard that I was so sad, and I was laughing
Speaker 2: about the teacher that year had made all the parents
Speaker 2: like a little pack with like a little tea and
Speaker 2: a little note saying go home and have a cup
Speaker 2: of tea and just enjoy some peace and quiet, and
Speaker 2: like you know, everything will be okay in the chart
Speaker 2: and your child will be okay. I remember all this
Speaker 2: like it was just yesterday, and I remember getting home.
Speaker 2: I remember sitting down and then the silence just hit me.
Speaker 2: And when I say silence, I still obviously had Elsie,
Speaker 2: but it was just like all of a sudden, I
Speaker 2: just got so overwhelmed and I just sat there and
Speaker 2: bawled my eyes out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember very vividly the girls starting school because
Speaker 1: they started school on the same day obviously twins. I
Speaker 1: remember going to the gym afterwards, and there was these
Speaker 1: group of girls that I went to the gym with
Speaker 1: and they were all putting their little one into the crap,
Speaker 1: and I remember feeling really sad about it because I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't have another one going and they
Speaker 1: were looking at me like jealous. You were wrapping up
Speaker 1: with no kids. But I remember feeling like quite sad
Speaker 1: about it. I was like, might have both gone.
Speaker 2: I literally remember getting in the I think you get
Speaker 2: your shit together. I just get out of here. I
Speaker 2: was trying to stay home so I could be close
Speaker 2: proximity if she needed me again. She didn't.
Speaker 1: Just on that. Are you living at the back of
Speaker 1: the school. Isn't it baffling the amount of times you've
Speaker 1: been late? But yeah, you literally live behind the school.
Speaker 2: In your head, logistically you think, oh god, we live
Speaker 2: so close. All the time in the world, I've got
Speaker 2: all the time in the world. I'm going to be
Speaker 2: early every day, Like this is crazy. It actually works
Speaker 2: against you because you think, then it's only going to
Speaker 2: take you like thirty seconds to get across the oval
Speaker 2: to get your child to school. Then it doesn't. By
Speaker 2: the time you've bumped into twenty five other parents, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and another three crying kids that don't want to go
Speaker 2: to class and you've tried to resolve that it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: No, someone's actual kit. You gotta go back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Or the other day, hey Mum such and such,
Speaker 2: I get a phone call from the office. Hey mom,
Speaker 2: such and such as left their lunch at home. Are
Speaker 2: you at home? Can you just pop over make them
Speaker 2: some lunch and just pop it over the fence. Sure,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting at home waiting for your call. No, I'm
Speaker 2: not home. And then I at that moment, I was like,
Speaker 2: can't you just take her to the touch Shop and
Speaker 2: I'll pay for it? And she was like, oh okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you've got free run at touch shop. I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I didn't say free run. I said it just kicks
Speaker 2: up a sausage rolls in hungry. Anyway, we sorted that
Speaker 2: ship fight out. That was on me. That was my fault.
Speaker 2: Take free run in the Touch shop, wouldn'n idiot? Am
Speaker 2: I a bad mum for upping my dance game? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know. Obviously leading into this talking a lot about
Speaker 2: wrapping up the year, wrapping up my child's primary school years,
Speaker 2: Like we're talking about wrapping up another thing, wrapped up
Speaker 2: that you no longer have to do, but it still
Speaker 2: fills my entire being of a existence for the year
Speaker 2: of pick up and drop up dance has wrapped up
Speaker 2: dance concert was a success, done done.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a real extense of achievement when you know
Speaker 1: that was like, I remember the frantic last minute being
Speaker 1: in the car on the way to the concert with
Speaker 1: the fucking needle and cotton sewing shit together, and then
Speaker 1: everything has to go in a separate itemized dance bag.
Speaker 2: Let's just skip back a few years either, first year
Speaker 2: that she started dancing with impact, and I remember laughing
Speaker 2: to you, going, oh no, I just took the outfits
Speaker 2: that I was given for her. I just took it
Speaker 2: in the bags that I was giving them in. I
Speaker 2: didn't undo it, I didn't try it on, I didn't
Speaker 2: iron it, I didn't do any of that. I just
Speaker 2: literally put the stuff back into the plastic container like
Speaker 2: they tell us to label the bag only, and took
Speaker 2: her along and just was like hope for the best.
Speaker 2: Now fast forward.
Speaker 1: Didn't you take the costumes in a wool word?
Speaker 2: Willie stick back no intention of being a long term
Speaker 2: dance mom. I thought it was just going to be
Speaker 2: like a term, and then I'd be out boards always
Speaker 2: do a term, and so I'd said, yeah, sure you
Speaker 2: can do dance fast forward. Here I am in quick change.
Speaker 2: This podcast is more just a laugh. So anyone that
Speaker 2: possibly listens to it, that is another dance mom in
Speaker 2: the particular group that we hang out with. This is
Speaker 2: all I thank you to you guys, because you've created this.
Speaker 2: You've all taught me how to do what I do now.
Speaker 2: But yesterday was like this particular dance concert, Katie was
Speaker 2: like next level, Like I was on fire.
Speaker 1: Are you now one of those people Like you've got
Speaker 1: a pocket full of bobby pins? Yeah, you've got tape? Yeah,
Speaker 1: ship coming out of everywhere.
Speaker 2: I started following the lead of another particular dance mom
Speaker 2: who's like insane dance mom. Right, she has everything covered.
