Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio Podcast. Okay, it's officially
Speaker 1: you guys, it's back to school week. Oh I just
Speaker 1: got a pin of excitement. Well that's the first in
Speaker 1: the weeks. It's back to school week, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: be more excited. And we're in public school, so public
Speaker 1: schools always start in August.
Speaker 2: Private schools start.
Speaker 1: In September, and I'm always like, gosh, you know, they're
Speaker 1: really cutting the summer short, you know, because our district
Speaker 1: goes back in August. But now I'm like, thank you
Speaker 1: so much public school district for cutting our summer short.
Speaker 1: I am super excited. And this is going to be
Speaker 1: a whole new ballgame this year because Stella has her license.
Speaker 1: So technically, my kids they always do this. They go
Speaker 1: back midweek like break them in, slowly, break us parents,
Speaker 1: and slowly. They always go back on a Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: the first Wednesday is like a half day kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and just to get them slowly back into the routine.
Speaker 1: But this is going to be my first year where
Speaker 1: I have Stella driving, So she says, and I wonder
Speaker 1: how this will She said, Oh, I can take Bow
Speaker 1: to school. I can help take Katy and Finn I
Speaker 1: can help pick up drop off. Sorry I'm weaking quietly
Speaker 1: because they're all still here two more days. But uh,
Speaker 1: I'm curious how long that will continue. Of just kidding,
Speaker 1: she's outside sunbathing I just saw. Uh, so I wonder
Speaker 1: how long that will continue because I feel like she
Speaker 1: just got her license recently, she's super excited, and then
Speaker 1: I have a feeling she might you know, drop bow
Speaker 1: off once or twice and then be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I have much weigh on me and
Speaker 1: all my hopes and dreams would be dashed just like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it just me thinking though not doing
Speaker 1: like a pickup or drop off actually made me sad
Speaker 1: for a second, because then that would be Here's the
Speaker 1: thing as a mom, or just as a parent in general,
Speaker 1: you want to do or is it a female thing?
Speaker 1: I just don't know, but you want to do everything,
Speaker 1: but then you don't want to do everything. But then
Speaker 1: if you didn't have to do everything, you'd be mad
Speaker 1: not doing everything because everything is what you did and
Speaker 1: you were so used to it and you just got
Speaker 1: it done and you like complained.
Speaker 2: Through it all.
Speaker 1: But you're like us women, Yeah, we can multitask and
Speaker 1: we can do everything take it on. But yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: be really sad if like it's like my write of
Speaker 1: passage as a parent drop off some pickups and if
Speaker 1: that was taken from me, I'd be really I don't
Speaker 1: know'd be bummed out.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like lunch making.
Speaker 1: Like I'd be like, oh, I used to hate it,
Speaker 1: like and I'm not a planner.
Speaker 2: You guys know that.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't the type of mom I tried on
Speaker 1: occasion that would like sort up the lunches the night
Speaker 1: before and like everything'd be ready to go in the morning. Nope, Uh,
Speaker 1: it would mean me at like you know, six point
Speaker 1: thirty and like screaming running through the house like ah,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get everything in place.
Speaker 2: But now most of their schools and all of their
Speaker 2: schools they have lunch that they provide for the.
Speaker 1: Kids and it's free and you know, it's just like
Speaker 1: one hot lunch choice. So if your kid doesn't like that,
Speaker 1: you have to like back one. But bo was like
Speaker 1: my last one that really held out and last year,
Speaker 1: at the end very end of the year, he's like, Mom,
Speaker 1: I tried a hot lunch and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I think I really like it. So
Speaker 1: now I'm this year, I'm like, wait, am I never
Speaker 1: making lunches again? Now? Like slowly things are being stripped
Speaker 1: of me that were my rite of passage even though
Speaker 1: I complained about them. Yeah, so there's that. And for us,
Speaker 1: our school starts in two days, and have I done
Speaker 1: back to school shopping?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 1: It's me, of course, not no, nothing, because this is
Speaker 1: just like me with Christmas, Like do I go Christmas
Speaker 1: shopping like most parents?
Speaker 2: My friend used to tell me like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I got the cutest thing for my kid, and it
Speaker 2: was like August. And I'd always make fun of her
Speaker 2: and I'd be like, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: But do you know what I look at that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: she's always so calm near the holidays because she has
Speaker 1: everything done. Me I'm shopping their Christmas list on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: In fact, just the other night, I just had a dream.
Speaker 1: I forgot about this till I'm speaking about it right now.
