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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo in the morning. The holiday
season is upon us. I always feel like the holiday
season starts right after Halloween. And I know that the
Christmas stations sometimes deem like a few days in or
a couple weeks in, or sometimes some people say Thanksgiving,
but I think that once you get to right after Halloween,
(00:23):
Christmas is upon us. Now there are wacky people that
like to celebrate Christmas even in July, which I think
unless it's a promotion, you know, benefiting a charity or
something you dumb. But Shannon is is done though with
some of the crazy stuff that's going on in your family.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, I just feel like, because I feel like there
comes a point in the year that you need to stop.
Everybody needs to stop shopping for kids who make Christmas lists,
because I can remember like even if I needed, you know,
something for school, my mom would be like, put it
on your Christmas list. Once it hit I would say
(01:04):
November right, like, we got nothing because it was put
it on your Christmas list. You can get it for Christmas.
And so I've been burned twice already this year in
the past two weeks with Christmas surprises that I was
so excited to give my kids that were bought for
them already. And so one of them is Lucy. And
(01:26):
these dang jellycats, okay, these stuffed animals that are like
all the rage now for kids and adults. But there
was one when we went to Chicago for Mojo's Hall
of Fame ceremony, there was one that was like a
Chicago exclusive. Again, I understand how silly this sounds, but
I your son Joe helped me get it from her,
and I was so excited to put it under the
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tree and give it to her. And her dad and
stepmom got it for her and already gave it to her.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So what did they give it to her for?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Upset? Just for fun because they took a trip to Chicago,
so they ended that. So I was like, okay, crap.
That was going to be her big Christmas, her big
Christmas gift from me, So I had to okay fine.
So then my stepdaughter Samantha wanted a winter coat, a
new winter coat, and she had said it on Thanksgiving morning,
Oh my gosh, I love this coat. I want this
(02:19):
coat so bad. So I was going to surprise her.
I told Wes, I'm going to buy her this coat,
and he was like, no, no, no, it's too much, and
I said no, I love doing something that they don't expect, right,
So I bought her the coat. It was being shipped.
She shows up literally a couple of days later when
we went to get our Christmas tree wearing the coat.
Her grandma waught it for her.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I died, I am dying, And again I asked what
it was grandma buying it for her.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I think she bought it. She bought it for her
for Christmas and gave it to her early.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, so she could wear it.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Do you return or can you even return a jelly cat?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know, not returning the jelly cat. The coat
is getting returned, yes, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So here's the thing, and this is one of those
things that when I was a kid, we had some things,
like we had a good life, but.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We didn't have everything. I feel like nowadays.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We didn't go when I was younger, to the store,
like to Target, like kids do with their moms, you know,
on a weekly basis. We would go to the store occasionally,
you know, every now and again, but it was never
like my mom taking me to the mall and I
can go mom, can I get this. My kids live
a different life than I lived. Your kids live a
way different life than you live, agree, right? And I
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think that they.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But there needs to be a cutoff date.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There has to be a no. It's like a no
fly zone.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There no bottom off date. Maybe it's November first would
be a good one. The day after Halloween, right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So you can't no, If Samantha needs a coat because
she's cold and it's twenty degrees outside, let's not wait
until Christmas time to give her the coat. Maybe give
it to her early. Okay, she had a coat, but
she's gonna get her new coat. But maybe she wants to. So,
by the way, a kid asking for a coat is
an amazing thing. Like I like, that's a necessity where
(04:07):
you know, when I was a kid, I was asking
for a freaking you know, race cars and things like that,
like I wanted like my stuff. Yeah, but I but
I also I agree with you, there should be And
we used to have it in our house like my
dad used to. And I will say this to you.
I'm at a point now in my house. And don't
get me wrong, I do okay, But I basically said
to Chelsea, go we're not doing what we've done in
(04:28):
past Christmas. Is first off, the economy sucks. Yeah, and
anybody if I'm feeling the economy sucking, I know you're
feeling the economy sucking. And I'm going to say this
to you that we're seeing it and our breaking any
in Christmas wish letters. I think our kids need to understand,
as my dad used to say, that money doesn't grow
on trees.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, even this weekend, you know, with Luca and I
taking our girls trip to New York City. And this
has kind of become a tradition for us where if
she finds some things that she likes, I always kind
of save little spots on her Christmas list. I wrap
them up and put them under the tree. And this
morning and she knows that, so.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
She already sees her gifts.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
She already sees a few of her gifts because she
picks them up. But I had to keep asking her,
you didn't put these things on your Christmas list for
anybody else, Like I always I want to be mindful
of that.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But yeah, I think, like separated families, do you communicate
with her dad's side, because how do we make sure
that she's not getting double of everything or.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Obviously, I mean, Sam does a really good job. So there,
this was not This was not anything that we had
when we were little. But now there are these apps
that you can create a list on and then this
works so well for divorced families. So she could send
it to her mom and her stepdad, and she sent
it to myself in West and when we buy something
(05:43):
from it, everybody can see that it's already done. Okay, cool,
which is so smart. It's called what the heck is
it called. I think it's called gift gift fold or something.
