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EP 24: IT'S FALL Y'ALL
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It’s October and that means that it is officially Spooky Season! Pumpkins, spices, hayrides, halloween, chilly mornings, sweater weather, IT'S HAPPENING! The moms agree that Fall is extra fun with littles and spend this week’s episode getting excited about all things autumnal. Grab a PSL, light your favorite seasonal candle, cozy up to this fun episode and get pumped for Fall.
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Transcript
Introduction and Setting the Tone
00:00:07
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There's no right way to do it.
00:00:12
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Oh, we're going to get into it. What up, my pumpkin tits? We're giving fall vibes today. You made me laugh. I'm sorry I didn't expect that. I'm with my two best friends, Shannon and Candice, and this is the mom group chat podcast.
Comfort and Seasonal Movies
00:00:31
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Okay. I'm just thinking of the difference in pumpkins between my pumpkins and Candice's pumpkins.
00:00:40
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There's a big difference. Your canvas has full on, you could carve those babies. You could have jack-o'-lanterns. Mine are like the 99 cent pumpkins that you get on the way out of the grocery store that you use for decorating inside. For the table. They each have a purpose.
00:00:58
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At least none of us are gourds. Does anybody have gourd tits yet? Maybe mine right now. They're hanging. They're hanging. But I will say overnight they grew. I went to shower this morning and I was like, whoa, my boobs got big. Do you feel like maybe your milk is coming in? Yeah. It's almost time.
00:01:22
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She's ready. Yeah, but I mean, do you guys know what day it is? It's October 3rd. October 3rd. It's October 3rd. And we're all in pink because we're giving Mean Girl vibes for our fall episode, my friends. It's not October 3rd right now, but you right now listening, listener, it is October 3rd. And we are in pink because it's Mean Girls Day. Yeah, we wear pink.
00:01:48
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I did have, I'm only fitting in a few things right now, but I had on like a velour terry cloth dress and I just looked like literally a pumpkin, so I took it off and I put on the only other pink thing that I fit in, but I did wear my gold hoops, so.
00:02:05
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It's giving. When Regina George gained weight and the only pink thing she has is the tracksuit. And they're like, you can only wear pants. You can only wear pants one day a week. Yes. And I like, and you wear pants already this week. And then she's like, this is all that fits me right now, guys. Literally. This is me right now. And then Gretchen says, you can't do it.
00:02:26
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Yeah. Talk about one of the greatest movies of all time. That's a comfort movie for me. I need to watch it soon. Well, if it's on, I'm going to stop and watch it.
00:02:39
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Yeah, it's like that one and Legally Blonde. I could never tire. Yeah, I could never tire for sure. Legally Blonde is so good, too. There's a whole list. I feel like actually this kind of ties into the theme of today's episode, us talking about like fall and cozy comfort. There are so many movies that like directly relate to seasons for me.
00:03:01
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Um, and you would think Halloween, fall vibes, you would think I would say Harry Potter, but Harry Potter is a Christmas film for you. Same. Okay. Christmas. Yeah, but it's Halloween too. They have Halloween. I guess. Yeah, but it is a little, it's a little more Christmasy, but there's a lot of Halloween involved. It's, that's a big holiday for the wizards. Well, what would you say is your Halloween movie? Were you?
00:03:32
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Well, Hocus Pocus is like obviously the standard. Like I love that movie and I watch it every Halloween. And then the other one I absolutely love. I watch it every fall. And again, this could be fall or Christmas, but for some reason I feel like I start to watch it in the fall. And that's The Family Stone. Such a good movie. I feel like those are the two that pop into my head.
00:03:58
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She makes me so uncomfortable in that movie. I know, but she's so good. She's such a good actor. She's the perfect person for that role because she looks so bitchy. The way they get her, her costuming and her makeup in the beginning is bristly. It makes me bristle.
00:04:21
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I love the, um, I love, I love Rachel McAdams in that movie too. She's such a fun character. She's kind of like the spiteful sister. It's, I don't know. I love her typical character. Yeah. Like she almost looks normal in that film when Rachel McAdams is like on deniably like gorgeous, but in that Rachel McAdams, like girls.
00:04:44
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Yeah. Wow. Full circle. There we are. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, when we were younger, we like attempted a burn book just because it was like a cool thing to do. Of course. And I'm not, but I'm not like super mean. So it was really hard for me to tell what a 10. How mean were you in high school?
00:05:06
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i was not i don't think i i was like this is really hard for me but it was fun it was like something fun to do just to like say like oh we're like mean girls movie but it was really hard i was like
00:05:18
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I don't even think bad to say about this person.
