Speaker 1: Oh, hello, welcome to We Knows Parenting. I'm Peter. I'm
Speaker 1: about the new one, and we're recording in the morning. Yes,
Speaker 1: you got us bright eyed and bushy tailed. Um. We
Speaker 1: I passed out at a thirty last night, and but
Speaker 1: I just couldn't. I couldn't stop it from happening. I
Speaker 1: walked in here and I saw you asleep, and I thought, hmmm,
Speaker 1: do I wake up my wife record a podcast? I
Speaker 1: just yeah, I could. I just I was like, I'll try.
Speaker 1: And then it was like, you know when sleep is
Speaker 1: so seductive, come here. I was really I was jealous.
Speaker 1: And then I thought about, like, I guess I'll record
Speaker 1: it by myself. And then I remembered. So we never
Speaker 1: record during the day because we're working. You know, if
Speaker 1: our kids are around, it's impossible because we live in
Speaker 1: a small two bedroom co op. But now we're so
Speaker 1: we're away, we're in a house. We're in a house
Speaker 1: with my sister, and we're recorded right now. Our kids
Speaker 1: are just in the other room. Yeah. I mean they
Speaker 1: will probably disrupt this before the end, but that's okay. Um,
Speaker 1: So if you if you listen right when this comes out.
Speaker 1: We recorded this like a couple of hours ago. This
Speaker 1: is fresh baby, hot off the presses for hearing fresh content. Um.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to think about what to say
Speaker 1: about this week, and I like, days have become so
Speaker 1: blurred together. It's hard for me to remember details of
Speaker 1: like what we did with our kids? But who are we?
Speaker 1: Who are we? What? Literally this metaphorically existentially who are we?
Speaker 1: We had? So this week we had really rainy days
Speaker 1: for like a few days in a row, and it
Speaker 1: was just like it was such I don't know, it
Speaker 1: was just sort of overwhelming, get coupled with the news
Speaker 1: and everything, and I was I kept telling myself, like,
Speaker 1: on the other side of this rain is springtime. It's
Speaker 1: going to be springtime soon. Just like cozy up and
Speaker 1: survived this rainy thing. So we uh, thank god yesterday
Speaker 1: had some real sunshine and it was the temperature hit
Speaker 1: above sixty and we got the kids outside. It's a
Speaker 1: total game changer. But I think that's also why I
Speaker 1: was so exhausted, because I went for a run and
Speaker 1: then I was inspired to copy my sister and I
Speaker 1: was doing like push ups and stuff. And then I
Speaker 1: spent the afternoon outside with the kids while you guys
Speaker 1: went on your massive grocery store run it and I
Speaker 1: was just like, I think it being outside was so
Speaker 1: exhausting in a weird way. Yeah, it's just like Sunshine
Speaker 1: actually can't record a podcast, need to sleep well. I
Speaker 1: a lot of like the sort spiritual podcasts and Instagram
Speaker 1: accounts I follow. I've been talking about how like grief
Speaker 1: is very exhausting on your system, and like we're we're
Speaker 1: all kind of in like a prolonged state of grief
Speaker 1: right now between like we've were like a lot of people,
Speaker 1: depending on your situation, we're all kind of like grieving
Speaker 1: our previous lives and like what we thought was going
Speaker 1: to happen in our life right now, and then some
Speaker 1: people are grieving actual people or you know, like there's
Speaker 1: just like a lot going on collectively. The world is
Speaker 1: full of emotions. Yeah, we're all processing a lot right now,
Speaker 1: and I think it does take like a real toll
Speaker 1: on you your energy, and it's just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I checked in with my cousin who lives um where
Speaker 1: we actually live, who's still there. He's an air traffic
Speaker 1: controller and so he's still working. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: like twenty globally there's like four percent of all flights
Speaker 1: are actually happening, and he's like, on those flights, there's
Speaker 1: like three or four people on them. Um, So he
Speaker 1: he has a bizarre existence. But he's always telling me
Speaker 1: our local, our local grocery store, which is sort of
Speaker 1: a tight space and it's always a lot of traffic.
Speaker 1: When you go there, they're letting like three people in
Speaker 1: at a time. And so he's like, waiting in line
Speaker 1: to the grocery store is a massive undertaking. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that well, it's like emotional, like like I was saying
Speaker 1: last week or the week before, Like I think the
Speaker 1: kids sort of pick up on this like uncertainty in
Speaker 1: the air because well, it's here. She has to go potty.
Speaker 1: You go ahead, Ali can help you. Okay. Why don't
Speaker 1: you go right here in this bathroom, okay, and be
Speaker 1: quiet because we don't want to hear you peeing on
Speaker 1: a podcast. Those jammies are way too big. Those jammies
Speaker 1: are five year old jam My favorite, because the butt
Speaker 1: falls down. She's always grabbing. Likes to wear them and
Speaker 1: just let her butt hang out. And if she's holding
Speaker 1: like a cup or plate and she's walking, they just
Speaker 1: fall all the way to the ground. She's always holding
Speaker 1: one side with one hand like in like an old
Speaker 1: is this turkey? We gotta go? We're gonna pause. Wow,
Speaker 1: we're back and we're back. That was exciting. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of turkeys out there, and one of them had
Speaker 1: like a very blue head. For the record, literally, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that might have been chaotic. Beth sister screamed, turkeys.
Speaker 1: There's turkeys and we someone says, turkeys around here. We
Speaker 1: come running, we running. Look there was a big that
Speaker 1: was a big male. Is that the blue head? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, I guess we need to do some
Speaker 1: research on turkeys. You know what the thing and hanging
Speaker 1: below it's gin is called. I know that you say
Speaker 1: it a lot, but I don't remember. It's a snood
Speaker 1: Yeah remember that game, Yes I do. I have a
Speaker 1: strong desire to play Snoode. Now, anyway, you were saying, so,
Speaker 1: I was saying like I think the so I don't
Speaker 1: think like you guys were in the grocery store. I
Speaker 1: don't think I was super anxious about it, like I'm not.
