Every Mom’s Summer Bucket List: Magic Shows, Safaris & Bikini Wax Fails

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Always Here

Episode: Every Mom’s Summer Bucket List: Magic Shows, Safaris & Bikini Wax Fails

Hosts: Abby Howard & Addie Howard (Always Here Podcast, Daylight Media)
Date: June 5, 2026

Episode Overview

This episode delivers the quintessential summer vibe from the ever-relatable sister-in-laws, Abby and Addie Howard. They swap heartfelt updates about postpartum life, hilarious summer fails, meaningful bucket list goals, and hilarious travel stories, all while engaging their community by sharing listener submissions. It’s packed with laughter, warmth, authenticity, and honesty about the joys (and chaos) of motherhood, travel, marriage, and planning a memorable summer.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

Hormones, Hope, & Summer Anticipation

• Opening “Hope and Hard” Segment (03:31–11:10):
  • Abby shares that her hormones feel balanced post-baby and she’s finally feeling herself after a tough postpartum season.
  • Addie shares her current struggles with pregnancy hormones, GI issues, and the inexplicable tears over breakfast eggs.
  • Memorable Quote (02:20) – Addie: “I cried today because Matt was like, do you want hard boiled eggs for breakfast? I eat those every day. I didn't want them today.”
  • Addie is prepping for a family vacation to Lake Tahoe despite unexpected cold weather ("It's snowing," Abby, 05:10).

Maintaining & Rebalancing in Marriage and Motherhood

• Abby discusses the challenge of knowing when and how to check in on her husband’s emotional state amidst his stressful work season. "That's always the battle of marriage is knowing when to check in," Abby (06:49).

Quick Recap: The Famous New York Girls’ Trip

• New York Recap (11:36–27:00):
  • The trio spent 24 whirlwind hours in NYC to celebrate their podcast’s launch on a Times Square billboard, navigating wild Uber/taxi rides, culture shock, and fun food adventures.
  • Notable Moment (12:55) – "I just kept sporadically, spontaneously laughing out of shock that that's how he was driving," Abby.
  • Their Broadway debut (“Aladdin”), famous bagels, cozy hotel (Walker Hotel in Greenwich Village), and poncho-clad content creation are highlights.
  • Memorable Quote (22:41) – “They're not [the same]. And you don't know until you know. So if you don't know, just trust us…” Abby, on NYC bagels.
  • Reflections on culture shock vs. Midwest warmth, and their parents’ supportiveness in going to see the billboard.

Summer Bucket List: Romancing the Ordinary

• Transition to Summer Bucket List (28:48):
  • Abby: “Let’s romanticize our summers because we can.”
  • Both express the importance of intention in summer plans, noting how quickly the season flies by if you’re not proactive.

Listener Summer Fails: Humbling, Funny, & Real

Segment (29:29–38:50):

• Rapid-fire real-mom submissions, including:
  • Scooter crash after drinks (29:42).
  • DIY bikini wax fail: “Chronic ingrown hairs for months” (29:56).
  • Camping with kids and forgetting supplies.
  • Porta-potty horror stories. Stand-out story (31:32–32:44): Abby shares an unforgettable float trip incident with brutal honesty.
  • Sunburn misadventures, outfit snafus (“tan long socks” all summer, 33:38), and the perils of “Sun-In” hair bleach.
  • Wardrobe malfunctions on water attractions, summer camp chaos, and the “peener heart” tattoo fail.
  • Quote (34:36) – “That was like a hack back when I was in high school. Summer bleach-blonde hair: pour lemon juice in your hair and lay out,” Abby.

Listener Best Summer Memories: Nostalgia, Adventure, and Love

Segment (38:54–46:16):

• Seasonal job in Glacier National Park (39:01).
• Iconic U.S. National Park trips (discussing trails, dangers, and nature memories).
• Midwest snow cone and lemonade stand traditions.
• Magical summer romances and classic drive-in movies.
• Building forts, road trips, and the joy of lazy creek days.

The Hosts’ Personal & Family Summer Bucket Lists

Segment (46:21–61:09):

• Addie’s Bucket List:
  • Beach vacation in Florida with friends—a New Year’s resolution ticked off.
  • Magic show at home complete with a hired magician for the kids: “I’m not performing. We’re bringing a magician to the house.” (49:59)
  • Road trip to “Out of Africa” Safari Park with the family.
  • Resort passes for local pool days.
  • Flick and float pool movie nights.
  • Building bug houses, inspired by nostalgic kid memories.
• Abby’s Bucket List:
  • "Summer of the bike": Learning to ride again, inspired by childhood memories.
  • Getting "hot" (fit and glowing) post-pregnancy—embracing “hot girl summer.”
  • Cooking Lebanese food from family recipes & sharing with friends.
  • Mountain weekend escapes to escape Arizona heat.
  • CJ (her child) will learn to swim (“on my bucket list!”).
  • Intentional city “staycation” with daily outing plans.
• Insight: Both emphasize prioritizing memorable, out-of-the-ordinary activities for both themselves and their families.
• “Get hot, make memories—exactly, both are great,” Abby (54:49).

Patreon Teasers

• The trio reveals they have extra-special and “weird” bucket list items they’re only sharing with Patreon supporters (61:09).

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Community Questions, Advice & Recipes

Voicemail Questions

Segment (63:24–69:19):

• Private Chef Dilemma: All unanimously agree they’d love a personal chef, even if they also like to cook themselves. “100% take the chef” (63:44).
• Changing Your Last Name: Discussion about balancing sentimental attachments to one’s name, family tradition, and partner preferences. Abby: “I personally love having the same last name as Caleb.” (66:08) Strategies: delay change, trial “testing,” or retain maiden/hyphenated names.
• New Year’s Resolutions Accountability: Mid-year check-in exposes their mixed progress—some goals achieved, others a work in progress. Memorable Exchange (69:40) – “That’s on accountability. Let me go down the list…” Abby.

Recipes of the Week

Segment (73:51–76:28):

• Addie: Homemade meatball pasta (“kid pleaser, so yummy…” 74:16), with broccoli and garlic knots.
• Abby: Half Baked Harvest's Crock Pot White Chicken Chili Bowls. Even if it looks like a "bowl of mush," it's a family favorite.

Listener Review Highlight

Chaos with Jen offers a heartwarming 5-star review, praising the show’s relatability, realness, and mix of laughter and understanding motherhood. (77:08)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On hormonal postpartum recovery:
  “My brain is firing on all cylinders... and my body too.” – Abby (02:07)

• On New York drivers:
  “I just kept like sporadically, spontaneously laughing out of shock. That that's how he was driving…” – Abby (12:55)

• On summer DIY woes:
  “Gave myself a bikini wax, had chronic ingrown hairs for months.” – Listener submission, read by Addie (29:56)

• On intentional summer planning:
  “Let's romanticize our summers because we can.” – Abby (29:04)

• On memorable activities:
  “Get hot, make memories. Exactly—both are great.” – Abby (54:49)

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Key Timestamps

• Hope/Hard Segment: 03:31–11:10
• NYC Trip Recap: 11:36–27:00
• Summer Bucket List, Fails, & Memories: 28:48–46:16
• Personal/Family Summer Plans: 46:21–61:09
• Voicemails & Advice Section: 63:24–69:19
• Recipe Recommendations: 73:51–76:28

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Takeaways & Tone

This episode is quintessential “Always Here”: upbeat, honest, irreverent, full of gentle ribbing and belly-laugh stories, but always returning to the core themes of authenticity, togetherness, and making the most of the hectic, hilarious journey of motherhood—especially in summer. The hosts and community encourage listeners to strike a balance between self-improvement (get hot!), family adventure, and learning to laugh at the inevitable fails that are part of any parent’s story.

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For listeners, if you’re dreaming up your own summer bucket list—prepare for equal parts inspiration, nostalgia, and encouragement to live life a little more out of the ordinary this season. And don’t try a DIY bikini wax...

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Transcript

[Abby]

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[Addie]

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[Abby]

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[Addie]

I. Oh, let's go.

[Abby]

So my second one is Get Hot.

[Addie]

Okay. So what are you gonna do?

[Abby]

You know?

[Addie]

What? Oh, you have no plans?

[Abby]

No, I don't really have plans. I'm gonna get tan. I'm having a smoothie every day.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

I'm gonna be glowing from within. I'm getting back on a bike.

[Addie]

I've never seen you ride a bike. It's just.

[Abby]

Exactly. Yeah. I'm just gonna take it out maybe during nap and just like, ride it around the driveway. 11 years old, putting Playboy bunny stickers on. You're like getting my tan on your friends.

[Addie]

Different cr.

[Abby]

Okay.

[Addie]

Welcome back to Always Here. We're your hosts, Abby Howard and Addie.

[Guest or Third Host]

And Addie Biswell.

[Addie]

How we doing, ladies? Hey. Great.

[Abby]

I'm doing good. Should I just dive in? We share the hope in the heart with heart and humor.

[Addie]

Yeah. So share your hope in your heart.

[Abby]

Okay. My hope is that my hormones feel amazing. And I know. Listen, you know what? I know the period back is so dreaded after you have your baby, but I feel so good. The hormones are leveling.

[Addie]

Last episode means everything's working.

[Abby]

Everything is working. And I feel like I'm working. Great.

[Addie]

Good.

[Abby]

My brain is firing on all cylinders sometimes of the day, and my body too, and it just feels good.

[Addie]

Okay, that's amazing, right?

[Abby]

Yeah. So I feel like that's been really helpful.

[Addie]

I'm not there.

[Abby]

No. And you know what? You won't be for a while.

[Addie]

I cried today because Matt was like, do you want hard boiled eggs for breakfast? I eat those every day. I didn't want them today.

[Abby]

So what'd you have?

[Addie]

It just made me cry because I was like, you don't know me. I eat them every day. He made them. And I was like, did you just make those for me. And I was annoyed.

[Abby]

I'm so confused.

[Addie]

Exactly. I was, too. But I didn't really know how to get out of that at that point. Like, I was like, I already had the tears.

[Abby]

I just imagine Matt stand there with the eggs and his hands just had a lot. He's like, like what?

[Guest or Third Host]

That's one of those where you're like, I can't explain it.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

I have no explanation and I can't backpedal at this point, but I can't eat those.

[Abby]

Okay.

[Addie]

So it's fine. I went to Chick Fil A.

[Abby]

So you're not eating hard boiled eggs at all?

[Addie]

I got there. No, I ate them last night at about midnight. I had three hard boiled eggs. So I think that's probably why I was like, it's a little too soon for six hard boiled eggs in 12 hours.

[Abby]

Feels criminal, honestly.

[Addie]

A little bit crazy.

[Abby]

Yeah. Half dozen.

[Addie]

No.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah.

[Addie]

I just. I think it was a hormonal thing. But also I was just like. Between all the travel we've had, I did not have a fully stocked fridge, but I was like, I want something, but not that. And nothing that's in my house. But I don't want to get fast food. But clearly I did want fast food. I got their egg white chicken.

[Guest or Third Host]

Never had that. Go to chicken minis every time.

[Abby]

The chicken minis. I've never had them, but they look good.

[Addie]

You've never had. I've had them at a couple parties I've had for breakfast. Yeah. Two gender reveals. The last gender reveal.

[Guest or Third Host]

She had them.

[Abby]

Yeah, your gender reveal.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah, her gender reveal.

[Addie]

It was not my gender, but I'm a girl. For Augie.

[Abby]

Well, thank you for clocking me in my lie. I have no.

[Addie]

I don't know if you ate them or not.

[Abby]

No, certainly I didn't.

[Guest or Third Host]

You just didn't know that's what they were.

[Abby]

Yeah, I just didn't know that's what they were.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

They're delicious. Million percent. I've. I ate everything at that party. I was only there for like 20 minutes. The stomach bug.

[Addie]

But, ah, spooky.

[Abby]

Definitely ate all. I was like, let's just eat and then we can leave.

[Addie]

Let's just eat before we get scared.