High School and College Memories
00:05:21
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That's a nice lady, you know? Like, dang, I don't know. So. You were like, the burns were actually just like so soft. Yeah. She did not wear matching socks. Yeah. She wore pants twice this week, that kind of thing. Yeah. I don't think we ever attempted a burn book at Academy. Did we? What? Shan? Or Shan? Oh my god.
00:05:48
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You're getting us confused, honey. At this point, it's pregnancy brain. It has to be, right? What is wrong with me? Literally, I think about you messing up randomly during the day sometimes, and I cry laughing just because. Wow, I'm so happy I could provide that entertainment for you.
00:06:07
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See, that's kind of mean Whitney. I'm good. I'm mean girl. I'm mean. No, I mean, I feel like we had such a good class at Academy. Our high school was all girls if you haven't caught on to that for Candice and I. And I remember the class of 07 was notoriously catty and had clicks and had problems. I feel like 08 was pretty fine. I don't remember them having any
00:06:36
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big drama. And I feel like we were just like happy and like nice to each other. Yeah. Like I don't feel like there was anyone who like you didn't need. Yeah, that's so good. It was it was a very nice time. I enjoyed high school. No, boys. Yeah, that's so odd. I bet when you know, but it well, Candace Candace shared a video or Shannon shared a video that Candace left on her Facebook. Can you all explain it? Do we have to talk about this?
00:07:05
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Do you? The one part that proves or like shows that you went to an all-girls school. Candice left a video to Shannon talking about. I got it came up on Facebook memories. Yeah. It was from 14 years ago. 14 years ago. So this was the time when like Facebook had just added the feature where you could leave people like a video message on their wall, their Facebook wall. OK. When commenting on the wall was still cool.
00:07:33
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Yeah, like this was a thing we used to do. This was like a phase we went through sometime freshman year of like leaving video messages on each other's wall. And so this one came up of me leaving a video message and it is so pretty. OK, these are my favorite parts. Number one, that it exists at all. Number two, this is like a live bird book.
00:08:00
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Actually, there's so many points. Feel free to edit out what you don't want to share, Candace. But the cutest bits for me were you talking about the food at Theta and how good it was. And then you were like, we had fish. I know. For some reason, it killed me. You're like, just got back from dinner. It was so good. We have the best food at Theta. We had fish. That's so true.
00:08:31
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It wasn't like we had baked salmon or we had whatever. It was like we had fish that killed me. It made me think it was like fish sticks or something. It probably was. It was probably fried. Let's be real. All of our sorority food was fried and so good. And then you were talking about how you couldn't wait for me to come visit Tuscaloosa, which is amazing. But the main reason why you were so excited is because
00:08:56
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At Alabama, they have the hottest guys. Literally every guy walking down the street going to class is so hot. They're so hot. Okay. And I just need to say, that was the first thing after I watched it, I pointed out is like, what the hell was I talking about? Because to me, the guys at Alabama were not hot actually.
00:09:23
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Did Carter Looney go to Alabama? Yes, he did. Okay. I thought he was the hottest guy ever.
00:09:32
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True, he was an ATO, I think. Whitney, I was not even really friends with him. He was a guy in one of my classes. We were in the same bio lab group. And he was just this hot ATO that was in my bio lab group. And I would not shut up about him to Shannon, because he was probably the only hot guy I had ever really seen. And then he became my benchmark for what a hot guy was. I was like, Carter Looney is it. He is it.
00:10:01
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It sounds familiar. Maybe you did talk about him, but I wouldn't be able to picture him. I think it says a lot that I can still remember his name to this day. I know. And he went to a school I didn't go to. Well, now I want to look at him. I know we're better. Oh, no. Yeah, we need to see what he's up to. You got kids, Carter Looney. You get fat, Carter Looney.
00:10:24
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Carter Looney, if you're listening to this, really all the guys married. So all the guys in Alabama look the same. So yeah, they all have like the same hair swoon. And honestly, like all of the hottest girls were with the ugliest guys. Yes, that's what I was going to say.
00:10:44
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Andrew and Tim, his best friend, did some road tripping in the summers during college and they were like, we're going to go to SEC schools and just see the girls because they were like legendarily hot. Andrew's 41 at this point, so this was like they didn't have access to Alabama TikTok. So they wanted to go see it in real life and he was just like,
00:11:12
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floored that the guys were just obese and like smoking cigarettes and the girls were 10s and dating them and then marrying them. That's like the secondary part and it's like it continues because they get married right after college and you have all these like southern couples who are just like
00:11:34
Speaker
Yeah. What is happening? They're from a good family, though. Good family. Good family. But all the guys were pretty short. Like, I remember thinking, yeah, the hell is this? But I got me a Tally, so we good.
