September 25, 2025 • 8 mins
Rach is reluctant to tell her girls about a possible holiday booking in case they bang on about it non stop for months! Katie has had enough of her girls hugely long showers and has come up with a great deterrent!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Appogiate production.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome back to am I Mad MoMA podcast, and we're
going to have a week off next week.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We are our holidays. Well for some of us, it's holidays.
You're jetting off. I am lucky enough to be jetting
off to another dance competition following them dance comp I've
got a netball competition for three days. I want to say,
I've got I'm not playing. I'm sitting on the sideline
watching for three days straight.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You're the chauffeur in Ipswich, Ipswich ips rich lovely.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What do I do there?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I was like, do I just get accommodation? And I
was like in Ipswich, I was like, where am I
going to stay? And then I thought, I don't have
a clue. I'm not I'm not gonna go to your
way to start, So I'm just going to drive there
and drive home, drive there and drive home three days
in a row.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Must be somewhere closer.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can say hashtag blessed.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, live in the dream.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Am I a bad mom for keeping it to myself?
This is going to be a rough one because I
really want to bring it up with you because it's
a topic of conversation right now in our household, and
I'm toying with like the option of going away for
holidays in the next.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Holidays, right Christmas holidays.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, Christmas holidays.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But the other part, Katie, is when I tell my
kids something, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Do this will give you, like a good flashback to
you girls.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Being my girl's age, my girls are ten and twelve,
I tend to hold off on telling them things until
the day of.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, or until it's definite and it's locked in.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well no, no, on the day, I don't want to
hear the lead up for the whole week because they're
going to have a sleepover at their friend's house. I
don't want to hear about the reminder every single day
of the seven days before the sleepover.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So I learned this early that my.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Girls are quite like excitable by this, and so I've
tended to leave things to the last minute. I mean,
flashback to the start of the year when Sam, their
father was lucky enough to go into the jungle for
like what seven weeks or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, I'm a celebrity, give me out.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, I'm a celeb Get me out of here, won it.
He's now the King.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Of the Jungle for this year, only I didn't tell
them A that he was going to Africa.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
B he was going to be away seven weeks. And see,
I just told them.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That he was in Sydney, right Sydney. But you weren't
able to tell them?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, Well, yeah, there was a lot of things around it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The problem was, first of all, it was supposed to
be kept under wraps, and secondly the kids and they're
going to slip.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Up and tell someone yeah yeah, yeah, so like even that.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So then they learnt of that as they saw the
episode air like everyone else at the same time. Whether
that make me a good mom or a bad mum,
I have no fucking idea.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
But now I.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Fast forward and go, I've got like this idea of
a holiday might come off, might not come off if
I actually apply myself and make it happen. But I
just don't know what to do with the kids because
if I tell them there's a lot of time between
now and Christmas of listening.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
To all of the what ifs.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Maybe you wait a little bit, because at the moment
Christmas seems a million miles away from kids. But even
if it was after this school holidays and in the
next school term.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Something to look forward to at the end of the term.
Maybe give them a couple of weeks notice, yeah, like
this will be excited.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah. I was like, I still want them to be excited.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I also want it, like, if it does come off,
I want to to be like someone of a Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Because you know.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And the other part is there's no way I could
surprise them with this one. I've genuinely in my mind gone,
what if I surprised them down to the day that
we leave.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I me do that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No, I feel like it would be quite stressful because
I do things like before I go away, like the
house to be tidy, and I'm like the amount of
times I'm like, please leave it tidy because it would
be nicer.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, back peah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Or if someone's house sitting.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's the pair or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I would find it hard not to say anything. This
is completely sideways. But would you tell your kids if
you won lotto?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
No? No, I wouldn't. Would you do about that, No,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We've spoken previously on a podcast about how you're tightening
the purse strings. Could you imagine how your daughters would
react if you won lotto. Now you'd be buying every
fucking concert. You wouldn't be just letting them go to
the concert. V up, You'd be buying the concert.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, I wouldn't, though, Like I remember reading something about
Victoria Beckham and they made all their kids get part
time jobs when they were still at school.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Thought that was pretty good, but also pretty pointless about
to inherit like a millions. But how would you not
