December 24, 2023 • 48 mins
As dawn cracked on Christmas Eve, I found myself enveloped in the quiet hum of anticipation, a stark contrast to the sleepless night behind me. While reminiscing about past holidays and the vibrant hues of Quality Street chocolates, I felt the excitement brewing within my daughter Ro, her spirit a beacon for the festivities to come. Join us as we navigate the juxtaposition of work and celebration, with Trevor possibly taking the reins of today's TikTok recipe, all while I tidy up a cooking video.
Reflecting on the year that's almost behind us is like flipping through an album of vibrant snapshots and warm echoes of laughter, each memory a stitch in the fabric of our family's story. Amidst the whirl of pasta-making and the soothing art of bread-baking, we found solace in the rhythm of our shared experiences, like wine tastings and the simple act of gathering around a meal. My heart swells with gratitude for the growth we've seen, the adventures we've embarked on, and the community that has stood by us, every step of the way.
As we look forward to the new year, it's impossible not to cherish the moments that have shaped us—time well spent over meals, and the profound joy of our Italian family trip. Our episode is a tapestry of gratitude, woven with the threads of shared memories, laughter, and a panna cotta recipe that promises to sweeten your Christmas morning. Wrap yourself in the warmth of our stories and join us as we send out holiday wishes, all the while holding on to the hope and excitement of what's yet to come.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey cuties, welcome back to Five Years Time podcast
with your host, grace.
Happy Christmas Eve.
Can you believe it?
Where did I put my water?
It is the last day of Padmas.
Oh, my gosh and cutes, it isliterally 5 am.
Like it is 5 am in the morning,I'd say we're having a coffee
(00:36):
chat, but I just have waterbecause I didn't want to go
downstairs and wake up the house, although I'm pretty sure
Trevor's awake I have been upfor so long.
If you listen to yesterday'sepisode, you know that I didn't
sleep well the night before andI doom-scrolled all night,
although it wasn't dooming likeI wasn't in a bad mood.
I was just like I wasn'tfeeling negative energy towards
(00:57):
the social medias or scrolls,except for the fact that I
wasn't sleeping.
But me and Trevor and Ro allwent to my mom's for dinner last
night, which was so lovely,great to see my brother and aunt
and uncle and we really kickedoff our holiday weekend.
But we were so tired.
Trevor was so tired, heactually biked to my mom's.
(01:19):
I went earlier because I wasgonna help her make dinner and
we were recording how to how tocook a roast, which I have to
edit that video today, so I'mnot sure how it turned out.
It was a little chaotic in thesunset.
We were just trying to, we werejust having a good time.
It was more of a family funvideo.
But anyways, I was gonna pickup Trevor and then he was like,
(01:44):
oh no, I'll bike over, and so Ithink that really took it out of
him.
But I think he was also justtired in general and he was so
exhausted while we were thereand so I was actually pretty
energized, which I was surprised, because I was busy all day.
Yesterday I didn't sleep welland then I woke up not early, at
(02:07):
six o'clock, but that's likenormal time for us but I hadn't
gone back to bed until like fouror something and then I was
busy all day, like I was filmingand recording and moming and
just like all the way until wewent to my mom's and that we
were still recording more, andthen eventually we sat down for
dinner and then after dinner wehad Nibbley beds like different,
(02:30):
you know, christmas cookies.
Quality streets, guys, qualitystreets changed their packaging.
I get it better for theuniverse, but they took away.
It's now like paper instead ofthe colorful cellophane, and I
think the only reason it's trulyupsetting is because one of my
favorite things my dad didaround the holiday times was he
(02:52):
would take off the cellophaneand say it's not just a sweet,
it's a, it's an activity.
And then he would like hold thebuff to his eyes and look at
the lights the Christmas lightsor any light and it would change
colors.
Then we would like put thecellophane on top of each other
to create more colors.
It was just a fun activity andI would do it with row two and
(03:13):
she even remembers like doing itfrom last Christmas and then
this Christmas we opened up thetin and they're different change
sometimes, it can be hard, butanyways, yeah.
So as we were sitting and havingour sweets, row is you can tell
she's like she's clicked intoholiday time, like she was.
(03:34):
It was only seven or seventhirty and Trevor was like she
was getting a little like youknow, when kids are past their
bedtime and they get a littlewound up, she was starting to
get that.
But I think she was just likereally excited about the
holidays and Trevor obviouslywanted to go to sleep so he was
like maybe we should just go.
I was like it's only seven,like let's just stay a little
bit longer.
And, yeah, she was just like soI think it was quite funny, she
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was just going, goingeverywhere doing everything and
I loved it.
I loved how excited she was andit's just a, it's just a
weekend in our life and I wantto, I want to full, full, send
all the excited energy for thisweekend.
So let's do it, girl.
Anyways, point of this is allthat by the time I think we left
(04:20):
around like maybe eight, eight,thirty, I'm not sure, but by
that time I was like okay, I'mtired.
So we both we, I think we alljust went home.
I laid with Ro.
I'm so surprised I didn't fallasleep with Ro.
I actually almost was gonnafall asleep with Ro, but I
remembered I had to export myYouTube video.
So, like, I thinksubconsciously, my brain went
into I still have work to do,don't fall asleep.
(04:41):
And I didn't.
So then I came back in here andI exported and then I just went
right into bed and I think Ilike scrolled a little bit I
know, cuties, this is my, thisis my last indulgence in the
scrolling and then I just likepassed out.
I was like I don't haveanything to watch and I think,
trevor I don't know what Trevordid.
I think he went downstairs andgave her, but but he must have
(05:02):
gone to sleep pretty early,because I woke up at like three
this morning and then was juston my phone and I heard Trevor
get up and go to the bathroom,and so I and he went downstairs.
So I think he must be videogaming right now, or maybe he
went downstairs to lay down, Idon't know.
Anyways, he's not away, or he'sawake or he's not upstairs.
(05:26):
I thought I heard him and Ro isstill awake or still asleep, and
I was just laying there and Iwas like I should just record
the podcast, because I wasthinking like, oh, what are we
doing today?
And I need to record One morevideo For TikTok, maybe two,
because I'm still seeing ifTrevor's gonna.
(05:46):
I think Trevor's gonna dotoday's recipe of the day.
I'm just gonna say he is, I'mputting it out there, I'm gonna
tell you our recipe of the daytoday is gonna be hosted by
Trevor, so I at least need torecord one more TikTok today and
Get this podcast up and alsorecord this podcast.
This means this morning goingthrough my to-do list and then
we're gonna go rock climbingwith my brother and Then, other
(06:08):
than that and I wanted yourapping I told you I think
Trevor has an appointmenttonight, so I'd like to do
rapping, but other than that,that's all I have to do.
But I was like, oh, I shouldjust record the podcast now,
like just do it now and thenit's done and I don't have to
think about it, or try to figureout when it's gonna fit into my
day.
So that's exactly what I did.
I went to get up and then sithere and I Looked in the
(06:35):
viewfinder or in whatever as Iwas setting up the thing and I
was like, oh wow, I didn't washmy face last night.
I just had like mascara runningdown my eyes, so I just want to
wash my face.
That's a classic.
They can mean ought to wash myface when I just want to go to
bed.
I'm kind of gross like that.
So no judgment here.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I know judgment so.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But happy final day.
You're really getting my firstthoughts of the day and this
early morning.
I am so proud of myself fordoing every single episode.
I am behind on my TikTok videos, which, like Whatever, I don't
care.
I took off that one Sunday anddidn't record and and I'm happy
(07:16):
that I did it, but I'm actuallyso and I'm still gonna post
everything.
We're just gonna be a daybehind.
You're gonna get your lastepisode on Christmas morning,
which actually works out becauseour recipe of the day or, yeah,
our recipe of the day is gonnabe our Christmas morning
breakfast that Trevor makes usevery year.
So honestly, I think that'slike a bonus treat.
It was meant to be.
But I am so proud of myself forrecording all of these 12
(07:41):
episodes.
I can't believe it.
It was an emotional rollercoaster at times I want to tell
you about from start to finish,but I just can't believe we're
at the final one.
So I like had the idea to dothis because One I really wanted
to.
I feel like this time of yearthere's like a lack of
podcasting content and I amsomeone who needs at least one
(08:04):
podcast like every day, becauseI use it to fall asleep or I use
it for like my walk.
So, like I usually can get likea 10 minute, I'll fall asleep
to like 10 minutes of a podcastand then I can finish the rest
of it on my walk.
So it's like I need a podcastevery single day.
Sometimes I find it difficult.
So I was like I want to givethe QD's 12 podcasts If there's
anyone out there who is feelinglike they need some company
(08:25):
around the holidays or want somethings to keep them, be with
them for their walk every day orto fall asleep to just like
that.
So that was my one and then two.
I just like really need it toget out of.
I don't even know if it was apodcasting rut, I just was.
I kind of talked about this atthe beginning of vlogmas or
vlogmas come on, grace, it'sbeen 12 days.
(08:47):
We know what this is, bonmas.
I talked about how I felt likeI Didn't have anything good to
share and like I had this likethinking my mind where I felt
like I just like, I Just saidlike so many times, but I felt
as though I Was at this placewhere I was everyone.
(09:09):
I I felt like everyone outthere had more interesting
things to say or whatever I haveto say.
Someone else has already saidor everyone already knows what
I'm gonna say, I don't know.
I just like felt like my wordsweren't worthy of sharing
anymore and so that was reallyhard for me to like get past and
sit down and obviously talk onmy own for an hour to do a
podcast.
(09:29):
So I just was like I needsomething to push myself out of
this rut and just get myself,you know, feeling, feeling
loosey-goosey and comfortableand flexible and just like push
myself and also Get in a goodroutine of Podcasting and
(09:50):
feeling uncomfortable at timesand whatever.
So, anyways, and I have to tellyou, I truly is like Remarkable
what you can do when you putyour mind to it, because 12 days
later I have 12 episodes outand it's like wow, okay, I am so
proud myself for doing that,because let's go over the, the,
(10:11):
the jit or not the jits, the,the, the movement, the flow of
this 12 days and how I felt Istarted with such a bang, like I
was so excited.
I felt like I was.
I also hadn't podcasted for awhile, so I felt like I had so
much to say.
