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3LF 57: Tattoos, Road Trips & the Art of Letting Go
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Your kid gets a tattoo. Or disappears on a 12-hour solo road trip. And doesn’t tell you either one’s happening. Sound familiar? This week, the Fishes tackle the tough stuff—what it feels like when your kids are technically adults, but still your kids, and they start making big decisions you’re not part of.
They get honest about:
- Navigating “adulting” kids and the grief of being needed less
- Supporting choices you might not agree with (hello, surprise ink)
- Building trust for the real conversations
- Promposals, dorm prep, and the emotional chaos of senior spring
- And yes, the Amazon wish list is back—and it’s dorm-ready
In What’s for Dinner, it’s a comforting, creamy Chicken Tetrazzini straight from Nancy’s mother-in-law Judy. One pan, freezer-friendly, and full of love.
Letting go isn’t easy. But talking about it helps. Jump in.
Head to http://www.threelilfishes.com/shownotes for this week's recipe and the 3LF dorm checklist
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Transcript
Opening Conversations with Children
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Well, you want to be able to talk about hard conversations, right? Like in the grand scheme of things, him taking this road trip is not that deep. No. But down the road, you want him to be able to come to you with something that may be more serious and more heavy.
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And even if it's a difficult conversation, you want to be able to feel like it's ah it's a safe space for you all to do that. I thought it was kind of funny because mom said to me, because I said, Gracie, you don't need to sneak around. Like, just tell me what you want to do, you know? And mom's like, well, that's you, Kathy. You do that.
Podcast Introduction and Humor
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Welcome to Three Little Fishes. We're three sisters who grew up in the Midwest together, but have since spread across the country. I live in Los Angeles. I'm in Nashville. And I live in Philadelphia. We are all married with children, have all had careers, but now we stay at home with our families.
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Join us as we share secrets and stories about being women, wives, and mothers. We welcome you to laugh along, learn something new, reach out, and join our conversation.
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So let's jump in. What's up, fishes? What's up, fishes? What's up? Good to see you. So my voice is slowly starting to come back. I don't know when i will get get it back officially. i know everybody in my house is ready for it to come back, so hopefully you guys can hear me pretty well. But I wanted to mention that this is episode 57, like Heinz our 57th episode.
00:01:36
Speaker
ah The Ketchup Girls. Okay. Yeah. That's a big number. Yeah. Pretty awesome, right? I like it. The Ketchup Girls. Yeah. All right. The other thing I wanted to circle back with really quickly is it's um a new month and I...
Personal Challenges and Hobbies
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completed my Amazon challenge. I mean, that's amazing. And not, did not use Amazon once for the whole month. I'm proud of you, Nancy. That's amazing.
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I actually did an Amazon order this morning. wait Were you tempted? Were you tempted at all? So I did look a couple times, but then I was like, what am I doing?
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i can, I can figure it out. And I did because it's, I am in the stores all the time. yeah So it just, it worked out. So I'm going to try to see if I can kind of keep going.
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And it kind of just keeps in check too, of what I'm doing and not being so impulsive. um how but Did you go to Target? Like what was the backup? So I did have to go to Target some, ah but just getting, and Costco, but just using my brick and mortar stores here. So I like that idea better of support ah supporting locally and supporting my community.
00:02:54
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so can, so far I did it. I did it for a month and I feel really good about it and I'm going to keep going. Not to say I'm never going to use Amazon again, but I'm going to kind of keep it going and see, know, do I really need it? your Amazon account, your cart is not full of things that you wish...
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you had. Correct. Correct. I do have still like a wish list that I've had for like a month that I haven't cleared out.
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um And I haven't looked at it to even see like what's in there. So i should go look and see what's in there. Yeah. You make a wish list. I don't do that. I just sometimes.
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I do. Sometimes. Yeah. Like sometimes. I'm proud of you. That's good. Yeah. yeah Thanks. So, you know, if anybody wants to take the challenge, I would love to hear about it. And if you're able to do it. Good.
00:03:49
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you're You both are like, I'm out. Yeah. I already told you I was out. I'm not doing it, but that's good for you. The other thing quickly want. What's good on you?
00:03:59
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The other thing I wanted to circle around about was my hobby. Do you guys remember us talking about our hobbies? Yes. And I said that wanted to get back into tennis. So I haven't signed up for a league or tennis lessons, but I have gotten a racket out and I've hit a couple times. And my daughter, Johanna, has started tennis lessons.