[Abby]

Literally. Yeah. So I feel really good, which feels.

[Addie]

That's awesome.

[Abby]

Yeah. The tide has turned. Been turning.

[Addie]

It's been turning.

[Abby]

It's been great.

[Addie]

And she's like eight.

[Abby]

Yeah, she's eight months as of my 30th birthday. Okay. Yeah. 30 has been great so far.

[Addie]

30 is going well for you.

[Abby]

It's been awesome the whole two weeks. No, whole week. What day is it?

[Addie]

We don't know.

[Guest or Third Host]

The 26th.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

Yeah, yeah.

[Addie]

My hope is we're excited for our family vacation.

[Abby]

Me too.

[Addie]

Amidst all the travel that's been happening, I'm still excited to go on family vacation. I just need to get there.

[Abby]

You know what's funny? I thought so we're going to Lake Tahoe. I was like, oh, it'll be 70, 80 degrees. Look at the temperature yesterday. It's snowing today.

[Addie]

Going to be in the 20s.

[Abby]

So I was like, shoot, I don't have any cold clothes for Vivienne. I went to the store and just bought a couple outfits.

[Addie]

I have. No, my kids don't have cold clothes.

[Abby]

Yeah. I was like, wow, what are we wearing?

[Addie]

What are we doing?

[Abby]

Yeah, I mean, I think it'll be.

[Addie]

I don't know what to do with my kids unless we're outside. I'm not even kidding.

[Abby]

Well, during the day will be nice.

[Addie]

The high one day is 45.

[Abby]

Well, that day we'll stay inside.

[Addie]

Crazy.

[Abby]

Or we'll go to like a mall or something. You think they got a mall?

[Addie]

They love malls. No, we'll find something. Make it fun.

[Abby]

Yeah. There'll be so many fun things to do outside. We'll just get some. Some bundles.

[Addie]

Yeah. So we're going with Matt and Caleb's, our husband's side of the family, to Tahoe and just staying in a house there. And probably it'll just be really low key.

[Abby]

Yeah. Which is fun.

[Addie]

It'll be fun and nice. I guess it's technically for our mother in law and Griffin's birthday. Yeah.

[Abby]

It's Theresa's 60th and then Griffin's.

[Addie]

I think it's just a summer trip.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

So we'll celebrate those while we're there. So that'll be fun.

[Abby]

I'm so excited. Yeah, it'll be great. I'm so excited to be restful.

[Addie]

What's your hard.

[Abby]

My heart. I didn't really have a specific heart. I feel like I'm coming out of postpartum season. You know, it's like things were hard for me the last few months, but I feel like I was thinking about Caleb and I look at him and I'm like, wow, when's the shoe gonna drop? You know, because he's been going so hard with work basically since Vivian's been born. Like the two weeks before she was born, he had a huge shift in his, like, work team and he picked up so much extra hours in Work. And it's basically been like that for nine months. And he's been handling it like a champion. But I just look at him and I'm like, when I feel like that's always the battle of marriage is knowing when to check in, knowing when to press. Knowing, knowing, like, the balance of being annoying, but also of being caring. Do you know what I mean?

[Addie]

Is he a bottler?

[Abby]

No, he's. He's actually really good at putting words to his emotions, but not always the most forthcoming with them, unless I ask. And I'm not always the most, like, in tune with. I'm like. I just run through my days, and I'm like, that was great.

[Addie]

That was great.

[Abby]

And then he's, you know, it's probably like, oh, I probably should have checked in. So I think it's just the balance of knowing how to support when. I feel like he's probably gonna get burnt out here pretty soon or he's probably there.

[Addie]

Hopefully another shift is in the future, though, soon.

[Abby]

Yeah. They've been planning a lot. Yeah. Which has been good.

[Addie]

That's tough.

[Abby]

I know. But they, like. They hired another operations manager, and he quit five hours before he was supposed to start. So it's like, you know, he keeps trying to, like, take these steps, and there's just, you know, that's just running a business. It's like, so you're all. Your job is to put out fires, and it gets exhausting. So I think the Tahoe trip will be a great breakthrough, too.

[Addie]

That'll be good.

[Abby]

I think he'd listen to this and be confused while I'm talking about this, but I'm like, hey, I bet he's

[Addie]

dropped off on his viewership a little bit, so he might not notice.

[Abby]

Totally. Yes.

[Addie]

But you guys are.

[Abby]

That's right.

[Addie]

My heart is the same. I keep having these GI issues. I thought it was anxiety or stress. I shouldn't say anxiety, stress. Then I thought it was flu B. Yeah.

[Abby]

We thought for certain you had flu

[Addie]

B. I think I did actually have. I don't think that's just. Was the cause of this. Because I had those crazy body shakes.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

And aches. No big deal.

[Abby]

Perfect.

[Addie]

That was fine. The GI issues are not good.

[Abby]

Can you take a prebiotic or a probiotic when you're pregnant?

[Addie]

Apparently you can take Imodium, though. I don't know if you can take. I'm kind of. I'm just gonna wait till my doctor's appointment tomorrow to do anything or if she's like, this is a thing of Concern? I don't know. It's probably one of those things where they're like, consult your doctor.

[Abby]

Yeah, they are.

[Addie]

Surely you can.

[Guest or Third Host]

They're generally considered safe to consume during pregnancy. When I was pregnant, I didn't have, like, that kind of an issue. I had an issue where my poop was, like, gray. Like, it had no color to it.

[Addie]

Did you ask your doctor?

[Guest or Third Host]

Yes.

[Addie]

Well, that seems unnatural.

[Abby]

Which of all the brown foods we probably eat.

[Guest or Third Host]

I don't know, but mine were always weird. They were like, if they were. It actually could be really serious if you had other symptoms with it. But I didn't have any of the other symptoms, and it went away after a couple days. That is crazy, Abby.

[Abby]

That's crazy. Yeah.

[Addie]

No, not that, not that one, but not that one. One of my kids had a fully black poop.

[Abby]

I've had that too, with cj. And I was like, I just know from Abby's experience. It's blueberries.

[Addie]

Blueberries?

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

It means a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder is not reaching your intestines.

[Abby]

Oh, my gosh.

[Guest or Third Host]

It usually is harmless if it's persistent. You want to call your ob? It's ICP is what it could be. I can't. Intra hepa. Hepatic. It's a pregnancy specific liver condition that typically develops in the third trimester. High levels of pregnancy hormones can stop or slow the normal flow of bile, causing it to back up into the bloodstream, rather into your stool.

[Addie]

So the fact that it's coupled with this sense of urgency and a tummy ache every time, multiple times a day.

[Abby]

Yeah, well, you know, it's no fun.

[Addie]

It's really inconvenient.

[Abby]

I just feel like your doctor's going to be like, yeah, it's just pregnancy. Do you know what I mean?

[Addie]

I guess. I, I. And that will be reassuring, but also like, okay, well, buckle up for the next.

[Abby]

Right. Is it going to get worse the closer you get to labor?

[Addie]

A long time.

[Abby]

Yeah. I was so the opposite spectrum when I was pregnant. It was. I mean, all I ate was noodles, so there was nothing helping me flush out, you know? And so, like, this is the new problem. I can't give you any advice on it.

[Addie]

Is there anything staying in here for you?

[Abby]

Like just running?

[Addie]

Yeah, I need that to stick around a little longer. Fuel my body a little.

[Abby]

Right.

[Addie]

But no big deal. It's fine.

[Abby]

Of course.

[Addie]

I mean, I've made peace with it for the past four weeks, but.

[Abby]

Did you say you have an appointment tomorrow?

[Addie]

Have an appointment tomorrow.

[Abby]

Aren't we leaving tomorrow?

[Addie]

I told I'm doing the gestational diabetes test and then getting on this plane which seems like a really bad combo.

[Abby]

That sounds like a really good. Already on a plane.

[Addie]

I also think that could be related when I look up things like what can mess up your digestion?

[Abby]

Travel.

[Addie]

I've done so many flights recently.

[Abby]

You have?

[Addie]

I think that's really joshing things up in my.

[Abby]

Really getting things kooky in there.

[Addie]

Wow, that's Cleow.

[Abby]

That's crazy.

[Addie]

That's crazy.

[Abby]

Well, that's fun. We just got off an airplane like we're saying because we were on a

[Addie]

New York Times Square billboard.

[Abby]

This is our.

[Addie]

Wow. That's crazy.

[Guest or Third Host]

That is crazy.

[Abby]

I think we'd be really fun to recap our New York trip because. Yeah, that was such a fun special. How many hours was it? It was less than 24 hours.

[Guest or Third Host]

Probably 24. We got on a flight at 6:30am probably exactly 24. And got back on a flight at 6:30pm wow. The next day.

[Abby]

Crazy.

[Guest or Third Host]

It was such a quick trip that we had the same flight attendant.

[Abby]

Yeah. Literally.

[Addie]

I laughed and I thought it was so funny because I said see you tomorrow.

[Guest or Third Host]

And then I was behind her. I was like, no, no, we won't.

[Abby]

We won't be doing. It was really great. We flew out early Saturday morning. We got there at 3pm and our Uber ride off the bat,

[Addie]

it was

[Abby]

just such a experience. It was really like a welcome to New York. Which normally you think drivers in New York are bad in like a crazy way. This driver was just like bad in a driving way.

[Addie]

Yeah,

[Guest or Third Host]

Jerky.

[Addie]

So I've never.

[Abby]

I've never experienced a jerk foot like that.

[Guest or Third Host]

Every single second he's stepping on and up.

[Addie]

I don't even know. I actually tried to recreate it in my car when I got. I couldn't do it.

[Guest or Third Host]

I don't an hour.

[Abby]

And he drove like 40 miles per hour of that. Drove so slow, so nauseous. Really dragged it out. Addy and Abby both were almost hurling.

[Addie]

I was like, I never have thrown up from that. But I just got so nauseous.

[Guest or Third Host]

The window was cold cuz it was cold outside. So I. But I couldn't necessarily reach it with my head because it was like a bigger car. So I kept rubbing the window and

[Abby]

then putting it on.

[Addie]

Help me.

[Guest or Third Host]

I was like, please call me dad.

[Abby]

Give me the air, please.

[Addie]

Please help me. That was really fun. Best drive.

[Abby]

I just kept like sporadically spontaneously laughing out of shock. That that's how he was driving. And I didn't want to be mean, but I was like, I just in disbelief that this is legal as an Uber driver.

[Guest or Third Host]

Can we please rate him poorly? I've never done that in my life.

[Abby]

I know. It was really bad. Yeah, he was quiet. He didn't say anything.

[Guest or Third Host]

Not a great driver.

[Abby]

Reliable. We got there safe.

[Addie]

We got there safely.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

Yeah. And then the rest there was just culture shock.

[Abby]

It was. When you said that, I was like, this is. That's exactly how I feel.

[Addie]

Culture.

[Abby]

Culture shock is a great way to describe it. Yeah.

[Addie]

Like, we were. We were born in America. We've lived in America our whole lives yet.

[Abby]

And we've all been in New York.

[Addie]

We've all been in New York.

[Abby]

And I was just like, wow.

[Addie]

Everyone is just. It's. It's just all the stereotypes. Right? Like, everyone's. I think especially because you're raised in the Midwest, so warm and smiley and friendly and, like, it's just not the case there. They see so many people. Like, that would be exhausting to uphold with everyone that you see.

[Abby]

Totally.

[Addie]

But also, it just comes across us. Just so rude. We're like. We got to the restaurant and I was like, hey, the restaurant. We're here for a res. We have dinner reservations. He said, you're right here.

[Abby]

Yeah. You go, where is it? He goes, you're in it.

[Addie]

And I was like, all right.

[Guest or Third Host]

Okay.

[Abby]

Thank you so much.

[Addie]

We show up in the restaurant. We're, like, a little late because we had a situation, like, with our Uber not moving because there's traffic.

[Guest or Third Host]

We hill taxi.

