← The Carpool with Kelly and Lizz
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- [00:03]
Kelly
Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly. You know, and I get that a marriage is like, it's not 50%, it's both people giving 100, but it is about who's right and who's wrong sometimes. And he's wrong. So I added it to the list and I like a little healthy friction. It keeps things spicy.
- [00:17]
Liz
And Liz, I remember there was a time in my life, how old was I? I had to have been in like high school or college where like, I considered getting a Victoria's Secret credit card.
- [00:27]
Kelly
Your mom. Time off starts. Welcome back to the carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz. Hey everyone. Happy Friday.
- [00:38]
Liz
It feels good to be back into a routine. Who's like loving a routine? Yeah.
- [00:46]
Kelly
Yeah. It was just like a little taste of like what summer could bring. Oh, and I'm so unbelievably unprepared.
- [00:55]
Liz
Yeah. Okay. Summer. Yeah. I always forget that you have like school age kids and that like throws a wrench into things.
- [01:02]
Kelly
Yeah. And like at some point when you just have like the sheer number of children that I do is like, I could have three babysitters here and I'm still going to get nothing done. Like, I just can't. My house can't take the wear and tear. So you have to find places for the children to go for everyone's sanity and sake. Yeah, I, I'm sorry, let's just like, not that. Let's focus on what we have when we have January, which is gonna just be a great month. I, again, I'm not like doing a challenge. Like I absolutely would never, but this is my second day in a row wearing a waistband with pants with buttons.
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Liz
Uh huh.
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Kelly
You know, for like no reason. Like, I so didn't have to get dressed these past few days, but I chose to. And so far I'm loving it.
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Liz
You know, I hate to say it, you get treated differently in public.
- [01:59]
Kelly
So I saw a reel and it says that women who are makeup make 30% more like money. And it's not about being pretty, it's not being attractive. It's about like having effort being a person who like dresses up. So again, I'm on day two. So like, let me just level with you guys. Like, I'm not, I'm not asking anyone to join me in said challenge. I'm not asking anyone. I'm just sharing.
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Liz
It's not a challenge. There's no challenge.
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Kelly
But I plan to get dressed tomorrow.
- [02:32]
Liz
You know what I have found? If you're not a jean person, like, you're like, I Do think I could stand to expand out of, like, leggings or yoga pants? Like, dress pants? Like, slacks. Like, I get them from Amazon or not Amazon. Abercrombie.
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Kelly
Yeah.
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Liz
I'm wearing them right now because I. I had. I wanted to look nice today. I'll get into what I went to go do, but I was like, oh, I don't want to wear jeans. And so I just like, threw these, like, black slacks on with a sweater. And I'm telling you, I go into the coffee shop, people are treating me differently.
- [03:08]
Kelly
I've been treated differently today, for sure. Yeah. And I've treated myself differently, most importantly.
- [03:15]
Liz
Yeah.
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Kelly
Anyway, so something I'm doing because last time on the podcast, I talked about how, like, I. I'm not rotating my clothes anymore because I just haven't been. And I, like, for some reason, I've never thought to live in a world where I can just take clothes out of my closet but not get rid of them yet. You know, like, it just. I've been living in a world of definites in terms of my clothing. It's either like, keep it or get rid of it. Keep it or get rid of it. And I said, I'm just gonna. Like, as I'm getting dressed every day, if I try something on and I'm like, oh, I don't want to wear this. I'm putting it in a bin.
- [03:49]
Liz
Okay.
- [03:51]
Kelly
So I brought a bin up for my storage room. It's just on the floor in my closet. Like, this is not. Not here for aesthetics. And my plan is just to kind of make like a purgatory, you know? So I'm not even taking out the summer stuff because, like, they have a spot. But, like, I put on these pair of jeans and I'm like, I don't like these jeans. I like, I don't want to wear these today. And I'm going in my head being like, well, what if I get invited to a Hawaiian themed party and these are the jeans that work with the shirt. Like, I'm doing, like, that game that we do with ourselves.
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Liz
Yeah.
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Kelly
So I put them in the bin. And my plan is, what I'm doing is I go in my closet every day and I'm going through all of my pants because to me, I think my pants are the bigger issue because the top is a top.
- [04:29]
Liz
Of course.
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Kelly
I'm so exhausted with the pants and the hems and the waists and the shades and the ripping. Like, there's so much variety in my pants, and I find it exhausting. Yeah. So I am going through my jeans. So yesterday I put on a pair of light washed Madewell jeans. Forgot about them, haven't touched them. I put them on. They button. So it was already a good day and I was like, these are the jeans I'm styling today. So that's what I did. Today I'm wearing these like little wider legger little genies. These are the ones I style today. Look, I have a loafer.
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Liz
Oh wow.
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Kelly
I might throw on a heel out, take a day.
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Liz
Tonight you could at this rate.
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Kelly
So tomorrow, I don't know what the. I don't know what the next pair of jean will hold. Is it a skinny? Is it a flare? Is it a ripped? It doesn't matter. That's the one I'm styling.
- [05:18]
Liz
You know, I think that's wonderful and I'm, I love that. And I think we could all maybe just stand to try our pants on. I said on the last podcast how I wanted to make a video about me going through my pre baby clothes that I saved. Yeah. Three years ago at this point, I found the box in my basement because I was looking for something and I just like pulled out the first thing that was sitting on top. Size 6 faux leather express pants. And I was like, these are worth holding on to. And I can already tell you, like, they're so dingy. Express. Like does. Does express even sell clothes anymore? Like, I cannot wear wait. This is going to be such good content. I cannot wait to go through this box of clothes that I was like, I gotta keep this stuff.
