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May 8, 2026 โ€ข 32 mins

Amy Gerard gets brutally honest in this episode about the reality of modern motherhood, parenting stress and the mental load so many women carry every single day. From juggling family life and relationships to trying to keep everything together without losing yourself in the process.

On this episode of the Chris & Amy Podcast, Amy and Chris dive into the pressures of parenting, marriage realities, emotional burnout and the everyday chaos of raising kids while managing work, relationships and life. There’s plenty of funny moments, honest conversations and relatable family stories that feel like they’ve come straight from the group chat.

modern motherhood podcasts, parenting advice, marriage discussions, mental load conversations and women’s lifestyle podcasts in Australia.


โฑ๏ธ Chapters

00:00 – Amy Gerard Opens Up About Parenting Stress
03:45 – The Mental Load Of Modern Motherhood
08:30 – Marriage, Relationships & Family Pressure
14:10 – Parenting Chaos Every Mum Understands
19:20 – The Story That Sparked Debate Online
25:00 – Chris & Amy’s Honest Relationship Talk
30:35 – Final Thoughts & Weekend Wrap


๐Ÿ”— Hosts

Amy Gerard
๐ŸŒ www.amygerard.com.au
๐Ÿ“ธ @amy.gerard

Chris Page
๐Ÿ“ธ @chris_page83

Executive Producer – Mathew Eggleston
๐Ÿ“ง matheweggleston@arn.com.au
๐Ÿ“ธ @eggoau on Instagram

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Explain School, Rag, Everybody's am though It's God.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
This is Chris and Amy in the morning. Kiss.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Hey, good morning everyone, Happy Saturday morning. How you doing.
You're good?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm great. How are you?

Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm good. I'm going to stop talking about our planning
meeting on air because it continues to shock people that
we do any planning for this.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think people love the show, except for the last
complaint that we got, where apparently we have no idea
what we're talking about it I got called or what not?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
No, Okay, our last complaint, I'll tell you they were
like Chris Page was slagging off some artist and I'm going,
oh god, it'll be like a is it a Taylor
Swift fan? Is it a Gaga? Little monster? What did
I say? It was West? He's a Nazi? Like you're
the one writing in defending a Nazi.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, well, at least at least you got called by
your full name and I just got called or what not?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
What not?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
How good are the complaints? We should read something out
on air.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
We wouldn't have time to get through them all. We
were having our planning meeting Dury the weekend. Our producer
Ego said something. I laughed because he said, I think
you're going away or something. He goes, oh, you're going
to take your lemon thing, and we're all, what do
you mean your lemon? And then you know your buzzy
lemon and you're like, yes, we get confused using for

(01:59):
men because there's a rabbit.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, and there's a rose.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
There's a rose.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
So but they're all nice names so that we can
talk about them openly without you know, offending little ear.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Is actually you know what even that we're having this
conversation on the radio right now. The names of them
do work. The rose, the lemon, yep. Is there an
egg plant?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
There could be a double ended one.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
A double ended eggplant? Well, I guess they all are,
but I know not all of them. Well one end
has this, yeah, the stem, yeah, one one end looks
less comfortable on the eggplane. Anyway, as long as there's
no pineapple, we're sweet.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
All right. I don't think so. No part God they're
probably is. I don't want to know about that fruit.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
This is crisp page and Amy to ride.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
We got bigger issues at my place at the moment.
We have been without hot water for.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's my worst nightmare. And it's actually starting to get
cold as well.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's why it's the issue is really coming to your
head because we've been with that hot water since February.
What well, February.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
We're in May.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, we're in May and it's heading into winter.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Who you have not Okay, we've had hot water problems
since February, where it's it's on and off. Sometimes you
get it, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you get warm water,
which in summer in February it's it's pretty good, especially
like I'll do a day out gardening. I don't mind
a shower that's not jumping in only warm. But yeah,

