January 16, 2025 • 20 mins
EPISODE 29: This week on the "Madtown Mom Squad" Krista and Corrina tackle crazy schedules and discuss easy to do "Life Hacks" that will save you time & energy. Let's be honest we can take on a lot of things at once, but it doesn't come without feeling overwhelmed sometimes. Get ready to enjoy and grab your notebook or babybib and lets get to it!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Mad to Own Mom Squad podcast, a
production of iHeartRadio. Hard working real mamas having real conversations. Now,
sit back, relax, and get ready to talk mom life
with Christa and her squad.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Krina. Do you ever feel like you have so many
damn things going on in your head?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You are like stuck and you don't know where to start.
I have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
About because I can't concentrate on what you're saying because
I have so much going on in my head right now.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That is a true life as a mom. We have
like fifty five things going on in our head and
efty five.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's generous. Oh is that goa fifty? Okay? I feel
like one hundred, one hundred, maybe a hundred. We have
one hundred things. But sometimes you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Just like you don't know again where to start, where
to begin, how to relieve the stress that's going on?
And time saving is a masterful thing that I think
a lot of us moms want to conquer.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But may not know how to. And I think that's it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Moms want more time, yeah, I want two more arms, yeah,
And I want time.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I like that, Like I basically want to get to
the end of.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The evening, after I've done everything, and then just switch
the clock to like two o'clock but everyone's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I want an extra I just want an extra bathtub,
But actually I want a larger bathtub. You know about
your baths, yeah, and how much you do baths, because
it makes sense, that is my sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sanctuary.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I don't even know how to spell that word right
now because I can't think about it because our brains
are fried from getting pair. Well, you know, I'm at
the stage, so you know where g is fourteen, she's
a teen. We like to stay in our room and
be on her phone all the time. Where you, on
the other hand, are still in the younger ages of
your kiddos. And you got to know right now, especially
(01:43):
maybe more than I do, because time saving and you know,
life hacks right now are a lot different than when
my daughter was young.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So do you do any of those at home?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean I do. I have strategies. I mean, that's
kind of how I think about it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Because the thing about like finding a hack or finding
something that works, is it just changes so quickly, you know,
like all of a sudden. My two older ones, so yes,
my kids are younger. We seven, six and three.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So I'm in it. That's what everyone says to me. There,
Oh you're in it.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Oh yeah, And I was like, I don't quite I
never quite understood what now you are? Now it's like, oh,
oh yeah, yeah, I'm in it. But so for me,
it's it's it's about strategizing, like what gives me more
time and gets a task accomplished faster. For instance, like
(02:36):
we were getting the kids clothes ready and putting them
out before bed. H but now they're picking their own clothes,
so that changes, right, that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It is, it's actually really helpful.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And then on the close topic, I got rid of
half of my kids clothes and that has been a huge,
like time, like it suck having too many clothes.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I was gonna say that alleviates them wondering, oh my god,
what am I gonna wear?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Whenever I gonna wear well? And not only that, it's
less clothes to pick.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Up, yes, watch yeah, right, So I found that just
having my son have three pairs of pants, you know,
and then he has these two shirts that he likes.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
He likes to go back and forth, so he just
bought duplicates of those, so he's four on a couple undershirts,
you know, a handful of underwear and socks and all
that stuff, and it's like his closet.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Looks like nobody really, it looks phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Right, So that was like, that's my one one little
tip that I learned with having like a seven and
six year old is you can still kind of have
control over that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, you know the clothes, Yeah, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, So less clothes, lesser clothes. I like that because
that's funny because I'm actually working on my own closet
right now because it's a disaster. And so my sister's like, Krista,
I'm gonna go to Target and I'm buy all these
like big bins.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And you're gonna work with that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And then Gia is my next step to help her
with her room because it's a hot mess.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It feels so good and well, you think.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
About when you travel, right, yeah, and you have a
suitcase and you're just living out of that suitcase.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's so much easier to pick out outfits.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It is, so then think about it for kids when
they have less clothes, they're not throwing things out of
you know, their drawers or their closet, pulling things down
if they only have a few things, and then you
can recycle them. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's like toys, put stuff away in them. Bring I
just I just throw that stuff away in my garbage.
