← The Carpool with Kelly and Lizz
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- [00:00]
Kelly
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Liz
Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly.
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Kate
Like I can't to this like new trend of like people like shedding after they wake up in the morning. Have you seen this where they like they have the heatless curls and then they have this mask and then they have the mouth r and they're taping their mouth.
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Liz
And Liz, if you think about the photos of your childhood that you look back on very rarely. Like the ones that come to your mind are the one where everyone looks amazing and smiling. Your mom time off starts now.
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Kate
Welcome back to the carpool podcast with.
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Liz
Kelly and Liz and Kate and Kate.
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Kate
Kate's back. The band is back together. Our third co host Kate from Naptime Kitchen is here on the podcast. We're having a very special dedicated.
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Liz
Nice episode.
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Unknown
I'm so grateful.
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Kate
I'm so honored for a couple of reasons. One, it's been a minute. Two, I missed you and wanted to talk like and I've kind of already offloaded a lot right before we hit record. So we'll see.
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Liz
You should have like the first 10 minutes pre recording was there's something about session.
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Kate
No. I talked to Kate a lot actually. Like there's something about Kate's presence that makes me really emotional. Like it just makes me feel like I could just be my true self. You know, like, there's no front to put on, you know?
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Liz
Okay, Do a lot of people tell you that?
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Kate
That's a good question.
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Unknown
I don't know. I feel like. To say, like, yes would make me feel, like, just so special and amazing. No. But I guess I'm the same. I've been told a lot. I'm the same online as I am in person. And so there's just maybe, hopefully, I think, because I try and share my own faults and failures, maybe, hopefully it frees others up to feel that way as well. But I do love. I. I do. Like, I was driving home from North Carolina a couple weeks ago, and I texted Kelly, and I was like, I'm gonna be in the car for four more hours if you want to chat. One thing I appreciate about Kelly is you're. You're a phone talker.
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Kate
I'm a phone talker.
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Unknown
Like, which I love. So we ended up just chatting. You were like, I have 15 minutes. And we chatted for 15 minutes, and I just loved it. And I felt like I was like, I want to know how Kelly's doing for 15 minutes. And so I appreciate you as well, Kel.
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Kate
Well, and the third reason you're on today is because you're up to really big things. Kate's book is finally coming out.
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Unknown
It is.
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Kate
It's been. And I mean this with love. It's been an exhausting journey to watch. Like, the way is, like, here's how I'm kind of gonna compare. Like, you know when, like, one of your favorite influencers, like, announces they're having a baby, and then, like, you check in, like, what feels like months later, and you're like, she's still pregnant.
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Unknown
Yep.
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Kate
That's how I feel about you in this book.
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Unknown
Yes, it is. Except I always joke that it's like, an elephant pregnancy, which I know you guys know about, because I remember that episode where Liz really went into gestational time periods, and it is so long. It's almost like now I really need to talk about it. And I feel like I'm like, don't want to talk about it. But I know that this, like, it does feel like, okay, you've worked on this for so long now. Like, you really do have to make people understand what it is. Like, talk about it. But I'm like, I've worked on this for so long.
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Liz
Well, I. I remember you were on the podcast and you had mentioned that you were writing a book. I. I was. I think we were. Literally. I was living in my old house. At this time and you told us the name of the book or what was the working title. And I. It is the title and it gave us chills. But like, that feels like ages ago.
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Unknown
It was, it was.
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Kate
But anyway, the day is finally here. August 26th.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Kate
The book is coming out. You can pre order.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Kate
And if you pre order Kate's, like, you know, Kate's. Kate's got some razzle dazzle attached to the pre order.
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Unknown
You want to. I do, I do. It also features yours truly, Kelly Stumpy on there. Something I really cared about when I was thinking about pre orders is I wanted something that would feel like it really expanded the book. Like if you, if you finished a chapter in the book or before you read the book, just something that would almost enrich it. And I thought how cool would it be to have conversations with like real women about these different chapters? And so I talk with Kelly, I talk with nine other women and I go through each of them has a different chapter. So Kelly and I talk about. I just wish my life looked more like hers. It was such a great conversation.
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Kate
No. And like I said earlier, Kate gets things out of me that other people wouldn't. Like. One of the questions. Yeah, I'm not going to tell my answer, but one of the question Kate's asked me was so. It was something along lines of like, so where do you feel like you wish someone else's life.
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Unknown
Your.
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Kate
Your life looked like somebody else's and like, I had to answer that. Yeah, like it's giving on the spot. And I, I held, I held nothing back. So I'm not going to share my answer. But it was very, it was things I haven't even shared on this podcast. Something felt safer about, like, it being behind like the pre order people, you know, like, not just like, it's not just gonna be floating out there in the podcast app world. So if you pre order, then you unlock all these really awesome episodes and it kind of is giving like book club.
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Unknown
It, it was so, to me, it was like so fun to do and I loved the conversations and I, I genuinely was like, okay, I know I want to like talk about the book, but I almost feel like I'm going to talk about this pre order interview series more just because of how it really was. Like, I would take a chapter. Like, I just wish I had more money, which I did with anime groves, and just like ask her, like, has there been at a time in your life when money was a big struggle? What did you learn from that? Like, just, I Don't know. Just. It was really. It meant a lot to me. Like, I feel like it was such a gift to me to get to talk to people.
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Kate
And I feel like, what's also cool about having those episodes? So again, if you pre order, then you unlock these episodes, it would also.
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Liz
Where are you getting. Sorry? Where are you getting these episodes?
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Unknown
It basically. And we're gonna actually, as we are recording this, we're gonna announce it today or tomorrow. Like, the episodes are done, but there's like a link and you put in your name, your email and where you order, like, your order number. And then you get sent a private podcast feed, and then it goes to your Apple Podcasts as a private podcast. How cool. So then you'll listen to it in Apple Podcasts, you know, just like a normal podcast, except it's private in its manner.
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Kate
But I was gonna say, could be fun to like it also, it gives such good discussion questions. Like, you actually did a very. I was very impressed with how thoughtful your questions were. Where it could be a good thing to, like, do that with a book club. Like, if you have a group of girlfriends. It's like this book is. It really is. I think I described as like, your, like, owner's manual to, like, adulthood, basically, like Kate very. And I hope you, like, don't mind being referred to as a big sister, because, you know, you're like, you're so young and youthful. Like, that's not what I'm trying to say.
