Episode 33
33| Mom Vent Energy Only: ADHD Kids, Anxiety & Chaos | A Little Bothered Podcast
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Guess who else got a yeast infection? Me. It's like the fucking sisterhood of the traveling yeast infection. What the fuck? That's so disgusting.
Monica (:Thanks.
Hello? Hello? There are only two of us.
Nicole (:Helloooo
Monica (:This will be, this
will be, I want to say our quietest episode yet with only the two of us, but also it's the loudest to hear. So it, might not be true.
Nicole (:also gonna say it actually might be our loudest episode because my children are running a actual muck so in it this is a warning in advance if you hear kids screaming they're fine they're just they're doing something I don't know and the fact that it's only two of us that means there's only two of us to talk so you might hear my kids screaming in the background sometimes when I'm speaking so sorry about you it's gonna be like that
Monica (:That is true too.
Yes, they are fine.
Yeah.
Yup, yup. So,
but you know, it's gonna fit because today is a little bit of a mom vent mini-sode. Maybe it'll be a mini-sode. We'll see what happens. Maybe a good full episode. We'll see. But...
Nicole (:Yeah.
We always say, yeah, we say things are
gonna be short and then they never are, so.
Monica (:Right.
Yes. So either way, thank you for tuning in. I'm Monica.
So we are so.
Nicole (:We're missing Kelsey and Ashley, but Kelsey is dealing
with kind of a crisis. I'm not, I'm going to let her tell you guys about that.
Monica (:You know,
right, right on par with the mom vent mini so because like
Nicole (:Exactly. is crisis
mode episode is what it is.
Monica (:It
is, you know, we're making it happen. We're getting an episode out, but like life is lifey and, and Ms. Ashley is just over there killing it, but you know, running around doing much stuff. So she couldn't make it with us today. It was just a busy weekend. Her and I were at the lake yesterday and now she's got to catch up before the work week.
Nicole (:Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-uh. Uh-huh.
How's the lake, by the way? That's good.
Monica (:It was good. It was really good. ⁓
Yeah, it was like the weather is like starting to cool down. So we're in like the low hundreds. ⁓ And so it's just, know. Low hundreds. Well, no, actually even like when we got to the lake, I looked at the dash on my car and it was like 88 degrees and I was like, what is this? ⁓
Nicole (:We're starting to cool down. We're the low hundreds.
I was gonna say like only 90, yeah. ⁓
Monica (:So
it was just really good. We might try to do another trip next weekend just so that we can get in like the last little bit of summer. ⁓ But yeah, it was really good. It felt really nice out there and it's just fun to go and chill and, you know, not always do like the full camping trip because I do love camping, but it's a trip, it's a setup, it's all the things and so
Nicole (:Yeah.
It's a whole thing, yeah.
Monica (:And we're not all fried and crispy sunburned like we were last time, so that's good. Okay, ⁓ Bartlett. Yeah, so it's a little less crowded than Lake Pleasant, because it's not as easy to get to. But it was still really busy, actually. ⁓
Nicole (:That's good. That is good. What lake do you guys go to?
okay, nice.
Mm-hmm. Mm-mm. I love Bartlett. Yeah,
but I love Bartlett. I grew up going there. It's so much fun.
Monica (:Yeah, it's a nice one. I like it. And there's like a little cove that we go to, which is just nice because it was actually pretty shallow so they can go really far out, but it's not that deep. So it's fun, but it was cracking us up because they all like have their scuba masks and go scuba diving. like, or sorry, snorkel, their snorkel masks. But it's like a super muddy area. So like they're not seeing crap.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Snorkeling, yeah, yeah.
They're
Monica (:But James is just like floating on the surface for like an hour. And I'm like, I'm really
Nicole (:not, yeah, they're not taking shit. Well they do!
Monica (:glad that his life jacket is like neon because you just like, you just see this neon life jacket floating across the cup.
Nicole (:Yeah, just floating around.
Monica (:anyhow, yeah, it was a great lake trip.
Nicole (:mechanical
There's something about Bartlett though that does feel very like nostalgic and like comfortable, I think like in certain areas. I really do enjoy going to Bartlett Lake. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, that's what are we actually talking about?
Monica (:Yeah.
Yeah, that's how I feel with Roosevelt, because we grew up at Roosevelt, so I getcha. Okay. I am sure that you
Nicole (:Weird shit we saw on the internet this week.
Monica (:Yeah. So
yeah, weird. So this week on the internet, ⁓ yeah, this week on the internet, mean, what wasn't there, but we, came across ⁓ at a Tik Tok. I just, I feel for this mom. So we came across her account. It's Lauren Michelle and she shared her story. I think her daughter, she said was 10 and
Nicole (:Yeah, this week on the internet.
Yeah, something
like nine or 10. Just too young is the point.
Monica (:Yeah, so she's 10.
Yes, too young. I mean, I think unfortunately she's old enough to not.
totally freak out. But at the same time, was still it. Yeah.
Nicole (:Given the circumstances, I think she's old
enough to of comprehend and to end. She did what obviously was best. She did as for a 10 year old.
Monica (:and she handled it well. But so basically what happened,
this mom brings her 10 year old to a birthday party at a roller skater rink and checked in with the mom hosting the birthday party, checked in with her, asked, hey, is it okay if I go run a quick errand and leave her here? And the mom said, yes. So she, yes.
Nicole (:She even asked what time is
the party gonna be done? I'll make sure that I'm here by that time. She was given the time of five o'clock, I think, and she, 30, yeah, she got there around 4.30, so that would have been 30 minutes before the party ended. And when did she come back to? Everybody was gone. All the kids that were invited, the party room was locked, mm-hmm. Everybody gone.
Monica (:Yes.
Yes, five. She came back before, just before 4 30.
Mm-hmm.
Right, the party room is locked up. Like, thank goodness
that they had another friend who happened to be there, so her 10-year-old was like hanging out with her. But...
Nicole (:Yeah, and that friend wasn't
even part of like the birthday party. She wasn't even invited to the birthday. She just happened to be there, which, know, like, honestly, like everything happens in divine timing, right? Like, good thing that that mom and her kid were there so that this other child, you know, so that the daughter in question didn't feel like scared because she had people she knew. But.