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So she and I have gone to the court a couple times and we've been hitting the ball and practicing. Oh, fun. I feel like I am making... Baby steps towards my hobby and getting back to playing a little bit more.
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My next step is to actually find league where I can rally with somebody more up to my speed, but at least, at least I've gotten the racket out and I've like shaken off the rust.
00:04:50
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Yeah. That's awesome, Nancy. That's awesome. What about you guys? Are you sticking to your hobbies? I, you know what, honestly, right now it's not hobby time for me. I, I'm so overwhelmed with all the things for graduation, the end of hockey season,
00:05:08
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We just had prom. So I need a couple more weeks to just sort of like clear the to-do list so I can do something else, to be totally honest about it. Like I actually did think about my sourdough and I thought about because I want to record when I make it my starter again because I killed it.
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But I just haven't had, I haven't done it yet. So I will do it. So hang tight. I will show everybody how to do it. It is very easy, but i right now it's, no, I'm not doing any hobbies right now.
00:05:41
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It does seem like senior year in high school gets a very, very busy. it does. With all things like kind of ending. Mm-hmm. do seem like you're very busy.
00:05:52
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Well, it's not only that, but I also have two in college still, and they're winding up their year. So we have a lot of emotions happening. We have a lot of organization and planning to get home and putting things in storage units and moving into different apartment. You know, it's just a lot of moving parts that require just a little bit of mental gymnastics.
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So, you know, it's all good stuff. It's just, it is just like a little busy. So yeah I don't have lots of extra time to, you know, start something new.
00:06:27
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Or I don't want to start something new. So Kathy, I feel like with one of your hobbies is golf. And I feel like you probably are playing a lot of golf right now. Yes, golf has officially started last week.
00:06:41
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I mean, I played this winter. So I didn't give it up completely. But it's not quite the same thing because simulator golf is... Not like hitting outside, but it gets you swinging. But yeah, it started last week, so I'm happy. And the weather's improving here, so that's good.
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um My second hobby that I, you know, my pillow making that I'm trying to do I was going to get together with my friend like a few weeks ago, but it fell through. so I'm hoping maybe in the next couple weeks we're going to get together and she's going to help me actually start.
00:07:19
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cutting out material to try and make this pillow. I'm going to get it done. I'm going to get it done. You actually haven't made any forward progress. No, I haven't. No, no, no forward progress. Okay.
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I'm being honest. No shame. No shame. I'm with you. No shame. But the sewing machine is still out in daylight. It isn't back in the basement. I didn't put it in the basement. It's still in my room.
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I look at it every morning and I'm like, I'll get to you at some point. I just haven't had time to do it. And then yeah I do need a little handholding. So i think that's why I have not like tried to just go in there myself.
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So Kathy, I, we just had prom last weekend. You have prom coming up though, right? Cause you guys wait start school later and finish later than we do. yeah So prom is coming up the end of May and he has a girlfriend and I was like,
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you haven't been talking to me about prom very much, like what's going on. And then I kind of caught him playing his guitar the other night. And I was like, Are you like getting ready to do a prom proposal? He's like, Well, I was just kind of trying to think if I should use the guitar or not. But you know, it's a lot of work, Mom, and I'm not sure I can like get it together. Yeah. And then I asked him last night what he was doing. And he finally told us.
00:08:44
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So I hope his girlfriend's not listening. But He's going to have, I think, four of his friends be a letter.
00:08:56
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One of them is going to be a P, then the R, an O, M, and then Trevor's going to be the question mark at the end. Yes, that's so cute. And they're going to sing um Nothing on You by Bruno Mars.
00:09:11
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Aw. Isn't that He must really like her that he's going to sing to her. yeah But he got, I think they're going to try and use like our little karaoke machine to do it too. and i would So we did it last year, but this year he didn't. We're also kind of experiencing that like where the kids are sort of separating. They're seniors, they're going to different colleges and people are sort of like splintering off right now because we are really at the end of our year. Like we've got, I think two weeks left. and So they're not like doing as much stuff together? No, they're spending time together, but they're also like emotionally sort of separating the boys and girls a little bit, I feel like. So, um, I mean, prom was fun. I think everybody had a good time. There was a couple of big parties. i of course had people at our house overnight, but
00:10:05
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You're like the party out. I know. You're always having people over. I am. I mean, I have boys i had boys here yesterday. they came like They had kind of like a half day yesterday for whatever reason.