And then, about the halfwaymark, or like day, yeah, about
the halfway mark, it felt like,oh my gosh, this is too much.
(10:33):
Why did I sign up for this?
I can't keep doing this.
This is so much, it's takingtime.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then I was just like justdo a grace, do it.
And I I pushed through.
And then, as soon as we hit overlike Just over the halfway mark
, like I think like two episodesover the halfway mark, I was
like so excited I could see theend in sight, not in a bad way,
(10:55):
but in like I'm doing, and I gotthis like and it felt so good
and I've been so excited torecord these last few episodes
and I love that these last fewepisodes have been so like
Catchy up, being heart to heart.
And today we're gonna do ouryear in review, which I was
thinking like how do I want todo this year in review?
And then I was like I'm justgonna open up Instagram and go
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through.
At first I was like I feel likeInstagram is not a good
representation because I wasn'tvery active at the beginning of
the year On my five years timepodcast Instagram.
I'd never even use my personalInstagram anymore because I
become active on this one.
So I was like I don't know ifit's a good representation, but
I'm still.
I think it'll give me some,some inspiration to do our year
(11:38):
in review.
But I think that's what we'regonna do.
We're just gonna open up OurInstagram and scroll through and
discuss this year because,honestly, as I said in
yesterday's episode, I feel likeI can only see the last three
months.
I can't really.
I was like I can't rememberwhat happened, like from last
year to now.
So I think this will be reallyfun.
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I love reflecting.
Obviously, if you're here, youknow that.
But, starting off in January, wehad our New Year's party, which
was so much fun, and then, Ithink, january from what I could
see, oh yeah and we took roadto her first ice dogs game,
which was so much fun.
Actually, now, anytime we drivepast the arena because you can
(12:21):
see it off the highway shealways says ice dogs, ice dogs,
and we should take her to an icedogs game again this winter.
She loved that.
I actually loved it too.
That was my first hockey gameas well, and it was such a fun
time.
Oh, also, I should just warnyou that row might wake up some
at some point, because it's likewe're getting closer to the 530
mark and that's usually whenshe'll start to wake up, and so
(12:45):
this episode may be a littlechoppy in the sense that I gotta
get up and do mom things, buthopefully Trevor's awake
somewhere, but anyway.
So we took her to her first doggame, my first hockey game.
That was so fun.
I set up our podcast studio.
We've officially beenpodcasting here for almost a
year, which is just wild.
I can't believe that this issomething that I've wanted for
(13:07):
so long.
Ever since I started podcastingFor the first two seasons, I
felt like I was always movingfrom one place to the next
because I never felt settled orset up or I don't know.
And then also I always had to,like, take down all my equipment
and put it all up because itwas in, like public spaces of
our house.
So I really was craving an areawhere I could just have my
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studio set up so that when Ifelt the urge to speak or record
, I could just pop in here and Ididn't have to take out the mic
, stand, set up this, that upthis, find all the little bits
of mobs, whatever run around thehouse, plug everything in.
Everything was just ready to goand it feels so good and I
think that really did helpenable my ability to just speak
(13:48):
more freely on the podcast.
And it's been so great and Ilove it in here and I love that
I can just close the door andhave it, have it here Also.
It's so cute because Ro loves it.
She always, even yesterday whenwe were driving home I was
telling Trevor I was like okay,tomorrow we're going to do this
and I just need to sneak in tothe studio to record an episode
at some point or.
(14:09):
And then I was like it's thelast podcast of the year.
Or I said a podmas or somethingand Ro in the back was like
your last podcast, mommy, and Iwas like only of the year, just
just until the new year, andshe's like oh good, I love that
you podcast.
She's so cute every night on anupload night, which is Tuesdays
(14:29):
, because typically I upload onWednesdays, so on Tuesdays I
come in before bedtime and Ijust like check to make sure
that everything's exported and Iquickly get it all Uploading
and Ro will come in with me andshe always sings into the mic.
I actually have a fewrecordings which are so sweet
when I have the opportunity,when I have the opportunity and
I'm not busy trying to dosomething and I can get my
audacity open to record it.
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I have a few few cuterecordings of her and she'll
catch up on her day talking intothe bike.
She likes to sing.
She likes to sing.
This girl is a fire and it's socute and it's like a treat.
She loves being in here.
It's so sweet, I love it.
So, anyways, podcast studio sofun.
I'm so glad that we have thisspace.
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I think January spent a lot oftime trying to figure out and
get back into a routine.
I was just like our fridge wasso disastrous which actually
it's so disastrous right now.
So I'm sure this January I'llbe doing the same thing cleaning
up the fridge and all thatstuff.
And I remember I was preppingbreakfast, which was like a game
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changer for us.
I loved prep breakfast, but nowthat I'm obsessed with my cream
of wheat and toast and I haveinstant cream of wheat, it's
like we don't need to prep thebreakfast.
But that was so good.
At that time I remember I wasmaking egg bites.
Oh yeah, I loved our prepbreakfast.
Oh, what is this?
From January, okay, end ofJanuary, me and my friend Ken
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went.
I actually got invited to causeconsulman's I always want to
say it wrong which is a wineryhere in Niagara and it was the.
This was the best wine tastingexperience I've ever had.
Actually, I've had two amazingwine tasting experiences, one at
consulman's and one at the hair, and they were the best I've
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ever had.
As for like experiences, butthis one was their ice wine one,
and I remembered thinking, likeI don't really think I like ice
wine, but they made us ice winecocktails.
It was so fun and that was oneof the last times me and Ken got
to get together before shemoved away to Toronto, which is
fine and she still exists.
We had such a good time andthat was so sweet of them to
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invite me and it was really justlike so sweet, it was really
such a meaningful one.
So that was my reminder to youthat wine tasting can still
happen in the winter.
Actually, I think some of myfavorite wine tasting is in the
fall and winter.
It's so cozy vibes here insideover the vineyard, it's so
beautiful.
Sometimes snow or rain, oh,it's lovely.
I really got into making bread,oh yeah.
(17:06):
Oh my gosh, I forgot aboutmaking bread.
Okay, so this year is the yearthat I started making bread.
I couldn't remember if it wasthis year or last year.
So this year is the year Istarted making bread for the
first time, wow.
And I just posted our focacciarecipe oh, that one is so good
by Justine Stacks.
She killed it with that one.
(17:26):
But, yeah, a year of bread.
Wow, I feel so much moreconfident making bread now and I
really want to make bagels.
I fit, I'm sorry, I feel I'm sostuffed up right now, not
because I'm sick, but in themorning I just am so congested
and it's like I blew my noselike three times before this but
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nothing was coming out and nowit's just like all settling.
I'm sure other people canrelate to that, but anyways,
what I was going to say was Ireally want to make bagels Every
so often.
I have like this reminder'snote where I write down like
things I want to make, and Ialways write bagels always,
always, always.
And it's like I haven't madethem yet.
We did do pretzels, which issuper similar to bagels, because
you boil them, but I want tomake bagels so bad.
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So that's something that I wantto do this new year.
Oh yeah, my pasta attachment,pasta.
I never say that pasta, it'salso the year of fresh pasta.
I've had that pasta attachmentfor my kitchen aid forever, like
literally.
I'm pretty sure I don't know ifI got it the same Christmas I
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got my kitchen aid or if I gotit the next Christmas, but I've
had it since I was like 15.
Not even I got this.
My dad gave me my kitchen aid.
So I would have had it sincemiddle school, so since I was
like 11 or 12.
And I used it like once ortwice and I don't know if I
followed the recipe exactlyright and it never worked out,
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and so I just like never used itagain.
And then I remembered that Ihad it.
My mom actually had it.
I was like, oh mom, can I havethat pasta attachment?
Amazing, and it is the bestthing ever.
Like.
I absolutely love making pastaand I absolutely like, just like
, love trying new recipes.
It's so fun.
Ro thinks it's so fun.
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It's actually way easier thanyou would think it is and it's a
little time consuming in thecomparison of buying a package
of pasta.
But honestly, it's not eventhat time consuming.
Time consuming.
It's so much fun, I find it sotherapeutic.
So, yeah, a past and bread year.
Oh my gosh, we took Ro to GreatWolf Lodge for her birthday.
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That was so fun, that was asurprise for her and I remember,
I remember when we were likedriving in she was just like, oh
my gosh, because she saw theslides and everything and it was
so fun and that was like ourfirst time being like I've never
been to Great Wolf Lodge.
It's like a proper like kidsresort.
I didn't know what to expect.
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I never even thought, I didn'teven know that like kids resorts
existed.
Obviously it was, that's whatit is, but I don't know.
I just thought it was like, oh,a hotel in a water park, but no
, it's like kid oriented,everything.
It was so much fun and it feltlike a true, proper vacation.
I mean it is, but like we liveclose to Great Wolf Lodge, so it
was really just like astaycation in that sense, but
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like it felt like we were liketransported.
It was like, oh, I almost feellike I'm at like a resort resort
, like it was so much fun.
We went to a few weddings, ohyeah, okay, we had a wedding in
the winter, which was fun, inCollingwood.
What month are we in Obviouslyremember in February because, ro
, that was fun.
Oh my gosh, I made the heartcinnamon rolls A more bread era
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for Valentine's Day.
Oh, that was so cute.
Those cinnamon rolls were sofricking good.
I did that trick where you'reapparently it's like the
cinnamon trick I love cinnamonwhere you add is it half a cup
or a cup of whipping cream Toyour cinnamon rolls after
they've laid out and proofedbefore you put them in the oven,
and it just makes them so ooeygooey.
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It was my year of dancing inthe kitchen and recording it.
I feel like I am always dancingin the kitchen, but I was
sharing more of that.
Oh, pierogi, I made homemadepierogi.
I need to make pierogi.
Oh my gosh, I made the minihomemade pierogi for the soup.
Yum, what we made.
It was like a cabbage soup, wasit?
(21:18):
Yeah, cabbage soup with minipierogi, yum, oh, we need to
make a batch of pierogi.
It's a perfect winter thing tomake and I've had on my list to
make dessert pierogi forever.
The thing is, pierogi really istime consuming.
Like that is a labor of love.
That one I remember being likeoh, my back hurts, but I think I
stood the whole time.