Monica (:just happened to be there.
right? But I think
Yeah, had someone
there, had someone safe to be with, but had found out, like the mom ended up like digging into this and found out that the party and everybody at the party had left at like 3.30 an hour earlier. And like, and then she tried to call this mom multiple times and she never answered her phone, which I feel like to me, just like you knew that you were wrong. And I'm just,
Nicole (:Yeah
330 that is insane
8 times 8. No, no.
Monica (:I don't understand it because, and this is maybe, maybe this is just me, but I also feel like the four of us share this, is that if I see kids around, like my eyes are on them, whether they are mine or not, my eyes are on them, I'm looking out for the mamas around me, I'm looking out for their babies. Like if I was hosting a party and I had told another mom, like, yeah, go run your errand, I'm.
Nicole (:my God, Hawkeyes, Hawkeyes, it doesn't matter.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I got
it. I'm also telling that child, right, and I'm also gonna tell that child, hey, your mom is leaving. If you need something, you come to me. She's not here. Like, I'm here for you. I am your mom now. Like, you know what I mean? the mom even said that like they never announced over the intercom like to do presents, to do food, to do cake.
Monica (:leaving that child alone, I'm actually gonna be having my eyes on them even more!
You
Yes.
Yes. No, absolutely. And it would have been...
Nicole (:Nothing. So nothing was actually announced. So like her daughter didn't eat, which like, you know, okay, it's not necessarily not necessarily somebody else's responsibility to feed your kid. But if you're hosting a birthday party, it kind of goes without saying, kind of goes without saying. Right.
Monica (:I do?
Yes.
make sure everyone's taken care of, especially
when you now are supervising another child and you're responsible for them. But like that also, okay, that also does make me kind of curious about this like front dynamic though, is like where...
Nicole (:Right, and this is a birthday party.
Yes. Okay. I'm glad you brought this up
because I was going to say what kind of friend is this? Like obviously they went out of their way to, she was invited, so they went out of their way to get this girl a gift. So what do you mean you weren't told when the presents were being opened so that you could participate in the friend opening the gift? So what is the friend dynamic? Is this someone actually wants to be your friend or is this?
Monica (:Yeah!
Well, not only that, not only that. So it's
So I'm like picturing this, like they're all out there skating, right? At some point, presents are happening, birthday girls coming in, was this girl not being included in all of the activities? Now granted, like I do have a child who will very much go and entertain himself and is not always connected to the things happening. And so maybe this little girl is similar to that and like was just kind of missing things.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's, yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm wondering about.
Yeah.
That's kind of what I was thinking
too. Like I wonder if she just didn't. But to miss food and presents and everybody leaving like that is a little bit, you know what I mean? Like that's a lot of things to miss.
Monica (:But...
Yeah. I just,
it is. And at the end of the day, it doesn't even matter like what was happening in the friend dynamics because I mean, that's just part of kids being kids and figuring those pieces out, right? ⁓ But the mom, the mom is the adult. She's the one who's responsible. Like I would have had Hawkeyes on that other girl because I'd be like, well, now I'm like responsible for this other person's child.
Nicole (:Yep, I agree, yep.
Yeah.
Monica (:I'm
gonna make sure that they're being pulled in for everything. And so I would be raging if I was this mother and came back and found that my child had been left alone. And now granted, I think that they're in a smaller town and that does matter because being in such a huge city, I would feel even more on alert of my child being left alone somewhere.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Correct. Yeah.
I think there is a, yeah. If like, obviously there was something else that she knew and she kind of latched onto and was able to hang out with that until her mom came back. Also, like, I wonder, do they know the people that work at this establishment? Like, is it a comfortable, like, do they frequent this place? she, obviously she felt comfortable staying there, you know, like, is it, is it small town vibes? I think so more so, but regardless though.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Nicole (:The mom that was hosting the party is wrong. She's wrong. And the fact that she didn't answer the phone eight times because the, what's her name, Lauren, you said? She went on to say that she proceeded to call her and call her and call her and she never answered. She called and she texted. This woman never responded back to her. So you know you're wrong.
Monica (:I know.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Yes. And it's like an hour.
Well, not only that, it's like, why would you plan a birthday party to go to five and then you leave at 3.30? Like, I don't understand that. And then some of the people, right, and some of the people in the comments were trying to blame this mom, like Lauren, because why doesn't your daughter have a cell phone? She could have called you.
Nicole (:3.30. Yeah. Yeah, I don't either. What was the purpose of that?
Yeah, she had to leave her kid there. my god.
Monica (:And so she went on to explain that like in their house, they don't do cell phones until junior high because they don't need them when they're in elementary school. like, I'm with her. like we shouldn't have to get our kids cell phones because people can't follow, like follow through with their word. Granted.
Nicole (:You're right as a parent.
Mm-hmm.
No. And also
the parent on duty had a cell phone. Why didn't she call the mom and say, hey, you know what, we're actually leaving at three thirty. I'm so sorry. We're leaving early. Like, do you mind coming back and come? Like, I don't want to leave her alone. Like, there could have so many other things could have happened. It's literally not hard to communicate with people, but.
Monica (:We're leaving early. Can you come and get your daughter?
It's just communication.
Well,
it's the adults needing to be the adults. Don't assume that this 10-year-old is just gonna be like here and hanging out and she's fine.
Nicole (:Right, but how rude is that?
Yeah, how rude is that? Like, how horrible of a person. I'm sorry, like, I don't think Lauren's bad mom at all. I saw some people saying in the comments, like, well, you're a bad mom for leaving your kid at the birthday party. Like, I would never do that. Okay. Listen, growing up, my mom left me at several birthday parties because when I was younger, we had one vehicle and both my parents had to drive. So like sometimes my mom had to drop my dad off work and
Monica (:No.
Yeah.
Nicole (:I remember several times or like go pick him up. She would have to leave from the birthday party, go do whatever she had to do, come back. And I, you know, was always fine because the mom that was hosting knew what was going on. Like, and never was like, ⁓ like she's not my problem.
Monica (:And I think at 10.
Yeah.
Yes. Well, and like at 10 years old, yeah, and at
10 years old, like as a 10, like I'm remembering myself as a 10 year, like I wanted to be dropped off. I wanted to go hang out with my friends, right? And so I don't think that she's in the wrong at all. She did her due diligence of checking in with the mom. For me, this does always like reaffirm though, is that like if I don't really know that mom, and I don't know, maybe she did feel like she really knew that mom. I don't know.
