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Summer Send off!
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The sister's take a Summer Break every year, listen in for their Summer plans! They are praying for your Summer to be the best one yet and can't wait to get back to your earbuds in the Fall.
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Introduction and Episode Setup
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Hello and welcome to the girl I slept in my makeup podcast by three sisters who live in three different cities are at three different life stages and have three different perspectives.
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They are excited to learn and grow alongside of you. This is a space full of love and acceptance. No judgment because let's face it. We all sleep in our makeup. Please welcome Lauren, Megan and Kristen.
00:00:25
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Hey, sisters. i How are y'all doing? Good. It's a loaded question. I know. okay telling you how overwhelmed I am. So yeah, I know it's a hard question. We wanted to come back on real quick before fully getting into summer. We typically take a summer break from the podcast every year and we wrapped up the gospel of peace and we did ah great little catch up episode on it. And so wanted to come on here before we took a break. So yeah, I can't believe summer's
Work-Life Balance Challenges in Summer
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here. We're already like almost two weeks in and
00:01:00
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it's overwhelming with kids home. So here we are. Yeah. Thoughts about working from home with kids at home. Yes. I think I'm, I don't know how you and Bobby do it. I'm like, how do they still work with kids at home? Well, you know, it kind of gives me PTSD of COVID times summertime. yeah When we had a four and two year old home and both worked from home,
00:01:24
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But it's weird. Like you just figure it out. I also have to like shift my mindset about it. Some days where I'm like, you know what? I'm so grateful. Like I actually living in an answered prayer because when I worked in my twenties in the car business and was working weekends and late nights, and I remember thinking, I want to be a mom one day. like How am I going to do this and be a mom? Like there's no way, like I have to find a different career, different job. And so when I'm feeling like super overwhelmed about just trying to figure out the day to day with them home, I also remember how cool it is that I get to be here, you know, instead of having somebody else here, like a nanny or something, which is also
Generational Differences in Parenting Support
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great too. But yeah, that's how I get through it.
00:02:10
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And like our kiddos still in daycare year round. So that helps. Well, and Esri is in daycare. So yeah, know she's home at three, but it is difficult. And I don't, I really don't know how parents out there do this. Like once kids are in elementary school, i was talking to,
00:02:26
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a coworker about this. It's like, i don't think we talk about this enough. Once kids are in elementary school, like the amount of activities and different things, like summer being off, I think one parent needs to not work. Like I do but i think that's why, you know, not in our generation, but our parents' generation, that's, I think why moms really didn't work or dads or whatever, you know, because it's like, how do you do that all? Like, it's like a lot. oh you have to have either one person not working or like hire somebody, you know, to help.
00:02:55
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Yeah, for sure. Or have like a grandparent. I do. There's so many days. I just miss mom, of course, for all of her. But I also miss like, oh, she would have had so much fun taking Joe to cheer, like doing these little things that I think a lot of grandparents are helping with, you know, and I i pray that I get to help my kids if they decide to have kids one day with that stuff, because ah it's been really hard to do on my own.
00:03:20
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Yeah. yeah Well, you can lean on me more. That's why I'm here. i know. I sometimes forget to even ask for help because I'm so used to not having help, if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. i actually just read something recently about that, how the whole saying that it takes a village like doesn't even apply nowadays because the village is no longer here.
Navigating Grief and Missing Family Support
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and it's kind of sad, but... It is sad. I do think i do think that we...
00:03:47
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try to do too much on our own, especially when you don't have, family you don't live somewhere where there's family that helps. It's, it is hard. You, you really have to reach out. Yeah.
00:03:58
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You kind of have to like get out of your comfort zone and just find the people that you feel, I don't know, or even not comfortable asking. but Just ask. Yeah. And like desperate mode. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:08
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Uh-huh. It's funny because I had a – not funny, but I had a cry this morning. you know don't feel like I have as many grief moments as y'all have, or maybe I do. don't talk about it as much to y'all, but this girl, she was saying how I don't want to feel better. I don't want to be healed. I don't want to be okay without my dad. It wouldn't make sense to be okay existing in a world where he doesn't exist.
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And I literally just started bawling. And I was like, Oh my God, that I'm still there. You know, like, I'm still I'm like, it's almost five years later. And I still feel if I think about it hard enough that like, how can I be loyal?
00:04:47
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Mom not be here at the same time. And be okay with mom not being here and the same time. Does that make sense? And so i was like, gosh, I'm still like fighting with myself about that, which I know that's not fair to myself, you know?
00:05:00
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I feel like too, because you lived somewhere else for the first, you know, like you kind of got to like push your grief aside. so yeah now that you're here, maybe you're facing it in a new way, but I think I felt that way too. And it still feels that way. But then I always remember what mom would consider loyal would be to press forward, you know?
00:05:23
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yeah Like she would want something different for us. Well, and I think she would want, She would want our best lives, you know. Right. And I know that. And if I think about it logically, but I think unconsciously those feelings of like, well, how can I be okay with her being gone and still feel good about that? You know, like, I don't know. Yeah.
Impact of Community Support on Parenting
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I think too, it's like, I think that's so good to get out because I feel that way too. And I, I think I also am not okay that she's not here while I still continue to press on. Like, it's not like you have to choose, you know? Yeah.
00:06:00
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It's hard. Yeah. Grief is just so hard. So I'm like, you're not alone. if you're Yeah. You know, it's always going to be hard. yeah. Yeah, I actually found that thing that I read. It said, sorry to go back to kind of the parenting thing we're doing alone, what generations before did collectively cleaning, earning and nurturing all behind closed doors without backup.
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The burnout is not failure. It's the inevitable result of a system that's vanished. Parenting was not designed to be a solo mission, the fatigue that you feel it's not incompetence. It's the weight of an entire village missing from your shoulders.
