September 9, 2025 • 11 mins
Rach is in full dance Mum mode and is blown away with how organised the other Mum's are because gluing rhinestones onto socks is not what she signed up for!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apologie production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode about I a bad mum.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Poka. You feel quite relaxed today as a parent.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't know why I haven't seen my kids today.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh yeah, that's probably why.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I love how you tape it off quietly, like no
one was going to actually hear you say, I haven't
seen the kids yet today. I saw the kids this
morning and it was grand. I made lunch boxes. They
complained about the lunch box because it was too healthy,
and then I made them breakfast.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I made them eggs.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They still complained about the eggs not being the softness
that they wanted, because apparently they live in the taj
Mahal and they got servants everywhere and so on that note,
I said, you can get yourselves ready for the rest
of it, and I aren't going to the gym.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
See later, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And then you'll get to a stage where they do
their own lunch boxes. But they're so fucking lazy rag
that they half fill it with a few packets that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They can find.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, Holly said to me the other day, Oh, Mum,
my friend had this really nice rap and she had
like salad, and she had all these little things and
I was like, interesting, We've got raps, you just can't
be asked to make them. That's the difference. You could
have a nice, lovely made rap you just have to make.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We've got plenty of salad in there. You'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Am I a bad mum for even surprising myself? Short
and sweet of this particular topic is we know how
much of an amazing dance mum I am, and how
far I've come.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You've come very far.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let's just recap because back in the day when Gracie
started doing dance, Grace and else both started, remember that
were and you were new to the dance mum old,
but I was like, you were in it, yea. And
they are supposed to have a different bag per costume,
(02:34):
so like a different garment bag per costume when they
do the concert, and I remember you rocked up with your.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Still in, still in the bags that we got given
the plastic bag, still in the little cheap plastic bags
that we get, given the uniforms in, hadn't taken them out,
hadn't done anything, hadn't eroned them, hadn't straightened them out,
and then like literally gave him like a Wooli's bag
each and was like, and there you go. And then
when I got in there, because I remember for the
(03:04):
first concert, they made you feel like you had to volunteer.
So I have volunteered since the first one, but obviously
have stepped up the mark a bit since. But I
genuinely remember walking in there going, oh, my gosh, there
was Duffel bags and like these girls, like my girls
(03:25):
were little, they were little. I think if I can recall,
this will be a moment for me. But I think
Elsie's first dance concert might have been a Ladybug or
a Minion. Maybe the Minion was a year after, but
a Ladybug, and I remember thinking, oh, and then I
pulled out her uniform as all scrutched, and just like, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That hot mess of a mom there she I bet
though there was a mom there with a steam cleaner.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Like a fucking everything you can think of, everything you.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Can think they have like pockets full of bobby pins.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah. I had that particular mom in the room where
I was volunteering with the girls, because I always went
in the room where my girls were because it made
sense like they would look for me anyway that were
super little, and I could help them as well as
helping others that were in So I've sort of progressed
with that same group all the way through. But I
had one of those moms in there that was like
(04:20):
constantly every year her bum bag would just like advance
with how much stuff and how cool she was with
all of the things, like anything that you can possibly
think of that you would be like so left field
to be in your bum bag, like a dance bum bag,
and she'd have it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, And then she'd be.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The mom that, like by the last show, she'd have
like these fold up cups that went to like this
big and then they'd pop out to cups and she'd
pull out like one and.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You're like what, You're like a unicorn. This is this
is crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
But now we're fast forwarding to where now Gracie is
in the throws. Obviously only have one dance and not two,
but she's in the throes of going into.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Solos, and I take my hat off to her. I
look at her and I go.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh, my gosh, like I feel nervous for her and
her composure of a dancer. She's encouraging to everyone else
that's out there, and she is technically competing against them,
but she's encouraging. She just doesn't let anything undo her.
And I just admire that because I'm feeling it all
(05:27):
day until her solos are done, because I go, do
you imagine being on stage for three minutes all by yourself,
all the crowd's watching you. There's no opportunity to basically
mess up? And I can't even get certain things as
the preparation team right, So I can't imagine what it's
like being out there. But now I find myself Katie.
(05:47):
Monday afternoon, after dance drop off, I go to Spotlight.