I should have sat.
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I rolled all of them standing.
I really need to sit when I'mdoing things more often.
Sometimes it's like because Idon't record the whole process
when I'm rolling like a hundredpierogi, so I should just.
But I like because I'm standingand recording and then I just
turn off my phone and I keepgoing.
It's like I don't transition tositting, but I should.
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I should bring a stool over andsit down.
Oh my gosh, I discovered thecookies for two recipe by I
think it's modern honey.
I've definitely shared itbefore.
It is the best recipe ever.
Well, and it's for sure on myInstagram.
It's so good.
We make those all the time,like game changer, game changer,
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many a snack plate.
All looking through all thesephoto dumps Me and Rowie making
all the cookies so much.
What is this one?
Oh my gosh, march.
That's so funny.
Yesterday I was just sayingokay, so we've like jumped to
March already.
I guess this March come afterFebruary, january, february,
march, duh, I was sayingyesterday how I felt like winter
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is really like December,january, february, and
technically it's only like.
Technically it's only winternow, but December, january,
february, and then as soon asMarch hits, I'm like it's spring
.
And so this picture from Marchis literally me standing outside
, like by the lake, and there'sno snow on the ground, like
breathing in the sun, and that'sjust so true.
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This is my morning walks inMarch, and that's just so true
to what March is like.
The next picture is actually Iguess I can show I don't think,
I don't know oh yeah, thecamera's over here, I don't know
if you can see.
Anyways, the next picture is ofMr Noodles or Cup of Noodles I'm
pretty sure it's Mr Noodles,though and a donut that, a sugar
twist donut that I picked upfrom the grocery store in like
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their fresh donut bread area.
Oh my gosh, that was one of myfavorite lunches.
And saying that now I know wehave oh my gosh, cute.
I was gonna say I know we havebig bowls, like Trevor had
bought a bunch of ramen bigbowls, so I know we have that
and so I want that for lunch one.
And then I was gonna say, oh, Ishould pick up a donut after
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rock climbing today, but Iremembered we're gonna go to
this place.
It's called Puffs, it's rightby the rock climbing gym, but it
opened.
Whatever, I've no idea what itis.
It's a dessert place and itmakes these puffs, but I don't
know what the puffs are.
I don't know if it's like adeep fried donut or if it's more
of like a shoestring pastry,like an eclair, a cream puff, I
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don't know.
But we're gonna pick those upand that's basically what I'm
gonna say is my donuts and ramen, and I'm so excited.
Oh, my gosh, thank goodness Iremember that, this picture.
There's a picture of Rosiesitting at.
We went for all you can eatsushi and there was this time in
her life which she broughtevery Paw Patrol character.
But we have like 20 marshals,not 20.
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There's one, two, three, four,five, six marshals and then
three other characters.
They're all lined up and thatwas just like such a good meme.
I'm trying to show them on thething, but it's not gonna show.
Anyways, I just forgot aboutthat time in our life where Ro
would carry those aroundliterally everywhere we went.
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Oh, these March vibes are givingme such vibes.
I went to Trader Joe's for thefirst time in March and, that
being said, I just ran out of mycookie butter.
I'm back on the cookie buttergrind.
When I first opened that jar inMarch, I was like this is so
good and then I forgot about it.
And then this past, like twoweeks, I've just been like I
made cookie butter and I'mputting I love it with apples
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and then when we got to the endof the jar, I was just scooping
it out like scraping out thesides, and having it with a cup
of coffee.
Oh, it's so good.
Anyways, I can't believe that'sthe first time.
Oh, my Dunkin' Drink.
Oh, I forgot about that Dunkin'Drink.
I was just thinking we gotta goback over across the border.
Maybe we'll do that in January.
I got that Dunkin' Drink.
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What was it?
It was some sort of tea.
It was like a fruity tea, but Iput instead of coconut milk
because I didn't know that wasan option I put cream in it and
it was so good.
I wonder if I wrote what it washere.
No, I didn't, but I definitelyvlogged it and talked about it
because I need to get that again.
It was so good.
Okay, we need to do a bordertrip in January.
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Oh, look at this.
We went to Collingwood at theend of March, oh yeah, and we
got beaver tails and we hung outwith our friends who have a
place in Collingwood.
That was so fun.
I remember we went bowling oh,such good times.
And then, oh yeah, and we wentto visit Trevor's grandma and
discovered that our favoritecheese place is over close to
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where she lives and we went andvisited the farm and that was so
fun and I wanna go and do likea cheese tour.
I didn't get to do that.
Last year I went to Costco forthe first time in forever and it
was so overwhelming and Ivlogged it.
That was so fun.
Let's see what else is here.
Oh yeah, me and Rowe went toToronto, for Trevor used to work
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for a company that had anoffice in Toronto and so he
would go in every so often andon days where I could make it
work, if I was free, then Iwould take Rowe and we would
have a girls day, and this wasso fun.
This was in April and we hadthe best time ever.
We went and, oh, I hear Rosie,she just woke up.
She's going downstairs, thoughI think she thinks Trevor's
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downstairs.
Okay, we're good, we're good,but anyways, we went into
Toronto and we had the best dayever.
We went and visited Lauren.
We went to our favoritebreakfast place, which what is
it called?
Livon?
I don't even remember.
Anyways, it's this cafe that wego to every time.
Oh, here's a picture of it.
Can I read the name?
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No, but it's a cafe we go toevery single time we're in
Toronto.
We actually just oh yeah, andit was so nice.
We found the coolest park thathad these amazing chairs and we
just chilled there and Rowe hasher little book in the library.
Oh my gosh, this was the bestday.
I remember this was like one ofthose days where I was just
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like this is so much fun.
And what I was gonna say wasrecently Rowe had found like a
little piece from the menu.
They have Epic Kids menus atthis cafe and we were just
talking about it like literallytwo days ago.
I was like, oh my gosh, herfavorite spot.
Now Trevor doesn't work there,so we don't go into Toronto as
much for days like that, but weshould do another day.
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What else?
Lots of food making.
Oh, I remember I got my haircut.
I always get my haircut.
I feel like every year I startmy hair, I start the year off
with my hair being kind of thislength, maybe a little bit
longer, and then by the summerI'm like chopping it off.
I always just like to keep itfresh, keep it fun.
My gosh, I can't believe howquick the weather has brained up
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and changed.
It's just makes me hopeful forthe new year ahead.
Oh, I remember Purdy's chocolatesent me their Easter collection
chocolate box and that was sofull circle for me because we
ordered Purdy's chocolate forour wedding chocolate boxes.
I love Purdy's and I loved thatchocolate box they sent for
Easter.
It had amazing chocolates in itand I was so excited.
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Every day I would have a coffeeand a chocolate.
So fun.
Oh, I made those deep friedravioli, tiramisu raviolis.
Those were so good, oh, so good.
I oh went to whose birthday isthis?
I think it's Navina's birthday.
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It's such a cutie.
Oh, rowe's haircut.
What month are we in now?
We're in April.
Oh, I had my first.
Oh, we made all the meat pies.
That was so much fun with mymom in the kitchen.
I bought my longboard.
That was my first.
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What is my first time out on mylongboard?
May 25th.
Well, I don't know if it's May25th, but this is a weekly dump,
but May, oh, my longboard.
I absolutely loved my seasonwith my longboard.
We actually were just in thegarage yesterday and Rowe was
like hey, we haven't taken outyour longboard in a bit and I
was like it's a little cold.
I said, but first day it's nicethat we'll go out together.
I can't wait to sub my morningwalks her, my morning board,
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what is it called?
If I call it, did I ever saylongboard?
I meant paddle board, mymorning paddle board out on the
water.
It honestly is the mostrejuvenating thing ever and I'm
so grateful that we live closeenough to do that.
Oh, we went and got the mostepic pizza.
Lots of time outside.
I love this.
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All all these memes getting amosh, all the sunsets, lots of
snack plates.
Another day in Toronto.
Oh, this was a fun one.
We went to Toronto for I gotinvited to an event and it was
puppy yoga, and me and Laurenwent, my sister-in-law.
We had so much fun.
And that was such a fun daybecause I drove in and we did
puppy yoga and I was like, well,if I'm in Toronto, we're making
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the day of it.
And so then I went out forlunch with my friends Akbar and
Naveena, and then me and Naveenawent for drinks and then I went
for dinner with my friend Ken.
We had such a fun day.
It was such a long andwonderful social day.
That was so much fun.
I love days like that and thenI need to recover after, charge
up my social battery.
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I also had my around this time.
I'm pretty sure I signed with mymanagement which was like such
a monumental step in my personalcareer.
I need to see, especiallybecause I had met with like lots
of management teams and Ididn't think that was the route
that I wanted to go in, becausethey all made you feel like your
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dollar signs mona, mona, mona,mona, mona, mona, mona, mona,
mona.
But then when they had reachedout to me and I met with them,
it just like kind of clicked andall they'd sent.
So anyways, that's exciting.
I also pretty sure I was inworks with my.
Oh yeah, I did my first campaignwith Farm Boy and I had a
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contract with them for thesummer, which was so much fun.
I absolutely love that.
That was like the tip of theiceberg.
It was so funny because I hadsigned that prior to signing
with my management and mymanagement was like what's your
dream company to work with?
And like literally my dreamcountry company is Farm Boy.
Like that's all I wanna workwith.
But I had already signed withthem.
So I was like and I rememberhaving to like think like, oh,
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who do I wanna work with?
Like I could not think ofanybody outside of Farm Boy
because literally that was itLike for me in my mind I was
like I just wanna work with FarmBoy.
I wanna work with Farm Boy sobad.
I've loved them for so long.
And then I got to work withthem, which was such a big step
and I had such a fun time doingthat.
I was also gonna invite it tothis Epic Hog and Noss event,
which was so much fun, and Iinvited my friend Kenny, who
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lives in Toronto, because it wasa Toronto event and we had such
a good time.
That was so fun.
We ate so much food and we met.
We sat out at this table withjust the two of us but there was
like more space and then aspeople trickled in later they
came to our table.
So we were like the table ofmisfits people that didn't have
places to go and we met the mostfun people.
It was so fun.
That was an event that I really, really enjoyed.
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Like I felt like I met newpeople.