Speaker 1: For for whatever reason, germs are not my anxiety. But
Speaker 1: there as you guys are walking out the door, there's
Speaker 1: always going to be a slight sense of like, is
Speaker 1: this the grocery store trip where we contract coronavirus? Like
Speaker 1: I feel like that's how everyone feels. So like you
Speaker 1: guys were leaving, it's just like low key anxiety. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're recording get out um and then sounded angry. I
Speaker 1: had a smile on my face and smile so it
Speaker 1: was fun. He's laughing, Okay, so seriously, maybe get out.
Speaker 1: She had to copy him. They think it's very funny.
Speaker 1: So I think Brin was like just like picking up
Speaker 1: on the slight anxiety of the situation. And so you
Speaker 1: guys left, and he was like Daddy and Alie and
Speaker 1: he was doing sort of like fake half real half
Speaker 1: fake crying thing and he was like, this is just
Speaker 1: like what I was just here with Daddy and David.
Speaker 1: Accept it to you and it was very funny. But
Speaker 1: he also did that to me when I went out
Speaker 1: for a walk and he started crying the other day
Speaker 1: like he's just, oh, what can we talk about? So
Speaker 1: you guys were running around the house playing this I
Speaker 1: guess you know Tag and he's like, oh, they're screaming,
Speaker 1: they're having the time of their lives and you're running around,
Speaker 1: and then you turned the corner, and then they come
Speaker 1: in there looking around, and we go, she went that way,
Speaker 1: and then it went around again, and then you came around,
Speaker 1: and then we saw you slip out of the house.
Speaker 1: This is at night, and you're clearly, like literally just
Speaker 1: trying to get away from them, and you go for
Speaker 1: all an extended walk. And so my life right now
Speaker 1: is everyone's always seeking me out day and night. And
Speaker 1: and we go shoot it that way, and we just
Speaker 1: kept sending them in circles, were like, that's funny because
Speaker 1: she's not here. And then we forgot about him and
Speaker 1: I were just talking and then he finally comes back
Speaker 1: in and he goes, I can't find her, and he
Speaker 1: was genuinely scared, like you were lost in the house
Speaker 1: in some sort of Narnia situation for all time. And
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, she's here, and then we
Speaker 1: saw that it was getting bad. He was sad. He goes, no, no,
Speaker 1: she went outside. She just played a little trick on you.
Speaker 1: And then you saw him like trying to piece that
Speaker 1: together and then just the hurt on his face realizing
Speaker 1: that you had abandoned him. He's so dramatic, though, like
Speaker 1: I don't always trust his reactions, like, and he also like,
Speaker 1: but as another dramatic person, I could just say the
Speaker 1: core of it is always true. It's just in a
Speaker 1: very flowery package. Yeah, yeah, I know. I me and
Speaker 1: my sister are trying to figure out some ways to
Speaker 1: toughen him up a little bit because he's just like
Speaker 1: always bouncing on us like he's just a little lion.
Speaker 1: And then we finally got outside yesterday, which is good.
Speaker 1: I think he needs to like now that we have
Speaker 1: been getting outside going on walks, but now we can
Speaker 1: finally be outside in the yard for a stain sustained
Speaker 1: amount of time without like constant movement. It's so nice.
Speaker 1: And so he was doing this thing where he would
Speaker 1: literally like he would stand like feet away from me
Speaker 1: and then he would come sprinting directly at me and
Speaker 1: then just jump on me. So then I was trying
Speaker 1: to change the game where I was like, right when
Speaker 1: you get to me, you should dart away like it's
Speaker 1: a trick, and so he's doing that. But then like
Speaker 1: neighbors were walking by because it was finally so nice
Speaker 1: that everyone's walking by and they're just seeing this kid
Speaker 1: run at me and like pounce on me, um, and
Speaker 1: I was like, he really is like kind of like
Speaker 1: a baby cub where I feel like he needs to
Speaker 1: pounce and like roll around and he needs you to
Speaker 1: like wrestle him for a certain amount of time, like
Speaker 1: he wants to be like roughed up still with my brothers,
Speaker 1: very earnestly. But it's just like exhausting when you're not
Speaker 1: expecting it. It's like the middle of your day and
Speaker 1: you're like holding a cup of coffee and then someone's
Speaker 1: like running at you. He's like, here's my knees in
Speaker 1: your face. Yeah, it's like but um, so I think
Speaker 1: we need to schedule that into the day or or
Speaker 1: just maybe now that we get him outside. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: My new favorite exercise is it's called anti tag, where
Speaker 1: the person who's it is doesn't tag people everyone. Everyone
Speaker 1: has to tag the person who's it, and that person
Speaker 1: is me. It's a brandon may even doing their best
Speaker 1: to try to tag me, and instead of running away
Speaker 1: from them, my objective is to get as close to
Speaker 1: them as I can and then jump out of the way,
Speaker 1: sort of like a bullfighter. Uh like oh a, and
Speaker 1: I jump out of the way, and it is exhausting,
Speaker 1: like they can't catch me if I'm trying really hard,
Speaker 1: but they love it because they get so close. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is legitimately exercise, which I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: any of. Since we've been here, and I've gained fourteen pounds.
Speaker 1: We've all gained some pounds, a number which will not
Speaker 1: be confirmed, we'll never know. We don't have a scale here.
Speaker 1: Thank god almost brought the scale. Thank God you didn't
Speaker 1: bring the scale. If I go back to our house
Speaker 1: for ever, I'm bringing the scale. I have like two
Speaker 1: pairs of real jeans here, and it's like I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm going to put them on again like
Speaker 1: the last couple, Like I need to. I need to
Speaker 1: make some dietary changes before I attempt those jeans again,
Speaker 1: because like last week, I broke a belt loop trying
Speaker 1: to pull one pair on and then the other ones.
Speaker 1: They just feel tight and like itchy, like as just
Speaker 1: like I can't like I can't speak to the itchy. Well,
Speaker 1: have you ever gained weight quickly in a short period
Speaker 1: of time? Exactly in the middle of that, right, and
Speaker 1: the you know, like the skin is stretching, it's was itchy.
