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What up, 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.
it all but trust me we need this as much as you do hey welcome back to nursing and cursing what's up girl hey hi everybody got their sugar or their alcohol on board yeah okay getting through these late night recordings but it's so good to chat with you girls so tonight our episode is all about extracurricular activities yeah that's kind of like the level of parenting that i guess everybody has to at least consider once they get old enough i like your take on it it's more about parenting than Ooh. Come again? What's that? Allie, blow-drawn your hair? What? No. Okay. I was going to say, Mal, it's, yeah, I have the same feeling, though. Like, extracurricular activities, you should be thinking about your kids, but I immediately only think about, like, my relationship to parenting when I think about extracurriculars. Right. Totally. There's so much to consider. I don't know what you mean. Can you expand? Thanks, Sarah. Bye.
Why does it really matter if your kid does extracurriculars? It kind of doesn't. At least not for a long time. But there's plenty of pressure for your kids. I feel a lot of pressure for my kids to do extracurriculars. It's hard to say where that pressure comes from. A lot of it's just...
my own fucked up idea of what like being a good parent is right yeah that's not even real and half the time I sign my kids up for things and then all of us just brainstorm every week about how we can get out of them because none of us want to go to them so it's like right it's and I do it and I do it all the time and I do it with so many activities and I always have to come back to like you know why did I sign Mavis up for art class she's five she's fucking fried after school she doesn't give a shit she wants to go home and watch tv and that's what I want to do too I want to take her home to watch tv I don't want to drag her around right I think I think there's really um an age attached to it that kind of makes it important how much you do when you do it when does it become really important really necessary oops and when they're really young especially I know for me starting kindergarten was such a huge transition for both of my kids that they were fried the stamina of just doing kindergarten adding an extracurricular or a sport after that um not working just wasn't working I tried they couldn't handle it it was like breakdowns and yeah I had this I've never learned that lesson though each of my kids has been forced to try an extracurricular after school and kindergarten and has gone down and
But what about even before they start school? What about even like? baby and me music classes like not extracurricular but like those enrichment classes I felt pressure to do those too and I think it can be easier to do those honestly than it is to add it into after a full day of school if you're just like at preschool age and going to a class to me that's different than having a full schedule and then adding it on top of it and then you're talking about making dinner and then you're talking about homework and it's like becomes so fucking intense yeah does the parent really want to do that I mean yeah so I'm only taking Francis to classes at this point because it's something to that breaks up the day Right. Yeah, totally. Yeah, it's something to do. It's an hour or so where somebody else is entertaining my child. Even when Francis was really, really small, I needed I needed to get out and it was acceptable. Excuse me, to take her to like the music class at the library.
No, they're so great. And plus you meet other, you like get to meet other families and your baby gets to chill with other babies. I totally remember that, Sarah. I did those classes for the same exact reason. Just like a way to fill the time in a way that I felt good about. For sure. I do count that as extracurricular. I just feel like at that stage it is for another reason. I know. I didn't do them either, but I was feeling like I should have. But I don't know. I did them. I definitely did. I mean, we usually created our own because, fuck, that's what you got to do around here. But you just, you know, reach out to a mom group and, hey, you want to get together and whatever.
It is. At that age, it's so nice when you have a baby just to get out. You're right. Get out of the house. Get a reason to be around other moms, right? Okay. But what about now? So now kids are in school age. So you guys just want to go around and say whose kids do what and when? Yeah. Sorry about myself. Go ahead. I have a five-year-old and we have zero. We have zero extracurricular activities and I feel...
pretty damn guilty about it um and you also you did swimming about it swimming last year though too i think you did swimming oh those were those were lessons and that was very short kate i guess that would count um i was doing it literally so so he could swim no i know um yeah that was a week long it was four days in a week and then i signed up for two back-to-back sessions and he didn't learn i didn't realize it was that short cool yes but i'm gonna count that i'm so psyched that that counts he did like this he does count he can hear him sarah yeah but he didn't learn from that um Molly do you feel guilty because like you think Augie really wants to like learn baseball or play soccer or do you feel guilty because there's so much fucking pressure for you to put your kid in something and to give them you know those extra enrichment hours definitely a little both he does he wants to take martial arts really badly yeah that's a good one but and you know then there's the reason we don't it's like I'm just I'm just maxed I do not have time after school I don't have the energy. What the hell are people starting dinner at like seven? What the hell are they doing? You also like live in, I'm going to give you time off because I feel like you also live in a climate living in Florida where like one of the reasons I sometimes feel like my kids are scheduled to the max or have been in the past at different times is because a lot of the school year is in the cold. So like they're just sitting around at school all day and then.
