Speaker 1: Appogiae Production. Welcome back to another episode of am I
Speaker 1: About Mum?
Speaker 2: Podcast?
Speaker 1: The question we keep asking three times a.
Speaker 2: Week, over and over again to remain in control of
Speaker 2: our own sanity, and then we just share it with others,
Speaker 2: with all our amazing network of listeners, so that they
Speaker 2: also feel like, as a collective, we're okay, We've got this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're in it together.
Speaker 2: We're in it together and on the same What did
Speaker 2: we normally say. It's like we're on the same bus.
Speaker 1: No, we're the same and we're on the same boat, boat.
Speaker 2: Some form of transport headed in the same direction. Shit,
Speaker 2: am I a bad mum for not keeping up with
Speaker 2: the needs of my children. It's quite funny actually, because
Speaker 2: you know, you have moments where you are doing something
Speaker 2: that you've possibly done before numerous times, except this time,
Speaker 2: for some reason, it just feels different.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So we have talked so many times in the early
Speaker 2: days of this podcast about the days when you go
Speaker 2: to the beach with your kids. So I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about the days that you go to the beach with
Speaker 2: yourself and the book and the bottle of water and
Speaker 2: the one towel and you just enjoy being in the sun.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about children. Now.
Speaker 1: It's two completely different days.
Speaker 2: Remember back to the days Katie we were talking on
Speaker 2: this podcast. We were lolling one day so hard over
Speaker 2: the fact that you'd been to the beach with your
Speaker 2: daughters and you'd take in the tent and you'd take
Speaker 2: in the sunscreen and the buckets and the shovels, and
Speaker 2: you had everything set up with them, right, and then
Speaker 2: you had that tent thing that you were sort of
Speaker 2: half in the shade, half in the sun, so you
Speaker 2: were prepared for everything that was going to be thrown
Speaker 2: at you, and you thought on that particular day, you
Speaker 2: would sit down and read a book. Right.
Speaker 1: I always used to laugh at myself taking kids to
Speaker 1: the beach, seeing the book in my bag and then
Speaker 1: being like, what do I track that for? Like, that's
Speaker 1: a funny joke that I packed a book to come
Speaker 1: to the beach and they needed me constantly. And there
Speaker 1: was a mesh window in the back of this tent
Speaker 1: and they were occupied for like I think Jay had
Speaker 1: taken them in the water, and I knew they were
Speaker 1: going to be occupied for about ten minutes, Like I
Speaker 1: had literally ten minutes. I laid down and I had
Speaker 1: my head like I was half in the tent, half
Speaker 1: out the tent, and I started reading the book and
Speaker 1: the dog came up behind the tent, lifted its leg up,
Speaker 1: and weed threw the mesh window, and I was like
Speaker 1: I had ten minutes.
Speaker 2: And so now fast forward many years and we're still
Speaker 2: doing this podcast. But I was having a reflection moment
Speaker 2: sitting on the beach this time, and I was at
Speaker 2: the beach by myself with my two girls, and it
Speaker 2: was only like last week. And if you know Nooser
Speaker 2: Main Beach, it's pretty flat. There's waves, but it's not
Speaker 2: out of control. It's not like the open beaches. You
Speaker 2: put a little bit of a leeway there for kids
Speaker 2: to be able to swim. Anyway, we had a really
Speaker 2: good day in terms of weather, and so the flags
Speaker 2: were a little bit more separated. Now I'm just having
Speaker 2: that moment where I was like, gosh, I remember the
Speaker 2: days where we'd talk about on the podcast everything that
Speaker 2: you'd need to bring to the beach with your kids
Speaker 2: at certain ages. So now I'm at that next part
Speaker 2: of going. I'm at what eleven and nine years old
Speaker 2: my girls and I'm getting to the beach and I
Speaker 2: literally brought a bag, a beach bag with three towels. Yep. Now,
Speaker 2: back in the day, I would have packed an eskie
Speaker 2: with cold waters and food and snacks, everything that you
Speaker 2: can think of, like the kitchen sink. When you go
Speaker 2: to the beach when your kids are younger, you have
Speaker 2: to pack everything, you cool, kabana like whatever that cabana
Speaker 2: thing is to give you some shade. Now I barely packed.
Speaker 2: I don't even think my kids know they did. They
Speaker 2: had a hat on their head each.
Speaker 1: I had one of those trolleys. You load the trolley up,
Speaker 1: but the trolley's never big enough because you've got so
Speaker 1: much it. You got the eski, you got the shade,
Speaker 1: You've got the boogie balls.
Speaker 2: You've also got like fold up chests and have pockets
Speaker 2: that you can sit on and or you never you
Speaker 2: never sit in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got the whole setup. Then you get your bag,
Speaker 1: you get your towels, you got everything like that. The
Speaker 1: amount of times I'd be struggling with that trolley because
Speaker 1: they're not meant for sem Like, what the hell is
Speaker 1: with that? They're beach trolleys and they are no good
Speaker 1: on sand once you start wheeling them on sand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, soft sand.
Speaker 1: It's like doing the workout. Like you go from the beach,
Speaker 1: you pack it all up. At the end, it's like
Speaker 1: stuff spilling out. You gotta go back. You're like struggling
Speaker 1: through the sand like.
