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May 31, 2018 37 min

S1 Ep25: Self Care.

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When was the last time you prioritized yourself? As in: made it to a doctor’s appointment at the first sign of sickness or injury? Took a shower when you needed one rather than when you could find 4 mins where no one would miss you? Exercised when you wanted to? Ate something other than sandwich crusts or cold chicken nuggets? Took the space to rest when you needed it ? Waxed your ass? We are talking about self care. Better known to moms as Don’t Worry about Me,I’m Fine. #nursingandcursing #nursingandcursingpodcast #momsofinstagram #momsofig #grittyparenting #motherhoodpluggedin #flashesofreallife #parenting #momlife #honestparenting #nailingit #failingit #nursing #babiesofinstagram #toddlersofinstagram #raisingkids #birth #selfcare

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All right, Mom. Put down that coffee and grab a wine. Get ready for another episode of Nursing and Cursing, a parenting podcast that covers more shit than your baby's full diaper. I'm Kate. I'm a stay-at-home mom of three in Brooklyn, New York. I'm trying to figure out whether I should go back to work, have another baby, or spend the rest of my life waiting for my fresh direct order. Hey, I'm Christine, a video editor and a mom of two living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Allie here, podcasting up in the mountains in South Kona, Hawaii. I work as a real estate agent and a mom of two boys. Hey, I'm Molly. I'm a teacher raising two kids in St. Augustine, Florida. And I'm Sarah, a new mom to one sweet babe living in Brooklyn, New York. Between five busy households, it's a miracle we make it on the mic at all.

Trust me, we need this as much as you do. Hello. Hey guys, welcome to Nursing and Cursing. Welcome. Hola. Hello. We are here. Okay. So, this week's episode is about self-care, which... What is that? What self-care? I know. Okay. There, I'm thinking about the five of us, and...

Let's just call it. Allie's at the dentist right now, doing the only luxurious thing that she's done for herself in forever. No, she's actually not. She has a horrible toothache, and she instead is at Phoenix's dentist. I thought hers was her next appointment. Yeah. So that's perfect. Allie is not on the mic tonight because she's in Hawaii taking her kid to the dentist, even though she has had an awful toothache all week.

Right. And a toothache because her teeth changed in pregnancy. Right. That's it in a nutshell. You just come last place. Last place, buddy. Sorry to tell you. You know what? I remember at my baby shower kind of soaking it in, being like, this is it. This is the last time I'm like in the podium. Right. Take it in. And that was it. Had the baby and everything since then. It's just like. Okay. But what I was going to say out of the five of us would vote Sarah best at self-care. All star. Thank you.

Sarah, you're an all-star. Sarah's really, really good. She puts her physical and mental self-care as a priority in her life. But even you, Sarah, even you. Even me. You wait too long. Yep. You know, though, Kriti, I would say you do a great job with, like, your physical self-care.

Certain things. I feel like you learned a lot with Levi and you take way more of a stand for your self-care round two. Yes. I did in the beginning. It's kind of fallen by the wayside. I mean things like exercise, abso-fucking-glutely because that's more of a mental thing for me. Like I am more inclined to want to like squeeze my kids too hard if I don't exercise. That's my outlet. But things like – but I wear my workout – like I come home from a workout and I'm wearing those clothes all day. I don't ever shower off even if I've run a few miles. Like things like showering, teeth brushing, leg shaving, like that stuff is dead last. Dead last.

Well, pat yourself on the back for the exercise because I am wearing the outfit as well. There's no exercise involved. I'm just wearing it because it's what I found on the floor. I was going to say, I'm wearing a pair of workout pants every single day. Me too. I sometimes wear a workout outfit just in case I find myself in an opportunity to exercise. Yeah, but you live in New York. I feel like if you live in New York, you're at least walking all the time. That's an exercise.