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Unknown
But you also.
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Kate
You're also so wise that it really is like, all these topics, like, one. I feel a lot less alone in a lot of the topics. Um, and it. But it's also. It's giving tangible takeaways, which, you know, that's so important here at this podcast.
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Unknown
So I really think. My hope was that in a book club, if you heard me say, I just wish I had a better husband, and you hear me give some, like, funny examples, but things that have also, like, meant a lot to me that I've learned that in a book club, you could say, you know what? Sometimes I wish this about my husband, and it would, like, open up this floor to where perfection kind of dissipates and you realize, like, wow, everybody in this room has had a time where they wish they had a better husband. Everybody in this room has struggles in their marriage or every. You know, just to make people feel more seen in their own lives. Especially, I think, being online where you can feel like everybody's got it together, everybody's doing great, all the Time. What's wrong with me? My hope was that me saying, hey, I'm online and I think a lot of you think I have it together all the time. Here's 10 chapters of ways that I'm struggling with contentment to hopefully help other people feel, like, free to say those things out loud.
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Kate
Yeah, it was excellent.
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Liz
Yeah. Kelly got the. You had your Devil Wears Prada moment.
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Kate
We still need to make that video.
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Liz
Elizabeth.
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Kate
I have. I got the unpublished manuscript. Like, she did Am Devil. Where's Prada? Like, it's iconic. It was actually very. It was very cool to receive in the mail.
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Unknown
Thanks. Yes. Kelly got to read it. Early on, I asked Kelly if she would be willing to endorse it. Which you said yes to. Which was a huge, big deal for me for you to be like, reading.
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Kate
It, like, what, were you holding your breath?
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Unknown
That was crazy.
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Kate
You're like, thank you so much. I'm like, literally, like, what?
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Unknown
Least? No, it's a big ask. It's a big ask to have someone endorse your book. They have to read your book and write something about it. So I appreciate you for doing it.
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Liz
So where can people pre order?
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Unknown
You can pre order it anywhere, really. Books are sold. So you can do Amazon, Target, Barnes and Noble, but then you can also go to bookshop.org if you want to pre order it through an independent bookseller, which is cool that there's. That that's available.
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Liz
And I'm not positive we've actually said the name of the book.
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Unknown
It's. I just wish I had a bigger kitchen. And then the subtitle is and Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy.
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Liz
So what has this process been like?
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Unknown
It's. Well, like, we've already said it was really long. It was a long process. I'm really fighting because the book will come out in August and then I will do like a short book tour. And I'm really fighting to, like, see that as getting to, like, ride the wave of the work that's been put in. Like, really see it as, like, this part gets to be fun. I get to meet people, I get to talk about the book, like, all the work. This is where I get to enjoy what I wrote. But it was very intense. 2024 was kind of a rough year. We hammered out the book, what it would be about, and signed with a publishing house in August of 2023. And then 2024 was writing the book. I turned in the first draft in May of 2024. And then you go through rounds of edits and then by, like, November of 2024, it was done. And so it really felt. I described it to Nate is it's that feeling you have when you, like, know that you're having fun, but you have a term paper to write in school and you're. Or a test to study for. It was just kind of always looming of like, you need to work on the book. You need to work on the book. So I would have these, like, chunks of time. I would go to an office building in downtown Charleston for, like, eight hours and work on writing the book and be like, today I have to get through the first draft of this chapter. And so, like, really had to map out my time. Like, I truly. I printed a paper calendar and was, like, mapped out how many weeks I had to write it and then, like, put down, like, okay, if we have this many weeks, then this many weeks has to go to this chapter. Nate was so. Nate is an attorney by trade and is very good at absorbing large amounts of information and quickly. So I could be like, hey, I have this chapter for you to read. It's really messy, and he could read it and almost, like, help me outline it better. So he was incredible. Like, it was one of those moments where there's some areas that Nate is not very strong in. Like, the man cannot cook. Well, you know, certain things that I'm like, man, he's not handy.
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Kate
Well, don't spoil it. It's in that chapter. We'll find.
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Unknown
We'll find out what you. He's no Tyler. Okay. He's not building me a deck. But in this regard, I was like, oh, my gosh, you are amazing. Thank you. So, like, he could do this so well and really help me, which was huge. So.
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Kate
Well, can't wait for the book to come out, the book tour to happen. I agree. Ride the wave. But we still have an episode to get to.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Kate
So we do want to have a little bit of fun with Kate from Nap Time Kitchen. A couple different directions we want to go. We want to start, though, with. By the time we're recording this, I said we're not going to make this timely, but I'm going to make it timely because by the time we're recording this, like, Prime Day had just happened. So I think it's only Prime Day. And also, like, I think a ton of sales were happening.
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Liz
Why everyone now places sales around Prime Day, I guess.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Liz
Yeah, it's overwhelming.
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Kate
It's. It's beyond overwhelming. So I thought it'd be fun to do. Actually, Liz thought It'd be fun to do last two transactions from each of us. So now it's time for the last two transactions, where we share our recent bank account subtractions. Who would like to kick it off?
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Unknown
Oh, go ahead.
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Liz
No, no, Kate, please. Ladies first, ladies. Ladies first.
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Unknown
Well, Liz and I were laughing because on prime day, I bought my first weighted vest, which very much felt like this thing that I was like.
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Kate
They said, that's wild to me that you have not had a weighted vest.
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Unknown
You know, I think I was fighting it, because I was like, no, no, that's for, like, they. That's the true sign that you're hitting like you're 40, like, perimenopause, all the things. And I was like, no, no, I'm 35. I'm not 35, guys. I'm 36, and I'm almost 37. But I've been living in, like, a 35 is kind of where I just was like, I'm not counting. I'm just. I am.
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Kate
This feels good. You'll just stay here?