[Addie]

And she's. The restaurant is virtually empty, and she's

[Abby]

like, go ahead and take a seat. Take a seat.

[Guest or Third Host]

I guess I was giggling because we had our umbrellas and Abigail was trying to, like, set them down up against the booth, and the waiter was just sitting there watching him.

[Abby]

Yeah, it just kept falling over. And she was just staring at it.

[Addie]

She just was like, what a job. She was great.

[Abby]

She was a great waitress. But, yeah, we walked in, I was like, we are a spectacle. Yeah, it felt like that.

[Addie]

And it got. Only got worse when we got our I Heart New York ponchos. Started screaming when we saw ourselves on the billboard. Just wait, standing there, just watching it. Every five minutes, recording FaceTiming. Every member of our family have the

[Abby]

tripod out doing some crazy dances in the street. Like, it just.

[Addie]

It was a spectacle and it was really fun. It was so memorable show that night. Oh, when did we have the taxi situation? So when our Uber Wasn't moving because the traffic there is, like, gridlock at some times. So the Uber I booked, it said one minute away, like, 20 minutes later. I was like, we have to get. This hasn't moved.

[Abby]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Addie]

Cancel it. And it doesn't even charge me because I think they're like, yeah, this, please. This wasn't what you booked. Right. And so then we're like, got to hail a taxi. Wait, really quick. Google. How do you know a taxi is taking passengers? Oh, the lights on top, right? And then we were like, yes. Then we. Addie got it. And then we're like, great.

[Guest or Third Host]

We were, like, so excited.

[Abby]

We were just so obnoxious.

[Addie]

And then we get in this car, and our driver certainly doesn't respond. We're like, oh, this is where we're going.

[Abby]

Like, could care less.

[Addie]

Didn't talk.

[Abby]

I was like, I think he's just gonna drive.

[Addie]

He did just start driving.

[Abby]

He didn't care we were going.

[Addie]

And I was like, well, wait a minute.

[Abby]

We also don't know where we're going.

[Addie]

You don't know where we're going. And then I, like, told him, like, did he even, like, ever utter one word?

[Guest or Third Host]

No.

[Addie]

No. It could have been a language barrier. But,

[Abby]

yeah, it was reassuring because I

[Addie]

was like, where are you taking us?

[Abby]

Yeah, yeah. Good thing you put in maps. I mean, he was right turned directly

[Addie]

when I don't think he had a turn. So I wasn't paying attention to the traffic light. Yeah. Nearly hit a couple. Like, actually, like.

[Abby]

Like, almost ran them over.

[Addie]

Almost ran them over. Like, mowed them down.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

And the guy starts smacking the taxi with his umbrella.

[Guest or Third Host]

That shows you how close we were to them. He could just hit them with.

[Addie]

And he just kept banging it.

[Abby]

He just kept hanging it. Yeah, that was my window. And I was like, I turn. I turn to you and Abby, you go, welcome to New York. We're like, all right.

[Guest or Third Host]

We also didn't know how to play, so we're didn't know how to pay attention on this little video.

[Addie]

Dog had a bite. Get napped.

[Guest or Third Host]

This is scared here. We're like, shirley, scan there.

[Abby]

And they wanted me to sign up for an intro call. And I was like, this isn't it.

[Addie]

Like, we had zero.

[Abby]

We had nothing going on.

[Addie]

We end up taking this.

[Abby]

So subway. Yeah. Not so great area.

[Guest or Third Host]

Hey, we did well, I would say, on the subway, like, going, that was all you, girl.

[Addie]

That was Addie.

[Guest or Third Host]

Here's. Here's my problem. I was never scared. You guys were, like, nervous. I was. I felt confident.

[Abby]

I wasn't scared. Till the crackheads were, like, on our. Abby's back.

[Guest or Third Host]

I didn't even. I'm not scared.

[Abby]

I say crackheads. That kind of mean.

[Addie]

Okay, cool. That is crackheads friendship.

[Abby]

I'm sorry. Please Google that. I hate to be throwing that out there. Yes.

[Guest or Third Host]

The term crackhead is widely considered offensive.

[Abby]

No, I'm sorry.

[Guest or Third Host]

Stigmatizing.

[Addie]

Just. No, I'm sorry. I'm gonna apologize.

[Abby]

I'm gonna apologize for that one, and we're gonna move on. But keep that one in there.

[Guest or Third Host]

Okay. You can say this.

[Abby]

The addicts.

[Guest or Third Host]

Person with a substance use disorder.

[Abby]

Okay, perfect, perfect. Let me show. Let me shorten that one to the addicts or person that uses drugs. Okay. Person uses drugs. Yeah.

[Addie]

Here's the problem. I didn't even notice. I know.

[Abby]

I turned around, I was like, this man is.

[Addie]

You said, Abby.

[Abby]

I go, watch out. Yeah. You know what I mean? Is there. I think that part of the subway that we were on, there were just a lot of, like, people that you just didn't know what they were gonna do. You know what I mean?

[Addie]

No, Any. Any move could be.

[Abby]

Any move was. You know, it was up for grabs.

[Addie]

That could have happened.

[Abby]

It was good for us.

[Addie]

We walked out this. The station in Times Square, and there. It just was, like, a scene. There's a rock band. There's, like, so many people that are just lingering, and I don't. I'm worried about them. And then there's the people that are, like, just randomly yelling.

[Abby]

Yeah, the yellers are the ones that are like. We became yellers. Yeah, we did become yellers, but the yellers are. You're always like, why are we yelling?

[Addie]

It's always concerning.

[Abby]

It's a little scary. But it was a good experience.

[Addie]

We saw a show. It was a good experience.

[Abby]

It was a good experience.

[Addie]

It was really memorable. And we saw Aladdin, and that was really fun. Just felt like a part of the New York experience. Seeing a Broadway show.

[Abby]

That was my first Broadway show. It was amazing.

[Addie]

It was fun. And then we also.

[Abby]

The timing was crazy when we walked out of Aladdin and we saw. Because we knew where Patreon's billboard was. That's why we had the billboard. Patreon decided to spotlight Always Here, which is so kind. Yeah. Which was so kind for our launch this month. And decided to put on their billboard. So we. We had known the map of, like, okay, it's between McDonald's and Old Navy right above the I Heart New York gift store. And when we got off the subway. I said, wait, that's Old Navy. And so we were like, let's go see it after the show. And we came out and we walk over. And literally, as we walked over, it popped up immediately. Yeah. It was the. The most amazing timing.

[Addie]

It was really cool. It was a great location, like, right where you would think, like, it's huge. It was really fun. Yeah. The whole experience was fun. We had probably the best bagel of our lives there.

[Abby]

Okay. That whole. Okay. So we slept in. That morning was unbelievable.

[Addie]

That was a great. How often do you get to. With kids? Sleep as long as you want. Go. Abby did set an alarm and then didn't wake up.

[Abby]

Well, you did. I woke up and I turned it off.

[Guest or Third Host]

I heard the alarm. I heard you turn it off. I was like, they'll wake me up whenever I need to be awake. And then you did.

[Addie]

Same with me. I went to bed last and woke up first.

[Abby]

You were not falling asleep. That's how I even like a second wave energy. You were just chatting. I mean, I liked it. I was like. You also had a burst of energy.

[Guest or Third Host]

You started dancing. Yeah.

[Abby]

I'm sorry.

[Addie]

You were dancing. I was like, it's 1am wow.

[Guest or Third Host]

I'm over there.

[Abby]

Addy was asleep.

[Guest or Third Host]

I was asleep.

[Abby]

You were chatting. I was dancing.

[Addie]

I was asleep over. I was like.

[Abby]

It was a sleepover. It was fun.

[Addie]

I'm yap a little. I do that to Matt every night.

[Abby]

Anyway, Matthew, tell me that.

[Addie]

He's like, I'm sorry. I'm falling asleep. I'm like, okay. Are you. So are you gonna go to bed? Are you gonna try to rally a little bit?

[Abby]

We gonna talk a little bit, keep this party going.

[Addie]

But then. Okay. We slept in as dream morning. Honestly, for any mom, sleep as long as you want. Then you just wake up leisurely. You're only getting ready for yourself.

[Abby]

Wow. That was really just. That was glorious.

[Addie]

That was. I was like, what do I do with all my time?

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

And I didn't look any better than I do on a normal day, so that's unfortunate.

[Abby]

No, you did.

[Addie]

You looked amazing. And then we walk to a delicious coffee shop.

[Abby]

Yeah. That was amazing.

[Addie]

La cabra.

[Abby]

La cabra, huh?

[Addie]

Got a cardamom latte.

[Abby]

Unbelievable.

[Guest or Third Host]

Whatever. Bun.

[Abby]

Did you guys love that bun? I thought the bun was good. I don't think I'd get it again,

[Addie]

but I would have gotten that.

[Guest or Third Host]

I would have gotten it again.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Guest or Third Host]

It was really good.

[Abby]

It was really good. It really liked that. Moist, fluffy, delish.

[Addie]

Then ask a local. Where is the best bagel. They point you down the street. We walk to a bagel shop. The bagels are literally warm from the oven.

[Abby]

Addie's was steaming.

[Guest or Third Host]

I was like, this is.

[Abby]

This is actually unheard of.

[Addie]

And no bagel should be that good. I know you're going to listen this and be like, oh, yeah, sure, I've had a bagel. They're all the same.

[Abby]

That's what I.

[Addie]

They're not. They're not the same. And you don't know until you know. So if you don't know, then just

[Abby]

trust us on and tell. Let me tell you. Usually I have a bagel. I'll have, like, a Panera bagel. I'm hungry in 30 minutes. This bagel kept us up for hours.

[Addie]

Hours. And I. We're hungry, girls.

[Abby]

We're big.

[Addie]

Always hungry.

[Abby]

Always hungry. Not that day.

[Addie]

No. I was full for a long. Couldn't even eat lunch.

[Abby]

No. We were like, we can't. I. It was unbelievable.

[Addie]

Walk.

[Abby]

It was from Apollo's Bagels. We didn't say Apollo's Bagels. Yeah.

[Addie]

They probably have a couple locations there.

[Guest or Third Host]

They did. They had one that was closer to, like, downtown area.

[Addie]

Oh, awesome.

[Abby]

So good.

[Addie]

Then we go see our billboard again.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

And make some content. And that was very hilarious. And it's really way more casual than you're probably thinking. Like, if you're just listening to this and you're like, oh, I listen to this podcast and they're creators. It's like, no. We brought our Amazon tripod on the show.

[Guest or Third Host]

Our Alex Earl Lite.

[Addie]

Our Alex Earl Lite. We can all get these light. And we had to negotiate between people. Let's honestly post the best picture we got, which is our billboard. It was very special. But it does go on, like, every

[Abby]

five to seven minutes. Who's gonna take the picture?

[Addie]

And so there's a short window, and then every once in a while, a bus would come in front of it. Random pedestrians walking right in front. And it was really just a spectacle. And that was probably part of the fun. Oh, it's also raining. And we had to purchase ponchos.

[Guest or Third Host]

We purchased ponchos. We purchased I heart New York ponchos. Why not?

[Abby]

And we kept those on for way longer than we needed to.

[Guest or Third Host]

We did.

[Abby]

Because it was just. We just, like, were a part of the bit at that point.

[Addie]

Oh, yeah. And then we went to a vintage shop.

[Abby]

Yeah. I got a good jacket.

[Addie]

Got a good jacket.

[Guest or Third Host]

It was when we were walking back to the hotel to get our bags, we just stumbled upon A delicious, healthy restaurant.

[Abby]

Dine in. That place was unreal.

[Guest or Third Host]

Dig in.

[Abby]

I'm sorry. Dig in. Dig in. Dine in.

[Guest or Third Host]

Dig.

[Abby]

Yeah, dig in. You're right. So good.

[Guest or Third Host]

It was great.

[Abby]

So good. And then we got him. We got a.

[Addie]

On a really long flight.