Nicole (:Yeah.
No.
⁓
Maybe she does, yeah.
Monica (:But if I don't feel like I really know that mom, then I'm staying. But again, I live in a giant city. And so I don't always know my kids' parents super, super well, right? But I don't.
Nicole (:Yeah, but true.
Mmm.
Yeah. I think the same,
it would be the same as like you're dropping her off for a sleepover. You know what I mean? Like you're just trusting that that parent that you're dropping them off with is going to have all of the kids best interests and take responsibility for all of the children. Like, you know, it's just very simple, I think. And I feel so bad for her.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Right?
You would think,
but you know...
Nicole (:You would think, you would think. I do feel really bad for her though,
because that's a horrifying experience. I know that if I walked in and I saw nobody and I saw the ⁓ room that my child was supposed to be in is locked, before I even made eye contact with my kid, I would panic. I would be in a full panic. Absolute panic. And then the woman that
Monica (:I would be.
Yes.
Nicole (:was there that was a friend that just happened to know them and kind of let her hang out with them, I would literally be groveling. would be groveling to her because I would just be so thankful because the situation is so weird. It's such a weird situation.
Monica (:for real.
It is. It is. I just,
I don't know. just, don't understand some people's choices and like, I just, I don't understand. Like it's a little girl. It's a little girl and you left her alone. I mean.
Nicole (:Yeah, I mean, even something as simple
as like, we've been to the park with each other and it's like, can you watch them? I have to go to the bathroom really quick. Or like, can you watch this one? Well, I take this one to the bathroom. You know what I mean? It's like.
Monica (:Mm-hmm. Right?
Nicole (:If I asked you to watch one of my kids while I take my other kid to the bathroom and you didn't, I would be so mad. Like, this is the same thing.
Monica (:I know. I do kind of wonder
if the mom that left had maybe checked in with the other mom who happened to be there that they knew and was like, hey, we're leaving early. Do you mind taking over? And in that case, it's like, okay, cool. Somebody took over. However, that's a lot of assumption. Like if that is what happened, that's a lot of assumptions that like that's okay. And why would you still not
Nicole (:Yeah, maybe.
specified in the story.
Monica (:call the mom and be like, hey, we're leaving early, but so and so is here. Are you good with that?
Nicole (:so and so is there. Yep. Yep, yep, yep.
That would have been an easy fix too. And it makes me wonder too, like, when did that lady show up? Did she get there like as they were leaving and that's how she knew that they had gone when they left or did she know that it was it after the fact and the girl was just alone? like what?
Monica (:I just don't understand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know. just feel like this is yet another example of why parenting is just so complicated and so hard. It's just like you can't trust everyone and you can't rely on everyone.
Nicole (:It is complicated and I feel like there's not a lot of right or wrong. No. No. It's hard to
tell, you know, what the right and the wrong thing would be in certain situations for parenting because there's a lot of nuance that goes into parenting and everybody's family is different. But this situation, I do not feel like there's room for right and wrong. Like that was wrong. That was wrong.
Monica (:Yeah.
I don't either. Although,
you know, at least on the other end of it, this will be an experience for the 10 year old where like she's certainly going to learn something from it. And yeah.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm kudos on her
Kudos on her for remaining calm because me at 10 years old and everybody left me I would be probably crying like I would be crying and being like what somebody call my mom like
Monica (:I mean.
think I
would have been crying because, I mean again, I grew up in a small town, so like I just, I knew everyone's parents very well, and so I think if I were in her position, I'd be crying because I'd be like, why do you take me with you?
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Rejection. Yeah.
Yeah, I would feel like so rejected like well, why couldn't I have just come with you like like You don't like me
Monica (:Yeah. Which, which to be honest, like
that's what it would have been for me growing up. Like my parents both worked. And so there were a couple of specific like friends that I was close to whose parents were like my second parents. And so I was always going with them.
Nicole (:Yeah.
yeah. yeah.
No, I had that a lot because my mom was, you know, mostly a solo parent. So it was
like if somebody couldn't make it to pick me up, I was going home with a friend and there were a couple friends that it was just like normal. Like one of my friends I remember in elementary school, her mom would roll up and she'd be like, your mom's not here yet. Is she on her way? And I'd be like, yeah, yeah, no, she's picking me up today. Like, don't have to wait at your house today, thanks. Like, you know, would, things like that. But that friend, her and I eventually stopped becoming friends and
Monica (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Mmm.
Nicole (:Then so then her mom obviously stopped checking in on me and I did feel rejected because I'm like, man, like that really sucks because I really looked at these people as like, you know, a second kind of like a second family. Like I was and it it was shitty, honestly. So like I could only imagine what that girl felt like with everybody in the party left. Not one kid, not one kid's parent was like, do you need a ride home? Does your mom know the party ended like what?
Monica (:That does suck.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And now, yeah.
Yeah, I just
Nicole (:So that's why when
you brought up the friend dynamic, was like, that's a really good question because obviously nobody else in the party thought to check in on the situation. Like, I don't know, it's just kind of sad. The whole thing is kind of sad.
Monica (:Yeah.
It is very
do a little bit of a deep dive and tried to do a little bit of a follow-up with her on some of the others. That's how I learned about the cell phone. That's one thing that people were giving her crap about. Then some people are being like, well, you're being a helicopter parent. It's like, okay, no.
Nicole (:yeah?
Okay, okay.
No.
Monica (:No, she was just making sure her child was okay. And like, her daughter had been left there before waiting for pickup, which again, I'm thinking of myself being in like fourth, fifth grade where like that wouldn't have been totally uncommon, just like waiting by myself to be picked up. like, that's fine, but that wasn't the plan.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:That wasn't the plan and that wasn't the communication
Nicole (:that wasn't the plan.
Monica (:So that's the bottom line is it's just that like you assumed, right.
Nicole (:It wasn't 15 minutes early. It wasn't 10
minutes early, a whole hour and a half, hour and a half earlier than what you said the party ended out and it ended up being an hour before the mom came back. Like, that's so.
Monica (:Yeah, but she doesn't seem very
bothered by people's comments. Like she seems very like she knows her position and and she's angry about it and and she should be like yeah, she should be but
Nicole (:And that's good, that's good.
