April 4, 2025 • 8 mins
Rach had a bad Mum moment when she put together Gracie's dance outfit and she she got teased for 3 hours for what she looked like!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apodja Production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode about I.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
A ad Mom podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I had a little chuckle to myself, but also a
little bit of a deep thought process I went through.
Last night, Jay went out for dinner with mate. He's
got three kids, but there I want to say, maybe
twelve ten eight ish ages range. He's divorced, but he's
(00:48):
got a new girlfriend. She's ten years younger and doesn't
have children and wants to have kids, and so he
is late forties.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Is he contemplating it?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, this is a thing. Like day came home and
told me about this last night. I was like, what
would you do?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Do you want my honest opinion or like the podcast opinion,
My honest opinion would be I would have sex with
them until I got bored with it, and then I
would say, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm not interested.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'm not interested in reproducing. Again, Katie, I know that, Like,
maybe that just sounds super insensitive of me, but I
genuinely have no desire of reproducing as much as I
love another human being.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Or then that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Though, imagine it like hypothetical this is, but imagine if
you're completely in love, like he's obviously really in love
with her, she really wants to be a mum.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's a really hard one to compromise on. Obviously for him,
different story male with the female. That female's the one
that's obviously I don't want to say like doing the
hard work, but clearly we know who does the hard
work within a pregnancy. That whole idea of then reproducing
for him at near fifty, I don't know that I'm
willing to compromise on that. Everyone's situation is so different,
(02:08):
and I applaud people that can do it, But for me,
I wouldn't want to hold them up, Like they're also
ten years younger, but then they want to reproduce, like
and have another family together.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I get that, But like, surely.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
There's someone else that's like thirty and they could do
it with them as well, Like it makes sense, doesn't
make sense, It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So you would you would find them someone else to
have a baby with.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Here with that stuff, I sort of go, I think,
when you start talking about like cycles of life, could
you imagine literally take yourself back into the depths of
the newborn phase and doing it again. I meet someone
like ten years younger than me, sorry, this shop has shut.
(02:54):
I didn't want to compromise for my husband, let alone.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Like I get it, like I understand, and I think also,
you forget about how it was and you look at
newborn babies and like, oh, wouldn't it be cute. At
the same time, I also feel like I'm almost at freedom.
I feel freer.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, for sure, especially for where you're at with your girls.
I did have a moment with Elsie going into grade five,
Gracie starting high school at the start of this year,
was like, oh, fuck it, just go back for one more.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know what. I was thinking, You're just bored. You're bored.
Your kids still love you. It is okay, Rachel.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I definitely felt the same when the girls started school
because they both went at once. And I remember I
used to go to a gym class with some other
of the girls that I knew, and they all had
the oldest going off to school, but they had the youngest,
and I remember just walking in and then dropping the
(03:57):
little ones off in the crash and I was like, oh, like,
I don't have anyone to drop off in there.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's kind of like a readjustment of who you are right,
So there you go. It did cross my mind, and
then I had a real severe chat with myself and
smack myself around the head of his crimes and was like,
you were nearly forty this year age, or get your
shit together.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Honestly, if I found out you were having the baby.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You were not.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I were just laugh a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Am I a bad mum for thinking it was cool?
It's actually Gracie's idea for.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
This particular topic. So I'm just going to own that
part because she was like, Mom was pretty messed up.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, it was a mistake. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So on Mondays, what happens for our school routine is
that Gracie, obviously it's usually a rush.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
On Monday morning. I'm really honest. Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
She left yesterday without her dance bag, so Monday afternoon
is usually dropped to school, get bus back to said stop,
then they get collected from the bus stop and then
she gets dropped directly to dance. So her friend's mum
came over and was like, I'll grab the bag now
(05:24):
if you're home, and I can just give it to
her when I get them from the bus stop and
drop her to dance. I was like, amazing, Yes, I'll
just get a leotard. Now, her leotard is like dark purple.
And as we know in our age group that we're in,
Nike Pro shorts seemed to be the only thing that
your child will wear. And so I was like, oh,
(05:45):
look there's a pair of Nike pros. Pick them up,
similar color to the leotard, and I thought, gotta work.
In my head, I was like, gotta work, gotta be cool.
Shove them in, shove litad, choose wonderful, put some afternoon
tea in there for a water bottle. Off it goes
to dance, comes home, she returns home. Let's just say
(06:05):
six thirty. I happened to be in between finishing off dinner.