[Abby]

Really long flight. But honestly, the flight was glorious. I finished my book. I finished Daisy Jones and the Six.

[Addie]

Didn't like it. I didn't like it.

[Abby]

I'm sorry. It wasn't that I thought it was boring. I just thought it was boring. Like, it was. The story was interesting, but there was no climax.

[Addie]

Here's the problem I've just realized.

[Abby]

Or cliffhangers.

[Addie]

Nothing similar in book taste.

[Abby]

No, I know. I'm figuring that out too. I think me and Addy are probably similar in booktaste.

[Guest or Third Host]

Probably. I have. We. Abby and I both started yesteryear.

[Addie]

Oh, yeah.

[Abby]

We have our thoughts.

[Guest or Third Host]

But I have enjoyed reading it.

[Addie]

It's entertaining.

[Abby]

I can't wait to do it.

[Addie]

I will give it. It's entertaining.

[Guest or Third Host]

We have a lot to talk about. Yay.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

Take notes.

[Addie]

It's very it. It provokes some thoughts.

[Guest or Third Host]

It does.

[Abby]

This is great. And if you guys want to hear all of our thoughts, it'll be on Patreon.

[Addie]

Yeah, we'll do it.

[Abby]

Like our little review. Yeah. In a couple weeks. I'm excited.

[Addie]

I need to get it.

[Abby]

That was our trip. It was unbelievable.

[Addie]

It was really special. Oh, really cool hotel. The Walker Hotel in Greenwich Village is where we stayed.

[Abby]

Apparently. It's Greenwich.

[Addie]

Greenwich.

[Abby]

Greenwich.

[Addie]

Greenwich. Greenwich Village.

[Guest or Third Host]

Oh, sorry, that's spelled Greenwich.

[Abby]

I know. We were sounding it out, and my parents were like, don't say it like that. That's wrong.

[Addie]

But also, aren't your parents going to see the billboard?

[Abby]

Yeah, they're going tomorrow.

[Addie]

That's so supported.

[Abby]

I know. They took it. They took a flight and they're going out there and they're gonna go see the billboard.

[Addie]

That's really.

[Abby]

And that's so cute. I'm so, so sweet.

[Addie]

That's really sweet. But the Walker Hotel, it literally looks like. I feel like. It looks like a New York hotel.

[Abby]

It's so swing.

[Addie]

Like what you want if you're, like, visiting. It's very bright. Boutique and artistic and clean and clean.

[Abby]

It was so clean. The carpet. Did you guys ever, like, look at the carpet and think about how soft and cushy and clean it was?

[Addie]

I should.

[Abby]

No. Yeah, I was thinking about that.

[Addie]

It's comfortable.

[Abby]

I sat on that carpet a lot.

[Addie]

Sat on that carpet a lot.

[Abby]

It was a 10 out of 10 trip.

[Addie]

10 out of 10.

[Abby]

Grateful to get to spend it with you.

[Addie]

That very much.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah. It was our first just like girls trips. That was.

[Addie]

That's true.

[Abby]

It was so. It was special. Like the last trip that we did like that was when we went to the ITK event when Griffin was three months old.

[Addie]

Oh, my gosh. That's right.

[Abby]

Yeah. And we went Bella. And we stayed in a hotel and had like a little girl. That was really fun. That was like the last one. Kind of like that.

[Addie]

Yeah, that was like right before my hernia surgery.

[Abby]

Yeah, it was.

[Addie]

That was my last hurrah with my hernia.

[Abby]

I hope it's the last hockey minute.

[Addie]

I hope it's the last.

[Abby]

Put that in your scrapbook. So that was really fun. That was our. Wow, that's crazy. Really felt crazy. Really so grateful. Thank you, Patreon.

[Addie]

And thank you, you guys.

[Abby]

Yeah. For making that happen. This show is sponsored by Better Help.

[Addie]

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[Abby]

And honestly, during summertime, your kids are home with you more and so you're gonna get pushed your limits a little bit more. You're a little more stressed out and so it's no better time than to get on top of your regulation. You're, you know, handling things with yourself to be the best parent you can be. Truthfully, Better Help gives a short questionnaire which helps you identify your needs and preferences. They have over 12 years of experience with industry leading match fulfillment rates, meaning they typically get it right the first time. If you aren't happy with your match, you can switch to a different therapist at any time from their Taylor Rex.

[Addie]

Yeah, you really can find exactly what you're looking for in a therapist with them. They have such a huge platform, they've got to be the leading standard. Seriously, they have been around and there so many good things. I've also used it personally many, many times.

[Abby]

Yeah, they know what they're doing over there.

[Addie]

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[Abby]

That was a little, like fun girls getaway. And it is June, right when this comes out.

[Addie]

Yeah, it's June.

[Abby]

So we are going to do our summer bucket list. Let's do it. Do it. Let's do it. And we pulled you guys on Instagram and asked for some of your guys summer fails and some of your best summer memories. I feel like the inspiration was this was like, let's romanticize our summers because we can.

[Addie]

They also can just go so fast.

[Abby]

Yeah, they do.

[Addie]

And then you're like, wait, I want to do all these things.

[Guest or Third Host]

Right.

[Addie]

It's good to make a list and think of this ahead of time. I would not have done this not for this podcast. Yep. But this is really good because now I have you guys keeping me accountable. Like, do fun and memorable things. Yes. Because. Oh, it's a great time. Totally. Just, you know, do things outside the normal. Because you don't have a normal schedule going on.

[Abby]

Agree.

[Addie]

Probably agreed.

[Abby]

So let's start with some of your guys fails. Because you guys always. I always love pulling you guys and hearing what you guys have to say. I couldn't. Do you have any summer fails?

[Addie]

Surely. I'm skipping so many.

[Abby]

I'm sure I'll be inspired by some of these. Jesse said, after too many drinks, I drove my scooter into trash cans. So humbling. That's one of those things that you pop up from and you're like, did anyone see that?

[Addie]

This one says, gave myself a bikini wax, had chronic ingrown hairs for months.

[Abby]

Not thinking, like, I'm gonna get on top of it.

[Addie]

That takes some grit, honestly, to pull that yourself.

[Abby]

Right? My favorite videos on the Internet are when girls wax their box boyfriend, like their husband's or boyfriend's nose hairs. Oh, my gosh.

[Addie]

I don't even think you're supposed to wax him though, right?

[Abby]

I don't think so.

[Addie]

Need those hairs.

[Abby]

Yeah, I.

[Addie]

Let me just trim it.

[Abby]

Yeah. Ash said, forgetting all of our bedding for camping at home with all of my son's diapers.

[Addie]

You're camping with a child and diapers

[Abby]

is a whole other level of, like, pro mom mode.

[Addie]

Pro. I can say I've never gone camp

[Abby]

things I did one time. I don't think I've ever told you this story.

[Addie]

Well, do you count if you stay in one of those, like, what are they called? An rv like, when you go on a float trip, those little concrete, like, they have no running water, no ac,

[Abby]

no lights, no idea what this is.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah, I don't know what this is.

[Abby]

Okay, so I've only stayed in a

[Addie]

tent or not, so I don't think it counts.

[Abby]

Is it like.

[Addie]

It's not.

[Abby]

Doesn't sound like glamping.

[Addie]

Not glam.

[Abby]

So I feel like. When did you do this?

[Addie]

I went on a float trip in college.

[Abby]

That's okay. I also want a float. This is a crazy story. Okay. I went with Caleb on a lamb to Kayalpha Mizzou float trip down the Huzzah Valley River. Okay. And I had never gone floating. I had never gone camping. And this was when I was, like, a little more wild. And I had a bunch of beer.

[Addie]

That's what everyone does on float trip.

[Abby]

Yeah, it's like, all you do is float and drink beer.

[Addie]

It's pretty nice.

[Abby]

I'm normally a lady, right? Like, I'm ladylike. And so I had a lot of beer in my tummy, So I had a lot of beer. My tummy just wasn't feeling very good, and I knew that was gonna happen. And I go into this porta Potty on the campsite, and when I tell you I've never. I've never in my life been so close to just throwing up on the spot from the smell of this porta Potty. Just think about all these people just drinking a lot of beer. And there's one porta Potty, so I like crying in there because it smells so bad. I'm sweating, it's so hot. I do my business. It was bad. I go to clean myself. There's no toilet paper. I just had diarrhea in this nasty porta pot.

[Addie]

No.

[Abby]

And it's me and Caleb, and we're, like, on this trip together. So what do I do? I don't even know if I should.

[Addie]

There's probably no service. There's never service.

[Abby]

I should share this on the Internet. I had to go back to the tent, get hand wipes to clean myself off because there was nothing.

[Addie]

You walk, you put your swimsuit.

[Abby]

I'm telling you, it was the nastiest I've ever felt in my entire life.

[Addie]

Just shimmy back to your.

[Abby]

What was I gonna do? I didn't know any people on this trip. I didn't know anybody but Caleb. So I was like, I am a disgusting human being. It was so gross. And after that, I was like, I'm never going camping again, actually.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Abby]

Floating. So I'M good on that one.

[Addie]

It was a new experience.

[Abby]

Porta Potties with a bunch of men drinking beer. One Porta Potty, no toilet paper. Everyone out there booty was stinking. You're telling me they're not. What are we doing? What are we doing? Since same. That's my summer fail.

[Addie]

That was a fail for sure. This one says Amy. Amy says, thinking I can schedule all the things and then getting totally burnt out Week one.

[Abby]

Lol. Amy.

[Addie]

That's real.

[Abby]

That's so real. Yeah.

[Addie]

You're like, we're gonna just watch the show. Some shows. Yeah, we do TV today.

[Abby]

Taylor wore cropped leggings and got sunburnt. Looked like I had tan long socks all summer.

[Addie]

The tan locked legs. Oh, dang it.

[Abby]

Can you imagine? There was a kid on my swim team one summer that fell asleep with his hand on his chest out in the sun and then when he woke up, just had a hand for literally all summer long on his chest.

[Addie]

That's so bad. That means you got way too much sun.

[Abby]

He got way too much sun.

[Addie]

T. Perry says sun in. Never again. I'll never forget when Caleb used sun in.

[Abby]

He was like addicted. Lay off, orange head.

[Guest or Third Host]

I didn't know what that was. So anyone who didn't know what that is.

[Addie]

It's sun in is.

[Guest or Third Host]

You shouldn't.

[Addie]

That's from the 90s. Don't do bad for your hair. It's like the equivalent of putting lemon juice juice on your hair and then going out in the sun to bleach it.

[Guest or Third Host]

It says a classic heat activated spray and hair lightener designed to give your hair natural looking. Sun kissed highlight.

[Abby]

Do you? I remember that was like a hack back in when I was in high school. It's like summer bleach, blonde hair. Pour some lemon juice in your hair and go lay out.

[Addie]

I think. Isn't it pretty bad for your hair?

[Abby]

I have no idea. I tried it once but I'm such a brunette. It just didn't do much.

[Addie]

Caleb used it for like a whole summer.

[Abby]

Yeah, he did. In Alabama. I was like that honestly looked hot. I loved it. Carolina said. Carolina. Carolina. Getting dressed for morning temps when going out for the day. Yeah. When you're in the Midwest or up north and you're getting dressed for the morning temp and then you're out all day long and it's like kind of crisp in the morning and then the afternoon it's just absolutely melting. That's a hard time. Yeah, that's a hard time. For the clothes. The closet.

[Addie]

That is Hard. It's just hot all day here. So.

[Abby]

Yeah, I'm like, actually, there's never a break. You go to bed and it's still 100 degrees.

[Addie]

Seriously? Nadia says forgetting to put sunscreen on. Nine months pregnant and getting sun poisoning. Oh, what is some poisoning? Is that.

[Abby]

Do you throw up sometimes you can, but you get, like, chills. Intense chills. A rash all over your body that hurts. It itches. I've had some poison.

[Guest or Third Host]

It says flu. Like, or allergic reactions.