i don't know i feel like do i take them home to sit around like zombies at home and make me crazy no they i feel like we have to do something yeah i think it's i think it's great plus you know the the parents that i the parents in my classrooms in the past um that schedule their kids like crazy. Like there's a thing every single day. Oh, today's Tuesday. It's, you know, today's Wednesday. It's soccer every single day. Um, say to me that it's so that one of them will stick, like eventually one of them will stick and everybody wants their kid to have that thing, right? Yeah. You're grasping at something so that you're
kid has an outlet and something to focus on in the teenage years because the alternative is what? That they're freebasing meth and like fingering their girlfriends behind the Olive Garden. I'd be so, not the meth part, but I'd be so psyched for my kid. I know. What am I saying? Yeah, actually, behind Culver's. Behind Culver's. Yeah, they're making babies behind Culver's. Not making babies. You said fingering. No, but that's not a big deal. Making babies would be really bad. Yeah, but I don't want to make the jump like if you don't put your kid in.
I know that's kind of like, yeah, but that's the fear. That's the fear, right? Oh, I hope that they get into a sport or something, you know, especially for when they're teens, something that they love, something that they have a focus on outside of school so that, you know. It's also like, I think a really active version of mom guilt. Like it's mom guilt coming out in this way that it's like.
I, I don't do enough for them. I, you know, I better make sure that they have every single opportunity to succeed at life or whatever. You know, everybody's probably got their little thing, but you just want to do the best for your kid. And what if I, you know, like I, I used to torture my mother because she sent me to gymnastics and I, I, like, I used to always say to her, like, I'm not, I was never a gymnast. I was never going to be a gymnast. You should have sent me to ballet.
Okay, so that's a good thing to bring up because how do you choose? Do you choose? Do you let your child choose? Is it a mix? Like what's the ideal extracurricular? Does it just have to do with timing? We've done, I mean, we've done like a...
I mean, okay, so wait, I'll just wait my turn. Molly, so Augie does nothing. He does nothing. He does nothing. We are working right now to figure it out, but man, I'm not working that hard to figure it out. They're still so young. He's not even in kindergarten yet. Allie, what about the boys? Well, Leo gets dragged along to all of Phoenix's extracurriculars. Phoenix is in second grade right now, and he could jump into any of them, but he doesn't want to. He wants to be in La La Land riding his bike or in the background. He's fried, like I said. He doesn't want to. So we do soccer right now, two days a week.
and piano one a music class one day a week but right now the music class is two days a week because we joined late and she is doing catch up for us so we go to like catch up with the rest of the students where they are with reading music so i've got four days a week of something wow okay but it's only two it's only two activities it's music and it's soccer yeah um okay cool yeah but it's a lot guys because like you're right then what do you do for dinner on those afternoons I'm like, okay. I gave him a hot breakfast. I packed him a good lunch. I picked him up from school. I'm bringing him to the extracurricular. Guess what? I'm fucking done. We can go get a burrito takeout. I always want to resort to takeout on the night that it's extracurricular. It's a really slippery slope. Right. Of course. Or you have to make, or like, and this is not possible for plenty of people most days, you have to make dinner and have it waiting so that when you walk in the door, it's there or bring it with you. Cause sometimes my kids can't even survive to the point where we walk at the door. Right.
So your, your day is becoming prepping food for their afternoon activity. Like it's a full time job. It is a full time job. Yeah. I just remembered when, when we went to gymnastics, I'm sorry, I'm talking about my gymnastics so much, but well, we went to gymnastics. No, that all three of us did it together. Molly Alley and Sarah went to the same center. Yeah. But we went because my parents didn't get out of work. Um, you know, we got out of school before my parents got out of work so that we needed somewhere to go. Right. Stacy used to.
At one point, Stacey and I went home before. Yeah, sorry. My sister and I went home straight from school, like got off the school bus, went home and there was a burglar in our house. Wow. And Stacey walked in the house and they were upstairs and she like she didn't look up. She was scared and she ran to our neighbors and they called the police and whatever. But after that, my mom put us in gymnastics and we went there for after school. So I was just thinking like that. I love I love your mom's solution. I love your mom's solution to a burglar.