Good, I hope so because she's right.
I was wondering how good
she knows, like how good they know each other, how like, parent to parent, because obviously they don't live near each other because if it was me and I knew where you lived, I'd be pulling up. I'm sorry, I'm a little crazy, I have a little bit of a hot head, so if you're gonna leave my kid alone for an hour and a half, like before you know that I'm coming back for sure, I'm pulling up at your house, it's on site, I don't care. Don't.
Monica (:Yeah.
Nicole (:care. I literally don't care. Especially after not answering my phone calls eight times in a row or my text messages. No. And if I didn't know where they lived, I'd be at the school. I'm in school. I don't matter wherever I see you. It's odd. I don't matter. I'm saying I'm at least saying my piece. Maybe I'm not throwing hands, but I'm at least saying my piece because that was really best.
Monica (:Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Well, and maybe that's the reason. Yeah.
Yeah.
And maybe that's the reason she decided to take it to the internet too, is that this mom didn't respond. And so she was like, all right, well then I'm going to put you on blast. I mean, she didn't name the mom and whatnot, but you know that whoever's in their circle, their community is like, ⁓ like she did what? ⁓ for sure. For sure. And I don't know how.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm, and I... No, she didn't.
Yeah, it's gonna get back to her. It's gonna get back to her somehow. And the mommy question is gonna get.
Monica (:I don't know as like the mom that left, I don't know how she could have an explanation at all because even if she was like, well, this other mom, like I tried to call her and she didn't answer her phone. I don't care. You assumed responsibility for this little girl. End of story. Because if you didn't want that, all you had to say was, no, I would rather you stay for the party. Like, I'm not like, no, I'm not going to assume responsibility. That's all it takes, which is fine.
Nicole (:No. No.
Yeah. Yeah.
Mm-mm. Yep.
Monica (:she would have had every right to say no.
Nicole (:You know, especially with somewhere as easily, right, and especially somewhere like a ⁓ roller rink or like, you know, those trampoline parks. Like, there's some of these places that you have to sign a waiver for for your kid to be at. I'm not saying a roller rink is one of those places, but an injury can still occur. And as the host mom, she could have said, if she wasn't comfortable, she could have said no, because if your child gets hurt, I don't want to be responsible for it. Like, I would be, you know,
Monica (:Yeah.
Ahem.
Nicole (:I would much rather feel comfortable if you were here. She could have said that, but none of that was addressed.
Monica (:I mean, honestly, it could have even
just been like, no, I feel too overwhelmed by how many are here. I would prefer if the parents stayed. Cool. That's it. Like, that's all it takes.
Nicole (:Honey,
Anyway, I hope I'm gonna be stalking her page for like an actual update, because I really do wanna know. Just because I'm curious. That's the problem with TikTok is it's like a brain disease, right? Like you need to like, I need to know all the things, which is bad for my health. ⁓
Monica (:I know, we're nosy.
Yes.
Don't worry, the algorithm will bring you back to the update. They always will.
Nicole (:The algorithm will bring me back.
Speaking of my health, should we talk, should we do our like, what the fucks really quick, our WTFs?
Monica (:Yeah,
we should because I was just thinking about that about how I'm mad at you for this exact reason. So go ahead, Nicole. Go ahead. Tell them your WTF.
Nicole (:See you, bye.
I don't really have a win. I don't know what the win is yet. I guess my win is that I feel better, but my trigger and my FML, actually my FML, and I actually blame Kelsey for this because she started this way back when, when she was still pregnant. It was her fault. Kelsey got a yeast infection. Guess who else got a yeast infection? Me. It's like the fucking sisterhood of the traveling yeast infection. What the fuck? That's so disgusting.
Monica (:You did, so I'm pissed at both of you.
Thanks.
Nicole (:This is so nasty. But I had never had one before, so I didn't know what I was experiencing. And it actually wasn't until talking about my symptoms with Kelsey where she was like, that's actually what I that's those were my symptoms. Like I was expecting my symptoms to be extreme when this might be TMI for some of you. But I'm just going to tell you, they were literally it was literally just itching. It was just itching. OK. And like. I was so I thought it was like.
Monica (:Yeah.
Whatever, it's real life. Yeah.
Nicole (:fungal like I didn't know what I guess is yeast infection fungal I don't know is that kind of fungal I'm not sure I don't know the logistics this is the only one I've I've ever had so I don't know but um you know I was like thinking that it was I was having a reaction to like period products I was thinking everything other than yeast infection and it turns out it was yeast infection um so now tell me why you're mad at me what did I do besides getting yeast infection oh my god
Monica (:Yeah, I'm... Yeah. I don't know.
Well, here's the thing. So... Yes.
Well, we've been chatting about it and Devices Listen.
Nicole (:⁓
Monica (:Do you know what all, every single app, platform, wherever I go on my phone, do you know my targeted ads are for right?
the amount of products, no, not even that. Like literally I'm getting stuff of like, here's how to go get tested for like yeast infections and PC and I'm like.
Nicole (:Monsetat?
my god!
You really do have the wrong girl because I haven't gotten a single targeted ad and I was literally voice chatting to you guys about how frustrated I was. And we were talking actual logistics on, on what the treatment is because both, ⁓ both Ashley and Monica thought that it was the egg treatment, which turns out that that is a treatment like it is, but it's, it's not the one that I got. And it looks like an egg. It's basically like, I feel like it's like a vaginal suppository.
Monica (:HA!
NO!
It's a real egg looking thing. ⁓
Basically,
yeah.
Nicole (:Basically, right. So, but that's not like what the treatment I got was. So we were literally, we were talking about this. We were
Monica (:That was the commercials I remember seeing was the big giant fricking egg. And as
like a middle schooler, I was just like, where does the egg go?
Nicole (:saw those okay so I did not know that the egg was
Monica (:there. Yeah, no, I'm gonna be honest, from B and actually, no, it was
probably even before middle school is when I remember seeing those commercials. And I will tell you, since then, I'm like, I don't want to use infection.
Nicole (:It's so funny.
well, i mean, i've already given you all the logistics on the monostat 7 day treatment, okay? it's not an egg, it is liquid, it's cream
Monica (:I mean, I'm so
happy for you, but if you could just take your targeted ads back, I would greatly appreciate it. Because it's not even just like, hey, here's how to get tested. It's like anything and everything you can think of is like an ad for it of just like products and things that like I didn't know that existed and companies that I didn't know that existed and like all these like statistics about it. And it's like, it's okay. It's normal.