[Addie]

Ever since I. We got in a relationship with Matt Howard, that will never happen to me.

[Abby]

You're like, I've actually never. I've never been burned.

[Addie]

He won't even, like, let us go outside in the middle of the day. He's like, this is the. This is the not good time of day to go. What is.

[Abby]

That's one of, like, a fixation, maybe?

[Addie]

I think so.

[Abby]

Okay, that's a good one. At least. It's like a healthy.

[Addie]

Yeah, our kids are never getting ruined.

[Abby]

Kyra said my top coming off on one of those surf simulators.

[Addie]

Ooh. And that probably went far. Cause that water rushes fast. Oh, my gosh.

[Abby]

Off coming off. Oh, that would be. Do you remember, like, when you go down a water slide and you step up and it's just immediate thong. And, you know, there are people around, so vulnerable.

[Addie]

Yeah. I was. I was given a peep show as a kid off a water slide by some other mother.

[Abby]

No, I remember just being like, I was frozen. See that?

[Addie]

Frozen. The whole triangle was.

[Guest or Third Host]

Oh.

[Abby]

Oh. She didn't know in the front. She didn't know in the front.

[Addie]

Yeah, the front. Shoot saw. I saw the right breast. Murray or Murray the Bee says summer camp counselor. As a teen, kids gave me lice and stuck suckers in my hair. That's horrible. I never was a camp counselor. I went to a church camp as, like, a counselor, actually. Just kidding. I did do that once, but I wasn't, like, staying in the rooms with them.

[Abby]

Yeah, that's.

[Addie]

I kind of feel like that's what a counselor does.

[Abby]

I really wanted to go to summer camp, and my mom told me it's for kids whose parents don't love them.

[Addie]

I wanted to go to summer camp. My mom wouldn't let me because I couldn't afford it. I was like, mom, I want to go to camp.

[Abby]

She's like, that's for kids whose parents don't want to spend time with them. Immediately.

[Guest or Third Host]

Negative.

[Abby]

Well, is that true? I don't think so.

[Addie]

No.

[Abby]

I think it's like, kids whose parents Work? Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah. Most kids aren't going to summer camp. Like, are you meaning, like, going away to camp?

[Abby]

Yeah, I wanted to do something.

[Addie]

Like, there's a purpose for it. Like, it's like, oh, this is a dance.

[Guest or Third Host]

I feel like most people do, like, a week or something like that.

[Abby]

Yeah, I wanted to do that. I didn't.

[Addie]

I was scared to. Like, I wanted to, but I was also scared to. And then we couldn't afford it, so we. It was off the table. It was who.

[Abby]

I have to face my fears. Phew.

[Addie]

Sarah says, trying to make a summer tattoo of a heart, and it's coming out as a peener. How did that happen?

[Guest or Third Host]

I'm thinking the heart dipped down.

[Abby]

Did she do it herself?

[Addie]

Yeah. I feel like tattoos.

[Abby]

Oh. Oh, a summer tattoo. That makes sense.

[Addie]

Aren't those those tan ones you put a sticker on?

[Guest or Third Host]

I'm thinking of, like. You know what I'm thinking of?

[Addie]

Slip down the, like, silly bands that

[Guest or Third Host]

are, like, different shapes, and you can just, like, put it there,

[Abby]

like 11 years old, putting Playboy Bunny stickers on, and you're, like, getting my tan on, and it's like, I don't even know what this is.

[Addie]

We were friends with different crowd.

[Abby]

Yeah, we were.

[Guest or Third Host]

Oh, that's actually not an experience that.

[Addie]

I did not know what Playboy Bunny was.

[Abby]

I didn't either, but they were, you know, rocking them like they did.

[Addie]

You're like, I'll wear it. That's funny.

[Abby]

That's great.

[Addie]

That's all of our fails. We also asked you guys what your best summer memories were. Straight into those.

[Abby]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Addie]

Okay. So Jill says seasonal work in Glacier National Park. Paid to work and explore.

[Abby]

Wow.

[Addie]

I want to go there so bad. I heard it's the most gorgeous.

[Abby]

I want to go, too. I want to go to all. I haven't been to any of the major ones, like Yellowstone, Grand Tetons. I want to go see them all. Yes.

[Addie]

Zion's really cool.

[Abby]

I've never been, actually.

[Addie]

Where's the. Oh, my gosh.

[Abby]

Well, what are you thinking of?

[Addie]

The one that Matt. I went to, and it's in California. It's close to, like, the redwoods. Anyway, there's some sequoia. Sequoia, Beautiful.

[Abby]

Yeah, I've been to Sequoia.

[Addie]

That one. I was really surprised by how, like, I hadn't heard much about it, but Zion, that'd be really cool. Yeah, we did the Narrows there, and that was really cool. We want to do the stair. What do they call it? Stairway to Heaven.

[Abby]

Yeah, I I can't do that.

[Addie]

No. Angels.

[Abby]

Yeah, Angels Falls.

[Addie]

Angel. It was closed because it wasn't safe then.

[Abby]

Yeah. I don't think it's ever really safe, to be honest. You guys, like, are down with sketchy hikes, but I have a fear of.

[Addie]

Yes, Actually, I thought about that. We did three peaks. We did all three peaks in Hawaii. And not everyone's going to know this hike, but even the people when we went to Hawaii, they were the guys that did our catamaran tour. He's like, you guys did three peaks. You went to the third peak. And I was like, that was probably a bad idea.

[Abby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Addie]

People react.

[Abby]

Shocked. Yeah.

[Addie]

And that. I'm like, you kind of seem comfortable with this type of thing. And you were like, why'd you do that?

[Abby]

Was too far.

[Addie]

I was like, not gonna do it again. Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

The hike in Hawaii that I feel like I was like, I could die. I'm never getting off. This is when. Yeah. Is that the one you'd like? You paddleboard, like, we paddleboarded.

[Abby]

I turned around at that point.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

No, when you have to, like, rock climb.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

And I put our shoes on.

[Abby]

Yeah. Made me cuss, I guess.

[Addie]

We didn't learn.

[Guest or Third Host]

I was like, blake. Blake had no shoe. I had, like, water shoes, or I think I had my chocos on. Blake had no shoes. Shoes.

[Abby]

I'm like, it was so hot.

[Guest or Third Host]

Blake's gonna die.

[Abby]

Yes.

[Addie]

Yes.

[Abby]

We did the same one. And I was like, I'll leave my flip flops at the bottom because they're wet. What gets a wet flip flop when you're going up a hill? You know, your feet just slide off it. Remember climbing? Yeah. I remember the. The ground was so hot that our feet started to burn really bad, and we had to, like, kill. I remember he had to pick me up. Like, my feet were so hot. So then we put him back on, go back up to the top. And the last, like, 10ft of that hike is just a sheer.

[Addie]

You're just scaling like. You were pretty. Yeah.

[Abby]

I got halfway up, and then I said the S word, and I turned around and went back down.

[Addie]

I thought I did. Oh, yeah. Then I felt really.

[Guest or Third Host]

I surely probably wanted to. I was like, I don't.

[Abby]

How are we getting back down?

[Addie]

So bad.

[Abby]

I did cry. I mean, I enjoyed it to that point, but, yeah, I was like, I'm gonna fall and die. And I started crying, panicking. I said the S word, and I turned around. I met you guys at the bottom.

[Addie]

I feel so bad. How do we make that mistake twice. We did that hike a lot of times.

[Abby]

Sometimes I wonder if I was just a baby. No, no. I want to go back now and try it again.

[Addie]

Try it again. Yeah. Probably not a good place to get injured though, because then you would have to paddle board.

[Abby]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was like, I'm gonna die on this little hat out here and what's gonna happen?

[Guest or Third Host]

I was like, so glad your parents didn't come.

[Addie]

Oh, no. I told them not to. I was like, I don't want to hear it. AB Says corn syrup drenched snow cones with my cousins in the Midwest every summer.

[Abby]

Corn syrup drenched snow cones is so iconic.

[Addie]

Wow.

[Guest or Third Host]

Never had that.

[Abby]

I mean, that's just.

[Addie]

Just.

[Abby]

I mean, I think that's just what the, like snow cone juice is.

[Addie]

Is like. Yeah, they're like, we'll just bypass all the other stuff.

[Abby]

Just forget it. Just put it straight in there. Avery said doing lemonade stands when I was younger. That's so, so nostalgic.

[Addie]

Nikki says, falling in Love at 18 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. He was 24. He was a 24 year old Swedish Mexican guy.

[Abby]

Oh, sounds like the one who got away. Honestly.

[Addie]

Oh, I was hoping she was about to say they got married.

[Abby]

I know. Whirlwind summer romance.

[Addie]

She'll never forget that guy, honestly.

[Abby]

You should write a book about that, Nikki. I feel like it would sell millions.

[Addie]

Everyone want to read it when they're on vacation.

[Abby]

Mexico. Yeah. This gal said taking a nap on the beach. Yeah, those are good.

[Addie]

I always wake up super dehydrated, though.

[Abby]

I always wake up confused. I actually don't like a nap on the beach.

[Addie]

Sweaty.

[Abby]

Yeah, it's actually not. I don't like it at all.

[Addie]

I like it at all. Teach their own.

[Abby]

Yeah. I'm glad it was the best for you.

[Addie]

Reese says spending summers at the creek in Wyoming, that sounds magical. Yeah.

[Abby]

Honestly though. Creeks, I don't know.

[Addie]

No, it's blood. Oh, my gosh.

[Abby]

My mom would always scare me about the flesh floods.

[Addie]

We played a lot in the creek growing up. It was so fun.

[Abby]

Yeah. When they're shallow and it's just like

[Addie]

the trickling water, someone always accidentally steps on glass. Needs some stitches.

[Abby]

Oh, great memories.

[Addie]

Great mems.

[Abby]

Oh, man, Leora. That's a beautiful name. I hope I said that right. Drive in dates, though. I notoriously fall asleep. I'm not a double feature type of girly.

[Addie]

I would go. I would always love to go to the drive in, but I was like two movies in a row. I'M gonna sleep fully through the second.

[Abby]

Oh. Are all drive in theaters a double feature?

[Guest or Third Host]

Mostly, yeah.

[Addie]

Wow.

[Guest or Third Host]

I love drive ins. There's a drive in back home and so when I'm going home, I'm hoping we can go to one.

[Addie]

Cute.

[Abby]

That's really. That feels Midwest core summer.

[Addie]

It is.

[Abby]

And I've never done one.

[Addie]

Really?

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

Pizza before. Eating it in the car while you're waiting to get in and then snacks.

[Addie]

They end so late, though. Because it's two movies. Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

You have to wait till it get dark. Yeah.

[Abby]

Oh, yeah, I would.

[Guest or Third Host]

I usually only stayed for one.

[Abby]

I was gonna say two sounds the

[Guest or Third Host]

most like there was usually like a kid friendly one and then maybe a not so kid friendly one as the second one. So then you could.

[Addie]

Except one time we went, why did we do this? We went and we saw it and then it too.

[Abby]

Oh, boy.

[Guest or Third Host]

No big double feature.

[Addie]

I was like, that's one of those things that I like as a mom. Really changed me. Like I was no longer into any of that.

[Abby]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Addie]

I was like, nothing scary.

[Abby]

No horror, please.

[Addie]

No horror.

[Abby]

My life is just constantly fighting horror thaw.

[Addie]

I'm trying to fight those scary thoughts.

[Abby]

Truly.

[Addie]

She says, going to the beach, getting to watch my oldest play in the waves and my youngest play in Eat Sand.

[Abby]

That's relatable.

[Addie]

It's good for him.

[Abby]

It's really cute. I feel like the eating sand stresses me out because I just picture the crunch in my teeth, you know? Yeah, but they don't have teeth, I guess. Well, some of them do. Nadia said, building a massive fort in the woods with my cousins. We called it the Ewok village. That's really cute.

[Addie]

Brooke says senior trip to Cali with my best friend.

[Abby]

That is.

