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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
Mother Knows Best
What happens when three lifelong friends tackle the complex, beautiful, and often hilarious topic of motherhood? Heartfelt stories, nostalgic memories, and plenty of laughter.
Our journey begins with the TV moms who shaped our expectations—from Carol Brady's perfect flip to Claire Huxtable's groundbreaking career-mom balance. We reflect on how these fictional mothers set up ideals that real motherhood rarely matches. Remember June Cleaver vacuuming in pearls? Or the gloriously eccentric Moira Rose? Some of these characters influenced how we viewed motherhood long before we experienced it ourselves.
The conversation turns deeply personal as we share the phrases our mothers said that somehow found their way into our own parenting vocabularies. "Because I said so" becomes the ultimate placeholder when we're too exhausted to explain. "You're fine" and "rub some dirt on it" slip out automatically when faced with minor injuries. We've created our own family sayings too, like "It's hard to be you"—which began as genuine empathy for a four-year-old but evolved into good-natured sarcasm over the years.
Most touching are our cherished memories: mothers who created beautiful dinner party deco from odds and ends around the house, the lingering scent of perfume as they headed out for the evening, the calm reassurance during difficult moments of early parenthood. We explore how our relationships with our mothers transformed as we aged, moving from parent-child dynamics to deep adult friendships.
Whether your mother taught you everything she knew or kept you out of the kitchen entirely, whether she's still with you or lives on in memories, this episode celebrates the women who shaped us and the mothers we've become. Share your own favorite "mom-ism" with us or tell us which TV mom most influenced your idea of motherhood!
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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Speaker 2:Hello, my darling friends, hello.
Speaker 4:How are you guys Doing good on this fine Sunday evening so far?
Speaker 2:so good. Yeah, how are you Hanging in? All things considered, that's my new answer to everything now.
Speaker 3:All things considered.
Speaker 2:So that's a great way to start us off, isn't it this?
Speaker 1:is Three Cocktails In.
Speaker 2:We are Three Cocktails In. We got Stacy, kitty and Amy. We are three friends who have been hanging out together for a million years and you know we're hanging tonight. We have a very deep and important topic to discuss tonight and I hope everybody is ready. Mother knows best. This is going to be our episode dedicated to our moms, to the moms out there, to the mom-like people we have in our lives, to our children who suffered through with us as their mothers. I'm kind of excited to talk about all things, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it'll be good. We have a piece of jewelry that is just a nice-sized medallion and the inscription on it says Mom, a title just above Queen. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2:I love that. Yeah, Isn't that true? So Mother's Day, this is. This is dropping right before Mother's Day, Stacey the scheduler. Right.
Speaker 3:Okay, so we're ahead of the game for once. For once. One time only.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes. So I had a lot of fun thinking about this and it kind of went all the way back to the moms I watched on TV growing up.
Speaker 2:Because you know there was no streaming. It was our mom, the neighbor moms, I think Stacey and I have already kind of said I mean, we grew up in the same small town and the moms were, yes, they were all unique individuals, but there was a pretty similar pattern and we listened to all of them like they were our moms. So TV was just this whole new world.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you guys have moms? You remember watching.
Speaker 4:You know what? For me, one of the first moms that comes to my mind is Carol Brady. Ah, yes, Carol Brady.
Speaker 3:I always thought her hair was so cute. It was all so, you know done pretty.
Speaker 4:How did she do that?
Speaker 3:I know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:How come that one hasn't made its way back, not seeing that trend coming back? That's true. I loved watching Bradyady bunch, as probably all of us did. I could never really figure out why she had.
Speaker 4:What was she doing that she also had alice, yes I know oh yeah, no wait, though wait, who had alice first didn't he have alice?
Speaker 2:did mr? Maybe mr had alice?
Speaker 4:yeah, I think mr had alice maybe they kept her.