I feel like any other time Idon't go to a lot of events, but
I feel like any other time I goto an event, I like never meet
new people.
It feels very like highschool-ish.
But that one was so fun, oh mygosh.
We put on my events.
I was so excited for mycommunity events our pickling
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workshop, which I still haven'teaten my pickles and our floral
arrangement, which was so thefloral arrangement workshop like
I love the pickle workshop.
It was so fun.
I got to talk to so manyamazing people.
It was truly amazing.
But the flower one was justlike dreamy as dreamy can be
like spending time in the flowerfield.
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Oh, it was so lovely.
I turned 30.
Oh, my gosh, I will stillalways feel like I'm 16.
I had the best time with mybest friends, who I'm so
grateful for.
It was literally the bestweekend ever.
Oh, it was the perfect 30thbirthday.
It was the perfect combinationof everything that I love.
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Oh, my nose is running.
We went to another wedding forTrevor's Bestie and then I went
to Vancouver.
I still that feels like a blip,like it feels like a dream,
like that was literally so muchfun.
I booked my first trip away fora week to visit my friends and I
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remember it was when the forestfires were going on.
We were supposed to go toKelowna and visit them, but then
we ended up doing a vacation,and a vacation I say it's a
vacation.
It was a vacation for me, nomatter what.
But they ended up coming toVancouver and I met them there
and we had so much fun and itwas just the three amigos.
I actually was just thinkingabout that.
It was so funny because it wasso.
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It was me and my friend, mybest friend, nila, and her
husband, and we all went to camptogether and that's, nila met
her husband and I met Trevor,all at the same place.
So anyways, we all know eachother.
But when Nila and Eric starteddating, me and Nila lived close
to each other and we were likebestie, besties and we were
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doing this like thing where wewould try and see each other
every single day.
We didn't go to the same highschool, but we lived in the same
area and even we would likegrab a coffee, we would have
hangouts.
But even if we could just onlysee each other at crossings,
like getting off the bus, highfive, like we tried to go for as
long as we could I don't evenremember how long we got, but it
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was long.
I feel like it was like 50 days, like it was long.
And Eric lived in like a fewcities over.
He lived in Hamilton, so theywere like long distance.
They didn't get to see eachother very often like throughout
the week, and so he had like alittle bit of jealousy about
that and so we always joke thathe was third wheeling me and
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Nila, which wasn't true at all,but like we just joke about that
.
But anyways, then we spent thisweek in Vancouver and I got to
third wheel them the whole timeand I was like see full circle
moment, eric.
But I love it, we're the threeamigos in that sense.
But it was so much fun, it wasjust such good food, good times
and I honestly like slipped intothat world so effortlessly,
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like I didn't know, I felt forso long I wasn't ready to leave
Roe or like I don't know, like Ijust felt like I couldn't do it
.
And then all of a sudden I waslike I'm ready and then I booked
this.
And then I remember we weredriving in the car and I was
like I'm going to book this tripand so I booked it and then I
went and it was literally soeffortless.
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I think we have a visitor.
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Hi baby, how is your sleep Good?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh good, I'm just going to sit you here so you're
a little more comfy.
Did you just wake up?
I thought I heard you walkdownstairs.
Did you go downstairs?
No, you just came out of yourbed right now.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I'm just going to close the store.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm just finishing up my podcast.
Is that OK?
Ok, we have a little visitor.
Anyways, I was just talkingabout when I went to Vancouver
and how I had so much fun withNeela and Eric, but, yeah, it
just felt like I was meant to bethere, like I was not I've
never been a homesick person oranything like that but I was
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just fully embracing my timeaway.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
When do we get sick again?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Sick?
Yeah, what do you mean sick?
When do we get sick again?
When do we get sick?
I don't know.
Hopefully not anytime soon.
Why Were you worried that youweren't feeling well?
Oh, or did you have a bad dream?
You had a bad dream At school.
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Is that a bad dream or a gooddream?
We were in the Kinder's roomwith Santa Claus and you were in
your room.
Were you a Santa Claus?
No, oh, I'm sorry, baby, do youfeel better now?
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Guess what?
We're gonna go rock climbingwith Uncle Richard today.
You excited, so fun.
I'm just going through mymemories from this year.
So right now we're at Vancouverand then I oops, I lost where
my scroll was.
And then, oh, we went to the Xand we went on all the rides.
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This was our year of rides.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say wealso had our Toronto staycation
that we went on with Grandma,where we went to Centre Island.
Was that so fun?
Yes, I'm guinea pig.
I know.
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We got this guinea pig stuffyfrom the hotel, which was so
sweet, and then Ro was in lovewith it.
You took it everywhere, but weleft it at a movie theater one
time.
So we missed guinea pig.
What is it called again.
What is what called?
I'm trying to think.
What movie did we go see?
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Was it Paw Patrol, mighty Pups?
No, no, it was a differentmovie.
I don't remember.
It was a movie.
I don't remember which one wesaw.
But yes, we had our summer ofrides.
Ro is a ride warrior.
She goes on every ride, even ifshe's a little bit scared, even
haunted houses and big rollercoasters.
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And we'll have to go back.
Oh, I hear Alibi, the wholefamily's coming in for the last
day of Podmas.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Come here, Oz hey.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
What's Podmas, podmas , it's my last day of Podmas.
Why?
I don't know if she wanted tocome in, but any.
Why is it the last day?
Because it's Christmas soon.
I was broadcasting tillChristmas.
Okay, come on, we've got thewhole group in this room.
(40:27):
Come here.
All girls girls party.
Okay, so we also went to theCNE and went on rides there so
fun.
And oh, look, you got yourrainbow grilled cheese.
Do you remember your rainbowgrilled cheese?
Yeah, that was so fun.
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And then, oh, we went to.
What was this event for?
Why am I in Toronto?
Oh, yeah, it was.
We went to me and Trevor wentto an event with.
It was like a Tiff party.
That was fun.
And that was the same night asLauren's birthday.
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And, oh my gosh, I was.
I drank too much that night.
We had such a good time.
Oh, I started my properWednesday night dinner series.
I always film my Wednesdaynight dinners, but I started
calling them Wednesday nightdinners and filming them a
little bit different, and thathas been such a fun time.
I really enjoyed that and it'sbeen a great creative outlet for
me.
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And then we went on our trip toItaly.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I went to Raleigh's Goodie Bag, raleigh's.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Goodie Bag.
What's the Goodie Bag From herbirthday?
Oh yeah, we went to Raleigh'sBirthday too.
Do we still have it?
Well, I mean, you have thestuff from it, your little purse
, your poppet purse.
I'm not sure what else was init.
I think there was like a loliprobably.
But we went to Italy, which wassuch a fun trip.
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Oh yeah, there was a marker.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
There was the red marker.
We got two red markers.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Two red markers, which was honestly like the
highlight.
There's actually so manyhighlights, like I was going to
say that was the highlight of2023.
But like there were so manyhighlights, I'm actually like so
it's hard for me to pinpoint,but I think that that trip was
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just such oh big yonnes was sucha meaningful and impactful
thing on our whole family unittogether and it's also like kind
of changed my mindset.
I actually booked Italy beforeI booked.
Did I book Italy before Ibooked Vancouver?
I think I did.
And then that kind of made merealize how simple it was to
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book a flight and I was like I'mgoing to go on a trip just for
me and yeah.
So anyways, it kind of openedmy mind to like this whole world
, where it's like sometimes youcan just say yes and do the
things that you've always wantedto do, and even when you have a
family with small kids and allthis stuff, like you can, you
can take on the world.
So, yeah, italy was so much fun.
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I think Roe absolutely lovedthe pasta and panna cotta.
What was your favorite thingyou ate in Italy?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
The panna cotta and the pasta.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, I thought so Every night.
She's like mommy, can we havepanna cotta and pasta?
What else did we do this year?
Oh, we came home from Italy andhad a whirlwind of a weekend
because we had wedding stuff forTrevor's other bestie.
It's just the year of weddings,or actually it's this.
This is the phase of life, Ithink, because 2024 is also a
year of weddings.
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We went to the Royal Interfairand had a great time there,
where we see the cows and thehorses.
Remember what else?
What else do you see there?
We were going to watch the dogshow, but we missed it, or we
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didn't miss it.
It was full up.
Why?
Because it was very popular and, honestly, that brings us to
now we're in winter.
We went and bought.
We went and got our first realChristmas tree.
We've been slowing down.
We went and saw the Santa ClausParade, which is now our annual
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tradition, since we've done ittwice and I'm sure we'll do it
next year as well, and I'm justlike so grateful for this year.
It was such an amazing year.
I feel like it was a year that Ireally focused on prioritizing
what, or not even prioritizingfiguring out what my why is and
what I want to be doing with myday to day and what's important
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and prioritizing all thosethings.
And then now I'm entering aphase where I'm implementing all
that stuff.
I feel like I've set myself upwell for this new year ahead,
and what I want to do and how Iwant to lead my life and what's
the center of it.
And it's right here, my center,my alibi, my rosy, and daddy,
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of course, too, and I'm justlike so grateful for taking that
leap.
This is also my first full yearworking unemployed.
Being working unemployed thatdoesn't make sense, but like
working for myself and being notemployed by somebody else.
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That's a picture of me anddaddy.
That's from our engagementphoto shoot.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
He does what does.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Where's?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
daddy, do you have that shirt?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
I think daddy still does have that shirt.
He looks different.
Yeah, he looks smaller, younger, but anyways, I feel like I
don't remember what I was saying, but I just feel like I am very
confident in who I am.
Oh yeah, I remember what I sangand I'm so grateful for this
community that we have here andfor the time and energy that you
(46:30):
give back to me, because itmeans so much and it allows me
to live out the life that I'vealways dreamed of with the
people that I love the most, andyou're all so kind and
wonderful and I'm just so greatat copying me Rosie's, copying
my hand gestures.
Does mommy talk with her hands?
A lot, high five.
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So I love you all so much.
Thank you so much for tuning into this fun miss, and we will be
back in the new year with moregreat episodes to come.
If you can hear I'll be kissing, and if you stuck around for
this long, you're a real OG,because we're just like a
cluster of love right now,sending you all the care in the
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world.
