April 29, 2025 • 10 mins
Rach can't believe we're almost halfway through the year and is struggling with the lack of routine. Warning: this episode sidetracks and leaves them literally crying with laughter!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode ab am I
Bad Mom Podcast. It was like kind of Mum's Gone
(00:29):
Wild on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was Mum's Gone Wild on the weekend, although I
heard that it actually got a whole lot wilder after
we left. Oh really, you and I left when our
uber driver arrived.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, Uber Sam, your husband Sam. So we had another
fortieth birthday another the weekend. Everyone's turning forty and it
was great, Like we had a great time. I could
tell that you were like ready to let your hair down,
like at the beginning of the night, like I can
tell sometimes yeah, you'll be at something, and I'm like,
(01:02):
Rachel wants to leave early, like it would be the
start of it, like she's going to leave early. And
this particular day, I was like, Rachel's just gonna let
her head down. I can just tell already, and you did.
There was a conversation. I can't even remember what we
were talking about. Oh, I think me being part Indian.
(01:22):
And then someone said something else about Asian and he went,
she's not Asian. I went, well, India's in Asia and
you went, no, it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And then I happened to be sitting obviously across from you,
but next to your husband, and he just sat there
and shook his head and went Rachel that day. Now
I looked at him, I was like, Sri Lanka as
well as a part of and he was like, we're
stopping this conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It was a really great example that weekend of doing
something for yourself and not feeling guilty as mums. And
you know what else happened when your husband, Douba Sam turned.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Up to pick us up.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Not only did he turn up to pick us up
and drive us back, yeah, but he turned up with
a bag full of cheeseburgers. Like what gets better than that?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I think he was probably anticipating, so he turned up
and he's like, with a whole bag of whole bag
of cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
There's been a few occasions like this lately. We had
your birthday, which reminds me also that I had a
conversation with a friend you invited to your party, and
at one point in the night she said to me,
are you drinking the good champagne or the cheap sparkling?
(02:47):
And I looked at her and I went, no, I'm
on the good stuff, And she went, oh, that expectation
of oh, I should be on the good stuff too,
And I looked at her and I went, how old
are you? She went twenty six? Yeah, yeah, twenty six,
And I went, you've got to do your time with
the shits.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Am I a bad mum for feeling slightly unhinged being
on Instagram at the moment. There's always like monthly recap
or like what's the other one that I can't stand
(03:28):
that people keep writing on their captions. It's like monthly dump.
I was like, I don't know why I find dump
offensive and then.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They list like number one me and BALI.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't mind it being like monthly recap or here's
an overview of what I've done for the month. I
actually quite like it. It's dump. We don't need to
put the affiliation of dump on the month that it was.
Find another word atprol fucking chat GBT that shit, use
some creativity and get rid of dump because that is horrible.
(04:03):
But I'm going to sidetrack this whole podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I lives, Oh no, just on the sidetracking the podcast,
and I'm saying something else that really irritates me. And
this is not against the people, because I love them, like,
you know people. I don't want to be mean, but
it's those you know, the little microphones, Oh the little
fur balls. They're little microphones, but you hold them and
they're like really tiny. But yeah, that's a problem with them.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Why what do you find I don't know. Is it
the location or is it the holding of or is
it just that we all got mics now.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I think it's the idea of it being too professional
when it's.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Just in Yeah. I have to say for work, they've
sort of done it a few times, because obviously, building
a marketing background on social media is a tough one
for every business. But at the same time, they always
passed me that thing and I'm like, why is this
so offensive? Like I don't want to put it near
my mouth and go oh no. Anyway, sidetracked but slightly
(05:08):
unhinged comes from seeing the monthly recap or overview of
the month, and we're wrapping April to head into May,
and April for me has just been just chaos, Katie. Like,
if I was sitting here and I was like, oh,
let me do a recap, I wish I had all
the photos of the shit fight that I've been in
(05:28):
for the last month, to the point that I was like,
I don't think I've ever been so happy to see
another month come in.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I've been hearing this a lot. There's something that's happened
with the start of twenty twenty five. And as I'm saying,
I'm sure they said this at the start of twenty
twenty four and then all the way through a year
twenty two, but something's happened with the start of twenty
twenty five where there's something going on for everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, whether it's.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Fine, so so much. Someone also said to me that
this week apparently there's a new moo.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't know, there's another moon, new moon, another full moon.
I was like, didn't we just finish one? Didn't my
crazy emotional energy just finish so that I can start another. Wise,
I was like, I don't want to do it. I'm
going to end up in a straight jacket. Now. Bringing
this back into parenting and being slightly unhinged. When we
are feeling it, usually the kids are feeling it too.