(03:29):
it's cooling down now becoming a bit of a problem.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
So for me when I have to have like an
everything shower, shave my legs, wash my hair and stuff,
I'm in there for a good twenty minutes. Yeah if
that's only lukewarm, Oh.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
No, no, So I'll tell you. I know a lot
of people have probably done this at some point without
hot water, having to boil the kettle repeatedly and pour
it into the bath.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
How many kettles are you boiling? You'd have to do
at least fifteen.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, the water's already warm, it's just like teppered, and
then you pour like, you know, five or six kettles worth.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
So how have you sat on this for two three
months without doing anything?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
It's a really boring story, like it's going between the
the G company and the.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
You've been actively trying to fix.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
It, right, Yeah, well as active as I get, which
is not that active. Sometimes the wheels of progress turned slowly.
Cassa de cris, you know you lazy. Well, I'm telling
you winter is coming.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Winter.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
I'm a bit more onto it.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're a bit more proactive now, aren't you.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
I am. You'll notice I still smell good. I'm clean.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, I'm yet to smell a rank smell.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
No, that's okay. Because I've been having what my wife
I didn't know what was called this bird bath. Well
it's like as in apparently it's called a whores bath,
right where you don't actually like you just have like
a bucket of hot water and just wash the vitals.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, well that's kind of like what a bird bath
is I think of a bird bath, like if.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's full of bird ship in the A.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Bird bath is where you just fill up the sink
with water and just drop your package into it and
give it a wash.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Or I've heard a sailors you know what.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, and you wash your arm pits and your backside and.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Your bits and bobs.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Just yeah, it's a bird bath in my house and
it's a horse.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Bath in yours.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well that's my what you've been doing a little bit,
because no one gets like a stinky leg No, your
legs are pretty sweet.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's just yeah, you're not getting a stinky elbow.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Are you. No, you're not, just as long as you
get the undercarriage, undercarriage, under arms, getting the belly button.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
That always carries a bit of lint in there.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah exactly. I mean they say we're heading into a
depression economically. Really yeah, I'm just getting the head.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Start over the whole bath.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
But let's go with bird bath. I think your one's nicer.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
This is Crispage and.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
You posted something about your son Bobby on last week Yeah,
last weekend got it massive reaction from people. It was
really nice what you wrote.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Do you know why I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I got a massive reaction because a lot of the
women who were commenting under that post a women who
have been with me since Bobby was a little baby.
So majority of my followers are moms and they've kind
of come on the journey with me. And I used
to share a lot about Bobby because my firstborn, my daughter, Charlie,

(06:36):
she was a real textbook baby, really easy, napped like
an absolute gun, fed like a boss, very rarely tantrumed,
and she was just a really easy baby. And it
kind of lured me into a false sense of thinking
that I was a really gun parent.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
And then I had I'm going to have that boy.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
No, I actually wasn't planning on trying to have a boy.
I just was like, oh, this parenting gig is like
walk in the park. And so the baby gods were like, well,
you go and learn today, and then sent me a son.
And from the age about eighteen months, honestly, he was
an incredibly challenging child. He was very what I like

(07:16):
to call spirited, that's a nice way of saying.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Lots of energy, lots of feelings.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Lots of big, big feelings. And when I tell you,
I truly thought that I was doing everything wrong and
I am not a crier, and that kid made me
cry almost daily for a good year.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
And a half.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
And he was just he was so angry all the time,
and he was angry and violent and would throw like
left hooks at me and I'd have to carry him
out of shopping centers under my arm like a.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Football, kicking and screaming.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I had to leave parks rhyme and times, and he
was really hard. And I remember someone saying to me,
you know, the kids with really big, deep emotions and
big feelings, they are hard, but hanging in there because
they turn out to be incredibly beautiful children. And I
don't share a lot of my kids on my social anymore.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I think once they started.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
School, I kind of pulled back massively from sharing a
lot of them. But I did a little post on
Saturday because we'd gone out for dinner and I was
taking something back to the car and Bobby ran after
me and he was like, I don't want you walking
on your own, mum. It was like six o'clock in
the afternoon, and as we were walking, he said, I'll
carry your bag. And then he's the guy who will

(08:31):
jump in front so he can open doors for me.
He will give up my seat, He'll give up his
seat for any female, even his little.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Cousins or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
If he thought I didn't get dessert, and so he said, Mom,
have you got have you got some cake? And I said, oh,
it's all right, it's coming, and he goes, no, no,
you go have mine. And he is just such a thoughtful,
beautiful little dude. And I am just so proud of
the man that he's becoming. And I wrote a little
post being like, if you, as a mom or a