It is time for coffee and toget our day started, sending you
hugs, kisses and love and MerryChristmas.
And I did tell you what the didI tell you what the recipe of
the day is, and we're going tobe making our Christmas eggs.
We are going to make pannacotta Me and Ro are actually
going to make panna cotta now torecord for posting, but the
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recipe of the day for Christmasmorning I just don't want to
make the panna cotta Because Idon't want to make the white
part.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
I just want to.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
You don't want to make the white part.
That's literally the whole part.
What do you mean?
You want to eat it?
Okay, well, it takes some timeto set.
Anyways, I love you all.
Let's go have coffee andbreakfast, sun kisses and hugs.
Kiss, I love you.
Hey cuties, welcome back to Five Years Time podcast
with your host, grace.
Happy Christmas Eve.
Can you believe it?
Where did I put my water?
It is the last day of Padmas.
Oh, my gosh and cutes, it isliterally 5 am.
Like it is 5 am in the morning,I'd say we're having a coffee
(00:36):
chat, but I just have waterbecause I didn't want to go
downstairs and wake up the house, although I'm pretty sure
Trevor's awake I have been upfor so long.
If you listen to yesterday'sepisode, you know that I didn't
sleep well the night before andI doom-scrolled all night,
although it wasn't dooming likeI wasn't in a bad mood.
I was just like I wasn'tfeeling negative energy towards
(00:57):
the social medias or scrolls,except for the fact that I
wasn't sleeping.
But me and Trevor and Ro allwent to my mom's for dinner last
night, which was so lovely,great to see my brother and aunt
and uncle and we really kickedoff our holiday weekend.
But we were so tired.
Trevor was so tired, heactually biked to my mom's.
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I went earlier because I wasgonna help her make dinner and
we were recording how to how tocook a roast, which I have to
edit that video today, so I'mnot sure how it turned out.
It was a little chaotic in thesunset.
We were just trying to, we werejust having a good time.
It was more of a family funvideo.
But anyways, I was gonna pickup Trevor and then he was like,
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oh no, I'll bike over, and so Ithink that really took it out of
him.
But I think he was also justtired in general and he was so
exhausted while we were thereand so I was actually pretty
energized, which I was surprised, because I was busy all day.
Yesterday I didn't sleep welland then I woke up not early, at
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six o'clock, but that's likenormal time for us but I hadn't
gone back to bed until like fouror something and then I was
busy all day, like I was filmingand recording and moming and
just like all the way until wewent to my mom's and that we
were still recording more, andthen eventually we sat down for
dinner and then after dinner wehad Nibbley beds like different,
(02:30):
you know, christmas cookies.
Quality streets, guys, qualitystreets changed their packaging.
I get it better for theuniverse, but they took away.
It's now like paper instead ofthe colorful cellophane, and I
think the only reason it's trulyupsetting is because one of my
favorite things my dad didaround the holiday times was he
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would take off the cellophaneand say it's not just a sweet,
it's a, it's an activity.
And then he would like hold thebuff to his eyes and look at
the lights the Christmas lightsor any light and it would change
colors.
Then we would like put thecellophane on top of each other
to create more colors.
It was just a fun activity andI would do it with row two and
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she even remembers like doing itfrom last Christmas and then
this Christmas we opened up thetin and they're different change
sometimes, it can be hard, butanyways, yeah.
So as we were sitting and havingour sweets, row is you can tell
she's like she's clicked intoholiday time, like she was.
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It was only seven or seventhirty and Trevor was like she
was getting a little like youknow, when kids are past their
bedtime and they get a littlewound up, she was starting to
get that.
But I think she was just likereally excited about the
holidays and Trevor obviouslywanted to go to sleep so he was
like maybe we should just go.
I was like it's only seven,like let's just stay a little
bit longer.
And, yeah, she was just like soI think it was quite funny, she
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was just going, goingeverywhere doing everything and
I loved it.
I loved how excited she was andit's just a, it's just a
weekend in our life and I wantto, I want to full, full, send
all the excited energy for thisweekend.
So let's do it, girl.
Anyways, point of this is allthat by the time I think we left
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around like maybe eight, eight,thirty, I'm not sure, but by
that time I was like okay, I'mtired.
So we both we, I think we alljust went home.
I laid with Ro.
I'm so surprised I didn't fallasleep with Ro.
I actually almost was gonnafall asleep with Ro, but I
remembered I had to export myYouTube video.
So, like, I thinksubconsciously, my brain went
into I still have work to do,don't fall asleep.
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And I didn't.
So then I came back in here andI exported and then I just went
right into bed and I think Ilike scrolled a little bit I
know, cuties, this is my, thisis my last indulgence in the
scrolling and then I just likepassed out.
I was like I don't haveanything to watch and I think,
trevor I don't know what Trevordid.
I think he went downstairs andgave her, but but he must have
(05:02):
gone to sleep pretty early,because I woke up at like three
this morning and then was juston my phone and I heard Trevor
get up and go to the bathroom,and so I and he went downstairs.
So I think he must be videogaming right now, or maybe he
went downstairs to lay down, Idon't know.
Anyways, he's not away, or he'sawake or he's not upstairs.
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I thought I heard him and Ro isstill awake or still asleep, and
I was just laying there and Iwas like I should just record
the podcast, because I wasthinking like, oh, what are we
doing today?
And I need to record One morevideo For TikTok, maybe two,
because I'm still seeing ifTrevor's gonna.
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I think Trevor's gonna dotoday's recipe of the day.
I'm just gonna say he is, I'mputting it out there, I'm gonna
tell you our recipe of the daytoday is gonna be hosted by
Trevor, so I at least need torecord one more TikTok today and
Get this podcast up and alsorecord this podcast.
This means this morning goingthrough my to-do list and then
we're gonna go rock climbingwith my brother and Then, other
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than that and I wanted yourapping I told you I think
Trevor has an appointmenttonight, so I'd like to do
rapping, but other than that,that's all I have to do.
But I was like, oh, I shouldjust record the podcast now,
like just do it now and thenit's done and I don't have to
think about it, or try to figureout when it's gonna fit into my
day.
So that's exactly what I did.
I went to get up and then sithere and I Looked in the
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viewfinder or in whatever as Iwas setting up the thing and I
was like, oh wow, I didn't washmy face last night.
I just had like mascara runningdown my eyes, so I just want to
wash my face.
That's a classic.
They can mean ought to wash myface when I just want to go to
bed.
I'm kind of gross like that.
So no judgment here.
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I know judgment so.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But happy final day.
You're really getting my firstthoughts of the day and this
early morning.
I am so proud of myself fordoing every single episode.
I am behind on my TikTok videos, which, like Whatever, I don't
care.
I took off that one Sunday anddidn't record and and I'm happy
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that I did it, but I'm actuallyso and I'm still gonna post
everything.
We're just gonna be a daybehind.
You're gonna get your lastepisode on Christmas morning,
which actually works out becauseour recipe of the day or, yeah,
our recipe of the day is gonnabe our Christmas morning
breakfast that Trevor makes usevery year.
So honestly, I think that'slike a bonus treat.
It was meant to be.
But I am so proud of myself forrecording all of these 12
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episodes.
I can't believe it.
It was an emotional rollercoaster at times I want to tell
you about from start to finish,but I just can't believe we're
at the final one.
So I like had the idea to dothis because One I really wanted
to.
I feel like this time of yearthere's like a lack of
podcasting content and I amsomeone who needs at least one
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podcast like every day, becauseI use it to fall asleep or I use
it for like my walk.
So, like I usually can get likea 10 minute, I'll fall asleep
to like 10 minutes of a podcastand then I can finish the rest
of it on my walk.
So it's like I need a podcastevery single day.
Sometimes I find it difficult.
So I was like I want to givethe QD's 12 podcasts If there's
anyone out there who is feelinglike they need some company
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around the holidays or want somethings to keep them, be with
them for their walk every day orto fall asleep to just like
that.
So that was my one and then two.
I just like really need it toget out of.
I don't even know if it was apodcasting rut, I just was.
I kind of talked about this atthe beginning of vlogmas or
vlogmas come on, grace, it'sbeen 12 days.
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We know what this is, bonmas.
I talked about how I felt likeI Didn't have anything good to
share and like I had this likethinking my mind where I felt
like I just like, I Just saidlike so many times, but I felt
as though I Was at this placewhere I was everyone.
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I I felt like everyone outthere had more interesting
things to say or whatever I haveto say.
Someone else has already saidor everyone already knows what
I'm gonna say, I don't know.
I just like felt like my wordsweren't worthy of sharing
anymore and so that was reallyhard for me to like get past and
sit down and obviously talk onmy own for an hour to do a
podcast.
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So I just was like I needsomething to push myself out of
this rut and just get myself,you know, feeling, feeling
loosey-goosey and comfortableand flexible and just like push
myself and also Get in a goodroutine of Podcasting and
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feeling uncomfortable at timesand whatever.
So, anyways, and I have to tellyou, I truly is like Remarkable
what you can do when you putyour mind to it, because 12 days
later I have 12 episodes outand it's like wow, okay, I am so
proud myself for doing that,because let's go over the, the,
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the jit or not the jits, the,the, the movement, the flow of
this 12 days and how I felt Istarted with such a bang, like I
was so excited.
I felt like I was.
I also hadn't podcasted for awhile, so I felt like I had so
much to say.
And then, about the halfwaymark, or like day, yeah, about
the halfway mark, it felt like,oh my gosh, this is too much.
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Why did I sign up for this?
I can't keep doing this.
This is so much, it's takingtime.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then I was just like justdo a grace, do it.
And I I pushed through.
And then, as soon as we hit overlike Just over the halfway mark
, like I think like two episodesover the halfway mark, I was
like so excited I could see theend in sight, not in a bad way,
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but in like I'm doing, and I gotthis like and it felt so good
and I've been so excited torecord these last few episodes
and I love that these last fewepisodes have been so like
Catchy up, being heart to heart.
And today we're gonna do ouryear in review, which I was
thinking like how do I want todo this year in review?
And then I was like I'm justgonna open up Instagram and go
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through.
At first I was like I feel likeInstagram is not a good
representation because I wasn'tvery active at the beginning of
the year On my five years timepodcast Instagram.
