May 18, 2023 • 14 mins
Justin & Kylie reflect on their week and determine what they can do better next time
Topics discussed in this episode -
- Origins of Mother's Day
- The Coulson girls have a craft day
- #266 I'll Do Better Tomorrow - The Noah's Ark Edition
- Justin struggles with gift ideas for his Mum
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's the Happy Families Podcast. It's the podcast for the
time poor parent who just wants answers.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now for me to do better for Mother's Day, for
my mom, for her birthday. I need your help, of course,
because I don't know how to use scissus. I don't
know how to glue stuff into a scrap book. I'm
toast and the girls did such a great job. Will
you help me?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And now here's the stars of our show, My mom
and Dad.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello, this is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy
Families dot com, dot you, and the co host and
parenting expert on the upcoming season two of the hit
TV show on Channel nine, Parental Guidance. I cannot wait
for this show quietly, have you seen the promos that
they're pretty compelling, compelling. I feel like I need to
go to the Moha kind of. It's just such great TV. Anyway,
(00:54):
we're not here to talk about that one today, as
much as I wish we could today. It's older better tomorrow.
If you're new to The Happy Family's podcast, welcome, Thank
you so much for choosing to spend your time with us.
What happens every Friday is Kylie and I review the
week that was, and we try to find areas that
we either nailed so that we can celebrate them or
areas that you might say we failed, so that we
can do better tomorrow. And Kylie, I think that we're
(01:18):
probably both going to talk about the same thing, and
that is Mother's Day. Is that what you're heading possibly? Okay,
So obviously for those of you who missed it five
six days ago, now we had Mother's Day in Australia.
I think Mother's Day is the same around the world.
I listened to a fascinating podcast just recently. Mother's Day
is the invention of florists. There's a lady who gets
the credit for inventing Mother's Day, but basically she was
(01:39):
a shill for the florest and when she realized what
the florests had done to her, she tried to get
Mother's Day banned. She tried to get United States Congress
to cancel Mother's Day. Obviously it didn't work. The Florest's
one and well in protest, I didn't buy you any
flowers for Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He didn't. I was feeling really hard done both.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I mean, I'm a bad h been twin. Need to
do better next Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, just get me some this week when they're too right.
And honestly, who decided that carnations were It was.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The florists and it was back. So here's the thing.
The reason Mother's Day is when it is, as I
understand from this podcast that I listened to, is that
at the end of spring, as America is going into
its summer, because I mean, like we're in mid mid
to late May now, so we've only got June and
then it's July. That's the American summer. And so the
American florists were basically saying, we have all these flowers
(02:29):
that we can't get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're not getting rid of them because they're the ugly flowers.
I literally went to buy flowers for my mum and
I was like, why is it that on Mother's Day
they pull out all the ugly flowers?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Every carnation lover, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Maybe it's because
in Australia it's just not the right season. I don't know.
But anyway, the idea from the American podcast that I
listened to, We Don't Have Taste or something, was that
florists wanted to unload all of their flowers before summer hits,
and this was the time that worked best for them
to have the bountiest harvest and make them aller. That's
(03:04):
that's why. And so I just I won't buy flowers
at Valentine's and I won't buy flowers I don't at
Mother's Day because I'm too cheap.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, I completely agree, because I thought it was ridiculous
the amount of money that they charge flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Dodgers are bullet all right, So Mother's Day, this is
this is my quick story, and then I want to
launch into your experience with Mother's Day, and it's as follows.
So I've been away a lot lately and I was
in Perth all week last week, had a great time
across there. But I contacted a couple of the kids
(03:38):
and said, guys, just a quick reminder, it's Mother's Day.
Mom is your mum, not mine, Therefore it's Mother's Day.
The responsibility falls on you, not me. I mean, these
kids are they're grown ups now or they're well into
their teens. They shouldn't need my input. So I gave
them fair warning, gave them a reminders. I said, hey,
if you need me to spot you some cash, I
(03:59):
can even help with that, but you make sure that
mom feels good on Mother's Day. And when I got
home from Perth on a Friday last week, this time
a week ago, I spuck a couple of seconds with
each of the kids and said, what have you done
for Mother's Day? And you know what they said? Nothing?
