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EP 103: Things That Would Send a Renaissance Mom Into a Coma
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This week on Mom Group Chat, we’re diving into one of our favorite internet trends and putting a motherhood spin on it: What would send a Renaissance-era mom into a coma? Spoiler: pretty much everything.
From baby monitors to dry shampoo, from Starbucks drive-thrus to iPads blasting Cocomelon, we’re imagining what modern mom life would look like through the eyes of a 1500s peasant woman — and the results are unhinged. Think of it as historical fiction… but chaotic and caffeinated.
We also talk about:
- How Amazon Prime would look like sorcery from the gods
- The Baby Brezza and how it’s basically a magical milk machine
- How modern medicine and vaccinations would either save her life… or get her burned at the stake
Plus, a little bit of laughing at ourselves — because when you really step back, our lives do look kind of wild.
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Introduction to Mom Group Chat Podcast
00:00:07
Speaker
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, moms?
Tanning and Skincare Discussion
00:00:15
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I'm Whitney Williams, and I'm here with my best friend, Candice, and this is the Mom Group Chat Podcast. yeah Hi, my tan goddess.
00:00:23
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I'm so tan, y'all. With your skinny shoulders. Don't even. Don't. No, literally. You are looking so hot. Like,
00:00:34
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Wow. Everyone looks hot with a tan. We know this. I mean, it's so like anytime I'm feeling bad. I mean, I've definitely said this exact sentence on this podcast. So, but anytime I'm feeling bad about myself, usually a self tan can at least bring me back to neutral, you know?
00:00:53
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At the very least. Every meeting I've had slash going in the office, people are like, you're so tan. But was telling Candace I really haven't attempted to try to tan for the past five years because I was telling her my melasma was so bad and I was getting dark spots whenever I was pregnant slash postpartum. So like I have truly avoided the sun Since 2020, probably.
00:01:22
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um And so this is the first summer where, to be honest, I accidentally got burnt about two weeks ago. happens. Which I am too old to be doing that. Like we have discussed this 1 million times. I'm too old to like allow myself to burn. I typically wear like 50 sunscreen. So I allow myself to burn.
00:01:40
Speaker
It hence turned into a tan. So now I have my base and now it's just... I am tan for the first time in years. You are such a unique, like, colored person. And That sounds so bad.
00:01:56
Speaker
But I meant, like, your coloring, your natural coloring is unique, I feel like. Because you have... Like you just have, you have olive skin, but you're blonde. And I know the blonde like is fake is artificially enhanced. Okay. But I still think like blonde is what suits you best.
00:02:18
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And your eyes are light. Your eyes are light, but you have like olive skin. I mean, you are exotic. Okay. Yeah. Not me being exotic in the summer. You're exotic. Like, I'm Cuban and you're more exotic than me. like Please. It's just like my whole family gets dark. I'm like the lightest in my family. We get pretty tan. Even Hunter?
00:02:42
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Oh, my God. They're just so tan. Like, they have always been. My whole family. Wow. Maybe not my dad. No, my dad. My dad's tan, too. They are all very much so. And Chris is, too.
00:02:54
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Okay. So, how are the kids looking? Tan. They got our skin color. Tone. Okay. Because my girls... Alice especially, like she is a dark girl. Like where she is, her she looks like she's got a fresh spray tan at all times. Oh, nice. And people comment on her tan all the time. They're like, oh my God, she's so tan. I'm like, I don't know. She just is like that. And
Evolution of Skincare Awareness
00:03:20
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Evie, I was nervous. i thought Evie was going to be my little fair skinned girl.
00:03:24
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But no, she's shaping up to be just like Alice and tanning her little booty off. Yeah. I mean, I've been trying to keep them in rash guards and I like I apply so on sunscreen, but like these yeah kids like get home, undress, jump in the pool.
00:03:41
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Yeah. So, I mean, I'm doing the best I can trying to help with that. Like it's actually this goes into our topic today, but like it's so funny how much.
00:03:52
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more aware we are about skincare and sunscreen than we were like growing up. I never wore it ever growing up. So we definitely did because I, we actually, like I do burn definitely more than you burn, I think. Um, and my brothers, especially my brothers burn real bad.
00:04:15
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So that tracks like I feel like we we did wear sunscreen ah good bit, but it definitely was not as like pushed. No, as it is now for sure.
00:04:29
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God, I mean, the rash guard thing, we've talked about that before. Like, if you wore that when we were young, we're like, loser. But now it's like, if you don't wear it you're like, um you're not protecting your child today. No, Alice has so many cute little swimsuits that are like, and she is starting to get into like, she's been wearing a two-piece.