- [06:06]
Kelly
And at this point you need to keep them another 10 years because like it's just gonna get like, we can do the real, but let's not get rid of anything. I want to show these to our girls one day.
- [06:15]
Liz
I'll just show them the real you say that. You are such a throwaway Kelly. After I had James, Kelly was like, I'm. I don't know why this was helpful. She goes, I'm gonna come to your closet and we're. You're gonna try everything on and we're gonna throw half your closet away, which.
- [06:29]
Kelly
Is like such a crazy way.
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Liz
Donate, donate. Okay. Get out of my life. Which is such a crazy thing to do, tell anyone to do when they're postpartum. Anyway, we did it and I gave a lot of the clothes away to my sister in laws and now like they'll show up to a family event in my old blue sweater and I'm like, well, I wish I would have kept that stupid blue sweater because it's really cute. Kelly told me to get rid of it because, like, oh, it didn't look good on me. Two months postpartum.
- [06:58]
Kelly
Okay. I don't remember doing that. I'm not denying it. I'm not denying it.
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Liz
You don't remember you sat in my bedroom and you made me try every piece of clothing.
- [07:06]
Kelly
Two months. And I do think there was a level of it that is helpful because it's also toxic to be postpartum and look at all the clothes that don't fit you. That's also. My intentions are pure.
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Liz
It's just interesting to see because I think you were really hasty then and now you're like in this weird, like, hey, let's not get rid of the faux leather express pants.
- [07:25]
Kelly
No, I'm sorry. I take that back. Let me, let me, let me stay consistent. I take that back. Get rid of it. Can't even believe you kept it this long. Anyway, speaking of things, we thought so. On today's episode, we have a lot coming at you. We are going to be doing our last three transactions. We are going to be doing industry news. Ditch the drive thru, general banters. And I think that's kind of what's, what's on the docket. You know, it's Friday, so we're not like trying to do too much, but we're also trying to do enough.
- [07:55]
Liz
Totally.
- [07:56]
Kelly
So anyway, that's what I'm up to. Close purgatory. I plan to get dressed tomorrow. And it's like my sister in law once told me, you make better food decisions. And jeans. So if for nothing else, you know, we're all on our New Year's diet. And I double. I, I just think differently at a restaurant in a pair of jeans than in a pair of leggings is all I'll say.
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Sponsor/Ad Voice
Yeah.
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Kelly
Just in like an awareness kind of way. Like, it's kind of like when people used to like tie a string on their finger to remember something.
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Liz
What?
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Kelly
Have you ever heard that? No, that's like an olden days thing. They used to like tie string on their fingers. They would remember to do something.
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Liz
That's a good idea.
- [08:34]
Kelly
Yeah. So I'm saying, like, that's me wearing jeans.
- [08:37]
Liz
Okay.
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Kelly
It's like, just remember, summer's coming now.
- [08:41]
Liz
That's so interesting. I've never heard that. Something that I did today was I went to a preschool tour, which is like crazy to think that I'm even at the age that I could have a kid in preschool. And here's the thing. Some people might be like, it's a little early. He's two and a half. Like, enrollment is open and like, there's wait lists and all this stuff. And like, I've never done it. So I, I went through the school, I did cry when I was there because, like, I can. I saw like, boys playing, like, to get, like the girls were sitting in the corner playing together, the boys were playing together. I just can't believe I almost have a, a preschool aged kid. And they were talking a lot about how they have to be like, ready for kindergarten. And that's why we go to preschool, is to. Because this school is like, you have to qualify to get into kindergarten. And like, these are the things you have to be able to do. And I'm like, I felt, you know, when you become a mom for the first time and you're like, who allowed me to like, take care of this thing? Like, who granted me permission to take care of this thing? I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like, who granted me permission to like, teach a kid how to recognize his name or like, learn his letters and numbers and shapes? And I'm like, how. And how am I going to do this? I'm not a teacher. And now I feel like, now I feel like it's on me that I have to teach him how to do all these things.
- [10:05]
Kelly
Okay, well, do you want me to sympathize with you or do me talk you off a ledge?
- [10:08]
Liz
No, I want you to talk me off a ledge. There's nothing to sympathize with. I just didn't know. It was just like one of those things where it's like, I'm getting, I'm getting the hang of this motherhood thing. I can keep kids alive.
- [10:18]
Kelly
Well, not to. So I think that school's being a tad dramatic. Kindergarten readiness is kind and like, you don't know this because, like, you're not on the side of Instagram, but like, we could bring busy toddler on to talk about it. It's kind of like a hot button issue. Like the term kindergarten readiness.
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Liz
Okay.
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Kelly
And it gets like fleshed out there to parents. Like we're supposed to be doing something and they're fine. You know, my daughter Hattie, she's not even in kindergarten. Like, how he's not even in kindergarten. Like, yeah, think about Hattie. She is so mature. Like, she's ready for, I mean, she will be ready for kindergarten, but like, she's not even there yet.
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Liz
Yeah, that's true.
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Kelly
So I think it's like James is not going. The James you know is not the one going to kindergarten.
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Liz
Okay. Yeah. That's so true.
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Kelly
You know what I mean? Like, no.
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Liz
Yeah. And he's, like, so smart.
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Kelly
Like, George is in kindergarten. The difference between George and James.
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Liz
Oh, I would, like, kill to have a. Have James be a George right now.
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Sponsor/Ad Voice
No.