(09:01):
dad or a parent, have a somewhat spirited child at
the moment, please hang in there. And I hope this
gives you hope. They are incredible children, and at such
a young age, it is hard for them to express
themselves and it is hard for them to articulate what
they want, and they're all they're doing their best in
their tiny little bodies with their.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Unformed in the process of forming. Yes, And that's so
good that he has. I mean, he had big feelings,
big emotions, because it's a pain when he's three, But
as he turns into a young man, those big feelings,
big emotions can be big strength loyalty, big resilience.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, all of those things. I mean, he's an absolute shitster.
And don't get me wrong, he's not like the Dalai
Lama child or at all by any means.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
No.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
In fact, Ivan Malatt is thrown around.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's what his nickname was growing up. I called him
Malat after the serial killer because I was terrified of.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Him and so everyone.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
A lot of the comments underneath the post were like,
oh my god, I've been there. I've been here since
the Malat era. This is so nice to see, and
I said, yeah, he's honestly, he's got a three sick
see he really he's the Dalai Lama in comparison.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Now, yeah, I hope that doesn't stick with him though.
Like what he's call him a lat He weird. He's
like twenty and he's after Bunnings to pick up some
rope and to go for a drive.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I used to show him some of his old photos
of his baby photos where he's just absolutely losing it
at me because his dinner wasn't cooked quick enough for him.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Or Bobby's baby photo was showing him even my Lat's
baby photos.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, no, no, Bobby's videos.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's creepy though, isn't it when you see a baby
photo of like Hitler or you're like, God, everyone was
once a gorgeous cute or baby, perfect, innocent, little baby.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's scary that got dark quickly. O.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
This is crisp Page and Amy's ride.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
You know when you see those weird remnants of COVID
nineteen around and you go, like when you go into
shops and there's still the stickers on the floor saying
one point five meters and stand here? Would you take
those off for it?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I still like do a double take when I see
people wearing a mask, yeah, because I'm like, oh gosh.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Those days, remember that?

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Remember those days?

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Weren't they weird times?

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Being locked in your own house.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I remember I got in trouble once because I had
a girlfriend which she'd got a permit to come round,
and somebody one of my neighbors dabbed on her and
called the police.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Did you find who the dog was?

Speaker 3 (11:29):
One of my neighbors?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, which which one I found out?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
And I actually walked round and I stood at her
driveway and I yelled.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
At her, why didn't you walk up and cough in
her face?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
No? We weren't allowed to go near each other shop.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
So yeah, well, I had another COVID flashback seeing on
the news this cruise ship that is currently docked off
Cape Verde, which is in a West African island nation.
People are trapped on this cruise ship with disease. It's
in quarantine because the Hantera virus, which has not been
spotted a lot for many many years, has been detected

(12:03):
on the ship hand to hand to virus, and it
comes from rats. And there's only one strain of the
virus that they're really worried about, and that's the strain
that can go from human to human anyway kills people.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
It killed huge, killed Hugh Jackman, It killed Okay, it
killed Gene Hackman's wife. Oh if Hugh Jackman is podcasting
right now, I want to make that clear.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
It didn't kill him, Deborahly. Everyone's fine, Okay, Gene Hackman's wife.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
I have never ever heard of this.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
So wait, so somebody has brought it onto the ship
and it started being passed around and now they're not
letting anybody off the ship.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
They've been on the ship since March twenty.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh my gosh, what seven weeks.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
That's coming up to two months it left Argentina to
get to Antarctica. Now they're sitting off West Africa, unable
to leave the ship.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
How long are they going to be on there for?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
So have people passed away because of it?