It's perfect, actually. It's perfect. It's such an elegant solution. It is. But, you know, Mr. Jordan used to pick us up from school. Walk you over. Walk us over to the gym. So they still have a different gym, but somebody was like, oh, don't send Augie to martial arts yet because once he gets into the local elementary school, there's the after school option where the van comes and takes him. That's so awesome. That's so sweet. That is awesome. Okay, there is, before we get to you, Kate, because I know this has to be an element in your family.
Allie's talking. That's four days a week. That's a big chunk. But I also know, I'm pretty sure you come from a school that does not give homework. There are so many families, even at kindergarten, drowning in after-school homework. That's bullshit. That in itself, which I personally have major feelings about. But wow, that could be an episode, by the way.
Like that takes up so much of a kids, certain kinds of kids. Afternoon, they're like melted down. What more do they have left? I don't know what I would do. I would have to not do it. Okay, so my kids are sixth grade, third grade, and kindergarten. All three of them take piano at different times. And we have to go to the piano place. We used to have the instructor come to our house. Now we go to the piano place.
But it's a whole thing to go there, and they have it on different days. The girls have it one day, and then I had to move Wilder's piano class three times. The reason I had to move Wilder's piano lesson is because the sixth grader is on three basketball teams, and he's starting practice. He has practice every single day of the week. Three times a week practices from 7 to 9. What? Twice a week. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Or 6.30 to 8.30. Why would they do that schedule? Because the coach is waiting for the gym to be clear at the high school where they practice. It's so crazy. It's only about scheduling. Wow.
On the other days, on Wednesdays and Thursdays, he has practice or a game with his middle school team. And then he stays at school and doesn't get done until 5.30, so doesn't get home until 6 or whatever. And then on weekends, obviously, there's games and stuff. And I feel like this year is the worst it's going to be because next year he's going to be in seventh grade and he'll have a lot more independence. I actually won't be as responsible for getting him to and from things. We've tried that a little bit this year.
kind of letting him make his own way to practice but you know like nine o'clock at night you still you got to come home with a grown-up obviously absolutely um and seven o'clock at night to get there like you can't get yourself there it's fucking and it's dark here at 4 30 at night so it's a whole that's a whole thing and um ed does dance and theater and piano she just actually finished dance so the rest of the school year she's not gonna have it she'll just have theater and piano and mavis just does piano but um it's something every day of the week and um it uh it really fucks with us it really really fucks with us and i It was, yeah, the food part is the hardest part, actually. So hard. Because while I was missing dinner with you guys every single night now. And, like, you can't get takeout five nights a week. Exactly. It's sustainable. It's like I have to really think it through. And a lot of times what I do is I make dinner at, like, 1 in the afternoon and have it out hot for the second we walk in the door. Or if I know it's going to be a really fucked afternoon, I will bring dinner with me in three Tupperware containers, feed them dinner at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and just let them graze on shit until bedtime. And that kind of works. We do our homework in the car.
um and why was responsible for his own homework he has to do it on the computer he can't do anywhere else he has to be sitting at the computer at home and i just tell i mean i don't know it's it sucks and i just tell him like If it's too much, you've got to drop basketball. That's all it is. Nobody's forcing you. I don't know. It's hard. I wanted to say the other thing is that all this shit costs money and that's what really kills me. Yeah, that's what I was going to bring up. Okay, that is a lot. Now for our sponsor break. Lola is a female-founded company offering a line of organic cotton tampons, pads, and liners via a customized subscription. They now offer sex products too. You can pick your products like organic tampons with or without the BPA-free applicator and or pads, liners, whatever you need. They also have 95% organic personal lubricant.
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We want money to go into an account for extracurriculars for when the kid is older. That's a great idea. That would have been great. But I know grandparents want to give physical gifts and toys and the wow factor. But wow, that would be so great to have an account to pull from.
So much better. Oh my God. What a great gift. Seriously. It was also another element of like, and I know this, Allie, because you and I lived it. You do these extracurriculars and you give your kid this experience and that's great. And you're almost crossing your fingers that like the right thing clicks because for us, especially you, but you know, I was along with that too. It was gymnastics and that shit is expensive. Incredibly expensive. Oh my God. What if your kid, it's horseback riding. No, that's why you don't do things like that. You don't let them try. You cannot. But in LA it was, it was all of those things. Figure skating.
so many expensive things um if it clicks you're fucked also like with the traveling for games and stuff or meets or you know whatever it is you kind of hope your kid doesn't lock into And they're not really good at something that's like for us like the after the weekend basketball in a lot of the evening practices That's JJ my husband does that because I can't it's like there's no way that I have the I don't have the bandwidth and I can't physically be in two places at once And I get we get I get really pissy I say like why the fuck are the girls always suffering at the expense of wilders sixth grade basketball career Like why should an adult woman and two small children be suffering? So an 11 year old can play basketball 30 hours a week. It doesn't make any sense Uh huh. It's true. It's something to remember too. Like, I don't know if this is here or there, but yeah. Okay. I did gymnastics. I was really good at it. I did it sometimes five nights a week. And yeah, Molly, remember when we were really little, I'd have to go home and take a nap, but I wasn't old enough to be napping because our class did go until sometimes nine 30 at night. Yeah. But okay, great.