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Kelly
It's, like, so bad. And I did nothing. I did nothing.
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Liz
Okay.
- [11:18]
Kelly
I think the most important things. I think the most important things you can do is be a present mother. And I think the chips will fall where they may, and I think you're gonna do what you need to do. But no, I would not get out a flashcard at age 3.
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Liz
I was like, I had no idea.
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Kelly
It sounds like this preschool is trying to sell. It's a sales pitch. You're getting sold, which is fine. Preschool is good. Mike. I love preschool. But, like, of course they're going to tell you all the things they're going to do to prepare them for kindergarten.
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Liz
Sure.
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Kelly
But, like, okay, sounds like that sounds like your job then.
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Liz
Yeah.
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Kelly
I've never once ran through the ABCs with my kids. They learned it at school. Now they know them.
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Liz
Okay, but, you know, and you read.
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Kelly
To them and, like, sure, you can, like, practice writing his name, but, like, all these things.
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Liz
I was like, oh, my gosh. I didn't. I didn't know.
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Kelly
And until you have just again. I'll say it again. Hattie's not even in kindergarten, and Hattie can write her name.
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Liz
Yeah.
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Kelly
And all these things just kind of happened to. I mean, naturally. It's like learning to walk.
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Liz
I think James can loosely sing his ABCs. So, like, I know it just, like, happens, but it just felt like a lot coming at me. But anyway, that's what I did today.
- [12:31]
Kelly
Well, that's really exciting. Hope that you can get them into a preschool. I'm so excited because next year, all my kids will be. Or my three biggest lobby in the same school. Be so fun.
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Liz
I know this wait list of it all, too. I'm like, oh, my gosh.
- [12:43]
Kelly
Like, yeah, well, you can move to the bo. We're just, like, trying. We're, like, trying to recruit.
- [12:52]
Liz
Yeah. You guys are like, yeah, I know. It's fine. It'll be fine. God's plan.
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- [14:13]
Kelly
Okay, Elizabelle, are you ready to do last three transactions and reshare our recent bank account subtractions?
- [14:18]
Liz
I sure am.
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Kelly
Okay. Let me tell you what I've been transacting. So my first one is the one I'm the most excited about. So my husband. I shared this on my stories briefly. But like my husband broke a butter dish in my house.
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Liz
Oh yeah.
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Kelly
And he broke it for the most moronic reason. So like we leave our butter on the counter. I feel like you're, you're, you either leave your butter in the counter or you leave your butter in the fridge. We grew up in a butter on counter household and I've carried that into my household. So I have a nice butter dish that always stays out. Our butter's at room temperature. If you didn't know. You can do that, you can do that. So nice. Because you always have softened butter. Are you a butter on counter household?
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Liz
Of course.
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Kelly
Yeah. Okay. And my husband is so I guess is anal the right word? Is that like the word I'm thinking of? That's such a gross word.
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Liz
I know. I don't like that word. No, but like that's what particular.
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Kelly
He's so particular. And I always say like you have so many rules. Like why do you have all these rules? He's had so many rules and systems and like he's so involved in things he shouldn't be, doesn't know he's need to be involved in. Do you know what I'm saying?
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Liz
Yeah. So his Rule have less opinions on things.
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Kelly
Like, I'll get into it in a second, but. So his rule is, once the butter runs out of the butter dish, let's wash the butter dish. Every single time I'm over here being like, I'm just gonna slap a new thing of butter on it and move on about my day. But his rule is, you have to wash it. Okay. So we ran out of butter. He washed the dish. And then he was like, I'm gonna stick this in the fridge so it cools it down so the butter doesn't melt right away when we stick it on the butter dish.
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Liz
What?
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Kelly
And I'm over here being like, the whole point is that the butter melts so it's softened. Yeah, that's what he said. So he sticks the clean butter dish that he just washed. Cause he ran out of butter into the fridge, but he like, put it on top of the ketchup. So then I come in, guns a blazing, trying to get some kids some freaking chocolate milk. I open up my fridge, the butter just flies out at me and shatters on the ground. I was like, who put the butter.
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Liz
Dish in the fridge on top of an unstable surface?
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Kelly
The whole thing was so stupid. So now I have crying kids and I'm having to get the Dyson out because I have ceramic butter dish all over my kitchen floor. So to get him back, I first, I have a running list on my phone titled things Tyler broke. Because I just think it's really important to, you know, And I get that a marriage is like, it's not 50%. It's both people giving 100, but it is about who's right and who's wrong sometimes. And he's wrong. So I added it to the list. And I like a little healthy friction. It keeps things spicy. And then I bought the Mackenzie towels. Blue check butter dish. Yeah, I did. Yeah. So then I bought $100 butter dish. So there you go.
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Liz
Don't put that in the fridge. Do not.
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Kelly
That was a free one that we registered for nine years ago when we got married. Now we have this one.
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Liz
There's so much that's crazy about that story. Number one for me is that your husband would ever even know that the butter ran out to then wash it. Is he buttering toast like Maddie doesn't? I don't. Maddie's. I don't think has ever used our butter dish.
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Kelly
So he could. Likes to cook breakfast in the morning. Tyler makes. I really hope he doesn't listen to this podcast, but I love him so much. So Tyler makes eggs every morning. He. Yeah, he makes eggs every morning. That's all I'll say.
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Liz
Okay, okay. So he makes. So he has butter dish.