Speaker 1: Last night, I had a terrible night's sleep one. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, no tino shade, but you were snoring all
Speaker 1: night and too well, I'm still pretty allergic to the
Speaker 1: it's a I just really earnestly said, no tino shade,
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of tea. You've become I didn't need. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're also my arms keep falling asleep. I think I
Speaker 1: don't know what's this pillow And like the way my
Speaker 1: shoulders fall back. I wake up, my whole arms are
Speaker 1: as leep. That sounds like a nutrient deficiency. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen normally. I need to run. I need
Speaker 1: to go for a run. Anyway, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about canceling my flight. So we were supposed to take
Speaker 1: do we want to hear about this? Is this a
Speaker 1: fun story? This is a fun story. How one we
Speaker 1: bought last minute planeting parenting podcast. I know, but we're
Speaker 1: going to take our kids on a spring break, and
Speaker 1: so we bought planet we weren't going to And then
Speaker 1: when the coronavirus first was like proving to be theory,
Speaker 1: we didn't know it was that serious. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: they'll be really cheap flights right now, and and you
Speaker 1: were like can I book this flights? These flights And
Speaker 1: I was like, are you sure this is a good idea?
Speaker 1: As coronavirus is ramping up? Are you prepared to lose
Speaker 1: the money on these flights? And I said, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: buy in cancelation insurance on them. Anyway, I got the
Speaker 1: cheapest tickets in the world, and then Jet Blue canceled
Speaker 1: them as they thought they might. And now you've spent
Speaker 1: an entire day on hold trying to get your money back.
Speaker 1: I spent forty two minutes on hold. But the point
Speaker 1: of the story is this poor woman that I spoke to.
Speaker 1: I knew that she was having a rough day, um
Speaker 1: and I called her and I was very nice to her,
Speaker 1: and she was shocked, and she was like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe how nice you're being. And I could just hear
Speaker 1: the days of people being terrible to her, Like I
Speaker 1: read these articles that are like airlines are trying to
Speaker 1: not give you your money back because they're, you know,
Speaker 1: going bankrupt. So they tried to give me a credit
Speaker 1: that like expires in a year, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take this trip probably I want
Speaker 1: to refund. And so these articles tell you like they're
Speaker 1: going to try to take your money, like tell them
Speaker 1: they legally can't. So I think so many people are
Speaker 1: calling there like listen up Jet. I've heard similar stories
Speaker 1: of people who work at grocery stores and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: they're they're getting kind of traumatized because so many people
Speaker 1: are being so rude to them. Because people are stressed out, understandably,
Speaker 1: but like people take it out on other people. It's like,
Speaker 1: be nice to people. This is what my dad is
Speaker 1: very good at, is being authoritative and warm. I don't know,
Speaker 1: She's just like, Hi, I booked this flight, you canceled it,
Speaker 1: and I'm unable to take this trip, so I'd like
Speaker 1: refund please, And then she's like like we cancel her
Speaker 1: you cancel it. You can tell she's like shell shocked.
Speaker 1: I was like, well you cancel my god, she can't
Speaker 1: find it, and she's like and then she's had done.
Speaker 1: She's like, can I just say you're being so patient
Speaker 1: and so kind, thank you so much. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I bet your job has been easier before this. We've
Speaker 1: like we're we've been weirdly primed to delays and disappointment lately.
Speaker 1: I mean, because I feel like like My whole career
Speaker 1: is just like things that almost happen and then don't
Speaker 1: actually happen. That's like how the entertainment industry works. But
Speaker 1: then like in the last few months, we've been trying
Speaker 1: to buy a house and like figure out renovations on
Speaker 1: that house and like just constant delays and our seller
Speaker 1: doesn't actually want to give us the house, and it's
Speaker 1: really primed us for this current situation where it's just like, uh,
Speaker 1: you just have to sit back and be patient and
Speaker 1: they're out of control. Yeah, we can't control any of this,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're as prepared as we can be. We're
Speaker 1: going to be positive all. Like all my anxiety goes
Speaker 1: towards food. I like to think about food all day.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we going to make? What do
Speaker 1: we need to buy on our next trip to have
Speaker 1: the perfect food experience? Like we think about it differently.
Speaker 1: I just well, I'm like I'm always like, how it's
Speaker 1: a meal that's going to be like hardy and delicious
Speaker 1: but also sort of healthy and nutritious and last for
Speaker 1: two days, And like this is just all I think
Speaker 1: about all day. That's not all I think about is
Speaker 1: I hate food and I don't want it to be
Speaker 1: around me. I have no control around it is. I
Speaker 1: try to I try to not I try to pretend
Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. This is why it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to have you be the one who goes with store
Speaker 1: and buys things. I understand. So glad my sister is
Speaker 1: with you, because I was trying to coach you guys,
Speaker 1: and I was like, because we don't know if the
Speaker 1: things on our lists are going to be there, and
Speaker 1: you know that you need to make some impulse purchases.
Speaker 1: If you're only going grocery store shopping like every ten days,
Speaker 1: you want to bulk up and have options that will
Speaker 1: last a long time. And I was like, when you
Speaker 1: get to the snacks, go a little crazy, Go a
Speaker 1: little crazy, I will say. I now I no longer
Speaker 1: shop with my own brain. I shop with your brain
Speaker 1: in these times. I need you to get on board
Speaker 1: at any the whole point of the I got a
Speaker 1: refund on our plane tickets and then went to the
Speaker 1: grocery store and spent almost all of it on groceries,
Speaker 1: so we are good for at least a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I know. It's like it's hard to be calm about
Speaker 1: the cost of groceries when it's so high, but it's
Speaker 1: also like probably less money than we're spending before, but
Speaker 1: every lunch you have in this city. And also, like,
Speaker 1: my sister lives with us now, so we are now
Speaker 1: have an extra adult in our household. Yeah, we're all
Speaker 1: just chomping all day long. And she can she can
Speaker 1: buy groceries every fifth time. Yeah, okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: So we the first trip out we've made with masks on,
Speaker 1: and there's a real you know, there's a dumb, self
Speaker 1: conscious part of your like, am I gonna be the
Speaker 1: only one wearing a mask? Grocery store, almost everybody had
Speaker 1: masks on, and it really the people without masks, you
Speaker 1: could feel they were all ashamed. Ah, which is good.
Speaker 1: That's a good kind of shame, the public health shame.
