WEBVTT - Caroline Neerman: my BFF since we were 2 years old. 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.960 Should I take my hat off? I started recording No, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:04.960 you should not take your hat off because it said 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:09.879 give me six ft, which is actually the best Caroline. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.280 Y'all everyone listening, this is my bestie for my whole 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.239 entire life. We're the kid we've been the Carolines. It's 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.759 Caroline Squires Nearman. Is your did you change her middle 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.200 name to Squires or what's your Yeah, it's Caroline Squires Nearman. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.320 So growing up, Caroline and I became best friends. When 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.840 we were two years old. We were the only friends 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.600 that went to each other's birthday party. Like, I think 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.280 you're the only friend I had at my party. And 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.120 it just was instant. How did we become besties? I 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.879 think our moms were just good friends and then we 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.760 so we were around each other and we just were 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.600 instant besties, and like we did dance together. And Caroline 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.599 had the coolest older siblings, Ryan and Shay, and they 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.080 were like seven years older than you, right, so five 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.639 and seven. Yeah, growing up we would go play at 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.000 your house and Ryan and Shay were always like cool 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.560 teenagers and they were like they had like the the 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.000 junior high in high school talent show. And somehow we 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:13.000 weaseled our way into Ryan's talent show act and we 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:14.800 did a dance routine in front of the whole high 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.360 school when we were like, what how old were we? Oh? 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.160 My goodness, I think we were like in fourth grade. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.600 And it was like a really big deal because the 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.800 talent show was for the school that we didn't attend, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:34.120 and it was for seventh grade to twelfth grade. But 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.160 somehow the Carolines weaseled their way in and we did 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.319 our little dance routine with our cut off shorts and 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:45.800 we didn't split. Yeah, and we pretty much thought we 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.680 were the coolest people ever. We thought like we stole 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.920 the show. We're like, we're hanging out with the high 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.920 schoolers and the I mean, you know what it was 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.640 because your brother Ryan, he's so cool, but like he 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.040 was the guy that like just kind of like made 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.040 everything happen at and like he's so rolling in hot. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.320 So they didn't have an act, like every grade had 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.680 to have an act, and so he just decided to 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.280 like act like a talent scout and throw us in 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.600 the act as like the talent he was scouting. And 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.560 then he just went together this act and he didn't 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.160 have to do anything and we got and we got 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.560 to shine. He's pretty much known for being efficient with 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.959 everything he does, and so I think the most efficient 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.480 way to get to accomplish his requirement for the Talent 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:36.360 Show was to get us and then he didn't have 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.480 to do anything and it was great. Oh man, gosh. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.840 We also Caroline growing up. Every single weekend we would 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.560 spend the night together. We would do jazz or size exercise, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:52.080 videos would play all I mean, we go hunting for 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.520 giant scary things that lived in the little pond behind 0:02:55.520 --> 0:03:01.520 your house. Um, we would go what was what called 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:06.040 those things that Ryan would find in the paul um 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.280 the alligator gars? Yeah, yeah, I don't know, but you 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.640 know what we love to do most was go to 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:22.160 Mervyn's body suits, Yes, matching outfits. We matched every day 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.840 and we loved Mervyn's and we would go with our 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.679 moms and buy every single matching body suit we could. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.680 We only wore Caroline. He made body suits cool before 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.280 body suits were cool, if you Oh, definitely, yes, we 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.800 had every single color. And um, we also wore our hair. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.120 You remember the same way. Oh, we as have my 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.960 hair so I could get it to flow the right way. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:54.400 So we wanted to do the sunflower Oh, we would 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.520 spray sunflower like leaving condition on our hair and make 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.800 we oh, we lay on the head and put our 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.480 head on the back of the bed so it would 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.960 fall off, and then we brush our hair and get 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.280 it so smooth on the top and do the tightest, 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.440 tightest ponytail you could get. And then we'd spray it 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.800 down leaving condition and let it dry so it literally 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.680 would crack. It was so hard. Right, you have the 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.800 one little hair in front of our face like Madonna 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.440 that I would cut to make sure it's just that 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.880 one hair that because it had to be on the 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.600 same side. We had to just match perfectly. How do 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.600 we even come up to have the hair in our 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.240 face the one little way? I don't know. I think 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.359 that was your your initiation. I think you started that 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.560 and I just of course went along with it. Oh 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.640 my god, I mean talk about true best friendship, like literally, Caroline, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.760 I feel so and the fact that we have the 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.120 same name is crazy. But I feel so lucky because 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.080 we have been best friends our whole life. Like it 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.760 never didn't we never like lost it, you know, I know. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.760 I mean even after you went to Baylor and then Nashville, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.080 you know, and then came back to Austin. It didn't matter, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.640 you know how far away we were. How you know 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.920 many days we're in between us chatting. Um. You know, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.160 when you have something like that, it's just rare, lucky 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.080 and it never goes away. Man. So when Michael and 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.000 I broke up are now Michael and I had dated 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.320 four years and then I broke up with him for 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.000 two years. And when I broke up, I was like, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.880 I am moving to Austin. And Caroline, you had just 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.200 moved to Austin because you we both said it, I 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.159 guess you you've been living in Fort Worth and you 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.560 moved to Austin. And I was like, I don't know 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.080 what I'm doing. I feel like my life is flying apart, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.440 but I am moving in the same apartment complex with you. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.839 I got an apartment in there before I even like 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.760 looked at it, like I didn't care where the apartment was. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.680 Was like, I'm moving in the same place with you. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.960 We were like on like one floor apart, but like 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.200 so close. So every single day we would hang out 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.800 and like I was even there when you started dating Jason, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.920 your husband. I hope y'all meet, I know, I mean, well, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.640 I mean, the funny thing was was I was so 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.560 so I went to UM I was living in Waco 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.479 because I went to law school. There were not in 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.880 for so I was so excited because I was going 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.320 to move to Austin and I was gonna be single, 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.039 and then my best friend was moving there and we 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:23.919 were gonna be single together. Yes, Pato, we were just 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.880 gonna date like crazy, which I did you stopped, yes, yeah, weird. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.600 Well then I met Jason, like basically right when we 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.200 moved there, and then that's all. Man, that was a 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.040 fun year. We had lots of fun. Oh Aia, you 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.560 hope you ran. Katherine and I decided to train for 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.880 a marathon, a half marathon, and you just would run 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.919 with us just for fun, and then we run to 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.359 the bar and get angrea and drink. We'd run two miles, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.880 run straight to the bar and then just drink tons 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:02.839 of sangrea. Yeah, that's the best Thingria ever. That was 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:08.839 so good. But yeah, we lots of lots of fun times. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.200 I mean, that was a fun year. I'm so glad 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.840 we got to, like before we were married, before we 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.040 had kids, we got to like live adult life. We 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:23.360 got to like live adult life together exactly, and it 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.720 was so fun because we were you know, older and 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.800 like out of a certain time of our life and um, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:36.400 you know, just got to enjoy kind of a new face. Yeah, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.360 I know. And then here here comes all the babies. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.880 So you have two babies. Now one of them is 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:48.360 my god child? Yes, sorry is your board? And Knox 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.440 and were cutting out before in October. I can't believe 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:58.760 Knox is already four. Okay, yeah, so Knox will before 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.960 in October and four it will be two in October. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.760 So um yeah, just grown up. What's that like raising boys? 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.640 Because you are outnumbered? You have obviously your husband and 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.760 two boys, and so what is it like in a 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.280 house of boys? Um? Well, I mean it's all I know, 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.080 unless I'm comparing it to friends that have girls or 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.200 you know, remembering my nieces when they were younger. But 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.960 boys are crazy. I mean they're full, They're full of energy. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.160 I mean, for me, I love it because, um, you know, 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.400 you know, we played basketball and I love sports and 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.160 I love being active and so I love all that 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.640 kind of high end activity with boys. But it's exhausting. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.440 I mean, they wake up they're ready to go and 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.480 it is NonStop. So do they just run around like 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.640 little tornadoes? Oh? Yeah, we call them ban cheese. There 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.440 are band cheese and they are NonStop. I mean it 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.080 requires so much energy. I mean my mom and dad 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.720 are helping right now. Um, but like you really can't. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.959 I can do to both of them, obviously at the 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.160 same time because they're my kids, but a lot, you know, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.240 for my mom. She can't take both of them at 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.720 the same time so much. They run off there exploring, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.160 like I mean, it's just NonStop. So y'all are in 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:27.720 Colorado right now? Yes, so we escaped, escaped the heat 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.280 and um, you know, just being able to stay you know, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:37.079 six ft away from everybody and your whole fans there. Yes, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.120 everybody's here. They're slowly starting, everyone slowly starting to leave. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.240 But um, yeah, we're just enjoying the nice cool weather 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.880 here and staying out of Texas. What has it been 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.800 like being in Colorado? And did you'all fly there? No? 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.920 So we um we usually fly because we come every summer, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.920 but um, you know, with the pandemic and everything, we 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.959 just weren't comfortable putting our banshees on an airplane. Um. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.000 You know, they just put their hands in their mouths. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.480 They aren't great at wearing their masks, and so they 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.720 were just too too young. So we um packed up 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.679 our vehicle and left and we spent the night in 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.920 Amarillo and then made the rest of the trip here. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.560 But they did great. You know, how was that car trip? Well, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.560 I really geared myself up for it to be awful, 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.960 Like I was like, this is gonna be awful because 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.480 we took them to edge Falls, you know one time. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.960 That's like a little little secret water hole in Texas 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.959 that y'all go to, like a little pond far. Yeah, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.679 so it's um, it's our family's place that's um in 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.200 Texas and it has a big watering hole. But you know, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.280 going back to that, you might recall when we took 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.000 a little trip there when we were seniors in high school. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.120 But anyway, so we took the kids on a trip 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:03.160 there and it's usually like three hours from Waco, and 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.520 Knox is potty trained, and so anytime he had to 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.520 stop to good bathroom and we had to pull over, 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.280 and then of course he wanted to buy something at 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.400 the gas station, so it ended up turning into like 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.040 a five and a half hour trip, right, And so 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.040 after that, I was like, I'm never driving anywhere that's 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.560 longer than like two hours with these kids. But then 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.760 this whole opportunity came up and I was like, well, 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:30.839 guess we're just gonna go. Yeah, how many hours? So 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.320 I think it was like fourteen and a half or fifteen? 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.320 How how did you do it? So? Yeah, how did 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.320 you do that? Well? I guess during COVID. You know, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.120 the great mother that I am, I got my kids 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:53.120 addicted to the iPads, so we um, so we put 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.120 the iPads on and they didn't complain too much. Okay, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.880 what do you what do they like to watch? So? Um? 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.960 I mean they call it bob Ba, which is just 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:09.040 really anything they find on kids YouTube. Kids so Knox 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.000 has really gotten into They watch all these little like 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:16.400 truck videos and car videos like kids. Um. Knox has 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:25.960 recently gotten into more like Pepper Pig and um Curious George. Um. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.240 But yeah, they like to watch There's all these like 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.839 songs and like baby Bus and all these different things 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.079 that I hope they're learning from. Um. But yeah, so 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:37.760 it I geared it up for it to be awful, 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.040 and then it turned out to not to not be 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.359 so bad. So what have you love doing in Colorado? 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.680 What have you all been doing? This? And awesome? Well, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.920 the best part is that you know, we can get 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.120 the kids out of the house. You know, in Texas 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.679 it's like so so hot that if you're not in water, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.120 especially now, you can't go anywhere. Um, it's just so 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.160 hot outside. So you know, it's just so beautiful here 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.120 that we can take them to every single playground. I 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.920 bike them, you know, all around. We got to watering 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:13.440 holes and just kind of adventure outside seven So it's 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:18.880 so fun. I know what, Um, what are your thoughts 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.200 on this pandific? Like? What is happening? Like? What is 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:27.000 happening in the world? You know, it's it's crazy, it's scary. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.680 Oh I don't even know if I've told you, but um, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.920 you know we actually had a COVID scare here really yeah, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.400 So um, first of all, back to my thoughts. Um, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:43.680 you know, it's just it's to me, it's scary. It's um, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.200 it's just the unknown, you know. So um, but you know, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.880 we are where we are and we just have to 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.680 go with it. And um, you know, for me being 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.760 around my parents, I want to make sure that um 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.160 and they help with the kiddo that we're taking all 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.640 the precautions weekend too, you know, be safe and keep 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.679 our kids around them. So UM. But anyway, so our 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:15.000 babysitter drove up to Colorado with my mom because my 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.880 mom didn't want to fly. So she drives up with 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.160 