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Unknown
Yeah, I'm here for a little bit, but it's like, no. I'm actually, like, 30. I'll turn 37 this year. So I was like, you know what I'm hitting? I'm. I'm starting to think about bone density. I'm starting to think about my. I'm starting to think about my skeletal muscle mass, and I have worn it for two days now. I got eight pounds. Just. If that is helpful, because that's the one. I know I have loved it. I absolutely loved it. We are in Maine right now as I'm recording this. And so wearing a weighted vest in Maine in July is probably very different than wearing a weighted vest in Charleston in July from a sweat standpoint, but so far, so good. I'm loving it. Nate has started wearing it, which is so funny. He's. He's on his walks. He's wearing my weighted vest. So he might. That might be his next transaction.
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Liz
Well, I will say with the weighted vest, because I also just bought one number one. I bought it because Kelly was wearing one number one. Feels like I'm always having a weighted vest on with the children that I'm constantly carrying. Totally. So I'm not finding it super helpful in that regard. But if you do want that instant gratification that makes you feel like you lost about eight pounds. Put it on for an hour. Take it off.
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Kate
It's euphoric.
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Liz
You feel so light.
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Kate
Yeah, no, I'm loving my weighted vest. I share this on my Instagram. But, you know, I, I, one thing I don't have time for is a walk. I just. And the problem is when you have four children, like, I'm sorry, I'm not. Wow. I'm not taking four kids in a wagon. Not, not because I don't even want to push it, but because the odds of four kids behaving in a wagon, like, that's, it's not happening. Like, my double stroller days are past me. Like, the kids can't. So anyway, I can't do that. So I've been wearing my weighted vest while I've just been like, beatboxing around my house, like, with my chores.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Kate
And you know, it's something, it's something. It's a habit stack. I enjoy it.
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Unknown
It is a habit stack. I, I, so far, I, When I was on a walk the other day, I really could feel through my legs. Okay. My legs are working a little bit harder.
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Liz
Yeah.
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Unknown
And if I'm all about like doubling down, like, I'm like, if we're gonna do it, let's really do it. So if I go for a 30 minute walk. Yeah. It's not hurting anything. Glad I started with eight. I will say that. Like, I think if I had started.
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Kate
To do people, like, I did research, which I don't do a lot of research about things, but I did research before this. You're only supposed to get, like, people are buying too heavy of ones. Like, I have a friend who bought one that's 20 pounds. I'm like, that, that's too much for you. You can't be doing that. Like, that's, that's a whole other level.
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Unknown
Yeah, I like eight feels great. It feels great.
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Liz
So eight feels great from Kate.
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Kate
Okay, what do you got?
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Liz
Okay. Something I just bought, I'm really excited about. I shared it on my stories. I bought a dental pod. Like a, what's it called? It's for my retainer. So I have a mouth guard and a retainer and I got an ultrasonic retainer cleaner.
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Kate
Yeah.
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Unknown
I am very interested because I also wear night guards. And I'm interested to know.
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Liz
Okay. No, Kate, it's really, it's really good. There's a lot online. So I posted on my story. There's like cheaper ones online. Like little 30 ones on Amazon. Everyone was like, it broke immediately. So I got the Zima dental pod. It was on sale for prime, but Maddie ordered all of my stuff for prime the day before prime day. So I didn't get a deal on it. But I really, I really like it. And I'm kind of grossed out that I haven't been using it up to this really. But I'm trying not to think about it. Yeah. I mean, your retainer, like, you can buy like little pods that you're supposed to like wash with like a couple times a week, but sometimes that doesn't always happen. So I, I like having this, this dedicated thing. It takes five minutes to clean it. It's amazing.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Liz
Must, must get. And I asked, so my sister in law's a dentist, and I said, is this going to do it? Like, I don't know what ultrasonic means. Like, is this going to do anything? And she's like, oh, we use an ultrasonic cleaner at the office and like, we clean retainers for free. But like, if you get this. Yeah. You'll have like the cleanest retainer around, so.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Kate
That's awesome. Yeah, I don't wear my retainer. Am I going to be in trouble?
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Unknown
I don't, I wear, I, I have always worn on, on my bottom, like a bite guard. And then lately I felt like my top teeth were like, ever so slightly starting to shift. And I don't want to have to get like any sort of braces. And so I just got a night guard for the top. So it's almost like, you know, it's like a retainer, but it's also for.
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Liz
Keeps them in place. Yeah.
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Unknown
So it could matter over time. Kel.
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Kate
We'll see.
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Unknown
We'll see.
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Kate
I kind of. We'll see. I'll figure it out.
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Liz
I don't know. You should go. You should ask the dentist if you think you need a night guard. Because I, I didn't think I needed one. And she.
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Kate
I just don't think I'll wear it though. Like, I just don't like that.
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Liz
Kelly. She gave me one and there's like a hole on one side where apparently I'm grinding my teeth. I have a hole in it.
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Kate
I just like, I can't keep it up with all of it. You know what I mean? Well, I just want to enjoy my sleep. Like, I can't to this like, new trend of like people like shedding after they, they wake up in the morning. Have you seen this? Where they like, they have the heatless curls and then they have this mask and they have the mouth part, then they're taping their mouth. I'm like, I can't with you, Kelly.
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Liz
I mean, I do think, like wearing a retainer versus, like shedding are two different things.
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Kate
I agree.
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Liz
I think I'm curious to know because I can't. I can't sleep now unless I have my retainer in my mouth garden. Like it makes me feel like I'm ready to sleep. Can you sleep well without them or does it not bother you?
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Unknown
I forgot them on a trip once and my, my jaw just hurts the next day.
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Liz
Yes. Yeah.
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Unknown
But also it's funny and this is a G rated podcast, but I love at night when I'm like, hey, Nate, are, are we, are, are we hanging out or can I put the night guards? Because I don't want to have to pop these babies out.
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Liz
So it's not a cute look.
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Unknown
If we're done, are we done? Because I'm gonna put the night guard in. I feel like, you know what, Kelly Mouse might be women just being like, I'm shutting it down for the night, like once I'm taped.
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Liz
Sorry, I'm already.
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Kate
Well, I could use. I could use an excuse. Okay, here's mine. I. My one of my last transactions was I talked about some of my stories, but I am in charge of crafts for vacation Bible school.
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Unknown
Oh my gosh. Why did you sign up for that?