Nicole (:normal that is so funny that is so freaking funny honestly what I did look it up though it was like yeah you're definitely gonna have one like at least one time in your life so I'm like okay well if this is my at least my one time in my life like I'm glad to just fucking get it over with I never want to have another one of them though
Monica (:right?
I mean like, it is what it is, it's not that big of a deal, but I don't want these ads!
Nicole (:Anything is, it's not,
it's not, it's like obviously pretty normal, but I kept thinking of Kelsey and the bottle brush situation and I was spared, thank God, so that's my win, I guess. I was spared with wanting to shove a bottle brush up where they don't belong.
Monica (:Yes.
Okay, that's your win. Okay.
Okay, so that's your win and also kind of like you're triggered and then.
Nicole (:Also,
and my fail and I think I don't really have. ⁓ the thing that triggered me, I think was just my daughter's school pickup. She had a half day. There's a school pickup procedure on like regular days. I don't understand why that regular day school procedure can't be applied to the half day. Like everybody, they, they forget how it works when it's a half day and there's chaos, just chaos everywhere. Like guys.
Monica (:That would be too easy, Nicole.
Yeah.
Man, pick up lines are just, I hate, I'm, I'm very thankful. I don't have to deal with pickup lines anymore. That is, that is one of my favorite things about homeschooling is that we're not rushing out the door trying to get through pickup line in the morning. I'm not rushing out the door to get, yeah. I love, I love not having to be in pickup lines and drop off lines and all of the things.
Nicole (:Just drive up, pick your kid up.
Yeah, that's true.
homes ago. It's a big win, honestly.
Honestly, that's like a big thing that makes me want to homeschool because I hate having to get up early in the I am not an early riser. ⁓ I don't want to be in the school drop offs, in the school pickups. I don't want to be doing that.
Monica (:Well, no, I mean, honestly like that, I got.
Yeah, no, I mean that kind of
goes into like some of my WTS for like the last like two weeks, honestly. I just feel like the last two weeks for me have been a giant WTF and not even like our little acronym of like your win, but like literally a WTF. the ⁓ Yeah, like my kids were sick and then I like was fighting off their cold and like held off and then I threw my freaking back out and then
Nicole (:⁓ WTF yeah, no you guys you've had a lot going on
yeah.
Monica (:after that I did catch their cold just like full on. And when I say I threw my back off, the reason we didn't record last week and you guys didn't get an episode is because I literally could not stand up. And so I had to sleep downstairs in my recliner from surgery. yeah, like my husband literally had to help me like get undressed to go to the bathroom because I couldn't bend over enough to like push my pants down.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Yeah, James had to rescue her a few times, like...
Monica (:I was in so much pain and then last Sunday, I woke up thinking, okay, maybe we can do recording, but he's on a work hall and I literally couldn't get out of my chair and I'm like, I can't walk up the stairs. I can't sit in a chair to record because I literally can't even get up the stairs. And even if I could, I can't pick up all my equipment to set it up so we can't record.
Nicole (:Uh-uh.
Hehehehehe
Yeah, no, Monica was an actual mess. An actual mess.
Monica (:Yeah. So
I like, I guess I pinched a nerve and so I'm still kind of wobbling around. And so like the win, I guess, is that I got to go have a lake day yesterday because thank goodness for Ashley's husband Patrick. Thank goodness. Yeah. Patrick to the rescue, like loaded up my van and like with like loaded up my cooler and like set up everything. And I'm like, thank you. I'm like, I'm like,
Nicole (:Yes, Patrick! Thank you, Patrick! Fire emoji!
my god, that's so funny.
Monica (:And I was moving around a lot easier by yesterday, but I still can't like bend over. I can do like, can squat and then go straight down, but I can't like bend over to pick anything up. Yeah, so.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm. Yes, not hinge forward. ⁓ Which is really inconvenient
because you don't really realize how often you do that movement until you actually can't do that movement. Which I've, like, every single time I hurt something, it could be something as, like, minimal as my pinky toe or something. Doesn't matter what it is. All of a sudden, yes. All of a sudden, it's my most used body part. And I'm like, what?
Monica (:Yes. Yes.
Yeah, it doesn't matter what it is, all of a you realize how much you use it. Yeah, exactly. I know.
But then, mean, that also is like the other part of it is like, thank goodness for homeschooling and that it is what it is because I was able to sleep and not have to stress about like a pickup line and getting the kids out and like school looked like me sitting in the recliner and the kids sitting around me and like, you know.
Nicole (:Ahem.
Yeah. Sitting in the car like, yeah, and having to
get in and out of the car to get the kids, that would have been bad. And like sitting in the car waiting, that would have been so uncomfortable.
Monica (:Yeah, but
the worst of it, it was so awful. So all of us started last weekend and this is all kind of part of my WTF and just like, again, the mom's not so many sessions at this point, but mom episode. ⁓ So last weekend, one of my kids had his ADHD evaluation and literally like I'm rushing around trying to clean up the house in the kitchen for my in-laws to come over to watch the other two.
Nicole (:Yeah, right, right,
Monica (:And at this point, my back had already been like kind of sore. It was kind of off, but I was okay. I was okay. And then I bent over my dishwasher to like put a fork in and that's when like things like that final pinch happened. I almost fell into my dishwasher. I'm not even kidding. I had to grab the the counter so fast.
Nicole (:Mmm, you're pushing through.
Stupid. my god.
you
Monica (:and I was like on the phone with my husband and like screamed and he was like, what just happened? I know. And so it was just, it was awful. So that happened literally minutes before I'm supposed to leave this house to go sit through a like multiple hour evaluation for my child.
Nicole (:Of course he wasn't there, like, ugh!
Ugh, worst timing. Worst timing.
Monica (:It was awful. So
the good news is we have the validation of what we've always known. Yes, that is my win is that we have the validation of what we've always known. And so he's ADHD. It did go well. It was very helpful. And like even being in this field, like I understand ADHD really well, ⁓ but there's still so many nuances and things to it that like I'm still learning and.