I've been told, I've been given instruction that her jazz
solo uniform.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Needs to be like jug up. It needs bling, it needs.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Sparkle, it needs and I sort of looked at the
teacher who's her solo teacher, and was like, so where
do I get that done?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Do they not do that? Do they not?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I would no, not with solos. They're not going to
do that just for one because it's hers.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So she's got a jazz and a tap and she's
working on a hip hop. Don't get me started on
what they're requiring me to be able to do for
a hip hop.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And like this is someone that is like, you know
when people are oh, are you really creative?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No, No, I'm not actually like and I I don't
want to sit and sew and tack.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
What does tech even mean? I don't even know what
tach means.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I didn't even pass my home economics group class. I
got a b pluss for my shorts and sewing because
somebody else finished them off.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, and that and this there is where I remember
we talked about the stapler. Stapler is your friend, the
stapler because you don't have to sew, just staple shit
on there, like bling it up, Katie.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
These blink things can't go on so like the teacher
wants they bling, but can't be sequenced because sequence aren't
enough bling.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So so we've got.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like what do they call them that are not sequenced
like Ryan stones, Oh, like proper gems.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And then I have yes like one b one yes
with tweezers. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And so I'm sitting there watching the block, trying to
a work out a pattern that I wanted to look like.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm putting gems on socks.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Like cruise socks that people wear play sport that they
just pull on.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm putting fucking gems on them.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
How's your glue going like it? Oh, it's not sticking,
is it? They're not sticking?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But I went to I went to Spotlight, and no
one actually helped me, which was a part. And then
I turned to this no offense with older ladies that
go to Spotlight a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Because it's one of like my mum is one of them.
It's now you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And so I turned to her, thinking she'll know, and
I was like, sorry, do you glue gemstones onto fabric much?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
She was like sorry, and I was like wrong one.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I went, I just want to know if this is
the glue because people that work at Spotlight seem to
not exist either except for that at the counters, and
so I was like looking for someone that looks crafty.
And I'd picked up and read every glue thing that
there was, but I wanted to know whether I needed
a hot glue gum or this other particular fabric glue thing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Because it never works like it's supposed to work. It
never does what it's going to be, like when she
puts the socks on. Since she puts the socks onthing,
you're going to fly off.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You imagine that you watched a whole episode of the
block whilst gluing on Ryan.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Soon she puts one sock on it and they all
fly off. So now I think one sock.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I've done one side because I need it to like dry,
so I can't do the other side tool like tonight.
And then I've got another sock to do, so I've
got to do another like three sides or four sides
of the sock to go, and then I have to
start on her shorts because her shorts are separate to
the uni.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
How long has it taken you to do a sock
like one sock?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Took me like a whole episode, which would be like
an hour and a bit. Yeah, probably longer. Actually I
started before the blox. You know what you should do?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh yeah, gluing Rhyanstone on socks.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That would be like torture for me. And then you
know what the teacher says to me.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
For her hip hop, you know what you should get
her a pair of cargo boots, like the high cargo
boots and then.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Rhyanstone the jeweler all the way. I was like, and
then I put it on my gram for a bit
of a laugh. Get this.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Someone reached out to me another mom and went, oh
my gosh, I feel your pain. I have just finished
jeweling a pair of cargo shoes for.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
My daughter, for my daughter for a dance, and I
was like, that's what I want next? What size is she?
And what date is the concert? Can we share? Can
I buy them from you? That's what I was thinking.
But it's good.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You know that there's other people out there as crazy,
but like elevated. I'm elevating myself, Like I didn't even
know I could do this as a dance mum.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I remember sewing stuff in the car on the way
to the concert. I would be in the car and
I would be sewing fucking hats onto head pieces.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Of what I don't know, just shit.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Shit's like this other dance mum, Abby, she can literally
like be sewing them up or like tacking them as
they're walking onto stage to perform.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
She's like that good.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, they're like next level mums. Like it's a real talent.
It is a talent, dance mum, talent.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I don't know that I'll ever elevate myself to that role.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
No, but you know, maybe I could take up the gluing. No,
I don't want to take up the going. I'n't doing
it for a whole team of dancers. That's why they don't.
That's why it's your job.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's all the They're in their own world of pain,
bluing rhinestones to sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And then I'll probably get there, And then I did you. No,
I don't like them. Just wear the plane ones. Oh
she is wearing those. You wear them, then I'll wear them.