I'd never even use my personalInstagram anymore because I
become active on this one.
So I was like I don't know ifit's a good representation, but
I'm still.
I think it'll give me some,some inspiration to do our year
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in review.
But I think that's what we'regonna do.
We're just gonna open up OurInstagram and scroll through and
discuss this year because,honestly, as I said in
yesterday's episode, I feel likeI can only see the last three
months.
I can't really.
I was like I can't rememberwhat happened, like from last
year to now.
So I think this will be reallyfun.
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I love reflecting.
Obviously, if you're here, youknow that.
But, starting off in January, wehad our New Year's party, which
was so much fun, and then, Ithink, january from what I could
see, oh yeah and we took roadto her first ice dogs game,
which was so much fun.
Actually, now, anytime we drivepast the arena because you can
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see it off the highway shealways says ice dogs, ice dogs,
and we should take her to an icedogs game again this winter.
She loved that.
I actually loved it too.
That was my first hockey gameas well, and it was such a fun
time.
Oh, also, I should just warnyou that row might wake up some
at some point, because it's likewe're getting closer to the 530
mark and that's usually whenshe'll start to wake up, and so
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this episode may be a littlechoppy in the sense that I gotta
get up and do mom things, buthopefully Trevor's awake
somewhere, but anyway.
So we took her to her first doggame, my first hockey game.
That was so fun.
I set up our podcast studio.
We've officially beenpodcasting here for almost a
year, which is just wild.
I can't believe that this issomething that I've wanted for
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so long.
Ever since I started podcastingFor the first two seasons, I
felt like I was always movingfrom one place to the next
because I never felt settled orset up or I don't know.
And then also I always had to,like, take down all my equipment
and put it all up because itwas in, like public spaces of
our house.
So I really was craving an areawhere I could just have my
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studio set up so that when Ifelt the urge to speak or record
, I could just pop in here and Ididn't have to take out the mic
, stand, set up this, that upthis, find all the little bits
of mobs, whatever run around thehouse, plug everything in.
Everything was just ready to goand it feels so good and I
think that really did helpenable my ability to just speak
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more freely on the podcast.
And it's been so great and Ilove it in here and I love that
I can just close the door andhave it, have it here Also.
It's so cute because Ro loves it.
She always, even yesterday whenwe were driving home I was
telling Trevor I was like okay,tomorrow we're going to do this
and I just need to sneak in tothe studio to record an episode
at some point or.
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And then I was like it's thelast podcast of the year.
Or I said a podmas or somethingand Ro in the back was like
your last podcast, mommy, and Iwas like only of the year, just
just until the new year, andshe's like oh good, I love that
you podcast.
She's so cute every night on anupload night, which is Tuesdays
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, because typically I upload onWednesdays, so on Tuesdays I
come in before bedtime and Ijust like check to make sure
that everything's exported and Iquickly get it all Uploading
and Ro will come in with me andshe always sings into the mic.
I actually have a fewrecordings which are so sweet
when I have the opportunity,when I have the opportunity and
I'm not busy trying to dosomething and I can get my
audacity open to record it.
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I have a few few cuterecordings of her and she'll
catch up on her day talking intothe bike.
She likes to sing.
She likes to sing.
This girl is a fire and it's socute and it's like a treat.
She loves being in here.
It's so sweet, I love it.
So, anyways, podcast studio sofun.
I'm so glad that we have thisspace.
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I think January spent a lot oftime trying to figure out and
get back into a routine.
I was just like our fridge wasso disastrous which actually
it's so disastrous right now.
So I'm sure this January I'llbe doing the same thing cleaning
up the fridge and all thatstuff.
And I remember I was preppingbreakfast, which was like a game
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changer for us.
I loved prep breakfast, but nowthat I'm obsessed with my cream
of wheat and toast and I haveinstant cream of wheat, it's
like we don't need to prep thebreakfast.
But that was so good.
At that time I remember I wasmaking egg bites.
Oh yeah, I loved our prepbreakfast.
Oh, what is this?
From January, okay, end ofJanuary, me and my friend Ken
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went.
I actually got invited to causeconsulman's I always want to
say it wrong which is a wineryhere in Niagara and it was the.
This was the best wine tastingexperience I've ever had.
Actually, I've had two amazingwine tasting experiences, one at
consulman's and one at the hair, and they were the best I've
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ever had.
As for like experiences, butthis one was their ice wine one,
and I remembered thinking, likeI don't really think I like ice
wine, but they made us ice winecocktails.
It was so fun and that was oneof the last times me and Ken got
to get together before shemoved away to Toronto, which is
fine and she still exists.
We had such a good time andthat was so sweet of them to
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invite me and it was really justlike so sweet, it was really
such a meaningful one.
So that was my reminder to youthat wine tasting can still
happen in the winter.
Actually, I think some of myfavorite wine tasting is in the
fall and winter.
It's so cozy vibes here insideover the vineyard, it's so
beautiful.
Sometimes snow or rain, oh,it's lovely.
I really got into making bread,oh yeah.
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Oh my gosh, I forgot aboutmaking bread.
Okay, so this year is the yearthat I started making bread.
I couldn't remember if it wasthis year or last year.
So this year is the year Istarted making bread for the
first time, wow.
And I just posted our focacciarecipe oh, that one is so good
by Justine Stacks.
She killed it with that one.
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But, yeah, a year of bread.
Wow, I feel so much moreconfident making bread now and I
really want to make bagels.
I fit, I'm sorry, I feel I'm sostuffed up right now, not
because I'm sick, but in themorning I just am so congested
and it's like I blew my noselike three times before this but
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nothing was coming out and nowit's just like all settling.
I'm sure other people canrelate to that, but anyways,
what I was going to say was Ireally want to make bagels Every
so often.
I have like this reminder'snote where I write down like
things I want to make, and Ialways write bagels always,
always, always.
And it's like I haven't madethem yet.
We did do pretzels, which issuper similar to bagels, because
you boil them, but I want tomake bagels so bad.
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So that's something that I wantto do this new year.
Oh yeah, my pasta attachment,pasta.
I never say that pasta, it'salso the year of fresh pasta.
I've had that pasta attachmentfor my kitchen aid forever, like
literally.
I'm pretty sure I don't know ifI got it the same Christmas I
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got my kitchen aid or if I gotit the next Christmas, but I've
had it since I was like 15.
Not even I got this.
My dad gave me my kitchen aid.
So I would have had it sincemiddle school, so since I was
like 11 or 12.
And I used it like once ortwice and I don't know if I
followed the recipe exactlyright and it never worked out,
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and so I just like never used itagain.
And then I remembered that Ihad it.
My mom actually had it.
I was like, oh mom, can I havethat pasta attachment?
Amazing, and it is the bestthing ever.
Like.
I absolutely love making pastaand I absolutely like, just like
, love trying new recipes.
It's so fun.
Ro thinks it's so fun.
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It's actually way easier thanyou would think it is and it's a
little time consuming in thecomparison of buying a package
of pasta.
But honestly, it's not eventhat time consuming.
Time consuming.
It's so much fun, I find it sotherapeutic.
So, yeah, a past and bread year.
Oh my gosh, we took Ro to GreatWolf Lodge for her birthday.
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That was so fun, that was asurprise for her and I remember,
I remember when we were likedriving in she was just like, oh
my gosh, because she saw theslides and everything and it was
so fun and that was like ourfirst time being like I've never
been to Great Wolf Lodge.
It's like a proper like kidsresort.
I didn't know what to expect.
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I never even thought, I didn'teven know that like kids resorts
existed.
Obviously it was, that's whatit is, but I don't know.
I just thought it was like, oh,a hotel in a water park, but no
, it's like kid oriented,everything.
It was so much fun and it feltlike a true, proper vacation.
I mean it is, but like we liveclose to Great Wolf Lodge, so it
was really just like astaycation in that sense, but
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like it felt like we were liketransported.
It was like, oh, I almost feellike I'm at like a resort resort
, like it was so much fun.
We went to a few weddings, ohyeah, okay, we had a wedding in
the winter, which was fun, inCollingwood.
What month are we in Obviouslyremember in February because, ro
, that was fun.
Oh my gosh, I made the heartcinnamon rolls A more bread era
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for Valentine's Day.
Oh, that was so cute.
Those cinnamon rolls were sofricking good.
I did that trick where you'reapparently it's like the
cinnamon trick I love cinnamonwhere you add is it half a cup
or a cup of whipping cream Toyour cinnamon rolls after
they've laid out and proofedbefore you put them in the oven,
and it just makes them so ooeygooey.
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It was my year of dancing inthe kitchen and recording it.
I feel like I am always dancingin the kitchen, but I was
sharing more of that.
Oh, pierogi, I made homemadepierogi.
I need to make pierogi.
Oh my gosh, I made the minihomemade pierogi for the soup.
Yum, what we made.
It was like a cabbage soup, wasit?
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Yeah, cabbage soup with minipierogi, yum, oh, we need to
make a batch of pierogi.
It's a perfect winter thing tomake and I've had on my list to
make dessert pierogi forever.
The thing is, pierogi really istime consuming.
Like that is a labor of love.
That one I remember being likeoh, my back hurts, but I think I
stood the whole time.
I should have sat.
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I rolled all of them standing.
I really need to sit when I'mdoing things more often.
Sometimes it's like because Idon't record the whole process
when I'm rolling like a hundredpierogi, so I should just.
But I like because I'm standingand recording and then I just
turn off my phone and I keepgoing.
It's like I don't transition tositting, but I should.
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I should bring a stool over andsit down.
Oh my gosh, I discovered thecookies for two recipe by I
think it's modern honey.
I've definitely shared itbefore.
It is the best recipe ever.
Well, and it's for sure on myInstagram.
It's so good.
We make those all the time,like game changer, game changer,
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many a snack plate.
All looking through all thesephoto dumps Me and Rowie making
all the cookies so much.
What is this one?
Oh my gosh, march.
That's so funny.
Yesterday I was just sayingokay, so we've like jumped to
March already.
I guess this March come afterFebruary, january, february,
march, duh, I was sayingyesterday how I felt like winter
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is really like December,january, february, and
technically it's only like.
Technically it's only winternow, but December, january,
february, and then as soon asMarch hits, I'm like it's spring
.