They said nothing. I was like, Oh, I'm trying to
be the parenting expert here. I've just had a week
away telling everyone how to have a happy family, and
(04:20):
we're about to not have a happy family, Like there's
no one more important in the world than you, and
I just couldn't believe it. So I said, well, you
need to pull your finger out. Something has to be done.
And all day Saturday they went crazy with craft. They
came up with an idea. I bought one of those
books that has all of those questions, and it's actually
a book for lovers. It's a book for me to
(04:40):
fill in.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
For you, which are you going to do that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe for your birthday? I think that gives me enough time.
I need another few months to get it done. But
there's all these questions in there, and some of them
are really really fun questions, and I thought, hmm, I
think that if I use these questions as prompts, the
kids can answer those questions in the scrap booking book
up a whole lot of photos off their phones at
km out or whatever it is that they go and
(05:04):
do that. And honestly, Kylie, the four kids who were
at home sat down and did almost nothing but craft
for like a day and a half. They stay up
late doing craft, and I think that they did an
extraordinary job. They really put together a great Mother's Day things.
So I'm kind of I'm kind of going, look at
me go. I was the good dad. I was persistent
(05:26):
but not harsh. I gave them the reminders, and in
the end, I had faith in their ability to pull
it off. And I'm just going to say, I reckon,
they nailed it. I reckon they nailed it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well. I guess there's two sides to this coin. Because
I knew that nothing had been done.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And did you give them a hard time? Were you're like, hey,
it's Mother's Day on Sunday? Do something I did not?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And then all of a sudden there was this mad
dash to the finish line to try and create something
that would be meaningful. I pretty much was banished to
my room. I really wasn't allowed out, and I actually
really enjoy surprises. When I was a little kid, I
used to destroy all of my surprises because I'd find
(06:08):
mum's stash of you know, presence, and would be very
very wonderfully sneaky and find out exactly what was coming
my way before it came, and over the years obviously
recognize it just completely destroyed the whole surprise. So even
when I know things are in the works, I try
really hard to turn a blind eye.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I've just listened to you like that kid. It's like, oh,
I know I'm not supposed to, but a peak. I've
got a peek.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And so I didn't. I had I knew there was
some kind of craft going on, but I had no
idea what was what was happening. And come Sunday morning,
they'd even told you that you needed to take me
for a walk because there was no way in the
world they were going to have it finished on time.
And so the grumpy side of me could be like,
why did you leave it to the last minute? Why
was this not done?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So? In fairness? In fairness, in fairness, we were away
on holidays and then I've been NonStop with the book
launch and with travel and all those commitments. But I
did give them fair warning this is totally on them,
but you are patient.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But I was patient, and the payoff was just phenomenal.
I think after twenty four years of mothering, Yes, this year,
my kids just knocked it out.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hang on, hang on, my kids, well, it's Mother's Day,
the am I hang on? Hang on? Our kids? Come on? Please? Please?
Are you going to share some of the joy.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, so they put together this little scrap book and.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
With a whole lot of photos and a whole lot
of great questions, and we got all the kids, even
our daughter who's in England, we got her. She responded
so quickly with all of her answers, so we got everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And what touched me was actually not that the answers
were perfect. They weren't necessarily particularly soppy or in some
cases not even heartfelt, but each of their personalities shone
through and it was like having a conversation with them,
and I was just blown away. So one of the
(08:01):
questions was how much ransom money would you pay to
get me back?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And a great question. I love that one.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
My nineteen year old, our.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Nineteen year old I've just because she's ours.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Said I would pay this much ransom money to get
you back exactly four hundred and twenty three dollars, because
that's exactly what's in her bank account right now. She said,
you always told me not to go into debt unless
it's for a house.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
She's a crack up.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But what I love about that is that while nine
thousand dollars is in a lot of money, it's all
she has, and that's really really beautiful. And then our
nine year old she's just got I can't even count
how many zeros after.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
She's got a number one, number one, and then about
fifteen zeros, and then some of the other things were
my favorite part of Mum.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is probably where my heart melted instantly.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, So in the book there's a die gram I'm
a diagram of a body. Yeah, there's no it's literally
just the outline of a body, and it says, fill
in the space here where this is your favorite part
of this person.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And so Emily has written I love all of Mummy,
and so she's colored my whole body in with red,
and then again the nineteen year old, she's actually drawn
quite a detailed picture of me and she's colored in
just above my chest, like between my shoulder and my chest,
and she just said, this is the best place to
(09:32):
place my head. And she talked about how she loves
all of my freckles, and she loves that we have
the same broad shoulders, and she said I used to
get made fun of because of how long my neck
was and realized that we both share the same neck.