That's true. I actually run a lot, Chrissy. I'm like you. And I know I text you guys like, oh, I haven't been able to run for a week and I feel insane. And my body doesn't – I have been running the same exact mileage at the same exact pace for years and years. It doesn't make a dent. I don't think I've burned a single calorie anymore, for real. But it's the mental. Mental. If I don't break a sweat a couple times a week, don't fucking – I don't sleep as well and I'm so nasty. I get so irritated. Me too. So irritable. It's good that you know that.

There's the physical self-care and there's the mental self-care, and both are really important. Like I've been saying, oh, yeah, I'm going to get a therapist for how long, you guys? A year. A year now. At least. You interviewed that lady who had the dog in her office, huh? You came really close. You came so close. And you were earnest about it. Like you really –

You set the intention, Molly. Yeah. Yeah. I went out there hard and then I got it. And then you just threw in the towel. I did do that for myself recently, but also took me about a year, about a solid year to find one. That's good. The closest I came was, and I know we're going to do a therapy episode because who doesn't need it, but I screen grabbed a whole bunch of choices and you guys helped me narrow them down based on last name and physical appearance, which is the most important thing. Physical appearance number one. And then I made an appointment and I struck out because...

the lady called at the last minute that they didn't take my insurance and again that would have that sent me back to square one and I could have just picked up the ball again but okay nope come back to it in a year it's exhausting it's so hard and then you find out that it costs a lot of money and then that like you just find all these roadblocks you have such a small amount of time anyway yeah and Kate I will say I was picking your therapist based on the blurbs not the last name or the physical appearance. I was thinking based on hair tight in glasses, but I was like, okay, this person is not hippie enough. This person is too hippie. But sometimes they have like crazy eye in their biopic and you got to like, like follow your instinct. Like a little bit of a crazy eye. I can't go. Very true. You know, you know what Sarah's good at is like waxing and like that kind of stuff. Sarah waxes herself. I know. But that's self care. That's like taking time aside to like, definitely feeling good when your legs are shaved. I feel like you feel so much better about yourself. Definitely. If I could just.

if I could just pluck my eyebrows why am I looking in the mirror look in the mirror I'm like I have to do that dot dot dot I'll do that tomorrow I don't know I mean I can never do my own eyebrows but um I don't have time to go out and get them done or it's the money thing or blah blah blah always the money thing to me the money thing is really big because I always it's not that I don't spend money on myself But for some reason, if you go to the grocery store and it's $110 at checkout, okay, it's $110. It's totally normal to me. If I went into a store and wanted to buy a dress for myself and it was $110, it's weird because the dress would actually last a lot longer than the groceries that nobody's going to fucking eat anyway. But I can't – I can't validate it. Can't validate it.

Kate, if a dress is $300, I'm like, cool. That's really reasonable. I'm going to wear that like four times. But today I was booking a car service to pick up my kids from the airport in New York, car seats included. It's supposed to be really safe. And they pick you up at the terminal. And I was like, I don't know, Kate. It's $160. I don't know if I can swing it. The safest ride for my kids in the city. Not sure it's worth it. Right. It's half of a dress. You're like, I don't think so. You're like, let me check with Garrett. Or if you shop at Target, that's like seven dresses. There's something about like, I don't know. Why do we tell ourselves that we're not worth it? Yeah, you can't be here right now. Well, right. Oh, crap.

Kate, are you having a child problem? I am too. This is so weird. My baby just woke up. I wish it was a child. For some reason, my husband's sitting on the floor in front of me, deciding right now is the perfect moment to unpack our suitcase from last night. So your oldest son is in there right as you speak.