Nicole (:Yes, that's your W. Yay! ⁓
Yes, the appointment went well. Yes.
Mmm.
Mm-hmm.
Monica (:Either way, having that validation and knowing like, okay, no, so the struggles really are real. Like it really is this tough because there really is this thing that's going on for him, ⁓ which I don't think I fully was prepared for how good that validation would feel of just like, okay, so it's not in my head and I don't have to be like, yeah, he probably has ADHD. Like, no, like we know now, we do and we know more specifics to him. But then like, there's this,
Nicole (:No, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Monica (:There's so many parts to having a child that struggles specifically with the emotion dysregulation. Like that's one thing I think about ADHD that most people do not recognize is it's not just about like, they can't focus or like they're struggling with focusing or they're really hyper. yes, that can be true. That can be true. But what most people don't realize is that
Nicole (:Yeah.
No, there's an actual... Yeah. Those are aspects, yeah.
Monica (:because of all of those things going on and like that their processing is happening so fast and they're getting frustrated with it, they also feel really big and really deeply. And so you end up dealing with a lot of the emotion dysregulation and it's not their fault. it's just, it's so overwhelming for them like to have that much stimuli and to be processing and getting so frustrated and like there's just so many components to it. But most people don't realize that the big emotions are part of it.
Nicole (:Hmm hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Monica (:And so I think having that validation of like, is why those struggles have been there, have been helpful. But then like you guys heard about all of it from later on this week, like we ended up having a very public moment of that emotion dysregulation coming out. like,
Nicole (:Yeah.
you
Monica (:You know, I really try to like err on the side of like, I don't want to share too much because it's, know, my child's privacy. And at the same time from like the mom side of it, like most moms deal with this, but I think also it is so hard, but like from like the ADHD side of it is that there's these moments that happen where
Nicole (:Yeah.
Most moms deal with this. Full on meltdown mode is hard.
Monica (:like I can only speak to myself, but I know it's not just me. It's just that I feel so overwhelmed and so fearful of being misunderstood, of being judged, of not having the support of, and more so it's not about like me not having it, but worrying about like my child getting like that judgment and like not having that support and like being misunderstood by like the people around, you know. ⁓
Nicole (:Mm-hmm. ⁓
Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Right, yeah.
Monica (:Like that has definitely been a challenge with like play dates. I was like, we've navigated different things of like, are they gonna understand that like he's trying to get his needs met through like this different way that is different from their child. like, it's just, it's a lot of anxiety of wanting your child to have the love and the support that like, you know that they deserve, but not always knowing how are the people around like going to meet you there.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And just also just the regular like, like the normal childhood experience
of like going and doing certain things, right? Like, so without, without also then fear of like being judged on anything, anything, anything, cause anything could happen. Like, you know, so.
Monica (:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Well,
but then like, kind of just comes like full circle back to like the conversation about like the skating rink, right? Is it's like, why does it have to be so hard in the sense of like, like for me, if I see another mom, like my eyes, like I've got you kind of thing, right? Like, why can't that be the same kind of extension?
Nicole (:Honestly, even if I see another,
yeah, honestly, even if I see another mom loading her groceries at a Walmart by herself, I'm watching you. I'm watching you. If I notice you, I am watching you because you don't know. And I'm watching you with my kids, because I always have my kids with me. I solo parent 100 % of the time, most like for six weeks at a time, I solo parent 24 hours a day.
Monica (:Exactly.
Yes, yes, I would think that was-
Yes.
Or even like when you do see the mom with like the child who's habit who's just like in the thick of it it's like Why why do some people have to assume like the worst of like that that parent like they're just not parenting well enough or they're just not doing enough because I know that was one thing that like we were venting about this week too is just like comments with strangers who just don't get it because what you didn't see was all of the work that went into the last like three hours of
Nicole (:Like.
Yeah, you're just not disciplining them.
Yeah.
Monica (:getting them out of the house and prompting them a million times to like get ready and do the right things and like just to get out of the house. And what you didn't see was like, is all of the structure and all of like the efforts to work on all of these things. And like, you know.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Hmm.
Right. Also, why
as a society do we just automatically go to like, you're not disciplining your kid? Why is that like the first? Like, and I will say, sure, there are some people that just don't discipline their kids and they literally get in getaway with anything and you can tell that like there's a that's a different kind of behavioral problem, I think. ⁓
Monica (:I know.
Right?
Yes. Yes. I think
so too. Yeah. And you can usually tell that of, you know, the not having... Yes.
Nicole (:But also I think that's a wild assumption that everybody
is like that. Like, where did we get there? First of all, you don't have to discipline your child by spanking your child or by physical, whatever. There's obviously different kinds of discipline that are not horrible, I will just say, because I don't know what words will trigger things on whatever platform. So I just want to be mindful of the words I'm saying too, but.
Monica (:Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I mean, there's appropriate
consequences and it's based on
Nicole (:I agree. And I tell that to my kids.
There's consequences to actions always. And they could be different.
Monica (:Right, we are so firm
on following through with consequences, which truly is actually part of why that meltdown had happened is because the consequence, right, is it just kept building and then it was like, okay, we can either work through this together or we're going to go home. And then it came down to needing to go home and then just all hell broke loose. But I do just want to give a shout out to like the group of friends that I was with because I'm just, I'm very thankful for them.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Yeah, because a consequence needed to happen. Yeah. It just happened. Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Monica (:some of my homeschool friends and they get it. They truly do understand and I'm like very thankful. Like I have intentionally been trying to like build supports of people who understand my children. ⁓ But like without asking, they just jumped in and helped me like get out of there and helped my kids and like handled it. And so thank goodness for them. However, I just, I wish that that was more of the norm. ⁓
Nicole (:That's great. Yeah.
Yeah. I
agree.
Monica (:And
I don't know. mean, part of why I guess I'm sharing this is just because I feel like this is a part of parenting, especially when you have a child who has some special needs of some kind, is this, that the anxiety as a mom is so high sometimes of just wanting your child to be loved and accepted and like understood in those moments and then feeling completely out of control, knowing that you can't.
Nicole (:Mm.
Yeah. Yeah.