And so this picture from Marchis literally me standing outside
, like by the lake, and there'sno snow on the ground, like
breathing in the sun, and that'sjust so true.
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This is my morning walks inMarch, and that's just so true
to what March is like.
The next picture is actually Iguess I can show I don't think,
I don't know oh yeah, thecamera's over here, I don't know
if you can see.
Anyways, the next picture is ofMr Noodles or Cup of Noodles I'm
pretty sure it's Mr Noodles,though and a donut that, a sugar
twist donut that I picked upfrom the grocery store in like
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their fresh donut bread area.
Oh my gosh, that was one of myfavorite lunches.
And saying that now I know wehave oh my gosh, cute.
I was gonna say I know we havebig bowls, like Trevor had
bought a bunch of ramen bigbowls, so I know we have that
and so I want that for lunch one.
And then I was gonna say, oh, Ishould pick up a donut after
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rock climbing today, but Iremembered we're gonna go to
this place.
It's called Puffs, it's rightby the rock climbing gym, but it
opened.
Whatever, I've no idea what itis.
It's a dessert place and itmakes these puffs, but I don't
know what the puffs are.
I don't know if it's like adeep fried donut or if it's more
of like a shoestring pastry,like an eclair, a cream puff, I
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don't know.
But we're gonna pick those upand that's basically what I'm
gonna say is my donuts and ramen, and I'm so excited.
Oh, my gosh, thank goodness Iremember that, this picture.
There's a picture of Rosiesitting at.
We went for all you can eatsushi and there was this time in
her life which she broughtevery Paw Patrol character.
But we have like 20 marshals,not 20.
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There's one, two, three, four,five, six marshals and then
three other characters.
They're all lined up and thatwas just like such a good meme.
I'm trying to show them on thething, but it's not gonna show.
Anyways, I just forgot aboutthat time in our life where Ro
would carry those aroundliterally everywhere we went.
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Oh, these March vibes are givingme such vibes.
I went to Trader Joe's for thefirst time in March and, that
being said, I just ran out of mycookie butter.
I'm back on the cookie buttergrind.
When I first opened that jar inMarch, I was like this is so
good and then I forgot about it.
And then this past, like twoweeks, I've just been like I
made cookie butter and I'mputting I love it with apples
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and then when we got to the endof the jar, I was just scooping
it out like scraping out thesides, and having it with a cup
of coffee.
Oh, it's so good.
Anyways, I can't believe that'sthe first time.
Oh, my Dunkin' Drink.
Oh, I forgot about that Dunkin'Drink.
I was just thinking we gotta goback over across the border.
Maybe we'll do that in January.
I got that Dunkin' Drink.
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What was it?
It was some sort of tea.
It was like a fruity tea, but Iput instead of coconut milk
because I didn't know that wasan option I put cream in it and
it was so good.
I wonder if I wrote what it washere.
No, I didn't, but I definitelyvlogged it and talked about it
because I need to get that again.
It was so good.
Okay, we need to do a bordertrip in January.
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Oh, look at this.
We went to Collingwood at theend of March, oh yeah, and we
got beaver tails and we hung outwith our friends who have a
place in Collingwood.
That was so fun.
I remember we went bowling oh,such good times.
And then, oh yeah, and we wentto visit Trevor's grandma and
discovered that our favoritecheese place is over close to
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where she lives and we went andvisited the farm and that was so
fun and I wanna go and do likea cheese tour.
I didn't get to do that.
Last year I went to Costco forthe first time in forever and it
was so overwhelming and Ivlogged it.
That was so fun.
Let's see what else is here.
Oh yeah, me and Rowe went toToronto, for Trevor used to work
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for a company that had anoffice in Toronto and so he
would go in every so often andon days where I could make it
work, if I was free, then Iwould take Rowe and we would
have a girls day, and this wasso fun.
This was in April and we hadthe best time ever.
We went and, oh, I hear Rosie,she just woke up.
She's going downstairs, thoughI think she thinks Trevor's
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downstairs.
Okay, we're good, we're good,but anyways, we went into
Toronto and we had the best dayever.
We went and visited Lauren.
We went to our favoritebreakfast place, which what is
it called?
Livon?
I don't even remember.
Anyways, it's this cafe that wego to every time.
Oh, here's a picture of it.
Can I read the name?
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No, but it's a cafe we go toevery single time we're in
Toronto.
We actually just oh yeah, andit was so nice.
We found the coolest park thathad these amazing chairs and we
just chilled there and Rowe hasher little book in the library.
Oh my gosh, this was the bestday.
I remember this was like one ofthose days where I was just
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like this is so much fun.
And what I was gonna say wasrecently Rowe had found like a
little piece from the menu.
They have Epic Kids menus atthis cafe and we were just
talking about it like literallytwo days ago.
I was like, oh my gosh, herfavorite spot.
Now Trevor doesn't work there,so we don't go into Toronto as
much for days like that, but weshould do another day.
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What else?
Lots of food making.
Oh, I remember I got my haircut.
I always get my haircut.
I feel like every year I startmy hair, I start the year off
with my hair being kind of thislength, maybe a little bit
longer, and then by the summerI'm like chopping it off.
I always just like to keep itfresh, keep it fun.
My gosh, I can't believe howquick the weather has brained up
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and changed.
It's just makes me hopeful forthe new year ahead.
Oh, I remember Purdy's chocolatesent me their Easter collection
chocolate box and that was sofull circle for me because we
ordered Purdy's chocolate forour wedding chocolate boxes.
I love Purdy's and I loved thatchocolate box they sent for
Easter.
It had amazing chocolates in itand I was so excited.
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Every day I would have a coffeeand a chocolate.
So fun.
Oh, I made those deep friedravioli, tiramisu raviolis.
Those were so good, oh, so good.
I oh went to whose birthday isthis?
I think it's Navina's birthday.
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It's such a cutie.
Oh, rowe's haircut.
What month are we in now?
We're in April.
Oh, I had my first.
Oh, we made all the meat pies.
That was so much fun with mymom in the kitchen.
I bought my longboard.
That was my first.
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What is my first time out on mylongboard?
May 25th.
Well, I don't know if it's May25th, but this is a weekly dump,
but May, oh, my longboard.
I absolutely loved my seasonwith my longboard.
We actually were just in thegarage yesterday and Rowe was
like hey, we haven't taken outyour longboard in a bit and I
was like it's a little cold.
I said, but first day it's nicethat we'll go out together.
I can't wait to sub my morningwalks her, my morning board,
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what is it called?
If I call it, did I ever saylongboard?
I meant paddle board, mymorning paddle board out on the
water.
It honestly is the mostrejuvenating thing ever and I'm
so grateful that we live closeenough to do that.
Oh, we went and got the mostepic pizza.
Lots of time outside.
I love this.
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All all these memes getting amosh, all the sunsets, lots of
snack plates.
Another day in Toronto.
Oh, this was a fun one.
We went to Toronto for I gotinvited to an event and it was
puppy yoga, and me and Laurenwent, my sister-in-law.
We had so much fun.
And that was such a fun daybecause I drove in and we did
puppy yoga and I was like, well,if I'm in Toronto, we're making
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the day of it.
And so then I went out forlunch with my friends Akbar and
Naveena, and then me and Naveenawent for drinks and then I went
for dinner with my friend Ken.
We had such a fun day.
It was such a long andwonderful social day.
That was so much fun.
I love days like that and thenI need to recover after, charge
up my social battery.
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I also had my around this time.
I'm pretty sure I signed with mymanagement which was like such
a monumental step in my personalcareer.
I need to see, especiallybecause I had met with like lots
of management teams and Ididn't think that was the route
that I wanted to go in, becausethey all made you feel like your
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dollar signs mona, mona, mona,mona, mona, mona, mona, mona,
mona.
But then when they had reachedout to me and I met with them,
it just like kind of clicked andall they'd sent.
So anyways, that's exciting.
I also pretty sure I was inworks with my.
Oh yeah, I did my first campaignwith Farm Boy and I had a
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contract with them for thesummer, which was so much fun.
I absolutely love that.
That was like the tip of theiceberg.
It was so funny because I hadsigned that prior to signing
with my management and mymanagement was like what's your
dream company to work with?
And like literally my dreamcountry company is Farm Boy.
Like that's all I wanna workwith.
But I had already signed withthem.
So I was like and I rememberhaving to like think like, oh,
(32:12):
who do I wanna work with?
Like I could not think ofanybody outside of Farm Boy
because literally that was itLike for me in my mind I was
like I just wanna work with FarmBoy.
I wanna work with Farm Boy sobad.
I've loved them for so long.
And then I got to work withthem, which was such a big step
and I had such a fun time doingthat.
I was also gonna invite it tothis Epic Hog and Noss event,
which was so much fun, and Iinvited my friend Kenny, who
(32:34):
lives in Toronto, because it wasa Toronto event and we had such
a good time.
That was so fun.
We ate so much food and we met.
We sat out at this table withjust the two of us but there was
like more space and then aspeople trickled in later they
came to our table.
So we were like the table ofmisfits people that didn't have
places to go and we met the mostfun people.
It was so fun.
That was an event that I really, really enjoyed.
(32:59):
Like I felt like I met newpeople.
I feel like any other time Idon't go to a lot of events, but
I feel like any other time I goto an event, I like never meet
new people.
It feels very like highschool-ish.
But that one was so fun, oh mygosh.
We put on my events.
I was so excited for mycommunity events our pickling
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workshop, which I still haven'teaten my pickles and our floral
arrangement, which was so thefloral arrangement workshop like
I love the pickle workshop.
It was so fun.
I got to talk to so manyamazing people.
It was truly amazing.
But the flower one was justlike dreamy as dreamy can be
like spending time in the flowerfield.
(33:42):
Oh, it was so lovely.
I turned 30.
Oh, my gosh, I will stillalways feel like I'm 16.
I had the best time with mybest friends, who I'm so
grateful for.
It was literally the bestweekend ever.
Oh, it was the perfect 30thbirthday.
It was the perfect combinationof everything that I love.
(34:04):
Oh, my nose is running.
We went to another wedding forTrevor's Bestie and then I went
to Vancouver.
I still that feels like a blip,like it feels like a dream,
like that was literally so muchfun.