00:04:52
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And I know, which I don't know if that like makes me seem like a bad mom. I don't know. That's like one of those. sort of Like, I think there's more opportunity to wear multiple bathing suits. I feel that way now, like that we have somewhere to like swim all the time. I'm like,
00:05:08
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I'm going to have like 10 bathing suits. i was going to say, we literally are using a bathing suit a day. And I'm not going to like, why I mean, I'm i'm not going to wash them. Like I do their laundry.
00:05:19
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You know what i mean? But like, we just have so many bathing suits, but she started to wear like a little two piece, which is so cute, honestly. yeah And I forgot my point of this. Where was I going?
00:05:31
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Like if I was living in Rhode Island, I probably wouldn't have like, more than two for Margo because I'm like, when ah um I don't have anywhere to like swim really. Like, you know what I mean? So you just have opportunity to buy different kinds.
00:05:46
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No, like you if you would have seen how many swimsuits I had in high school, like it was, it was crazy because I was in a swimsuit multiple times every week. And it's like all year round, you know, show on them titoo showing them showing them titties, all of those Victoria's secret bathing suits.
00:06:05
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Oh my God. I loved getting that catalog. Me too What a core memory. It's like getting that like spring break catalog of bathing suits. And I would sit there and I would plan my buy. I would save up money to like make sure I could get the swimsuits I wanted.
00:06:25
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I had a brown one. Tell me if you remember this. I had a brown like triangle bikini. um i know which one you're talking about. Orange coral on it though. Yes. And it also. Yeah, I remember
Body Image and Weight Loss Experiences
00:06:36
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it.
00:06:36
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Yeah. I think they were selling like an orange coral necklace that you could buy with it. But I had that bathing suit and I remember I bought it and it didn't come with pads in it. So I was so upset. i was like, you know, probably like eighth grade, ninth grade. And I'm like, what am I going to do? My boobs look flat.
00:06:54
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And so I like yeah cut holes in but behind it and stuffed pads in it myself. You guys. Okay. Quick like derail into boob talk, which I know we've talked about boobs a lot recently, but like, okay, I've lost 32 pounds, which is so not amazing and crazy.
00:07:16
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But my boobs, y'all, they are looking so flat and deflated. And for my photo shoot, I had, Let me just whip them out.
00:07:27
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No, but for real, like for that photo shoot, I had my normal, like everyday bra that I would wear like under a blouse or whatever. Like I'm gaping in, like, I just don't fill it out anymore to the point where it looked weird under my tank top. And I literally had to stuff my bra for the photo shoot just to like not have my tank top look weird.
00:07:49
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And I, um, Oh my God. I like got to the photo shoot and I don't even really know that photographer that much, but it was like immediately we were besties and she was, she had a strapless top on and she was like, I'm so sorry. I keep messing with my bra. And I was like, it's fine. For the first time in my whole adult life, I literally had to stuff my bra this morning to, in order for this bra to fit me.
00:08:10
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So. Oh, well, I mean, don't know. Back to like Victoria's Secret, like the Wonder Bra or whatever it was called. is that what was called? Where it had like padding underneath to lift your boobs? Yeah. like Love. No, that's what I did. So I took a like a swimsuit pad or like a sports bra pad and I folded it in half and then just stuck it underneath of my boob and honestly worked like a charm.
00:08:34
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I mean, skinny problems. I'm so proud of know. Candice is like... steadily killing it. I've dropped off. Like I'm just living my life this summer. i so I'm stuck at 20 pounds. I'm kind of like fine.
00:08:47
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Like I'm very happy. You look amazing. You look amazing. you I feel very happy. Like in my bag to pre-baby weight. No. Will I ever be? Maybe, but I'm not worried about it this summer. I'm enjoying.
00:08:58
Speaker
So yeah, but Kenneth stays killing it. I'm in my glow up era. Thank you. I know that we've like beat a dead horse with this, but I just am feeling really good. I'm feeling like more confident than I have in four years, I feel like.
00:09:14
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And
Self-care and Motherhood Phases
00:09:15
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it just feels so good to like i know have spent the time to like take care of myself a little more and just like. pour some into my cup you know um so it just feels really good you're always so beautiful but i understand like how it makes you feel you know i feel the same way i'm just like i'm happy like yeah i'm not worried about sometimes like whenever in january i'd put on clothes and i'd like change 10 times because i'm like i just don't like the way i look And now I just throw on something and I go because I'm like, that looks good.
00:09:46
Speaker
Like, it's just so nice to feel that way. It's so nice. And if you're listening to this and you're not at that place, like I want you to know that Like every ounce that you pour into yourself like matters and that – I don't know. One of my favorite sayings is like shavings make a pile. So like anything you can do today to like fill that cup a little bit or like do something for yourself, like it will make you feel better. And also if you just had a baby, like – Do not stress about this at all. Like you're not there. that You're perfect. time You're killing it. your life Like, I mean, we talked about it when we had our hundredth episode, how it's like, you're in just like different mindsets where you're like, you're like you said, pouring your whole self into your two or one child that's like younger and you just don't have the time. And that's okay.