Speaker 3:They just kept her because they didn't want to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, give her because she was part of the family okay, I think so I don't know that might have set the wrong tone for me and my expectations as what motherhood was supposed to be. That I was somehow gonna have help in the house, right? Yeah, no, no help. Mom that comes to mind for me is mrs cunningham from happy days. Oh, she was such a lovely woman.
Speaker 4:Wow, I don't think I would have remembered her.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's way back.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, the show was set way back, but it wasn't really. I mean, it was of our era that that show came on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I don't know. You suppose that was the 70s, I suppose yeah yeah, yeah, for sure, the yep 70s, interesting.
Speaker 4:And then. So, oh, I mean this, this would be a long list of moms from that era. And then, even before that, with with, um, uh, the beavers mom, yes, june, beaver, june, june cleaver warden june cleaver, yeah so. So you've got june cleaver and then fast forward. I don't know how many years you've got claire huxtable oh, she's on my list too, yeah she was.
Speaker 3:She would have been on mine if you guys both said something. She was going to be what I brought up and I was just I just remember being so impressed because she she might have I have no idea on the stats, but she may have been the first TV mom, you to have a, a big job. You know, yeah, so you know had how many kids and you know I can't remember. Was she a doctor as well or a lawyer?
Speaker 4:I can't remember, I think she was a lawyer, yeah, he was a lawyer, he was the doctor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, oh, I loved watching that. But how old were we when that came out?
Speaker 3:I'm thinking we were adults by then, wasn't?
Speaker 2:that, yeah, I was gonna say yeah.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say um, because I just still remember all through watching, you know, youth growing up, there wasn't a mom figure that really had the job that I would have seen as an alternative to being mom. Right, you know, um, the other mom that I thought of and it's actually the grandmother but, um, I loved watching bewitched and her mother, sam's mother, and dora, oh gosh, I loved her. She was a trip. Yeah, she was spicy, she was very spicy with darwin and, yeah, always pronounced his name wrong. I love that. Um, okay, so let's slide forward just a little bit. We kind of got into, you know, nineties, two thousands, 2010s. There's been a whole bunch of different moms that have been on TV and movies. Did you guys like the? Everybody loves raymond, but patricia heaton had had a series of moms yeah, she did yeah, yep, I felt I always felt bad for her in that yeah
Speaker 4:yeah, I mean can you?
Speaker 3:imagine living across the street from your in-laws.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:That wouldn't have been good. Yeah, I really like her, but she was in another sitcom where she played a different kind of mom, and that was in the TV series the Middle. Did you guys ever watch that?
Speaker 3:Never watched it A little bit.
Speaker 2:Oh my, I came to it really late, like probably 15 years ago, 10 years ago, started watching them on reruns or whatever and my sister and I have never laughed so hard about how horribly wrong everything went in their house, everything and it just it was just so funny. The kids were just ding-a-lings and you know, nobody had their shit together in that house. But I kind of enjoyed it because it was. That seemed more typical to me, yeah, than the perfect so so she wasn't the perfect mom.
Speaker 3:Things happened that they had yeah that they had no idea how to yep um.
Speaker 2:Can we talk about my favorite mom of all time? Who's that? Moira rose.
Speaker 3:For sure. What would you do with her as a mom? I know right yeah.
Speaker 4:A lot. So if if you don't know who we're talking about, this is the mom from Schitt's Creek, and I think we all love Schitt's Creek, right, stacey, did you love it? Yes, that is worth a subscription to wherever it, wherever it may be playing. I think when I watched it was on apple tv and I didn't have apple tv and I specifically got apple tv so I could watch it. Um, yeah, and but I love the development of her character from the beginning to the end. At the the beginning I didn't really like her very much and at the end I mean it's a testament to how they grew together as a family, but just had a lot of affection for her at the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I kind of felt that about the whole cast at the end. Yeah, I kind of felt that about the whole cast Like it. It took me probably four episodes before I decided I liked it. Like I remember watching the first one and I cannot stand the guy that played.