Speaker 1: And then we stopped at the liquor store in the
Speaker 1: way back because you know, essential needs. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, not a single person at the local liquor
Speaker 1: store it's wearing a mask like that tracks. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: next segment is called we Knows what They're watching. We
Speaker 1: have some special guests here to discuss the Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog movie, which we purchased on iTunes this week, say hello,
Speaker 1: brand Okay and Sonic the Hedge chug to someone named
Speaker 1: doctor and robot Nick and something, and in a funny
Speaker 1: part he was like, hello the way your makeup? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have one scene in the movie we keep quoting
Speaker 1: where the actor Jim Carrey portraying the actor known as
Speaker 1: Jim Carrey portraying Dr robot Nick has a very funny
Speaker 1: line where he's dancing and his assistant comes up to
Speaker 1: give him some latte, surprises him and he says, what
Speaker 1: do I look like an imbecile? Of course I want
Speaker 1: a latte. I like the way of Macum. We've we've
Speaker 1: been screaming at each other all week as we make
Speaker 1: things or ask for things we want to be made
Speaker 1: for us. So, Brian, you've been watching a lot of TV. Right? Wait, No,
Speaker 1: I haven't watched any TV today, Well not today, but
Speaker 1: since you've been here in this house, so you're watching
Speaker 1: more TV than normal, Like the no TV on school
Speaker 1: day rule has gone out the window. Right, So tell
Speaker 1: me what have you been watching? What's your favorite thing
Speaker 1: you've seen recently? Let's say pepper Pig. Why do you
Speaker 1: like pepper Pig? Well, bec as well. I don't really know.
Speaker 1: Is it funny? No, no, it doesn't have any funny,
Speaker 1: doesn't daddy pig funny? Something goes Daddy's big tummy? Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 1: All right? What's what else? What show do you watch
Speaker 1: the daddy does not like it that you watch? Well? Well,
Speaker 1: could it be one that I don't really that I
Speaker 1: can even watch today? Or here? Yeah? Yeah, and just
Speaker 1: in general, I don't really know. Maybe YouTube, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't like YouTube. Do you know? Why? Why? Why do
Speaker 1: you think? I don't know? You know? Actually I don't
Speaker 1: even really know. Okay, Maven, what shows do you like
Speaker 1: to watch? What's your favorite TV shows? I think she
Speaker 1: doesn't know. Yeah, she's having a little trouble answering that,
Speaker 1: all right. Brand you also saw the Goonies the other night.
Speaker 1: It was scary, It was scary? What was scary about it?
Speaker 1: Lactually it was creepy. What's the difference between scary and creepy?
Speaker 1: Scary is like, um, scary like things that that aren't
Speaker 1: really could happen and what scares you? And what's creepy
Speaker 1: like like skeletons and eyeballs. So creepy is more like um,
Speaker 1: So did you was it scary going to bed after
Speaker 1: you watch the Booties? M hm? I think I hadn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was your namemare about? Um? There was love on
Speaker 1: you fell into her, Mommy and Maven and Ali and Daisy,
Speaker 1: But the only one that that didn't fall in with me?
Speaker 1: So everyone fell in the lava except for you. That
Speaker 1: sounds like bad news. Alright, Brent, what do you think? Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you think there's such a thing as too much TV? Now?
Speaker 1: You've never watched so much TV that you feel a
Speaker 1: little crazy? All right? What movie do you think we
Speaker 1: should watch tonight? Mm hmm, let's say Soundic the Head Chad.
Speaker 1: All right, now I want you to we watched a
Speaker 1: few other movies. I'm gonna ask you about them, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna give me your review. You know what
Speaker 1: that means. That means you're gonna say whether it's a
Speaker 1: good movie or a bad movie? And why? Okay, we
Speaker 1: saw the movie onward? What do you think of that movie?
Speaker 1: The best? Why? Because I've because they get to see
Speaker 1: their dad. Oh wow, that's the best answer I've ever
Speaker 1: You don't think it's because of those legs walking around
Speaker 1: all funny? Oh? Yeah, that was so fun My favorite
Speaker 1: and the funniest part was he was but he was
Speaker 1: just legs, just legs dancing. I think he felt the
Speaker 1: music or just heard it. We can't hear if you
Speaker 1: don't have ears, but you can feel it like this,
Speaker 1: Do do Do Do Do Do do do? Can we
Speaker 1: talk about some music that you guys have been listening to? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Music review times, there's a new song that you guys like, right,
Speaker 1: it's called hooked on a Feeling. And what's the part
Speaker 1: that you like to sing? Brian? I don't really I
Speaker 1: think you Your favorite part is the part yes, yes, yes, yes, Okay, mommy,
Speaker 1: you can go like that part. I'll do the course
Speaker 1: and you do the uga chaka man? Can you do?
Speaker 1: I don't want to do any of You're getting embarrass
Speaker 1: now you're hiding behind the microphone. But yesterday when you
Speaker 1: were out in the yard, you were singing to yourself, Right,
Speaker 1: do you do? You like singing sometimes when there's no
Speaker 1: one listening. Why do you think that is? Because I
Speaker 1: don't really think they're gonna be real strong Oh you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't think they're gonna be real songs, So you
Speaker 1: don't want people to hear you think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: it wrong. You don't like getting things wrong? Do you
Speaker 1: like when I have you try to write words and
Speaker 1: you don't know how to spell them and I won't
Speaker 1: help you. That makes you really mad, doesn't it? You
Speaker 1: really hate that. But that's how you learn is by trying.
Speaker 1: Then I already know everything. Oh well, then you don't
Speaker 1: need to ask me. Well soon totally. Now, all right,
Speaker 1: let's ask they've been's asking what's inside the microphone? Um,
Speaker 1: let's say wires and electricity? There's some electricity in there?
Speaker 1: What in this scraper? Ah? Yeah? What? Al right? Well,
Speaker 1: before we let you go, um, anything you want all
Speaker 1: our listeners to know about your lives or your parents?
Speaker 1: What do you think of us? Brandon? Mommy? Well, I
Speaker 1: love Mommy and Daggy? Yeah? All right, this has been
Speaker 1: he knows what they're watching with Brendan Maven Say goodbye,
Speaker 1: Say goodbye Maven. This next segment is called listeners want
Speaker 1: to Know. So that's where we take question in the
Speaker 1: comments from you guys. All alright, even oh, I will
Speaker 1: say I have to say, great performance from Jim Carrey
Speaker 1: in that role, back to his roots, very fun. We
Speaker 1: laughed a lot of that movie, and I mean he's
Speaker 1: the only he's the only good part of it, and
Speaker 1: he's great. It's it is one of the rare movies
Speaker 1: for kids where I think parents will actually enjoy certain moments. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the way I may come. Uh. This podcast
Speaker 1: got my wife pregnant. Subject line Good morning, Beth and Peter.