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Yeah. yeah who wants the I don't even, this is such a dumb question, but like, who was the village before? I think it was like you said, grandparents and siblings and, ah you know, just all the people.
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so Yeah. I think back in the day, it's like people didn't move really from their villages. And so it was more community driven and, everybody looked out for everybody and kids, you know, they had multiple kids to help out on the farms and stuff like that. So it's, it was just a different world.
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Yeah. So interesting. I know just like in having a lot of kids, like the older kids would be able to help with the, you know, like Joe, I'm like, I'm so excited at her for her to be like 13 so she can babysit my kids.
00:07:22
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middle You'll love it too. She's already asking too. Yeah. On another note, do y'all have any fun summer plans? Yeah.
Summer Plans and Announcements
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Well, Michael and I just got Kendra's passport and it's the cutest thing. I can't wait to share his passport. I want to see it.
00:07:38
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It's so cute. ah So you can't smile. Even like she he kept smiling and she was like, oh, I'm sorry, but he can't smile. And I'm like, how am I going to tell him not smile?
00:07:48
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Yeah, what? Yeah, so we finally got it. um And it's the cutest thing because we're going to Mexico in the end of July. We were supposed to go July 4th weekend, but we couldn't figure out his passport stuff in time. so So we have that. And then we're apparently going, Michael and I completely forgot, by the way, I felt bad. We're also going to somewhere in Missouri.
00:08:11
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Branson. Oh, Branson. With us. Yeah. Yeah. ah In August. So I was like, oh my God, I completely forgot about that. did? Yes. And I was so worried because I was like, oh, my God, is it the same time that we are now going to Mexico? shoot.
00:08:30
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It's not, but it's close. Oh, no. So, yeah. Well, Michael had told me he took the time off for it. He did. And know we ah knew about it, but I don't know why or how, but we both forgot about it. and That's so funny.
00:08:46
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Yeah. So that's what's kind of for it happened because so Joe's birthday is July 30th. And i was asking her what she wanted to do. i was like, what if we did like a trip instead of a big party? Because we always do a big party.
00:09:00
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And she wants to wanted to see her best friend Savannah that moved to Kentucky. So then I started talking to Sarah and we were like, okay, maybe we can meet her mom like halfway. Yeah. And then it turned into Branson. It's kind of like halfway between Kentucky and here.
00:09:14
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Like that actually could be somewhat fun. We'll see. It's going to be funny. Yeah. No, though it'll be fun. And then I think I want to maybe plan a Disney trip in November for Kinder's second birthday. I know that's young for him, but all of Michael's family on his is basically in Florida. So I thought it'd be a cool way to see his family and also celebrate Kinder. And so I don't know. So, yeah.
00:09:38
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Well, and y'all love Disney. So we do love Disney. So it's more for us than it is probably for Kinder, but I feel like he would love it. even oh yeah. Watching his face. He'd just be freaking out the whole time. What about y'all Lauren? So we don't have any big plans other than we're going Cabo at the end of June for Kai's birthday, actually. So just the three of us.
00:10:00
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So fun. feel like that's a big plan. Yeah. No, we love we love Cabo. yay yeah We're going to Austin and Arkansas and then Branson. So we have a lot of driving trips this summer. It's going to be good. Can't believe summer's here. And just wanted to do send-off for all of our listeners, whatever you have planned this summer.
00:10:23
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whether you're just chilling, not doing a thing or traveling. We're just hoping and praying that ah y'all have an amazing summer and we'll be back in the fall with more episodes for y'all. Yes. And don't forget to go back and listen to the series we just did gospel of the peace.
00:10:39
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Cause it, I need it right now. Cause I need some peace. know. I was like, maybe i'm going to go back and listen to it. yeah I am. So yeah, there was a lot there to a lot to absorb for sure.
00:10:53
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Well, yay. Love you guys. Yeah, I love y'all. Love Thanks for checking in with me. Whenever we're not recording, i'm like, oh, I miss three way chats. We just need to get on the phone.
00:11:04
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Yeah. same Marco Polo is good, but it's it's not, the not the same. Yeah. I like Marco Polo for like updates, but it's not like that. Like I like to like talk in real time, you know? Yeah, for sure. Famesies. I'm always calling y'all and well, y'all are more busy than I am. So usually like one of you doesn't answer and then I'll call the other one.
00:11:24
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And then a lot of times y'all will call me back at the same time and then we'll like three way. Yeah. That's always the best. Yeah. Oh man. Okay. Well, I will say a summer prayer and then we will head out. Thank you again, listeners for sticking with us. I can't believe we've been doing this since
Closing Thoughts and Summer Wishes
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2019. We just really enjoy doing it and we're grateful for all of you out there listening. So if you have any requests for the fall, maybe guest requests or topic ideas, feel free to send those to us on Instagram at girl. I slept in my makeup.
00:11:58
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All right. Father God, thank you so much for my sisters and my family. Thank you for every listener. I just pray just blessing over their summer. And I pray that they have so much fun.
00:12:11
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Just joy is the word that keeps coming to mind that even though it's busy and there's chaos at times with kids home that we find the pockets of joy and really focus on gratitude and press into whatever you're working on in each of our hearts that even in the busy week and slow down for a couple minutes, at least a day and just sit in your presence and experience your peace and joy in a new way. And um I just pray that you reveal just any strongholds to us as we're sitting in prayer with you. And it just be a summer of peace and purpose and joy. We love you so much in Jesus name. Amen.
00:12:53
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Amen. Amen. Love you guys. Thank you. Love y'all. Have a good summer. We'll see you in the fall. Yes. Bye. Bye. Thank you for listening to another week of girl. I slept in my makeup.
00:13:06
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