Speaker 3:I don't like him either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what is his name? He was married to Drew Barrymore for like a hot oh really I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I just remember he was. Do I have him in the group with somebody?
Speaker 2:else.
Speaker 3:He was the guy that used to come up out of the floor on the David Letterman show. Did you ever watch that? Yeah, oh, I don't remember that part either. Oh, yeah, he's just a weirdo. So, yeah, I wasn't too impressed.
Speaker 4:Chris Elliott.
Speaker 2:Chris Elliott, I do think. If we Google search, I do think he was married too. I could be totally wrong. Okay, this is so perfect for this episode. This is exactly how my mother was. I'm just going to tell you that right now, she never got an actor or an actress's name right Ever. She never knew the name to the show. She mixed everything up. It was she would be talking about that one movie with that actress. That's how she would describe something. That movie, well, you know that movie, that movie with that actress. And we're like you got to give us more mom. And she's oh, you know where, where the, the woman dies. Okay, give us some more, yeah, and then and she goes, you know, you know, with barbara wayne. She meant deborah winger, but that's how it came out.
Speaker 4:So okay, it was tim. Green is who? Tom green oh yeah she was married to and physically they look very much alike. They're both kind of weird and quirky like that?
Speaker 2:Yes, all right, good, so I haven't lost too much. Yeah, so okay, so that's a good segue. Yeah, so okay, so that that's a good segue. Um, are there any moms that you watched that you found to be, um, like when you became a mom, did you, did you feel like being a mom was like what you had watched on TV, Mm-hmm, were there any moms that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, that's hard because again, there's very few that they show very flawed. You know, they were all just the perfect mom all the way through. Usually it was the kids that were having the issues, not the moms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a TV show on called 30 something, not 30 something. Yeah 30 something. Yeah, yeah, 30 something. And that was when we were in our early twenties, we weren't 30. Yeah, no, I remember watching that and those moms highly flawed those families highly. You know those couples. Everything was all mixed up and my ex-husband would come home and I'd be upset about something and he's like, were you watching?
Speaker 3:that show again.
Speaker 2:Well, it just looked.
Speaker 3:Yes, it was. They were having such issues and so many problems that it looked so hard and you know it's like oh man, is that really what?
Speaker 2:30 is yeah, yeah, yeah. But I do feel like those kids like that part of motherhood was representative oh yeah oh, I would say when, when we got there trying to juggle work and kids and messy house and all that, yeah, is there anything that you found yourself saying that your mom said? Because it is, I do think it's true we become our mothers. Yes, I'm afraid so.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's one I Googled just to remember some of the crazy things you know, like the money doesn't grow on trees and what do you think I made of money? Oh, I've said that to my kids Over time Over time For sure, I'm not the ATM.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there you go. I don't remember my mom saying I honestly I don't remember my mom disciplining me at all. I'm not saying she didn't, but I don't. I don't have any memory of it. And I remember one time, so I must I would. I would have been under nine because I can. I remember the house that we lived in and we moved from that house when I was nine. So I would have been under nine because I remember the house that we lived in and we moved from that house when I was nine. So I would have been anywhere and I'm guessing that I was more in the five, six year I stuck my tongue out at my mom as she was walking away, stuck my tongue out at her and she came back at me and I got a spanking. That is the only time I ever remember doing something that made her mad and being reprimanded for it. But I just I don't have any memory of her saying these things. Now I think I remember my dad saying am I gonna have to come?
Speaker 4:back you know, reaching around the backseat, Don't make me stop this car. Um yeah, things like that. But I find great humor in all of the you know all of these, because I said so. Because I said so, oh yeah, will see, actually means no, yeah, that holds true still I use that.
Speaker 2:It just means I can't think about it. I cannot give this any energy. That's a placeholder that I hope you forget about somewhere along the line. Yeah, I do remember the old stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about. That was always an empty threat with my mom, but I do remember that phrase. Yeah, we never heard back in my day, we didn't get that too much. I do remember that phrase, yeah, yeah, we never heard back in my day, we didn't get that too much.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, we didn't either.