I had maybe some other talents too that never really got tapped into, which I would rather have as an adult. For instance, like playing a musical instrument really well, or I don't know, golf, something you can fucking do when you're an adult. I wish they had, it's not on your parents, but I do wish that maybe they had forced a musical instrument on me. Now it's up to me to learn it. And I'm pushing 40. And you know, the end of the story is the financials got tricky.
And mom and dad had to pull us out. Well, technically you, I hurt my knee, but they had to talk to their teenage or preteen. How old were you? 13? I went to nationals at 15. Okay. So teenage daughter who was like really killing it and say, I know you're at the height and maybe this is something you could do for college, but we can no longer afford this. So you're out. Like dad was like, this is a really good time. You just got second place. I think this is a really good time to like bow out and be like, yeah, I'm leaving on a high. I love that. I love that reframe.
But now that we're parents, Allie, how fucking hard must that have been for them? Really hard. But I'm really glad because it opened up a lot of other things like theater and music. Don't you? I was going to. OK, sorry, Molly. I know you're ready for Nails and Fails. My parents, my parents let me quit everything. They let me quit everything because they didn't want to get me to and from anything and they didn't want to pay for anything. So they were happy for me to never try stuff and to drop out of the stuff I did try. Right. I feel like with my kids, like that's why like none of them really have a passion for the piano. They can play it, but none of them are excited about it. I'm like, nope.
you're that's it you can't quit you can't quit piano i'm so sorry you can quit anything else but you must stay with piano and i'm like oh god i'm just doing what i always do which is just like trying to fucking solve a problem that i had as a child through parenting well that's a great point i do i do have that question on my list at what point do you let your child quit you know because at a certain at this age we're kind of trying to instill in them nope you chose it you want to do it you're going to stick it out you're going to follow through with this until the end of the season or whatever yeah i always tell my kids if we pay for it you're going We don't have to pay for it again. That's true. That's different. But then what if they're really good at something and then they want to quit? Like what if Wilder, you know, two years from now is like, I know I'm like. That's Jeremy's biggest fear is that Wilder will quit basketball. No, it keeps him up at night. It happened to our brother and he was gifted. It happened. It just changed his mind and everybody was like, but this is your thing. We should invite him on the podcast. I feel like you could do as a parent is to be like, awesome. You don't want to do it. You don't want to do it. JJ is so scared that Wilder will.
um, we'll just lose interest in basketball and just will quit because it's really, it's weird. He loves it and he's great at it, but it's actually not, um, he's not an aggressive or competitive type of person in his like day to day. So I, in the back of my mind, I'm like, maybe middle school, but really, what can you really do? You can have a thoughtful conversation about it. And then.
and like give them some time and then as long as they make the same decision you you have no choice but what would you do like augie six years old say and he's in jujitsu or taekwondo or whatever and he's really liking it three classes in and then you know maybe a month later wednesday rolls around he's like i don't want to go mama no i'm not going i don't want to go because that's what my kids will do today i'm not going i'm not going i'm like you are going honey and i just try not to make it a discussion like at what point I guess if they're doing that all the time, I'm more talking like a commitment when they're young. That's different. If I paid for it, you're fucking going. Okay. Then I'm doing the right thing. Well, why am I the end all? But that's what I think. That's for sure. We committed to this. We decided as a family, but I am with Kate. The only thing that I would be forcing down their throats on a long-term basis is music. Me too.
the gift that keeps on giving in my in my view i don't know because now what maybe i could do a yoga pose slightly longer than others i ain't got shit get real your fucking abs are off the rip and that's straight from island gymnastics thanks john jordan yeah I got, I got a blown out knee and nothing much else. Every time I go to like some sort of body healer, you know, like a chiropractor or a physical therapist, they're like, have you ever, you know, had any injuries to your neck? And I'm like, yeah. So I fell off the bars at gym, like straight onto my, the top of my head. And I lost consciousness for a second. You're like, you're like, but it was better than being burgled. Yeah, exactly. All right. Nail fails. I got a, I got a good fail.