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Kelly
So that's what he's using the butter dish for. So anyway, it arrives today. Like, I'm so thrilled. And I know he's going to hate the butter dish, too, which is just the cherry on top. He's gon. Because it's just, like, different. Like, if it was up to him, he would have ordered, like, six of the same butter dish and, like, stuck him in our basement. He's so weird.
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Liz
Oh, my gosh. That's so funny.
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Kelly
Yeah.
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Liz
So, okay, well, excited for your new bougie butter dish?
- [18:21]
Kelly
Me too.
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Liz
Something so boring that I bought, but has been so great is I got a WI FI extender.
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Kelly
Oh, yeah, you did? Yeah.
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Liz
Kelly and I were having such issues recording the podcast, which is why, like, the last couple of episodes we haven't been able to clip because, like, I. My WI fi wasn't working. So I just, like, went on Amazon and bought a WI FI extender, which I didn't realize you could do. Hooked it up to my WI fi and now I have great WI fi in, like, the dead zone of my house.
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Kelly
Yeah. So what's that about? So does your WI fi cost more?
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Liz
No, I don't think so. I mean, I think that the extender was like, about like a hundred dollars. Like, but I, you know, it's okay because I had to do for the business, but it's, like, working now.
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Kelly
No, I understand, but I don't understand how it's working.
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Liz
So it, like, I don't know how it works either. It's connected to my WI fi and then I put it in my office. So the extenders in my office. And then I connect my computer to. It's called, like, our WI FI extension. So it's kind of like a different WI fi that it's connected to. I don't know, but it's really been great.
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Kelly
That's awesome. Happy for you.
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Liz
I. I thought I was gonna have to call at T& like, go through a whole thing, but turns out I just had to buy one off Amazon.
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Kelly
Well, my next thing is twofold. I recently. So Fred's birthday is coming up and, you know, ever since, like, you know, one of my micro hobbies of the past year was my birthday banner. Did you ever order one?
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Sponsor/Ad Voice
No.
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Kelly
You need to get one.
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Liz
Okay, well, no one's birthday's coming up, okay. Until June.
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Kelly
So Fred's birthday is coming up and I saw on Amazon these Mariposa number candle holder sets.
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Liz
And I saw these in a boutique.
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Kelly
I saw these in a boutique one time and I'm like, that is such an incredible gift. Like if I had that, I would have it for forever. Like then you, then you're always ready to go for anyone's birthday. So I finally, I had an Amazon gift card. I pulled the trigger on it and, and I got these stunning silver candle holder sets. And I was so jazzed. Cause I'm like, I can make any number now. Cause it comes with a 0 through 9. So I can do 10, I can do 29, I can do 34, I can do 21, I can do anything except 11, 22, 33, 44. I was like, oh, I can't do that. Someone put it on Instagram. So I post that to my stories. And then Mary Posa, the brand reached out.
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Liz
Oh love.
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Kelly
No, they didn't offer to send me.
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Liz
They didn't offer actually what they say actually didn't do anything.
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Kelly
They said, yeah, we sell singles, but most people just buy a second set.
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Liz
How much is it?
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Kelly
One set, $60.
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Liz
Oh gosh, that's expensive.
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Kelly
I know it. Well, that's especially for two sets. Like for 60. I was like, okay, but like how much is a birthday candle? $5. For like one of the number ones. Maybe it's a little less. I don't know.
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Sponsor/Ad Voice
I don't buy those.
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Kelly
I normally just maybe I've only ever had to get up to six. So I've just always like bought like the little birthday candles. But yeah, but whatever.
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Liz
Okay, so you bought two.
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Kelly
No. So here's what I'm doing. I think it's a good thing to just like add to like. I wish I would have asked for this for, for Christmas from mom because it's a great gift. So another birthday who's coming up is our brother. And now is this something that Craig would want? No, but now that Craig's getting married, I can just like wrap him. Now he's a household.
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Liz
Uh huh.
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Kelly
So now I can just get a household gift. So I'm buying one. Hopefully they're not listening. For Craig for his birthday. And then when, when George turns 11, I will borrow from Craig. I'll borrow the one from Craig and Charlotte.
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Liz
Well now I think they're so cute and I think this is a good idea. However, something that I do because we always celebrate the Marine Corps birthday every year and I always buy candles for the year. So it was like 250 was this year. But the last several years was 249, 2248. So I bought those candle numbers at the grocery store, and so then I had a 2 and a 4 and an 8, and then I just had to go the next year and buy a 9, and then the next year. So now I have, like, multiple candle. Like, you can reuse those candle numbers, you know, 100.
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Kelly
I just think it's, like, what's your vibe? Is your vibe, like stunning silver with, like, white candles on top, or is your vibe like confetti candle?
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Liz
Well, I'm not saying that I'm not gonna go buy those as well, because I think that's a good idea. I'm just saying, like. Or alternatively, totally, you could just reuse them, I think.
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Kelly
And you know me. I'm always, like, wanting. I'm always, like, trying to accumulate things that my kids will fight for one day, which, like, I don't know, I get this from. Because, like, what are some things that, like, we would fight for at mom's house?
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Liz
Her jewelry.
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Kelly
Well, yeah, of course. We have our. We all have our eyes on our favorite pieces of that.
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Liz
I know Grayson thinks she's getting one thing, and she's, like, so dreaming.
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Kelly
We're. We're gonna do it, like, ladies, and we're gonna do pick for pick.
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Liz
Yeah.
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Kelly
Like, hot. Like, it's freaking Halloween candy when that time comes. Yeah. No, but just, like, I want to think about, like. I honestly can't think of, like, one, like, sentimental thing.