I don't have time for that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
For people who get a lot, I.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mean, you're like, I don't want to get rid of
all this nice stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know, just kind of bring it in and now, Yeah,
I do feel guilty.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I honestly just did that because I obviously just worked
on my own closet and I just threw it all away.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In the garbage. I think that's great. Why not why
not get it in the garbage, get it in the garbage.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, that's what we're talking about today is time saving
hacks for all your busy moms out there. And we
came across some really great things. I love the fact
that first off, we're going to talk about meal planning.
I think this is one of the greatest things. But
I also will warn you that this is one of
the longest things that you will prepare. I mean you
literally have to take a day and dedicate yourself two
(05:04):
meal planning. Yeah, it's like when you have cleaners, you
have to like clean for the cleaners.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, right, Yeah, you have to meal plan for the
meal planning.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right, because if you're going if you have like a
family of five and you're all about, you know, making
chicken for all week. Can you imagine the time you
have to spend. You probably spend like three hours, four
hours that day just to make chicken. Oh, to prep
for all these meals that you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I'm looking at some of our notes here, and
I love the crock pot.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I want to start off right there. Thank you. We
should have a song. Oh, thank you put it in
my crock pot. Don't take it kind of the show.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, I mean I have the Ninja and that sucker.
I do so many pork roast in that bad boy
on the slow cooker.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
A ninja.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I thought that was a blender. My ninja has everything. Okay, okay,
it has an air fyer.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And so it just cooks faster.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yes it does. Yeah, you can cook a steak in
this bad boy. We don't by the way, we don't
endorse Ninja, but we would love it. Twenty minutes. You
can put a file at in that sucker for twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
So twenty minutes you can cook a full full a
steak in a ninja.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, your chicken. That's saving time for parents right there.
Yes it is. What else can you do? That's all
I can do. Chicken nugget. It can do chicken nugget.
That's what we make talk. Oh, I'm gonna give my broccoli.
Yeah you can.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, it's expensive, I'll put it out there. But okay, ninja,
we need you to Okay, we need you, We need you.
So yeah, So if you're gonna think about doing meal planning,
you just have to make sure you can strategize, make
sure you have all the things that you want to
put all the food in, because that's what meal prepping
and everything is all about. Right.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
But the ninja is a great thing.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And I think with meal planning to you know, you know,
get that pad of paper out right the Monday through Friday.
And I always think of meal planning is like dinners, right,
so I write all the dinners down taco.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I try and stick to things.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So I don't I think that people want to be
fancy because we get that on Instagram so much like
look at this new meal, look at this new sauce.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Look at this all that you know, and it's.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like, at the end of the day, we don't have
to be that fancy, especially when you're in it like
meat or like when you have kids in general.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, butza is fine for like.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Why can't it just beat pizza on Fridays with you know,
roasted broccoli and you do that every Friday because in
seven days you'll forget that you ate that, you know,
And that that's why I try and stick a stick
to like themes taco Tuesdays or like spaghetty Wednesday. And
it doesn't mean you have to do the same pasta
and the same sauce and the same meatballs. You can
shake it up, do turkey meatballs. You could do meat sauce,
(07:45):
white sauce, red sauce. But Wednesday is your pasta day
with bread and.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Maybe green beans and peaches or something.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think one time you should share with us all
your recipes that you do, because I.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Know she's like, oh, what are you I'm like on
the phone with her, are you doing. Oh, I'm just
making soup, homemade soup, like two of them right now.
And I'm like, girl, do you know how bad I
want to learn how to make soup. She's like, come
on me, I'm going to teach you how to make soup.
I make a lot of it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Just made this really good white bean chicken chili and
it was so easy.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Do you make enough to prep to like save and
put in the freezer?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah, I mean I can put it in the freezer
and I have Okay. See, I'm actually probably not the
best hacked mom here because I don't particularly love leftovers.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh you don't, so, but my husband does, my kids do.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Then that's the other thing is when you're meal planning
and you make beef tacos on Tuesday, expect that you're
gonna eat that one, not Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But Thursday. You know, just a different form. You can
make them into enchiladas or something. Hella, all right, So
let's talk about meal delivery services door dash Uber since.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I broke my foot back in August.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Sure, or it's like a ten percent overhead or whatever
you know they add on.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, they have like a fee and then the trip.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And it really really when you think about like the
gas and you know all the time and the time
and then all the stuff you buy, when you just
kind of look around like, oh I need those ranch chips.