Speaker 2: It's to get each other up, though, but you've gotta
Speaker 2: be set up for hours, like hours.
Speaker 1: I would have days at the beach and walking back
Speaker 1: towards the car up the beach on the sand felt
Speaker 1: like I was coming back from war.
Speaker 2: I can imagine. But I in this particular day, I
Speaker 2: didn't take anything. Now, my kids are like well built children.
Speaker 2: I hadn't even put sunscreen on because I didn't have it.
Speaker 2: That's so bad of me, right, But also this particular
Speaker 2: day was like about twenty two or twenty three. But
Speaker 2: then this one particular child comes out and goes mom like,
Speaker 2: I've got the worst My skin's rubbing, and I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: I got fucking nothing for you. I can't even fix that.
Speaker 2: I can't even fix that because I'm not prepared for this.
Speaker 2: But I'm having that moment of going geez, I really really,
Speaker 2: you know, you get the leeway because they are not
Speaker 2: that little anymore. So then with that leeway, I've dropped
Speaker 2: the ball dropped. It completely. Just thought, oh fuck it.
Speaker 2: And then she comes out and she's like, Mom, I'm starving.
Speaker 2: I was like, just have some water. You'll be fine
Speaker 2: for a couple whiles. But again, Katie, I would have
Speaker 2: had the entire fridge contents.
Speaker 1: Back in the day. So you've gone from all to
Speaker 1: the things. You've gone from packing the kitchen sink to
Speaker 1: a day at the beach without some screen.
Speaker 2: Now, when I say packing the kitchen sink, I also
Speaker 2: like you anticipated the fact that I would read a book,
Speaker 2: and I've never read a book. I'm now I'm down
Speaker 2: there with two kids that are swimming during their own thing.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there watching them. I'm having a coffee going,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting on a beach. It's blissful. Apart from the anyway,
Speaker 2: I won't start that, but it was like a family
Speaker 2: behind me with a screaming child. But apart from that,
Speaker 2: like I was just like, this is blissful. I'm having
Speaker 2: a coffee, the coffee is hot, my kids are happy,
Speaker 2: they're playing together nicely at this stage, and this is
Speaker 2: just blissful.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't prepared. I didn't have a book. I
Speaker 2: was just like what do I do with my time?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I just in that scenario, right, So you're on the beach,
Speaker 1: are actually relaxed, Your kids are playing, they're not fighting,
Speaker 1: they're not needing you for this moment. I mean a
Speaker 1: bit of sunburn. Just so that happened.
Speaker 2: Look, the hats, I have to say the hats did
Speaker 2: remain on, because that is my one thing that I
Speaker 2: always am quite picky about the hats being on their
Speaker 2: head because there's nothing worse than fucking dealing with sunstroke
Speaker 2: or anything like that later on when they're just overwhelmed
Speaker 2: because they've had too much heat through their head.
Speaker 1: How do you keep the hats on while they're in the.
Speaker 2: Water, I don't know. They're not dry. They go under
Speaker 2: the water with it on, come back up. They wear
Speaker 2: bucket hats. The bucket hats.
Speaker 1: Are still like a string underneath old.
Speaker 2: No, they just take it off. They're jumping around. They
Speaker 2: put it back on. And do you know what else
Speaker 2: I took to the beach A handball. I don't actually
Speaker 2: know if I packed out of hand.
Speaker 1: It didn't take sunscreen.
Speaker 2: A handball was in the bag. Times have changed so
Speaker 2: much and somehow on just that particular day, the beach
Speaker 2: felt like it was the beach again.
Speaker 1: You finally got there. Yeah, you finally got.
Speaker 2: I can't say that we were when we were leaving
Speaker 2: the chaos that I had to go through to get
Speaker 2: them a to leave b because one couldn't walk to
Speaker 2: the car, the other one wouldn't put shoes on because
Speaker 2: the sand in between her toes and being wet and like,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, it wasn't like the most blissful
Speaker 2: day that you could think of, but it was definitely
Speaker 2: a shift in the right direction from baby days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that post beach sand everywhere is also a lot
Speaker 1: like your car would have looked like shit. It still does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting sand out of it for weeks, months on end.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how many times its Just dust your
Speaker 2: feet off, Like, just at least dust your feet off,
Speaker 2: Sit on the edge of the seat of the car.
Speaker 2: Just run your towel down your legs so it falls
Speaker 2: outside of the car, and then put your legs in
Speaker 2: just that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, just to wrap up any mums or dad's
Speaker 1: or anyone out there that wants a secret and a
Speaker 1: lot of people would know this, but wants the secret
Speaker 1: to getting sand off of kids at the beach, tucking powder.
Speaker 2: We did talk about this, Yeah, this is one of
Speaker 2: your fun packs.
Speaker 1: It's so good that come off the sand. They've got
Speaker 1: sand everywhere, all over the legs, TALCN powder rub it over,
Speaker 1: the sand just falls off. Trust me, I can't believe
Speaker 1: you haven't
Speaker 2: Done telling you this for you, I barely pack fucking sunscreen,
Speaker 2: let alone talking powder.