I'm giving him, my face is bright red and I'm giving him a look like you need to get this. Oh my gosh. Okay. So we started talking about something. We started talking about something. Yes. Yes, exactly. Kate, you are upstairs in your house carrying a load of laundry. Tell us what happened. I'm coming down the stairs with a load of laundry. Are you going to the basement, girl? I'm coming from the top of the stairs to the basement. So I'm going to do two flights of stairs with my laundry. Yeah. And it's to a...

there's a few things happening. Number one, I'm doing laundry. My son is homesick from school. So I have a kid in the house. He's 10. I mean, he wasn't a bother. I'm just setting the scene and it's pouring down with rain and I'm trying to get the house. I'll speak in spam. We have family coming the next day. And that's why I'm facing to do laundry at 2 PM, which to me is off schedule. Cause I have to be out of the house 205. So I'm trying to try to throw a load in before I run out the door. Okay. Coming down the stairs, I wipe out and I hit my elbow on the stairs. Um, I like sat, you know, it's weird. I really don't know exactly what happened. I literally was holding the basket of laundry. And the next thing I knew,

I was like sitting almost at the bottom of the stairs and my elbow was really hurting. It's funny because remember when I told you guys I got the stairs carpeted and I was like, nobody's ever going to fall down our stairs. Nobody had except for me. Also, this is the second fall down the stair injury on the podcast. Oh my God. I also immediately, I thought about you in the second I put one hand on my arm. I thought about you at the bottom of the slide. You were in my head the second. Anyway, so I fell down the stairs. I started yelling. My son came running and actually he was great.

But my elbow, I was fine. No? You texted us a picture right away. And what did every single person on the thread say? You should go get stitches. And actually, I knew that I should go get stitches. But what was going on? Okay, it's pouring down with rain. We have piano. I need to be at pickup. I have two kids, two different places to go pick up. I've got a kid with me that I have to drag around. So instead, I washed out my arm. And I put a band-aid on it, basically. And I really need to make it clear that my arm was not... Literally and figuratively. You put a band-aid on it. This episode should be called I'm Fine. And I was...

fine. I was totally fine. My arm was hurting, but I was just taking Tylenol and I was just doing my thing. And that was Wednesday and by Friday, my arm was really swollen. I went to the doctor and I got antibiotics. Yes, it was infected. And, um, on Sunday I noticed that I, it wasn't, the swelling hadn't really gone down and I had like red, like a red rash that spread up and down my arm from the wound.

and um i need to shout sarah out because sarah was like okay you need to go to the emergency room right now even though it was 10 o'clock on a sunday not what you want to hear not what you want to hear but that's why that's why it's so amazing that we have sarah because i feel like no doctor has ever told me something other than exactly what sarah told me on the text two days before i actually got to a doctor yeah did the same for me for my situation you're such a healer sarah anyway i go to the emergency room they were like you um We routinely keep people in the hospital one to three nights for this type of situation. You have an infection that's not responding to antibiotics. This is not a laughing matter. This is, like, you need IV antibiotics, and really we would like you to be here all night, et cetera, et cetera. It just snowballed into this thing, and obviously I'm totally fine, and I didn't have to spend the night at the hospital. I just went back for the second round, and then I got antibiotics at home. But let's talk about why you didn't stay the night in the hospital, because I think that's really related to self-care. So when I get to the hospital, it's midnight on a Sunday, so I get to the hospital. I've already crept out after the kids are asleep, okay? So the kids are asleep, and I'm at the ER.

And the doctor's telling me, you need to spend the night. The only thing I can think, and you guys will get this, is, okay, what about lunches tomorrow morning? That's literally the, he's telling me, you have an infection that won't respond to antibiotics. You need to be here for continual monitoring. And all I could think was, maybe the sheet is still in the dryer. She needs it. Absolutely. Like, I would love to be here, but I can't. Just the permanent running list.

It's a running list and it's like this, we do this to ourselves because from the other end, we're like, okay, drop everything. You need to listen to the doctors, but I do it all the time too where I just convince myself that nobody else can do this job. He doesn't know how to do this job. He's not used to it. He doesn't know all the details. Well, it's true, but the thing is the kids will live. Somebody else could do this job. And you're not doing anybody any favors in your house by letting your arm get so infected that you, I mean, you're not helping anybody. But when I came home, I had a total breakdown and my breakdown was not because I...