I love our necks. It was just little things like
(09:53):
that she loved. She loves that when she's when I'm
sitting down and she places her head on my tummy,
she can hear all the different gurgles coming out of my.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You gurgley tummy. I'm telling you now, you have a
gurgly tummy.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
But then my twelve year old Lily, she said that
she loves my heart because it's so soft and kind
and it's ever harsh. She loves the amazing things that
I say. And she said, your hair, your hair is
always changing. It no matter what you do, it always
suits you. And just like I said, it's not necessarily
(10:25):
that any of the I mean, some of them were
obviously really noteworthy and touching. So one of the really
cute pages was how much of my pizza would I
give to mum? And the kids have actually pizza drawn pizzas,
and in some cases they've actually cut out the part
(10:46):
that would demonstrate how much they're willing to give me.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And it wasn't much. They're willing to pay a lot
for ransom, but they're not willing to share a lot
of pizza.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So my fifteen year old's willing to give me two
pieces and pizza because she's a growing major and she
gets really hungry.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Just on that, our fifteen year old Annie, there was
another question there. I don't remember where it was, but
it was sort of.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
How much do you like?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
How much do you love me?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh? No, no, sorry, it wasn't It was what's something
that you had told you to mum?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And she said, I love you more than potatoes.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Because anyone reading that would just think, what the heck,
But this kid just loves potatoes. And then I've got
little nine year old miss Emily, and she's drawn a
picture of her pizza and she's literally given me half
of her pizza. But when she talked to me, and
I can see it now, I didn't notice at the time,
she said, I gave you the biggest half Oh, so
(11:41):
it was just all of these little beautiful things, you know,
very raw and uniquely them, and it's so funny. It
costs them hardly anything, but just a whole ber time,
and it will literally go down in the history books.
Has probably been one of my most thoughtful gifts, whether
(12:02):
it be Mother's Day, birthday presents, or Christmas. It was
just so beautiful. When I said that to the kids,
they said, what do you mean? What about when we
did your day spa and we flooded the house?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, that one was memorable too.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I said, that was memorable. That will literally I don't
think you'll ever top that in the memory books.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We'll linked to that podcast episode in the show notes
in case you missed it. A Mother's Day a couple
of years ago and the kids forgot to turn the
bath off.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh but this one just so thoughtful.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So I'm really glad that you enjoyed that. My I'll
do better Tomorrow. It doesn't quite end with me being
an awesome dad and getting the kids onto this. My
old do better Tomorrow is actually me as a son.
Mother's Day and my Mum's Birthday were on consecutive days
this year, and I rang mum a couple of days
ahead of time, and just said, Mom, you're retired, you're comfortable,
you kind of got everything in need. I'm walking around
(12:51):
the shops and have been for an hour and a
half and I've got nothing. I mean, you don't really
need another pair of pajamas, even the bamboo ones. What
do I What do I do? And she said, I
just want something thoughtful, something from your heart. And I said, okay, well,
I've been on holidays, I've been traveling, we've had the
book launch. There's so much going on. I need to
ask for a little bit of leeway. I need a
(13:13):
bit of grace. And in a couple of weeks time,
I'll get your Mother's Day and Birthday present, so long
as I can have a bit of time to plot together.
And that's fine. I just want to know that you've
thought of me. And I said, you bet you I'm
thinking of you. I'm dying as I walk around the shops.
I hate the shops, right, I'm dying as I walk
around the shops. And so what I have decided is
(13:33):
that I'm going to do the same thing. You can't
tell her she's not going to be listening to the podcast.
Mom doesn't listen to the podcast. I hope I'm going
to do the same thing. But here's the thing for
me to do better for Mother's Day, for my mum
and for her birthday. I need your help, of course,
because I don't know how to use scissus. I don't
know how to glue stuff into a scrapbook. I'm toast
and the girls did such a great job. Will you
(13:55):
help me?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Really putting me on this spark on the podcast? I know,
all right, Well, here's my mother too.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The Happy Family's podcast is produced by Justin Rowland from
Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our executive producer. We really
hope that you had a special Mother's Day, and if
you didn't, we really hope that this has inspired Dad
to get his act together for next year so that
he can make sure that he does better next Mother's Day.