tell them though?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
How would you hide it?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, we're moving house. Oh business is going well. As
you pull out the driveway in your Ferrari, they will
know something's up when I don't bang on about the
water bill every time they have a shower. Honestly, rage
I reckon. I timed a twenty minute shower the other day.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Why does it just keep getting longer? What are they
fucking doing in there?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
My child is exactly the same, and she's ten, And
I blame it on my seventy two dollars mirror that
I bought for her room from Kmart, because ever since
I've put that in her room, she's been obsessed. And
now she's obsessed. And now the obsession has gone to
the mirror in the bathroom and then every shower every
(06:08):
night takes at least fifteen to thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, and how many different products does she already have?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
No? No, she's the Oh she will. I know, Katie.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I literally went up there last night and was like, Hey,
just a heads up, we're running late tonight. Like so
there's like usually like if I've got dinner after seven
for me, that's late, right, But I was.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Like, it's late.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You wanted to watch some of the block. I'm giving
you your heads up that you've literally got like thirty
minutes to be able to finish your shower.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Up. Now, what are you doing? Why are you out
of the water?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Are you brushing your hair outside of the shower area
with the water still running?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The switching the shower on and then seeing them just
standing in the bathroom on their phone whilst the shower
is running. Oh, I cannot cope with it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I don't use the financial thing like you do.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But I'm just at that point, k Arou, I'm like,
what I've done, I've created a monster. And Gracie, i
have to say, is as bad. But she's a little
bit more like quicker in the shower. She's just found
a way of like maybe it's about school, I reckon.
Since she's gone and started high school, she's worked out
(07:22):
a little bit better of her timing of like how
much time in the shower to like how much time
I need in a mirror and to then be able
to still have breakfast and get out the door. She's
worked that out a little bit better. Still leaves the
place of fucking mess.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I said the other day to the girls. I was like,
imagine if you had your money in coins in your
hands and then you look at the drain and you
watch the water go down. You go one dollar, two dollars,
three dollars, and I'm going to start taking that out
of your bank account. Oh great job. You did a
whole shift at macis and guess what you get a shower?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How do you come up with this?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Quite creative, very creative.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I would not find the creative part of that quick
like witch, I just stand there.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And just get the fuck out. Let's get out.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I hate to think of when they're older and the
kind of work they do on trauma or like, I
hate to think of what I don't think about out
about what Mum used to say.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Don't think about it, because ours didn't think about it.
Our parents didn't think about it. They just carried on.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
They just played on, play out, and we let them
carry their trauma out
Appogiate production.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome back to am I Mad MoMA podcast, and we're
going to have a week off next week.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We are our holidays. Well for some of us, it's holidays.
You're jetting off. I am lucky enough to be jetting
off to another dance competition following them dance comp I've
got a netball competition for three days. I want to say,
I've got I'm not playing. I'm sitting on the sideline
watching for three days straight.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You're the chauffeur in Ipswich, Ipswich ips rich lovely.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What do I do there?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I was like, do I just get accommodation? And I
was like in Ipswich, I was like, where am I
going to stay? And then I thought, I don't have
a clue. I'm not I'm not gonna go to your
way to start, So I'm just going to drive there
and drive home, drive there and drive home three days
in a row.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Must be somewhere closer.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can say hashtag blessed.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, live in the dream.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Am I a bad mom for keeping it to myself?
This is going to be a rough one because I
really want to bring it up with you because it's
a topic of conversation right now in our household, and
I'm toying with like the option of going away for
holidays in the next.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Holidays, right Christmas holidays.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, Christmas holidays.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But the other part, Katie, is when I tell my
kids something, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Do this will give you, like a good flashback to
you girls.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Being my girl's age, my girls are ten and twelve,
I tend to hold off on telling them things until
the day of.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, or until it's definite and it's locked in.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well no, no, on the day, I don't want to
hear the lead up for the whole week because they're
going to have a sleepover at their friend's house. I
don't want to hear about the reminder every single day
of the seven days before the sleepover.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So I learned this early that my.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Girls are quite like excitable by this, and so I've
tended to leave things to the last minute. I mean,
flashback to the start of the year when Sam, their
father was lucky enough to go into the jungle for
like what seven weeks or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, I'm a celebrity, give me out.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, I'm a celeb Get me out of here, won it.