Speaker 3:Did you ever hear if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. The things that I remember my mom saying was you know, anytime we were sick didn't feel good. First of all, we never went to the doctor. You had to pretty much have, you know, a limb hanging if you were going to go to the doctor. Otherwise, you're fine, that was the common phrase. You're fine. Then it was do you need to go to the bathroom? Didn't matter what it was. Do you need to go to the bathroom and take some aspirin? That that was her three remedies, or her two remedies for everything, everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I would say that would have probably been mine as well, honestly, yeah, we I never took the kids to the doctor. Yeah, you'll get over it. Here's some Tylenol, yeah.
Speaker 2:I did have the checklist of you know when was the last time you had a glass of water, because at that point we never gave our kids water. Nobody ever walked around drinking water. Um, you know, have you eaten anything other than snacks? Have you go have an apple? Have you, you know, have a piece of toast, sort of thing, anything? So I wouldn't have to take them to the doctor I know now it seems like everybody goes for everything.
Speaker 3:Don't you think that's true? Like if they're the least bit sick they go oh um, yeah, I kind of think.
Speaker 4:So I think I agree with that. I think there are a lot of people who, yeah, it's like probably one of the reasons why it's so hard to get into the doctor Could be.
Speaker 2:And do we think that's because there's too many people who are at home self-diagnosing? Like when we had the kids? I didn't have any resource, I couldn't look up anything to see how bad it could be, so I just assumed it was fine, yep.
Speaker 1:That could be, that could be the reason.
Speaker 2:So do you guys come up with any funny things that you remember saying to your own?
Speaker 4:kids. I know that Bill and I have both used the as long as you're living under our roof you will abide by our rules, yeah. And does that work? Well? I, generally speaking, I would say yes, yes but, I don't.
Speaker 2:I mean, he's still living here, so we haven't driven him out because of our rules you're gonna have to start do the um failure to launch where now that bill is going to retire, he needs to have a naked room.
Speaker 4:Do you remember that where terry bradshaw has the naked like do we really want to see terry bradshaw's what? No, that's right, that is a funny movie.
Speaker 2:I gotta put that in the queue yeah, hey, bo, we're gonna have movie night. Yeah, put that one in, um I? There were a couple of things that that both kevin and I started saying and it came out of this us trying not to laugh when the kids were very upset about something and it's taken off. And my girls do say it to their friends and Madeline for sure has said it to Alex and that is the phrase it's hard to be you. So like when they were really little and it's.
Speaker 2:I remember Ava getting kicked out of dance class at four, at the age of four. She caused a mutiny in the dance class. The teacher had no control and she ushered Ava out of class to me and I said Ava, what's going on? And she goes. It is hard to be a four-year-old, hard to be a four-year-old. And I said Ava, what's going on? And she goes, it is hard to be a four-year-old. And I said yes, yes, evidently it is let's go home, sort of thing.
Speaker 2:So from that, this whole idea of anytime they started to complain was it is really hard to be you, it is so hard to be you. And then it turned into it is hard to be eight, you know, or it is hard to be 10. Know, or it is hard to be ten and we just still continue to do it. And a couple years ago, one of the first years that, alex, I think, after they were married and they came back for vacation or you know, holiday or something, something was going on and it was probably madeline and georgia going back and forth at each other and Georgia looks at Madeline and goes it's so hard to be you. And Alex turned his head and looked at Madeline and goes I just now realize that that is not an empathetic comment that you're making there. That is totally a sarcasm.
Speaker 3:Yes, it is. There's no sympathy for.
Speaker 2:There's no sympathy, so she'd been telling him that it is hard to be you.
Speaker 3:Not meaning yeah.
Speaker 2:So I think we've got something to pass on through the ages. You know the whole idea that it is hard to be you.