Oh I need extra carrots when you already have a
bag of carrots. So like, I really do think that
you can eat.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I think it's great. I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I mean I can just go on to my phone,
you know, go to Target if I want. Who doesn't
want Target up? Oh yeah, we talked about that. We
talked about the Target drive up. So if you have
yet to be able to experience it, we highly recommend
that you do. Not. Everybody though, has access to that.
When I lived in Masomania, we don't have access to anything.
So if you're living in the country, sorry, you got
to get in your car and you're gonna have to drive.
(09:43):
You're gonna have to drive. I like this idea about
a mom had written about this. She says, you know
what a really great idea is using restaurant apps with
your kids. So what she does with her kiddos, they
each get to choose where they want to eat, like
during the week. So if you you know, if you
(10:04):
have one kid, you have two kids, and she has
the app open for each single child to the restaurant
that they want, and so it's just very very easy.
So you know, maybe it's just one child the week
that they choose. This is what you know I want
to go do, and you already have it ready to go.
It's on your phone. You have the restaurant apps, you know,
you know your kids love you're ready to go.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, you know that's great. We always do take out Thursday.
I like that because it's kind of not quite Friday
and you need something to feel special about.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
The week's hard. Yeah, I've always kind of felt bad
for that day. For Thursdays or Fridays.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Thursdays it's thirsty Thursday. They have a great days for
the adults, right, for some adults with other kids kids,
you know. So we do take out Thursdays. You get
to get kind of all do that app thing.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
That's a smart idea. Yeah, she she goes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
On Friday nights, each of our five kids gets to
choose what we eat on a rotation. They all have
their favorite restaurants, even the three year old. So I
save time by having the apps for their favorite restaurant
on the phone, saving our favorite orders and just reordering.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It when it comes. That's smart. Yeah, that's smart. That's
a Mamma five.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's a good Mamma fi. Yes, what do you think
about Amazon for shopping like food?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We're talking? You could do food, Okay. I do Amazon
all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I don't typically do it for food, okay, but
I think I know people love it.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I think like you, I don't. I don't buy food.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I buy food for my cats, like I'll give that
same But you know, like your toilet trees all those things.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, I mean I do that.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I do drive up Target for like all my house stuff.
I do Amazon for really anything I can think of.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Like I needed a.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
New outlet and I was like, oh, I could go
to Target and buy like a five dollar outlet or
just have it sent to me, because if I go
to Target for something like a five dollar outlet, I'm
going to end up spending eighty dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Crap.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I don't need you walk through that. You know they
do that, they do that to you. So yeah, I
do for stuff like that, but not food.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Not food. Yeahah, I would love to talk to somebody
who does that. I don't even know if that's even
an Amazon food.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
It's through Whole Foods because Whole fought out by Amazon.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, Yeah, the only thing again, I get the twenty
four cans of wet food for my cats, Stinky and
Cocoa puff.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Wait, your cat's name is Stinky. Yeah, okay, Yeah, we're
gonna have to talk about.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, I have issues, but don't judge me. Uh,
here's a very easy one planning your week out. We
all know what calendars mean. Uh. There are so many
great ways though, outside of the old school calendar, which
I always use. But you know, I'm sure that you
do with your kiddo's. You put a lot of stuff
on your refrigerator as I do.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It all a handwritten calendar. Oh you do, my soul.
I can't do the online stuff. You can't see it all.
I like to hide.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I'm like, I'm definitely the nineties girl, you know where
you like highlighted and then color code. Each kid has
a color and I like that. So, I mean, I'm
sure as sports get into my lives and like, you know,
different things that kids do is for high I'm gonna
have to eventually get one of those screens. I was
at my friend's house visiting her over the holiday break,
and she had one of those really fancy screens where
(13:08):
it shows you the calendar and you can touch it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I feel like we sound like little does she
have a Louis Vuitton purse too? Okay, this is what
I figured.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
But no, no, no, but this is like the new. This
is it. This is what we're moving towards.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Like the screen calendar on your kitchen counter and you
press it, and her little girl was showing me how
like you can have her chores on there and you
like touch it's touch screen, no pens.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No papers, it's in it's in the like a tablet.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Literally, people are laughing at us right now because we
sound like old ladies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh we are, yeah, we are on this really, this
is amazing. I want to see one. Yeah, it's just
like a Google calendar, but it's on a screen. It's
like a tablet and it sits on your Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I read the name of this Amazon. Yeah, okay, we'll
just see. Gosh, now we're gonna we're going to go broke.
