This week on the Mom Squad Corrina leads the conversation about our personal journey's as moms on a daily and helpful tips to get through the craziness of it all! We also have a very special guest, Corrina's first child Julian aka super star! Julian gives us the funny insight on his mom and dad and Krista shares something she's she feels really guilty doing. Is she alone? Come take a break from mom life and relax for awhile!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the mads 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 (00:14):
Well, I have the most adorable twinsies in the house.
Of course, that Crina Craye. You're always adorable. And we
have Julian, your your first child.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah he is my baby.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh wait flush child seven and a half years old.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he also has a birthday coming ups,
you're almost eight, crazy hi day pria birthday? Well, and
you know, Chris, I have to tell you, yes, So
I had to tell you though, why he's here, okay,
And and this is really for the moms.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Okay. So Julian had made a.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Comment and so did my daughter, you know, who's also
about a year younger than him, that you know that
mom does chores and stays at home, right, And I do, right.
But then I was like, well I also do other things,
and they're like yeah, And I was like, oh my god,
I don't think you realize I work too, and I
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have stuff. And so I thought, well, why don't I
bring them in show them a little bit, and you know,
especially for the moms who are stay at homes, like
all of our invisible work, all that work we do
is so it's not seen right, but it's so much right,
and so it's important to talk about that with their kids.
And then if you do have a side hustle, or
if you do have a part time job, or you're
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doing some things late at night, to integrate them and
show them.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, because I just so I don't want to be
the mom that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Just does chores, does way more than just chores. So
she is like superwoman, Julian super Woman.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, Okay, there's a lot of songs about women.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, there's a lot of songs about women, which we love.
I love it, okay, girl. Also, what is on the
brink here?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Well, so we're talking a little bit about balancing it
going in, you know, scooting into the topic of moms.
We do so much, let's talk about balancing it all.
And I thought, how fun would it be if you
and I talked about days, our day, right going from
morning and to the end, and really just kind of
looking through parts that can make it easier. How can
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we make mom life more smooth, harmonious with the family
and the vibe we want.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I mean it's hard, yeah, it's hard work.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
And this can be for the dads, this can be
for whoever is really just raising those kids.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Kids.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We've got grandparents, grandparents their know. Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
And the reason why I think this is a great
topic is partially because I love talking about this, because
I get great ideas from other moms. I also love
working it through my brain about oh that you know,
I thought about this and now putting it down. So okay,
let's talk about balancing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
We're going to start immediately the first day of first
moments we wake up, sure, okay, okay, how do you
wake up?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Alarm clock?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yes, kids, alarm clock okay, alarm clock minor usually kids, Okay,
they come in. I actually woke up this morning to
my kids saying, my cat is named Mittens.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And he said, Mittens is going to jail.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh he got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I said, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And I walked out and there's a gigantic tub of
catnip sprinkled all over.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
My hallway and bedroom. The three year old did it?
Not the cat?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay, So so right away that's how I wake up.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So if you wake up with alarm, clock or kids
or whatever. It is.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
One of the things I always like to talk about
is breakfast. So breakfast is hard, right because there's some
people that eat My daughter loves bread, my son loves breakfast,
my daughter doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Everyone's in chaos mode.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I have three kids trying to get lunchboxes out, We're
trying to get waters out, We're trying to do it
all right. Kids also wake up at different times. Yeah,
and so what did you do with Gia? Did you
like lay out breakfast options?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Do you eat in the morning, like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What is your Well it's funny because yes, and you know,
now her being a teenager, she doesn't she doesn't eat breakfast,
not at all. No, it's just she's just not. I
think it's because she's like, I'm not awake yet. Sure,
so she's one of those that waits till, you know, afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But when she was younger, yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.
You know when I was I make sure, you know,
i'd have a meal for her ready to go, right,
And I remember like all those like cute little like
banana puffs, your diaper bag, you have your bananas your Yeah,
so that's so cute to like think about those old
school days. But yeah, today it is difficult, especially with
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the teenager, because they do not want to get up.
They just want to sleep until three in the afternoon.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Funny, my six year old is like that, she doesn't
like to eat, right, So I only so here are
I like tips for because I have more the seven
aged you know, kids six and one of the couple tips,
I looked up stuff and I have tried it in
the last couple of weeks, and these are the things
that I think are the fastest and most nutritious and cheapest.
Soa protein pancakes. You can buy pancake mix and protein
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powder and throw the protein powder in. You can make
a boatload of these pancakes and then put them in
the toaster. Yeah, so you can put them in the refrigerator,
and then if you have like a seven year old,
you can actually have them like put it out and
then put have them put them in the toaster, but
you're not making pancakes. And then you add in some
blueberries in there, and so with the added protein, the
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kids get a little bit more to it. And I
love it because you can really buy any pancake mix
you know anything on sale.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I tend to go with the Kodiak brand just because
I like.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Write at and then obviously pair it with bananas apples.
Did you know that one apple is equivalent to a
half a cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No, in caffeine.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Interesting, I've already had two apples and what time is it?
It's eleven eleven in the morning, right.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you feel awake?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, and two cups of coffee.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
There's actual proof that it does the same to you,
the sugars and the starch and how it affects our bodies.
And so having a half apple or apple is equivalent
to kind of taking coffee. And obviously kids at seven
or six, like my kids, aren't going to be drinking coffee.