My breakdown was like when I was crying to my husband I was saying this it made me feel so sad you guys and not Even like in a personal way for myself, but I felt so sad about this aspect of motherhood because I realized like if I had seen that gash on any of my children's arms I would not have texted people a picture and been like do I need to go get stitches right I would not I would not have been like okay yeah honey you cut your arm a bad but we've got piano I would not I mean like I would have been like okay you cut your arm really bad we need to drop everything we need to rearrange our afternoon one afternoon out of the week isn't a big deal we need to go get stitches it's a momentary inconvenience urgency is not there for yourself right and so I was like I like talk all the time about like you know, making sure that mom's doing okay and you can't pour from an empty cup, blah, blah, blah. But what was Jeremy in this case? Did he see it and say, you need to go get that looked at or was he just listening to you and saying, okay, if you think you're fine. Yep. The second thing, because I'm, because I'm always like, there's always, you know, I'm always fine. You know what I mean? Like I'm always fine. And nobody wants to hear otherwise really. And I don't even mean that in a bad way, but nobody wants to hear that the person juggling all the balls is about to lose an arm. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it's really scary. Yeah. So, um, the next, after my freak out in the middle of the night on Sunday, when I came home, basically pulled the covers off him and was like, what the fuck is going on?

Why the fuck am I in the emergency room by myself in the middle of the fucking night? I mean, the next day, just like everybody had said, would happen. He did everything on Monday and it was no big deal. And I spent the whole day in bed and the world didn't collapse. But I don't know why I had to let it get that bad. Anyway. That is just insane. And I'm glad you're okay. Totally fine. It's like big deal like that. Like you're in the emergency room by yourself. Or it's little things like, oh, I forgot to eat today. Or oops, for the last week I've been eating scraps off my kid's plate. Yes. And wondering, you know, why I got love handles and shit.

Right. So many sandwich crusts, like all those things. Well, look at the time you take to make baby food. You can make yourself the most bomb salad. Because you would never take 30 minutes to prep your own food. That to me seems insane. I do. I mean, I spend a lot of time on food for myself. But I feel silly doing it. It feels like a waste of time. And I feel like...

I feel guilty. That's it. Every second spent on yourself. You're like, should I be spending the second someplace else, which. Well, like at this time in motherhood, when my kid is a year old, like the whole first year, people are telling you, soak this up. It goes so fast, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. What do you think I'm doing? Like, what is it telling me that going to do other than instill fear and anxiety in me that I'm doing it? Like, I'm not doing it right. And I'm not doing it how you think I should be doing it. You know, so like, that's how you I think that's how one of the ways that the fear.

taking care of yourself sets in because you're not because you're not you're not soaking it in enough because you're on the treadmill for as an example right it's just another moment I'm just like looking away from my child well I had somebody tell me when I was running after and like I'm saying this like I'm like I'm a runner I don't want people to misunderstand when I was like jogging after Edie was born I had somebody say to me like that is like an older mom that is so great that you take time for yourself and just do something for yourself. I mean, when I, when my children were young, I just felt like, oh, I just wanted to give them every precious second. So I never, I was like, okay, don't want to give my kids everything. Yeah, I choose not to. Choose to give myself about 10. Thanks so much. Right. Yeah, I agree with Sarah. I do think guilt steps in the way for sure. That's why I remember that comment because it stung because I was like, I didn't think that she was right, but I still was like, fuck you. And then there's the other side where there is.

guilt is not stepping in the way of me like putting on a clean pair of underwear no that's just your laziness and you just flip it inside out and it's like a whole new pair it's like okay i'm just trying to get the kids in the car for drop no it's just it's just it's just speedy It's efficient. It's efficient. It's efficient. Yep. I was talking to another mom friend yesterday about underwear. She was like, oh, I just went up a size in underwear. I had to get all new set. And I was like, really? When I was pregnant, I just cut slits in my underwear and I'm still wearing those. Boom. Cut underwear now. Fuck yes, Sarah. That is so innovative. That is fucking innovative. That's actually a nail. That's amazing. But it's not to save money or something.