00:11:49
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I mean, Chris is so cute and so tall. Yeah. I knew that my husband wasn't there. He didn't go to Alabama. I remember being like, I have to marry someone who goes to Florida or else they're not going to get me. They won't understand me. I remember feeling that way. Disgusting. I remember telling my mom and my mom was like, okay, you're a loser.
00:12:18
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I do like having that in common with Chris because it's both like a little shared like we enjoy watching football. Yeah, no that is nice. But that's like one of the only things we have in common like he's in the medical field and I'm like over here in marketing and it's just like it's nice to have something. Yeah, that's true. Bond over. Yes.
00:12:40
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Yes, I think it was what's cringe is just at the time, I felt like it was such an important part of my identity that if I didn't end up with somebody who went there, they wouldn't understand me, which now I'm like, it's just college. It was fun. I loved it, but it's not all that I am. Thank God. Does Andrew watch Florida football, though?
00:13:09
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Yeah, he's a fan. Yeah, I'm sure. We watch all the Michigan stuff and all the Florida stuff. And Vinny likes everything, so. Yeah, Vinny's the biggest sports guy of all time. And his loyalties are split. He spent most of his time at Purdue, but he spent a year and graduated from FSU. So he's very into Purdue basketball. That's their thing.
00:13:35
Speaker
And he's like kind of in deficit football, but like they suck. So sorry, FSU fans. But so he's not that invested. Like he's he will root for Alabama when we're watching an Alabama game. And like we let our, you know, our girls have Alabama outfits. They don't I don't think they own a FSU outfit, to be honest. No, no, don't start that because then they're going to want to go to Florida State.
Fall and Halloween Traditions
00:14:01
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Speaking of football, I feel like we need to preface this. I need to say that this is Whitney's prime time. Whitney is an October baby. Her birthday is October 30th, a day before Halloween.
00:14:21
Speaker
Graydon was born on October 1st. Thank God. Chris's birthday is November 1st. I mean, it is like, and your dad and brother, your dad and brother share a birthday and they are is October 31st on Halloween. Yeah. So it is like.
00:14:38
Speaker
papalopin in the Whitney Williams, Whitney Orgain household in the fall. And ever since I've known Whitney, she has like invigorated my love for the fall and for Halloween. So this episode is dedicated to you, my girl. Oh my God. You just hyped me up and I'm very proud of you for knowing everyone's birthdays. That was awesome.
00:15:06
Speaker
But yeah, the fall, there's just something about the air getting crispy. Ooh, that just makes me excited. But since I know you live in Florida, one of my first questions is, you know, how do you prepare the fall vibes? Like, does it just strike you in the moment or are you like in Target and all of a sudden you see a pumpkin and you're like, fuck, yeah, it's time.
00:15:33
Speaker
So, do you have an answer, Shan? I think this is for you. Oh, okay. Yes, my answer is that I don't even think about it until after Labor Day because I feel like Labor Day is still such a very summer holiday, so I don't quite address it until then. Even now, I went to Target this past weekend, there's pumpkins and fall vibe things starting to appear, but it's like I have blinders on until after Labor Day.
00:16:02
Speaker
Wow. And then because the weather doesn't get cold here, I have to intentionally like invite fall into my mind. Like, and for me, that usually starts, this is going to sound so silly, but I, for me, it usually starts with a trip to target and I will switch out all of the plugin air fresheners around my house to like apple cider or like
00:16:27
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like the false and I will. Good, good. And I will replenish my like candle collection with fall vibe candles. That's what I usually wear in the box. I literally was talking to Shannon before you got on and I go, I bought a pumpkin candle today and I lit that bitch.
00:16:49
Speaker
Yeah. So for me, it's like once I get those smells in my house, it's like, okay, I can like turn the air up really cold and put on a sweater and like pretend. And then I usually will pull out all of my fall decorations and like decorate around my house. And that can really get me in the mood. Yeah. Shannon, do you like pull them out? I'm not going to lie to you. Um,
00:17:17
Speaker
I'm not a big fall. I like fall. But in general, I feel like I have not been a I'm not a big like seasonal decorator. But
00:17:29
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Having a home, since becoming a homeowner a couple of years ago and having a child, I feel like something just happens to you. You move to the suburbs and you're like, I have to go to home goods and buy things for the season. It's becoming more part of my life, but I wouldn't say I'm not a advanced seasonal decorator.