00:10:37
Speaker
Because it's a phase and everything is a phase. And we are just in that phase where our kids are like a little older, like Margo's almost two. Like ah I'm allowed to think of myself again here.
00:10:48
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Totally. I feel the same way. Like Evie's going to be 18 months here and I feel like we're in a good routine and we're back in a, you know, a house. And I just felt like I actually had the space to...
00:11:01
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start to focus on myself a little bit, but like literally seven months ago, eight months ago, 10 months ago, I did not have that space. And if you don't have it right now, like the time will come, give yourself some grace and Especially like having you as an accountability partner too. Like it kind of like kicked me in the tushy. Like, all right, we're doing this together.
Humorous Take on Motherhood Evolution
00:11:24
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We're keeping each other accountable and that always helps.
00:11:28
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So yeah, definitely. Well, I'm so excited for today's episode. We are doing a silly goofy mood episode.
00:11:39
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So, should I – do we just dive in Why can I just – We had topics, and then Candace, like, was voice noting me, and she was like, I have an unserious idea. And I was like, stop right there.
00:11:51
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I'm already in. I'm already in. Whitney loves the unserious ones, and this one is unserious. I just want to, like – Okay, so here's like the overall idea is that I just want to discuss some of the like evolutions of motherhood that would send our great grandmothers into a coma. Do you know that like, do you know that like trend of like this would have sent a twenty century person into a coma?
00:12:22
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Like I want to do that, but like about some motherhood things. had like, I want to like ah clarify, are we doing like, would it send just our great-grandmother-grandmother into a coma, or are we talking like renaissance? Because i just i need to know. Because i have I took this Unserious episode, and i'm I have notes.
00:12:45
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Because I just need to know what generation we're aiming for. i mean, I feel like both. It could be either. i just feel like... Yeah.
00:12:56
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I just feel like motherhood in the night. I mean, what is what's the Renaissance era? I don't know. I'm not smart enough. What's the, what years? Like what I'm thinking right now is that. I'm Googling it.
00:13:09
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Just the fact that we are not having multiple kids because they're all living.
00:13:16
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Okay. Okay. Okay. You have taken this a little bit further than I have, but I love it. Well, that's what saying. I need to know. I need to, I need my lane so that I can stick to the script and versus diving so deep, like black plague isn't.
00:13:35
Speaker
Okay. I think, okay. Why don't we do levels of this? We'll start with the things that would send a Renaissance era mom into a coma. and then And then we'll move a little bit to like our great grandmothers and how like motherhood has evolved since then. Okay.
00:13:51
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This is so funny. I'm dying. Hold on. I got to pull up my notes here because I also took some notes. Hold on. Yeah, that's my one for Renaissance and also vaccinations.
00:14:05
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and i would No, vaccinations was one of mine That's so funny. think they kind of go hand in hand, but. Yeah. Mine are just in my noggin. all right. yeah Okay. Okay. Most of mine, I feel like I'm reading through them. Most of them kind of lean more towards like – 20th century slash like great grandmother vibes but like i feel like as we talk about this they will start to come up you know okay yeah but also like yeah did they have contraception like okay that was one of mine was like birth control like that wasn't even an option yeah of like and the fact that you could control whether or not you get pregnant yeah it's crazy
00:14:49
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That's tough. I don't know. I don't know. why I need to like watch a show on that. I would love that. If anyone has like a history show on that, send it my way because I'm into that.
00:15:01
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Okay. One of the things I think is the grocery store and how many options and also just like the fact that you go to this place and like it's a like wonderland of crazy options.
00:15:17
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Yeah. no they I mean, i would assume they're growing their own food or they have like a very limited like food stand of what's in season. It's actually funny you say that because it's like even kind of shocking to this day. I watch on TikTok like Australians or people from Europe that like move here and they're like, what's the most shocking thing you learned about like living in the USA? And they were like, the cereal options. like There aren't so many...
00:15:46
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cereal options and they're like what the hell is this like it's still shocking to this day that to other countries okay literally yesterday or this weekend i was at the grocery store and i saw that crumble cookie has a cereal like literally tiny crumb i was like what the fuck like who's did you did you ever um
Modern Convenience vs. Past Generations
00:16:08
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ah grow up eating cookie crisp I mean, I remember it, but we didn't we weren't really a cookie crisp household.