So though that was kind of the things that we
have implemented that and I do think it works. The
other nice thing is having cereal boxes laid out so
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that if you do have an early riser, you can
say you can start and then you know, they can
maybe pour their own milk, if not, just start with
the dry food. So that's a really great way of
kind of speeding up the breakfast thing. And then also
with breakfast, people have this urge especially moms, to make
things different, make things fancy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's really not about that.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It's about feeding and keeping the belly full enough to
get to school without being angry. Right, So stick to
easy bananas, apples, protein pancakes, waffles quickly put pop them
in cereal, and have the boxes out on the counter.
Another great tip I wanted to talk about in the
morning is to have your kid's favorite magazines and books
laid out on the counter so when they come or
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on the table or wherever you eat, even if it's
on the couch or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Have them be looking through something. Right. That's something that
we do, right, Julianne. Every morning or in most mornings, Mom.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Puts out week Junior, and they it kind of gives
them something to do in the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh, he asked the question, actually a statement.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Dad usually does that. So what it does mom? So
Dad and mom have an agreement. Mom sweeps in to wait,
do what Mom sweeps in because she sometimes stays up
till midnight.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Sure she deserves.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And then Dad's like all the ones are like, oh kids,
let's get going.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Correction, I'm the one that puts out the magazines and
the books the night before and yes I do sleep
in like twenty minutes because it is science that moms
need women need more sleep than men. And yes, Daddy
does morning routine most days. I do.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I do the evening routines. Okay, let's move on here now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Okay, So another really great tip about prepping in the
morning is to prep jackets, snow pants, shoes, boots, all
of that in the morning, especially if you have multiple kids.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Here's a great tip that I learned.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Put them in different areas so you're not all on
top of each other. So if some if your kids, say,
if you have a mudroom, put you know, Stephanie's stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
On the far end, like gather all of it the
night before. If you have.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Tom, put it far away so they're not on top
of each other.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Even I like we have a little walk in area
where like the table is in a couch.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I put the three year old stuff there.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
So that when they're getting their stuff on, they're not
bumping into each other, fighting with each other, and so
getting ready, he can be on kind of space.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There's space, right, It's nice.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, that's my boot.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Does that sound like anyone?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah? Yeah, well that sounds like me.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
When I was a kid, right, and then it really
has been really great.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So those are some morning routines.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Do you have any that's great, great morning routines that
make things easier for you?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well, I used to when I get up, you know,
obviously before Gia, now we're talking about maybe elementary school,
I would. I would put out then the cereal that,
get the milk ready, get the bowl out. So she knew, like, oh,
here we go, here's here's my breakfast that I need
to eat before school. So just to make it a
little easier, because you know, I was working at the time.
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I need to get myself ready too, so yeah those things.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, and then get them eating and looking at something.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You get a little extra time, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And then now you know, because I'm excited she's turning
fifteen next month, Oh my gosh, I know it's crazy,
but I buy now, like the power bars for her
on the go. And she has been working so hard
because she's in her first musical.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So not amazing her schedules.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We're like six point thirty in the morning till nine
o'clock at night every single night.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I couldn't do that, right, Like we're tired at that time.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Imagine having that as a long day for a kid.
For her I know, I know, I know, You'll have
to let us know when she performs. I'm so excited. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, having things out and ready it can take less
than five minutes at night and can save you literally
thirty minutes I feel like and chaos in the morning.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yes, you know, just a gentle reminder. So let's move
on here.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Then your kids are off to school and you're either
heading to work or you're doing your house stuff. I
always like to make and sit before I even start anything,
a list, and I like writing it down. I know
a lot of people use their phone and stuff, but
writing it down kind of gets you off the urge
to social media or anything. Sure, so I would love
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making a list that is labeled me to do home
and work, and so me is obviously anything that's for you.
Read ten pages, lift weights, maybe do that facial before
your shower. So it's really putting a little more emphasis
on yourself. Especially as parents, we don't, so it's forcing
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us to do that if we have a list. And
it's proven that if you write down, it becomes more
more available in your brain and you more, you will
more likely do it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Sure, it's like training, you know, because your brain is
like a tool and you're training it.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, to do is just your to do list.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Home stuff is like laundry, picking up something for the home,
and then obviously work is probably going to be a
longer list. But keeping it in those four categories and
really kind of having it there for you and obviously
these things get rolled over to the next day. I
don't think I've ever crossed off laundry on my list. No,
it's just never ending.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Why doesn't end? I know, I'll tell you it will
never end. I don't care how old your child gets,
it will never end.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Oh my goodness, that was not what I want to
do here to admit it. Yeah, and the two parents,
please do not forget the me section.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That's the me section.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You're you know, the facial or like for me, a
lot of it's like lift a couple of weeks before bed,
go for a long walk like you like, how often
do we really just set aside and be like this
is me time. Yeah, right, especially as parents have one
to more kids, you just you really do need to
do that. And then when you again, when you write
it down, it is more likely to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I like that. It's like affirmations.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's an affirmation.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
It is for yourself because to do list home and work,
it's never going to go away.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Meal planning.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Let's talk about a little meal planning, prepping this for
the week to make your life.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
A little easier.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I like to write out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and I do the same thing a lot every single day.