00:10:16
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And it's spring week here, they call it. So they have like food coming in every single day and they have like activities. and i mean, I don't remember this when we were seniors in high school. We didn't have this much fun.
00:10:28
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Did we? No, at all. And I think that mom and dad, I'd be like, I'm so done with school. And they're like, so what? You have to still go. Like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like there was no like mercy for them. They were like, don't screw up. So you don't get into school. I'm like, yeah, I said that to Jack. I was like,
00:10:45
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You're barely in school right now. He's like, mom, don't worry about it. It's all going to be fine. I feel like that's going to be tattooed on Jack somewhere. worry about It's all going to be fine.
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All
Parenting Adult Children: Decisions and Support
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right, y'all. Well, today, speaking of kids, we're going to, our topic today is adults being adults. Oh my. Oh my. Oh oh my.
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We started thinking about you girls who had a couple of things come up with your older kids that are adults and away at school. Yes. And about they are adults and they get to make their own choices and decisions, but they may not be running these decisions by you because they're 18 over.
00:11:28
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And you're wondering, maybe i don't know if I would make those choices. So what's that like when your kids are making choices that you may not agree with, but really they're adults. So you don't really get to say a lot. So Linda, you particularly started this conversation off. What's going on in your family that has brought up this conversation? I have all adults in our house, right? So I remember distinctly when all the kids turned 18, they all came to us and they were like, we can't wait. We're going to do all the things we couldn't do before we were 18. So they like bought lottery tickets and you know they voted when they could and they all talked about getting tattoos and
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And we were like, okay, well, I mean, just really think about, you know, I'm not really a tattoo person, but I was like, yeah, I mean, I get it It's such a thing now, but like be thoughtful about it. Right. So then our, nobody did it.
00:12:33
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And then our oldest came home with a tattoo and And just recently, recently. So she's 21 now. She's almost 22.
00:12:44
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And I was like, oh, wow. um I was trying to not like be shocked, but I was a little shocked. And I was like, okay, well, um,
00:12:59
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you know, the artist did a good job. It's very well done. And I was like, so do you like it And she's like, I love it. I love it. I've been thinking about it and I love it. And so, but I think the point of me bringing this up was like, it's, ah I said to her, I'm like, you know, i don't love tattoos, even though I know everyone has them. I have friends my age that have them. Like, I'm not judging about tattoos, but I did say to her, i was like, you know, the thing that kind of bugs me a little bit is you didn't tell me.
00:13:34
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like And it's not like I wanted to be part of the decision making necessarily, but like i and I do think this is a line that I straddle with these kids is like, i don't want you to feel like you can't talk to me about things and tell me that this is important to you. and this is decision you made because even though I don't love the tattoo, i love you unconditionally. And so,
00:14:01
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yeah I have been asking my friends who have older kids, like, because kids ah young adults make decisions that necessarily you don't agree with. Like, I've had friends whose kids gave up sports that they were great at, or decided not to go to college, even though that was sort of the trajectory they were going on, or they accepted a job that you're like, really? Or they're dating somebody, you're like,
00:14:27
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Really? and i Every single person said to me, you got to let them do it. You got to let them like make their own decisions and then they have to live with them and they don't necessarily have to live with them forever, but you have to let them choose their own path.
00:14:47
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You know, when you think about tattoos, what I think about, which dates me, but friends, And the episode with Phoebe and Rachel, when they go and get tattoos. Oh yeah. And they got the one dot.
00:15:00
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yeah You know, Phoebe got the one like blue freckle and she's like, look, it's the world from far away. I, and I feel like that that would be me because like a part of me is like, oh, I wouldn't mind like a little daisy. It's my favorite flower, like somewhere where no one could see it.
00:15:16
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And I'm like, i I wouldn't want it out for the world, but I always thought it'd be kind of cool to have a daisy. But then I'm like Phoebe, you know, oh, do you know they use needles? I'm out. No thanks. Yeah, I couldn't handle it.
00:15:28
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I think for me, I can't imagine there's anything that i love enough that I want on my body forever. And interestingly, I have a really good friend who has a tattoo of all of her kids' names.
00:15:46
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Yeah. and um But she's actually having it removed because... she's disowning them? No, because like over the years, it kind of fades and it bleeds.