I booked my first trip away fora week to visit my friends and I
(34:30):
remember it was when the forestfires were going on.
We were supposed to go toKelowna and visit them, but then
we ended up doing a vacation,and a vacation I say it's a
vacation.
It was a vacation for me, nomatter what.
But they ended up coming toVancouver and I met them there
and we had so much fun and itwas just the three amigos.
I actually was just thinkingabout that.
It was so funny because it wasso.
(34:50):
It was me and my friend, mybest friend, nila, and her
husband, and we all went to camptogether and that's, nila met
her husband and I met Trevor,all at the same place.
So anyways, we all know eachother.
But when Nila and Eric starteddating, me and Nila lived close
to each other and we were likebestie, besties and we were
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doing this like thing where wewould try and see each other
every single day.
We didn't go to the same highschool, but we lived in the same
area and even we would likegrab a coffee, we would have
hangouts.
But even if we could just onlysee each other at crossings,
like getting off the bus, highfive, like we tried to go for as
long as we could I don't evenremember how long we got, but it
(35:32):
was long.
I feel like it was like 50 days, like it was long.
And Eric lived in like a fewcities over.
He lived in Hamilton, so theywere like long distance.
They didn't get to see eachother very often like throughout
the week, and so he had like alittle bit of jealousy about
that and so we always joke thathe was third wheeling me and
(35:53):
Nila, which wasn't true at all,but like we just joke about that
.
But anyways, then we spent thisweek in Vancouver and I got to
third wheel them the whole timeand I was like see full circle
moment, eric.
But I love it, we're the threeamigos in that sense.
But it was so much fun, it wasjust such good food, good times
and I honestly like slipped intothat world so effortlessly,
(36:17):
like I didn't know, I felt forso long I wasn't ready to leave
Roe or like I don't know, like Ijust felt like I couldn't do it
.
And then all of a sudden I waslike I'm ready and then I booked
this.
And then I remember we weredriving in the car and I was
like I'm going to book this tripand so I booked it and then I
went and it was literally soeffortless.
(36:39):
I think we have a visitor.
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Hi baby, how is your sleep Good?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Oh good, I'm just going to sit you here so you're
a little more comfy.
Did you just wake up?
I thought I heard you walkdownstairs.
Did you go downstairs?
No, you just came out of yourbed right now.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I'm just going to close the store.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm just finishing up my podcast.
Is that OK?
Ok, we have a little visitor.
Anyways, I was just talkingabout when I went to Vancouver
and how I had so much fun withNeela and Eric, but, yeah, it
just felt like I was meant to bethere, like I was not I've
never been a homesick person oranything like that but I was
(37:27):
just fully embracing my timeaway.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
When do we get sick again?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Sick?
Yeah, what do you mean sick?
When do we get sick again?
When do we get sick?
I don't know.
Hopefully not anytime soon.
Why Were you worried that youweren't feeling well?
Oh, or did you have a bad dream?
You had a bad dream At school.
(38:00):
Is that a bad dream or a gooddream?
We were in the Kinder's roomwith Santa Claus and you were in
your room.
Were you a Santa Claus?
No, oh, I'm sorry, baby, do youfeel better now?
(38:21):
Guess what?
We're gonna go rock climbingwith Uncle Richard today.
You excited, so fun.
I'm just going through mymemories from this year.
So right now we're at Vancouverand then I oops, I lost where
my scroll was.
And then, oh, we went to the Xand we went on all the rides.
(38:47):
This was our year of rides.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say wealso had our Toronto staycation
that we went on with Grandma,where we went to Centre Island.
Was that so fun?
Yes, I'm guinea pig.
I know.
(39:18):
We got this guinea pig stuffyfrom the hotel, which was so
sweet, and then Ro was in lovewith it.
You took it everywhere, but weleft it at a movie theater one
time.
So we missed guinea pig.
What is it called again.
What is what called?
I'm trying to think.
What movie did we go see?
(39:38):
Was it Paw Patrol, mighty Pups?
No, no, it was a differentmovie.
I don't remember.
It was a movie.
I don't remember which one wesaw.
But yes, we had our summer ofrides.
Ro is a ride warrior.
She goes on every ride, even ifshe's a little bit scared, even
haunted houses and big rollercoasters.
(39:58):
And we'll have to go back.
Oh, I hear Alibi, the wholefamily's coming in for the last
day of Podmas.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Come here, Oz hey.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
What's Podmas, podmas , it's my last day of Podmas.
Why?
I don't know if she wanted tocome in, but any.
Why is it the last day?
Because it's Christmas soon.
I was broadcasting tillChristmas.
Okay, come on, we've got thewhole group in this room.
(40:27):
Come here.
All girls girls party.
Okay, so we also went to theCNE and went on rides there so
fun.
And oh, look, you got yourrainbow grilled cheese.
Do you remember your rainbowgrilled cheese?
Yeah, that was so fun.
(40:49):
And then, oh, we went to.
What was this event for?
Why am I in Toronto?
Oh, yeah, it was.
We went to me and Trevor wentto an event with.
It was like a Tiff party.
That was fun.
And that was the same night asLauren's birthday.
(41:10):
And, oh my gosh, I was.
I drank too much that night.
We had such a good time.
Oh, I started my properWednesday night dinner series.
I always film my Wednesdaynight dinners, but I started
calling them Wednesday nightdinners and filming them a
little bit different, and thathas been such a fun time.
I really enjoyed that and it'sbeen a great creative outlet for
me.
(41:30):
And then we went on our trip toItaly.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I went to Raleigh's Goodie Bag, raleigh's.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Goodie Bag.
What's the Goodie Bag From herbirthday?
Oh yeah, we went to Raleigh'sBirthday too.
Do we still have it?
Well, I mean, you have thestuff from it, your little purse
, your poppet purse.
I'm not sure what else was init.
I think there was like a loliprobably.
But we went to Italy, which wassuch a fun trip.
(42:07):
Oh yeah, there was a marker.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
There was the red marker.
We got two red markers.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Two red markers, which was honestly like the
highlight.
There's actually so manyhighlights, like I was going to
say that was the highlight of2023.
But like there were so manyhighlights, I'm actually like so
it's hard for me to pinpoint,but I think that that trip was
(42:37):
just such oh big yonnes was sucha meaningful and impactful
thing on our whole family unittogether and it's also like kind
of changed my mindset.
I actually booked Italy beforeI booked.
Did I book Italy before Ibooked Vancouver?
I think I did.
And then that kind of made merealize how simple it was to
(43:01):
book a flight and I was like I'mgoing to go on a trip just for
me and yeah.
So anyways, it kind of openedmy mind to like this whole world
, where it's like sometimes youcan just say yes and do the
things that you've always wantedto do, and even when you have a
family with small kids and allthis stuff, like you can, you
can take on the world.
So, yeah, italy was so much fun.
(43:23):
I think Roe absolutely lovedthe pasta and panna cotta.
What was your favorite thingyou ate in Italy?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
The panna cotta and the pasta.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, I thought so Every night.
She's like mommy, can we havepanna cotta and pasta?
What else did we do this year?
Oh, we came home from Italy andhad a whirlwind of a weekend
because we had wedding stuff forTrevor's other bestie.
It's just the year of weddings,or actually it's this.
This is the phase of life, Ithink, because 2024 is also a
year of weddings.
(43:58):
We went to the Royal Interfairand had a great time there,
where we see the cows and thehorses.
Remember what else?
What else do you see there?
We were going to watch the dogshow, but we missed it, or we
(44:20):
didn't miss it.
It was full up.
Why?
Because it was very popular and, honestly, that brings us to
now we're in winter.
We went and bought.
We went and got our first realChristmas tree.
We've been slowing down.
We went and saw the Santa ClausParade, which is now our annual
(44:41):
tradition, since we've done ittwice and I'm sure we'll do it
next year as well, and I'm justlike so grateful for this year.
It was such an amazing year.
I feel like it was a year that Ireally focused on prioritizing
what, or not even prioritizingfiguring out what my why is and
what I want to be doing with myday to day and what's important
(45:06):
and prioritizing all thosethings.
And then now I'm entering aphase where I'm implementing all
that stuff.
I feel like I've set myself upwell for this new year ahead,
and what I want to do and how Iwant to lead my life and what's
the center of it.
And it's right here, my center,my alibi, my rosy, and daddy,
(45:29):
of course, too, and I'm justlike so grateful for taking that
leap.
This is also my first full yearworking unemployed.
Being working unemployed thatdoesn't make sense, but like
working for myself and being notemployed by somebody else.
(45:51):
That's a picture of me anddaddy.
That's from our engagementphoto shoot.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
He does what does.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Where's?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
daddy, do you have that shirt?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
I think daddy still does have that shirt.
He looks different.
Yeah, he looks smaller, younger, but anyways, I feel like I
don't remember what I was saying, but I just feel like I am very
confident in who I am.
Oh yeah, I remember what I sangand I'm so grateful for this
community that we have here andfor the time and energy that you
(46:30):
give back to me, because itmeans so much and it allows me
to live out the life that I'vealways dreamed of with the
people that I love the most, andyou're all so kind and
wonderful and I'm just so greatat copying me Rosie's, copying
my hand gestures.
Does mommy talk with her hands?
A lot, high five.
(46:50):
So I love you all so much.
Thank you so much for tuning into this fun miss, and we will be
back in the new year with moregreat episodes to come.
If you can hear I'll be kissing, and if you stuck around for
this long, you're a real OG,because we're just like a
cluster of love right now,sending you all the care in the
(47:13):
world.
It is time for coffee and toget our day started, sending you
hugs, kisses and love and MerryChristmas.
And I did tell you what the didI tell you what the recipe of
the day is, and we're going tobe making our Christmas eggs.
We are going to make pannacotta Me and Ro are actually
going to make panna cotta now torecord for posting, but the
(47:34):
recipe of the day for Christmasmorning I just don't want to
make the panna cotta Because Idon't want to make the white
part.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
I just want to.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
You don't want to make the white part.
That's literally the whole part.
What do you mean?
You want to eat it?
Okay, well, it takes some timeto set.
Anyways, I love you all.
Let's go have coffee andbreakfast, sun kisses and hugs.
Kiss, I love you.
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