I make it a lot easier on myself. I try
not to be fancy parents, moms. This is your gentle
reminder that we don't need to be fancy. Get off Instagram. So, like,
what would be an average week for you? Spaghetty, So Monday,
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I try to like do things that I can remember
really quick.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And you know how I am with my brain.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So Monday is meatballs and pasta or meatless Monday so
grilled cheese, sandwich.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Tomato, soup.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So I try to stay like kind of play with
the words a little bit.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Tuesday always tacos okay, or if it's like a cold day,
like a turkey cast role and it seriously just make
the same thing over and over and over. Vegetarian tofuu
surfery that.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Could be oh yochi we do tofu oh good.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
And then Wednesday I like to do like worldly food
because you know, I love Indian food curries. You can
buy a lot of really great premate stuff at like
all these or Trader Joe's like.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
A Hivey like you know, just paneer and chicken. Sup.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
You can just cook and put rice on and if
your kids don't eat that, I do like a wacky
Wednesday where you do like breakfast for dinner and you
stick to it so you're not reinventing the wheel every
single week.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Thursday we always do take out Thursday.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh I remember you mentioneding that too.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I think it's a nice thing.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
It's a nice break for you. It's a great break.
We always eat on like yeah we do like.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh yeah that's today. What are you going to have Todayhi?
So she yeah okay.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
And then Friday we just stick to pizza and vegetables
things that are fast. So I think, you know, to
make your nights easier. It's hard with Instagram, I think,
and like social media where you're seeing all.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
These they're all perfect looking, yes.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I know, and they always want to claim that they're
trying to help you out, and I just feel like
they add more stress to me. So I stick to this, okay,
you know, I just try to not get nuts about it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You and kids really don't care.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It's funny because I do look at those and then
I'll take screen shots at them because oh I'm gonna
try to make that, and then and then I got
to get all the directions, so that's a different screen shot.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So much, I just do wacky Wednesday waffles, wild rice
right wise and stick with all that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I think it's kind of fun.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I love Saturdays is prepping, so I always like to
do soups and stews, all that kind of stuff, summer stuff, grilling.
So I just I think, you know, as I'm kind
of saying it out loud, I'm like, oh my gosh,
I hope people aren't listening, thinking like.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh, that is so stressed. Great mom, Karina.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well but see, here's the thing is, I have simplified
so much. I don't have to think about these things
when I do it this way. But you learned I
learned from other moms.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well yeah, but also you learn from the first child
you had to the second child. Yeah, to the third.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Child, Yeah, you're just kind of a hot mess until
you kind of get something right, and then you do
it over and over and over again. Yeah, you know,
and then and then I'm going to quote our co
host Doctor Jazz, who said, you know, at the end
of the day, it doesn't matter if you fed your
it's potato chips and soup again for the fourth time.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
They just want to know they were loved and that
they're safe.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
You know, Doctor just said that to me when Julian
was just a baby, and I thought, oh my god,
that is such a beautiful reminder. So as I'm going
through all this, just remember it doesn't matter really well,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know what the greatest thing it happened to me
last week. Actually, you know, it's like eight o'clock, nine
o'clock at night in bed and my daughter Gia just
just comes into my room and gives me a big
hug and says, I love you. Oh you know, and
when you get to a teenage level, that doesn't always happen, right,
I know. They're just like they love to escape by
themselves in the rooms, and I was just like, that
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is everything. It made me so happy. Well, isn't that just.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Like a little the gift, the gift of you are
a great mom and you have been.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
And she is just a she's a sweetheart. I can't
wait to see her grow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, she's gonna become like a doctor jazz.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
She's gonna be coming on a show.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Okay, So we're gonna move into bedtime talking about how
to make things smoother and balancing it all. So with bedtime,
I always like to think of ways to make it
easier on the kids, because when it's easier on the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It's easier on the adults.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
So with my kids, obviously you have a teenager, so
we're talking about totally different. We're talking about five to
ten year olds here. I mean, it's just potty. It's
potty peach's and brush teeth or bathroom PJS and brush teeth.
I think what's important is to just give them, like
give them like half of it to do on their
own and the other half you do.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
So now, if you're talking about a teenager, tell me about.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
How that goes.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They just do it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
When it comes to bedtime. Oh, there's not routine, there's
really Oh girl, it's a really it's it's you constantly
going in and being like, uh oh, honey, are you
in bed yet? Yeah? I will, mom, I'm you know,
or I'm not tired yet. That's a big one. I'm
not tired yet. So it is really difficult to you know,
get your teenage to like, you know, say, okay, this
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is that time. Like it doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I can't believe. I couldn't imagine at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know, so interesting. You know, Gia woke up at
like five thirty in the morning started getting ready. I'm like,
that never happens. I'm like, honey, what are you doing
up so early? And you know, she's just getting ready
for her big day of school and rehearsal. So I
think she, you know, felt eager about eager to get
ready and have things done. But I was like, that
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never happens. So, but let's be honest parents of teenagers.