He's now the King.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Of the Jungle for this year, only I didn't tell
them A that he was going to Africa.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
B he was going to be away seven weeks. And see,
I just told them.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That he was in Sydney, right Sydney. But you weren't
able to tell them?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, Well, yeah, there was a lot of things around it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The problem was, first of all, it was supposed to
be kept under wraps, and secondly the kids and they're
going to slip.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Up and tell someone yeah yeah, yeah, so like even that.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So then they learnt of that as they saw the
episode air like everyone else at the same time. Whether
that make me a good mom or a bad mum,
I have no fucking idea.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
But now I.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Fast forward and go, I've got like this idea of
a holiday might come off, might not come off if
I actually apply myself and make it happen. But I
just don't know what to do with the kids because
if I tell them there's a lot of time between
now and Christmas of listening.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
To all of the what ifs.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Maybe you wait a little bit, because at the moment
Christmas seems a million miles away from kids. But even
if it was after this school holidays and in the
next school term.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Something to look forward to at the end of the term.
Maybe give them a couple of weeks notice, yeah, like
this will be excited.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah. I was like, I still want them to be excited.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I also want it, like, if it does come off,
I want to to be like someone of a Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Because you know.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And the other part is there's no way I could
surprise them with this one. I've genuinely in my mind gone,
what if I surprised them down to the day that
we leave.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I me do that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No, I feel like it would be quite stressful because
I do things like before I go away, like the
house to be tidy, and I'm like the amount of
times I'm like, please leave it tidy because it would
be nicer.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, back peah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Or if someone's house sitting.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's the pair or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I would find it hard not to say anything. This
is completely sideways. But would you tell your kids if
you won lotto?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
No? No, I wouldn't. Would you do about that, No,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We've spoken previously on a podcast about how you're tightening
the purse strings. Could you imagine how your daughters would
react if you won lotto. Now you'd be buying every
fucking concert. You wouldn't be just letting them go to
the concert. V up, You'd be buying the concert.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, I wouldn't, though, Like I remember reading something about
Victoria Beckham and they made all their kids get part
time jobs when they were still at school.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Thought that was pretty good, but also pretty pointless about
to inherit like a millions. But how would you not
tell them though?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
How would you hide it?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, we're moving house. Oh business is going well. As
you pull out the driveway in your Ferrari, they will
know something's up when I don't bang on about the
water bill every time they have a shower. Honestly, rage
I reckon. I timed a twenty minute shower the other day.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Why does it just keep getting longer? What are they
fucking doing in there?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
My child is exactly the same, and she's ten, And
I blame it on my seventy two dollars mirror that
I bought for her room from Kmart, because ever since
I've put that in her room, she's been obsessed. And
now she's obsessed. And now the obsession has gone to
the mirror in the bathroom and then every shower every
(06:08):
night takes at least fifteen to thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, and how many different products does she already have?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
No? No, she's the Oh she will. I know, Katie.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I literally went up there last night and was like, Hey,
just a heads up, we're running late tonight. Like so
there's like usually like if I've got dinner after seven
for me, that's late, right, But I was.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Like, it's late.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You wanted to watch some of the block. I'm giving
you your heads up that you've literally got like thirty
minutes to be able to finish your shower.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Up. Now, what are you doing? Why are you out
of the water?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Are you brushing your hair outside of the shower area
with the water still running?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The switching the shower on and then seeing them just
standing in the bathroom on their phone whilst the shower
is running. Oh, I cannot cope with it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I don't use the financial thing like you do.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But I'm just at that point, k Arou, I'm like,
what I've done, I've created a monster. And Gracie, i
have to say, is as bad. But she's a little
bit more like quicker in the shower. She's just found
a way of like maybe it's about school, I reckon.
Since she's gone and started high school, she's worked out
(07:22):
a little bit better of her timing of like how
much time in the shower to like how much time
I need in a mirror and to then be able
to still have breakfast and get out the door. She's
worked that out a little bit better. Still leaves the
place of fucking mess.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I said the other day to the girls. I was like,
imagine if you had your money in coins in your
hands and then you look at the drain and you
watch the water go down. You go one dollar, two dollars,
three dollars, and I'm going to start taking that out
of your bank account. Oh great job. You did a
whole shift at macis and guess what you get a shower?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How do you come up with this?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Quite creative, very creative.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I would not find the creative part of that quick
like witch, I just stand there.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And just get the fuck out. Let's get out.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I hate to think of when they're older and the
kind of work they do on trauma or like, I
hate to think of what I don't think about out
about what Mum used to say.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Don't think about it, because ours didn't think about it.
Our parents didn't think about it. They just carried on.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
They just played on, play out, and we let them
carry their trauma out
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