And that's another that's another subject to talk about. So yeah,
these are just some you know, little life hacks. By
the way, let's go back to the the discussion that
we were talking about with like a meal delivery services.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
There is one.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Here if you live in the Madison, Wisconsin area that
we came across, which I think is super super cute
for meal planning.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, it is ismus.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes eats, it'smus eats. And the great thing about it
they have one specifically for baby eat baby eats.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Mom, like, moms need the most help when they have babies.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes, I'm sorry. There was a time that my boobies
were not producing anywhere else. So what do I do?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Baby foods baby? I had to look this place up.
I don't know anything about them. They sound really cool.
Well that's a Madison, Wisconsin Yes. Yeah, they delivery service, right,
you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They say that if you have a six to eighteen
month old, well then baby Eats maybe for you. They
they said their kids are designed for parents of children's
ages sixteen eighteen interested in baby lead weaning concepts, so
spoom feeding, you name it. They've got homemade parades, a
lot of great stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't have a baby, but I'm in. No, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Will you feed me?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Will you feed me? Give me baby?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I don't know, I don't know, we don't know, we
don't We just got to figure out what's the next thing.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
We gotta do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Like as a mom, hacked just for you on a
personal level, like do you have anything that you try
and like, you know, I don't know something like I feel.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like my management is like huge. I know, yes, especially
with you know, with working and now you know, with
you being in a high school. Now she's got things
that she's committed to. Like her next thing is trying
out for musicals. But it's it's trying to maneuver all
of those things.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Okay, but that's for her. What do you do? But
that's for her? How do I like? How do you?
How do you do you do? Is there any hacks
for moms? Like I'm thinking, like, oh, music ourselves? You
listen to music?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, it's it's really the best thing that fills my
so brand new information as a radio absolutely brand did
not know that you like music? But at all for me, No,
that is that is my you know, that is my
place I like to you know, like candles, Uh, listen
to music and that always allows me to you know,
(16:29):
get the house clean a little bit, you know, more
enjoyable because I can dance or I can cry whatever
in the mood I'm in. And also when it comes
to work too, Like I listen to music all the
time when I'm writing commercials. It's a great distractor from
all the other distractions that are going on.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, what about you, I mean as far as like
a hack.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Person, I mean, like for me, I think, and I'm
speaking for the stay at home moms or the moms
who work part time, or the moms who are home yea.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, I feel like when you have.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
A job, sometimes you know, you get the you get
the prize of either providing being the breadwinner, you know,
telling your boss you've done something great or whatever, or
maybe you're the boss.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But like when you're home, you do all this invisible work.
I mean working moms do too. I'm just saying, you know,
like the amount of invisible work I do. So for me,
it's like sometimes I need to do something that I
really see. Like for instance, I you know, to instead
(17:33):
of compressing all my spring cleaning and like a month
or two in springtime, I just have like this ongoing
list in my paper calendar of like linen, closet, pantry.
I know it sounds so boring, but like when I clean, it.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sounds so adult ish, Like I would never say my
pantry or there you go. It's in the cover, you know,
and I clean it and organize it and then I
see it, yeah, you know, and it's so nice.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Makes you feel good, Yeah, it makes me feel good.
So sometimes I have.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Like a annual cyclical, you know, like pantry, linen clu
like that bathroom one bathroom.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well, then you're achieving something too. You're seeing that I
achieve this.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
The prizes done it, you know, and I feel like
I don't have that because I don't necessarily have nine
to five, which again I'm not saying it. I was
saying working moms also don't have that necessarily.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
But you know, like I don't really I get what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I'm not quite the breadwinner in the family. So like, okay,
my pantry will be pretty, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I just want to put out there for any of
you that do enjoy taking the bass like I do.
One life hack is and I did get this from
my boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I thought it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's this very beautiful like wooden like tray that you
can put into your bathroom so then you can put
like your candle line, your wine and your phone. And
I didn't have one of those so and I got
one and I loved it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yes, I love itub it So anyway, that's that's my
life hack. So uh yeah, well there you go. That's
what we have for you. Hopefully it'll you know, help you,
I hope. If not, we failed.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Or everyone just kind of listened to us jabber, which
we do, which we do.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Definitely we we do.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I'm excited because mss Krena and I do have something
that we're going to be talking about in the horizon
and maybe eventually we can bring that on the show.