If you'd like more information about making your family happier,
we invite you to visit Happy families dot com dot
(14:25):
you or check us out at our Facebook page. Doctor
Justin Coulson's Happy Families
It's the Happy Families Podcast. It's the podcast for the
time poor parent who just wants answers.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now for me to do better for Mother's Day, for
my mom, for her birthday. I need your help, of course,
because I don't know how to use scissus. I don't
know how to glue stuff into a scrap book. I'm
toast and the girls did such a great job. Will
you help me?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And now here's the stars of our show, My mom
and Dad.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello, this is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy
Families dot com, dot you, and the co host and
parenting expert on the upcoming season two of the hit
TV show on Channel nine, Parental Guidance. I cannot wait
for this show quietly, have you seen the promos that
they're pretty compelling, compelling. I feel like I need to
go to the Moha kind of. It's just such great TV. Anyway,
(00:54):
we're not here to talk about that one today, as
much as I wish we could today. It's older better tomorrow.
If you're new to The Happy Family's podcast, welcome, Thank
you so much for choosing to spend your time with us.
What happens every Friday is Kylie and I review the
week that was, and we try to find areas that
we either nailed so that we can celebrate them or
areas that you might say we failed, so that we
can do better tomorrow. And Kylie, I think that we're
(01:18):
probably both going to talk about the same thing, and
that is Mother's Day. Is that what you're heading possibly? Okay,
So obviously for those of you who missed it five
six days ago, now we had Mother's Day in Australia.
I think Mother's Day is the same around the world.
I listened to a fascinating podcast just recently. Mother's Day
is the invention of florists. There's a lady who gets
the credit for inventing Mother's Day, but basically she was
(01:39):
a shill for the florest and when she realized what
the florests had done to her, she tried to get
Mother's Day banned. She tried to get United States Congress
to cancel Mother's Day. Obviously it didn't work. The Florest's
one and well in protest, I didn't buy you any
flowers for Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He didn't. I was feeling really hard done both.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I mean, I'm a bad h been twin. Need to
do better next Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, just get me some this week when they're too right.
And honestly, who decided that carnations were It was.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The florists and it was back. So here's the thing.
The reason Mother's Day is when it is, as I
understand from this podcast that I listened to, is that
at the end of spring, as America is going into
its summer, because I mean, like we're in mid mid
to late May now, so we've only got June and
then it's July. That's the American summer. And so the
American florists were basically saying, we have all these flowers
(02:29):
that we can't get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're not getting rid of them because they're the ugly flowers.
I literally went to buy flowers for my mum and
I was like, why is it that on Mother's Day
they pull out all the ugly flowers?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Every carnation lover, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Maybe it's because
in Australia it's just not the right season. I don't know.
But anyway, the idea from the American podcast that I
listened to, We Don't Have Taste or something, was that
florists wanted to unload all of their flowers before summer hits,
and this was the time that worked best for them
to have the bountiest harvest and make them aller. That's
(03:04):
that's why. And so I just I won't buy flowers
at Valentine's and I won't buy flowers I don't at
Mother's Day because I'm too cheap.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, I completely agree, because I thought it was ridiculous
the amount of money that they charge flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Dodgers are bullet all right, So Mother's Day, this is
this is my quick story, and then I want to
launch into your experience with Mother's Day, and it's as follows.
So I've been away a lot lately and I was
in Perth all week last week, had a great time
across there. But I contacted a couple of the kids
(03:38):
and said, guys, just a quick reminder, it's Mother's Day.
Mom is your mum, not mine, Therefore it's Mother's Day.
The responsibility falls on you, not me. I mean, these
kids are they're grown ups now or they're well into
their teens. They shouldn't need my input. So I gave
them fair warning, gave them a reminders. I said, hey,
if you need me to spot you some cash, I
(03:59):
can even help with that, but you make sure that
mom feels good on Mother's Day. And when I got
home from Perth on a Friday last week, this time
a week ago, I spuck a couple of seconds with
each of the kids and said, what have you done
for Mother's Day? And you know what they said? Nothing?
They said nothing. I was like, Oh, I'm trying to
be the parenting expert here. I've just had a week
away telling everyone how to have a happy family, and
(04:20):
we're about to not have a happy family, Like there's
no one more important in the world than you, and
I just couldn't believe it. So I said, well, you
need to pull your finger out. Something has to be done.