Speaker 4:See, that wouldn't like with Beau, that would not fly if I said something like that to him, Because he would feel attacked by that. It's hard to be you. Well, because you're saying it sarcastically.
Speaker 2:But when they started hearing it as a small young child, we weren't saying it sarcastically, we were trying to diffuse the situation and acknowledge that what they were going through was hard. Acknowledged that what they were going through was hard. Now, we were not saying they were right or they had any, you know. We were just trying to say I hear you, it is hard to be you. I'm not, you know, but as they got older and started to understand the sarcasm behind it, as they're 14 and they're complaining about not getting to go do something when you go, it is really hard to be you Then they start to get it and you know it was, it just became one of those. So yeah, yeah, so how to? How to pivot? Yeah. The other thing I would tell the girls was mommy's ears need a time out, so you have to stop talking.
Speaker 3:It worked a little bit every once in a while. For a while it would work yeah yep, yeah things we made up right? I know, yeah, I was, you know, and this wasn't what my mom said. I'm sure it was my dad, and I know your dad told you the same thing. You know, walk it off, rub some dirt on it, so you know, you were never injured.
Speaker 3:Get up, get going. Yeah, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Oh yeah, yeah, I would tell my kids that one all the time yeah, you're fine, keep going. Rub some dirt in it. Yeah, yeah, I think Mallory claims she had a broken foot for a while because I wouldn't give her any you know sympathy.
Speaker 2:Oh, I had a broken hand for a week because my dad kept telling me to put ice on it. Stop being such a girl. I was 18. Oh, you even got to being a girl. Stop being such a girl. And then he said that just to piss me off. Let's be real honest. He knew that that was going to irritate me. So a week later my hand was still huge and mom took me in for x-rays and, yep, it was broken and I came home with a cast.
Speaker 3:Right rays and yep, it was broken and I came home with the cast. Right, did you have a cast?
Speaker 2:like this, actually the cast, the cast. I got to move like this knuckle and just a little bit of my thumb and everything else was casted together.
Speaker 4:So I'm like, look, dad how did you break your hands?
Speaker 2:Um, playing softball, summer softball. Um, we were shagging balls, pop flies, and I was running in and this dingling girl, who was just a joker on her team was backpedaling and I had my glove out to catch it and she whipped her glove back and hit you and just jammed my finger in, and that was part of it. When they fixed it they actually had to pull the finger out and reset it sort of.
Speaker 1:Thing.
Speaker 2:So talk about you're fine. Rub some dirt on it, put some ice on it, take two aspirin. She didn't tell me to go to the bathroom with that one at 18.
Speaker 3:Yep, didn't tell me to go to the bathroom with that one at 18. Yeah, yep, knock it up, you're fine, yeah, shoot.
Speaker 2:What else? Well, there's always the thing what do you remember? What do you post? What was your favorite? Both your moms listen, so this is your chance I'll go go.
Speaker 4:Um, I remember parties. I remember my parents having people over like having dinner, people coming over for dinner, or when my dad was directing plays, we would have cast parties after the last performance and all the, all the students would come over and and my mom was so good at cooking for one thing and just making amazing food and just organizing and throwing these parties. And it was the same thing when it was Thanksgiving or Christmas or Easter or Mother's Day, when all the relatives would come over. We have a very small family, but early on, because my mom and dad lived in the same small town, so their parents knew each other, so all of our holidays it was both sides of the family together.
Speaker 4:I thought that's just the way families were until you know, I left home and met other people and what both sets of your grandparents don't get together with you for Christmas. No, that's, that's not normal, okay, but, um, creating a beautiful dining room table and she would just pull things that she had in her house. You know it wasn't like, okay, I'm gonna go to Target or wherever, and'm going to buy a new runner and candles and whatever she would take any. She would take odds and ends from around and create beautiful tables. So cooking and entertaining and, just you know, making that beautiful tablescape all the time. I remember that from a very early age. And then one other thing I remember when my mom and dad would go out, when we would get a babysitter, which my sister and I loved having the babysitter because we got to eat TV dinners, did you?