(06:19):
That's how I base majority of my stuff is like,
if you're feeling it, I'm usually feeling it too. It's
just whether we want to bridge the gap and sort
of acknowledge the fact that we're both in a little
hot pickle at the same time. Whilst I'm feeling it
and the month has been ginormous, my kids have been
so testing, and I feel like it is a knock
(06:39):
on effect because I've been in such a state. And
when I say state, I mean like we started off
my birthday party into their birthday parties. Also throw in
their school holidays.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And then there's also been like seven hundred public colaba.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So many public holidays, throw in Easter, so there's so
much in there that I just go, like all I
have done for the home of April, it just feels
like you're sitting on the edge of a cliff. You're
just hinging on this like fact that you're just about
to like go face first off. But at this point
in time, if that means we're going into May, and
(07:18):
that's what I have to do, I'm so willing and
ready because I want my kids to just like stopping
mean to me. I just want to find some consistency
and some flow for myself because I know that the
knock on and carry on effect means that my girls
will sort of come with me a little bit more do.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You feel like it's because the routine's all been thrown out, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I think it was, like obviously Holidays sends everyone into
a spin. It's so much busier. You feel like I'm
going to keep achieving stuff for them every day. And
then by the time I have to say, Katie, by
the time that they were going back, even though it
was three days, because it was like they went back
to school, three days off, another long weekend, three days
back at school, and I was just like, so okay
(08:07):
with being back at school and routine and yes, if
that means a lunch box every morning, I'm going to
take that. I'm going to cop that on the gin.
I just feel like it's so weird to say, but
I can breathe again because it's May.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The thing about May is you're almost halfway through that year. Yeah,
Like we keep saying, it feels like it's just been Christmas,
Like what is it. I have got kind of a
theory on why time feels like it's going so fast.
I think it's because that whole whenever board with scrolling,
even when the ads come on in TV, we're like
(08:41):
either fast yeah through them, or we're scrolling whilst they're
on or with like even I found myself the other
day I was in a line at the post office
that's long.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Always we're not starting on that, but always and do
not go.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It was out the door anyway, I found myself in
that line and I really noticed it instead of looking around.
You know, once you get in the shop. The post
office is very clever. They've got all sorts of sh
Do you know what I bought in.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There the other day?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A fucking light up star Christmas decoration.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It was on special.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Because it's nowhere near Christmas, and I was bored in
the line. I need I need that light up star
Christmas decoration.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's big, like.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Big wooden star, and I bought it. And I was
buying it, I was like, the fun are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What does my life come to? That's the sort of.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Shit you do if you're not scrolling on your phone.
In this particular occasion, I was like, I'm about to
head into the post office. Don't look at what you
could buy, because God knows what you'll leave with. Just
keep scrolling on Instagram. Just I'm wearing. You know, when
you watch horse races and they've got blinkers on, so
(10:11):
that they don't get spooked or like distracted. When I
get this, I have to wear blinking.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The old classes, and that's all I can think about.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Was you with a big side
Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode ab am I
Bad Mom Podcast. It was like kind of Mum's Gone
(00:29):
Wild on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was Mum's Gone Wild on the weekend, although I
heard that it actually got a whole lot wilder after
we left. Oh really, you and I left when our
uber driver arrived.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, Uber Sam, your husband Sam. So we had another
fortieth birthday another the weekend. Everyone's turning forty and it
was great, Like we had a great time. I could
tell that you were like ready to let your hair down,
like at the beginning of the night, like I can
tell sometimes yeah, you'll be at something, and I'm like,
(01:02):
Rachel wants to leave early, like it would be the
start of it, like she's going to leave early. And
this particular day, I was like, Rachel's just gonna let
her head down. I can just tell already, and you did.
There was a conversation. I can't even remember what we
were talking about. Oh, I think me being part Indian.
(01:22):
And then someone said something else about Asian and he went,
she's not Asian. I went, well, India's in Asia and
you went, no, it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And then I happened to be sitting obviously across from you,
but next to your husband, and he just sat there
and shook his head and went Rachel that day. Now
I looked at him, I was like, Sri Lanka as
well as a part of and he was like, we're
stopping this conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It was a really great example that weekend of doing
something for yourself and not feeling guilty as mums. And
you know what else happened when your husband, Douba Sam turned.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Up to pick us up.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Not only did he turn up to pick us up
and drive us back, yeah, but he turned up with
a bag full of cheeseburgers. Like what gets better than that?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I think he was probably anticipating, so he turned up
and he's like, with a whole bag of whole bag
of cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
There's been a few occasions like this lately. We had
your birthday, which reminds me also that I had a
conversation with a friend you invited to your party, and
at one point in the night she said to me,
are you drinking the good champagne or the cheap sparkling?
(02:47):
And I looked at her and I went, no, I'm
on the good stuff, And she went, oh, that expectation
of oh, I should be on the good stuff too,
And I looked at her and I went, how old
are you? She went twenty six? Yeah, yeah, twenty six,
And I went, you've got to do your time with
the shits.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Am I a bad mum for feeling slightly unhinged being
on Instagram at the moment. There's always like monthly recap
or like what's the other one that I can't stand
(03:28):
that people keep writing on their captions. It's like monthly dump.
I was like, I don't know why I find dump
offensive and then.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They list like number one me and BALI.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't mind it being like monthly recap or here's
an overview of what I've done for the month. I
actually quite like it. It's dump. We don't need to
put the affiliation of dump on the month that it was.