You know that you hear your teen talking in their
room on their phone at twelve o'clock at night, then
you got to go in and what are you doing
on the phone? Number one? Yeah, So yeah, it comes
and goes.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, and I'm sure too.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Like it's like I kind of like feel that as
like a teenager. Remember we didn't have phones obviously, not
to age myself here, but I still remember my dad.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Knocking on the door. How come your lights still on?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Right? I mean we all used to do it, let's
be right.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Well, if you have kids more in the five to ten,
giving them like half the things to do and then
also helping them with half is always a great way
of splitting it up between two parents.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
That gives them independence.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So I always have them do the PJS and brush
teeth and all that, and then I do the reading
and kind of prepping for the next day. Or you know,
if you have any medications they need to take, that
should be a parent thing.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
My daughter works hearing aids.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
We always have to push them out so beautiful, put
batteries in them, the whole shebang. And then to just
end it all with kind of the end of the
day for moms, balancing it all. I always like to
clean up at the end of the day, and I
set myself a timer, or I listen to four songs
on a playlist and I say, when that's done, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh I like that, that's great.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You know, I just sometimes I'll just put on the
oven like twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, and I say, I
got to just clean up all these dishes, get the
dish rusher, do a big swipe through the house of
whatever's really necessary to clean. You know, I don't clean everything,
but I think about it like, oh that you know,
the train set on the floor.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You wake up in the morning groggy, that needs to
be picked up.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Do you know what I'm guilty of? And I'm just
gonna throw it out there. I know I can't be
the only one, but I do feel guilty about it
because I do. I get tired when I do the laundry.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I will let that sucker sit in there until the
next day because I feel like I don't want to
go and exchange it into now the dryer so I
can now do the you know, folding of the dryer.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Yeah, I just please tell me. I'm not feeling you
are one hundred percent not the early Yeah. No, I
thought that was normal.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, I you know, you know what I will do,
and I do it the other day. I'm like, oh,
dang it, I fregot, you know, because it'll have the
light on of my clothes being done, I'm like, dangn
those kind of been in there a little long, so
I'll put another fragrant, you know, like another thing, and yeah,
and do the short short one I do. Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
No, that's that's that's not guilt, that's a survival.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Wow. I honestly, it was like, oh god, I'm being
really lazy.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, no, I haven't feel that way.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Okay, great said literally you never cross off his laundry.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, No, I love the girl. I do that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, I just did that, and then I do the speedwash.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
If I've left it in too long, I throw in
another detergent.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I just do like a ten minute.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Why because I think it's so funny. Oh my god,
I love that. Love that You're like, oh I feel
really I do you look so guilty?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Get over yourself.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
No, no, no, now you think about me every time
you put that speedwa wash.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm doing a krea wash.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh my gosh, I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Okay, good, Okay.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So I was like, just at timers, I like to
do ten minutes of prep for the next morning, even
if that means like pulling out jackets or whatever. I
look at my knee portion of the to do list?
Did I do something? Can I do something for me?
Did I forget my vitamins? Did I forget to drink water?
I always like to do a little weightlifting, but I
have no time and not a lot of motivation to
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get to the gym. So I actually put weights underneath
my bed yep, and I have the bands, you know,
like the human rubber bands, and then I have the
ankle weights, and I just do like.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
A little sub a minute.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I look up something on YouTube where it's like plot
E's lifting and that's enough.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
For me at this point.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I mean, in the season of my life, I'm not
getting to the gym well.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And I just want to say thank you for giving
me the confidence to be like could you go? You know,
I don't know how working out came up this morning
and we started seeing each other, but uh, you know,
I was like, oh, yeah, well, you know, I got
my I'm getting my butt into the do you say
what do you are working out good?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And you're walking great?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Because I'm walking because of my injury. That's why it's great.
Oh oh you're sweet. But but I was saying like, yeah,
I have to force myself to get into the gym
like at four am in the morning before work, because
if I don't get this leg strong, I won't I
won't walk properly again. So and then so that was sweet.
You know again it's women empowering women, right, and that's
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what you were doing well.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And this is what I hope you know the listeners
are getting from here.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You know that you and I are really real moms, right,
and two totally different phases, and all of these tips
and stuff can be implemented in really anybody's life. But
it's it's not even like here's what you should do.
It's like, I'm a mom.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
These are the things that worked. And I think that's
that's the greatest thing.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
And that's why I love doing what we do Christa
so much, is because our conversations is empowering other people.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Hopefully that's our hope, right.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
And you do it to me all the time, Doctor
Jazz does it to me all the time. It's like,
I have you guys in my brains. You're my mom friends.
Oh yeah, and we have to have that.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
This is it takes a village of moms.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh my gosh, yes, all right, wouldn't be fun just
to do a mom retreat like, oh my god, be fun.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yes, sign me up.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Anyways, I hope somebody got something out of this wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You know, Mommy is not easy, but we are here
for you.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
We would also I think it would be fun too
if moms ever wanted to, like say, this is hard,
and you and I can talk about it like we should.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
We should be reaching out so people.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, if you ever want to like reach out to
us and you know, talk about topics that you're interested in,
we'd love to hear from you. Yeah. You know you
can always find us on social media. You know, we're
all over there, so here personally we're here.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I love that well, and thank you young man for
coming in here. Julian, what do you do you want.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
To say something?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I am I've never been here. Mom says I've been
to a radio show when I was little, but I
still don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Oh, believe me, you have do I you've been to
many radio stations, my fine? Man?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Do you stay organized?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Well, it depends what topic I'm on, like.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
School morning routine.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Oh yeah, alarm.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
At and then I never wake up at six.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Twenty okay, sure, it's difficult.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
And then I mean I never wake up at six twenty,
I wake up, oh yeah, oh. And then my dad's
always like, I'm gosh, I won't shave, but I'm not
gonna be light.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I'm my dad.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
We're gonna be white. And then we're not, he puts.
And then for every school black fits is ceial because
it's so quick.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
And then there you go, yeah, yeah, the mom's still sleeping.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
No no, I'm not still sleeping, and I'm getting things ready.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
They just don't see me.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You're so funny.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
This is when.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
This is when we shook the mind off. IM just kidding.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
This is the Matton Mom Squad podcast, a production of
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Here.