so confused like wait where's the split no it's in the side I did it also to my pajama pants because like god forbid I just buy a new pair of underwear or pajama pants but it just felt like a waste to me and it's slash laziness you know like calling it a waste is an excuse it's just laziness it's just not how you want to spend your time you just want to know you got it right there just make it work efficiency once again yeah so Sarah speaking of self-care how is like you have your your lower back problem your tailbone yeah so you yeah go ahead Well, ever since I had Francis, I've had pain in my lower back and mostly in my tailbone. And I like to my credit, I have been seeing a chiropractor since a little bit like a couple of weeks before I had her. But when this pain started, I mean, big time to your credit. Very proud of you. But it hasn't been working like it's been a year. And and it's the pain has not gotten better. And actually, in recent months, it's gotten worse. But it really took me this long and for it to the pain to get worse for me to say like to the chiropractor, like.

And he and I talked about, he was like, yeah, I realized like what I'm doing is not really helping you. And I was like, okay, well, thanks. So I found another person and went to PT and that's not really working either. But like, it's just like what I was mentioning earlier, like it's just so fucking expensive. I'm going to somebody new now and she doesn't take any, she doesn't not accept any insurance. So this is all like I pay out of pocket and yes, I'm going to get reimbursed some, but.

I don't know. It's sort of another topic, but it just makes self-care something that's only for people with time and money, which I just think is so fucked up. And that's not how it is in other countries, but it's definitely an American thing. Good point. Sucks a big fat one. Such a big dick. Anyway, I like what I was telling you guys about. So I almost had to get my tailbone adjusted internally, which would have meant getting an adjustment through my anus. Oh, my God.

Yeah, you have to go, a chiropractor or a physical therapist has to go up through your anus and like grab on. The fact that you're just saying anus, I know you are a nurse. Stop saying anus. I can't say asshole. How about butt? Okay, go through your butt. I'm not going to say butthole. You just did. You just said it.

Anyway, so they grab onto your tailbone, like through your rectum, you know, like through, you can't, you can't get to your tailbone obviously directly. It has to be like, obvious to you. It never, even though you were like, I have to get my tailbone adjusted. It never crossed my mind. They go through your butt. I didn't even know that was a thing.

No, that's. A lot of chiropractors learn it in school, but they never use it because it sounds so scary. Like who the fuck wants to go to a chiropractor and end up getting penetrated in their ass? Nobody. Probably a lot of people actually, right? That's another conversation. Different episode. That's what you're going to do. No, I can't find a chiropractor who will do it because apparently in New York, chiropractors are not allowed to do internal adjustments. Okay. Yeah, that's how it should be. That sounds like a good law. And at the same time, I hope you find relief, but maybe your husband could try.

That's a great call. Oh, my God. You almost nailed that timing, Molly. Fuck you. The button got stuck. Oh, my God. Man, I have a good fail, you guys. That kind of goes in line with this episode. Oh, my God. Does it do with your anus? Yes, it does, and self-care, actually. It's a double twofold. So I went to go get a bikini wax a couple of weeks ago.

the girl waxing me who I've kind of become friends with was like girl do you want me to do your anus if you will and I said I was like sure why not she's like okay well then just get on all fours and arch your back and just stick your butt in the air and I was like oh my god I can't okay okay that's I know I was like this is just humiliating she's like girl you know how many buttholes I see per day and I'm like okay okay just do it so she does it and then I'm like getting down to you know get dressed get my dignity back and she goes girl what are you doing and I'm like I'm getting dressed and she goes uh-uh get back up here we're not done you got a lot of And I was like, oh, man, I want to die. Oh, my God. How was your first hairless part, though? Weird, right? Fucking awesome. Truly. I found that they were so loud. Too loud. I'm with you, sir. Yeah, because your cheeks flap together. Yeah, but like a bowel movement is fantastic. Yeah, it's smooth. Smooth. Smooth operator. Guys, that's too much.