And all day Saturday they went crazy with craft. They
came up with an idea. I bought one of those
books that has all of those questions, and it's actually
a book for lovers. It's a book for me to
(04:40):
fill in.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
For you, which are you going to do that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe for your birthday? I think that gives me enough time.
I need another few months to get it done. But
there's all these questions in there, and some of them
are really really fun questions, and I thought, hmm, I
think that if I use these questions as prompts, the
kids can answer those questions in the scrap booking book
up a whole lot of photos off their phones at
km out or whatever it is that they go and
(05:04):
do that. And honestly, Kylie, the four kids who were
at home sat down and did almost nothing but craft
for like a day and a half. They stay up
late doing craft, and I think that they did an
extraordinary job. They really put together a great Mother's Day things.
So I'm kind of I'm kind of going, look at
me go. I was the good dad. I was persistent
(05:26):
but not harsh. I gave them the reminders, and in
the end, I had faith in their ability to pull
it off. And I'm just going to say, I reckon,
they nailed it. I reckon they nailed it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well. I guess there's two sides to this coin. Because
I knew that nothing had been done.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And did you give them a hard time? Were you're like, hey,
it's Mother's Day on Sunday? Do something I did not?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And then all of a sudden there was this mad
dash to the finish line to try and create something
that would be meaningful. I pretty much was banished to
my room. I really wasn't allowed out, and I actually
really enjoy surprises. When I was a little kid, I
used to destroy all of my surprises because I'd find
(06:08):
mum's stash of you know, presence, and would be very
very wonderfully sneaky and find out exactly what was coming
my way before it came, and over the years obviously
recognize it just completely destroyed the whole surprise. So even
when I know things are in the works, I try
really hard to turn a blind eye.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I've just listened to you like that kid. It's like, oh,
I know I'm not supposed to, but a peak. I've
got a peek.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And so I didn't. I had I knew there was
some kind of craft going on, but I had no
idea what was what was happening. And come Sunday morning,
they'd even told you that you needed to take me
for a walk because there was no way in the
world they were going to have it finished on time.
And so the grumpy side of me could be like,
why did you leave it to the last minute? Why
was this not done?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So? In fairness? In fairness, in fairness, we were away
on holidays and then I've been NonStop with the book
launch and with travel and all those commitments. But I
did give them fair warning this is totally on them,
but you are patient.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But I was patient, and the payoff was just phenomenal.
I think after twenty four years of mothering, Yes, this year,
my kids just knocked it out.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hang on, hang on, my kids, well, it's Mother's Day,
the am I hang on? Hang on? Our kids? Come on? Please? Please?
Are you going to share some of the joy.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, so they put together this little scrap book and.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
With a whole lot of photos and a whole lot
of great questions, and we got all the kids, even
our daughter who's in England, we got her. She responded
so quickly with all of her answers, so we got everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And what touched me was actually not that the answers
were perfect. They weren't necessarily particularly soppy or in some
cases not even heartfelt, but each of their personalities shone
through and it was like having a conversation with them,
and I was just blown away. So one of the
(08:01):
questions was how much ransom money would you pay to
get me back?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And a great question. I love that one.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
My nineteen year old, our.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Nineteen year old I've just because she's ours.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Said I would pay this much ransom money to get
you back exactly four hundred and twenty three dollars, because
that's exactly what's in her bank account right now. She said,
you always told me not to go into debt unless
it's for a house.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
She's a crack up.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But what I love about that is that while nine
thousand dollars is in a lot of money, it's all
she has, and that's really really beautiful. And then our
nine year old she's just got I can't even count
how many zeros after.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
She's got a number one, number one, and then about
fifteen zeros, and then some of the other things were
my favorite part of Mum.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is probably where my heart melted instantly.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, So in the book there's a die gram I'm
a diagram of a body. Yeah, there's no it's literally
just the outline of a body, and it says, fill
in the space here where this is your favorite part
of this person.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And so Emily has written I love all of Mummy,
and so she's colored my whole body in with red,
and then again the nineteen year old, she's actually drawn
quite a detailed picture of me and she's colored in
just above my chest, like between my shoulder and my chest,
and she just said, this is the best place to
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place my head. And she talked about how she loves
all of my freckles, and she loves that we have
the same broad shoulders, and she said I used to
get made fun of because of how long my neck
was and realized that we both share the same neck.
