Sorry for embarrassing you

Rach took her kids to an event but didn't follow the dress code and had to come up with a far-fetched excuse as to why she'd embarrassed them!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am
I A Bad Mum? Podcast? Now, Rach, we have been

(00:29):
doing this podcast for a long time. Yes, I think
when we started am I A Bad Mom?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Elsie was yeah, baby, I was literally just looking at
photos right before we started this, just twenty eighteen, ring
a bell because twenty eighteen would make her three. Yeah,
that's about right. I mean, look at that photo. Look
at that face. That is about three. Yes, so she
was about a good eye. Look it was very fresh.

(00:56):
Look at you, you look so fresh.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah. Well it's a long time ago. We've done a
lot of mumming since then.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's why we've got gray. We drink too much alcohol.
We've got wrinkles.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I do say to.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
My kids hate alcohol like they hate a drinking alcohol.
They've got a real problem with it. They really shame us. Yeah,
but my answer is always I wouldn't drink alcohol if
I didn't have kids, and I really, I really mean it.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, I probably will, No, absolutely will.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
So we've been doing this. I think I think it
was like twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
We've got an announcement to make next week.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
It gets a bit emotional. I told you I was
having an emotional night last night. I was reminiscing, I
was going through our photos.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Don't jump to conclusions because this is not a negative thing.
It's going to be a positive thing. But we do
have an announcement to make next week, which we will
chat about how twenty twenty six is going to look
for the podcast?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh, I was gonna say, could you imagine if you
didn't take podcasts? At the end of that, people are like,
oh my god, Katie is pregnant? You like that would
have just set it up beautifully. And how twenty twenty
six is gonna look. Oh shit, I'm ragnant, It's.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
A whole new era. Am I bad mom? Podcast?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Here we go? I just won't have another baby so
we could start up again with our coltel over again.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
How can I fuck it up a second time round?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Am I a bad mom for throwing them in the
deep end?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Literally?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Literally? And I On the weekend we had been invited
and the girls were very clear to tell everyone that
Robert Erwin invited them to the Steve Irwin Gala Ball,
which is all about supporting the Wildlife Warriors and raising
funds to help with wildlife. Obviously, in Australia, but through
all of the work that they do, and I'd never

(02:58):
been before. Now I've been to a lot of events
and understand dress codes and all the rare. But I thought,
we can wear short dresses. That's fine to a ball,
to a ball, Yeah, yeah, Now the dress code said
black tie.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Can I just jump in here and guess what happened?
So you worked out what you were going to wear
last minute, or maybe not even last minute.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Because it was like the last thirty seconds of a minute.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yep, yep, and you didn't look at the dress code
until you were in the car on the way there.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
No. I know I'd looked at the dress code numerous
times and it was folding into.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
How many times did you have to read black tie?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well? I just thought I could wear a skirt. I
just had one light that was here, and I thought,
this is fine, this is black tie. I knew you
can make it your own style. Like so, I have
this constant battle where I'm like, no, you girls, you
do your own style. Don't be sheep. Follow your style right.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Don't let them tell you what the dress star is.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Let them tell you how you're meant to be.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Even though the event and yeah that's the dress Coade.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean it's different if it was fancy dress.
And we were really going a rocket. But the week
that it was last week prior to this ball, and
I had left it till last minute of going this
week before the ball, we're gone find something to where
Black Friday was going to be on. So we were
like anticipating that we'll be able to just go and
get a little frock each and all the rest. Now

(04:28):
rewind to what last week was for me. Monday got
caught in that massive storm that then proceeded to move
to where my house was and then belt a living
shit out of my house with hail, which meant I
had holes in my ceiling with water coming through into
my house. And that meant bunnings and tarps and ropes

(04:48):
and duct tape, and my adrenals were like off, like peeking.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Ropes and duct tape sounds like something out.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Of and imagine if it was from I would have
been fucking all in, but it wasn't. I was on
my roof fixing the holes anyway, to so much adrenals
and stress. And then Tuesday then turned into storms Tuesday night,
Wednesday night, Thursday, I went through another storm at pickup time,

(05:20):
then the car got belted with hail.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
That leads me to Friday. People on the news are
saying Saturday night, huge storm. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I don't remember the storms being this frequent. Do you
feel like mother Nature is like fucking yeah, punishing?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah? Because and then so look, going back to my
gala every day was out, I didn't have the opportunity
to go and take my kids shopping. And then also
at the same time, back in my head, I'm going
I'm going on holidays soon. I don't needing a gala dress.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah. And also how often do kids need black tie?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Also, my girls are right in between an age where
which dressed you by them that's age appropriate for their age, right,
And they have some beautiful things in their cupboards which
they choose not to wear. Let's not try and put
ourselves in a pressure cooker here, because I'm already fucking
cooked from the pressure I've been in under the week
that has been. I said to them, wear what you want,