Speaker 3:walk. Yeah, did you have your TV dinner and watch Lawrence Welk? Because that's what we did?
Speaker 4:Yeah, probably Probably. And I remember them being dressed up to go out and they would come and say goodbye. And I remember my mom's fur coat. I remember the smell of her perfume. Oh, that's wonderful, like like it was yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's, that's a good one. My mom also very good at entertaining and putting on a big um spread. As you were talking about that. I remembered that my parents, I think, went out every weekend. We had babysitters all the time, you know, and then they have bridge night, which is during the week, and we'd have a babysitter. So I mean, they, that's something. I remember that they went out a lot, you know, which is interesting. But my mom specifically, I would say you know I learned a lot from her. You know, like, how to sew, you know how to cook, you know a lot of domestic type stuff, but the funny thing is I hated every minute of it. I fought her that I didn't care about. You know, learning how to sew and learning how to do all these arts and crafts and all this kind of stuff, which now I like it, but you know, I just hated it, hated sitting down and having to learn, learn anything.
Speaker 2:So learn anything. So, yeah, no, yeah, probably typical. Oh yeah, oh yes. Um, my mom was then the opposite of that. She didn't want. I did not know how to cook a single thing other than beanie weenies, which stacy and I talked about campbell's know pork and beans with chopped up hot dog in it. Um, I knew how to follow a recipe to bake cookies. Um, but my mom never wanted us in the kitchen, ever. We got in her way. We made a mess. It was just easier for her to do it.
Speaker 2:I didn't know how to wash clothes. My freshman year of college I was looking at labels and it said cold and I put it in together. I ruined like three sweaters and a shirt because they were white and pink, and I put them in with my jeans because they all said cold. Didn't know you couldn't do that. So where my mom knew how to do all that, I didn't learn it. So where my mom knew how to do all that, I didn't learn it. I did know how to sew because she thought that was something I needed to know how to do. I'm sure it had to do with 4-H, it was a project or something that we had to do, and she picked out the pattern and she picked out the easiest and I'm not even I'm pretty sure she probably did half of it. You know she didn't care about that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:And I think for many, many, many years I'm the oldest, my brother, I was six when he was born, so probably through about the first 12 years of my life I was my dad's boy. We did sports together all the time because Cole wasn't old enough, and so I did a lot more outdoor stuff than I ever did the indoor stuff. But when I started having, you know, once I had kids, I called my mom every single day, kid, I called my mom every single day and she just had such a calm nature to her. And, um, my mom, my mom, hardly ever drank. Her idea of a drink was a, a fuzzy navel or a pink squirrel, and if you don't know what those are you should Google those. Um, they're very frou-frou drinks. But I remember being so upset and you you know I had with Madeline. I had a lot of postpartum depression, which I didn't know that what that was at the time. But I remember her saying Amy, amy, do you have a beer in the house?
Speaker 2:oh my gosh, that's funny because now, when they were having kids, they were told to have a beer because it helped with um, like milk production or something. They thought that that was a thing, so, so she's like there's not enough alcohol in there, that's gonna hurt you, you know, you, it'll you, it'll calm you down, it'll calm her down. So, um, I came to have a greater appreciation, probably as we all do, for our, for our moms, as we get older.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, definitely. I mean you're, as we became adults, you realize that they were doing it for the first time, raising us, just like we're doing it for the first time raising ours, and nobody tells you how to do this, so you're just figuring it out for yourself and yeah, it's, it's true, it's hard, yeah, it's hard and then it becomes a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Then, when you get to be the adult age and you get to enjoy your parents moms in particular, in a different relationship, um, you know, I, I just watch all the vacations, stacy you go on with your mom and she's in the sporting gear, wearing whatever baseball hat and jersey are, whatever field you're at, you're hiking with her, you're, you know, she's just in for all of it. And, kitty, you and your mom and your sister are doing so many, you know, get together and get to see things and stopped in and saw me at work one day. Stopped in and saw me at work one day. You know, it's just fun to get to this point where we can enjoy our moms as women as opposed to you know, mom, yes, do you guys have good plans? Do you have plans with your moms?