Speaker 4 (13:01):
They have. I don't know if they've died on the
ship or not, but it's.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
There, so they basically are holding them hostage with no
end date.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
They should just get the guy from Captain Phillips on
there to get I am the captain.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Now that is hell on Earth, a floating cesspit, and
you don't know whether you're going to get this disease,
and obviously what it's not curable, so once you get it,
you're a gona.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
I don't think you get it and you automatically die.
But it's very bad. But you said maybe someone brought
it onto the ship or with their rats on the ship,
because remember in Titanic when it was sinking and the
water's coming up and all the rats are running out
of third class.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Wow, that actually sounds like a form of health.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
You have to come into contact with rat saliva, feces
or urine. Well, if you go to your GP and
you're like you've got the hand to virus. How'd you
get that? Have you been have you fondling? Have you
come into contact with any rat bodily fluids lately?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yuck.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I actually was leaving an event last night walking to
my car, and I was walking down the hill a
car park in the city and this rat, which was
the size of a small dog, ran out in front
of me.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
And oh, I.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Don't know what it is about them. They're just disgusting.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
No desire at all to like touch, taste?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Nah, no, no desire anyway.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Questions remain on how that virus was passed rat to human.
What were you thinking?

Speaker 5 (14:39):
This is crisp Page and Amy Gerard.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
You must be pumped for Mother's Day tomorrow. It's so
your big day.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, can't wait. Everyone's going to be watching too.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
You know what you should do? Well, I just had
a great Mother's Day idea right here, and you look nervous.
Take your mom or your wife to see The Devil
Wears prior to big movie. If you haven't seen. It's
doing great.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Actually, that's a great shout.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, maybe gold class away.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
From the kids, get yourself some popcorn, a glass of bubbles, bliss.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Have you seen it yet.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
No, I'm dying to see it.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
You've seen the original.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I've seen the original.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'm trying to get There's a group of my girlfriends
and I. There's four of us, and none of our
dates line up, and so we're trying to make this
pack like we'll all go and see it together. But
by the time we find a date that aligns with
all of us, it'll be off the movie.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
That is the best way to make sure you never
see I know, I promise we'll see it all together,
because it never works. Just go see it, Just go yeah, sure.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I'm not that much of a loser.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Not why do you what's wrong with other movies by
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I was in like, No, there's actually nothing.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Sorry I shouldn't say loser, but I just that's a
girly movie.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
If I'm not seeing it with my girlfriends, I want
to see it with my mum.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
You don't go see like Sex and the City too
by yourself. Movies are more like Terrifier three, Human Centerpede.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Late Nights, messed up ones that you go and watch
on your own at nighttime.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
But Devil was Prada. I was looking at Meryl Streep
in the trailer. She looks the same now as she
did in the two thousand and six original twenty was.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
The original Mavie twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Man, she looks good.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
She has yeah, I bet you do.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
She doesn't look like she has aged even a year. No,
that's unfair, a.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Thing for older actresses. But you know how I love
watching old movies. So you watch the old ones with
like Sybil Shepherd, is that a woman?

Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Okay, Faye done Away? Never people people know Faye done
Away in Okay Shepherd. But these old actresses, And so
I'm watching all these old movies where they're great but
they're absolutely in their prime. And then when you watch
them as old ladies and new stuff, you go, well,
dont know?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
What about Goldie Horn? Do you think she's a cat?

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Goldie opted to not age grace Obviously she's had to
be done there. But yes, like young Goldie.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Horn, Yeah, she was a babe, wasn't she.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Man, Yeah, she's another one like that.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Are you going to send Georgia? Has she seen the Devils?

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Brother?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Goddamn.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well, now you're gonna have to You're gonna have to
come up with something else from Mother's Day now.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
She went to the Australian Premiere or anything. But yeah, wow,
big dog man, that was free popcorn.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
We love a free popcorn, boff.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
This is Chris Page and Amy's ride.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
In the last couple of months, I've actually had two
bridle showers and a baby shower that I've gone to, right,
and all three of them have done this what I
actually thought was quite an out of date old school tradition.
Beautiful bridle showers, beautiful baby shower. But at the end
of it, you know, the baby mama or the bride

(17:43):
to be, they kind of got pulled up to sit
on a chair in front of everybody in the room
and they did this thing where they brought all the
presents up to them and the said person in the
chair opened beach present.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
They didn't open all the gifts in front of all
the guests.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yes, and I know that it is quite an old
school traditional thing to do.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Like I remember my mum saying that when she had
a kitchen.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Tea, I mean they had it at home back in
her day and age, and she opened a lot of
the gifts in front of you know, the people there.
But I just found it a little bit out of touch.
I think in today's society, you can imagine how uncomfortable
somebody would feel.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Let's say you've.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Gone to this baby shower and you're just a distant friend,
you're a friend of a friend, you're in a girl
group or whatever, and you're not super close, you're not
a relative, you're not going to be the godmother or
anything like that.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
So you've, you know, spent a twenty thirty.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Dollars on a gift, sure, and then she's opening your gift,
and then the one before it was I don't know,
six hundred dollars worth of you know, as a PRAM.
You can imagine how inadequate that some people would feel.
And I just felt like it was a little bit
like it's competitive, competitive, and I just felt sorry for