my mom and UM, she's with us for like from 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:27.280 Monday until Saturday. She flies home Saturday. Well, Sunday, the 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.800 next day she gets home, she um doesn't feel good, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.800 mostly sinuses, et cetera, and goes to the doctor thinking 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.480 she just has a sinus infection. Well, they ended up 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.920 testing her for um corona and she had it. Oh gosh, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.920 she was with you all the whole time. Yes, so 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:49.520 we were totally freaked out because my mom was in 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.960 the car with her for sixteen hours and with you 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:58.640 at the house and I mean everything, How did I 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.480 have no idea? I mean, we are so shocked. But 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.320 you know, when my mom drove up with her, she 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.280 made her wear a mask the whole time in the car, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.440 and my mom wore a mask and then she sat 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.960 in the back seat. Um, because my mom had talked 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.720 to my sister who lives in Hong Kong, and in 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:22.760 Hong Kong at school, they've rearranged desks and they don't 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.120 they do something where kids can't turn backwards or something. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:28.840 I don't know. Something she learned from my sister. She 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.360 put her our babysitter in the back seat, and so 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.840 she took every oh and road with the windows down 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.520 most of the way. Your mom has always been when 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.120 it comes to taking precautions, Leave it to Cynthia to 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.480 go right. There's a ten out of ten. Cynthia is 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.560 doing a twenty twenty out of ten checklist exactly exactly. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.040 Safety first. Always, she's always seen a new articles on 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.840 the internet about some weird disease floating around, and now 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.000 it actually is happening. All her precautions are paying off, right, 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.360 So um, anyway, she sent um, she did all that, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.640 and then none of us bought it. So we called 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.880 our you know, doctor to make sure, you know, we 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.760 didn't need to do anything else. But we stayed away 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.000 for fourteen days and kind of followed all that stuff, 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:16.440 but none of us got it. That's crazy. Yeah, but 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.920 you know she had very very mild symptoms and lost 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:25.560 our taste and smell, and yeah, that's it. I know, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.880 I'm like, I just it's like I always tried to 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.920 find the positive and everything, and there is a lot 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.320 of positive like yes, we're getting like family time and 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.800 like you know, it's like helping us reassess our values. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.800 But like just like when is it kind of and 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:46.160 you know, jobs and working and like but I don't know, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.240 I just I've just we've never lived through anything like this. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.560 It's just bananas and like I want to get to 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.400 Texas to go see to see my family, to see you, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.160 and it's just like living in Nashville, it's hard to 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.400 We're debating on if we should fly it will that 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.600 be like is it worth the risk? And it's just 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:07.320 like you know, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's hard 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.960 and you know, Sunny being so small, that's a long 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.920 car trip with her that. Um, we got to keep 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:18.560 on chugging along and just doing all that we can. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.520 And you know, I actually pulled my boys out of 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.240 school so I was I wasn't comfortable sending them to school, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.520 even though I know the school is going to go 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:33.240 above and beyond to keep them safe. Um, but you know, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:38.680 they're just so small, and um that was my personal decision. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.360 So are you homeschooling? Well, they're you know, they're so 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.840 small that we don't really have to homeschool much, right right. Um, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:54.879 So my mom um has a preschool curriculum knowledge, and 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.920 so she's going to homeschool and art. She'll help teach 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.880 Knogs a little bit. I feel like your mom's made 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:06.480 for that, Like she's probably gonna love it. Yeah she 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.439 she We'll see if not, how Knox does. They're so 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.120 close that I don't know if Knox will be able 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.120 to like sit and try to learn stuff. He'll want 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.919 to go outside and explore and all of that. Is 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.959 it so great having your family around now that you 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.439 have kids? Yeah? So, you know, we have Knox in 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.879 Austin and um, Jason, my husband just travels all the 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.880 time with work. And as much as we loved Austin, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.959 it just we just knew that becoming Dwaco would be easier. Um. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.920 And you know, being being home and having family right 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.159 there to help. I mean, you don't realize how incredible 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.040 it is until you have it. Yeah, so um yeah, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.680 So we've been so blessed and lucky to have that 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:57.840 and they're so so helpful and gives mommy a break 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:04.480 Oh my gosh. So what is it like coming back 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.000 to Waco as an adult? Because we grew up in 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.160 Waco and I felt like Waco was such a great 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.960 place to grow up. And then you went to TCU, 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.399 which isn't Fort Worth, and then, um, I guess you 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.720 came back to Waco for law school, so you kind 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.199 of knew what it was like living in Waco, but 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.800 you're in the college vibe. What's it like living in 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.600 Waco as an adult? Well, you know what's funny is 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.920 that I always said and thought to myself, I'm never 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.560 going to come back to Waco. I mean, I was 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.560 just like, why is it that we say that about 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.280 our hometown. It's like, oh, I'm gonna get out and 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.600 go do all this stuff. But then you're like, god, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.760 home is really actually great. Well yeah, and I think 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.480 like everything changed is once you have kids, you know, 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:50.639 I mean, everything changes and your priorities changed, and um, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.440 you know, when we're young and single or newly married 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.240 or with no kids, you can go and you can 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.399 do and you know, we like in Austin, we've loved 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.520 like going out and going to restaurants and all the 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.639 things that you can do. But once you have kids, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.359 especially babies, all that changes so um. I mean, even 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.359 once I had Knox in Austin, I truly missed the 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:19.360 community that Waco was to us growing up. I mean, 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:25.000 they're just incredible people in Waco, um like so supportive. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.440 And you know, I remember somebody saying that it takes 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.719 a village to raise a kid, and you know, you 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.880 pick your village and you find people that are there 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.560 to help and support you. And I just think that 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:42.560 Waco has such strong community and support you know, so 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.119 so yeah, so coming back to raise a family, you know, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.159 it's just so it's so different, and um, there's so 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:55.320 much to do. I mean, you have great children's museums 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.000 you have. I mean, to me, one of the my 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.280 favorite things is Ridgewood and you know, being able to 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.639 get on the lake in five minutes, you know, I 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.160 mean up on the lake. Oh my gosh, the lake 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.639 was everything. Your dad taught me how to ski. I 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.119 mean I wasn't great at it, but he taught me. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.440 You would like get up on your swallow like at five, Yes, 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.480 and then I've got two skis trying not to bust 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:26.040 my face. Um, but yeah, your dad was the king 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.760 of teaching everyone to ski. I know, we used to 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:36.159 live on that lake. There's just so do well and 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.720 especially when you have a family, you know, there's just 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.560 a lot to do when you have a young family 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.040 and a family. I still remember when my dad surprised us. 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:50.080 Do you remember our jet skis? Okay, so yeah, Well 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.600 my dad like surprised us with jet skis. But they 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.520 were literally I mean I had never even seen a 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.119 jet ski before. They were like the first jet skis 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:01.400 like ever out. And we thought they were so fast. 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.120 Oh yeah, but now looking back on what they have now, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.360 I mean they were like do do do? Just like 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.760 not not so fast. We felt so independent, like being 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.920 on a jet skime and getting to go dart around 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:20.480 the lake. Ye oh man but um and then we 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.359 would you know, tie those alligators behind the barge, blow 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:29.800 up alligators, like sit on the alligators while we went out, 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:32.480 and it was so fun. So now I'm taking the 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.439 barge out. So we grew up going out on that barge. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.000 Now I'm taking up taking it out with my friends, 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.760 and it's so fun. I know. I realized now like 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.280 our parents really did design a really great life. I mean, 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.240 you got the you got the swimming pool, you got 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.120 the barge, you got if you want to go golfing, 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:54.840 then there's great countryside near a Waco where you can 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:59.040 go explore. Really, it grows, great schools, a great community. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.760 Really is a nice, nice thing. Now that we have funy, 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:06.840 I'm like, gosh, uh, we're so far away from Waco, 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.239 but I'm like, god, I get it, I get it. 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.639 You get it. And also what's so great about Wakers 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:14.639 You're right in between Dallas and Austin, So I mean 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.440 I remember we would always go shopping in Dallas. Yeah, 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.840 and you know it's just so easy to get to 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:22.080 and if you want to go, you know, out to 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.600 eat in Austin, you can go and come back. So um, yeah, 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:29.359 we've we've enjoyed it. And you know for me too, 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.920 uh with Jason traveling for his work before the whole 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:36.720 pandemic um happened and he stopped traveling, but you know 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:39.240 he would when we lived in Austin, it could take 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:42.359 him an hour and a half to go, you know, 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.640