I was in the laundry doing some something.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
She walked in and she added leotard with his shorts on,
and she goes, mum, and she just like she wasn't angry,
but she wasn't laughing, and she goes, mum. She goes,
I don't know what you were thinking. She said, I've
just spent three hours at dance and all I've got
cold all day is eggplant. I looked at it, and
(06:39):
I was like, well, it didn't come off as well
as in my head what it was going to look like.
I was like, I'm so sorry, babe. And then she
burst out laughing.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And she goes, what were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And I was like, in my head, I was thinking
it was cool and I was going to look really
cool together.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But now that I see it in real life, I'm like,
I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
She didn't even make her feel better by going, oh,
it doesn't look too bad. I was like, did you
not wonder why that was never a combo that she'd
put together herself?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, I mean now luckily she found the humor in
it as well, and she goes, mom, eggplant for three hours,
I said, I don't know to stand an eggplant though,
Like I find eggplant quite offensive because eggplant is actually
really different shape to you, and it's a different color,
and but eggplant whatever, I get it. And then she
starts burst out laughing at bit more. And then I
(07:32):
just said to it, I'm so sorry. She goes, Mom,
all you could have put in was an oversized tea.
It would have worked perfectly, so it would have just
broken up the colors. She said, so if you're thinking
of putting this one together again?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Can you just put the oversize? And then I went,
how about you just packed your own bag. Have to
do it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You wouldn't even be called an eggplant because you would
have packed your own bag, so then it would have.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Been the right shorts. It's your fault. She goes, Mom,
it's not cool. I was like, oh, I totally thought
it was going to look cool, and it does not.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
She's going to need to educate you and what goes
with what? In the dance draws, this goes with this.
Don't use your own initiatives. Don't pick what you think
is gonna look cool.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Like I live in active wear, genuinely living active wear,
so I'm quite like when it comes to active wear,
I'm very like formatted about what goes with what and
what does not go with what. I just had a
brain explosion.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, and she was called an eggplant for the entire
dance class. And what we know, which her age group
hopefully doesn't know, is the eggplan is the emoji for
a penis. So you let your kick go to dance
for an hour looking like a penis?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Oud in my head when she goes, they called me
an eggplant for three hours and in my head, I
was like, ex emoji is a penis.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Don't look like
Apodja Production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode about I.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
A ad Mom podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I had a little chuckle to myself, but also a
little bit of a deep thought process I went through.
Last night, Jay went out for dinner with mate. He's
got three kids, but there I want to say, maybe
twelve ten eight ish ages range. He's divorced, but he's
(00:48):
got a new girlfriend. She's ten years younger and doesn't
have children and wants to have kids, and so he
is late forties.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Is he contemplating it?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, this is a thing. Like day came home and
told me about this last night. I was like, what
would you do?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Do you want my honest opinion or like the podcast opinion,
My honest opinion would be I would have sex with
them until I got bored with it, and then I
would say, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm not interested.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'm not interested in reproducing. Again, Katie, I know that, Like,
maybe that just sounds super insensitive of me, but I
genuinely have no desire of reproducing as much as I
love another human being.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Or then that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Though, imagine it like hypothetical this is, but imagine if
you're completely in love, like he's obviously really in love
with her, she really wants to be a mum.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's a really hard one to compromise on. Obviously for him,
different story male with the female. That female's the one
that's obviously I don't want to say like doing the
hard work, but clearly we know who does the hard
work within a pregnancy. That whole idea of then reproducing
for him at near fifty, I don't know that I'm
willing to compromise on that. Everyone's situation is so different,
(02:08):
and I applaud people that can do it, But for me,
I wouldn't want to hold them up, Like they're also
ten years younger, but then they want to reproduce, like
and have another family together.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I get that, But like, surely.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
There's someone else that's like thirty and they could do
it with them as well, Like it makes sense, doesn't
make sense, It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So you would you would find them someone else to
have a baby with.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Here with that stuff, I sort of go, I think,
when you start talking about like cycles of life, could
you imagine literally take yourself back into the depths of
the newborn phase and doing it again. I meet someone
like ten years younger than me, sorry, this shop has shut.
(02:54):
I didn't want to compromise for my husband, let alone.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Like I get it, like I understand, and I think also,
you forget about how it was and you look at
newborn babies and like, oh, wouldn't it be cute. At
the same time, I also feel like I'm almost at freedom.