00:16:16
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think I it here and there. liked Oreo O's and an occasional cookie crisp. I really, my favorite cereal growing up was Reese's Puffs. Yeah, we definitely were a Reese's Puffs family. We also are a big Frosted Flakes family.
00:16:32
Speaker
I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Life. I was going to say, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. We had a lot of that. Mm-hmm. That was a staple for sure. But yeah, my favorite when I was little was Reese's Puffs, which is so odd because I didn't like the candy.
00:16:48
Speaker
I just liked the cereal. Okay, but life is an interesting choice because life to me feels like healthy. Well, I'm sure my mom was buying it for her, but I loved it.
00:17:03
Speaker
That's so interesting. alice has just Alice has just entered her cereal era. She loves cereal now. Like cereal with milk she'll eat, which I'm thrilled about, honestly.
00:17:14
Speaker
i Whenever i was pregnant, I ate tons of cinnamon cereal. Like life cereal. So good. I love cereal. Honestly. I can't start it because then it's like that sugar addiction. like I get addicted to cereal like really easily. If I buy it, I want it constantly. like I'll eat it twice a day.
00:17:37
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I would come home from school and eat a bowl cereal and then eat dinner. like I loved it so much. Yeah. yeah Oh my gosh.
00:17:48
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I guess this one leans more great-grandmother-y, but like moms having jobs. Yeah, totally. like and And in conjunction with that, daycare.
00:18:03
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The cost of daycare. It would send them. And the cost. But even just a daycare, like I don't know if they had these like facilities that you could just like drop your children off at. like Even our...
00:18:16
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great grandmothers like did they have daycare well it almost it's like it actually like i i feel like affected or war not warped but like like my mom's idea of daycare was like yucky because yeah it just like wasn't an option for like them or like her parents so it's like what do you mean daycare like it was like taboo even for them him
00:18:44
Speaker
Okay. they're Okay. Okay. okay In the United States, daycares were established by private charities in the 1850s with the first being the New York Day Nursery in 1854. Interesting.
00:18:59
Speaker
Okay. Okay. um Okay, I'm just going to start to list off some of mine because, and they lean more towards great-grandmother, but like really all of these people would be shocked by this.
00:19:13
Speaker
And the first thing I'm going to say is Amazon Prime. And I can just picture them being like, I'm sorry, you summoned this like silicone teething giraffe like from the ether and it arrived in one day.
00:19:28
Speaker
It is kind of shocking. like It's crazy. kind of, I mean, it just started happening within the past, right? Like since five years, it's gotten like so popular. Like the fact that it was just a bookstore and now you literally can get it within a day or two is kind of fucking nuts. Like we're so lucky. It's crazy.
00:19:49
Speaker
Like that's a perk, baby. That's something I would be real really sad about if I had to like, you know, if you pick an era to live in, you're like, oh, the 70s. I'm like, I would miss Uber Eats so much. Like, oh, my God.
00:20:05
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Like, I would so sad. I'd be so sad. Yeah. i can't like even my mom, just from like our mom's age, she's like, if I had had that when I younger,
00:20:17
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like going through motherhood and especially early early motherhood, she was like the way it would have saved my life. I'm like, I know we are. We're lucky to be living in this era for sure.
00:20:29
Speaker
I mean, yeah. And talking about products like the baby Brezza, it would send them to the moon. That's on my list. That's on my list. To the moon. And then I have so many follow-up questions of like, what was formula around? I know like obviously when our parents were, but like did our great grandmothers have formula?
00:20:49
Speaker
Maybe. i just remember my mom saying that everyone used formula in the 90s because it meant you had status. like And somehow the messaging of all that changed milk is best from the mom. like Yeah, yeah.
00:21:05
Speaker
There was like a mix there somehow. so Damn. No. to for I wish I could watch my great-great-great-grandmother...
00:21:17
Speaker
watch a baby Brezza bottle being made just to like see her face to be like, the fuck is going on here? The first time I saw it, like, I mean, cause I didn't have it with Graydon.
00:21:29
Speaker
And then when I had it there's Margot, I was like, What was I fucking doing? It was ah the biggest game changer I've ever had. The quickness.
00:21:40
Speaker
for If I ever see a post in like Mamas Like Us or in our Facebook group of like, oh, do you need the brezza? I'm always like instantly I'm like, yes, you do. It is life changing. oh my gosh.
00:21:52
Speaker
The fact that it's hot immediately, like you don't have to wait is, wow, so good. How they do that? It's so insane. I don't know. Okay, this is kind of in the same vein as what we're talking about, and that is baby registries in general and, like, all of the items on there and being able to, like, go on there and and just instantly purchase something.
00:22:16
Speaker
And also just like the excess of it. Like I feel like there's so much excess and choices right now that honestly can sometimes feel very overwhelming for us as moms.