But you and I are going to be you know,
putting our brains together. You know, I don't know on TV.
I don't know something something.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean, we don't we don't like talking or music. No,
we don't like people. It's not gonna have anything to
do with any of that. Absolutely not not. I love you, honey,
things for coming in.
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Krina. Do you ever feel like you have so many
damn things going on in your head?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You are like stuck and you don't know where to start.
I have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
About because I can't concentrate on what you're saying because
I have so much going on in my head right now.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That is a true life as a mom. We have
like fifty five things going on in our head and
efty five.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's generous. Oh is that goa fifty? Okay? I feel
like one hundred, one hundred, maybe a hundred. We have
one hundred things. But sometimes you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Just like you don't know again where to start, where
to begin, how to relieve the stress that's going on?
And time saving is a masterful thing that I think
a lot of us moms want to conquer.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But may not know how to. And I think that's it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Moms want more time, yeah, I want two more arms, yeah,
And I want time.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I like that, Like I basically want to get to
the end of.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The evening, after I've done everything, and then just switch
the clock to like two o'clock but everyone's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I want an extra I just want an extra bathtub,
But actually I want a larger bathtub. You know about
your baths, yeah, and how much you do baths, because
it makes sense, that is my sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sanctuary.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I don't even know how to spell that word right
now because I can't think about it because our brains
are fried from getting pair. Well, you know, I'm at
the stage, so you know where g is fourteen, she's
a teen. We like to stay in our room and
be on her phone all the time. Where you, on
the other hand, are still in the younger ages of
your kiddos. And you got to know right now, especially
(01:43):
maybe more than I do, because time saving and you know,
life hacks right now are a lot different than when
my daughter was young.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So do you do any of those at home?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean I do. I have strategies. I mean, that's
kind of how I think about it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Because the thing about like finding a hack or finding
something that works, is it just changes so quickly, you know,
like all of a sudden. My two older ones, so yes,
my kids are younger. We seven, six and three.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So I'm in it. That's what everyone says to me. There,
Oh you're in it.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Oh yeah, And I was like, I don't quite I
never quite understood what now you are? Now it's like, oh,
oh yeah, yeah, I'm in it. But so for me,
it's it's it's about strategizing, like what gives me more
time and gets a task accomplished faster. For instance, like
(02:36):
we were getting the kids clothes ready and putting them
out before bed. H but now they're picking their own clothes,
so that changes, right, that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It is, it's actually really helpful.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And then on the close topic, I got rid of
half of my kids clothes and that has been a huge,
like time, like it suck having too many clothes.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I was gonna say that alleviates them wondering, oh my god,
what am I gonna wear?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Whenever I gonna wear well? And not only that, it's
less clothes to pick.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Up, yes, watch yeah, right, So I found that just
having my son have three pairs of pants, you know,
and then he has these two shirts that he likes.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
He likes to go back and forth, so he just
bought duplicates of those, so he's four on a couple undershirts,
you know, a handful of underwear and socks and all
that stuff, and it's like his closet.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Looks like nobody really, it looks phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Right, So that was like, that's my one one little
tip that I learned with having like a seven and
six year old is you can still kind of have
control over that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, you know the clothes, Yeah, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, So less clothes, lesser clothes. I like that because
that's funny because I'm actually working on my own closet
right now because it's a disaster. And so my sister's like, Krista,
I'm gonna go to Target and I'm buy all these
like big bins.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And you're gonna work with that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And then Gia is my next step to help her
with her room because it's a hot mess.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It feels so good and well, you think.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
About when you travel, right, yeah, and you have a
suitcase and you're just living out of that suitcase.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's so much easier to pick out outfits.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It is, so then think about it for kids when
they have less clothes, they're not throwing things out of
you know, their drawers or their closet, pulling things down
if they only have a few things, and then you
can recycle them. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's like toys, put stuff away in them. Bring I
just I just throw that stuff away in my garbage.
I don't have time for that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
For people who get a lot, I.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mean, you're like, I don't want to get rid of
all this nice stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know, just kind of bring it in and now, Yeah,
I do feel guilty.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I honestly just did that because I obviously just worked
on my own closet and I just threw it all away.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In the garbage. I think that's great. Why not why
not get it in the garbage, get it in the garbage.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, that's what we're talking about today is time saving
hacks for all your busy moms out there. And we
came across some really great things. I love the fact
that first off, we're going to talk about meal planning.