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with Christa and her squad.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, I have the most adorable twinsies in the house.
Of course, that Crina Craye. You're always adorable. And we
have Julian, your your first child.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah he is my baby.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh wait flush child seven and a half years old.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he also has a birthday coming ups,
you're almost eight, crazy hi day pria birthday? Well, and
you know, Chris, I have to tell you, yes, So
I had to tell you though, why he's here, okay,
And and this is really for the moms.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Okay. So Julian had made a.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Comment and so did my daughter, you know, who's also
about a year younger than him, that you know that
mom does chores and stays at home, right, And I do, right.
But then I was like, well I also do other things,
and they're like yeah, And I was like, oh my god,
I don't think you realize I work too, and I
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have stuff. And so I thought, well, why don't I
bring them in show them a little bit, and you know,
especially for the moms who are stay at homes, like
all of our invisible work, all that work we do
is so it's not seen right, but it's so much right,
and so it's important to talk about that with their kids.
And then if you do have a side hustle, or
if you do have a part time job, or you're
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doing some things late at night, to integrate them and
show them.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, because I just so I don't want to be
the mom that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Just does chores, does way more than just chores. So
she is like superwoman, Julian super Woman.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, Okay, there's a lot of songs about women.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, there's a lot of songs about women, which we love.
I love it, okay, girl. Also, what is on the
brink here?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Well, so we're talking a little bit about balancing it
going in, you know, scooting into the topic of moms.
We do so much, let's talk about balancing it all.
And I thought, how fun would it be if you
and I talked about days, our day, right going from
morning and to the end, and really just kind of
looking through parts that can make it easier. How can
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we make mom life more smooth, harmonious with the family
and the vibe we want.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I mean it's hard, yeah, it's hard work.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
And this can be for the dads, this can be
for whoever is really just raising those kids.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Kids.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We've got grandparents, grandparents their know. Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
And the reason why I think this is a great
topic is partially because I love talking about this, because
I get great ideas from other moms. I also love
working it through my brain about oh that you know,
I thought about this and now putting it down. So okay,
let's talk about balancing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
We're going to start immediately the first day of first
moments we wake up, sure, okay, okay, how do you
wake up?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Alarm clock?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yes, kids, alarm clock okay, alarm clock minor usually kids, Okay,
they come in. I actually woke up this morning to
my kids saying, my cat is named Mittens.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And he said, Mittens is going to jail.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh he got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I said, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And I walked out and there's a gigantic tub of
catnip sprinkled all over.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
My hallway and bedroom. The three year old did it?
Not the cat?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay, So so right away that's how I wake up.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So if you wake up with alarm, clock or kids
or whatever. It is.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
One of the things I always like to talk about
is breakfast. So breakfast is hard, right because there's some
people that eat My daughter loves bread, my son loves breakfast,
my daughter doesn't.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Everyone's in chaos mode.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I have three kids trying to get lunchboxes out, We're
trying to get waters out, We're trying to do it
all right. Kids also wake up at different times. Yeah,
and so what did you do with Gia? Did you
like lay out breakfast options?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Do you eat in the morning, like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What is your Well it's funny because yes, and you know,
now her being a teenager, she doesn't she doesn't eat breakfast,
not at all. No, it's just she's just not. I
think it's because she's like, I'm not awake yet. Sure,
so she's one of those that waits till, you know, afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But when she was younger, yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.
You know when I was I make sure, you know,
i'd have a meal for her ready to go, right,
And I remember like all those like cute little like
banana puffs, your diaper bag, you have your bananas your Yeah,
so that's so cute to like think about those old
school days. But yeah, today it is difficult, especially with
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the teenager, because they do not want to get up.
They just want to sleep until three in the afternoon.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Funny, my six year old is like that, she doesn't
like to eat, right, So I only so here are
I like tips for because I have more the seven
aged you know, kids six and one of the couple tips,
I looked up stuff and I have tried it in
the last couple of weeks, and these are the things
that I think are the fastest and most nutritious and cheapest.
Soa protein pancakes. You can buy pancake mix and protein
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powder and throw the protein powder in. You can make
a boatload of these pancakes and then put them in
the toaster. Yeah, so you can put them in the refrigerator,
and then if you have like a seven year old,
you can actually have them like put it out and
then put have them put them in the toaster, but
you're not making pancakes. And then you add in some
blueberries in there, and so with the added protein, the
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kids get a little bit more to it. And I
love it because you can really buy any pancake mix
you know anything on sale.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I tend to go with the Kodiak brand just because
I like.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Write at and then obviously pair it with bananas apples.
Did you know that one apple is equivalent to a
half a cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No, in caffeine.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Interesting, I've already had two apples and what time is it?
It's eleven eleven in the morning, right.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you feel awake?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, and two cups of coffee.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
There's actual proof that it does the same to you,
the sugars and the starch and how it affects our bodies.
And so having a half apple or apple is equivalent
to kind of taking coffee. And obviously kids at seven
or six, like my kids, aren't going to be drinking coffee.