I'm wearing them.
Apologie production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode about I a bad mum.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Poka. You feel quite relaxed today as a parent.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't know why I haven't seen my kids today.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh yeah, that's probably why.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I love how you tape it off quietly, like no
one was going to actually hear you say, I haven't
seen the kids yet today. I saw the kids this
morning and it was grand. I made lunch boxes. They
complained about the lunch box because it was too healthy,
and then I made them breakfast.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I made them eggs.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They still complained about the eggs not being the softness
that they wanted, because apparently they live in the taj
Mahal and they got servants everywhere and so on that note,
I said, you can get yourselves ready for the rest
of it, and I aren't going to the gym.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
See later, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And then you'll get to a stage where they do
their own lunch boxes. But they're so fucking lazy rag
that they half fill it with a few packets that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They can find.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, Holly said to me the other day, Oh, Mum,
my friend had this really nice rap and she had
like salad, and she had all these little things and
I was like, interesting, We've got raps, you just can't
be asked to make them. That's the difference. You could
have a nice, lovely made rap you just have to make.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We've got plenty of salad in there. You'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Am I a bad mum for even surprising myself? Short
and sweet of this particular topic is we know how
much of an amazing dance mum I am, and how
far I've come.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You've come very far.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let's just recap because back in the day when Gracie
started doing dance, Grace and else both started, remember that
were and you were new to the dance mum old,
but I was like, you were in it, yea. And
they are supposed to have a different bag per costume,
(02:34):
so like a different garment bag per costume when they
do the concert, and I remember you rocked up with your.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Still in, still in the bags that we got given
the plastic bag, still in the little cheap plastic bags
that we get, given the uniforms in, hadn't taken them out,
hadn't done anything, hadn't eroned them, hadn't straightened them out,
and then like literally gave him like a Wooli's bag
each and was like, and there you go. And then
when I got in there, because I remember for the
(03:04):
first concert, they made you feel like you had to volunteer.
So I have volunteered since the first one, but obviously
have stepped up the mark a bit since. But I
genuinely remember walking in there going, oh, my gosh, there
was Duffel bags and like these girls, like my girls
(03:25):
were little, they were little. I think if I can recall,
this will be a moment for me. But I think
Elsie's first dance concert might have been a Ladybug or
a Minion. Maybe the Minion was a year after, but
a Ladybug, and I remember thinking, oh, and then I
pulled out her uniform as all scrutched, and just like, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That hot mess of a mom there she I bet
though there was a mom there with a steam cleaner.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Like a fucking everything you can think of, everything you.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Can think they have like pockets full of bobby pins.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah. I had that particular mom in the room where
I was volunteering with the girls, because I always went
in the room where my girls were because it made
sense like they would look for me anyway that were
super little, and I could help them as well as
helping others that were in So I've sort of progressed
with that same group all the way through. But I
had one of those moms in there that was like
(04:20):
constantly every year her bum bag would just like advance
with how much stuff and how cool she was with
all of the things, like anything that you can possibly
think of that you would be like so left field
to be in your bum bag, like a dance bum bag,
and she'd have it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, And then she'd be.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The mom that, like by the last show, she'd have
like these fold up cups that went to like this
big and then they'd pop out to cups and she'd
pull out like one and.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You're like what, You're like a unicorn. This is this
is crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
But now we're fast forwarding to where now Gracie is
in the throws. Obviously only have one dance and not two,
but she's in the throes of going into.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Solos, and I take my hat off to her. I
look at her and I go.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh, my gosh, like I feel nervous for her and
her composure of a dancer. She's encouraging to everyone else
that's out there, and she is technically competing against them,
but she's encouraging. She just doesn't let anything undo her.
And I just admire that because I'm feeling it all
(05:27):
day until her solos are done, because I go, do
you imagine being on stage for three minutes all by yourself,
all the crowd's watching you. There's no opportunity to basically
mess up? And I can't even get certain things as
the preparation team right, So I can't imagine what it's
like being out there. But now I find myself Katie.
(05:47):
Monday afternoon, after dance drop off, I go to Spotlight.