00:17:53
Speaker
I will say candles are usually my go-to to get started. I don't really do candles in the summer at all. So they come out in the fall and we do the pumpkin stuff. I like to bake seasonally. So there's always pumpkin flavors involved. The pumpkin coffee. I'm a big fan of pumpkin coffee, but I was actually going to ask you guys what your
00:18:21
Speaker
fall decor consists of because I kind of don't have any and then I just go straight to Christmas on election day is kind of my tradition, which is November six.
00:18:33
Speaker
I fall for me starts September 1. And yeah, it's still hot here, but I have a lot of Halloween stuff, a lot of 90s Halloween stuff. My mom gave me everything just because I'm very obsessed. Actually, my whole family fights over everything.
00:18:56
Speaker
because my brother obviously was born in October too. And then Ashley, my sister, her twins were born in October. So really it's just everyone's involved at this point. But I have like three full like huge bins full of Halloween stuff. And yeah, there's some fall things, but it's mostly like nostalgic Halloween-y vibe.
00:19:20
Speaker
Um, like a patchwork. Do you have like patchwork plaid scarecrow? Like you get specific about what is happening visuals? Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. I have like this old witch, like, have y'all seen those tick talks where it's like, if you walked past something in the nineties, it was like,
00:19:46
Speaker
So I have like a few of those things lurking around. I have like my favorite thing is this skull and it's actually has an ice skating rink on it. And it's a ghost and a cat that like dance to ice skate on it. So I'm going to need visuals. Yeah. You're going to have to do a Halloween day over.
00:20:10
Speaker
The designers smoked a little weed and they're like, okay, put an ice skating rink on the squall and then a ghost and a cat. Oh my God, that's so true. This is so Whitney coded. Whitney likes the weirdest shit. You would own something like that and it would be your favorite. I love the Russian doll.
00:20:34
Speaker
Yeah, I think we talked about the Russian ball a couple weeks ago. Yeah, and I showed it to you and you made fun of it. You're like, well, no, but I know I loved it. It's so cute, but it's so you like it's so it's so cute. I'll post pictures. OK, yeah, you're going to have to do a Halloween decor Instagram story takeover where you give us a tour of your finished decorations to inspire us all.
00:20:59
Speaker
Okay. Not to make you feel stressed out with me, but how are you, are you going to do it with Margo coming like during prime decorating time? Yeah. I think, um, I think it'll actually be something fun to do when she's here. Like it'll put me in the mood. Um, I think I had already decorated when Graydon was born cause he was born October 1st. So I already had things up.
00:21:23
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but since Chris is off for the whole month, and they sleep so much, it's kind of like, I think it'll be a fun little thing to start decorating, because you just kind of sit around, and you're like, I guess I'll clean my house. I guess I'll put up some decorations, and I'm inspired, and I guess I'll go to Target, and boom, I buy a pumpkin pillow. It just spirals for me. It's very easy to do. Do you guys have the store at home? Yeah.
00:21:52
Speaker
We, we've just been in there. No, I haven't. I haven't been in for Halloween decor, but maybe I'll go like soon for Christmas. It's like aisles and aisles and aisles of Christmas decor. In my opinion, it's, I mean, you have to sift through some like cheesy, cheeky stuff.
00:22:16
Speaker
But they have good stuff in there and it's not that expensive. And they have, and like it's by theme. They'll be like, this is if you want like frosty blue Christmas. This is if you want like country Christmas. This is embellished pears and fruits Christmas. It's insane. I can only imagine.
00:22:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's hot on crack for real like it is nice. Okay, I'll have to go there. My go to is always Michael's. Michael's are Michael's is so good with decor like in the whole front of the store is like whatever holiday is coming. I will say with you and I differ in like Shannon you asked about like what does our decor entail?
00:22:59
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And for me, I definitely am fall leaning, not Halloween leaning. So, and probably way less intense than what Winnie does. For me, it's always the same. I have like, I probably only have one bin, one big benefit of fall stuff. And it's like, I switch out the table runner of our dining room table and I make like a, I have like all these pumpkin things. Some of them are ceramic and then some of them are like stuffed, almost like they're soft.
00:23:27
Speaker
And I create a little like centerpiece thing. I switch out the branches. We have like a couple big like fake branchy things in our living room that are decor. I'll switch those out to be like fall colors outside of our front door. I typically it's funny when there's no holiday at all. It's just like a
00:23:51
Speaker
It almost looks like an egg crate, like an old time egg crate with a lantern on top. And that's like the decor that sits out there all the time. And then I add stuff to it for each holiday. So I'll add like I have a stand up like fall sign and then I'll add some like fall things around the outside of the front door. I usually will go to a pumpkin patch and buy pumpkins and those will sit out there. And then a wreath for the front door. We have a fall colored wreath.