00:22:27
Speaker
But like to people who wouldn't be used to that, it'd be like, holy shit. I know there is an overwhelm and like the marketing around all of it is like almost scared tactic-y. Like you need this so your baby will sleep through the night. It's like, can we relax on some of this messaging that we all need this so my baby will sleep? It's like very overwhelming. You feel like you need everything all at once. You're just like, I'll do yeah anything to help my child, whatever. But I don't know. It's, I love, I mean, I love doing the baby registry. It was so fun.
00:23:01
Speaker
Me too. I actually, if we have a third baby, you know, like I really am going to have to do a full ass registry because we lost all of our baby stuff in the flood. And that's something Vinny and i have talked about of like, damn, we really would have to have like a full ass shower, i think, because we don't have anything anymore.
00:23:22
Speaker
Like, which is fine. I mean, it'd be kind of fun, I guess, for our last baby. But um yeah, but that's crazy. um Okay.
00:23:33
Speaker
one one i had I have a fun. ah Oh, go ahead. Okay. I was going to say schedules.
00:23:42
Speaker
Like even my mom thinks I'm nuts. Yeah. The fact that I wake up my kid from a nap because if it goes over three hours in my head, they won't sleep well that night. She's like and in her head. like, you never wake a sleeping baby.
00:23:58
Speaker
that Like you would have never woken them up in the night to feed them, to get them to a a certain weight.
Dry Shampoo and Modern Hair Care
00:24:04
Speaker
Like she's like, you are fucking crazy. I know. And my mom still to this day, like for example, today, Evie had like a weird morning. She woke up super early and like, And my mom had a planned activity for the middle of the day.
00:24:17
Speaker
And she was nervous about Evie, like making it. And I was like, you can let her take a little morning nap. i was like, but please cap it at like 45 minutes. Like do not. And she was like, oh, I just feel so bad. She's so cozy. I was like, go in there and wake her ass up. Okay. Because you are going to ruin the rest of your day.
00:24:35
Speaker
if you do not like they don't understand. No, I'm literally like, if you don't wake her up, you're not allowed to go. I'm going to come over there and kick. yes mama like i literally I was such a freak like I don't know I just I'm so glad I'm not so tied I mean that was also my postpartum like anxiety. That's the only thing I felt like I could control in my life was like schedule. Um, yeah so thank you everyone for dealing with me through that. Thank you.
00:25:06
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. This next one I wrote down is dry shampoo. And then under it, I wrote you cleanse your hair with dust. Like that's like what I, imagine them saying to me it'd be like you cleanse your hair with dust you got the ashes from the fireplace and threw it on your hair and like like literally they that would send them into a coma for sure that is what is fucking dry shampoo what is that i don't know
00:25:41
Speaker
this is Baby powder? What is that? I mean, I've definitely used baby powder as dry shampoo and it works just as good, honestly. But it is. it's like a It's like a aerosol dust.
00:25:52
Speaker
It's crazy. It just is meant to like soak up the oil. can't be good. Probably not, but I just put a bunch of dry shampoo in my hair earlier, Oh, love a dry. I need like actually a wreck for one that smells so divine and works really well.
00:26:14
Speaker
I always get one at Target and I'm like, ah See, I still like I love the Batiste one. that's the one I have. Target. I like it.
00:26:25
Speaker
The only other one I've ever been like, this was amazing. They discontinued. It was the philosophy dry shampoo that was so good and smelt so good. And I used to like literally buy it in bulk from Mark and McKenzie when they worked there. And then they discontinued it. I've tried the living proof one.
00:26:42
Speaker
Not that
Social Media and Mom Influencers
00:26:43
Speaker
good. Honestly, like the one from Target's better. I got one like I got ah I bought a fancy one. I've also used the, God, I always butcher the scent, the name of it. Tell me.
00:26:54
Speaker
orbet Or bay or bay. It's okay. Yeah. I don't, I don't know that that's worth the money. The dry texture spray. That's worth the money. Okay. And it's also good, but yeah I've tried like expensive stuff and I don't like the smell. I'm like, I can't find the in between here. Anyone have a smelly good that works?
00:27:15
Speaker
Send it my way. so you're going to send history show about contraception in the Renaissance era and a dry shampoo. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. I have some others. Do you have any more? and No, no. Hit me.
00:27:28
Speaker
I always say that. Hit me. Okay. Hold on. Okay. I wrote down. mom Mom influencers making a get ready with me while applying concealer with a sponge shaped like an egg.
00:27:44
Speaker
like And then I wrote underneath. These are funny. know. That's what I'm saying. Minor niche. But I wrote underneath. She paints her face for a camera that lives in the mirror. Like they just don't understand.