I love our necks. It was just little things like
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that she loved. She loves that when she's when I'm
sitting down and she places her head on my tummy,
she can hear all the different gurgles coming out of my.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You gurgley tummy. I'm telling you now, you have a
gurgly tummy.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
But then my twelve year old Lily, she said that
she loves my heart because it's so soft and kind
and it's ever harsh. She loves the amazing things that
I say. And she said, your hair, your hair is
always changing. It no matter what you do, it always
suits you. And just like I said, it's not necessarily
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that any of the I mean, some of them were
obviously really noteworthy and touching. So one of the really
cute pages was how much of my pizza would I
give to mum? And the kids have actually pizza drawn pizzas,
and in some cases they've actually cut out the part
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that would demonstrate how much they're willing to give me.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And it wasn't much. They're willing to pay a lot
for ransom, but they're not willing to share a lot
of pizza.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So my fifteen year old's willing to give me two
pieces and pizza because she's a growing major and she
gets really hungry.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Just on that, our fifteen year old Annie, there was
another question there. I don't remember where it was, but
it was sort of.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
How much do you like?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
How much do you love me?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh? No, no, sorry, it wasn't It was what's something
that you had told you to mum?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And she said, I love you more than potatoes.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Because anyone reading that would just think, what the heck,
But this kid just loves potatoes. And then I've got
little nine year old miss Emily, and she's drawn a
picture of her pizza and she's literally given me half
of her pizza. But when she talked to me, and
I can see it now, I didn't notice at the time,
she said, I gave you the biggest half Oh, so
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it was just all of these little beautiful things, you know,
very raw and uniquely them, and it's so funny. It
costs them hardly anything, but just a whole ber time,
and it will literally go down in the history books.
Has probably been one of my most thoughtful gifts, whether
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it be Mother's Day, birthday presents, or Christmas. It was
just so beautiful. When I said that to the kids,
they said, what do you mean? What about when we
did your day spa and we flooded the house?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, that one was memorable too.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I said, that was memorable. That will literally I don't
think you'll ever top that in the memory books.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We'll linked to that podcast episode in the show notes
in case you missed it. A Mother's Day a couple
of years ago and the kids forgot to turn the
bath off.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh but this one just so thoughtful.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So I'm really glad that you enjoyed that. My I'll
do better Tomorrow. It doesn't quite end with me being
an awesome dad and getting the kids onto this. My
old do better Tomorrow is actually me as a son.
Mother's Day and my Mum's Birthday were on consecutive days
this year, and I rang mum a couple of days
ahead of time, and just said, Mom, you're retired, you're comfortable,
you kind of got everything in need. I'm walking around
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the shops and have been for an hour and a
half and I've got nothing. I mean, you don't really
need another pair of pajamas, even the bamboo ones. What
do I What do I do? And she said, I
just want something thoughtful, something from your heart. And I said, okay, well,
I've been on holidays, I've been traveling, we've had the
book launch. There's so much going on. I need to
ask for a little bit of leeway. I need a
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bit of grace. And in a couple of weeks time,
I'll get your Mother's Day and Birthday present, so long
as I can have a bit of time to plot together.
And that's fine. I just want to know that you've
thought of me. And I said, you bet you I'm
thinking of you. I'm dying as I walk around the shops.
I hate the shops, right, I'm dying as I walk
around the shops. And so what I have decided is
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that I'm going to do the same thing. You can't
tell her she's not going to be listening to the podcast.
Mom doesn't listen to the podcast. I hope I'm going
to do the same thing. But here's the thing for
me to do better for Mother's Day, for my mum
and for her birthday. I need your help, of course,
because I don't know how to use scissus. I don't
know how to glue stuff into a scrapbook. I'm toast
and the girls did such a great job. Will you
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help me?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Really putting me on this spark on the podcast? I know,
all right, Well, here's my mother too.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The Happy Family's podcast is produced by Justin Rowland from
Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our executive producer. We really
hope that you had a special Mother's Day, and if
you didn't, we really hope that this has inspired Dad
to get his act together for next year so that
he can make sure that he does better next Mother's Day.
If you'd like more information about making your family happier,
we invite you to visit Happy families dot com dot
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you or check us out at our Facebook page. Doctor
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