00:24:20
Speaker
But it's almost always just fall colors, fall vibes rather than Halloween. The only thing we do for Halloween typically is like, we'll put out a true like jack-o-lantern, like we'll carve something and put it out there. Hot take. I hate carving pumpkins. It's hard. It's kind of gross. It's not fun at all. Yeah. Everyone's like, I actually haven't done it in years. I think maybe we'll paint.
00:24:48
Speaker
Oh cute. That's way more fun. Yeah, way more fun too. So that gets me into a question. Like maybe what traditions do you want to start with your kids around maybe Halloween? Is it going to be pumpkin painting?
00:25:04
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Is it going to be just trick or treating? That's so fun. Definitely dressing up. What do you remember maybe from your childhood that you want to bring into your kid's life? It's funny that I'm not super into Halloween now because I grew up in a Halloween house. Halloween was a big deal. We all dress up. We go trick or treating. Typically, it was with all of my cousins. We would all choose a house.
00:25:31
Speaker
So I'm hoping that that will still be the case, like hopefully Ryan or other brothers and sisters of Vinny and I will have kids soon. And we planned our costumes way, way in advance.
00:25:47
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all of the family comes over like everyone brings a dish and we like trick-or-treat and my dad also used to set up like a scary like he made our front foyer of our house like scary like he set up lights and when he would hide a boombox in the bushes and like have yeah he had like that's the man's job yeah that's that's Vinnie's role
00:26:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And we had one of those big plastic light up pumpkins, like the giant ones that sat outside of our door. Do you know what I'm talking about? Very nineties. Yeah. Inflatable. No, it's like hard plastic. And it was like kind of long.
00:26:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see it. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so trick or treating is definitely on the docket for us. I think right now as like when our little ones are super little, I can see us carving one pumpkin that like dad does like Vinny does. And I think
00:26:48
Speaker
painting pumpkins is a good tradition that like everyone like everyone can sit down with a pumpkin even if they're little and paint it and I'll paint one and we'll carve one that will be like our one carved pumpkin that dad can do just because it's dangerous I'm not gonna have a two-year-old like carving a pumpkin
00:27:08
Speaker
And then I remember, I don't know. I mean, I think this is kind of up to the kids, but like, it was such a big deal for me and my brothers to come back after trick-or-treating and we would dump out all of our candy and we would like trade things we didn't like or like, like I didn't like milk duds, but my brother didn't. So I would have him trade me.
00:27:30
Speaker
I love that. You got to get those business negotiation skills going. We would literally negotiate candy and I'd be like, I'll give you three milk duds for one Snickers. And he'd be like, OK, deal. And we'd switch. And so I kind of hope that happens, but I don't know if I necessarily can be the one to like facilitate it. That's like when they get a little bit older.
00:27:55
Speaker
I didn't even think about a sibling to trick or treat with because mine were so much older.
00:28:04
Speaker
Oh my God, like I get to watch my kids trade candy. That's kind of fun. I'll be so cute. It's kind of funny. I didn't really trick or treat with friends. We didn't have like neighborhood friends, to be honest, in our neighborhood. So it was always family. Like I don't have memories other than when I got to high school, we started doing like Halloween teenage stuff together. Temple chairs, baby chairs.
00:28:31
Speaker
Way too old to be out there. Yeah. Yeah. I always it was always family and siblings and cousins for me. And what was Alice last year? She was Princess Leia. Princess Leia. And it was really remember that we got a lot of. Yeah. We'll have to post pictures of the babes from last year. Yeah, we definitely will. Damn, they were cute. Yeah, I went to. Yeah.
00:28:57
Speaker
What about you guys? You did not, you did not go too hard. You went perfect. Um, a lot of the same, I mean, I remember we had neighborhood friends and we went trick or treating with the neighborhood friends. Like a couple of things that stick out to me about Halloween that are kind of funny is I always picked a costume where I could show my, uh, mid drift.
00:29:21
Speaker
because it was the only day that my mom would ever allow that because it was like a costume. Were you doing that a girl to dress like a cheerleader like I just remember being like this is my time to dress like a pop star.
00:29:40
Speaker
And I have a loophole for like, kind of dressing like kind of scandalous like none of it was scandalous. No, but my mom was very strict. So I was like, this is my loophole. So I always did like things that would make me feel like I looked like a pop star.
00:29:59
Speaker
I could have never, I had a muffin top when I was little, so that wouldn't be good for me. Oh, me too. I mean, there was no stopping me. So I remember that. Also, my mom, God bless her, handmade our costumes for several years. Yeah, same. I would say until I was like 12, 13, all of my costumes were homemade.