Find another word atprol fucking chat GBT that shit, use
some creativity and get rid of dump because that is horrible.
(04:03):
But I'm going to sidetrack this whole podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I lives, Oh no, just on the sidetracking the podcast,
and I'm saying something else that really irritates me. And
this is not against the people, because I love them, like,
you know people. I don't want to be mean, but
it's those you know, the little microphones, Oh the little
fur balls. They're little microphones, but you hold them and
they're like really tiny. But yeah, that's a problem with them.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Why what do you find I don't know. Is it
the location or is it the holding of or is
it just that we all got mics now.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I think it's the idea of it being too professional
when it's.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Just in Yeah. I have to say for work, they've
sort of done it a few times, because obviously, building
a marketing background on social media is a tough one
for every business. But at the same time, they always
passed me that thing and I'm like, why is this
so offensive? Like I don't want to put it near
my mouth and go oh no. Anyway, sidetracked but slightly
(05:08):
unhinged comes from seeing the monthly recap or overview of
the month, and we're wrapping April to head into May,
and April for me has just been just chaos, Katie. Like,
if I was sitting here and I was like, oh,
let me do a recap, I wish I had all
the photos of the shit fight that I've been in
(05:28):
for the last month, to the point that I was like,
I don't think I've ever been so happy to see
another month come in.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I've been hearing this a lot. There's something that's happened
with the start of twenty twenty five. And as I'm saying,
I'm sure they said this at the start of twenty
twenty four and then all the way through a year
twenty two, but something's happened with the start of twenty
twenty five where there's something going on for everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, whether it's.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Fine, so so much. Someone also said to me that
this week apparently there's a new moo.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't know, there's another moon, new moon, another full moon.
I was like, didn't we just finish one? Didn't my
crazy emotional energy just finish so that I can start another. Wise,
I was like, I don't want to do it. I'm
going to end up in a straight jacket. Now. Bringing
this back into parenting and being slightly unhinged. When we
are feeling it, usually the kids are feeling it too.
(06:19):
That's how I base majority of my stuff is like,
if you're feeling it, I'm usually feeling it too. It's
just whether we want to bridge the gap and sort
of acknowledge the fact that we're both in a little
hot pickle at the same time. Whilst I'm feeling it
and the month has been ginormous, my kids have been
so testing, and I feel like it is a knock
(06:39):
on effect because I've been in such a state. And
when I say state, I mean like we started off
my birthday party into their birthday parties. Also throw in
their school holidays.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And then there's also been like seven hundred public colaba.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So many public holidays, throw in Easter, so there's so
much in there that I just go, like all I
have done for the home of April, it just feels
like you're sitting on the edge of a cliff. You're
just hinging on this like fact that you're just about
to like go face first off. But at this point
in time, if that means we're going into May, and
(07:18):
that's what I have to do, I'm so willing and
ready because I want my kids to just like stopping
mean to me. I just want to find some consistency
and some flow for myself because I know that the
knock on and carry on effect means that my girls
will sort of come with me a little bit more do.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You feel like it's because the routine's all been thrown out, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I think it was, like obviously Holidays sends everyone into
a spin. It's so much busier. You feel like I'm
going to keep achieving stuff for them every day. And
then by the time I have to say, Katie, by
the time that they were going back, even though it
was three days, because it was like they went back
to school, three days off, another long weekend, three days
back at school, and I was just like, so okay
(08:07):
with being back at school and routine and yes, if
that means a lunch box every morning, I'm going to
take that. I'm going to cop that on the gin.
I just feel like it's so weird to say, but
I can breathe again because it's May.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The thing about May is you're almost halfway through that year. Yeah,
Like we keep saying, it feels like it's just been Christmas,
Like what is it. I have got kind of a
theory on why time feels like it's going so fast.
I think it's because that whole whenever board with scrolling,
even when the ads come on in TV, we're like
(08:41):
either fast yeah through them, or we're scrolling whilst they're
on or with like even I found myself the other
day I was in a line at the post office
that's long.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Always we're not starting on that, but always and do
not go.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It was out the door anyway, I found myself in
that line and I really noticed it instead of looking around.
You know, once you get in the shop. The post
office is very clever. They've got all sorts of sh
Do you know what I bought in.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There the other day?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A fucking light up star Christmas decoration.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It was on special.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Because it's nowhere near Christmas, and I was bored in
the line. I need I need that light up star
Christmas decoration.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's big, like.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Big wooden star, and I bought it. And I was
buying it, I was like, the fun are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What does my life come to? That's the sort of.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Shit you do if you're not scrolling on your phone.
In this particular occasion, I was like, I'm about to
head into the post office. Don't look at what you
could buy, because God knows what you'll leave with. Just
keep scrolling on Instagram. Just I'm wearing. You know, when
you watch horse races and they've got blinkers on, so
(10:11):
that they don't get spooked or like distracted. When I
get this, I have to wear blinking.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The old classes, and that's all I can think about.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Was you with a big side
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