Speaker 1: I've been listening to your Sweet Humorists and Real podcast
Speaker 1: since your first episode, and I've loved every minute of it.
Speaker 1: I began listening before kids, and now we're expecting our
Speaker 1: first and September yeehaw. I pre ordered Beth's book to
Speaker 1: help prepare my wife. Carly and I read it allowed
Speaker 1: to each other and read it aloud to each other
Speaker 1: and laugh out loud. Carly especially appreciate appreciates this book.
Speaker 1: I can hear her laughing randomly while she reads it alone.
Speaker 1: We just read the section about setting boundaries. Quote Mike,
Speaker 1: drop and exit the moving vehicle if necessary was an
Speaker 1: especially delightful phrase. We repeat to each other often during
Speaker 1: quarantine life for a much needed laugh. She's in a
Speaker 1: demanding graduate program Physicians assistant in Your podcast and book
Speaker 1: have brought us many laughs as she juggles stress from
Speaker 1: that her pregnancy, COVID and an earthquake. Come on, you're
Speaker 1: a dick and you better get your mind right soon.
Speaker 1: I remember the early We Knows episodes which I which
Speaker 1: had more, shall we say, displays of aggression. I'm curious
Speaker 1: if this period in your lives was a result of
Speaker 1: the double kiddo stress. If so, did you ever use
Speaker 1: or think about using counseling to deal with the demands
Speaker 1: of being working parents while raising kids, or did you
Speaker 1: find you were able to deal with issues and work
Speaker 1: through things yourselves? I asked me, because my wife is
Speaker 1: a direct person who communicates her feelings and thoughts, and
Speaker 1: she has a good she has good role models for communication.
Speaker 1: I am practicing those skills as I wasn't raised in
Speaker 1: a home where communication was a priority. Based on those
Speaker 1: early episodes, you both seem able to handle difficult conversations. Well.
Speaker 1: Was that a result of kids or were you able
Speaker 1: to handle these situations before kiddos as well. We've been
Speaker 1: together for eleven years, so I think we have a
Speaker 1: solid foundation of how to work through things. I occasionally
Speaker 1: still struggle with communication, and when I do, my default
Speaker 1: mode is to shut down. I do think about how
Speaker 1: our relationship will change with a little one. Has your
Speaker 1: relationship change and if so? How I know? There are
Speaker 1: thirty questions in there. If you decide to use this
Speaker 1: email for episode, I know will not be disappointed if
Speaker 1: you pick and choose. Uh um, it's not much of
Speaker 1: a pick. But I did attach the only image we
Speaker 1: have of our little one at this point U ultrasound
Speaker 1: from eight weeks. Carly is sixteen weeks on Friday. Uh.
Speaker 1: We we call it a cricket right now, and we
Speaker 1: aren't finding out the sex. I thought I better explain
Speaker 1: the name of the attachment. Oh it said cricket. Um. Great,
Speaker 1: Thank you for the work you do and making my
Speaker 1: and many others tuesdays delightful with gratitude. Matt and Carly,
Speaker 1: thank you what a nice email. Um, and congratulations on
Speaker 1: all that little cricket. Look at that cricket. That's that's
Speaker 1: so exciting for you guys. Eleven years does sound like
Speaker 1: a very solid foundation for parenting together. So I feel
Speaker 1: like you guys are probably ahead of the curve. Um,
Speaker 1: we got we had our first baby at around eleven now,
Speaker 1: I guess eight years something. Yeah, we've yeah, Um anyway,
Speaker 1: we I we have not gone to counseling. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it at certain points, and we've just never made
Speaker 1: it happen for various reasons. But we do consider this
Speaker 1: podcast our counseling session in a certain way because you,
Speaker 1: the listeners, forced us to speak to one another a
Speaker 1: somewhat respectful way. That though sometimes we stretch that a
Speaker 1: little bit, but we're able to discuss things without like
Speaker 1: insulting each other as much as we might in the
Speaker 1: heated arguments we would have behind closed doors. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's some tough episodes to listen to early on
Speaker 1: is if you notice, yeah, we've gotten better. I think, oh,
Speaker 1: way better. But I think it is a combination of
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One for me, at least, I've
Speaker 1: had to go back and re listen to those episodes
Speaker 1: and actually have been forced to hear what I actually
Speaker 1: actually have said. Has been helpful. But also I think
Speaker 1: if there weren't people listening, those conversations would have been
Speaker 1: would have shut down between you and me, yeah, instead
Speaker 1: of moving forward. Yeah, So I think we can both
Speaker 1: see the conflict coming sooner because the big problem is
Speaker 1: usually something that happened before the fight, which is something yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I've learned. I would say, like nine out of ten
Speaker 1: arguments start with you doing something that I find problematic,
Speaker 1: and then where it goes wrong on my part is
Speaker 1: I criticize in a very negative tone. Sometimes I can
Speaker 1: be calmer and say please don't do this again, or
Speaker 1: can you please agree not to do this or blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, but uh, not always successful, depending on my
Speaker 1: mood or the state of the country. Um, and you
Speaker 1: are your go to mistake is to dig in your
Speaker 1: heels and say that that was not a problem and
Speaker 1: that my feelings are not reflective of reality and to
Speaker 1: just like, I think that's where you derail it. You're
Speaker 1: like put your foot down, and it's just like I
Speaker 1: would just like an ounce of owning the fact that
Speaker 1: something you did concern me so that we can move
Speaker 1: on it. I mean, you're of course absolutely right, because
Speaker 1: when somebody does something the way you wouldn't do it,
Speaker 1: you at your worst and you are so much better
Speaker 1: now because he's instantly very mean. Well, sometimes we're literally
Speaker 1: in a global pandemic and someone I live with is
Speaker 1: like going on impulsive trips to the post office or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, could you think about when you might
Speaker 1: be infecting your family with coronavirus. So we've learned a
Speaker 1: lot Beth has learned. I think. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: lessons is you have learned a lot about The biggest
Speaker 1: lesson is I have learned I'm giving us both a
Speaker 1: big thing and a big compliment. Uh. You You've learned
Speaker 1: a lot about tone, which sounds so petty, and I
Speaker 1: have learned a lot about before I say something, shut
Speaker 1: up and think about what's happened for the last four hours. Well,