[Addie]

I never did I really. Where were we gonna. If we were gonna have to travel really far to do that? I remember some people were doing it. I mean, because. Where are you gonna go?

[Abby]

We went to Florida.

[Addie]

I know.

[Abby]

You could turn that really far.

[Addie]

That's an 18 hour drive. Abigail.

[Abby]

Yeah. I think I flew.

[Guest or Third Host]

That was not a thought.

[Addie]

Not a thought in the world. We always drove budget and it wasn't in the budget and it wasn't in my dad's safety necessities. And no one really did that where, like, especially when you live two hours from an airport, there's.

[Abby]

Yeah, you might as well drive that. Totally.

[Addie]

No one's thinking like that. But I never did that.

[Abby]

And did you fly into Saint. Did you fly out of St. Louis or did you fly out.

[Guest or Third Host]

We flew out of KC if we were going somewhere big. But a lot of the time there are, like, Joplin flight. Oh, Springfield. Springfield.

[Addie]

That makes sense.

[Guest or Third Host]

Depends on where you're going.

[Abby]

Okay.

[Guest or Third Host]

But usually Kansas City, if. Because Kansas City's two hours away. St. Louis is four.

[Abby]

Well, that was really fun. Thank you guys for sharing your good memories.

[Addie]

This is jogging some ideas for us, too, as we think about what we want to do with her summer plans.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

I don't know how much I'm really going to get done off this list, though, because I'm kind of tired.

[Abby]

Yeah. I'm like, you're going to be eight months pregnant. Nine months pregnant.

[Addie]

We'll see what we can do. Yeah, we got a rally. But I do have a list. I have six things we did.

[Abby]

Yeah. And then some extras for our Patreon. We'll start with our personal. We have personal and family.

[Addie]

Yeah. Mine are kind of. We do everything as a family. So I'm like, they're coming along too, so. But I did. You're more like adult ones and then more kid centered ones.

[Abby]

Perfect. You go first.

[Addie]

Well, my first one, this is kind of basic, but a lot of you guys also share that this was some of your best summer memories. We're doing a beach vacation with friends, which was actually one of my New Year's resolutions. I wanted to travel with friends. And so we're going to Florida and just staying literally right by the beach. They have bikes and golf courses. Quartz. It's within walking distance of an ice cream shop. And we're just gonna play in the sand with the kids and in the water. And the water in Florida is really warm and it'll just be super fun and make meals at the Airbnb and just chill. Make it classic beach, summer play games, stuff like that. So that'll be like our last trip before I cut off travel and focus on wrapping up this pregnancy.

[Abby]

Yeah, for sure. It'd be so fun. I'm gonna have major fomo. I know, I know. Blame Caleb. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, it's going to be so fun. I feel like Florida is the perfect. It's the perfect beach. Even out in the west. I'm like, California beaches are just not fun to swim in.

[Addie]

No.

[Abby]

They're so cold.

[Addie]

Yeah. And they're dark and they're not like a lot of rocky. Yeah, there's some good ones, but.

[Abby]

Yeah. No, for the most part, it's just not it. My first one for my personal is I said it's the summer of the bike. Yeah. I'm getting back on a bike.

[Addie]

I've never seen you ride a bike.

[Abby]

It's just exactly crazy to think about, Right?

[Addie]

You have a bike.

[Abby]

Yeah. So Caleb has one. It's extremely tall, so I need to, like, shorten it a little bit. But I got on it. I. I really had the itch to get on the bike when I was pregnant and super postpartum, and I was like, that just doesn't really seem smart considering my whole body's out of equilibrium. So I don't think I'll be able to balance on a bike. And I got on it a couple weeks ago just to, like, take it around the butt, the block. And I felt so. Like I was. Had six left feet. I felt so out of body. Oh, my. And just so uncomfortable.

[Addie]

The second person that's told me, you know, they have the phrase, it's like riding a bike. You never forget how to do it. I have a friend that's like, nope, I forgot.

[Abby]

She forgot.

[Addie]

I remembered how to.

[Abby]

But it just felt unnatural.

[Addie]

Oh, dang it. I know.

[Abby]

Like, I was trying to turn, and I was like, oh, my gosh. Gotta get back on this thing. So that's my goal. I'm. I'm gonna practice my biking.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

My favorite summer memory ever was when I was.

[Addie]

You're just gonna share the bike with Caleb?

[Abby]

I mean, he doesn't, like, ride it all the time.

[Addie]

Just solo biking.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah.

[Abby]

I'm just gonna take it out maybe during nap and just, like, ride it around the driveway. I just need to get the grease. Like, I just need to get to grease all the wheels.

[Addie]

You know what I mean? That's a little harder, honestly.

[Abby]

Just keep going. A little mini circle.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Abby]

I don't want to go too far. We don't have a seat for the kids in the bag. So I'm like, oh, wow. No, no. I'm just looking for a little hobby.

[Addie]

Well, I'm excited to hear the updates about this.

[Abby]

Yeah, I'll keep you posted on it. I'm excited. My favorite summer memory was I rode my bike every day. Like, every single day.

[Addie]

Same every day.

[Abby]

And my neighbor and I, we pack little lunches, and we go do picnics around our neighborhood and the neighborhoods around ours, and it was so cute. And I'm like, I want to ride my bike. It's just freeing.

[Addie]

It is fun. This next one's very specific to me, but I do think that there's a way to recreate something like this if you feel inspired. We're gonna have a magic show.

[Abby]

A magic show. I just like to perform for the kids.

[Addie]

I am not performing. We're bringing a magician to the house. And like, what? Abby, you're invited. Everyone's coming.

[Abby]

Wow. When is this?

[Addie]

It's. You don't have 22 June. It's the same day as our friend's baby shower. So go to the baby shower, come to the magic show afterwards.

[Abby]

Go eat, celebrate, and then come be entertained.

[Addie]

I think it'll be so fun. I like. I like any reason to just, like, have something fun that you would do. Like, you're gonna remember it. Like, I feel like, I think about, like the hibachi night. Like, we don't do that very often, but it's always memorable.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

Magic show.

[Abby]

So you're not doing the magic?

[Addie]

No, no, no. We're bringing in a magician. Like a. Gosh, like a kind of well known one.

[Abby]

Well, funny.

[Addie]

Yeah. You can hire a local magician.

[Guest or Third Host]

Sure.

[Addie]

Or it doesn't have to be a magic show. Like, I think it'd be fun even if you had like a neighborhood talent show. Like have your kids do things, do karaoke with your friends. Like any type of, like out of the norm activity. Like, kind of. I like the element of like the theatrical element because it just makes people laugh and you don't get to. You don't do that stuff as an adult, like, ever. And it just makes. Maybe do a comedy night.

[Abby]

Do something. That'd be fun.

[Addie]

And. Yeah, that's what we're doing.

[Abby]

I love that.

[Addie]

That's already on the books for us.

[Abby]

You know what we should do? This isn't on the list, but we should add it. We should get all of our friends together and have an adult capture the flag game.

[Addie]

Sure.

[Abby]

I'm in, like, at night time.

[Addie]

That was so fun.

[Abby]

It was so fun as a kid.

[Guest or Third Host]

That's funny.

[Abby]

When you played it.

[Addie]

Catch the flag.

[Abby]

Our neighborhood would do it. And you get two teams and each team has to hide your flag. And then it's like basically a big old game of tag. You go to jail if you get tagged. You're trying to steal the other team's flag. We used to play this game in high school. I'm forget getting what it's called, but you would have teams and you would drive and each team would get one person from the other team. So like, let's say we were a team and like Caleb and Matt and

[Addie]

someone off in the middle of nowhere.

[Abby]

Yes. And then you have to try to like, explain where you are to. What was that called? Hostage. Oh, yeah.

[Addie]

You ever do that.

[Guest or Third Host]

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of hostage. But, no, I've never.

[Addie]

I wouldn't let my kids play that.

[Abby]

I would. Well, they all have GPS nowadays.

[Addie]

I didn't. I barely had a cell in a freaking cornfield and it was dark.

[Abby]

Yeah. I got dropped off on a back road. I was like, you know what? Not smart.

[Addie]

Not smart. I don't want to do that again. All I had was a stinking track phone. I'm like, I had to type three times to get a c. It took 10 points.

[Abby]

10 points off your calls. Pay for your minutes. So my second one is get hot.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Guest or Third Host]

I love that.

[Addie]

Let's see.

[Abby]

It's time, ladies.

[Guest or Third Host]

The summer after being pregnant, it's perfect time.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

It's Hawk girl summer.

[Abby]

It's hot girl summer.

[Addie]

So what are you going to do?

[Abby]

You know what?

[Addie]

I'm scared. Oh, you have no plans.

[Abby]

No, I don't really have plans. I'm gonna get tan. Okay. I'm gonna go on my walks. It's. I'm having a smoothie every day.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

I'm gonna be glowing from within.

[Addie]

There you go.

[Abby]

I'm taking supplements. I'm gonna start creatine.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah, I'm like.

[Abby]

I'm like about it.

[Addie]

I thought you were anti creatine.

[Abby]

No, no, I've never been anti creatine.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

No, no, I just haven't taken it because I wasn't sure how it was with nursing.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Abby]

But, yeah, I'm only nursing once a day. I feel like the boobs are going back to normal. You know what I mean?

[Guest or Third Host]

That's a great feeling.

[Abby]

I'm getting hot. They're going down. I'm going up. They can't all be perfect.

[Addie]

No, that's great.

[Abby]

I think that's.

[Addie]

That's everyone's goal, right? That's.

[Abby]

I mean, I thought it was appropriate to say Caleb and I have our. We booked our trip, like, for just us two at the end of summer, so, you know, I want to be hot.

[Addie]

Yeah, absolutely. I feel like you're already very hot.

[Abby]

That's so nice.

[Addie]

They can't. It can't be hard to get there.

[Abby]

That's flattering.

[Addie]

My next one would be applicable to anyone that lives in, like, a big city, but I think this has gotten pretty big now. Resort Pass. Have you heard of those?

[Abby]

Resort Pass is really fun. We've done it.

[Addie]

Yeah. Super fun. And we've done them, too. And it is a great way to, like, just make any day feel like a vacation, even if you're not like, we're not getting on a plane. We're not doing. It's. We only have a day, and we're gonna go back and stay at our own house. But basically, you can just get a pool pass at a resort, and it feels like you're on vacation. It's really fun.

[Abby]

It is really fun.

[Addie]

I would say find one with kids that has, like, a lazy river or water slides or a splash pad, anything, like, outside the normal. And your whole whole day is fun. You can even order food at the pool. And it just feels like just a special day.

[Abby]

So special.

[Addie]

Memorable, too, because whenever we do it, like, my kids still talk about the resort passes that we did last summer. They're like, remember that water slide? And I'm like, I didn't think you would remember that.

[Abby]

Yeah, seriously. That's cool. Because it is memorable because it's out of the norm.

[Addie]

That's my main thing with bucket list items. I want to do things that I'm like. I want to create memories.

[Abby]

Yes. This is like, an intentional thing.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Abby]

Sorry. But get hot wasn't necessarily that intentional, but intentional for me.

[Addie]

Well, I just. That wasn't in the cards for me, so I was like, well, if I'm not gonna get hot, I'm gonna make memories. Get hot, make memories.

[Abby]

Exactly. Both are great. I told my sister. She just went to Chicago to use resort pass, like a. Like a rooftop thing. I was like, you need to go find a rooftop pool.

[Addie]

Did she do it?

[Abby]

I don't think so, but I did suggest it to her.

[Addie]

That's great.

[Abby]

My third one. For personal. This is, like, me pretty me specific, but my dad is half Lebanese, and I, over Christmas, was cooking. We cooked with my grandma a bunch of Lebanese food for Christmas. And I just got all the recipes, and I want to make them at home and have, like, a special day where we make Lebanese food together in our house. Yeah. And, like, gift it to some of my friends, because most of my friends have never had Lebanese food. So meat pies are in your future, ladies.