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Kate
So here's what I signed up for. No, I'm happy that you asked. And we actually did talk about this on our episode that I recorded with you. I really think it's important to serve. I think that it is. And something that's very hard for me to give up even more than money is my time. My time is very my time. And even more than my time is my headspace. Like those are two things that I value so much that I have so little of. And I think it's very important for me to give back. I also love a camp. I love a Bible school. I love a summer camp. Like Elizabeth and I used to run a camp out of our parents basement. Like I am a great camp counselor. So at our my kids new school, they had a vacation Bible school starting and I was like, I want to volunteer. And I was like, I was like, I. I'm like, I'm ready. Like, give me a job. Like, I love vacation Bible school. And I think they needed volunteers because they said, okay, great, can you head up crafts? And I. And she goes, I know you didn't select it on like things you're interested in, but we could really use someone to head up crafts. And I'm like, sure, I can head up crafts. Then I find out that it's not just heading up crafts. She literally just drops the booklets off at my house of like, the theme was like, okay, great, come up with six crafts and buy the supplies for 70 children. And I was like, okay, I can do this. So I did it and I found on Amazon, like some great craft kits. So the first day of camp, we're making Jesus loves me friendship bracelets. I just bought the kits, honestly, not expensive. And then we're making these raindrop magnifier glasses. And that's what I bought. And then I bought other stuff too. I don't want to spoil them. I might share them on my stories, but I had to buy a ton of craft supplies. I mean, thankful for Amazon, like, really, like, is just like, it's all right there. Like, I needed to buy popsicle sticks with holes and then I needed to buy little rods that could go in between the holes because, like, we're making this little, well, thing that like, that was like, where would I even go? I don't know.
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Liz
Yeah, like, I'm like, totally.
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Kate
Oh, my gosh. So lots of craft supplies and yeah, starting tomorrow, I'm a. I'm the craft counselor at vbs.
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Unknown
Oh, my gosh. So you're also serving, right? Like, you're in charge of leading the crafts?
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Kate
Yeah, no, like, I though, like, you'll have two volunteers and I'm like, okay. It'll be really. I mean, it is going to stretch me. But I like, I think this, I think it's just think it's very important to give back. And this is a way that I know I will do a good job. I know I can do a good job. And it's like, yeah, like, other things this week are going on the back burner. And like, that's okay because I think this is really important.
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Liz
So I'm so proud of you.
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Unknown
I'm sharp. I feel challenged.
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Kate
I am so proud. No, you have no idea. I am so proud of myself. Like, not that I'm doing vbs, but I'm doing the crafts. And like, I had to come up with them.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Kate
I mean, they had a booklet, but like, honestly, the booklet, those crafts were super complicated. And the way we do vbs, which I kind of like it, instead of doing it by age group, they're all mixed groups, which I actually think is fun because then I'll have like fifth graders helping the three. But it's three year olds through fifth graders. Wow. But like, so thank goodness I don't have a three year old group come through. Like, I have three year olds, fifth graders, second graders. So it'll kind of Be like, everyone's together. I have no idea. I have no idea what to expect. I mean, I do. I do, but.
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Liz
Yeah, to give us an update.
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Kate
I will.
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Liz
Okay, Kate, what is your next transaction?
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Unknown
My other one. Well, so we are. It's. It's really not very exciting, but we bought a pack of sleep masks. One of my girls can, like, has to sleep in the dark. And where we are staying, it. The. We. We don't have AC because we're in Maine. And so the windows are open, which also is great, but the birds are killing me. You think, like, you're gonna get woken up, like cute birds. It is like. It's like. It's, like killing me. But you. There's, like, tons of light coming in, and so I have a sleep mask because I also like to sleep in the dark, but my daughter has needed it. And so we just bought a pack of fuzzy sleep masks with, like, animals on them and that the girls are all going to wear to block out the light.
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Liz
Love it.
- [25:30]
Unknown
It's very bright place, and it's kind of boring. I feel like maybe I shouldn't have done literal last two, but. Just feels exciting.
- [25:37]
Kate
But that's real. It's giving the point. Yeah, that's.
- [25:40]
Liz
That's. And where'd you get them? Amazon.
- [25:42]
Unknown
Amazon.
- [25:42]
Kelly
God bless.
- [25:43]
Liz
Yeah, God bless. The last thing that I got off, also off Amazon also went on sale, but I didn't get it on sale. And this thing always goes on sale, and I bought it at full price. And that is the. The Melissa and Doug ice cream set.
- [26:01]
Kate
Oh, such a hack.
- [26:02]
Liz
It's such a hack. I. I like playing with it. Like, James is kind of into it. Sloane is, like, kind of into it. I'm, like, so into it.
- [26:11]
Kate
Yeah.
- [26:12]
Liz
I'm, like, trying to make the prettiest. Have you seen it, Kate?
- [26:14]
Unknown
Do you guys.
- [26:15]
Liz
Do you guys have one?
- [26:15]
Unknown
The wooden one?
- [26:16]
Liz
Yes.
- [26:17]
Unknown
Yes.
- [26:17]
Kate
It's just a great toy. It's very much like, I'll keep that toy for my grandkids to play with one day. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's one that I'll just. I'll put away in a special box.
- [26:25]
Liz
It's so nice.
- [26:26]
Unknown
Also, Liz, the. How I built this episode with Melissa and Doug is great. It's a great listen.
- [26:34]
Liz
I'd be curious. All of their stuff is always so good.
- [26:37]
Unknown
It's. It's. It's worth. It's. And they had, like, a failed business before their success, so it's just, like, a great listen.
- [26:45]
Liz
Okay, good to know. I'LL definitely listen to that.
- [26:50]
Kate
My last transaction happened like literally 35 minutes ago. I did a Facebook marketplace run for nothing. That exciting. Paw Patrol toys.
- [27:03]
Liz
Paw Patrol.
- [27:03]
Kate
Well, I'm glad you asked. So they put it back on Netflix, which has been really exciting for the Stumpy family. Yes, Fred. And Fred doesn't say a lot of words, but he can say Paw Patrol clear as day. And I really like, despite what you might think about me for having four kids, we do not have a lot of toys. Like, really, Hattie's just not that into toys. Like, I kind of realized stage doesn't have a single Barbie doll. Like, I'm a horrible mother. Like, Hattie just wants dress up clothes and real life play. GE of George's toys live outside. Like, George is just constantly catching bugs and stuff. Fred is a couple of tractors. And like, really, like we have, we don't get. We have the magn tiles the most and Doug thing. But like, my house is not overridden with toys. I also am a huge believer in buying toys secondhand.