I think this is one of the greatest things. But
I also will warn you that this is one of
the longest things that you will prepare. I mean you
literally have to take a day and dedicate yourself two
(05:04):
meal planning. Yeah, it's like when you have cleaners, you
have to like clean for the cleaners.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, right, Yeah, you have to meal plan for the
meal planning.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right, because if you're going if you have like a
family of five and you're all about, you know, making
chicken for all week. Can you imagine the time you
have to spend. You probably spend like three hours, four
hours that day just to make chicken. Oh, to prep
for all these meals that you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I'm looking at some of our notes here, and
I love the crock pot.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I want to start off right there. Thank you. We
should have a song. Oh, thank you put it in
my crock pot. Don't take it kind of the show.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, I mean I have the Ninja and that sucker.
I do so many pork roast in that bad boy
on the slow cooker.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
A ninja.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I thought that was a blender. My ninja has everything. Okay, okay,
it has an air fyer.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And so it just cooks faster.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yes it does. Yeah, you can cook a steak in
this bad boy. We don't by the way, we don't
endorse Ninja, but we would love it. Twenty minutes. You
can put a file at in that sucker for twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
So twenty minutes you can cook a full full a
steak in a ninja.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, your chicken. That's saving time for parents right there.
Yes it is. What else can you do? That's all
I can do. Chicken nugget. It can do chicken nugget.
That's what we make talk. Oh, I'm gonna give my broccoli.
Yeah you can.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, it's expensive, I'll put it out there. But okay, ninja,
we need you to Okay, we need you, We need you.
So yeah, So if you're gonna think about doing meal planning,
you just have to make sure you can strategize, make
sure you have all the things that you want to
put all the food in, because that's what meal prepping
and everything is all about. Right.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
But the ninja is a great thing.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And I think with meal planning to you know, you know,
get that pad of paper out right the Monday through Friday.
And I always think of meal planning is like dinners, right,
so I write all the dinners down taco.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I try and stick to things.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So I don't I think that people want to be
fancy because we get that on Instagram so much like
look at this new meal, look at this new sauce.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Look at this all that you know, and it's.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like, at the end of the day, we don't have
to be that fancy, especially when you're in it like
meat or like when you have kids in general.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, butza is fine for like.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Why can't it just beat pizza on Fridays with you know,
roasted broccoli and you do that every Friday because in
seven days you'll forget that you ate that, you know,
And that that's why I try and stick a stick
to like themes taco Tuesdays or like spaghetty Wednesday. And
it doesn't mean you have to do the same pasta
and the same sauce and the same meatballs. You can
shake it up, do turkey meatballs. You could do meat sauce,
(07:45):
white sauce, red sauce. But Wednesday is your pasta day
with bread and.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Maybe green beans and peaches or something.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think one time you should share with us all
your recipes that you do, because I.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Know she's like, oh, what are you I'm like on
the phone with her, are you doing. Oh, I'm just
making soup, homemade soup, like two of them right now.
And I'm like, girl, do you know how bad I
want to learn how to make soup. She's like, come
on me, I'm going to teach you how to make soup.
I make a lot of it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Just made this really good white bean chicken chili and
it was so easy.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Do you make enough to prep to like save and
put in the freezer?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah, I mean I can put it in the freezer
and I have Okay. See, I'm actually probably not the
best hacked mom here because I don't particularly love leftovers.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh you don't, so, but my husband does, my kids do.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Then that's the other thing is when you're meal planning
and you make beef tacos on Tuesday, expect that you're
gonna eat that one, not Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But Thursday. You know, just a different form. You can
make them into enchiladas or something. Hella, all right, So
let's talk about meal delivery services door dash Uber since.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I broke my foot back in August.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Sure, or it's like a ten percent overhead or whatever
you know they add on.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, they have like a fee and then the trip.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And it really really when you think about like the
gas and you know all the time and the time
and then all the stuff you buy, when you just
kind of look around like, oh I need those ranch chips.
Oh I need extra carrots when you already have a
bag of carrots. So like, I really do think that
you can eat.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I think it's great. I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I mean I can just go on to my phone,
you know, go to Target if I want. Who doesn't
want Target up? Oh yeah, we talked about that. We
talked about the Target drive up. So if you have
yet to be able to experience it, we highly recommend
that you do. Not. Everybody though, has access to that.