00:16:02
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You know what I mean? And you have to kind of keep it up. Otherwise, it doesn't look that great. And she's like, I just don't want to deal with the maintenance. So I'm having it removed, which is brutal, by the way, because yeah they have to laser it and you have to go in over and over and over again to get it removed.
00:16:18
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Yeah. yeah I had a friend tell me that it's really painful because she's getting a divorce but after like 20 years. It's really sad. And they, um back in the day, they didn't have a lot of money and they each got a tattoo for their ring represent their ring.
00:16:35
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And so now she's having it lasered off and she says it's excruciating, which just makes it all that more painful. Why can't they numb it up? I don't understand that.
00:16:45
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. But yeah, I think people either love them and they are all in or they're like, it's not for them. Yeah. I'm just like, I, for me, I, my pain tolerance, I can't handle it. Yeah. And I, i so it's, an that's a no for me from just from that point.
00:17:04
Speaker
I don't want to deal with the needles. I think me too. I could not handle the needles. I think of like the cleanliness of it. And then I think about, Maybe I would like it for a couple of days, but then I probably want it gone.
00:17:18
Speaker
You know? Yeah. Like I'm more probably of like the peel kind. ah Yeah. The temporary. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to decide what you would think you would want, but anyway, she didn't have a hard time with it. She loves it. She actually did go to a really beautiful artist.
00:17:35
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You know, again, it's like I'm not really a tattoo girl, but I am a Sarah girl. I love her and it's her thing and she loves it. And she I felt i kind of sick to my stomach that she felt like she thought I would judge her and not.
00:17:54
Speaker
I would think less of her and that kind of crushed my heart. So we had a big talk about that and how like, no matter what choices you make in your life, I love you unconditionally. So yeah I support you, you know, you don't have to go on the same path that I'm on. And I think that as a parent is so hard. i mean, you do have to kind of get used to being like, okay, mm-hmm.
00:18:20
Speaker
Well, it's just, it's just also like, it's her, it's her body and her choice and what feels good for her and her body. Like she gets to own that just like I want to be able to own that for myself.
00:18:32
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So I actually reached out to her and I told her, you know. I said, your mom told us that you got this. Let's see it. And she was like, I felt weird about even telling you and Aunt Kathy. And I'm like, girl, you don't have to be afraid to tell me anything. Right. I think it's a good lesson about, i hope if she's listening to this, that, you know, yeah, we're always team Sarah. I'm team all these kids. That's yeah right. Yeah.
00:18:57
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You know, so they don't, I don't want them to be afraid to tell any of us anything. like Right, right. We're all here and we're all just trying to get through the days the best we can and be the happiest and healthy we can be.
00:19:09
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So Kathy, let's not forget about you over there. What did your oldest do to you that kind of made you be like, what? Well, it's kind of down the same line that Linda's talking about is that my so oldest went on a road trip for Easter We thought he was staying at school and he had a party to go to. And then we knew a few of his friends were getting out of town for the holiday. And I think he ended up just thinking like, I want to go somewhere because I'm not used to being by myself ah during a holiday.
00:19:48
Speaker
So he forego his friend's party and he ended up driving to, you know, our parents. which I love that he wanted to spend time with them, but he didn't tell us one thing about it.
00:20:03
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And he totally surprised by mom and dad showed up, you know, in the middle of the night at their house, but he also didn't tell Peter and i and I was getting worried about him because I didn't hear from him.
00:20:16
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And then he had turned his like iPhone by my iPhone off. Not that I track him all the time, but I do kind of every now and then wonder where he is.
00:20:28
Speaker
But you do track him sometimes. I do a little bit. It's more of a, book okay, he's not dead kind of thing. Like he's alive.
00:20:39
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Well, his phone's not dead. I mean, not to be dark, but like. Right. right Like I knew something was up because I was like, well, he doesn't ever shut that off. And I was thinking, did you go away like with your friends somewhere?
00:20:52
Speaker
But then as I thought about it, I was like, I wonder if he went to Peoria because I remember him saying like a month ago, something about going. And so he just decided he wanted to go.
00:21:05
Speaker
And, you know, that's his choice because he is an adult now. But I think the thing I was disappointed was like, why couldn't you just tell us and be honest, like you're saying, like, let's have a conversation about why, you know, what you're thinking and why and Okay, maybe we're not like totally jazzed about it, but at least let's talk about it.