I've been told, I've been given instruction that her jazz
solo uniform.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Needs to be like jug up. It needs bling, it needs.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Sparkle, it needs and I sort of looked at the
teacher who's her solo teacher, and was like, so where
do I get that done?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Do they not do that? Do they not?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I would no, not with solos. They're not going to
do that just for one because it's hers.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So she's got a jazz and a tap and she's
working on a hip hop. Don't get me started on
what they're requiring me to be able to do for
a hip hop.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And like this is someone that is like, you know
when people are oh, are you really creative?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No, No, I'm not actually like and I I don't
want to sit and sew and tack.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
What does tech even mean? I don't even know what
tach means.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I didn't even pass my home economics group class. I
got a b pluss for my shorts and sewing because
somebody else finished them off.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, and that and this there is where I remember
we talked about the stapler. Stapler is your friend, the
stapler because you don't have to sew, just staple shit
on there, like bling it up, Katie.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
These blink things can't go on so like the teacher
wants they bling, but can't be sequenced because sequence aren't
enough bling.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So so we've got.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like what do they call them that are not sequenced
like Ryan stones, Oh, like proper gems.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And then I have yes like one b one yes
with tweezers. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And so I'm sitting there watching the block, trying to
a work out a pattern that I wanted to look like.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'm putting gems on socks.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Like cruise socks that people wear play sport that they
just pull on.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm putting fucking gems on them.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
How's your glue going like it? Oh, it's not sticking,
is it? They're not sticking?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But I went to I went to Spotlight, and no
one actually helped me, which was a part. And then
I turned to this no offense with older ladies that
go to Spotlight a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Because it's one of like my mum is one of them.
It's now you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And so I turned to her, thinking she'll know, and
I was like, sorry, do you glue gemstones onto fabric much?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
She was like sorry, and I was like wrong one.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I went, I just want to know if this is
the glue because people that work at Spotlight seem to
not exist either except for that at the counters, and
so I was like looking for someone that looks crafty.
And I'd picked up and read every glue thing that
there was, but I wanted to know whether I needed
a hot glue gum or this other particular fabric glue thing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Because it never works like it's supposed to work. It
never does what it's going to be, like when she
puts the socks on. Since she puts the socks onthing,
you're going to fly off.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You imagine that you watched a whole episode of the
block whilst gluing on Ryan.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Soon she puts one sock on it and they all
fly off. So now I think one sock.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I've done one side because I need it to like dry,
so I can't do the other side tool like tonight.
And then I've got another sock to do, so I've
got to do another like three sides or four sides
of the sock to go, and then I have to
start on her shorts because her shorts are separate to
the uni.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
How long has it taken you to do a sock
like one sock?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Took me like a whole episode, which would be like
an hour and a bit. Yeah, probably longer. Actually I
started before the blox. You know what you should do?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh yeah, gluing Rhyanstone on socks.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That would be like torture for me. And then you
know what the teacher says to me.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
For her hip hop, you know what you should get
her a pair of cargo boots, like the high cargo
boots and then.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Rhyanstone the jeweler all the way. I was like, and
then I put it on my gram for a bit
of a laugh. Get this.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Someone reached out to me another mom and went, oh
my gosh, I feel your pain. I have just finished
jeweling a pair of cargo shoes for.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
My daughter, for my daughter for a dance, and I
was like, that's what I want next? What size is she?
And what date is the concert? Can we share? Can
I buy them from you? That's what I was thinking.
But it's good.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You know that there's other people out there as crazy,
but like elevated. I'm elevating myself, Like I didn't even
know I could do this as a dance mum.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I remember sewing stuff in the car on the way
to the concert. I would be in the car and
I would be sewing fucking hats onto head pieces.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Of what I don't know, just shit.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Shit's like this other dance mum, Abby, she can literally
like be sewing them up or like tacking them as
they're walking onto stage to perform.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
She's like that good.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, they're like next level mums. Like it's a real talent.
It is a talent, dance mum, talent.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I don't know that I'll ever elevate myself to that role.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
No, but you know, maybe I could take up the gluing. No,
I don't want to take up the going. I'n't doing
it for a whole team of dancers. That's why they don't.
That's why it's your job.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's all the They're in their own world of pain,
bluing rhinestones to sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And then I'll probably get there, And then I did you. No,
I don't like them. Just wear the plane ones. Oh
she is wearing those. You wear them, then I'll wear them.
I'm wearing them.
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