- [27:44]
Unknown
Yes.
- [27:44]
Kate
Because I like, I just like a revolving door. I like a resale shop. I like a once upon a child. I like a garage sale. Like, I don't like to open toys. I don't like to spy. Like, I, I don't like to buy most toys new now. Like some like heirloom toys, important toys. I of course will. So I was like scrolling face to marketplace. This person was giving away a Paw Patrol a lot. It had a giant tower. Like, literally so much stuff. $30. It was literally five minutes from my house. I'm like, you know what? We need an activity. And so what I'm doing is the toys that we have left in our basement, I'm picking like 85 of them up, just putting them in a bin. The way I toy rotate is I don't worry about separating by like, let me grab all the tractors. Let me grab all the dinosaurs. No, I grabbed the first things I see to fill a bin. I don't worry about keeping things together. I think it's good for kids to like figure out what to do with a dinosaur. A singular Thomas the Train and like, you know, a beanie Baby. Like, I think that's actually more impressive than like having all of the stuff. So I filled that up, the Paw Patrol toys downstairs. And I think it's gonna buy me like two days. So Fred, I mean, George is playing with it right now. Like, it's very exciting.
- [28:52]
Liz
I mean, if you go on Facebook Marketplace or you go to the resale shop.
- [28:55]
Kelly
Like it.
- [28:56]
Liz
It's all the same rotating stuff. Like I, I bought that at like a resale thing that, like spider. This like Spider man thing that we always see at the store. And James likes Spider man and it's like $35. I got it for like three bucks.
- [29:11]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [29:12]
Liz
And it's just the same.
- [29:14]
Kate
Yeah. It's such a hack. And in my house, like, toys just don't really stay. Like the lines of an inside toy and outside toy get really blurred because, you know, once it's. Once something goes to the barn, it's very rare it ever makes it back back into the home, you know, So I just want to spend a lot of money on the toys. So we got a giant paw patrol tower and it's heinous and I hate it, but the kids are going to like it.
- [29:33]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [29:34]
Kate
So nice. Is that all?
- [29:37]
Liz
Yeah, that's all of them.
- [29:39]
Kate
Okay. Look at us.
- [29:40]
Unknown
Look at us.
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Kelly
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Unknown
You're a hustler when it comes to toys. Kelly. I I could learn. I am not good. I always like the videos that are like my wife leaving me in a parking lot to die so that I can. She can sell this lamp for $5. You know like the ones I'm like, I don't know. I just don't. I don't want to. I don't want to go to somebody's house.
- [32:18]
Kate
Yeah, no, I get that. I don't sell. I don't sell. I just donate like sometimes, sometimes I'll be do once upon a child or like I have a resale shop in my town that will just sometimes buy things. I don't link things on. I don't post on Marketplace really. But yeah, I'm not scared. I just do porch pickup.
- [32:34]
Unknown
Porch pickup.
- [32:35]
Kate
Porch pickup. You know, I'll google maps the house before make sure I feel good. Check the seller ratings. I have a lot of luck with Facebook marketplace. We actually do have a side hustle person coming on in a couple of weeks who that's like what they do. Like they just sell stuff on like.
- [32:49]
Unknown
Buys it and resells it.
- [32:52]
Liz
Those are my fate. Like some of my favorite videos to watch on the Internet.
- [32:55]
Kate
But I'm telling you like this girl. And I think, I think the. I liked what I I liked how this seller was doing it, that this is new. But it's like she just gathered like her kids were obviously just done with the paw patrol phase. So she just gathered every paw patrol thing she had and put it together and was like this is the lot. So I can see it being like if I ever decide to do that, like I would just gather up like all of the dinosaurs. Like if we're just done with dinosaurs dinosaur lot. Instead of being like I don't even think like it has a lot of the pieces that came with this original tower. It's just like has other paw patrol stuff, you know.
- [33:28]
Liz
Yeah. But anyway, I've Seen that on. On Marketplace with, like, fake food. James is kind of exploring, like, the fake imaginary play food, and people will just sell lots of. It's got Melissa and Doug. It's got the wooden ones. It's got the plastic ones. It's just all the fake food and utensils that they have, and they just sell them that way.
- [33:46]
Kate
Yeah, I think that's smart. I think that's smart. I'm also on the hunt, so I really want all of my. Speaking of Facebook Marketplace, this is one of those things where it's like, I want the name brand of it. I love Hunter rain boots for my kids. I think that they are just so cute. They fit really well, they last really well, but they're so expensive. Someone explained to me how, like, a size 5 and a size 5 baby and like, a size 1 kid are the same price shoe. I'm like, it's literally so much more material to make Georgia shoe that he will wear for so much longer. Like, I can almost stomach the price on, like, Georgia shoe. I'm simply not buying that, though, for Libby. And how is it, like, the same price? It's crazy. It's great.
- [34:26]
Liz
It's ridiculous.
- [34:26]
Unknown
And it's a rubber shoe.
- [34:28]
Kate
And it's a rubber shoe. I know. And I know I shouldn't care, like, about whatever. I just. I just like those boots and I love the colors that they come in. So I have found a lot of really good hunter rain boots on marketplace for, like, 10, 20 bucks. And they're like, I only buy the colors that are gender neutral. So, like, I have them in every size. Like, every kid can wear them.
- [34:46]
Unknown
Yes.
- [34:47]
Kate
I'm kind of doing all my Crocs now too.
- [34:49]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [34:50]
Kate
Yeah. Yellow is cute. Like, yellow is cute on both. I'm just like, the crocs to me are, like, already. I'm sorry. Especially while my kids don't really care. So ugly. I mean, there's Crocs. Like, I don't care if Libby has black crocs or pink Crocs. Like, let's just get black, right? And she can wear frets. Like, what does it matter, you know?
- [35:07]
Liz
Yeah, totally, Totally. That's. That's important to some people. It's so funny that you're, like, so specifically into interested in, like, the hunter.
- [35:15]
Kate
Yeah.