00:21:24
Speaker
Right. Well, because also it's a drive. I mean, to get to mom and dad from school. It's like a 12 hours by himself. It's, you know, it'd be, well, they, well, they didn't know that he was doing that either. Like it is a safety thing too.
00:21:37
Speaker
And, you know, so we are a little disappointed, but we talked it through and I hope he knows it He can come to us, you know, cause there's going to be other things in life that you need to probably talk through things with.
00:21:54
Speaker
I mean, there are major things that happened to you throughout your lifetime. Right. So, well, you want to be able to talk about hard conversations, right? Like in reality, in the grand scheme of things, him taking this road trip for a long weekend to see our parents is not that deep. It's not that serious.
00:22:12
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But down the road, you want him to be able to come to you with something that may be more serious and more heavy. And even if it's a difficult conversation, you want to be able to feel like it's a it's a safe space for you all to do that. I thought it was kind of funny because mom said to me, because I said, Grace, so you don't need to sneak around. Like, just tell me what you want to do, you know?
00:22:33
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And mom's like, well, that's you, Kathy. You do that. I was like, no, I don't. I'm like, what did do that stuck around?
00:22:45
Speaker
What did you do? Did she tell you? Did she give you examples? She did not. I don't think she's remembering right. Maybe that was you guys, not me.
00:22:58
Speaker
Well, you do, you do, and don't get mad, but you do sometimes not always want tell stuff. Like, so you kind of, ah pray you don't lie you don't lie, but you, you know, you don't share it all. Like what, what word am I looking for? um I don't know. She's private.
00:23:17
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you're Yeah, I mean, private, yeah. And then you'll be like, oh, I didn't realize you were doing that. Oh, you're like, oh, yeah. Didn't I tell you that? No, you didn't. No, you didn't tell me that. So maybe that's what she needs.
00:23:30
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, any parents out there, it's like, you know, this is that... I actually had a, I was talking to a friend of mine who's a therapist and we were kind of talking through young adults and their decision-making. And sometimes they do things that you don't necessarily approve of. It's not the end of the world. And she's like, you know, there is a grieving process that parents go through as your kids get into these young adult times because they don't need you as much.
00:24:00
Speaker
And they need to make their own mistakes and they need to fall down and they need to pick themselves up. And you can be a safety net, but it's like you become less and less of that. And there is this like sort of sorrow that parents kind of have to get through during this time too.
00:24:17
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So I think that's sort of what I felt with Sarah is just like, I was just sort of like, i was sad that she felt like she couldn't talk to me about it. And then I was sad too, like we didn't,
00:24:28
Speaker
talk about it. Like, I feel like we have a good rapport and I felt kind of like, yeah oh, like she, she was a little worried about telling me, but like also she's my kid that really chats out a lot and that she didn't chat that out kind of made me feel sad. She didn't need me to help her make this decision.
00:24:50
Speaker
She made it and she was so happy about it. So. Yeah. I do know that Riley in particular is like, I don't like it when you get upset with me and if I make a mistake. And we just said recently, you're going to make mistakes and that's okay. yeah We have to be able to talk about it. I don't want to just hear about the glows. We have to talk about the gross too. yeah So it's this slippery slope, even and this, like the teenage years of trying to, of trying to set up this foundation of being able to move forward. I mean, it's,
00:25:21
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Tricky. It is. It's hard. tricky. Well, it's all part of this like leaping process. And Kathy and I are going to do this again. we have seniors.
Preparing for College Transitions
00:25:30
Speaker
We've talked about this endlessly because it's such a big thing in our lives to go from high school to college or whatever your child is going through.
00:25:42
Speaker
So we do, I mean, I'm doing it for the third time. I'm doing it for the second. In August. And um so we will put together, we'll attach our list a for dorms.
00:25:56
Speaker
You know, I would say now is a good time if you are one of these parents that has a senior in high school, start thinking about dorms. Putting together your Amazon but wish list, asking other parents who have been through it. Look through the Three Little Fishes dorm list.
00:26:12
Speaker
We'll post it in the show notes. Ask us questions if you have any. But I would say those IKEA blue bags, also Amazon has that. And get the ones that zipper.
00:26:26
Speaker
They are the easiest to stack. get They're like a dollar a piece. They're the greatest. They're hardy. They already help you with the move. So that a nice like topper for the mattress, no matter what, like our son's going to go to the University of Kentucky and they did all new dorms and they all have posturpedic mattresses, but I'm still putting like the topper on it.