(06:17):
and then I put on a dress that I think
I bought maybe eight year zero. Still gone strong. It's
a beautiful dress. I fitted a bit differently these days,
A bit tighter in certain areas. But on the invite
it said, which is probably where my brain gets fixated on,
is with a touch of khaki. So it was black

(06:39):
tie with a touch of khaki.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh that's confusing.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh yeah, sent me down a spiral. But my dress
had khaki through the print of it, so I was like,
I'm great, this is good. Yeah. I also didn't get
hair or makeup done because I felt like it was
unfair because both my girls didn't have theirs done either,
and I was not paying for that.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
And also it's that whole oh you're so beautiful, you
don't need makeup's right, And then I'm sitting there for
an hour and a half someone.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Doing mine and paying, putting your cuddy fillers in underneath
my eyeballs, and we've got there. We didn't go the
red carpet part. You don't need to be on a
red carpet. You've been invited by Robert. That's more than
what anyone else could ever wish for, including forty five
year old women, because look at him after the Bond's advert, holy, like,
we wouldn't want to see that. That again is.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Very confusing because I look at Robert Irwin like he's
a child.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
He's not anymore. He's not anymore.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Do you have how forcefully you said that he's not anymore?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
He's got a mad rig on it. For sure. I'm
a personal trainer. I can say that his muscles are
very big. Okay, that's enough. Anyway, it was such a
beautiful night. Everything was great. Now, my girls looks beautiful.
And to me, my girls could be in a garbage
bag and they could look beautiful. Yeah, but Elsie wore
her blue like with white pin striped suit and she

(08:01):
looked so beautiful to put in like some diamonde earring.
She classically looked Elsie and beautiful. And then Gracie wore
her like little seed dress and all the rest, and
they just both looked beautiful. But they did as soon
as we walk in the door, go mum, everyone is
wearing long dresses. And I went, yeah, look at them all,
I said, everyone looks the same as I'm like trying

(08:25):
to dig my way out, because I was like, what
I really wanted to say to Gracie was I feel
the same way. They don't worry. I'm trying to just
put my shoulders back and walk forward. I'm not looking sideways.
We're here, we made it. This is good, you know, like.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well I think it's really Therefore we're saying black tie
with a touch of khaki, because it's like it's two
different looks.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, it was a great night. Maybe next time, if
the house hasn't got holes coming through you know, the ceiling,
with rain and shit like that, maybe I'll be a
bit more prepared.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
You saw the memo that said black tie. Yes, but
it is the organizer's fault for saying it was also
a touch of cargo. Mother nature. We can blame her
too for the storms.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
I did also just give them heads up and go like,
if there is a massive storm rolling through, I'm not coming.
You will find me at home with the buckets underneath,
the holes of water, praying that it doesn't come through
the top, and my rope tying ability, and probably have
a bottle of wine with a straw in it. That's
where you'll find me.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
But also, if a big storm had come through, who
would be smiling you? Not in your long dresses?

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Who wants to be in a floor length gown when
big storm coming in.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
When we got home from the gala, it had been
a massive day and by the time you're getting home
from like a late night, and my girls, I think
they get to about ten and then they're like, hey,
I'm done. And I said that to them, do not
go to sleep. Do not go to sleep in the car.
I am not carrying you in. I can't I physically
you're both my size, Like, I can't carry you in,

(09:58):
And so they were both like why trying to stay awake,
and then poor Elsie she gets to the door. Mom,
I think that I might, and she's stumbling, I might
just take my pants off and my shirt off and
just go to bed. And that's fine, baby, you think
I just do that in the same time that it's
taken me to go to my bedroom. Just take my

(10:19):
dress off because it'll rip tight and sort of relieve,
you know that feeling of like you'll take your braf,
take it, let everything hang out. In that timeframe, I've
gone into her room. There she is on her bed.
She's like, hasn't even been able to pull her sheets back.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh, do you know what a luxury that is that
your kids do? That went till the teenagers.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, that doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
No, last night rape, I was laying in bed, and
I yelled out, Can you guys shut up, have a
little bit of respect to your parents who are trying
to sleep