Okay, guys, I forgot we were recording. Sarah was just talking about getting her butthole fingered, but you're going to draw a line into that wax. People were doing like a drinking game during this episode. Every time we said anus, people would be hammered by now. Okay, and then I have a quick nail. It's totally a lame nail, but.

Tonight, I don't know. My son's been on summer break, and it's just been kind of chaos. I haven't really had my anything planned. It's just been a free-for-all. And I thought I had stuff for dinner. Just didn't. Empty fridge. Just nothing. And I'm like, fuck. Just go into the cupboard, and I just see some coconut milk and some black beans. So I just simmer it up on the stove and, like, put a couple spices in it. And I'm like, here you go, guys. And Levi's going, Mama, this is the most delicious soup I've ever tasted. Mama, this is so amazing, Mama. And I was like, thank you, baby. I've been working on it all day. Coconut milk and black beans. Yeah, with, like, a little bit of curry powder in it.

And that was it. Genius. I'm filing that away. That sounds delicious, actually. And I just put that in the nursing and nursing cookbook. Oh, my God. Guys, I just dumped that on top of some three-day-old quinoa and some mushy broccoli, and it was a meal.

Molly, I'm so mad at you. You didn't just make that for Tim. You could have made that for Tim tonight and saved yourself an hour and a half. Okay, well, that's my nail. My nail is that I put some effort into cooking for my vegan husband, which I just want to try for him because he's, whatever, he comes home from work and he like grabs a bowl of cereal. Well, we've already eaten a meal, you know, like good meals, but not vegan meals. So that was my nail. I put the effort in.

Don't you think My Vegan Husband sounds like the name of like a beachside novel about a divorce or like a bad band? Or like a Netflix series. My Vegan Husband. 13 episodes. Or another podcast, which we could do. Coming up. Coming up on My Vegan Husband. It would just be Sarah and Molly. Molly, what did he say? Yeah. Stop. Yeah. He was like, we got any cereal?

he ate it and it seemed like he really liked it, but I can't say that there was like a moment where he was like, babe, that's okay. Oh, not really. It's not Sarah. No, you know what? It's like, he just doesn't know. Oh, I don't let Jeremy get away with that. I'm like, do you get it? Should I make it again? Do on a scale of one to 10. And then if he doesn't eat every bite, I guess you can tell him this is a big thing in our marriage. If he doesn't eat every single bite, I get so huffy. I go, well, last time I fucking try to make something. Yeah. So that is how I usually, I usually am like, do you like it? Do you like it? Do you like it? This time I just let him go. And he had three bowls.

So I know he liked it. Why couldn't he give you the satisfaction? He needed to give you props. Mad props. He needed to say thank you. Katie says that I need to take my love survey. What is it, Katie? You need to do the quiz and find out what your love language is. I think my love language might be that I need constant strokes. That's my husband's too. That's my husband's love language. Positive affirmations. That's Jeremy too. Jeremy gives. Wands or gives? Wands. Wands. You need it. You need to hear it. And my husband, he usually knows exactly how to do that. So interesting. Anyway, my fail.

We have been having some attitude problems with my four and a half year old. And I mean, I think we've mentioned this before or maybe not, but my kids are learning through us. that it's okay to boss people around, snap at people, ask for things with a rude tone because that's how we talk to Alexa. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Molly, we talked about you and Alexa tonight at our house, actually. It's funny that you're saying this. So I caught myself and my husband caught me. We both locked eyes and could not believe it came out of my mouth. But Augie was like, Alexa, you don't know anything. Alexa, you don't even know how to play any of the music. You're ridiculous. Like he's screaming at her. And I said.