00:26:51
Speaker
I know. Yeah. Because you spend a lot of time in bed, so you want to be comfortable. And then, um you know, obviously there are electronics and things like that that really are essential. So we'll put that list in ah for everybody because it is something I am starting to think about already. Yeah.
00:27:11
Speaker
What do we need to get and what don't we need to get? Well, summer, you think summer comes and you have all the time in the world, but it goes by fast. And like us if you're going to go on a trip, that's, you know, time away. So you won't have as much time. But I think trying to get some of these items ah ahead is a really good idea. And like the, agree I was thinking of a couple of my favorite things that we got that are key.
00:27:42
Speaker
i think a bed reel shelf for your Oh yeah, those are nice. arms bed Because I remember Grayson's, he actually bunked his bed.
00:27:55
Speaker
And so there was not even a dresser anything. So we got that shelf so he could put his water phone, stuff like that on it. um And another cool thing that we bought was a tower fan. Because they're not these huge fans. They're like skinny.
00:28:13
Speaker
you know Yeah. Like They're not very wide and they have a remote, especially in Texas. Like we need the fans to help move that air.
00:28:25
Speaker
um And does it oscillate? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are nice. But I think the biggest thing is just really trying to stay organized and try and gather these things because before you know it, it's going to be time and you're going to be like, oh my gosh, I got to get all this stuff.
00:28:42
Speaker
And I don't know about your house, Kathy, but I know at our house, we've been talking about like making sure he saves money for that first year because, you know, we pay for school, we pay for room and board, but we don't pay for the fun.
00:28:57
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So I don't supply beer money to the kids, none of them. So they all had jobs. They all have to have their own bank accounts. They have to start saving their money for their fun. I think, you know, they're blessed that they we're paying for school and they have to have dog in the fight. So for us, you know, job, save your money.
00:29:18
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Yeah. Get yourself geared up for the, you know, that's one of the expectations. You know, there's a whole list of expectations we do talk through, but that's one of their expectations is to contribute their fun money.
00:29:33
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Yeah. I mean, I would say, Grayson ran through his money this year faster than last year. So we've had to help out a little bit every now and then.
00:29:44
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But yeah, it's important that you have funds because you got to have money. It's expensive to go out. Those beers since college are expensive. They're not they're not nickel beers anymore.
00:29:58
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Like back in the day. Also, the mixed drinks are really expensive. Yeah. Like we used to go to like nickel beer night at the field house in Iowa City, which i don't even know if it's still there, but I mean, that was great, but I don't think they have that anymore.
00:30:13
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yeah Not that we're promoting underage drinking. um Okay. So speaking of like getting our kids ready to go to college and kids have transitioning next week, we're going to have a guest come speak with us next week. And her name is Hannah Bankler and she's founder of Birdie Launcher and her business or support system is about transitioning motherhood into launching your kids off into the world.
00:30:43
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So I'm really excited to hear about her tips and her tips and tricks and things to help the mom support their kids as they go on to their next phase of their life.
00:30:56
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So I'm really looking forward to having her on. That should be great. All right, you all, what's for dinner?
Family Recipes and Podcast Wrap-up
00:31:03
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So actually am doing this week's dinner.
00:31:07
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It's chicken tetrazzini. And it is very good. It's kind of like spaghetti and chicken, but it's like more rich.
00:31:21
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dish, I guess if I had to put a spin on it. Um, but Nancy gave me the recipe and I made it and we had it last night for dinner. It was delicious. So this recipe actually comes from my mother-in-law Judy and way back in the day before you had like Google, um, you couldn't look up recipes. She had gone to a restaurant and she had chicken trattorzini and she loved it so much that she wanted to she wanted to make it herself.
00:31:47
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So she had to mess around in her kitchen. to try to figure it out. And this is the recipe that she came up with. Wow. That's impressive. Yeah. She actually made this recipe for me when I first brought Riley home from the hospital.
00:32:03
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And she put it in the freezer so we would have a meal um when we had an infant in the house. So it kind of has like a warm place ah warm place in my heart. So I'm glad that you guys liked it. Well, it's good, It's like a good comfort food.
00:32:16
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Yeah. Thanks, Judy. Yeah, thank you, Judy. Well, we want to thank you for listening to our podcast and letting us sisters jump into your day. Please make sure to follow, rate, and review us.
00:32:29
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Please have a wonderful weekend. Sisters out.