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Liz
Well, and you know what I think? I think it will actually, like, happen throughout the years. Like, you got her Halloween candy bowl, and then you know what? She just dropped off at my house, like, boxes of Christmas decorations. She gave me that Penguin countdown thing on the.
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Liz
Yeah, she just gave it to me, so now I have the Penguin Countdown.
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Kelly
Well, you know what I want is. I want those Halloween trees with the eyes.
- [24:01]
Liz
Oh, yeah. I want the tall nutcracker.
- [24:06]
Kelly
Okay, fine. I want.
- [24:09]
Liz
Let's not include our three other siblings.
- [24:14]
Kelly
No. I don't know. It's just something funny because it's like, I can't. I don't. I can't think of. I mean, I guess holiday stuff. So maybe that's why it's so important to be investing in, like, holiday decorations.
- [24:24]
Liz
Not.
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Kelly
Not even expensive stuff, but just, like. Because that's the stuff that you'll remember because, like, your tastes are gonna change. Like, your kids aren't gonna want, like, you're, like, you know, like, your home goods painting, you know?
- [24:36]
Liz
Yeah, it's true. It's true.
- [24:39]
Kelly
They're not gonna want that. Yeah, but they might want our Halloween and Christmas and Easter stuff.
- [24:44]
Liz
My Lennox cookie jar.
- [24:46]
Kelly
It's giving heirloom. Okay, so what are we doing? Oh, we're doing last three. Okay, so that was my second one.
- [24:51]
Liz
Last three transactions.
- [24:52]
Kelly
Sorry, bit of a tangent.
- [24:54]
Liz
This next one that I bought is kind of personal, but when I told you that I bought this, your reaction was unexpected. So now I just, like, feel like I have to say it just so, like, I can be told I'm not crazy. I told Kelly that I placed a Victoria's Secret order because I like to get my underwear from Victoria's Secret because I've been buying the same, like, type since I've been in high school. And it's just, like, I've tried. I do, like, skims. I have, like, two pairs of skims. But, like, my Victoria's Secret is, like, so my tried and true. And you were like, liz, no one is buying Victoria's Secret underwear. And I'm like, I feel like that's where everyone's buying underwear.
- [25:33]
Kelly
I hadn't heard the name in 10 years. Five years. Like, Victoria's Secret. Like, what is even the website look like anymore? Like, I was so right.
- [25:44]
Liz
It looks.
- [25:44]
Kelly
I was so shook to my core that you were buying Victoria's Secret.
- [25:49]
Liz
Well, and it doesn't come across my desk very often, and I totally buy it for that.
- [25:56]
Kelly
Talk about a fall from grace. I will never forget. Like, you know how they say, like, you remember where you were when, like, certain things happen? I remember where I was the day that Victoria's Secret said, we're gonna stop selling swimsuits and get into Athleisure. Yeah, I remember where I was. I was in my parking lot in college, and we were doing the little thing because they used to have those cute little ruffle butts. Swim bottles.
- [26:19]
Liz
The mix and match.
- [26:20]
Kelly
The mix and match. And we would spend hours mixing and matching hours.
- [26:26]
Liz
There was a time in our life where the only place to buy a swimsuit targets are always had, like, okay swimsuits, but, like, a good, nice swimsuit that you were going to spend some coin on was Victoria's Secret. And when they said it was, like, they opened the floodgates for every other. Any other brand to come out, be on top. And they lost, I have to imagine, so much money.
- [26:49]
Kelly
Well, they just, like, stopped. Do they were like, no, we're gonna go in on activewear. That was the stupidest idea. And I've never gone back since. Yeah.
- [26:58]
Liz
And then like the fashion show. And just like truly such a fall from grace. Like they were such. I remember there was a time in my life how old was I? I had to have been in like high school or college where like I considered getting a Victoria's Secret credit card. And our dad is like, you could have one credit card. But I was like, okay, but I could. What if I had two credit cards? Because I would love to get the point so I could redeem stuff at Victoria's Secret. Can you imagine the chokehold they had on us?
- [27:26]
Kelly
They had us for loungewear, they had us for underwear, they had us for beauty products. They had us for those little pink dogs, they had us for those pins. You would get a coupon in the mail for a free underwear. Do you remember Those days?
- [27:40]
Liz
Yeah. Seven for 28. I'm there. Remember like their sale was like the biggest sale at the mall.
- [27:49]
Kelly
It's insane. You'll have to let us like wins. But like is the quality the same or have.
- [27:55]
Liz
You know what they were, they were just delivered. So I, it's. I, I need to, I need to try them out. I kind of took a hiatus with trying other brands. Like just have hated them all. Probably need to buy underwear more regularly than I am personally.
- [28:11]
Kelly
Maybe. So right now they're doing a 5, 5 for 32, which feels steep to me.
- [28:18]
Liz
Yeah. You know, and like it was free. Spend a hundred dollars and get free shipping. So I'm like, well, I could probably use two bras too. So like I just kind of committed cuz I know knew I wasn't going to be frequenting there again for a while.
- [28:33]
Kelly
That's so crazy. I miss them.
- [28:39]
Liz
Yeah. But you know what? They're also like, I was looking at some of their bras and I'm like, can you guys just class it up a little bit? Like they have in the middle of the bra, they have this like Bedazzled Vs. And I'm like, who is wearing this? Yeah, who's buying the Bedazzled versus like you are a brand that matters.