When I lived in Masomania, we don't have access to anything.
So if you're living in the country, sorry, you got
to get in your car and you're gonna have to drive.
(09:43):
You're gonna have to drive. I like this idea about
a mom had written about this. She says, you know
what a really great idea is using restaurant apps with
your kids. So what she does with her kiddos, they
each get to choose where they want to eat, like
during the week. So if you you know, if you
(10:04):
have one kid, you have two kids, and she has
the app open for each single child to the restaurant
that they want, and so it's just very very easy.
So you know, maybe it's just one child the week
that they choose. This is what you know I want
to go do, and you already have it ready to go.
It's on your phone. You have the restaurant apps, you know,
you know your kids love you're ready to go.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, you know that's great. We always do take out Thursday.
I like that because it's kind of not quite Friday
and you need something to feel special about.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
The week's hard. Yeah, I've always kind of felt bad
for that day. For Thursdays or Fridays.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Thursdays it's thirsty Thursday. They have a great days for
the adults, right, for some adults with other kids kids,
you know. So we do take out Thursdays. You get
to get kind of all do that app thing.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
That's a smart idea. Yeah, she she goes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
On Friday nights, each of our five kids gets to
choose what we eat on a rotation. They all have
their favorite restaurants, even the three year old. So I
save time by having the apps for their favorite restaurant
on the phone, saving our favorite orders and just reordering.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It when it comes. That's smart. Yeah, that's smart. That's
a Mamma five.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's a good Mamma fi. Yes, what do you think
about Amazon for shopping like food?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We're talking? You could do food, Okay. I do Amazon
all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I don't typically do it for food, okay, but
I think I know people love it.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I think like you, I don't. I don't buy food.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I buy food for my cats, like I'll give that
same But you know, like your toilet trees all those things.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, I mean I do that.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I do drive up Target for like all my house stuff.
I do Amazon for really anything I can think of.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Like I needed a.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
New outlet and I was like, oh, I could go
to Target and buy like a five dollar outlet or
just have it sent to me, because if I go
to Target for something like a five dollar outlet, I'm
going to end up spending eighty dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Crap.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I don't need you walk through that. You know they
do that, they do that to you. So yeah, I
do for stuff like that, but not food.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Not food. Yeahah, I would love to talk to somebody
who does that. I don't even know if that's even
an Amazon food.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
It's through Whole Foods because Whole fought out by Amazon.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, Yeah, the only thing again, I get the twenty
four cans of wet food for my cats, Stinky and
Cocoa puff.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Wait, your cat's name is Stinky. Yeah, okay, Yeah, we're
gonna have to talk about.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, I have issues, but don't judge me. Uh,
here's a very easy one planning your week out. We
all know what calendars mean. Uh. There are so many
great ways though, outside of the old school calendar, which
I always use. But you know, I'm sure that you
do with your kiddo's. You put a lot of stuff
on your refrigerator as I do.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It all a handwritten calendar. Oh you do, my soul.
I can't do the online stuff. You can't see it all.
I like to hide.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I'm like, I'm definitely the nineties girl, you know where
you like highlighted and then color code. Each kid has
a color and I like that. So, I mean, I'm
sure as sports get into my lives and like, you know,
different things that kids do is for high I'm gonna
have to eventually get one of those screens. I was
at my friend's house visiting her over the holiday break,
and she had one of those really fancy screens where
(13:08):
it shows you the calendar and you can touch it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I feel like we sound like little does she
have a Louis Vuitton purse too? Okay, this is what
I figured.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
But no, no, no, but this is like the new. This
is it. This is what we're moving towards.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Like the screen calendar on your kitchen counter and you
press it, and her little girl was showing me how
like you can have her chores on there and you
like touch it's touch screen, no pens.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No papers, it's in it's in the like a tablet.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Literally, people are laughing at us right now because we
sound like old ladies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh we are, yeah, we are on this really, this
is amazing. I want to see one. Yeah, it's just
like a Google calendar, but it's on a screen. It's
like a tablet and it sits on your Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I read the name of this Amazon. Yeah, okay, we'll
just see. Gosh, now we're gonna we're going to go broke.