Speaker 1: your tone we have. I mean I think every couple
Speaker 1: does this. You're so dramatic, so you're like, I like,
Speaker 1: I'm critical of you, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: granted we've been under a lot of stress lately, but
Speaker 1: you just say like the most outlandish thing, which sometimes
Speaker 1: it is like a blessing in disguise because the insults
Speaker 1: are so outsized for the situation that I'm just like, well,
Speaker 1: I know that's not true, Like it's just like so
Speaker 1: out of left field, like ah um. But I think
Speaker 1: one yes, this has been our therapy. I totally recommend
Speaker 1: therapy to people, even though it's something we haven't done,
Speaker 1: because I think especially for parents, like especially new parents,
Speaker 1: because I don't like everyone is experiencing a lot of change,
Speaker 1: and I do think this is kind of what's happening
Speaker 1: with coronavirus. Is like everyone in the household is experiencing
Speaker 1: stress in different ways, and there's a lot of new information,
Speaker 1: and it's hard not to take it out on each other.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's what happens with new parents,
Speaker 1: is they're exhausted and stressed and trying to navigate all
Speaker 1: these new things. It's almost impossible not to lash at
Speaker 1: one another. Yeah, But I think the benefits of therapy
Speaker 1: and why this is our therapy, is as soon as
Speaker 1: you have somebody else listening it, immediately you put yourself
Speaker 1: in another person's shoes and you're able to hear yourself
Speaker 1: through another lens. Do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: as soon as I know you're all listening to us,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about how I'm coming across to you, because
Speaker 1: we're all such innately as social creatures, and it forces
Speaker 1: you to sell reflect just to have a witness. Um.
Speaker 1: I would imagine the other part of it is I
Speaker 1: think the time in the podcast when we were the
Speaker 1: most at each other's throats corresponded to our kids being
Speaker 1: the most difficult age and you having health issues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, but that's how everyone's life is.
Speaker 1: Everyone has a lot going on. I'm really am feeling
Speaker 1: for people who like have a baby and a toddler
Speaker 1: during coronavirus, or like are pregnant with a toddler during coronavirus.
Speaker 1: My friend from college had a baby like four days ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had we know someone whose wife just had a baby,
Speaker 1: and they were talking about not like there's some people
Speaker 1: who are women who are delivering alone because they're not
Speaker 1: letting partners into the hospital, which is very scary, and
Speaker 1: they're watching on like an iPad. I think they might
Speaker 1: have changed that. In New York. There was like a
Speaker 1: I don't know, but um, very scary. Um, but we're
Speaker 1: all going to get through this. Um um. The last
Speaker 1: thing I'll say with the email, it really feels like
Speaker 1: Matt is the you and Carly is the me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he was saying he tends to want to shut
Speaker 1: down communication, I was like, yeah, that's like that's my
Speaker 1: flight response, just like and this is another thing we've
Speaker 1: both gotten better at. Are old fights. You would always
Speaker 1: say the most incendiary thing that you were going to
Speaker 1: say and then and then leave, and you do that too,
Speaker 1: though well everyone does that, I know, but but nobody
Speaker 1: leaves like you do. Well if I'm just like, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about, is like when you when
Speaker 1: I'm trying to discuss like an issue, like hey, let's
Speaker 1: not make you know, extra trip two stores. We need
Speaker 1: to plan ahead and try to do as few trips
Speaker 1: as possible, and then suddenly you try to switch the
Speaker 1: conversation to be about something else, insult my character, and
Speaker 1: like you're just attacking me. It's like, can we go
Speaker 1: If we're not going to be on the topic of
Speaker 1: conversation that started this discussion, I'm not going to continue
Speaker 1: this the way you're like when I'm like, hey, can
Speaker 1: we please not go to the store, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not how that was said, Okay, but still your
Speaker 1: instinct is to like try to come up with things
Speaker 1: I've done wrong and not discuss the issue at hand,
Speaker 1: and then it's like not a productive conversation if we're
Speaker 1: all like just listing mistakes. My point was to talk
Speaker 1: about some things we have adjusted over time. And boy,
Speaker 1: you don't do the storm away thing anymore because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to cut. But what my point was sometimes
Speaker 1: leaving an argument is a healthy decision, and if it's
Speaker 1: not a productive discussion, you should not just keep screaming
Speaker 1: at each other. Right. So, I think the big two
Speaker 1: big things we both have learned is one I have
Speaker 1: learned to not chase after you and to just chill
Speaker 1: out and go for a leave myself and to go
Speaker 1: for a walk. And you have learned to leave on
Speaker 1: a a softer note. And I think that has done
Speaker 1: one wonders. Softer note. Yeah, when my husband says, this
Speaker 1: is what's wrong with you, let's make you to exit.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, when I get really really mad, it's all
Speaker 1: those things, those complaints I've had in my head that
Speaker 1: I've thought about that I couldn't say to you, and
Speaker 1: then they come out in like the most intense distilled
Speaker 1: way in a context that's not applicable to the like,
Speaker 1: I like the way you may coming. That's what next
Speaker 1: time we're in a big fight, we're just saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: I like the way you love you. One more email.
Speaker 1: This comes to us from Caitlin Giant baby picks, birth stories,
Speaker 1: questions and praise. I like most of those things. Hey, Beth,
Speaker 1: and Peter. To say I love your pod is an understatement.
Speaker 1: Your podcast was a shining beacon during the horrendous for
Speaker 1: six months my son's life. I had PTSD and postpartum
Speaker 1: depression with a healthy dose of anxiety and rage. Thank
Speaker 1: you so very much for helping me feel less alone
Speaker 1: as I made my way to the other side of
Speaker 1: traumatic birth and postpartum period. I have given your book, Beth,
Speaker 1: to every woman I know who is pregnant. I recommend
Speaker 1: your pod to everyone. First up, I'll share my birth
Speaker 1: story for Beth. Peter. I guess you can read to
Speaker 1: this long, so feel free to skip it. We won't.