- [35:16]
Liz
But that's what's important to you. And I love that you're just owning it.
- [35:18]
Unknown
Yeah. Well, we're getting to the point too, with, like, speaking of kids matching that, like, Scout has very strong style taste.
- [35:25]
Kate
See, that's yeah, that's going to be hard.
- [35:27]
Unknown
Millie. Millie actually is very stylish, but Millie and Alberta still like to match, but Scout isn't going to match them. Also, she's, like, going on nine, so it's like she's getting out of the matching sizes anyway. So it's like. It's not like I'm going to have a picture where all of my girls just happen to be matching. I did it on Easter, like, moved heaven and earth and bought them all the same dress and spent way too much money to have this matching moment. And it was special, but I just. I've, like, given up.
- [35:57]
Kate
Yeah.
- [35:58]
Unknown
You know, it's. They just don't look cute in what they're wearing.
- [36:02]
Kate
One thing that I. Because I'm with you, like, I love. I don't do a lot of matching because also, the way my kids fall, it's so hard because, like, how do you, like, if it was. If I had girl, girl, boy, boy, or whatever, like, it'd be easier to match them, but since they're in between, it's harder. But I love to coordinate their outfits. Like, I live for a coordination moment, and I spend so much headspace. Like. Like, I'll throw. I'll, like, find a shirt for George. I'll be like, okay, this. We have to find things around this. And I love to try to get the photo because I really try to make my kids coordinate for church almost every single Sunday. And I know that's why. I know that's crazy, but I just like it. But I like us all taking, like, them all taking a photo together. They just haven't been turning out lately. And then I'm like, I did all of this work for this, like, coordinated photo or for this coordinated vibe. And, like, Fred won't look at the camera. George is crying. Like, this is so annoying. So what I started doing is I started just taking individual photos of them, and then I go in the Instagram app, and then I just, like, make a collage of four.
- [37:02]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [37:02]
Liz
Yeah.
- [37:03]
Kate
And I actually like it so much better because then. Then it's like I'm trying to see how if I can pull the picture up to show you guys, you know, because then it's like, I have a picture of all of them. They're all matching. The. The collage looks great, but, like, yes, I don't have to worry about someone smiling.
- [37:19]
Unknown
That's what I've done for our Christmas card the last two years, because we. I was like, we're just failing at the Christmas card. So I was like, let me just get a great photo of each of you. An individual and just collage, you guys.
- [37:30]
Liz
Yeah, I think it's. I. I think it's always worth trying to take the photo because you never know.
- [37:36]
Kate
No, you're so right, Elizabeth.
- [37:38]
Liz
And we don't. My family does a terrible job of taking photos with each other, and I would really like us to get better because think about the photos of your childhood that you look back on very rarely. Like, the ones that come to your mind are the one where everyone looks amazing and smiling. It's the one where, like, Craig is looking off and, like, Sydney screaming. And it's like, those are the ones that we will then, like, re. Try and recreate. It's like, it's the funny ones. And at least you have something. It's better than nothing.
- [38:04]
Kate
Here's the pick. Did you guys see it?
- [38:06]
Liz
Oh, so cute.
- [38:07]
Kate
So, like, it's cute. And there they were coordinating, but they weren't all together.
- [38:14]
Unknown
See, you slap that on a little Christmas card collage.
- [38:16]
Kate
I know. Well, also shout out.
- [38:18]
Liz
I don't.
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Kate
I know. I think, like, one of my favorite things I've ever done is get the. Some sort of picture, digital picture frame. So, like, I have the skylight. I also have an aura frame in my basement that I got in PR one time, which is. Which is. But then it's like two apps. It's exhaust.
- [38:34]
Unknown
It's.
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Kate
It's exhausting. It's exhausting. So, like, definitely commit to one. But it's so fun, though, to get those photos off your phone and into your kitchen or, like, to. Into, like, this communal space where people see them.
- [38:45]
Liz
Yeah.
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Kate
Oh, my gosh. Like, if you especially us, who are just in this, like, more digital age, and, like, we're not, like, doing photo. Like, I'm sorry, I'm not doing a photo album. I'm not really printing out photos outside of, like, their birthday pictures. Yeah, I love putting the pictures on there. And it does. Like, I also like to do chat books. So, like, those are two ways. Like, I get photos out of my phone and, like, into, like, my family's hands and eyes. Picture frame and chat books.
- [39:08]
Unknown
Okay, really quick tangent. Maybe it's the last transaction, but I got a Camp Snap photo. A Camp Snap camera for our trip.
- [39:17]
Kate
I don't know what that is.
- [39:17]
Unknown
Okay. Camp Snap is basically, it's, like, as dumb as a camera can get. It looks like a disposable camera.
- [39:24]
Kate
Okay.
- [39:24]
Unknown
But it's digital. But it doesn't even have a screen on the Back.
- [39:28]
Kate
Oh, cute. So you don't even get to see what it looked like.
- [39:30]
Unknown
You can't even see what they look like. It's. It, like Alberta can take pictures on it. It's. If you drop it, it's not really gonna. It's pretty sturdy.
- [39:38]
Kate
Okay.
- [39:38]
Unknown
We have. It has been so much fun. So what's great about it is it is digital. So you're not like having your kids take a million photos that are like on a film camera and now you have like this wasted roll of film. But so in order to see the photos, you have to plug it into your computer to see them, but to see the photos that the kids are taking.
- [39:58]
Liz
Yeah.
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Unknown
Remember how like when we were kids and you would like print your camera roll and you would have like a photo of the sandwich you ate for lunch?
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Liz
Yeah.
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Unknown
Like, or just a funny photo of your brother that like you took.
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Kate
Yeah. These cameras are so cute too.
- [40:12]
Unknown
Okay, so.
- [40:13]
Liz
Yeah. Okay, keep going. I have follow up questions.
- [40:16]
Unknown
Basically I just asked my audience a while back. I was like, we're going to Maine. I really want to have to have time away from my phone and. But I'd like love to take pictures and I could have gotten a better digital camera, but I liked the thought of the kids using it and I knew that if I had a really nice digital camera, I would stress about the kids using it. And this is, I mean, you have to put your eye to the camera to take a picture.
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Liz
I love this.