00:30:25
Speaker
Well, what was your favorite costume when you were little that you remember to this day? Genie. I dream of genie. Ooh, that's a good one. It was like pink, sparkly genie situation with like genie pants, a little genie crop top with like chiffon, like see-through puffy sleeves. And then I had like the headband with the little like veil that went down in front. And I just felt like I looked amazing. Just like supreme. I was probably seven.
00:30:55
Speaker
Uh, I feel like my love elves, my red, uh, I was upset. Oh my God. That's, that's what. Esmeralda. Esmeralda. What's her name? I literally just watched that the other way. Esmeralda. Maybe I just fucked up, but
00:31:14
Speaker
I just watched that the other day and it reminded me, I was like, I love that movie. That costume was so good. My aunt made it and it was so, I remember it feeling like, this is going to sound crazy cause I was again, probably like seven or eight years old, but I remember it feeling like rich. Like it, she used this like silk part. It was like so lush and I had these like old,
00:31:36
Speaker
Yeah, I remember just being like, I look amazing. Like I am. Yeah, I love that was the vibe. The goat had one hoop earring. It was so crazy. Why did that goat have that? I don't know. What I'm looking forward to in our new neighborhood for trick or treating is
00:31:58
Speaker
Uh, we had a toy this summer and that toy was, we got a golf cart for our family. So now we have a family golf cart and I'm really like, okay, we're going to decorate this. We're going to like make it the Halloween mobile and we're going to take it trick or treating with the kids. I have never been more mad in my life. I want that.
00:32:24
Speaker
I want it now. Come on down. Yeah. And TJ was what last year? He was an alien. And Andrew and I were astronauts. So we did a little space theme. He was so cute. So cute. All the babes were cute. Graydon was Elton John. And it was so good. It was so good. That's why I'm stressed. I feel like I put a lot of pressure on Halloween because of
00:32:53
Speaker
the hype that I put around it, my family puts around it to where it stresses me out a little bet about what to do next. But like my neighborhood now, they're so fun. I think that's why we all bonded in the first place was because they were like, come over to our or come to our the end of the cul-de-sac. We make jello shots every year. We drink and then the kids go trick or treating. And I was like,
00:33:19
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Hell yeah, these are my people. And that's like where it all began. I'm surprised your neighborhood is not hyped for Halloween, Candice. Well, it's funny because I was so excited to move into this house. Granted, it was 2020. So I was so excited. I was like, yes, this is our first Halloween. We're going to have trick-or-treaters. And then because of COVID, it was dead.
00:33:45
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Children didn't trick or treat. And if they did, like all there were two other houses on our block that had created using PVC pipe, like a candy shoot that would like go from their front door down so that no one had to like touch each other. It was so fucking weird.
00:34:01
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And I just feel like ever since then, and granted, this will it's only been like two years since then, but we don't get a lot of trick or treaters. And there are kids in our neighborhood. They're definitely a lot older than Alice. So I just recently joined a neighborhood Facebook group and the moms in there seem pretty active. And I was like, I just need to like see, like, where's the party at? Yeah. And maybe schedule some play dates before Halloween so that we can like get involved.
00:34:30
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Smart. You can, I feel like here, like we don't get trick or treat either. It's very much like there's a few roads where it's like, that's just where everybody goes. And I feel like those houses just take ownership of it. And they're like, this is part of our responsibility living on these streets is that we are the Halloween houses. And yeah, you just like show up and you kind of trick or treat for us. It's like, you know,
00:34:59
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a little bit away, but it's still, I would consider us part of the neighborhood. It's just not our street. Yeah. We turn off our lights. We just go to the bottom of the cul-de-sac and everyone just congregates there and it's just like dumping candy on everybody.
00:35:15
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It's been very fun and I feel like I've met my people and I can never move because it's amazing. It seems like you have a very good little pod. I know pods a COVID term, but I feel like I just relate that to your little neighborhood crew. Yeah, they're very fun. They literally got me through postpartum because
00:35:39
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You can't really go out, but they made me feel normal because they sit outside and drink every Friday and Saturday. And then you just go out there and you bring your chair and it's like, what up everybody. And you let your kids play. And it was so nice to get to know them. And we still do it every day. You hear the garage open. It's like, you hear that beer crack.
00:36:00
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Everybody's running. I'm moving. I swear to God, I'm going to start looking for houses in your neighborhood. Don't don't be shocked when I come rolling in there and I'm like, Candace, I need what a trip. I would tell you we bought a house. No. OK, so do you guys have any? Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I was going to say, speaking of drinking, can we like fast forward to our college years, maybe of Halloween and how we how we
00:36:29
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celebrated then versus now. What did Halloween look like in college? Were you the slutty something something or what? I always did a fine line. I tried to be more witty than slutty. I was like, I'm going to just think funny.