- [28:58]
Kelly
And then I feel like the problem with Victoria's Secret is like, you know, then they're like, okay, we're not going to touch up our models. We're going to be more inclusive. And it's like, well, it was just like a little too late. You know what I mean? Because it was like they were the last ones to do it. And it felt like you were just like doing it because you had to, not you wanted to. But it's just like that aesthetic doesn't match, like, the vibe. Like, it's like you're supposed. It's like, this is. Honestly, they might as well start using AI models at this point.
- [29:26]
Liz
Yeah, it was. It's weird. It's weird. But I'll let you. Now that I've put it out there, now that I've aired my dirty laundry, I will give everyone an update on how the quality is.
- [29:38]
Kelly
Thanks, Liz. Okay. Okay. My last transaction was a good old fashioned Trader Joe's haul. That's right. I went to TJ's for the first time in probably six months. I just haven't been frequenting a Trader Joe's. I say this again. If you live in St. Louis, to me, there's not one that's conveniently located. Nothing's coming across my desk ever. Like, I'm always going from where I live to where they're located in St. Louis. I'm always going out of my way. We need one in Baldwin. That's what I need.
- [30:15]
Liz
Okay.
- [30:16]
Kelly
Baldwin Ellisville would work well for me. Town and country, like that area.
- [30:21]
Liz
I just think all the parking lots in those areas are, like, fine though. And so Trader Joe's doesn't really like to put locations where parking lots are functional.
- [30:30]
Kelly
They're so crazy. So anyway, I went to Trader Joe's. And I'll be honest, it wasn't as good as I remembered it being. I felt a little uninspired. Felt a little complicated, if I'm being honest. It's just like, I'm looking for just ingredients and, like, they're constantly throwing like a truffle oil on something and it's like, I'm just like, looking for regular ingredients. And like, I didn't even. I was kind of like, so overwhelmed. I couldn't even, like, go to, like, the five items or less Instagram account. The things that I only spent 78, which feels really good. And I bought six bags of the potatoes with peppers.
- [31:06]
Liz
You really have to go in there knowing what you want because it can get really overwhelming because you're reading so many labels and, like, trying to figure out what something is.
- [31:14]
Kelly
And it feels like nothing was going together. Like, I'm like picking up a carnitas that's marinated in basil Thai and then there's like red chili oil and then there's like. It's just like, what? How do I make a meal out of all these items? It's so weird.
- [31:29]
Liz
Yeah, you really need to go in with a plan. Like, you really need to, like, go through five items. Trader Joe's five items less Instagram or like her.
- [31:35]
Kelly
Surely no one's doing like their weekly hauls there because, like, that's crazy.
- [31:41]
Liz
I think if you have like a rotation like you. Of. Of meals, you could. Because I used to do that. But I also lived alone.
- [31:47]
Kelly
Yeah.
- [31:48]
Liz
So maybe it was different. But yeah, I. I've also lately found it to be just like kind of overwhelming and hard to go there if you just like go on a win. Like, you really have to know what you're doing.
- [32:00]
Kelly
So that was my last transaction.
- [32:03]
Liz
Last transaction that I did was I like, James is in need of new jammies. It's been forever since I order him new jammies outside of like seasonal ones. And I've been like, loving Burt's bees. But I was like, what patterns is little sleepies have nothing new. It's been forever since I've ordered anything. Little sleepy says nothing new. So I place a pretty good order from Kaden Lane.
- [32:26]
Kelly
Okay.
- [32:27]
Liz
They have some really cute prints right now for boys, I think. And yeah, it's, it's so nice because he's just at this age, like the 2T 3T. Like they just last and close so much longer.
- [32:41]
Kelly
I know, it's so nice.
- [32:43]
Liz
So I'm like, okay, well, I'll just like place a haul and like, yeah, it's gonna be, you know, they were, they were all 20 off too. But you know, it's only like a hundred dollars. But like he's gonna be able to wear these for like actually a year.
- [32:55]
Kelly
So I need to, I need to as I'm hitting a bad crossroads with George because it's like, when is he too old to wear like those tight little jammies?
- [33:06]
Liz
And like, when does he just wear like a T shirt?
- [33:09]
Kelly
Ew, disgusting.
- [33:10]
Liz
Yeah, I don't know.
- [33:12]
Kelly
No one talks about that. I have not seen any content on how sad it is like, I will be that mom when it's like, like trying to get like your 3 month old back into their newborn outfit. Like I'll be trying to get George. Yes.
- [33:23]
Liz
Like a matching little sleepy set.
- [33:25]
Kelly
I'm hoping one day it'll just wake up and give me the ick like men in pajamas do and I'll just stop.
- [33:30]
Liz
He might be ready to maybe.
- [33:33]
Kelly
But not yet.
- [33:35]
Liz
No, not yet. But not yet. But this is a reminder, like, if you are like a holiday jammy person, like, all the brands have their Easter out, they have their St. Patrick's Day out. There are some cute ones.
- [33:47]
Kelly
Okay, so that was our last three transactions. Now I have some future transactions. That I'm hoping to make. And I got like, the best. I found, like, the best tip ever. Okay. And this is like, just a problem for me. But back to my husband being, like, so particular about certain things he has such an opinion on, like, decorating the home.
- [34:10]
Liz
That's the worst thing a man can have an opinion on.
- [34:13]
Kelly
It is. It is so annoying. Like, the amount of opinions coming out of that man's mouth, like, it's simply. Oh, my gosh. He just, like, doesn't want to hang anything on the walls. And like, you know, he completely, like, redid the entire house. Like, he has so many man hours in here. And he's like, it took so much time and money to get these walls, like, patched and painted and repaired. He's like, I don't want to go around, like, putting nails in them. And I'm like, totally. Like, I understand we're going to take our time, but, like, at some point, things need to be hung, pieces need to be bought. Now, it is a double edged sword because. And I wouldn't love to, like, admit this to him, but, like, I am grateful because it has really made me take my time with things.