- [40:40]
Unknown
If you want to zoom out, you have to back up 10 steps. Like, it's the most basic. But these photos that the kids have taken are just awesome.
- [40:51]
Kate
Like, I'm gonna buy one of these. These, they're, they, they look darling too. Like, it's a cute little camera. It looks vintage.
- [40:58]
Unknown
They're super cute.
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Liz
Let's see, 500 shots on one charge. That feels good. Reusable and rechargeable. And that's the thing is, that's the thing with those digital cameras is that they're 15, which is whatever. And then you gotta pay to have them developed, which is more expensive than you want it to be. Like, this is more of an upfront cost at 70 bucks, it looks like, but then you always have it.
- [41:17]
Unknown
Yeah. And like we'll plug it in at night and look through the pictures everybody took and they'll be like, I took that one. And this is very, you know, personal. But, you know, in line with the book. I have noticed that sometimes on my camera I am very quick to check the photos that somebody took and Decide if I think I look good. You know, just like critique them. Because you can critique them so quickly. Like, if somebody takes a photo on your iPhone, you can immediately see it.
- [41:44]
Liz
Yeah.
- [41:44]
Unknown
But on these, it's almost like having the time between when the photo was taken and looking at them. You're just not like, if the photo didn't come out good, you don't even care half as much because you're like, oh, well, we just didn't get that. Like, it was like a picture of the kids eating ice cream and it was like, blurry. But who. It's like, oh, I didn't. It's not a big deal.
- [42:02]
Liz
Yeah.
- [42:02]
Unknown
But I love that I critique quickly. If it's on my phone, like, I'll be like, did we get a good one? But I can't on this. I'm like, I don't know if we got a good one until I plug it in later that night.
- [42:10]
Kate
I love it. Oh, my God.
- [42:12]
Liz
I want one big thing.
- [42:13]
Unknown
I'm gonna post a carousel eventually of, like, photos the kids have taken. And the quality isn't like, I don't think this is like, you're not blowing this up to be an 8 by 10. I don't think you're getting that quality level, but it's just great.
- [42:27]
Liz
No, you're getting digital disposable camera quality, which is also very cute and nostalgic.
- [42:33]
Unknown
Yes, it's great. I have been so thrilled.
- [42:36]
Liz
You know what? I think I could use a little bit higher definition some days too. And maybe that's why I mean, lower definition. Totally lower definition. That's what I mean. Like, I don't need to see myself.
- [42:47]
Kate
No, it's like high.
- [42:48]
Liz
Definitely. I don't like a photo.
- [42:50]
Kate
No, it's like all we did, like, we. We reinvented the wheel because we got higher enough cameras and then put filters on them. Yes, yes.
- [42:58]
Liz
We were never meant to see ourselves in the true form.
- [43:01]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [43:02]
Kate
Okay, Kate, before we let you run, you know what time it is? It's time for Ditch the drive thru.
- [43:07]
Liz
Woo.
- [43:08]
Kate
And with someone named Nap Time Kitchen, the pressure's on. World's your oyster. I was going to give you, like, parameters, but yeah, whatever you're feeling like, what do you got?
- [43:19]
Unknown
Okay, well, the meal that has I. You love a meatball, Kelly. Meatballs have just really rocked my world the last few months. The brand specifically that we have found is called Cemex S I M E K s. But putting meatballs from frozen in a pan with a sauce and then doing microwave rice Whether you buy a pouch or you buy frozen, whatever you buy it, it has been the meal that, like, everyone kind of eats to a degree. And I, like, do them in barbecue sauce with rice, or I do them in, like, that Japanese barbecue sauce.
- [44:02]
Liz
Ooh.
- [44:02]
Unknown
Like, those are so good. And. Or I can do them in red sauce and throw them on pasta or red sauce and throw them in a Hawaiian roll and have these, like, little mini Hawaiian subs. Just the world of the meatball. I don't know why it took me so long. I love a homemade meatball, and I will make homemade meatballs for, like, a good spaghetti night. But the ease of the frozen meatball.
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Kate
Yeah.
- [44:25]
Unknown
It's blowing me away.
- [44:27]
Kate
It gives. It's as easy as a chicken nugget.
- [44:29]
Unknown
Yes.
- [44:30]
Kate
But it's almost easier to elevate. I agree with you, and I love. I think once you realize you can do more with meatballs than just marinara, your world definitely opens up. Like, Trader Joe's sells some really great.
- [44:43]
Liz
Like, it's like, little mini party meatballs.
- [44:46]
Kate
Well, they still great meatballs, but they also sell such good sauces. They have, like, a yellow curry sauce. Okay, perfect. They have a red curry sauce. Okay, perfect. Like the barbecue sauce. Like the. The sweetened. Like I do sometimes. Barbecue sauce and grape jelly. I know, like, so Midwestern of me. But like, that with rice and broccoli, like, that's a great dinner.
- [45:05]
Unknown
Yes. And I. You know, I'm obviously in my protein era, as. As we all are right now, so I'm like, just what can I eat for lunch with some, like, really great protein? I'll. Half the time, I'll be like, I'm just gonna make a bag of these and eat them for lunch. For the next two to three days, I'm just gonna have, like, meatballs and rice or. Yeah, whatever on the side.
- [45:23]
Kate
But, like, pesto. Like, you can do anything.
- [45:27]
Unknown
So I feel like that was kind of lame.
- [45:29]
Kate
No, that wasn't lame.
- [45:30]
Liz
No, it wasn't. Lim. It's inspiring.
- [45:32]
Kate
It's giving, like, three for one, like, you gave us. Like, I also. I've never thought about putting on a Hawaiian roll and just. Yes, that's a great one. And, you know, we're. We're toying with the idea of bringing back th. August.
- [45:43]
Unknown
Oh.
- [45:43]
Kate
Elizabeth informed me, though, that she hated all of the recipes we did, so we're gonna probably do chicken enchiladas. I love that recipe because we can. You give us. Like, I have made. I have made the recipe several times before. I've Never frozen them. Can you give me some good freezer tips? Especially, like, how to, like, not to get it soggy at the bottom?
- [46:04]
Unknown
The only thing I would say or.
- [46:05]
Kate
Do, they just get soggy and you just move on with your life. I think they.