Speaker 4:Well, my mom was just here two weekends ago. My mom was just here two weekends ago, so, um, I will. I guess we haven't really even talked about mother's day, so um, don't know yet if I'm going to make a trip there, but my sister is there where my mom lives, so, um, we will have something special for her. But I need to get home again.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Stacey, does your gang get together?
Speaker 3:Yeah, everybody will be back. Even though they just came for Easter, trenton and Liza did not make it, so they're coming for Mother's Day. So, we'll all kind of get together. I don't know what the plan is yet.
Speaker 2:You've got lots of generations of moms in your house now. Yeah, yep, yeah, I will be working again on Mother's Day. So if anybody would like to buy their mother a home in Chaska, please come see me. I'll make that happen for you on Mother's Day.
Speaker 3:I have an idea. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, oh, I hope everybody gets to at least have a good phone call, good phone call with their mom, and if your mom, like me, if your mom isn't here, call your kids, call your siblings, call that mom figure in your life. Yeah, there you go. That's good to you. So anybody got a shot.
Speaker 4:I finally remembered to bring mine into the room that I was going to share a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2:Excellent, Kitty hit us with a shot.
Speaker 4:All right. Okay, so mine is artificial flowers for outside. Okay, so mine is artificial flowers for outside, mm-hmm, okay. So I've been seeing this all over TikTok, all over Instagram, all over Facebook, and I've got a couple of spots in the front and in the back that I just cannot keep real flowers alive. They get pummeled by the rain that's coming off the roof or whatever, and so I thought I'm gonna, I'm gonna give that a try. I want to see. I want to see, touch and feel them. Okay, so these this is a sampling of them oh my wow, yes, very all.
Speaker 4:I just, this is just a box that I have these in. I had these. I haven't planted, yet Planted, but you know so it's just like artificial flowers that you get at Michael's or, you know, hobby lobby, whatever, but they're UV protected, so they're not going to fade. They can get wet, you know, depending because of how they're made, they can get wet and they look real. So I've got two pots, uh, on my front steps that I've already done.
Speaker 4:So when I took all the Christmas stuff out, I left all the dirt in the pot, and these are stuck in the dirt just because I'm like, well, I'm not going to dump the dirt, because I wouldn't have, you'd have to put something in any way to. So what I, what I'm seeing a lot of people do, is just get that floral clay and then stick that in there. But it also needs to be kind of heavy so that the pot doesn't blow away, because we get gale force winds and um. So these are all the different ones now that I'm going to work on. If it stops raining too and this will probably be I can probably get at least two or three pots out of this. Oh yeah, they're really inexpensive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how much were they?
Speaker 4:That's a little box. Um, well, this, this is probably like three orders right here, like these. I ordered all of these grasses. All of these grasses were one order and I mean I want to say like each order was like $25 and you know. So you get a lot. Yeah, yeah, cool, I'm very, very happy with it.
Speaker 2:Yep, that used to be my favorite Mother's Day activity. All the kids stay home and I get to go buy hundreds of dollars worth of flowers. Yeah, spend the whole afternoon at the greenhouse.
Speaker 4:I just I. I'm always excited about it at the beginning of the season and for for. For us it was mother's day too, and I do really well watering things for like the first month, and then it'd start to taper off and by the end of summer they just look like crap. So that's another reason why I want to try this this year.
Speaker 3:So there you go. Yeah, that's a good, good suggestion, excellent. How about you, stacey? Sick job excellent. How about you, stacy? I got called out um by from one of our podcasts a couple weeks ago. Oh, what does that mean? That means my nephew brody. I'm gonna call him out on the podcast. He listened to our episode about the generations. You know we talked about Gen X boomer.