(19:04):
certain people. Like even the last Bridle shower that I
went to, it's like quite a close family friend of mine,
and so I went above and beyond, and I spent
a little bit more because obviously she I'm a lot
closer to her, and I could see that the ride
was so uncomfortable, and I felt like everybody in the
room felt uncomfortable, and especially the people who had just,

(19:25):
you know, spent twenty dollars on I don't know, a
candle or something, and everybody, you know, they spend what
they can afford. So it's all relative to each person's
individual lifestyle.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
But I just thought it was.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
A tradition that in this day and age just feels
a little bit out of touch.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah, right, necessary, right, Well, okay, it's the old cliche,
but it's really true right now, like the richer getting richer,
the poorer getting poorer. The divide between people's wealth is
getting worse. Wherein Australia's rooted At the moment, we had
another interest rate rise during the week. Yep, they're about
to up our tax again. The low dogs, low dogs,

(20:04):
everyone's stuffed. Twenty twenty six is not the time to
be opening all of your gifts in front of front
of people.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, I remember thinking about my wedding day, right, and
I remember obviously most people just give money, and it
would almost be like, imagine if I opened up all
the cards in front of all my wedding guests, and
you know, my brothers had given me five hundred dollars
and then my friend Reese, I remember opening a gift.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Card and he hadn't given me any money.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
But he'd written a beautiful message about he would love
to take Ryan and I out for dinner after the
wedding or something, which was lovely.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
I also know that Reese was doing it tough at
the time.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I also didn't expect any money, but you could imagine
how embarrassed he would have felt if that was all
done in front of everybody else.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
It's a really bad feeling. And can I be honest,
I've really only experienced it in the last couple of years,
not having any money and being in a situation like
that where you go, there's this thing this Saturday or whatever,
you know, and you go, I've got a by what

(21:10):
I just don't have it?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Like you know, well, and you're comparing yourself to other people,
and everybody's at a different life stage and financially and
all of the things, and I just I feel like
it's one of the traditions. I mean, there's so many
of them. Keep them all, but maybe lose that one.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, each their own, of course. Sorry, that's just my opinion.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Said to my wife, like, I'm already working two days
a week, Like what do you want?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
What more do you want from me?

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Georgia' working on the weekend. You want me to work
Monday to Friday.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I work two hours a day.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
I work four hour hours in the entire chatting exhausted.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
I'm wrecked. That's why I don't have any money. Work
and my fingers to the bone.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
You are absolute butler, Chris.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
This is Cris Page and Amy.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
It's Mother's Day tomorrow for all the mum's big weekend
and for the husband's partners, sons, everyone, there's just pressure.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
So lift your game.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm glad we're talking about this because we were just
talking about bridal showers and you're well, the old, outdated
tradition of opening all the presents in front of everyone,
and I was saying this sucks because some people have
more money than others.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Sure, yep.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
So for all the husbands, sons, partners, whatever out there,
can you give me two? Can you give me right?
If you've got a bit of cash, yes, flying around?
What does mum really want? And then help us help
people like me. I'm on a real budget, but how
can I make something good out of it?

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, who do you want me to start with? First?