[Addie]

Meat pies. Meat pies. I don't think I've ever had Lebanese food.

[Abby]

Really?

[Guest or Third Host]

Me either.

[Abby]

It's fantastic.

[Addie]

That's a really sweet one. You could do it, like, on your grandma's birthday.

[Abby]

Yeah. Her birthday's in September. Not necessarily the summer, but I can practice all summer.

[Addie]

Yes.

[Abby]

Get ready. Yes.

[Addie]

For September. Okay. For some of my more family ones, I. One of them I put. Okay. This would be the broad one is road trip, but I have a specific road trip that I want to do that. I just found out from my friend Caitlin. She's like, just knowing my kids, they would love this thing. There's something called out of Africa. It's like, yeah, I've heard of this. Yeah. And they have. It's very well priced and it's about. It's just a couple hours, two to three hour drive from where we live.

[Abby]

And.

[Addie]

And it's cooler up north too. And they have a bunch of like African animals, like safari animals and you can go on safaris. They have like shows and like. Well, my kids like love animals, feeding animals. And they have giraffes, which is their favorite animal.

[Abby]

Cute.

[Addie]

And I think it'd be really fun to just go up and then where this is, they have some fun Airbnbs that are really cheap. We could just drive up, stay the night and then come back. The people that are in like the Phoenix area, though, there's. I was thinking even like a road trip to like Strawberry or like where it's like a little bit more cool.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

Prescott would be really fun in the summer over fourth of July. Like, that would be really fun. So I want to do that especially because I'm like, I don't really want to fly that much, but I can do a two hour drive.

[Abby]

Totally.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Abby]

That was on mine. I said we want to do a weekend mountain trip. I feel like summer in Arizona is actually super miserable. And so it's not necessarily about what we can do here. It's about how we can get out of here more. So like, what's the fly?

[Addie]

Or get an air conditioning.

[Abby]

Yeah. Like, how can we get an AC or go somewhere a little bit less suffocating? And we went to Big Bear, California a couple years ago. It was so fun and so beautiful. Caleb and I loved it. So I'm like, that's kind of. We've been a little bit of chatting about that or maybe just going up to like Flagstaff for a couple days. But yeah, I think any just like getting out for a weekend would be really nice.

[Addie]

Donut would be so fun.

[Abby]

When we were in Missouri, we used to go to Branson for a weekend trip, which is so fun. Just like the lake. Just something a little bit different, but it's still drivable.

[Addie]

Seona has some really cool, cool springs.

[Abby]

Really?

[Addie]

Yeah. What's that? Slide rock? That's right. I didn't want really fun. Yeah, fun.

[Abby]

Okay, cool.

[Addie]

Okay. This one we've already done this summer, but I'm sure we'll be hosting many, many more. I said a flick and float. We love.

[Abby]

Those are fun.

[Addie]

Like, it's. We have to get a louder speaker, though, because it is kind of hard to make it loud enough for everyone to hear from the pool. But it's really fun. Even if you could just, like, get a projector, too, we have a tv, so that makes it easier. But it's really fun. The kids love it and look forward to it.

[Abby]

Yeah. I wish in Phoenix we had stars. There's so much light pollution here. You don't really see the stars that well. But it's so cute, like in the Midwest, especially glowing out and, like, laying outside looking at the stars, having a movie on in the pool. So magical. So magical, so fun. Yeah. My second one is CJ Will Learn to Swim. That's on my bucket list.

[Addie]

Oh, yeah, we're hosting some lessons again. Yeah, we're have, like, 15 kids.

[Abby]

I know. I'm excited.

[Addie]

It's gonna be crazy.

[Abby]

CJ's been swimming in his little mini pool in our backyard almost every day. And he's gotten really good at, like, the survival things, you know, and comfortable, like, putting his ears in. So I feel like we're really gonna progress in lessons. There you go.

[Addie]

This next round, by the way, I'm not. I'm not teaching the lessons.

[Abby]

I always assume that you're. I'm like, you're hibachi chef. You are magic girl.

[Addie]

You are. I don't do any of these things.

[Abby]

We have a really great facilitator.

[Addie]

She actually, we met her through. I hired her for Griffin's birthday party to be a lifeguard. And ever since then, she has, like, taught our kids and like, all of our friends kids how to swim. And she's, like, so awesome.

[Abby]

She is awesome.

[Addie]

And so, yeah, the kids come over and get their little slot in the pool. Okay. This one was inspired by my friend Caitlin as well. But I have a distinct memory of doing this as a kid making a bug house. My kids really like bugs, and so I was gonna get. There's this thing. It's a bug vacuum. My friend Ashley got it for her son, and I was like, I will get it for my son for his birthday. And it literally just sucks a bug up into this little bug cage. But then you could, like, make a little house for it. I did this as a kid, which describes some things, but I think they would think it's so fun and, like, memorable. I had a praying mantis.

[Abby]

Wow.

[Addie]

Yeah. I found it at my great grandma's house.

[Abby]

I feel like the caterpillars disappeared in our Neighborhood. Did you see caterpillars? No, I meant, like, when I was a kid. Oh. You know, the little brown, furry caterpillars. They used to be rampant, and they just disappeared after a couple years. Yeah.

[Addie]

Never thought about that. Roly polies. I would always find those were fun. But. Yeah, make a little house for them. Like, get a shoe box. Yeah, Like a little house. I think they would think that's really fun and special for them.

[Abby]

That is fun. I had a staycation vacation. And what I mean by this is I think sometimes it's really easy. Just like. Like, we were talking about let the summer run by, you know, and if you're intentional, like, I want to do a week where it's like, okay, on this day, we're going to go to the zoo, and then the next day we're going to go, like, something specific towards Phoenix vibes.

[Addie]

Oh, the aquarium is great.

[Abby]

The aquarium. Like, I want to do something. Yeah. Like, really specific each day that's in the city. And I'm going to St. Louis with the kids by myself to visit family. And I already know I'm doing that there. Like, I know one day we're gonna go to the zoo. We're gonna go to the science center. We're gonna go. So every day we're gonna go, Cardinals game. And I'm like, I should do that in Phoenix, too. And, like, find the different things and each day have a specific activity and just be really intentional about having, like, a fun morning or something.

[Addie]

I love that. Yeah.

[Abby]

Staycation vacation.

[Addie]

We're gonna. We have a couple more that we saved for Patreon. So those of you that are listeners over there, we're gonna hop over and just give a few more over there that are maybe just a little bit more unique. Mine. I have a weird one. I got to be honest.

[Abby]

You do. I have one I don't want Caleb to hear.

[Addie]

So, so good.

[Guest or Third Host]

So put it on the Patreon.

[Abby]

Put it on the Patreon.

[Addie]

Perfect.

[Abby]

I know he's not spending $5.

[Addie]

Surely not. I know he's not spending $5. Gosh dang it.

[Abby]

Gosh dang it.

[Addie]

Can't even get her own husband.

[Abby]

I know.

[Addie]

Anyway, so we're gonna go wrap this up, and then we'll be right back for voicemails and. And recipes. Recipes.

[Abby]

Yay.

[Addie]

Thank you to Quinn for sponsoring this portion of today's episode.

[Abby]

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[Addie]

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[Addie]

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[Abby]

I'm so excited. Hey, it's Bailey.

[Addie]

I have one question for you. If you are rich enough to have a private chef, would you get one or would you just continue to cook? To cook for yourself?

[Abby]

Have a great day.

[Addie]

Love y'.

[Abby]

All. It's a great question because we do like to cook, but I would 100 take the chef. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100 take the chef. I love to cook.

[Addie]

For me have pre made snacks in the fridge, right?

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah.

[Addie]

I've talked to some people that did have one and like do have one. And I'm like, wow, I didn't even know the full scope of what that meant.

[Abby]

Like, what does it mean?

[Addie]

Like you come home and you're like, I, I want a protein shake, chocolate. Like they tell you they do the grocery shopping for you. They pre make snacks like fresh cut fruit and we'll make juices. Like they'll literally do whatever you want. Obviously you're footing the bill for these groceries. In addition to having them and the labor, they'll do whatever you want. Like, and also just like, when they're on the clock, like, they will. They're there to cook.

[Abby]

That's a dream.

[Guest or Third Host]

I would, I would pay for it.

[Abby]

I would. A million percent.

[Guest or Third Host]

I think there's also, like, if you're like, I want to cook, I feel like there is a way that you could be like, hey, could you, like, get the stuff prepped and then like, show me how to cook it? Or like, you can like, also, you know.

[Addie]

So like, that someone I was talking to, they're like, oh, actually when we had a private chef, they taught me this is the best way to make broccoli. Or like, this is the best way to make steak. Or this is the best way to season salmon. Yeah. And so I like, was like learning third hand from that. So until then, I would like to be someone's private chef. That sounds kind of fun.

[Abby]

That would be fun. I guess. How does the hours work? Because do they make dinner and then go home?

[Guest or Third Host]

It depends on the type of chef.

[Addie]

You could have what you want.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah. If someone. You could have someone come on Sunday and meal prep everything or like, prep everything for you to cook or do you know other things? Or you could have someone there every day.

[Abby]

Wow.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Guest or Third Host]

I follow private chefs.

[Addie]

I feel like a lot of them. I think I was leaving at 5. Like, yeah, make dinner and then leave by dinner time and then they'll like, prep something for dessert.

[Abby]

Can you imagine if you're a private chef all day, though, and then you have to go home and make your own food. Do you think they probably don't do that?

[Guest or Third Host]

I know they're like, I don't do that.

[Abby]

That'd be exhausting. The cost of talent.

[Addie]

I love how we're like, we love to cook. Yeah. Private chef made. Not a hesitation.

[Abby]

Hi, Abby. Abby and Addie.

[Addie]

I just want your guys opinion on changing my last name after I get married. It's very important to my fiance, but he did say the decision is ultimately up to me and I would love to change my last name, but I am an only child and I do not have cousins on either side of my family. And my last name is already hyphenated and my middle name is very sentimental. So any of the solutions that would typically work for people wouldn't really work for me.

[Abby]

So I would just love your guys's thoughts on that.

[Addie]

Bye.

[Abby]

That's a good question.

[Addie]

Yeah. You're an all girl family. Yeah.

[Abby]

And actually my older sister kept our Last name.

[Addie]

Oh, okay.

[Abby]

Yeah. And then I changed my last name. So both have both examples in our family. I personally love having the same last name as Caleb. I love, like, just being our little unit of Howards, and I love having the same last name as my kids. So that's something that I would, like, maybe consider down the road if that would bother you or not. If that wouldn't bother you and it doesn't bother your husband, but it kind of sounds like he would prefer it. I kind of feel like if you're neutral to it, I would just do it. It's so fun being like, so fun being a part of the Howard clan.

[Addie]

I was just thinking about that too. Like, I don't know why it came up. When we were in New York, we were talking about this, but, like, that was like, the easiest thing for me. It was a no brainer for me. But, like, I can understand, like, there's a lot of nuance to that decision that would make it more difficult. Like, I had a brother.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

Also, my family never put a lot of importance on our family name. Like, that was never like a focus. It was like our family, but it wasn't like, we are Biswells. Like, we never put that. There was not that pressure there. I loved my family, but I was also so excited to start my own and join another family that I was really excited about all of that stuff. So. That's such a deeply personal question. I feel like I can't even give you personal advice other than the fact that, like you said, I love having the same last name as my husband and my kids. And I was excited to change mine. So.

[Abby]

Yeah. Because I did have that thought of, like, there aren't many Eulets. That's my maiden name, Eulit. So I'm like, dang, there's no. There are no boys. So the Eula name technically in our line would die. But because, like, even if I kept Eula as my last name, our kids wouldn't necessarily get you it. They would have, like, Howard Eulet or, you know, it would be Howard. And so then I was like, what's the point? Then, you know, like, I'd rather just be my little. My little bond. And I love, like, I love being one with Caleb in that Addie is

[Addie]

now Addie Biswell, in which case I was. Or in When I was Abby Biswell.