And that's another that's another subject to talk about. So yeah,
these are just some you know, little life hacks. By
the way, let's go back to the the discussion that
we were talking about with like a meal delivery services.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
There is one.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Here if you live in the Madison, Wisconsin area that
we came across, which I think is super super cute
for meal planning.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, it is ismus.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes eats, it'smus eats. And the great thing about it
they have one specifically for baby eat baby eats.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Mom, like, moms need the most help when they have babies.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes, I'm sorry. There was a time that my boobies
were not producing anywhere else. So what do I do?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Baby foods baby? I had to look this place up.
I don't know anything about them. They sound really cool.
Well that's a Madison, Wisconsin Yes. Yeah, they delivery service, right,
you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They say that if you have a six to eighteen
month old, well then baby Eats maybe for you. They
they said their kids are designed for parents of children's
ages sixteen eighteen interested in baby lead weaning concepts, so
spoom feeding, you name it. They've got homemade parades, a
lot of great stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't have a baby, but I'm in. No, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Will you feed me?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Will you feed me? Give me baby?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I don't know, I don't know, we don't know, we
don't We just got to figure out what's the next thing.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
We gotta do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Like as a mom, hacked just for you on a
personal level, like do you have anything that you try
and like, you know, I don't know something like I feel.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like my management is like huge. I know, yes, especially
with you know, with working and now you know, with
you being in a high school. Now she's got things
that she's committed to. Like her next thing is trying
out for musicals. But it's it's trying to maneuver all
of those things.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Okay, but that's for her. What do you do? But
that's for her? How do I like? How do you?
How do you do you do? Is there any hacks
for moms? Like I'm thinking, like, oh, music ourselves? You
listen to music?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, it's it's really the best thing that fills my
so brand new information as a radio absolutely brand did
not know that you like music? But at all for me, No,
that is that is my you know, that is my
place I like to you know, like candles, Uh, listen
to music and that always allows me to you know,
(16:29):
get the house clean a little bit, you know, more
enjoyable because I can dance or I can cry whatever
in the mood I'm in. And also when it comes
to work too, Like I listen to music all the
time when I'm writing commercials. It's a great distractor from
all the other distractions that are going on.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, what about you, I mean as far as like
a hack.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Person, I mean, like for me, I think, and I'm
speaking for the stay at home moms or the moms
who work part time, or the moms who are home yea.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, I feel like when you have.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
A job, sometimes you know, you get the you get
the prize of either providing being the breadwinner, you know,
telling your boss you've done something great or whatever, or
maybe you're the boss.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But like when you're home, you do all this invisible work.
I mean working moms do too. I'm just saying, you know,
like the amount of invisible work I do. So for me,
it's like sometimes I need to do something that I
really see. Like for instance, I you know, to instead
(17:33):
of compressing all my spring cleaning and like a month
or two in springtime, I just have like this ongoing
list in my paper calendar of like linen, closet, pantry.
I know it sounds so boring, but like when I clean, it.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sounds so adult ish, Like I would never say my
pantry or there you go. It's in the cover, you know,
and I clean it and organize it and then I
see it, yeah, you know, and it's so nice.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Makes you feel good, Yeah, it makes me feel good.
So sometimes I have.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Like a annual cyclical, you know, like pantry, linen clu
like that bathroom one bathroom.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well, then you're achieving something too. You're seeing that I
achieve this.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
The prizes done it, you know, and I feel like
I don't have that because I don't necessarily have nine
to five, which again I'm not saying it. I was
saying working moms also don't have that necessarily.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
But you know, like I don't really I get what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I'm not quite the breadwinner in the family. So like, okay,
my pantry will be pretty, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I just want to put out there for any of
you that do enjoy taking the bass like I do.
One life hack is and I did get this from
my boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I thought it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's this very beautiful like wooden like tray that you
can put into your bathroom so then you can put
like your candle line, your wine and your phone. And
I didn't have one of those so and I got
one and I loved it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yes, I love itub it So anyway, that's that's my
life hack. So uh yeah, well there you go. That's
what we have for you. Hopefully it'll you know, help you,
I hope. If not, we failed.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Or everyone just kind of listened to us jabber, which
we do, which we do.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Definitely we we do.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I'm excited because mss Krena and I do have something
that we're going to be talking about in the horizon
and maybe eventually we can bring that on the show.
But you and I are going to be you know,
putting our brains together. You know, I don't know on TV.
I don't know something something.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean, we don't we don't like talking or music. No,
we don't like people. It's not gonna have anything to
do with any of that. Absolutely not not. I love you, honey,
things for coming in.
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