- [35:01]
Liz
Mm.
- [35:02]
Kelly
Because I would have just gone probably like gone pretty crazy and like gone to home goods, bought a bunch of stuff. There was a bunch of stuff on the walls and I'm like, oh, I don't really like that. They're actually.
- [35:10]
Liz
Yeah, my.
- [35:10]
Kelly
My walls are stunning. There's like four things hung on them. But now I'm starting to, like, want to do more things. And I'm like, hey, maybe we should like, hang something here. Or like, I might get like, you know, a sideboard for the foyer. Or, you know, just like, just thinking about home improvements. I saw another funny reel and it goes. My wife's love language is acts of renovation. Yeah. And I'm like, that's me. That's my love language. So anyway, my new plan is I have like all these vision boards in my canva, like, how I want to decorate this area, how I want to decorate that area. And my new thing is I'm just going to print them out and hang them on the walls because I want my guests to know, like, this is not what I want it to look like. This is either, like, what I have the budget for at the moment, or, like, I'm still trying to convince my husband to let me hang something up here. And I'm just going to kind of like, collage my home with. With. With my inspiration.
- [36:00]
Liz
I think that's a Good idea.
- [36:01]
Kelly
No, And I think it will tell my guests, like, oh, this is a girl with plans. This is like, there's, there's things happening here, even though they're just.
- [36:09]
Liz
Yeah, good conversation starter.
- [36:11]
Kelly
That's what I thought. Because, like, out by the pool, I tried to tell Tyler, hey, we should think about landscaping. He's like, well, we're not going to get landscaping until the kids are old enough to pull weeds. And I'm like, no, we absolutely are. Also, also, I think they're old enough to pull weeds. But then it's like, I'm going to put it on. There's people like, oh, is this your plan for the pool? I'm going to be like, yeah, we're on the wait list. I don't know when they're going to be able to get us. And I'm just gonna say that because I need, I need, I need some forward motion in my life in that capacity.
- [36:38]
Liz
Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's manifesting. It's totally. Yeah, I, I like, I think that's a really good idea, actually.
- [36:46]
Kelly
Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.
- [36:47]
Liz
Thank you. Okay, do we have any industry news today where we spill the hot tea going on in the auto industry?
- [36:56]
Kelly
Yes, we did. Oh, yes, we did. So it is time for industry news. And that industry news is going to be the car Mom Car of the year. We have our four finalists. We are ready to announce them and we are ready for you to go vote. It was. Let me just get this out of the way. A star studded year. The four finalists. I, I love all of these cars. Like, I'm kind of sad these cars are all falling on the same year. It's kind of like Dancing with the Stars. Like, it's such a bummer.
- [37:41]
Liz
Like an Alex. Anna Roberts should have went.
- [37:43]
Kelly
It's an Alex Roberts situation. It really is. It really is. Okay, so here's how this works. We have selected the finalist. Now, to be a finalist, you have to have been redesigned and available for sale in the 2025 model year. So, for example, the Kia Telluride is not on here. The Wagoneer is not on here because those cars aren't available for sale. The Toyota Grand Highlander is not on here because it did not get redesigned this year. So, like, that's kind of how we do it. So it's a small pool of cars that we choose from, which is why we select the finalists and then you guys and our team pick the winner. Okay. The finalists are, in no particular order. The Nissan Armada, the Honda Passport, the Ford Expedition, and the Hyundai Palisade. Tough.
- [38:37]
Liz
What we're looking for. Who got redesigned in a stunning way and in a family functionality way? Who made changes that were worth making?
- [38:50]
Kelly
Yeah. Who listened to the needs of families? Who improved and. And also, who do you like the looks of which tech do you like? Like, it doesn't. It's not necessarily so family friendly forward. Because it is about just, like, the entirety of the car. So I've done tours of all of these vehicles, so you can go watch the tours, go review them, and then please, please, please vote. This is the third year we've done this, and let me tell you something. The manufacturers are listening because, like, Chevy, the Chevy Traverse one at last year, they were so excited. Like, they, like, put it on their website. I don't know if they put on.
- [39:28]
Liz
Their website, but I had heard it was somewhere in.
- [39:32]
Kelly
It was somewhere that we saw it.
- [39:34]
Liz
Yeah.
- [39:35]
Kelly
It was one of the things that really made us want to redesign the logo because once we were like, oh, like, this is the common car of the year. Like, this is a big deal. Like, this is motor trend. We felt like our logo had to be able to compete.
- [39:48]
Liz
Yeah.
- [39:48]
Kelly
So it was kind of our plan. So I'm so excited.
- [39:55]
Liz
We'll put a link to vote. I mean, it's gonna be, like, all over the car mom's Instagram and stuff, but we'll put it in the show notes.
- [40:01]
Kelly
Yeah. And we're gonna be doing some content next week about the four finalists.
- [40:06]
Liz
Okay, great.
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Kelly
Who are they? Meet the finalists. So that's the biggest thing that's happening.
- [40:14]
Liz
It's huge. I'm so excited. I love car of the Year. It's always so exciting, and I can't wait to see who everyone votes for.