00:36:49
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No, I've always, my body type is like meatball on toothpicks, so I always have like shown my legs as my... You do have three legs, and you're not a meatball, first of all. Yeah, I would not say that at all. In college, the muffin tops existed, and I wasn't in denial about it. I never really showed my midriff.
00:37:12
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I wasn't afraid of showing other things. It was just like, I don't know. I was like, I'm not going to be one of those girls who wears like lingerie. I'm going to be like more witty and funny than that, but I'm going to show some skin. I tried to find like a happy medium, but like now in hindsight, I wish I wore lingerie. Yeah. You're like, oh. I wish I did a lot more wild stuff than I did, but
00:37:39
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I mean, obviously lots of parties, costumes, what better opportunity to just...
00:37:47
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get buck wild and a Halloween party. I used to do it up like I treated Halloween like I mean it was my birthday and I used to always throw parties and I oh my god I just feel like it's so different now I couldn't be more like polar opposite I'm like I would just like a nice dinner and then just trick-or-treat and have wine trick-or-treating but back then it was like literally my Super Bowl I was like let's fucking
00:38:15
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Okay, wait though, I have a thing to say. Like I, okay, at Alabama, our bye week is always Halloween. So I felt like a lot of people left. They did. Like Halloween is not a big holiday at Alabama because it's always our bye week. So people go home or go to other places. So like I, when you're asking me this question about college, I,
00:38:45
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I don't remember Halloween, really. Did you go home? No, it's too far. It was like an 11 hour drive. Like, what did I do? I remember one year I went to LSU with Kate Stockton. Shout out Kate Stockton. I know she listened. She messaged me yesterday. Yeah. So I know. And again, we were not slutty. Kate was a hot dog and Kirby and I were ketchup and mustard. So I was a mustard bottle.
00:39:14
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Uh, you know what? I still had guys hit on me that night, so it was fine even as a mustard bottle. Um, but, um, I, I don't really remember like, um, that Halloween party chaotic was always really fun. Yeah. I guess that was around Halloween now that you say that, but I feel like it was like rave themed.
00:39:35
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Yeah, it was. But I remember one year I I was like Peter Pan or something for some party. And then I remember being a pirate one year for a party. I don't know. I just remember writing a lot of costumes in college in general. Yeah. Like I can't remember exactly.
00:39:56
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Halloween necessarily except like you guys, the Gators every year play George's like the same game every year. It's Florida, Georgia. So a lot of people go to Jacksonville and you wear a costume and like go to the bars the night before the game.
00:40:13
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Um, but I feel like the most hype Halloween and I wasn't even like in the necessarily in the most hype time of my life, but Candace, New York City, Halloween. I love just like the like, you don't even have to go out. You can just like be walking around that weekend and just seeing everybody on the streets and their costumes is so fun. People out on their balconies partying like.
00:40:41
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It is such a vibe, a Halloween weekend. Yeah, I think one of my best costumes was when I lived in New York, I was Amanda Bynes. Do you remember? Which flavor? Yeah, it was like her. She had the rings in her cheeks. Yeah, I had the rings in my dimples. I was like, unwell, Amanda Bynes. But I looked just like her. I have pictures.
00:41:05
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And then one of my other favorite Halloween says after college also in our 20s. I surprised Whitney for her birthday. I flew to, um, I flew to Chattanooga and we
00:41:20
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did Halloween up and I did a full makeup half makeup half skull face like I watched a bunch of YouTube videos. It was actually a Desi Perkins. It was like a dripping skull makeup look and I was so proud of myself. You looked so good. I love that Halloween. That was a surprise of my life and we had the crispiest beer of our
Fall Celebrations and Holiday Anticipation
00:41:41
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life. Never forget that but
00:41:44
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Damn, I need to come, I need to go to Chattanooga literally just for this crispy beer you guys talk about. Oh my God. All the time. Yes. It's so yummy. Oh my gosh. It's so good. But yeah, I mean, it's just so different now. I was going to say another element now that we're moms, that's like coming back around for fall is back to school vibes.
00:42:10
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Like he's starting his little school in a couple of weeks and school is just more part of your life because you have friends whose kids are in school and you're more aware of the school calendar, et cetera. So I'm excited for
00:42:28
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getting him ready for school. And like, I don't really have to get him that much right now. I got his little backpack, got him some new clothes. He doesn't need school supplies yet, but that whole part of fall, I think is going to be really fun. And I've gotten invited to a couple of neighborhood back to school parties, you know, and at the summer, like that's fun. People are celebrating school coming back. So.