Yes, Sarah. Well, my nail, I guess I could say, is I started my new job. Well, I already said that. I think they're totally everybody. It's still an hour. It's still an hour. You didn't quit yet. Didn't quit. Haven't been fired. So we're doing that. Ultimate fail is that we have – Frances sleeps in a downstairs area in my apartment, and it's flooded now twice in the last few days. Oh, so bad. I'm sorry, Sarah. So sorry. So she – like the worst part really is that she can't sleep down there because it's not –
safe environment. So she's sleeping in our bedroom and which is also like adorable and whatever. She finds it fun that she's sleeping with mom and dad. Um, but her sound machine is like, it's, it sounds like radio static and it's like speaking to me while I'm sleeping and, and I'm hearing these patterns over and over again. And so like I, and my brain just like my subconscious is focusing on these patterns in the sound and I can't fall asleep. It's like fully activating my brain. I cannot sleep.
So that's my fail. I'm like, I'm not sleeping. I'm sorry. Every little move they make, every little cough. Oh, and the sound machine gives me shivers. It does. It gives me shivers too. There is a sound machine that doesn't do it, Sarah, because I had to find it. The cheaper ones do it. But there's this one. There's one really nice one, right? It's like $99. Well, there's one that's like $45 or $50. It looks like a piece of just plastic from the 80s, but it's like a fan. Okay. Yeah.
Um, also like ones that you see at a therapist's office. Yes, exactly. Yep. Yep. Oh, wow. Okay, cool. I learned that from my nannying days because, um, yeah, I had to get one on the road once because I forgot my sound machine and it was speaking to me and I wigged out all night. It's like, um, it's like a pump.
Yes. Yes. You can hear different things with the pumps. Yeah. Let's hear it, Kate. So Mavis has had these like little spots on her chest. Yeah. You know, I texted you guys a photo of them Friday or Saturday. And it's like just like little red dots on her trunk, like on her chest, a little on her arms, a little on her back, but no other symptoms. Okay. And seems totally fine.
And last night I said to Jeremy, like, I'm going to I'm going to run into a problem on Monday or tomorrow because I know for sure that Mavis is going to try to game me and go to the school nurse and tell her that she needs to be picked up because these little red dots. Oh, God. Sure enough. Sure enough. That little be a little. She's so I'm telling you, this bee does not miss.
trick um I drop her off at 8 20 and my phone rings at 9 30 and I recognize the number and I'm like hey Kara this is my third kid that she's had she was like hi I'm here with Mavis I was like everything okay or what and she was like oh I don't know she's got these little red dots and I was like oh yeah okay yeah no I saw those and she was like how long has she had them and I was like um what did she say what did she say You have to confirm the story with your five-year-old? To make sure you didn't lie? Yes. I wanted to be on the same page as me. I was like, fuck, we should have got our story straight. Before I dropped her off at school today, I should have been like, if you have to go to the nurse, this is what you need to tell her. And I was like, what did she say? She was like, oh, she said a week. And I was like, oh, no, no, no, no. Okay, well, she's lying. It hasn't been a week. She's like, I really do think that you should take her to the doctor. I was like, of course, I definitely will. Anyway, I did, and she's fine.
It was just funny because I felt like Mavis got me in big fucking trouble with the nurse. Like, I knew she would. I knew she would do that. Wow. Right. If you had confirmed your stories before school, though, it was indefinite. It would be home. Yeah, she wasn't fucking going anyway. I have a nail. Yeah, girl.
What's your nail? Sunday. Bowl Sunday. Go Pats. No. I woke up and made coffee. And I was just having my Sunday morning mellow. And I'm like, gosh, I don't feel stressed or anything. I'm going to make the boys breakfast. And while I'm at it, I'm just going to make lunch, too. And I made their lunches and put them in lunchboxes right into the fridge. So by 9 a.m. on Sunday morning, their Monday lunches were made. It was awesome. Wow. Great, girl. That's huge. Really. It made my Monday morning. They were just ready to go. My fail. Oh, my God. I went this weekend to a friend's.
barbecue um we went for dinner and drinks and we had delicious homemade margaritas went to bed slept like a baby because I was like a little bit drunk and um I must have slept so hard on my neck because I woke up aching like oh my god in the same position in so much pain um Took some Advil, went through my day, and the Advil totally helped it. And I was like, okay, it's gone. Went to the beach, went surfing with my kids, woke up this morning, you guys. I am in such bad shape. Oh, no. What is it? Basically bedridden. I'm in so much pain in the type where, like, you can't hand your kid their water bottle while you're driving. Every time you turn the right a little bit, you, ah, ah. Oh, God, yes. I've been there. Molly and I know. I don't know. I don't know what to blame it on, if any of that. Mine comes randomly, Allie. It's always from, because I'm real tense in my sleep. Who knows what it is?