Speaker 1: I had a dream that it was Christmas morning and
Speaker 1: I woke up and I was like, they haven't given
Speaker 1: me their Christmas list yet?
Speaker 2: How am I going to go out? What's open right now?
Speaker 2: What can I get? And I was like panic.
Speaker 1: It was it's like that first day of school and
Speaker 1: you walk in naked dream but it was Christmas. And
Speaker 1: it's like, no, that's just me, my lack of planning.
Speaker 1: I would make my life easier if I would plan.
Speaker 1: So I just got off on a tangent. But what
Speaker 1: I was talking about is the fact that back to
Speaker 1: school is in two days and we have not done
Speaker 1: back to school shopping. But in my brain, in the
Speaker 1: Tory brain, in the Tory universe, that complicates everything, a
Speaker 1: little bit of self sabotage there. I have tomorrow, the
Speaker 1: day before school starts. So this is me every year.
Speaker 1: So typically with five in tow, I will head out
Speaker 1: the morning of the day before school and we'll be
Speaker 1: buying everything.
Speaker 2: That's a lie.
Speaker 1: It is not the morning, it's like late afternoon the
Speaker 1: day before school starts, and we will get back like
Speaker 1: right around dinner time, and there's new sneakers thrown everywhere,
Speaker 1: and there's socks and there's piles we're pulling it off
Speaker 1: tab from Target bags and it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh at least I won't have lunches to.
Speaker 2: Make this year. So there's a plus.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go back to school shopping tomorrow, which
Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. It's too late to even like order
Speaker 1: something on Amazon, Like I can't even get Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: this fast. Anyway, tomorrow it'll be interesting. So when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, back to school shopping, at least for me,
Speaker 1: wasn't a thing because I went to private school. My
Speaker 1: parents had me in private school my whole life, like
Speaker 1: from kindergarten.
Speaker 2: Through twelfth grade.
Speaker 1: So it was like uniform shopping like that was something.
Speaker 1: Actually that was really fun. I have good memories of
Speaker 1: that because my mom and I would go to uniform
Speaker 1: shopping and it was Sioux Mills, know if that's still
Speaker 1: a thing. It was like the uniform place, and they
Speaker 1: would do it for all schools and we would go
Speaker 1: and they'd have piles and you'd get to pick your
Speaker 1: thing and do all that and that was always fun.
Speaker 1: And then as the years went by, my skirts got
Speaker 1: shorter and shorter and shorter. I remember that that was fun.
Speaker 1: I went to an all girls school for high school.
Speaker 1: It was like middle school, high school all together, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big thing. And seventh grade, I remember
Speaker 1: we started in seventh grade and seventh grade, all the
Speaker 1: girls would wear boxers, like boys boxers. Now they're like
Speaker 1: boxer shorts they make and you know, and there's so
Speaker 1: many options now because they finally caught on that girls
Speaker 1: like wearing boxers. But back then, back in the day,
Speaker 1: you didn't have that. So you'd just buy like a
Speaker 1: pack of boys boxers and you'd wear them over your
Speaker 1: under obviously, and then you would take your skirt and.
Speaker 2: You would roll it because you weren't supposed to hemmicks.
Speaker 1: You get in big trouble if you had a hems
Speaker 1: because if you got a uniform check at school, they
Speaker 1: would literally have a tape measure and they would measure
Speaker 1: the length.
Speaker 2: Of your skirt.
Speaker 1: So you had to be really tricky about it, and
Speaker 1: you would just go and you'd.
Speaker 2: Roll it, like roll it up, and then.
Speaker 1: If you'd see like a teacher passing by, you'd be
Speaker 1: like drop the skirt, drop the skirt.
Speaker 2: And like unroll it fast. And we got really good
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and then and then there'd always be the
Speaker 1: girls and you always felt bad. But they didn't get
Speaker 1: the memo about the short skirt. And not only do
Speaker 1: they not have like a normal length skirt, but they
Speaker 1: would like have the skirt all like blow their knees.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how that's possible unless we did
Speaker 1: get the skirt heames, but they had to be a
Speaker 1: certain length and then we just rolled them more. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was that, Maybe it was that. But I got
Speaker 1: to say, uniforms rocked. And I know that's not as
Speaker 1: relatable or accessible for everybody, but it really especially going
Speaker 1: through your formative years being a girl going to an
Speaker 1: all girls school, there was none of the pressure of
Speaker 1: like looking cool or like, you know, brand names. I
Speaker 1: feel like my kids and I guess I just assumed,
Speaker 1: because they don't go to this lateist like private school,
Speaker 1: that public schools wouldn't be as focused on what designers
Speaker 1: you're wearing. But it's not true, and so it's like
Speaker 1: you're trying to constantly keep up with something you can't
Speaker 1: keep up. It's like, well, I have five kids, Like
Speaker 1: they're not all going to go to school and designer clothes,
Speaker 1: like it's just not a practical thing for what I
Speaker 1: can provide for them. So it's challenging because all of
Speaker 1: their friends are like even my twelve year old Finn
Speaker 1: like son, you know, you always think like girls are
Speaker 1: into designer stuff. Like he went through his phase. I
Speaker 1: think I've talked about it before, where like Colone was
Speaker 1: the big thing, and any money he would make or
Speaker 1: gift cards he would get or any you know, can
Speaker 1: I do this around the house and get like sort
Speaker 1: of allowance which isn't really a thing.