00:42:53
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That's a fun element that's new. Are you like, say more so excited or are you nervous at all? I'm a little nervous, but I'm mostly excited. It's not a lot of school. It's nursery program two mornings a week. So it's not like he's going off to kindergarten. Um, and I just feel like he's ready for it. I think when I signed him up.
00:43:18
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you know, seven or eight months ago, I was freaking out because he was still such a baby. I was like, he can't go to school. And now I see where he's at. And I know he wants to play with kids and he'll have a lot of fun. So I feel like it's time to go to school. I'm like, please, please go away for a little bit. Thank you. I love.
00:43:38
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Yeah, he's going to love it. I always love back to school vibes. There's something like so refreshing and like new about it. Just I mean, it's really the best feeling. And then the air gets a little crisp and then football starts and then you're making all the dips and drinking some beer. I'm like beer. Oh,
00:44:00
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I actually are on my, on my leg docket for this fall is I'm going to throw a dip party where I'm going to fight all of our couples friends with kids. And I'll set up a little play area for the kids. And it's just going to be like, you have to bring a dip and we're going to watch football and it'll be great. Oh, weird. Because that's Graydon's birthday theme. So perfect. Oh yeah.
00:44:25
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You can perfect your dad. Well, I want I'm putting up it's tailgate themed and we're putting up tons of tents in the backyard and people are bringing their own dip because we're going to tailgate all day. Well, from two until whenever people want to skedaddle, but it's going to be so fun. I can't think of anything more that I would rather do than have some football on and eat some little snack snacks and drink my beer with friends. So it's happy birthday.
00:44:56
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the greatest. This is so cute. This episode's gotten me excited. I'm so excited for fall. I know I can't wait to go to Target and get my yearly candle stock. I have a babysitter coming this afternoon, and I have a list of things I'm supposed to do, but I might just go to at home instead.
00:45:17
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Just get that candle. I'm telling you, it's just, it started my day off, right? Lighten that, that motherfucker. So. Do you have a ceremony when you light the first pumpkin candle of this season? All the lights are off and I'm like. You put on a cloak and you're just like, and now let the 2023 fall season commence. Honestly, I should. That's funny. I love that so much.
00:45:47
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Well, thanks. Are we going to have an episode about Christmas? Oh, I mean, I did. I was just realizing, like, I definitely get way more hype for Christmas than I do for fall. But also I have two Christmas babies. Like, same as you, Whitney. Two fall babies. I have two Christmas babies. And I have two Christmas spring chickens.
00:46:09
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Well, and Candice is our Christmas baby, too. I'm a Christmas baby. And also, Christmas is not that far away, honestly. I love it. I love Christmas, too. I feel like I actually decorate more for Christmas.
00:46:27
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What can you do? I always keep a countdown of things like upcoming trips, upcoming things. And it's only one hundred twenty eight days until my birthday, which means it's one hundred and twenty four days until Christmas. And only a hundred days my due date. Shannon. Yeah. So and it's only a hundred. It feels like a lot of time. Yeah. I mean, one hundred and seventy three days.
Creating a Cozy Ambiance
00:46:51
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Days is a long time. Yeah, but it goes fast.
00:46:55
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That was so fun. I will say for the Harry Potter grillies out there who want to get into the fall vibes.
00:47:03
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I have been putting on, if you go to YouTube and put in like Harry Potter aesthetic background, they have these like scenes that you can play that are just like the Gryffindor common room and the lights flicker and it's like moving a little bit, you know? And I put that on my screen when I want to like just be serene if I'm working on my computer or like reading and I just want that to be the vibe. Is there anything better than that?
00:47:32
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No, that's one of my go-to work things now. If I'm going to work on the couch, I will turn YouTube on on our TV and I'll put like aesthetic coffee shop vibes and it'll be like cute mountain coffee shop or like by the beach coffee shop. And it's just like soft jazz or like chill music with a vibe. I love it. I love it. And I do that during Christmas. Christmas coffee shop vibes are so good on YouTube. Oh my gosh. Love. I can't wait for the Christmas episode.
00:48:02
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all the holidays coming up and all the different that we get to talk about with our cuties and our soon to be double cuties. Just so excited and thanks for joining in on my addiction to Halloween and fall, my friends. Thank you for being our fearless Halloween leader. Hope everyone gets some spooky pumpkins and all the good smells coming into y'all hissy and dips and tricks.
00:48:30
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Should I shut up? I'm just so excited. You're like it dips and tricks and whips and all right. Well, have a good day.
00:48:46
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