So though that was kind of the things that we
have implemented that and I do think it works. The
other nice thing is having cereal boxes laid out so
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that if you do have an early riser, you can
say you can start and then you know, they can
maybe pour their own milk, if not, just start with
the dry food. So that's a really great way of
kind of speeding up the breakfast thing. And then also
with breakfast, people have this urge especially moms, to make
things different, make things fancy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's really not about that.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It's about feeding and keeping the belly full enough to
get to school without being angry. Right, So stick to
easy bananas, apples, protein pancakes, waffles quickly put pop them
in cereal, and have the boxes out on the counter.
Another great tip I wanted to talk about in the
morning is to have your kid's favorite magazines and books
laid out on the counter so when they come or
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on the table or wherever you eat, even if it's
on the couch or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Have them be looking through something. Right. That's something that
we do, right, Julianne. Every morning or in most mornings, Mom.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Puts out week Junior, and they it kind of gives
them something to do in the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh, he asked the question, actually a statement.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Dad usually does that. So what it does mom? So
Dad and mom have an agreement. Mom sweeps in to wait,
do what Mom sweeps in because she sometimes stays up
till midnight.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Sure she deserves.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And then Dad's like all the ones are like, oh kids,
let's get going.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Correction, I'm the one that puts out the magazines and
the books the night before and yes I do sleep
in like twenty minutes because it is science that moms
need women need more sleep than men. And yes, Daddy
does morning routine most days. I do.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I do the evening routines. Okay, let's move on here now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Okay, So another really great tip about prepping in the
morning is to prep jackets, snow pants, shoes, boots, all
of that in the morning, especially if you have multiple kids.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Here's a great tip that I learned.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Put them in different areas so you're not all on
top of each other. So if some if your kids, say,
if you have a mudroom, put you know, Stephanie's stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
On the far end, like gather all of it the
night before. If you have.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Tom, put it far away so they're not on top
of each other.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Even I like we have a little walk in area
where like the table is in a couch.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I put the three year old stuff there.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
So that when they're getting their stuff on, they're not
bumping into each other, fighting with each other, and so
getting ready, he can be on kind of space.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There's space, right, It's nice.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, that's my boot.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Does that sound like anyone?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah? Yeah, well that sounds like me.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
When I was a kid, right, and then it really
has been really great.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So those are some morning routines.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Do you have any that's great, great morning routines that
make things easier for you?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well, I used to when I get up, you know,
obviously before Gia, now we're talking about maybe elementary school,
I would. I would put out then the cereal that,
get the milk ready, get the bowl out. So she knew, like, oh,
here we go, here's here's my breakfast that I need
to eat before school. So just to make it a
little easier, because you know, I was working at the time.
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I need to get myself ready too, so yeah those things.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, and then get them eating and looking at something.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You get a little extra time, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And then now you know, because I'm excited she's turning
fifteen next month, Oh my gosh, I know it's crazy,
but I buy now, like the power bars for her
on the go. And she has been working so hard
because she's in her first musical.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So not amazing her schedules.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We're like six point thirty in the morning till nine
o'clock at night every single night.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I couldn't do that, right, Like we're tired at that time.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Imagine having that as a long day for a kid.
For her I know, I know, I know, You'll have
to let us know when she performs. I'm so excited. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, having things out and ready it can take less
than five minutes at night and can save you literally
thirty minutes I feel like and chaos in the morning.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yes, you know, just a gentle reminder. So let's move
on here.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Then your kids are off to school and you're either
heading to work or you're doing your house stuff. I
always like to make and sit before I even start anything,
a list, and I like writing it down. I know
a lot of people use their phone and stuff, but
writing it down kind of gets you off the urge
to social media or anything. Sure, so I would love
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making a list that is labeled me to do home
and work, and so me is obviously anything that's for you.
Read ten pages, lift weights, maybe do that facial before
your shower. So it's really putting a little more emphasis
on yourself. Especially as parents, we don't, so it's forcing
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us to do that if we have a list. And
it's proven that if you write down, it becomes more
more available in your brain and you more, you will
more likely do it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Sure, it's like training, you know, because your brain is
like a tool and you're training it.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, to do is just your to do list.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Home stuff is like laundry, picking up something for the home,
and then obviously work is probably going to be a
longer list. But keeping it in those four categories and
really kind of having it there for you and obviously
these things get rolled over to the next day. I
don't think I've ever crossed off laundry on my list. No,
it's just never ending.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Why doesn't end? I know, I'll tell you it will
never end. I don't care how old your child gets,
it will never end.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Oh my goodness, that was not what I want to
do here to admit it. Yeah, and the two parents,
please do not forget the me section.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That's the me section.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You're you know, the facial or like for me, a
lot of it's like lift a couple of weeks before bed,
go for a long walk like you like, how often
do we really just set aside and be like this
is me time. Yeah, right, especially as parents have one
to more kids, you just you really do need to
do that. And then when you again, when you write
it down, it is more likely to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I like that. It's like affirmations.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's an affirmation.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
It is for yourself because to do list home and work,
it's never going to go away.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Meal planning.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Let's talk about a little meal planning, prepping this for
the week to make your life.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
A little easier.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I like to write out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and I do the same thing a lot every single day.