00:27:56
Speaker
Like they wouldn't understand what's happening here. And they'd be like, for who? Like, who is she doing this for? Because they don't know the concept of social media. It's just such a wild concept to like have to explain to someone.
00:28:08
Speaker
And whenever I think about that, I really and as someone who makes get ready with me like all the time. It's embarrassing. I just can't help but feel embarrassed for myself.
00:28:20
Speaker
No, everyone does it now. i feel like it's like not embarrassing at all anymore. It might have used to felt that way, but it's not. I know, but it's like only thinking about it as. oh Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In that context, I'm like, I'm so stupid. Like this is so stupid.
00:28:37
Speaker
And speaking of cameras, like our Nanette camera, it would they they'd be like, what is this technology? Like before they yeah either had like a sound machine or you just listen for them.
00:28:49
Speaker
And this would they would be like, this is witchcraft. Like you can see your baby from afar. And you can see the hours that they slept, if they woke up at all, the temperature of the room. why Yeah.
00:29:01
Speaker
Also, update on that. Remember how I told you like I didn't renew the Nanette memories thing? I ended up caving and repurchasing it because i really it really was bothering me that I couldn't see how long she had slept.
00:29:15
Speaker
And I actually, sorry to like... take a little side road here, but I think that we went through a very quick 16 month sleep regression. Oh, um, she was having some weird like wake ups and stuff.
00:29:29
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And that's what made me buy it again because I was like, I can't see like when she woke up and like how often and how long she has slept. And I caved and I paid the whatever amount and repurchase it. But honestly, it was worth it. I know. I do love that feature. And like, I woke up really early today because Chris went running at 430.
00:29:51
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And what did I find myself doing? i was looking through wake ups of my on Nanit of like them from when they were like eight months old. Why was I watching that? I don't know, but it's so fun. It is so fun. And that goes back to like, it's crazy that we have all this access to like
Memory Preservation and Modern Photography
00:30:09
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revisit memories. Like imagine being back in the day where like you just like if you don't remember it, like that's it. Like.
00:30:17
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You don't get to like revisit what your baby looked like as a baby. That's so That's a big one. That's a big one. Like that makes me want to cry for them. The fact that like they couldn't go back and like look at these cute memories. Oh my God.
00:30:32
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I could cry thinking about that.
00:30:36
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I understand why they have 10 kids. Yeah. yeah They either die or you forget them. You're like, I remember. mean Because you're a baby. um But even like in the 90s, you would have to just get it developed.
00:30:49
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Yeah. Yeah. And that's, I mean, all of our memories are in photo albums or like. Totally. If your parents like didn't erase it or like cover it with a show recording of something like 90210, like then you don't have that memory anymore on video.
00:31:09
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Okay. I'm sending you a picture right now that my brother sent me yesterday that he found. Please look at my haircut. Okay.
00:31:18
Speaker
Your bangs. Like, I'm sorry. you look like an egg. I'm sorry. They are diagonal. Like, did I get a hold of some scissors and cut it myself?
00:31:29
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Like, micro bang queen. What is happening? Also, what is happening in this photo? Like you look like a ghost child haunting ah dinner table.
00:31:39
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I said that. I joked with Rob. I said, was someone throwing a Halloween dinner party? Like what? Like Halloween themed haunted house dinner party? You're in a scary, like actually the dress that um she wore in Casper.
00:31:57
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No, like literally, I don't even know what I'm wearing, but the candlesticks in the background. i' I'll post this photo to our stories, but I had to send that to you because literally these are the photos. You're Renaissance child. I was a Renaissance child.
00:32:11
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That's too funny. oh Okay. The other one that is really the reason I wanted to do this episode. This was my very first thought. And that was like mom due date group trips that are like sponsored and these like trips of going with and I I just need to say i love a mom due date
Safety and Online Friendships
00:32:35
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trip okay this is not me bashing them at all I am going on one in November Like, I – this is not me bashing them, but, like, the idea that all these moms would leave their children behind to go and get drunk and maybe have, a like, a goodie bag waiting for them and to, like, do debauchery for three or four days, like, that would send a Renaissance person into a coma.
00:33:05
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I think it sends – any friend into a coma that hasn't been on a due date group, like everyone's like, you're doing what with people you met on the internet? It's like.
00:33:16
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So true. I forgot the fact of like the whole part of it that makes it even crazier is that these people you've never met typically. Literally, they live all over the country. Yeah. And let's all meet.
00:33:27
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That's so crazy. I mean,
Children's Media and Influence
00:33:31
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I'm so for it. I love my due date group so much, but like, it's so crazy when you really think about it. No, ah everyone was like, I hope you don't get chopped up. Like, are you sure you know them? I'm like, yes, I talk to them every day, probably more than you. Like, yeah, I'm being honest.