August, you need to watch your mouth. You may not speak to Alexa that way. Get upstairs. And Tim and I like look at each other and I'm like mouthing to him like I don't know what I'm doing. He goes upstairs. He spends his time upstairs. He finally comes down in his way like quiet and sweet. And I say, August, do you have something to say? And he walks – by the way, none of this is planned. I'm just winging it. He walks over to Alexa and he says, Alexa, I'm sorry. And Alexa says, it's okay. No worries. No, she doesn't. Guys, I had – someone told me that if you ask please to Alexa like with the new update that she's supposed to like give a kid praise like thank you for having good manners or something. Well, Molly, it's weird. It's stupid.

We have a convo about this, but then I think I told you that I read somewhere, like, there was a whole essay, like, the way we talk to our home microphones, what does that say about who we really are? Yeah, exactly. It was giving an example of, like, a dinner party where a host was, a host was, like, barking at his Alexa, like, like, no, next, louder. And some of the guests were, like, really, one of the guests was, like, very turned off, by the way. He was talking to his Alexa. So I've been noticing Tim is using his manners, and I've been...

I'm using mine when we talk to Alexa because, guys, this is new territory. The fact that we even have a robot in the house is fucking weird. And they are learning from everything we do. So I'm either going to unplug Alexa or shit's going to get cleaned up. Okay, well, you said great perfectly into my humble brag now because we were out of town for the weekend and so were our kids, which is another nail. But when we came back last night, my seven-year-old daughter walked straight into the kitchen and said, okay, Google, I missed you so much. And Google said, I missed you too. And it was like...

Wow. Oh, my God. Google's talking to me in my kitchen. She said, it's okay. I'm right here. Oh, my God. That is so creepy. You should have asked Google what to do when you hear your elbow. But I had the – she's the only person that cares. But it's funny because we had the opposite. But, Molly, I want to say that's really a humble brag to you because Edie is like, remember when Molly told us it's important to be nice to Google? Oh, wow. I think my kids learned something. Guys, I have to tell you really quickly that the other day Levi was standing in front of Alexa with his pants down. And I said, babe, what are you doing? And he goes, showing Alexa my penis.

And I was like, babe, that's not okay. Put it away. Oh, my God. It's a crime. Alexa's like, hashtag me too. Alexa.

Sarah, do you have any? Yeah. So my nail for this past week is that I made it through. Well, made it through. That's not a very nice way of saying that. So I went to Florida on a vacation for a wedding. I'm sorry. I really tried to turn that around. Edit, edit, edit. Anyway, I went. Yeah, it was my first time like in a very intimate setting with my in-laws for an extended period of time. And it went great. I think I don't know what they think, but I think we did a pretty good job.

And my fail is that it was supposed to be, like, pretty much a vacation, and we ended up in a condo with two bedrooms for six people and two babies. Oh, my gosh. Damn. I always fuck up, like, you know, where I'm supposed to be having, like, a nice respite. I fuck it up in some, like, really major way. Like, when I went to that conference and had an overnight by myself, I ended up in a king bed with one other person. Remember? Yeah, you're right, Sarah. You always blow it. You're right. But I got to say, Sarah, I mean, Allie and I travel like that by choice. There's always, like, eight people in a tube.

Bedroom. Yeah, but you guys are sisters in BFF. Yeah, this is like a bunch of people that I'm still really getting to know. That's true. Well, congratulations to all of you. That's good. You all made it. So you guys, your homework for this week is go get yourself a pedicure. And ass wax. An ass wax. A nice salad. Maybe a mocha. And wash your hair.

Yeah. Wash your hair, girl. Ask your partner or your babysitter or whatever to give you a few hours off. And while you're out at the Internet Cafe enjoying your iced, leave us a review on iTunes, right? That would really, really help us. Thank you, guys. All right. See you later. See you next week. Bye, babies. See you next Tuesday. Sorry. I've been waiting all night to say that yesterday. No! That's it for now. Check you guys next week for another Nursing and Cursing where we won't tell your husband that you accidentally let your kid eat a cat turd.

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