I make it a lot easier on myself. I try
not to be fancy parents, moms. This is your gentle
reminder that we don't need to be fancy. Get off Instagram. So, like,
what would be an average week for you? Spaghetty, So Monday,
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I try to like do things that I can remember
really quick.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And you know how I am with my brain.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So Monday is meatballs and pasta or meatless Monday so
grilled cheese, sandwich.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Tomato, soup.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So I try to stay like kind of play with
the words a little bit.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Tuesday always tacos okay, or if it's like a cold day,
like a turkey cast role and it seriously just make
the same thing over and over and over. Vegetarian tofuu
surfery that.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Could be oh yochi we do tofu oh good.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
And then Wednesday I like to do like worldly food
because you know, I love Indian food curries. You can
buy a lot of really great premate stuff at like
all these or Trader Joe's like.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
A Hivey like you know, just paneer and chicken. Sup.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
You can just cook and put rice on and if
your kids don't eat that, I do like a wacky
Wednesday where you do like breakfast for dinner and you
stick to it so you're not reinventing the wheel every
single week.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Thursday we always do take out Thursday.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh I remember you mentioneding that too.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I think it's a nice thing.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
It's a nice break for you. It's a great break.
We always eat on like yeah we do like.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh yeah that's today. What are you going to have Todayhi?
So she yeah okay.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
And then Friday we just stick to pizza and vegetables
things that are fast. So I think, you know, to
make your nights easier. It's hard with Instagram, I think,
and like social media where you're seeing all.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
These they're all perfect looking, yes.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I know, and they always want to claim that they're
trying to help you out, and I just feel like
they add more stress to me. So I stick to this, okay,
you know, I just try to not get nuts about it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You and kids really don't care.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It's funny because I do look at those and then
I'll take screen shots at them because oh I'm gonna
try to make that, and then and then I got
to get all the directions, so that's a different screen shot.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So much, I just do wacky Wednesday waffles, wild rice
right wise and stick with all that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I think it's kind of fun.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I love Saturdays is prepping, so I always like to
do soups and stews, all that kind of stuff, summer stuff, grilling.
So I just I think, you know, as I'm kind
of saying it out loud, I'm like, oh my gosh,
I hope people aren't listening, thinking like.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh, that is so stressed. Great mom, Karina.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well but see, here's the thing is, I have simplified
so much. I don't have to think about these things
when I do it this way. But you learned I
learned from other moms.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well yeah, but also you learn from the first child
you had to the second child. Yeah, to the third.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Child, Yeah, you're just kind of a hot mess until
you kind of get something right, and then you do
it over and over and over again. Yeah, you know,
and then and then I'm going to quote our co
host Doctor Jazz, who said, you know, at the end
of the day, it doesn't matter if you fed your
it's potato chips and soup again for the fourth time.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
They just want to know they were loved and that
they're safe.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
You know, Doctor just said that to me when Julian
was just a baby, and I thought, oh my god,
that is such a beautiful reminder. So as I'm going
through all this, just remember it doesn't matter really well,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know what the greatest thing it happened to me
last week. Actually, you know, it's like eight o'clock, nine
o'clock at night in bed and my daughter Gia just
just comes into my room and gives me a big
hug and says, I love you. Oh you know, and
when you get to a teenage level, that doesn't always happen, right,
I know. They're just like they love to escape by
themselves in the rooms, and I was just like, that
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is everything. It made me so happy. Well, isn't that just.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Like a little the gift, the gift of you are
a great mom and you have been.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
And she is just a she's a sweetheart. I can't
wait to see her grow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, she's gonna become like a doctor jazz.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
She's gonna be coming on a show.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Okay, So we're gonna move into bedtime talking about how
to make things smoother and balancing it all. So with bedtime,
I always like to think of ways to make it
easier on the kids, because when it's easier on the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It's easier on the adults.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
So with my kids, obviously you have a teenager, so
we're talking about totally different. We're talking about five to
ten year olds here. I mean, it's just potty. It's
potty peach's and brush teeth or bathroom PJS and brush teeth.
I think what's important is to just give them, like
give them like half of it to do on their
own and the other half you do.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
So now, if you're talking about a teenager, tell me about.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
How that goes.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They just do it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
When it comes to bedtime. Oh, there's not routine, there's
really Oh girl, it's a really it's it's you constantly
going in and being like, uh oh, honey, are you
in bed yet? Yeah? I will, mom, I'm you know,
or I'm not tired yet. That's a big one. I'm
not tired yet. So it is really difficult to you know,
get your teenage to like, you know, say, okay, this
(18:02):
is that time. Like it doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I can't believe. I couldn't imagine at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know, so interesting. You know, Gia woke up at
like five thirty in the morning started getting ready. I'm like,
that never happens. I'm like, honey, what are you doing
up so early? And you know, she's just getting ready
for her big day of school and rehearsal. So I
think she, you know, felt eager about eager to get
ready and have things done. But I was like, that
(18:29):
never happens. So, but let's be honest parents of teenagers.