I feel freer.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, for sure, especially for where you're at with your girls.
I did have a moment with Elsie going into grade five,
Gracie starting high school at the start of this year,
was like, oh, fuck it, just go back for one more.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know what. I was thinking, You're just bored. You're bored.
Your kids still love you. It is okay, Rachel.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I definitely felt the same when the girls started school
because they both went at once. And I remember I
used to go to a gym class with some other
of the girls that I knew, and they all had
the oldest going off to school, but they had the youngest,
and I remember just walking in and then dropping the
(03:57):
little ones off in the crash and I was like, oh, like,
I don't have anyone to drop off in there.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's kind of like a readjustment of who you are right,
So there you go. It did cross my mind, and
then I had a real severe chat with myself and
smack myself around the head of his crimes and was like,
you were nearly forty this year age, or get your
shit together.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Honestly, if I found out you were having the baby.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You were not.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I were just laugh a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Am I a bad mum for thinking it was cool?
It's actually Gracie's idea for.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
This particular topic. So I'm just going to own that
part because she was like, Mom was pretty messed up.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, it was a mistake. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So on Mondays, what happens for our school routine is
that Gracie, obviously it's usually a rush.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
On Monday morning. I'm really honest. Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
She left yesterday without her dance bag, so Monday afternoon
is usually dropped to school, get bus back to said stop,
then they get collected from the bus stop and then
she gets dropped directly to dance. So her friend's mum
came over and was like, I'll grab the bag now
(05:24):
if you're home, and I can just give it to
her when I get them from the bus stop and
drop her to dance. I was like, amazing, Yes, I'll
just get a leotard. Now, her leotard is like dark purple.
And as we know in our age group that we're in,
Nike Pro shorts seemed to be the only thing that
your child will wear. And so I was like, oh,
(05:45):
look there's a pair of Nike pros. Pick them up,
similar color to the leotard, and I thought, gotta work.
In my head, I was like, gotta work, gotta be cool.
Shove them in, shove litad, choose wonderful, put some afternoon
tea in there for a water bottle. Off it goes
to dance, comes home, she returns home. Let's just say
(06:05):
six thirty. I happened to be in between finishing off dinner.
I was in the laundry doing some something.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
She walked in and she added leotard with his shorts on,
and she goes, mum, and she just like she wasn't angry,
but she wasn't laughing, and she goes, mum. She goes,
I don't know what you were thinking. She said, I've
just spent three hours at dance and all I've got
cold all day is eggplant. I looked at it, and
(06:39):
I was like, well, it didn't come off as well
as in my head what it was going to look like.
I was like, I'm so sorry, babe. And then she
burst out laughing.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And she goes, what were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And I was like, in my head, I was thinking
it was cool and I was going to look really
cool together.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But now that I see it in real life, I'm like,
I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
She didn't even make her feel better by going, oh,
it doesn't look too bad. I was like, did you
not wonder why that was never a combo that she'd
put together herself?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, I mean now luckily she found the humor in
it as well, and she goes, mom, eggplant for three hours,
I said, I don't know to stand an eggplant though,
Like I find eggplant quite offensive because eggplant is actually
really different shape to you, and it's a different color,
and but eggplant whatever, I get it. And then she
starts burst out laughing at bit more. And then I
(07:32):
just said to it, I'm so sorry. She goes, Mom,
all you could have put in was an oversized tea.
It would have worked perfectly, so it would have just
broken up the colors. She said, so if you're thinking
of putting this one together again?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Can you just put the oversize? And then I went,
how about you just packed your own bag. Have to
do it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You wouldn't even be called an eggplant because you would
have packed your own bag, so then it would have.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Been the right shorts. It's your fault. She goes, Mom,
it's not cool. I was like, oh, I totally thought
it was going to look cool, and it does not.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
She's going to need to educate you and what goes
with what? In the dance draws, this goes with this.
Don't use your own initiatives. Don't pick what you think
is gonna look cool.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Like I live in active wear, genuinely living active wear,
so I'm quite like when it comes to active wear,
I'm very like formatted about what goes with what and
what does not go with what. I just had a
brain explosion.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, and she was called an eggplant for the entire
dance class. And what we know, which her age group
hopefully doesn't know, is the eggplan is the emoji for
a penis. So you let your kick go to dance
for an hour looking like a penis?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Oud in my head when she goes, they called me
an eggplant for three hours and in my head, I
was like, ex emoji is a penis.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Don't look like
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