I hope it doesn't last long. I'm in a lot of pain anyway. Sorry, Allie. I'm so sorry. That is awful. Keep that apple flowing. Do you have a bathtub, Allie? Let's not go there. Yes, but I don't have the water situation where I can just fill up a bathtub of hot water and feel good about soaking in it. I need to use it for dishes. You know, we do the fast shower at home. I can always get to a bathtub, my father-in-law or wherever. I can get to a bathtub. I'm sure that also, yeah, like a warm bath with Epsom salts would be helpful. Heat and ice, Sarah?
You could take this off. Our listeners probably go through this too. Always with, you know, an acute injury. First 24 hours is ice and then heat thereafter. Thank you so much. It's such a nursing injury. It reminds me of like, you know, the upper neck and back. I can feel it. I've had that exact. I can feel it. Anyway, go ahead. Who's that? Mama? Yes. Mama, I love you. Call me that. That's what Ali's kids call me. Okay. So I'm going to just say I was going to go straight to fail, but I'll give myself a nail. I'm halfway through the school year, folks.
Yes. Congratulations. Good girl. You know, coming back after my maternity leave. It is still, it is just not that easy for me. Okay. Hands and knees to summer girl. You can get there. I know I'm not the kind of teacher who likes to count down, but two kids have made me that way. Okay. And.
my fail oh gosh goldie is just getting into the stage guys where her shits are just so fucked up they might as well be a 40 year old man's shits wow they smell the texture is awful um and she's a healthy shitter you know so it's like okay they're coming they're coming several times a day okay it really why are they always about your baby's bodily functions and why are they always like this But no, this is when you know. These are the moments where you're like, I'm getting my kid out of fucking diapers. I can't handle this. You cannot change an adult. No, it's awful. But, you know, here I am. I'm working. So, you know, I've said it. It's either going to be. It's crazy because Augie and Goldie were more. Spring break. Spring break or summer. But she's not ready, Kate. She is not ready. A lot could change. Spring break is a few weeks away. So, see. We'll see. But anyway, that is not the fail. The fail is that my kids were watching TV during dinner and she pooped. Did not say anything. I don't know why her pants were off.
Whatever. Oh. Stuck her two hands down the back while she was watching Paw Patrol. Oh, my God. I am in full dinner mode. So I am not catching any of this until. And Augie's like, Mama, Goldie pooped. It's so stinky. And I'm like, oh, babe. OK, I'll be in there in a minute. I'm like, just finishing up dinner. Oh, my God. Allie. Complaining. He's like, you don't understand. Yeah. She and he was like glued to the TV. So he's just like going off of smell. He's not seeing what's happening.
She had poop. Her hands were covered to her wrists. No. There were handprints all over the couch, the floor. Trail of shit. No. In fingernails. In fingernails. I just had to take her straight to the bath, but then I had so much cleaning. Scrubbing. The new couch. Scrubbing. Scrubbing. It's so funny because somebody just posted a picture. Somebody just commented on that picture and was like, how do you keep your couch so clean? I can't wait to reply. She doesn't. Her kid shit's on it.
Shit all over it. She had to spend hours wiping it down. Sam was not home. And I was like doing the thing like on my hands and knees, like sniffing everywhere. Like, because I couldn't really see where it was. But it was. I do it. Yeah, it was disgusting. Like the shit smell lingers. Like even after you clean the baby diaper. Yep. So I think we're good. I think we're good. But disgusting. Wow.
I'm going to challenge you to leave Goldie and her bodily functions out of next week. I'll see what happens. Sweet little. you know, flower. I really change a nasty picture, don't I? She's the cutest. Light comes out of her. She's so beautiful. Graham picked her up from school today, and when they came home, she ran up the steps, and she was saying, Hi, Molly! Hi, Molly! I'm out of here. Good night, Mama. Love you. Give us a review if you haven't done it yet. That helps us so much, and we will see you guys next week. Also, guys, follow us on Twitter. We're at nursingcursing. No and. Nursingcursing!
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