Speaker 2: She's like the Mary Poppins. She has the bum bag
Speaker 2: and you literally she has everything in there. Yeah, she's
Speaker 2: got like anitle and thread attached to her shirt. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just waiting. Yeah, like was that it happened? No, I
Speaker 2: didn't get I can't so steal Katie. This is not
Speaker 2: a fucking new fact for you, why did you use
Speaker 2: a stapler? I just go, I'm not doing exactly, so
Speaker 2: it's one or the other who needs a needle and
Speaker 2: cop when you got stapler. Yeah, so this particular mum
Speaker 2: learnt a lot from her. I couldn't do the bum
Speaker 2: bag though this year because I don't even know where
Speaker 2: I put it from last year. So fast forward, I
Speaker 2: have lots of pockets, got it all going on. That's fine.
Speaker 2: By the end of the day yesterday I had like
Speaker 2: pins and they're stuck to my shirt so that I
Speaker 2: can just literally put it onto kids as they go.
Speaker 2: The quick change was so quick that even we were
Speaker 2: like holy like we were digging deep, like we almost
Speaker 2: missed a few things. I got in trouble from the
Speaker 2: dance teacher because Gracie went out to do a solo
Speaker 2: without long socks on and a belt that she was
Speaker 2: meant to have on, which I was screaming at my child,
Speaker 2: going you need and she was like no, I don't.
Speaker 2: I was like no, because you know nothing, no, no,
Speaker 2: And then you get in trouble and then the teacher
Speaker 2: comes out Grace, he didn't have about on, didn't have
Speaker 2: socks on. We really need that.
Speaker 1: I was like you feel really bad about it yourself.
Speaker 2: I did. I was like, Okay, well now I'm saying
Speaker 2: for the second show you watch me, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be like, it's going to be full redemption.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be better.
Speaker 2: It's going to be take me better, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be better. The musical theater alone, Katie had to have
Speaker 2: a full face of different makeup and you've only got
Speaker 2: three songs to do it with about eight kids to
Speaker 2: do it for changing them and do their makeup and
Speaker 2: put two wigs on full.
Speaker 1: Weeks about six minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about six minutes. I was sweating. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I was on fire. I was actually laughing at myself
Speaker 2: because I think there will be a couple of other moms.
Speaker 2: I don't know these other mums. They were just really
Speaker 2: lovely and volunteering too. But I was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: you don't need to be in here. We got this cupboard.
Speaker 2: I've got the ship nice and tight.
Speaker 1: Have you come across any like old Rachel's, Like any
Speaker 1: mums that are maybe new to the game that are
Speaker 1: coming with their kids dance costume in a Woolly's carrier bag, Like,
Speaker 1: have you come across any of the old yews.
Speaker 2: Yet Yeah, yeah, yeah I do. But I don't tend
Speaker 2: to go in that room anymore because that's down the others.
Speaker 2: So we have like an amateur, I just go No,
Speaker 2: that's not for me. I handle shit really well under pressure,
Speaker 2: So that's why I stay in that little space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've grown not there anymore, you know, one of them.
Speaker 2: And we've got the Duffel and we've got like Graceie
Speaker 2: did fourteen routines yesterday or like for the concept fourteen routines.
Speaker 1: I feel like once you're one of those parents that
Speaker 1: have bought the Duffel bag, that's it.
Speaker 2: You're fully pro.
Speaker 1: You're a full professional, committed, you committed.
Speaker 2: All in all went really well. I up my game,
Speaker 2: even had a cast and cruise sh I bought my
Speaker 2: T shirt.
Speaker 1: And have you given yourself like a title? Have you
Speaker 1: given title?
Speaker 2: I think my behavior?
Speaker 1: Yes, she quick change officer, something like that, quick change manager.
Speaker 2: No, we can't have manager. I'm just a rookie. Still,
Speaker 2: there's still so much to like.
Speaker 1: You know, you're fully pro. I'm clips on your T shirt.
Speaker 2: I was in but get this. I was driving there
Speaker 2: and the back of the shirt was like, you know,
Speaker 2: the impact performing Arts, Cast and Crewe twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: and Gracie. She was like, I can't believe you bought
Speaker 2: a T shirt. Mom was like, well, at list, I
Speaker 2: don't have to trash my own T shirt and it's
Speaker 2: just for today and it's a bit of fun and
Speaker 2: I get to be a part.
Speaker 1: Of your team and makes me feel professional.
Speaker 2: I'm a part of this. And she goes, but you're
Speaker 2: not casting crew, are you? And I was like, excuse me,
Speaker 2: excuse but you're not. You're not Castle Crue your crew.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, no, I'm your crew and she
Speaker 2: was like, well you're not, y'are my mom. So you
Speaker 2: know what it did. We pulled up at the next
Speaker 2: seat of lights and in my car I have Nickos
Speaker 2: in the I don't know why I have Nickos in
Speaker 2: my center console. I took my T shirt off at
Speaker 2: the line it's just sitting there and my bro, please
Speaker 2: don't do this at home. It's not safe. And then
Speaker 2: I got my neckro out marked off cast and crew
Speaker 2: and then wrote mum, put it back on T shirt,
Speaker 2: said there you go. You better in back the booming
Speaker 2: arts mum And she was like, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: Did you pop your head? Around into the room of
Speaker 1: the people that don't do it very well, and just like,
Speaker 1: did you go in any way like I used to be,
Speaker 1: like you look at me now, look at me around
Speaker 1: in your T shirt.
Speaker 2: As soon as I walked in, there was a few
Speaker 2: of those mums that looked at me and was like
Speaker 2: you put a T shirt. And I was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I'm going a whole hog this time. If I'm in,
Speaker 2: I'm all in.