Speaker 2: Here, but he would get he would spend it.
Speaker 1: On clones and that was the big thing because I
Speaker 1: think that they saw it on like TikTok and whatever.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of out of the clone phase, which
Speaker 1: I'm not mad about. But except we have like a
Speaker 1: gazillion bottles like lining the walls in his room, but
Speaker 1: that he never goes. But I actually never buy a
Speaker 1: Perfumer Clone anymore because I can just go in there
Speaker 1: and it's like Finn has this giant like wall of them,
Speaker 1: and I just go and like spray myself.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, a smell designer, ready to go.
Speaker 1: Oh god. But yeah, even he was like naming all
Speaker 1: these designers and these are the t shirts that are
Speaker 1: in and these are the jeans, like the three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars jeans, and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's ever, never ending.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I wish they had uniforms because I feel
Speaker 1: like we weren't judged back then on what we wore,
Speaker 1: and now they're just all judged on what.
Speaker 2: They drive, what they wear, what shoes they have.
Speaker 1: It's just a whole another level of bullying that they
Speaker 1: don't need.
Speaker 2: I forgot.
Speaker 1: I also have to get them all their pencil cases
Speaker 1: and notebooks and oh.
Speaker 2: My god, new Stanley cup.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, like if I heard word Stanley cup one
Speaker 1: more time, because they get these expensive.
Speaker 2: The sounds so archaic now dream holders. You know, it's
Speaker 2: just people that drink water, so I know nothing about it.
Speaker 2: But then they lose them. This is how I know
Speaker 2: bo is becoming.
Speaker 1: Mature is every year he has a vision about like
Speaker 1: his backpack. Like last year it was Dinosaur, the year
Speaker 1: before it was Spider Man. And this year he said, Mom,
Speaker 1: this year I just want all black. I was like, oh, buddy,
Speaker 1: another rite of passage there. It goes picking out the
Speaker 1: kiddos stuff. Yeah, he was so into dinosaurs last year
Speaker 1: and now and with his T shirts, so everything had
Speaker 1: to be like, you know, a fun logo on it,
Speaker 1: and it had so first. You know, they grew up
Speaker 1: so fast so first it went from all like you know,
Speaker 1: Marvel and like Spider Man and Superman and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, you know, Mario and Luigi and
Speaker 1: all Nintendo game and stuff was back in, and then
Speaker 1: it was like Dinosaur Dinosaur.
Speaker 2: He was all into that.
Speaker 1: And now he tells me I just want plain T
Speaker 1: shirts like when you meet and he's like, nothing on it.
Speaker 1: But he actually grew up really fast mid midyear last
Speaker 1: year and he was like, I only will wear T
Speaker 1: shirts that say Nike. I'm like, oh fuck me, sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, what do you mean? And
Speaker 1: he's like, mom, I only wear Nike. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: Well he's still like Adidas, right, and he's like or
Speaker 1: Adidas or Puma. Fine, He's like, but T shirt's only Nike.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm great Amazon. But now he's like,
Speaker 1: I only want plain T shirts, like so it can
Speaker 1: be any color, but it has to be playing. And
Speaker 1: he's like and I really like the plain white teas
Speaker 1: and I really like black teas. And I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: but he's still into those sports pants.
Speaker 2: Yeah what do they call that sports where?
Speaker 1: I don't know? And his shoes to be Nike, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have an all black backpack that I'm going
Speaker 1: to get tomorrow afternoon, that morning, the.
Speaker 2: Eve before back to school. Yep, that's my life. Oh
Speaker 2: my god. Well, happy back to school. It's okay, guys.
Speaker 2: You know what we did it. We survived summer and
Speaker 2: now back to the grinds. Have fun,