Speaker 1: I love a good birth story. Blackland is my first baby,
Speaker 1: born in a June. I am a bigger woman, so
Speaker 1: my first doctor told me I would get guests, uh guests,
Speaker 1: gestational diabetes, and I would have to have a c section.
Speaker 1: I found a new doctor, thankfully, and she was much
Speaker 1: more supportive. I gained a total of seventeen pounds with
Speaker 1: my pregnancy and was really healthy throughout, no complications, baby
Speaker 1: be measured normal, all good. I really wanted to prove
Speaker 1: the crap first doctor wrong and have a natural, unmedicated birth. Luckily,
Speaker 1: I had my babe in an incredibly UH in an
Speaker 1: incredibly woman positive hospital with low intervention and the lowest
Speaker 1: C section rate in the state, so I felt pretty confident.
Speaker 1: My waters broke on their own full gush. I looked
Speaker 1: like my husband. I said, either up my water broke
Speaker 1: er I just beat my pants, and honestly, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure which. Friday, June seven, at two thirty p M
Speaker 1: called the hospital, told them the situation that I was
Speaker 1: only having very mild contractions. They told me to take
Speaker 1: my time coming in, so my husband and I watched
Speaker 1: a movie, took showers, and generally took our time. Checked
Speaker 1: in at the hospital at six PM. They confirmed that
Speaker 1: my water did indeed break, and then I was ushered
Speaker 1: up to the very nice birthing suite. Didn't make much
Speaker 1: progress on my own by six thirty am, so we
Speaker 1: added UH mr a pro Mr Mr Mr Prostal. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That got things kickstarted and contractions started coming fast and strong. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: at two PM, almost twenty four hours after my water broke,
Speaker 1: I stalled. I talked things through with my nurse midwife.
Speaker 1: She was incredible, as we're all the staff, and we
Speaker 1: finally decided to do UH potosa. I sobbed because I
Speaker 1: really didn't want to because, as you know, Beth, you're
Speaker 1: really supposed to deliver within twenty four hours after the
Speaker 1: water breaks to avoid infection. Potosa made my contractions never
Speaker 1: ending and almost unbearable. At two am, almost thirty six
Speaker 1: hours of labor, I begged for that epidural. Unfortunately it
Speaker 1: kept failing and I ended up getting three different epidurals.
Speaker 1: I started pushing at four am, and three and a
Speaker 1: half hours later still no baby. Baby was in distress,
Speaker 1: I had a raging fever, and midwives were so supportive,
Speaker 1: but ultimately we decided that the forty one mark it
Speaker 1: was time to get this baby out. We went into
Speaker 1: the operating room. Only doctor in the whole process was
Speaker 1: the OBI who performed the surgery, and due to all
Speaker 1: the epidurals that just didn't quite work, they had a
Speaker 1: really hard time getting me numb, so I felt everything.
Speaker 1: Oh God, it was horrific, But after a certain point
Speaker 1: I don't remember much other than a giant baby flying by.
Speaker 1: There's really well placed all caps sections if you couldn't
Speaker 1: tell performing. My husband did skin to skin and once
Speaker 1: I stepped I was stapled back together. They helped him
Speaker 1: get uh latched in recovery. UM, no wonder. We could
Speaker 1: not get this baby out twenty two point five inches
Speaker 1: and ten pounds O. It was a whopper. We stayed
Speaker 1: the hospital for five days because we were both so sick,
Speaker 1: but we made it out okay. Lachlan was really hard
Speaker 1: baby those first six months, on top of the postpartum
Speaker 1: depression uh pp D, a R anxiety rage. It was
Speaker 1: a whole lot. But now, at almost ten months, this
Speaker 1: sweet babe is less of a potato and more of
Speaker 1: a joy every day. He's still insanely tall, thirty two
Speaker 1: at nine months, always at least percentile for height. That
Speaker 1: is the story. Quick question, how are you dealing with
Speaker 1: different levels of concern during COVID nineteen. My husband is
Speaker 1: much less concerned and wants to socialize and spend time
Speaker 1: with a close group of friends for friends, this is
Speaker 1: stressing me out. Help. I've also attached so many good picks,
Speaker 1: including my giant pregnant self with thirty six weeks when
Speaker 1: he moved to San Francisco to Sandeo. Crazy kids right
Speaker 1: after the baby was born, uh in a hospital with daddy.
Speaker 1: And then there's a bunch of I think I won't describe,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot to unpack here. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the botto from the bottom of my heart and showing
Speaker 1: a functional marriage with children even when it's not perfect.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, not perfect? Just kidding? Love love, love, Caitlin,
Speaker 1: but everyone calls me motor boat really buried bot nickname. Okay,
Speaker 1: First of all, Caitlin, congratulations on the baby. Great work.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you really did your best through was
Speaker 1: a pretty horrible labor, but you got through it. Um,
Speaker 1: and you got to look at that adorable baby with dad.
Speaker 1: He's so sweet. He has a little uh poe hawk.
Speaker 1: I love it. Um so cute. Um yeah, I mean, god,
Speaker 1: the it. That kind of labor and the PPD and everything,
Speaker 1: I think is much more common than a lot of
Speaker 1: people realize because we're like, hey, a new moms, just
Speaker 1: smile for the cameras. We don't want to hear about
Speaker 1: your vagina and everything. Um, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: that you got ripped open over two days anyway. Um.
Speaker 1: Her question was how do you deal with defferring levels
Speaker 1: of concern with coronavirus. Uh, we've already touched on obviously,
Speaker 1: we haven't done with it, dealt with it perfectly. I
Speaker 1: just I'm not I'm not trying to hang out with people.