[Abby]

Yes. At least you knew.

[Guest or Third Host]

Exactly. I knew. That's what I always say. I was like, I knew it would sound good. Yeah.

[Addie]

Yeah.

[Abby]

I mean, you don't have to do it right away. If it's something that you're just like, not sure about, you can always wait. You can do it in any time.

[Addie]

That's so true.

[Abby]

And people make it seem like it's a hard thing to do, but you just have to start with your Social Security number.

[Addie]

You could also just start testing it out and you don't actually have to. To change it. I have friends that haven't formally changed their last name.

[Abby]

Yeah, like, just get your email address.

[Addie]

Wonder.

[Guest or Third Host]

She said she's like the only. She has no siblings or like cousins or anything that have a last name. And I'm like, is that influencing your decision from, like, your parents being like, you don't have that or like you personally, like, want to keep the name going? Because I'm like, if you personally don't, it's like not that big of a deal to you, then I would say

[Addie]

it must be a big deal though, because if her last name is already hyphenated, kind of makes me think that, yeah, her. Both of her parents, like, their last name was really important.

[Abby]

Yeah, that's interesting.

[Guest or Third Host]

That is interesting. If you already have two hyphens, just add a third.

[Addie]

Yeah, just keep tagging them.

[Abby]

I will say it just is logistically way easier when you guys all have the same name in the house. It's logistically so much easier, like, paperwork wise and all that. I feel like it is so. I don't know. I guess it's just what's important to you. So those are good. Those are our thoughts. But those are great. It's a great question. Congrats on getting married.

[Addie]

Yeah. Hey, Abby and Addie, love your podcast and it's just curious if you guys have stuck to your New Year's resolution because the three listen to what I've done. So you're curious. Thanks so much.

[Guest or Third Host]

Bye.

[Addie]

We should never have made this public.

[Abby]

And she's given us a mid year check in.

[Guest or Third Host]

Okay.

[Abby]

That's on accountability. Let me go down the list. I'm pulling up my episode one.

[Guest or Third Host]

Episode one note.

[Addie]

Yeah. That dopamine detox.

[Abby]

That one's not happened. And I'm not saying it's not gonna, but.

[Addie]

What? The one that hasn't happened for me that's really bugging me is the volunteering and also the taking pictures because I cannot figure out how to use my dang camera. And it actually makes me so mad.

[Abby]

Dang it.

[Addie]

I can only take blurry photos out of it.

[Abby]

And that's actually really frustrating because then you're like, is It. My settings. Is the camera broken?

[Addie]

I followed so many tutorials. And then I, like, asked people that have this camera, and they're like, it's tricky.

[Abby]

And I'm like, no one told me,

[Addie]

set the settings, do the thing. Because I can't. I don't want to. I'm not in. I'm not interested in this being a hobby. Right. I want it to, like, document things.

[Abby]

Yes. And so I'm like, yeah, that is

[Addie]

a pain point too. Because I'm like, I know that Matt spent so much money on this camera, and I have gotten no use out of it. Sure. I've just brought it with me a lot of places. So mad about it.

[Abby]

Well, maybe you just start really enjoying the blurry part.

[Addie]

I did learn how to make a steak. That's really good.

[Guest or Third Host]

I was gonna say this would be fun to, like, go down the list. So, Abby, yours are. Learn how to make a. A good steak.

[Addie]

Yep. I plan a trip with my friends.

[Guest or Third Host]

Go on more walks. You're doing.

[Addie]

I've been going on a lot of walks.

[Guest or Third Host]

Have you been kissing more and writing more love notes?

[Abby]

I told you to write love notes.

[Addie]

I did write a love note.

[Abby]

You did.

[Addie]

I need to do more.

[Guest or Third Host]

Okay.

[Abby]

I should do more.

[Guest or Third Host]

Have you organized some of the paint points, pain points in your house to create systems?

[Addie]

And it's getting more painful.

[Abby]

The clubhouse. I think that's the main one we talked about on.

[Guest or Third Host]

You did the mud room at one point.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

It's terrible right now.

[Abby]

I know.

[Guest or Third Host]

But at one point you did.

[Addie]

I keep saying that once. I can't travel anymore. That's what I have to do. Like, I'll be here and I have to nest for the baby thing.

[Guest or Third Host]

Have you checked out any books from the library?

[Addie]

Yep. Good.

[Guest or Third Host]

Work on letters and numbers with the kids. More.

[Abby]

Oof.

[Addie]

Yes. But could be more.

[Guest or Third Host]

Create one or two new weekly traditions.

[Addie]

Yeah, we did.

[Guest or Third Host]

And take more pictures and volunteer more.

[Addie]

Those are the ones that mainly need to be worked on.

[Guest or Third Host]

Oh, and I travel with friends.

[Addie]

I can try to kiss Matt if I can just get my belly out of the way.

[Guest or Third Host]

Abigail. One plan date out a month at least.

[Abby]

Yeah, I think we've done that.

[Guest or Third Host]

Good. A trip just to you too.

[Abby]

We have that.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yep. Get a pull up.

[Abby]

I'm on my way.

[Guest or Third Host]

Good. Run a half marathon.

[Abby]

I'm on my way. I don't think it'll be within the one year mark that I really wanted it to because now it's hot.

[Guest or Third Host]

Yeah.

[Abby]

And I just started feeling strong again in my. In my gate, so I Feel like it's gonna be. Is a gate in my run.

[Addie]

What do on a track?

[Abby]

A half mile on a track. Sounds like literal torture.

[Addie]

Half mile 12.

[Abby]

Half marathon.

[Addie]

Yeah, half marathon.

[Guest or Third Host]

Get back into regular Bible study routine.

[Abby]

Yeah, I've been great wake up before

[Guest or Third Host]

7am I have been schedule a dentist appointment.

[Abby]

Crushing it. You know what?

[Addie]

It's.

[Abby]

Yeah, I have to because. Because of my sweet. My sweet love bug. Caleb. He did a trade.

[Addie]

Never talk like that.

[Abby]

Not in public. We did a trade of. He did a trade parking lots for some dentistry work. So I'm going, baby.

[Guest or Third Host]

Wow.

[Abby]

He took the initiative on that one.

[Guest or Third Host]

Dopamine fast. I'm gonna do that one.

[Abby]

I'm not sure we're gonna do that one.

[Guest or Third Host]

10 minutes a day of uninterrupted play. I really try not perfect Monthly one on one dates with CJ and Vivi. When a kid applicable.

[Abby]

It has not been applicable.

[Addie]

Great job, guys.

[Abby]

Yeah, we're doing good, actually. We're on track. Are we on track or did I just put things on there? I knew I could achieve.

[Guest or Third Host]

Good. You're doing good.

[Abby]

Thank you for your question of accountability.

[Addie]

Love that.

[Abby]

That was really good. If you guys want to be a part of our episodes, which we hope that you would and do because it makes it so fun and special. Sorry, I have to go back to my. My episode list. The phone number to call and leave a question is 602-456-9690. That's 602-456-9690. And yeah, that's like one of our favorite parts of the episode. So thank you guys for calling in leading questions. And we do some Patreon questions too on our little Patreon segment. So if you guys ever want to do more questions over there, we've got that, which is fun. You ready for a recipe, Abby?

[Addie]

I have a new one. What is right last week. And I'm not gonna be able to make it that much because Matt doesn't like meatballs, but I love.

[Abby]

He doesn't like meatballs.

[Addie]

That's tried to get it out of him. I was like, you like this though, right? He's like, I just want a big meatball fan. He ate it, but I think it's delicious. It's a meatball pasta and it is so yummy. Like every. I don't the pasta. I can't speak to the health benefits of this meal.

[Abby]

Sure. They don't always be healthy.

[Addie]

It was so yummy. It has delicious noodles and it was. It's basically a one pot Recipe. But you do make the meatballs in a sheet pan.

[Abby]

But did you make the meatballs from scratch?

[Addie]

Yeah, I did.

[Abby]

Yeah. I love. I love making meatballs.

[Addie]

There's a lot of ingredients, but it was all easy and quick. And I started with some broccoli and some garlic knots and it was so yummy. I ate so much of it. Like, I ate so much. And I was. Because I think I was the only one in my family that like, really, actually Griffin really loved it too.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Addie]

So I think it's a kid. It's a kid pleaser as well.

[Abby]

Good. I love meatballs. If I have ground beef, I don't know what to do with them. I just make a meatball. It's so good. And there's so many different ways you can make them. You know, make them saucy. You can make them. It just.

[Addie]

I wish you liked them.

[Abby]

I love a meatball. My recipe is. Oh, I want Abby's, not mine. This is a half baked harvest recipe from a long time that I'm pretty sure you made for me, Abby. And I loved it. It's the half baked harvest crock pot white chicken chili bowls.

[Addie]

I made them bad one time and never made them again.

[Abby]

Really?

[Addie]

How I messed them up. I don't know what I did really.

[Abby]

With the salsa verde? Yeah.

[Addie]

They're so easy. I don't know what I did. But those are good.

[Abby]

Really good. And I don't usually make them in the crock pot. I usually just make them on the stove top. And they're really easy. They're a crowd pleaser. It's not a beautiful looking bowl. It looks like a bowl of mush, but it tastes insane. And you eat it with a crunchy

[Addie]

chip a lot of ways.

[Abby]

Yeah. You get so many toppings for it. You eat it with a chip. It's just filling and satisfying and really simple.

[Addie]

So I always made it in the crock pot.

[Abby]

I just don't use my crock pot that often.

[Addie]

It's so convenient.

[Abby]

Yeah, I probably should.

[Addie]

More meatball pasta. Like, you want that?

[Abby]

Yeah, I want. I love. Whenever I make a pasta, I always put too many noodles. And then it's never saucy because I get like noodle happy.

[Guest or Third Host]

See, I kind of like heavy noodle. Light sauce.

[Abby]

Light sauce.

[Addie]

Okay.

[Guest or Third Host]

So I'd probably like your pasta.

[Abby]

Perfect. My soups kind of become that too. I always put too much noodle and then by the end it's like a casserole. That's funny every time. Actually, Caleb was like, where's the broth, I'm like, just soaked it up, right?

[Addie]

It's great.

[Abby]

It's just in the noodle.

[Addie]

You love it.

[Abby]

Thank you guys for listening and liking subscribing, sharing, following, reviewing all the big things on the podcast. It means a lot to us. So we're so, so grateful for you. So thank you guys so much for leaving reviews. It means so much to us and the team working on this podcast. This is a great review from Chaos with Jen. She left five stars, which is always appreciated and she said favorite podcast. This is honestly my favorite podcast right now. Abby. Abby and Addie are such a good trio and the conversations feel so relatable and real. As a mom, I always end up laughing while also feeling so understood. The episodes go by way too fast and I would genuinely love two episodes a week. Oh, keep it up because this podcast is amazing.

[Addie]

So nice.

[Abby]

That's so nice.

[Addie]

Thank you.

[Abby]

Thank you, Jen.

[Guest or Third Host]

I will say We've only read 23 reviews so far, but we have 898 of you that have rated us on our podcast, so thank you.

[Abby]

I didn't know it was that many. Wait, that makes me like Gideon side. Oh my gosh.

[Addie]

That's a lot. That's an extra effort to really go to because I listen to a lot of podcasts.

[Abby]

Podcasts.

[Addie]

And that's very much appreciated.

[Abby]

I should start rating the ones I like because I know how much it means.

[Addie]

Yeah, shoot.

[Abby]

Okay. I'm a hypocrite, you guys. I'm going to do it right after this.

[Addie]

I got. I got some reviews to write.

[Abby]

I got so many reviews to add to my to do list. Well, thank you guys for listening and remember, we're always here.

[Guest or Third Host]

Great job.

[Abby]

Such a chill episode.

[Addie]

It felt like.

[Guest or Third Host]

No, the energy was.