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Start with the rich?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh okay, if money is no object, I still think
every mum wants some sort of sentimental little gift in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
So what I would have.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Loved from Ryan last year was maybe a photo of
the family, or maybe a photo of me and the
kids that I've obviously taken because my husband never takes
photos of me and the kids. Maybe he's gone and
got that printed out. Maybe he's put it on a
canvas or something like that. Something said to mental, something thoughtful.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
See I can I'm grabbing on that the words sentimental. Yeah,
that's good. That screams budget and.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yes this can.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
This can double into both categories with the cashed up guy.
I would then be also buying her a really nice gift,
so perfumes.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Always thanks Amy. Amy is a genius. You've got lot
some money. Buy her a nice gift.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Perfume is always a nice gift, or like a nice
cashmere sweater.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Because we're going into the cooler months, Alexis, Alexis, you
could buy her a car if you.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Want, Yeah, sure, play a car, and then you're going
to send her off for a day spar. So I
would do some research, find a day spar close to you,
book her in for three hours of pampering, like we
want the full hole, facial massage, exfoliation, there's going to
be a steam room, and just give her three hours

(24:05):
of peace and quiet. Maybe contact one of her friends
and so organized for them to do that together. And
then you're gonna either she's gonna arrive home and you're
gonna have cooked dinner or ordered it in because you
cashed up, or you're gonna go out together, depending on
how old your kids are.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
So that's that version.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
If you don't want to spend too much money, because
days bars are pretty pricey, I would still do the
sentimental gift in the morning, yes, and then I would
either give her the option of you potentially taking the
kids out and letting her spend some hours free and
alone with the peace and quiet of nobody in the home,

(24:46):
or suggests that she reaches out and goes out for
a girl's lunch with some girlfriends. I know for a
fact a bunch of my girlfriends have organized to go
out for lunch, which I.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Think is a really good idea.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
They've kind of taken things into their own hands, so
there's no expectations that aren't met.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yes, Okay, so the kiddie lovey stuff, Yeah, disgusting vegemite
toast in Yes, you can do that all in the morning. Yes,
an afternoon. I'm hearing. Give mom some time, just time.
You can't put a money value on time, can you correct?

Speaker 1 (25:18):
And also, I think I can speak on majority of moms.
We all love our children to death, and we probably
spend a lot of time with them, probably more so
than our partners maybe, But what we lack is peace
and quiet and our own time. And even if it's
just a lie in bed and read a book. Maybe

(25:40):
mom might want to whip out the pear and have
a long bath, and whip out the pair and have
some alone time with.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Herself, the pair, the thing that shaped like a peir. Yeah,
I don't like rip out her pair.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
No, she might want to take herself off for a
pilates class or a walk in the sun. She might
want to sit out the back and have a cup
of tea, or maybe she wants a champagne at ten am.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
She might want to pour herself a mimosa.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
I got one, Okay, tell me, I trust you can
you tell me if this is tell you really nice
and cool or super naf Yeah, I thought I loved
the idea. You said, take the kids out in the afternoon,
give us some time. What if I take the boys out,
but we surprise her. We set up our like TV room,
which I do sometimes with the kids, but like I

(26:25):
set it up like a gold class cinema, like at
her favorite armchair and everything, all set up a table
with some all her favorite snacks. She's not a popcorn person,
but you know, not a bit stuff. Yeah, yeah, maybe some
cheese and bickies and everything she loves. Get you know
the Holiday, Jude Law and everyone you know queued up

(26:45):
on the Screen's a favorite movie. Yes, and get her
all set up like that, and go set up the
cinema for her cinema home, gold class here, Yes, and
I'm taking the boys out for three hours. So good
you watch the Holiday?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
That is fantastic, And as well, You've got to make
sure that you are not an asshole by any means,
no nasty lip service. I think last Mother's Day for me,
Ryan was trying to do something nice. He was always
he was actually really grumpy, and so he was just
giving me like making snide remarks, a bit snappy at me,
and my kids are just blowing up, and I just
had a gut full and left, So do that and

(27:21):
do something really nice that is really thoughtful.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Okay, I'm doing it. Yes, that's I actually hope.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Georgie is not listening to this because that would go
down a treat.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Okay, beautiful, I would love that. I'm still going to
be an asshole though she knows who she married.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
This is cris Page and Amy's ride. Let's get feeled
it or field.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
It, so let's look deep inside ourselves. I urge everyone,
especially a lot of influencers out there, to do the same.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Influencers by influencers.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Because they probably have the most self reflection to do
and evaluation how they're spending their lives. I'm not calling
you an influencer. You're a content creator.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
I'm in radio host now.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
And an author and yes I am mum of three.
You're a superwoman.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
What else have you nailed this week?

Speaker 1 (28:12):
I feel like when people start questioning whether you're on
the jab or peptides, you've made a difference to your body.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
And I see you and they go, are you on
the Majara Monjara?