Monica (:control that and that there are going to be like cruel people and judgments and it just sucks. Like it just sucks when that gets triggered and brought up and fortunately I felt very supported in that moment but it's something that like I struggle with and go through a lot and it's just it's hard. It sucks.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I am very happy that you were with people that know you guys like so well and like were able to just jump into action because that doesn't always happen. But also like you said, nobody else was in the establishment that you guys were in. that's that's a good like because I have literally. Yeah. So that's a that's a huge kind of like weight off your shoulders.
Monica (:Yeah.
Yeah.
thank goodness. It was just literally us and like the guy working.
Which I will say, I will
say like, since we're talking about like the judgments and stuff, I will say the look that I got from him, I mean, I'm interpreting it, but the look that I got from him was very much a like good job because like he could, he was definitely with an earshot of like listening to me like walk through it and like setting like we're gonna go home if we can't work through this. Like this is what's happening.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Yeah, so he could understand what was happening. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Monica (:And so like, know for sure that he heard all of it. And so the look I got, I mean, maybe there was a little bit of judgment. I don't know, but that's not how I interpreted it. It seemed as though he was just like, I think he was just like, whoa. But I, yeah.
Nicole (:Yeah.
Well, yeah. Also good on you for handling it probably because
like it could be overwhelming in those moments to like kind of keep your cool. But at the same time, like, you know, you need to keep your cool internally. You're probably freaking out. But on the outside, you have to keep your cool. That's my, you know.
Monica (:I mean, I definitely was
because it was our biggest public meltdown that we've ever had like that. ⁓
Nicole (:Yeah.
Monica (:It just, which just sucks. Like I think the other part about that is that in those moments, it feels like there's this giant spotlight on you where
Nicole (:Yes, big
arrows pointing at you. Everybody look at me, look at me. Like, don't look at us, please. We're dealing with something. Don't look at us. Yeah, obviously. Yeah.
Monica (:Yes, which I mean it's loud Right And I mean my child's loud so like we're drawing attention So like there is some truth to that is it like yeah,
the eyes are on you, but it feels like all Like the spotlight is on you and you're like, okay. I need to make sure like I'm handling this just right I'm saying the right thing. Like I'm keeping my cool like
Nicole (:Right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Because it's not going to help anybody if all of us are freaking out.
Monica (:Right? But also it's just
like, ever like you're on display now of like, how are you going to handle this situation? And I mean, that's just part of the parenting journey, right? But it's still, it's just so uncomfortable. And like, I can feel myself like sweating and like my heart's like starting to race and like I'm feeling hot and I'm like, okay, so like I need to calm down with you.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. ⁓
Yep.
There's been plenty of times where I've just had to surfboard the kid and get out of the store or get out of the way and carry on like a surfboard and just get out of the store or whatever, because it's like, you know, you just can't sometimes. Yeah.
Monica (:I mean, well, I, so that was the thing. That was the thing. Like that's where we got to, but then because
of my back, I couldn't do that. I.
Nicole (:You literally couldn't surfboard him. And he's also like
almost as tall as you.
Monica (:I know. So I couldn't. And so that was where I was just like so thankful for my friends because they didn't like I didn't even need to ask. They just jumped in and helped me and they picked him up and hugged him and like like helped me get the all three of them out to the car. I'm just thankful for them because it's like when when people talk about like needing your village is like there's just some truth to that. And I know it's hard because not everybody has like their village, but
Nicole (:Yeah.
Monica (:Part of it is because we have to choose to be that for other moms, you know? And so I'm very thankful for them because in that moment they were definitely choosing to be my family and help me.
Nicole (:Right, correct. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm really glad you had them. I'm glad
that you had them there too and they were understanding and they know him too. It's not like, you know what mean? Like they're obviously they love him and were able to just jump right into action, which honestly I've, you know, now that I've actually got to meet him and spend time with him, I adore him. So he's so amazing. I love him.
Monica (:They do.
He's amazing, he's incredible. I mean, all
of my kids I think are pretty hilarious and very unique and amazing. But yeah, like he's just, he's so funny and interesting and like all of the things about like his neuro spiciness like are what make him like so fun and so cool, but it's also.
Nicole (:⁓
Yeah.
Yeah.
Monica (:that doesn't come without also the challenges of it and him being so little and working through it. And it's so hard. And it's so hard that not everybody knows that about him in those moments. So anyhow.
Nicole (:Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a rough one. But
everything is on the up and up now because you guys know what you have to do now. You got the... And I'm glad that ⁓ you got the diagnosis that you suspected because you were nervous about like, what if it's something else?
Monica (:Yes.
Yeah, I
like this is very much a me issue. I'm very aware of it and it's just kind of like the anxious thoughts that kind of come up with it. But whenever I have like appointments like that, I always just have this anxiety of like, what if they tell me that like, I like they can't help us or like the I'm just like, where did I get this idea that like that's that was what's going on. Like you're wrong. Like this is like.
Nicole (:They can't help us or.
Yes. Yes.
Yeah.
Monica (:This is just parenting, which I know that it's not. I know that it's not, those anxious... Because same thing with very different circumstance, but when I went in to go get braces, right? They're not going to tell me, They're not going to tell you that you can't have braces. I know where this comes from. I'm well aware of it. Okay, I know.
Nicole (:No. No.
I was just gonna say, or even when you went to get your mommy makeover, you were freaking out. Like, they're gonna, no, you can't have,
Yeah,
Monica (:And yeah, even with like my mommy makeover, was just like, they're gonna tell me that like they can't do it or like, I don't even remember like exactly like what some of my anxiety was there, but it's like, it's an out of pocket procedure. Like unless there was a reason where like, I'm just not a good candidate, like they're not gonna tell me that I can't have it.
Nicole (:It's a cosmetic procedure.
It's technically what we would call like an enhancement. They're not going to tell you no, even though medically you, I mean, guess medically you did need it because you had like complete separation of your abs, like still it technically is a cosmetic surgery. It's an option. You're choosing.
Monica (:Right?
Yes.
Right. Right? Like, I'm going to them saying, I want to pay you.
Nicole (:Yeah, yeah, they're not gonna tell you no. So why do we why do we do that? Why do we do that? Do men do this? need to know. Do men do this or is this a only a female thing?
Monica (:I don't think.
Men do, but I don't think that they do it as frequently. I think a lot of it probably comes from like our overthinking of it. And which, know, lot of us women do like we overthink. I mean, I know like Kelsey and I like in our group, like her and I are like the worst at it is like we just overthink everything and you know, like we laugh about it, but at the same time it's it fricking sucks.