00:33:46
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So, yeah yes, I'm good with them. And I have met them in person now and and they're great. So, um yeah. Oh, but I just could picture like the photo, them seeing the photos from that trip and being like, I don't know what's happening here.
00:34:01
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I don't know why they have a British accent accent in my brain. They're British. um Well, they've just, you know, come to America or something, right? They just got here, you know. They just got here, you know. They're building their log cabins and seeding their land.
00:34:18
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And they're like, what what they do in...
00:34:22
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Oh, okay. I'm looking through my notes here. I mean, this one's like kind of common, but just like the concept of iPads, these like glowing squares of like moving pictures.
00:34:33
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Just phones. Yeah, true. Just phones, phones and screens. crazy how quickly technology has advanced like even from when we were little like the fact that our kids complain if their show isn't on the right show like you just had to wait for your show to come on like or you just sat there and you're like oh fuck blues clues is on I gotta wait for Hey Arnold ah come on yeah it's so true you're just like now every now everything's like on demand
00:35:06
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And also like you can choose whether or not you see commercials like you can just pay your way out of them. and That's crazy. How Graydon screams if a commercial comes on God forbid and he's like I want Peppa Pig bitch and you're just like calm down like they don't understand.
00:35:22
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i know that's crazy. Because, yeah, I mean, i i remember have like so many memories of me sitting in front of the TV and being like, ah still one more hour until Rugrats comes on or, you know.
00:35:37
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and need to like actually introduce Rugrats, I think, to them. Rugrats is so good. It was my favorite show growing up. Like, I i mean, I was a Nickelodeon kid, so I liked all that. um But I haven't introduced that. I've let them watch, like, Little Bear and um Land Before Time, et cetera. But we haven't dabbled in the Rugrats, even though they love my Dill Pickles doll. Oh, that's right. Dill Pickles.
00:36:06
Speaker
Yes, yes, yes. um Margot calls them Pickles, so... So cute. Pickle. She still likes him the most. And then we also, we got her this doll because we went to Cracker Barrel for the first time a few weeks ago for breakfast, which was so cute and fun. They were like having the best time. We Cracker Barrel.
00:36:26
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Margot picked out a baby doll. Graydon got like some drag in there. But now ah her Cracker Barrel baby doll, we call her Crack Baby because she's from a Cracker Barrel. Wait, I love that. They call her her Crack Baby.
00:36:40
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So. Oh, my God. That's so funny. We're just goofy over here, you know? I love it. I'm putting adult humor into my children's life. Well, that's okay. Alice's favorite part of Trolls is the glitter fart.
00:36:53
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You know, when he mine farts glitter. Yeah. I tried to introduce how that ever since um you brought that up, and they liked the music a lot. No, like legitimately we are in our trolls era over here and I don't hate it. i the music is so good and we listened to the, the soundtrack constantly. i don't know what kind of Josie and the pussy cat subliminal message messaging they put into that movie, but like it hits and it is, my kids are entranced literally
00:37:29
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I have to send you this video of Evie dancing because like she hears the song come on and it's like it takes over her body. She's like and like she's like running around the room. She's so excited. it's so cute.
00:37:43
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When that movie come out? 2015 or 2016. twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen Okay, because I remember Addie being slightly young and like her liking that movie.
00:37:54
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Her liking that movie. So 10 years ago. Okay, yeah. She was young. And I remember like all these songs came on like, hello, darkness, my old friend. And I started singing and she was like, you like trolls? And I was like, bro, no.
00:38:07
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i Yeah, yeah, yeah. my mom That is Simon and Garfunkel. Yeah. My mom likes it a lot because of all the older like music. She's like, that's so fun that it has older music. like Also, i have now um deemed myself inside of this house as the the scullery maid of our house um because all I do is dishes and cook and wait on a man and who's like and take care of people.
Planning a Troll-themed Birthday Party
00:38:36
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What's her name? Bridget. Bridget. Which actually i love the name Bridget. I think it's so cute. um But yeah, I joke. Literally I'll, I'll send you a screenshot.
00:38:48
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ah yeah Yesterday I was texting Vinny and Vinny will always be like, what's for dinner? Cause you know, I'm just a scullery maid cooking every night. Yeah. But um I literally sent him back and I was like, can we please eat out? I need a night off of being a scullery.
00:39:03
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You should make a video, a reel of you dressed as bridge Bridget. And then you can put that you're the scullery maid and like all the chores that you do all day. No, literally. but And also wear a fanny pack with the trolls in it.