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah? And I have been an avid walker now since
the start of the year.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I walk every day for an hour.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, keep it tight.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, keep it tight, keep it fit. And I've noticed
a difference. And it's funny because my neighbor came out and.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Goes, are you on the peptides?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Which I was like, I'm equal parts offended and also
flattered because obviously the walking's paying off.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, but no, I'm not on the peptides.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
If I was on the peptides, I wouldn't be walking
every day for an hour.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Week playing for Essendon.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh god.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Anyway, I felt like that was somewhat of a backhanded compliment.
I'm sure I didn't mean it like that, but I
was like, you know what, the walkings, it's doing me justice.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, so someone thought you were on drugs, but you weren't.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Somebody thinks I'm cheating because I've obviously toned up a
little bit and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I'm doing it the honest way.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
And people say, Chris, you are you on cocaine? Thank you?
I am up and about today I die But no, look.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
At me holding your having a big, deep and meaningful
with you my nails.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Was I bought a you know, I'm getting into like
Facebook marketplace and buying random stuff of strangers. Yes, I'm
trying to get murdered basically showing up to people's house
that I don't know. Yep, I bought a projector, Oh,
like a movie projector. It's a really old epsom thing
or whatever. Brought back a lot of memories of some

(29:43):
classroom presentations, things like that. But it's all right, forty
five bucks.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
But you've got to have a blank wall.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
I've got a blank wall. Yeah, I took a painting off.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Us.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
I've played around with it. Yeah, it's all right.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
So how do you project a movie onto it?

Speaker 4 (30:00):
You put the cord from your DVD player or something
into the projector and it's placed it up in the wall.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, that's kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Forty five bucks movie.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, you can always hang up a white sheet as
well on your clothes one and do a movie night
outside at outdoor cinema.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
That's the plan. Also, there is a blank outdoor wall
on the house that overlooks the spa. Oh, sitting out
there watching the footy. I see what you've done, so
nailed it? What have you failed?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Oh? I failed?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Remember how last week I gave you a lecture about
just raw dogging your brand new iPhone seventeen and you
didn't have.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
A case still no case. Look, yes, well I don't.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Know what happened, but I left and even though I
have a case and a screen protector on, I'd dropped
my phone and my screen is now cracked.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Oh dear, is that calmer? Is that the seventeen pro?

Speaker 3 (30:53):
And you know what?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I looked up how much it is to get my
screen replaced at Apple six hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Well, it's not like a normal piece of glass. Guess
what touch screen? Guess what?

Speaker 3 (31:04):
That cracks staying there Now I'm not getting replaced.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Now you understand why people go elsewhere, because I can
go somewhere else, Dodgy and just get the screen in
place for a hundred buck, No.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Six hundred dollars. Let the whole world see your crack.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
I am okay, what do you fail?

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Failed? Also a phone thing?

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Good? Your screen's cracked?

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Still my old phone? So the iPhone twelve or whatever
it is, still got it and it's still connected to
the Wi Fi at home. So you know how the
kids are always can I look at something? Unless they
want to look something up. My son's obsessed with the football,
so he likes looking up the ladder and players and everything.
And he says, so I give him the old phone

(31:47):
and say here, you can use that to look at
some footy stuff for ten minutes. So of course, you know,
I go off and forget what I'm doing. Oscar brings
the phone into me and goes, what's this photo? So
they've gone on my old phone, which I haven't. I
haven't wiped. I a going through.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
I haven't said naughty photos.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
No, I haven't sent naughty photos. But I've screenshotted stuff
to send to the boys on what's in stuff? You
know what I mean. It's not It wasn't my penis,
so that's the main thing. It was much of it. Yeah, okay,
it was just an interpreperate I was like, oh, yeah, okay,
wipe your old phone before you go giving it to

(32:33):
your children.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah. Good, that's a good bit of advice.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Okay, all right, we're already here. Mother's Day tomorrow, so
we're off to Westfield Amy.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Amy's taken me shopping for Georgie. So yeah, we'll on
look after Georgie. See how far you can make twenty
dollars go.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Christ and Amy see you tomorrow, am for Mother's Day. Everyone. Bye,
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