Nicole (:We overthink everything.
Mm-hmm.
It
does suck. It does suck.
Monica (:right. Well, anyways, clearly so much that we could have some just WTF moments and like, like we said in beginning, you guys, it's like our mom vent.
episode because being yeah, not minisode Yes, I had a feeling we were gonna yap But like also we've never had an episode where there was just the two of us So I wasn't really like I know that we can yeah, but like, you know, but anyhow
Nicole (:not minisode. We retract the statement of the minisode because there's nothing mini about this.
in typical fashion. No, that was interesting. Yeah. I'm not going
to lie. I was a little bit afraid when we first came on. like, how's this going to go? This is like a totally different dynamic. There's usually at least three of us, but actually not so bad. I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us. We did the damn thing still.
Monica (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I am. I'm proud of us. We're doing it. We're being consistent,
which by the way, the fact that we have gone over a year now and we're just now hitting these like barriers with life stuff coming up, like being a challenge for recording is actually wildly impressive. So go us because at the end of the day, like we're just four moms. Like we're just, we're just basic moms.
And like.
Nicole (:I just got handed
a animal cracker cookie. So yeah, I mean, you know, we're just, we're doing our best here. ⁓
Monica (:We're right. We're just doing
our best. And the fact that like we've been this consistent and like doing all of this, like yay us. On that note, I do have to share a funny mom moment because we've been a lot today. So was getting ready for the, to record today. I'm like, I'm getting ready. And I know you will appreciate this because Nicole and I are the two in our group that love K-pop Demon Hunter. Like.
Nicole (:Yay us!
Okay.
Monica (:It's the one soundtrack my kids and I all agree on. The songs go way harder for a kids movie than they should, but they are just so good. I could analyze the movie all day long. I love it. There's so much about it I love. My kids freaking love it. Like they are obsessed. And so this morning was the mashup of all mashups for my kids.
Nicole (:Yeah, same.
Yes, yes, you love that movie.
gosh.
Monica (:So I'm like getting ready and I'm like curling my hair and I can hear them down the hall playing together. And it's a mashup of one of them is playing with like Godzilla. The other one is playing with Paw Patrol and like the characters are talking to each other. Like it's Rubble and Godzilla and like they're friends and like Godzilla is gonna be attacking and like, like it was full on Paw Patrol is saving the day against Godzilla.
Nicole (:Huntrix is coming in to also save the day.
Monica (:It's like
coming in, then it wasn't even Huntrix, it was like the Saja Boys were singing. And so it's like, it's like this like a whole scene that also now has a soundtrack to it and like the demon hunters are coming in to like, because there's like some demons with the Godzilla's.
Nicole (:my god, I love this audio device.
I kid you not, my kids, before we were recording, I got them swords, okay? So now they think they're huntrix. And they literally were like, no, we have to defeat Gima! Like, it's a constant, okay? Gima is a constant demon in our house for real now, like, and the girls constantly slay him, so...
Monica (:Yes.
Yes. It was so funny though. was cracking up. And when I say, Huntrix was there, like, my child was belting out. And it's so funny because he's done this since he was little where he will memorize the scores to movies and reenact the movie to the soundtrack.
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Monica (:And he tries, yeah, like my speech delayed child didn't have all of the words, but he would act out the sounds and the songs and like Cars was definitely a loud era. ⁓ But it was just so funny. like he's literally like trying to sing all of like the music to it and singing the words. Like it was a whole show. It was so funny.
Nicole (:I love that.
I love that. That's amazing.
A big one.
my god.
Monica (:As much as we have all these moments where we're just like pulling our hair out because being moms is hard, that was, yeah, that was solid.
Nicole (:There's also all these hilarious moments. Literally.
Ava will literally go, mom, watch me. And she'll come into my room and then she'll run from my room all the way to the other side of the house. And she'll sing, this is what it sounds like. And she'll sing because at the end when Rumi is fighting Gima, it looks like she's running and then she's like running in the air.
She knows that she's playing that scene out in her head. then she's actively playing the scene out in person and she's running. This is what it sounds like. And I'm like, yeah, get that game on, get him. You know, it's a whole thing. And I have to watch her run back and forth. Mom, watch me. And that's the most reenacted scene. And she wears her hair in a roomie braid every day, every day. It used to be called an Elsa braid.
Monica (:Yeah!
Bye!
Yes, yeah, we're doing the roomie braid.
Nicole (:It used to be called an Elsa braid. Now it's a roomie braid and I think
Monica (:Yes! Same! Yes.
Nicole (:it's so funny every morning. Mommy, can you fix my roomie braid? Okay, yep, I fixed your
Monica (:Yep. Yep. We, we do the
roomie braid every week before, like the night before co-op. have to do the roomie braid because she wants to show everyone at co-op her roomie braid. And it's so funny. Yeah. I love it. Yes. I love it. ⁓
Nicole (:Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. This is an everyday occurrence. The ruby braid and ⁓
Lola she has like shorter hair now. So her hairstyle choice is Zoe. She loves the buns. So she always says, can you do the Zoe buns or she likes the Mira like little pigtail things at the top. And this is like, this is constant. They're asking me for their hairstyles constantly. K-pop Demon Hunters has actually infiltrated my life. Am I mad about it? No.
Monica (:Yes!
Yes.
I love it.
Yes, same.
I know at least we genuinely love the music. But seriously, thank you. Thank you, Netflix. So on that note, hopefully we will all have a smoother week. know just conversations through group chat. We're gearing up for another week.
Nicole (:And that's that's
least Netflix gave us something good. Thank you, Netflix.
We're gearing up for another crazy week, ⁓ but hopefully, hopefully we'll have at least one other friend here next week to fill you in on it because there are some things actively going down at the group chat right now that I kind of can't wait to talk about when the friends come back.
Monica (:Yes. Yes.
my gosh,
I know I'm dying laughing. So on that note, thank you so much for tuning in and hanging out with Nicole and I. And so if you listened, yes. So if you listened, make sure that you share this episode and tag us. We always love seeing those like share, subscribe, and we'll see you next week.
Nicole (:Yeah, thanks for hanging out with just us.
Mm-hmm.
Do all the things. We'll see you next