Speaker 3:Yannick's and I made the comment that Millennials, or Jen Y they were named Jen Y, yep, because they asked a lot of questions and he called me out on this says no, it wasn't, is because XYyz. And I said yes, that too. But they literally said, you know, at the time, because that generation's very inquisitive. And then I kind of second guessed myself and said, did I just make that up? So I, you know, put it in ai, and I was right, it was because they also asked a lot of questions. Oh, kind of the same thing. And then again then they changed it to millennial anyway. So yeah, so, there you go.
Speaker 2:Okay, um, I I have one too. But first you have to look at my eyebrows. Okay, do we think my eyebrows look? I mean, I had one of my kids during FaceTime say to me did you get your eyebrows done? I'm like no. So I think that's a good sign. But here's the product that I've got. This is a little itty bitty elf. It's like a felt tip. Can you guys see that little little thing?
Speaker 3:So this was kind of looks like an eyeliner, yeah, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, like an eyeliner, yeah, that kind of thing. Okay it is. It is the holy strokes micro, fine brow pen. Okay, and for twelve dollars, a great eyebrow thing. So it's. It does have a little ink to it. It does dry darker, so there's a little bit of a learning curve. But you can actually make little, you know, make it look like hairs instead of just Sometimes you get those it looks more like a pencil, like a crayon pencil.
Speaker 2:And then it's just a color smudge and I've done the things that look like a mascara wand and that's great, but it only lifts what you already have. So if you have thin brows, this is how you can fill in. Nice. My color is neutral brown, neutral brown. Got it at Target. Okay, you can get it anywhere. So it's the elf brand an inexpensive brand, well worth it. So if you ever need to pick me up, there you go $12.
Speaker 3:Make yourself happy. Good, those were good, those were good ones.
Speaker 2:Buy it for your mother, Because probably your mom's eyebrows are going too like the rest of us.
Speaker 4:What do you guys think about microblading?
Speaker 2:My sister had it done. Oops, hope she doesn't mind that I just said that she doesn't listen, so I think I'm okay, is that one of those things I assume you have to get done often? Um, I think she had it done a number of years ago and I think she's had it touched up once, no, why did she?
Speaker 4:had it done a number of years ago and I think she's had it touched up once. Oh, why?
Speaker 2:did she have it done? She had such such thin barely their eyebrows and they were really super light, okay, and they look really nice. Now I did read something somewhere, you know, and I'm sure it was somebody who was trying to promote a different product or different way of doing it they did caution with microblading. Basically, what it is is it's a tattoo, yeah, that your face changes and your shape of your eye changes, so that's gonna change too, yeah, but yeah, she liked it she's I'm not, I'm not, I I have a.
Speaker 4:I have pretty bushy eyebrows. I'm not considering it, I just always, whenever I see people doing it, I'm always like oh, it's interesting, yeah, yeah, so just curious. Good, some people's eyebrows.
Speaker 3:Yep Way way way overdone. Yeah, they can.
Speaker 2:Eyebrows have gotten big, yeah, yes. So on that note, let's go big. Have a big week, my friends have a big week. Make it count. Make it count. Say happy Mother's Day to someone in your life. And if you have the ability to watch kids, so younger moms can go spend an afternoon by themselves, it's okay. You can have Mother's day without your kids. Yes, it's a celebration of you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in fact my kids would say that's what I used to tell them is that they'd say what do you want for mother's day? And I would say you all to just go somewhere, or let me be alone.
Speaker 2:Yes, I would like you to play with your father. Today it's really Father's Day. Go play with him.
Speaker 4:Yeah, alright, lovelies, good to talk to you and you have a good week. Bye-bye, bye.
Speaker 1:Bye, alright. Woo, look, I got that. Wow, who wants some heads up right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'ma tour the forest running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten.