Speaker 1: I just went to the store too frequently. Early on
Speaker 1: the same page now, But I do think like that
Speaker 1: I have heard I feel like a number of stories
Speaker 1: that is, like people who are like, well, I just
Speaker 1: want to have like one last drink with friends, or
Speaker 1: I just want to like I'm just gonna hang out
Speaker 1: with this little group of friends or just go golfing,
Speaker 1: and then it's like suddenly all those dudes are infected
Speaker 1: and infecting their families. Like it's not like this is
Speaker 1: not an unreal threat, Like, um, yeah, Also, I'll be
Speaker 1: curious because this email was written, you know, at least
Speaker 1: like a week ago, and the entire world has changed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about this coronavirus nes is like the
Speaker 1: news is changing so rapidly, and I do think depending
Speaker 1: on how often people consume news or what part of
Speaker 1: the country they're in, I think it is setting it
Speaker 1: a little slower. So I think it is important, I
Speaker 1: think to be like a little bit patient with people
Speaker 1: and not like scream at them when they don't have
Speaker 1: the exact same information as you. Day today, honestly, it
Speaker 1: also is a different thing to like go to a
Speaker 1: concert or go to you know, like these like a church. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think where you're going to be around a hundred people,
Speaker 1: that's much more dangerous for everybody than if you're going
Speaker 1: to go to your friend's house and Drake, I mean,
Speaker 1: I say, don't do either. But I also think there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of gray area. Like we are we're
Speaker 1: quarantining with my sister, so we have an extra person
Speaker 1: with us, and she's just become part of our family unit.
Speaker 1: And I think there are people if you're like a
Speaker 1: single mom or your next her neighbors, you're like a close,
Speaker 1: tight knit group with them. I don't think there's necessary
Speaker 1: really a ton of harm. And like combining into a
Speaker 1: family unit with somebody, if it's like a very small
Speaker 1: group of people and everyone is truly quarantining and you're
Speaker 1: going to help, you're able to support each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Because I do think, like what I think it gets
Speaker 1: lost in this discussion a little bit is that human
Speaker 1: contact is very necessary to mental health, like people do.
Speaker 1: Like if I was a single mom and I was
Speaker 1: just like alone at home with kids through all this,
Speaker 1: and then I had to do, like a stressful grocery
Speaker 1: store trip with like where are my kids? I take
Speaker 1: them into the grocery store, I leave in the car,
Speaker 1: like you need some people are going to need support
Speaker 1: systems through this. Um, so yeah, I think there are
Speaker 1: certain gray areas with stuff like that, and like you know,
Speaker 1: some of us are working more than others. Some of
Speaker 1: us are our essential workers and have to leave the house.
Speaker 1: It's all. This is just not gonna be a one
Speaker 1: size fits all solution. But in terms of her question
Speaker 1: about how do you navig thought, I think, uh what
Speaker 1: I think, like, hey, idiot, um this is something you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're all working on, and I think, like
Speaker 1: there is I don't know. It's a hard This is
Speaker 1: a hard one because I want to say like this.
Speaker 1: I think that's why I was struggling to navigate. This
Speaker 1: is like in other like situations, you could try to
Speaker 1: draw like clear boundaries with people and be like if
Speaker 1: you do this, I'll do this. But it's hard. If
Speaker 1: you live with someone and they're your lifeline through all this,
Speaker 1: you can't be like I'm not going to allow you
Speaker 1: into the house like you you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you need like it's very difficult. It's like and
Speaker 1: everyone is persuaded differently. But I imagine, you know, if
Speaker 1: it was me, you know, I and I can I
Speaker 1: can be quick to get defensive and like you said,
Speaker 1: and immediately go like, well, here's why it's not a problem.
Speaker 1: If I'm fronted with something, I think it is like
Speaker 1: trying to say as calm as possible. And this is
Speaker 1: like something I struggle with with Brian too, when he's
Speaker 1: like punching and stuff, is like, I feel like I
Speaker 1: need I really when you do this, it makes me
Speaker 1: feel this way, even though you're like raging on the inside,
Speaker 1: you have to like calmly be like this makes me
Speaker 1: feel scared for our safety. Here are the factual reasons why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would imagine this is not actually an issue for
Speaker 1: her anymore, because, like you said, the news has progressed
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. But yeah, or or it's uh storytelling, paint
Speaker 1: a picture. I'm worried about this scenario in which I
Speaker 1: get sick and one of us has to go to
Speaker 1: the hospital and we have a baby here and there's
Speaker 1: no one to take care of this baby, which is
Speaker 1: a very real concern. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are having. Yeah, I mean that's something you started talking
Speaker 1: about that like the three of us, Like what happens
Speaker 1: was Brandon had to start making his own meals if
Speaker 1: we're here sick, and I was like, oh, that's just
Speaker 1: not real. Well, and that's why we're trying to set
Speaker 1: and like only one or two of us to the
Speaker 1: grocery store and then hopefully we ideally, well, the plan
Speaker 1: right now kind of actually is that like my sister,
Speaker 1: we make her the most likely to get sick, and
Speaker 1: she's the easiest one for the rest of us to
Speaker 1: isolate from. Um, she knew what she was getting into.
Speaker 1: She did. It makes it makes me sound very selfish,
Speaker 1: but I have decided that I have the weakest immune
Speaker 1: system of anyone here, given my health problems over the
Speaker 1: last few years and like all the trials that birthing
Speaker 1: children has put my body through. Um, so yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not a strong person. Um, but like we have decided,
Speaker 1: like if anyone is showing signs of sickness, will isolate
Speaker 1: them in my sister's room here, which has its own bathroom. Um.
Speaker 1: I've heard that my sister listened to I think it
Speaker 1: was like the Daily or something on this woman whose
Speaker 1: husband got sick, and they did sort of a similar
Speaker 1: thing where they were like keeping him quarantined and then
Speaker 1: like they unfortunately they had to share a bathroom with him,
Speaker 1: so every time he went in there, they had to
Speaker 1: like wipe down all the services and disinfects where they
Speaker 1: could take a shower. Um, so hopefully it doesn't come
Speaker 1: to that and we don't get sick, but um what,
Speaker 1: we're going to be prepared because we're being careful and
Speaker 1: we're staying positive and we're wearing masks, and we we
Speaker 1: stretched our groceries out so long. I'm so proud. We
Speaker 1: did ten days without a grocery store trip and yesterday
Speaker 1: our fridge was like almost completely bare and now it
Speaker 1: is completely full. Yeah, but we managed to eke out
Speaker 1: like a couple of last meals that were like surprisingly decent,
Speaker 1: Like we really did some good planning. Well, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it. This is about another episode of We Know
Speaker 1: Its Parenting. If you would like to send its an email,
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