00:39:19
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Yeah. Oh, but yeah, we are in our trolls era and I'm not hating it yet. I do fear it's taking over my Spotify wrapped, which sucks, but you know, no, that always happens. That's okay. No, it's okay. But it is what it is. That's just part of being a mom, sadly, is just like listening to that.
00:39:38
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And I would I would listen to Trolls a thousand times over like nursery rhymes or wheels on the bus. I'm I'm cannot with that. And I know that that's like kids love that. But like those songs drill a hole into my brain. Like they really got to go like Grace Gracie's corner route. Like what's that?
00:39:58
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You've seen it where it's like the rap version of nursery rhymes. don't think I've I've seen the techno, toddler techno. No, Gracie's Corner. wheels on the round and round, round and round, round and round.
00:40:11
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No, this one's more like the wheels on the bus, on the bus. I don't know. It's like crazy. They'll do like B, C, D, F, G like songs. And it's like, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:40:22
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ah apple Okay, I'm going to have to check this out. I haven't seen that. Well, get ready to get your speakers blown out because it has bass, baby. Your TV is going to rattle. like Think of your license plate rattling with this shit.
00:40:37
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It's going to rattle your house. Oh my God, that is so funny. Okay, I'll have to check that out. That's a perfect like tonight thing. like You turn it on, they're going to come into the room be like, yo, this is Well, okay. I actually had an idea of something. And okay, because if you've seen Trolls, you know like the big party they have that is like a rave, you know?
00:41:01
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Well, I thought about – I think such a fun toddler birthday party idea would be to have – like a toddler rave, like in a dark room with like lights and lasers and like cool lighting and to have like a troll DJ and to do like, um I love it.
00:41:20
Speaker
Like a trolls rave for a birthday party where we like dance and we can obviously have like, what if we had like, I mean, I'm really going out, out far here, but like a glow up, like a, or a glowing like play area. That's like neon glow.
00:41:36
Speaker
I mean, aley let's make it a foam party to like just throw the foam. I'm living. I feel like that's also you. could Have you seen those videos where they do like the bathtub raves where that you get like the glow sticks? And yes, so cute. Like same. Yeah. Yeah. Concept.
00:41:56
Speaker
But. I feel like it'd be fun for the adults too. We'd have a bar and we'd just rave. Honestly, any birthday that I can add on a little bit of adult fun.
00:42:07
Speaker
ah yeah. Like Graydon's second birthday, like the tailgate, like sure that's for Graydon, but it's also for me. Yeah. So I'm into this.
00:42:18
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Can you convince any of your children for that? Yeah, yeah. I think that if we're still loving trolls by next, like by spring, i think that a troll's birthday would be, and I could just spin it as like, we're going to have, we're going to have a troll's party and like a troll's dance party, like in the movie, because right now that's her favorite part. She's obsessed.
00:42:41
Speaker
And we could even have a glitter cannon that goes on the dance floor. I mean, I'm really going, but like Alice would be obsessed. Yeah. Wait, that's so cute. So fun. i feel like Graydon's in this- gotta to keep the trolls era going for like six more months. Graydon changes his mind every fucking day, Candice. It is now he has moved to the birthday. He wants to have his trash cans.
00:43:04
Speaker
I'm like, what are you talking about? A trash can party? Trash cans. And then yesterday ah we had a dead cicada by the pool and he goes, mommy, I know I want to do bugs as my birthday.
00:43:19
Speaker
Like he changes his mind every day. He was on a baby shark kick for a while. So I'm like glad that we've moved on from that. I was really scared that we were going to, I was so scared. I don't like baby shark.
00:43:31
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I'm going to, Alice knows it too. ah hate baby shark. I'm like, why do you have a shark? Same thing with trash cans. I'm like, where are you getting these ideas? Well, baby shark is another one that like is subliminal messaging. Like, why are all the kids so obsessed?
00:43:47
Speaker
Like, why are they all on the same page and like, they can't drop I don't know. What? I don't know. There's something fishy there. No pun intended.
00:43:59
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I hate it. I know. It's so annoying to that song is like, and if I even say the words baby shark, Evie will go do, do, do,
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:44:09
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which is cute. But like, no, we're not listening to that song. If we say shark around here, she Margo does the same.
00:44:16
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Yeah. Cuties. ah Anyway, this was really funny. um I needed this little gig. So thank you for this idea. Loved it. Loved it.
00:44:27
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I needed this too. This is why i when I pitched this to you, I was kind of hoping you'd be like, let's do that today. I just was like, I just need a giggle, ah giggle, a kiki of unseriousness.
00:44:41
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And let's have a kiki. And I love you so much. I love you so, so much. And um we hope you gals have a good week.
00:44:53
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00:45:06
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All right. Gotta to go. My toddler just put something in her mouth.