You know that you hear your teen talking in their
room on their phone at twelve o'clock at night, then
you got to go in and what are you doing
on the phone? Number one? Yeah, So yeah, it comes
and goes.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, and I'm sure too.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Like it's like I kind of like feel that as
like a teenager. Remember we didn't have phones obviously, not
to age myself here, but I still remember my dad.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Knocking on the door. How come your lights still on?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Right? I mean we all used to do it, let's
be right.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Well, if you have kids more in the five to ten,
giving them like half the things to do and then
also helping them with half is always a great way
of splitting it up between two parents.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
That gives them independence.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So I always have them do the PJS and brush
teeth and all that, and then I do the reading
and kind of prepping for the next day. Or you know,
if you have any medications they need to take, that
should be a parent thing.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
My daughter works hearing aids.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
We always have to push them out so beautiful, put
batteries in them, the whole shebang. And then to just
end it all with kind of the end of the
day for moms, balancing it all. I always like to
clean up at the end of the day, and I
set myself a timer, or I listen to four songs
on a playlist and I say, when that's done, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh I like that, that's great.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You know, I just sometimes I'll just put on the
oven like twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, and I say, I
got to just clean up all these dishes, get the
dish rusher, do a big swipe through the house of
whatever's really necessary to clean. You know, I don't clean everything,
but I think about it like, oh that you know,
the train set on the floor.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You wake up in the morning groggy, that needs to
be picked up.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Do you know what I'm guilty of? And I'm just
gonna throw it out there. I know I can't be
the only one, but I do feel guilty about it
because I do. I get tired when I do the laundry.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I will let that sucker sit in there until the
next day because I feel like I don't want to
go and exchange it into now the dryer so I
can now do the you know, folding of the dryer.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Yeah, I just please tell me. I'm not feeling you
are one hundred percent not the early Yeah. No, I
thought that was normal.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, I you know, you know what I will do,
and I do it the other day. I'm like, oh,
dang it, I fregot, you know, because it'll have the
light on of my clothes being done, I'm like, dangn
those kind of been in there a little long, so
I'll put another fragrant, you know, like another thing, and yeah,
and do the short short one I do. Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
No, that's that's that's not guilt, that's a survival.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Wow. I honestly, it was like, oh god, I'm being
really lazy.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, no, I haven't feel that way.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Okay, great said literally you never cross off his laundry.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, No, I love the girl. I do that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, I just did that, and then I do the speedwash.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
If I've left it in too long, I throw in
another detergent.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I just do like a ten minute.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Why because I think it's so funny. Oh my god,
I love that. Love that You're like, oh I feel
really I do you look so guilty?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Get over yourself.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
No, no, no, now you think about me every time
you put that speedwa wash.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm doing a krea wash.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh my gosh, I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Okay, good, Okay.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So I was like, just at timers, I like to
do ten minutes of prep for the next morning, even
if that means like pulling out jackets or whatever. I
look at my knee portion of the to do list?
Did I do something? Can I do something for me?
Did I forget my vitamins? Did I forget to drink water?
I always like to do a little weightlifting, but I
have no time and not a lot of motivation to
(21:55):
get to the gym. So I actually put weights underneath
my bed yep, and I have the bands, you know,
like the human rubber bands, and then I have the
ankle weights, and I just do like.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
A little sub a minute.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I look up something on YouTube where it's like plot
E's lifting and that's enough.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
For me at this point.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I mean, in the season of my life, I'm not
getting to the gym well.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And I just want to say thank you for giving
me the confidence to be like could you go? You know,
I don't know how working out came up this morning
and we started seeing each other, but uh, you know,
I was like, oh, yeah, well, you know, I got
my I'm getting my butt into the do you say
what do you are working out good?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And you're walking great?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Because I'm walking because of my injury. That's why it's great.
Oh oh you're sweet. But but I was saying like, yeah,
I have to force myself to get into the gym
like at four am in the morning before work, because
if I don't get this leg strong, I won't I
won't walk properly again. So and then so that was sweet.
You know again it's women empowering women, right, and that's
(22:59):
what you were doing well.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And this is what I hope you know the listeners
are getting from here.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You know that you and I are really real moms, right,
and two totally different phases, and all of these tips
and stuff can be implemented in really anybody's life. But
it's it's not even like here's what you should do.
It's like, I'm a mom.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
These are the things that worked. And I think that's
that's the greatest thing.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
And that's why I love doing what we do Christa
so much, is because our conversations is empowering other people.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Hopefully that's our hope, right.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
And you do it to me all the time, Doctor
Jazz does it to me all the time. It's like,
I have you guys in my brains. You're my mom friends.
Oh yeah, and we have to have that.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
This is it takes a village of moms.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh my gosh, yes, all right, wouldn't be fun just
to do a mom retreat like, oh my god, be fun.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yes, sign me up.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Anyways, I hope somebody got something out of this wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You know, Mommy is not easy, but we are here
for you.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
We would also I think it would be fun too
if moms ever wanted to, like say, this is hard,
and you and I can talk about it like we should.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
We should be reaching out so people.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, if you ever want to like reach out to
us and you know, talk about topics that you're interested in,
we'd love to hear from you. Yeah. You know you
can always find us on social media. You know, we're
all over there, so here personally we're here.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I love that well, and thank you young man for
coming in here. Julian, what do you do you want.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
To say something?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I am I've never been here. Mom says I've been
to a radio show when I was little, but I
still don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Oh, believe me, you have do I you've been to
many radio stations, my fine? Man?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Do you stay organized?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Well, it depends what topic I'm on, like.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
School morning routine.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Oh yeah, alarm.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
At and then I never wake up at six.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Twenty okay, sure, it's difficult.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
And then I mean I never wake up at six twenty,
I wake up, oh yeah, oh. And then my dad's
always like, I'm gosh, I won't shave, but I'm not
gonna be light.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I'm my dad.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
We're gonna be white. And then we're not, he puts.
And then for every school black fits is ceial because
it's so quick.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
And then there you go, yeah, yeah, the mom's still sleeping.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
No no, I'm not still sleeping, and I'm getting things ready.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
They just don't see me.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You're so funny.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
This is when.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
This is when we shook the mind off. IM just kidding.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
This is the Matton Mom Squad podcast, a production of
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Speaker 5 (25:44):
Here.
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