- [46:08]
Unknown
I'm like. I think that they get, like, ever so slightly on the bottom, but I've never been like, oh, my word, this is, like, so soggy. But I think if. When you do your mixture, if you're, like, really concerned about that, I would either take the chicken out of the crock pot and mix it with everything else so that, like, if there is a lot of juice in your crock pot, because that's the part that, like, varies for people whether you use, like, a more watery salsa or a chunky salsa or so, like, okay, there's a lot of liquid in my crock pot. I would take the chicken and all your veggies and put them in a bowl or, like, just so that, like, any extra liquid remains in the crock pot.
- [46:47]
Kate
But then you have sauce. But then. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but, yeah, the recipe is so, like. And I'm doing it from memory, but you do the mixture. You put in a tortilla. Do you then pour the sauce on it, or should you not?
- [47:00]
Unknown
I still. It's not like, a ton. You, like, drizzle it, and then I use a spatula and just kind of like. Like, wipe it over the top. It is. It is not enough to, like.
- [47:09]
Kate
Okay.
- [47:09]
Unknown
Make it super soggy.
- [47:10]
Liz
Yeah, I haven't. I've. I have froze it before. It doesn't get soggy. And I do. I do agree. I think if it is gonna get soggy, it is in the. The crock pot mixture.
- [47:18]
Kate
I need to take mine out.
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Liz
Yeah, it's not liquid. It's not the liquid that's making it like that. I think it's, like, the greasiness of, like, and, like, the juices from, like, chicken and everything that's cooking in there that's making it feel. Because just, like, the salt, the enchilada sauce that you put on it doesn't make it soggy, I don't think. At least it hasn't in my experience.
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Kate
Okay, that makes sense.
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Unknown
You're good and, like, go with your gut, I would say. But my biggest thing, every year when we go on our family trip, I make enchiladas the week before I freeze them, so they're, like, brick solid. And then the day we leave those serve as my, like, ice packs in my Cooler. And then that's what we eat the first night of our family vacation. It's. Everybody likes it. It's not pizza. I buy like store bought guacamole and pineapple salsa and fun things, but I get an ice pack because they are like. They are. They're so hard. But then they're like defrosting on our, like, drive. And then when we get there, I bake them and it's like a great home cooked meal. Yeah, home cooked meal. But it's like first day vacation. Nobody's even, like, been to the store yet.
- [48:17]
Kate
Okay, well, let's just plan on that being our first August.
- [48:20]
Liz
Definitely.
- [48:21]
Unknown
I feel.
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Kate
So that'll just be our first August.
- [48:23]
Unknown
Yeah.
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Kate
Okay.
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Liz
And if any other ones come across your desk, first of all, I'm gonna.
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Kate
Do chichi pie pie, because. Yes, you were being hateful about that.
- [48:30]
Liz
I was. I was not not being hateful about the chichi pie. I was being hateful about the poppy chicken.
- [48:35]
Kate
Yeah, that was tough.
- [48:36]
Unknown
Okay. I love poppy seed chicken.
- [48:38]
Kate
No, it was good.
- [48:39]
Liz
It was just like on the fourth one that I was supposed to have, I was like, so over it.
- [48:43]
Kate
Yeah.
- [48:43]
Unknown
Also, Kelly, have you officially shared chichi pai pie yet? Because when we were doing our take them a meal and we're trying so hard to share your recipe, it was like you had never actually shared the recipe.
- [48:54]
Kate
Anyway, here's the problem and here's where I'm having. Here's. I'm having, like, a struggle with it. It's a half baked harvest recipe that I have edited, but I don't know if it's to the point where it's like, I can say, and. And it's also a recipe that Julie has in her cookbook. So then I feel bad being like, here's a screenshot of her cookbook, of the recipe, and here are the things I've changed. I do think, though, like, I've changed enough.
- [49:17]
Unknown
I think you've probably changed enough where.
- [49:18]
Kate
I just need to, like, sit down and, like, write the recipe down.
- [49:21]
Unknown
Yes.
- [49:22]
Kate
But I don't know, it just feels a bit like a gray area.
- [49:24]
Unknown
I think one thing you can do, which I've seen a ton of people do, is they will say, like, this was adapted from Harvest.
- [49:32]
Kate
I love the word adapted. Okay. That's what I'm gonna.
- [49:34]
Unknown
I have done multiple recipes that were adapted from other recipes.
- [49:39]
Kate
That's what I'm gonna do.
- [49:40]
Unknown
And if it's like, close enough where you're feeling like, I would just click. This was adapted from. And even if you can't link to her recipe, you could link to half baked Harvest.
- [49:49]
Kate
Yeah, that's true.
- [49:49]
Unknown
You know.
- [49:50]
Kate
Okay, I know. I'm just gonna say adapted by. Because I've changed. I changed my vegetable. She does broccoli. I think that's wrong in a chichi pie. Pie. So, like, I don't do that. I don't do the broccoli.
- [49:59]
Unknown
That to me is changed. Like recipes. There are so many recipes.
- [50:03]
Kate
She does puff pastry. I think that's crazy. I think we do pie crust because.
- [50:06]
Unknown
Like, you have a different recipe.
- [50:08]
Kate
Okay, sounds good.
- [50:10]
Unknown
That's. You got my blessing.
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Kate
Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, Kate. Well, thank you so much for joining the Carbo podcast. Always fun to connect. Such wisdom from you. You guys can buy or pre order Kate's book. I just wish I had a bigger kitchen. Other lies I told myself that I thought would make me happy. Is that it?
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Unknown
Other lies I think will make me happy.
- [50:29]
Kate
Oh, otherwise I think will make me happy. It is an excellent book. I have read it. It is like anyone's like, just survival guide handbook. It's the handbook of motherhood. Is what I'm going to like, lock in as lock in. It's excellent.
- [50:41]
Unknown
Thank you so much, guys. I love being on here with you.
- [50:44]
Liz
We love having you. Thank you so much. And everyone, thank you so much for listening and we'll talk to you next time.
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Kate
Bye.
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Unknown
Bye.
- [50:50]
Kate
Thank you for listening to the carpool.
- [50:52]
Liz
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- [50:55]
Kate
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- [50:58]
Liz
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- [51:00]
Kate
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