- [40:25]
Kelly
So the first year we did it was 2023, and that was the Honda. I'm sorry, The Volkswagen Atlas. Last year, 24 was the Chevy Traverse, and then this year will be one of those four finalists. So exciting.
- [40:35]
Liz
Love it. Okay, well, are you ready for a ditch the drive through where we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of your dinner rut?
- [40:43]
Kelly
I am.
- [40:44]
Liz
Do you have one, or am I bringing one?
- [40:46]
Kelly
Oh, see, this way.
- [40:49]
Liz
I hate us because, like, we both had one last week, and, like, we. Or last episode, we both shared them.
- [40:55]
Kelly
Yeah. Well, what could we be ditching the drive through with? What am I making for dinner? I'm really in my, like, must go era. I'm kind of in my everyone's Eating something different some nights era and I'm fine with that. Last night for dinner we had homemade pizza. I like buying store bought pizza dough. That's kind of been my new thing.
- [41:21]
Liz
Yeah, you know, that's fun.
- [41:23]
Kelly
Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's has a great one. Aldi's has a great one. Pillsbury's is great. Like they're all better than like a frozen pizza, but like, not as much work as like making your own dough. So last night. And I kind of like to make my own pizzas recently because George does not like cheese, as everyone knows. It's right up there with my husband. Not like he hang things on the wall. Like two very annoying things in my life right now. So when I make the pizza, I can leave like, you know, a quarter of it. Cheese free for George. And he just like sauce, a lot of meat and lettuce on top of. How strange. So that's what we had for supper last night. We had a meat lovers pizza. No cheese for George. I added a little hot honey because I'm a lady and it was delicious.
- [42:08]
Liz
There's something fun and just like feels a little bit more homemade too about just like making it that way.
- [42:13]
Kelly
Yeah. Yeah.
- [42:16]
Liz
That was always the best night when mom would bring home pizza crust and we all got to make our own pizzas growing up.
- [42:21]
Kelly
I know that was so fun. And I also love using the naan. But I don't know, sometimes I just like, want to like, just do like one pizza.
- [42:27]
Liz
And then I.
- [42:27]
Kelly
We didn't have enough. So then Tyler had to make a frozen pizza from downstairs. I'm telling you, we're scavenging. We're scavenging this week. I simply can't get every aspect of my life together in one week. Like, I'm wearing a waistband and I worked out two days in a row. Like, what else do you guys want for me?
- [42:39]
Liz
Yeah.
- [42:40]
Kelly
And I have to make dinner.
- [42:41]
Liz
Yeah. It's too much for one person to do.
- [42:45]
Kelly
So I'm crawl. That's what I'm saying.
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- [42:46]
Kelly
Walk running. So like, I got my life a little bit more together. We're gonna have fabulous dinners next week. I can feel it.
- [42:52]
Liz
Okay. I'm happy.
- [42:53]
Kelly
And I love my kids having such opinions on food lately. George, he's just. I can't. I really can't wait for you to have a six year old. It is my favorite age. I'm upset. He's so fun right now. And he goes, mom, if you were to make a chichi pie pie, I'D gobble it all up if you made poppy seed chicken. I'd gobble that all up.
- [43:11]
Liz
And you're like, finally someone to frickin tell me what to make for dinner. Because you ask your husband and he says, I don't care.
- [43:18]
Kelly
Oh yeah. Color's like, let's go out tonight. It's like, no, we're ditching.
- [43:22]
Liz
I want to make my family a home cooked meal. I just want someone to tell me what to make.
- [43:29]
Kelly
So anyway, Jor. And you know like how that was a huge milestone for me for my kids to request chicken pot pie? Yeah. I submit. I need to submit it where church is doing a cookbook. I need to submit my recipe.
- [43:40]
Liz
Oh, that's so cute. You should.
- [43:42]
Kelly
I know. I need to. Yeah.
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- [43:47]
Kelly
So I'm sorry, is that our dishes.
- [43:52]
Liz
With pizza transparently tonight for last night I made spaghetti and meatballs and tonight I'm doordashing like my friend's coming over with her kid and we're gonna like doordash.
- [44:01]
Kelly
So you're always doordashing. Can my rural girls unite?
- [44:07]
Liz
Doordash.
- [44:08]
Kelly
I could doordash if I wanted to.
- [44:12]
Liz
Yeah, no, it's. It's amazing. I just live in a really wonderful area where like everything is like, will be in my. Will be at my front door within 20 minutes.
- [44:20]
Kelly
So I can't even like fathom.
- [44:22]
Liz
It's incre. It's incredible.
- [44:24]
Kelly
We like just got two day Amazon delivery.
- [44:27]
Liz
Yeah. Well, so, yeah, it sounds like we're not ditching the drive thru tonight.
- [44:36]
Kelly
I'm trying to think if I have anything else that I could make. What are we having tonight? We're having bolognese tonight because I bought the turkey Bolognese or about Bolognese sauce at Trader Joe's?
- [44:47]
Liz
Okay. I was gonna say how do you make bolognese sauce? But yeah. Okay. So.
- [44:53]
Kelly
Okay, well, we're kind of lame. You know what? Maybe you guys should write in. I haven't seen a lot of submissions come through my desk lately.
- [44:59]
Liz
If you want to submit your own ditch to the drive through, you can run into hello, the carbon official.com and maybe we'll start reading those. And with that, that's going to be our episode. So thank you so much for listening to the Carpool podcast and we'll talk to you next time.
- [45:12]
Kelly
Yeah, bye. Thank you for listening to the Carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz. Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. And if you enjoyed riding with us, tell everybody. You know there's room in the car for everyone.