It's really helpful.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I used to circle what I wanted on magazine.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Again once it hit November, my mom was like, nope,
even if I needed it for school, nope.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Did you guys do the toys r US Big Toy Book?
We did service merchandise, Service merchant.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I was grace too.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was always in the back of the catalog, the
service market merchandise, the place that you have to wait
up in the front for them to bring the gift
out to.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You or to you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You pulled the tag and then it came up on
the conveyor bus.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So cool.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's kind of like Costco does that for like certain things.
You got to always all right eight four to four
Mojo Live. What is the no buy uh zone or
the no fly zone that you guys have? When do
you start doing this that you can't do? You know,
you can't be buying stuff for your kids my kids.
So my kids will do this. My kids will buy
(06:44):
things assuming they're going to get things, so when they're
older now, but they'll assume they're getting like some game
system or whatever, and then they'll go, well, I'm buying this.
I'm like, well, why are you buying that? You got
to have that game system? Well, I already know, mom,
got it, you know what I mean? Like you already
you ever and then your look and going well, I'm
not gonna lie to you. You're not getting it, you
know what I mean? Or or you are getting it, Adriana,
(07:05):
what's up?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hi? How are you?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We're good, Adriana.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you all. So I kind
of did a little bit of a boo boo. I have.
I have five kids and they range from twenty one
to four. And my twenty one year old, she's a
senior at Michigan State go green, Yeah, go right. She
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needed a new coat and she really wanted like the
Arisia super Puff. So it was on Zale and I
got it for her. And I had to give it
to her because she had finals all last week and
this week and she had to walk around. I know,
but now I feel like I have to make up
the coat and give her something else under it for under.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The tree first at the same one, Samantha on. Yeah,
I hey, Adriana, but you know my son also is
a spartan, but his thing is shoes, and can you
explain something to me? And you probably see this with
your daughter's friends, the guy friends. Why are the boys
(08:11):
that are your daughter's age wearing such dirty shoes these days?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Every kid on a college campus wears like white shoes
that are basically look like their muddy You know what
I'm talking about, Adriana.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I see it even in my high school daughters.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yea, these kids they look like their parents don't buy
them shoes, but their brand new shoes, and they're all
of a sudden, they're all dirty.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Like Luke is the biggest offender.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Luke's shoes are the dirtiest I see it's gross.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And you know who I blame out of this one.
What's that designer brand, Golden Goose. I blame like a
Golden Goose for this thing, because the Golden Goose they
come that way. So I think these kids want to
like wear their gym shoes and they want to have
them be dirty as hell.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Hold on, Zanab, Hello, what's happening?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We're good? Ain't it? What's going on? What you're calling for?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I just stopped wrapping gifts for the kids.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
These kids, no matter what I buy it for them,
they're going to open it anyway.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So I'm just gonna let them pick it out and
wrap them on Christmas morning follow the day.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So they actually go buy their own gifts. And then
you say you want to My son is very picky
with what he likes.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, do you tell him, hey, go up in your
closet and go get that cote I got you, or
go get that pair of shoes and you just wrap them.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
He asked for a marble run and I already bought
it for him because he threw a tantrum, and so
I'm gonna wrap it up and give him on Christmas morning.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh that's great, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I wonder how many times you could actually wrap up
for your kids things that they already have and see
if they recognize it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
These kids have everything. What's up, VICKI, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Hey, how's it going good?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
I wanted to know if Shannon had ever thought of
doing a shared like Google note, or if everybody has
an iPhone or shared. I know, so that like when
Christmas time comes around, she wasn't telling anybody about the
Jelly Cat.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So yeah, like nobody like for bigger gifts.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't like the Shannon in Trouble, but yeah, I
think that everybody knew about the Jelly Cat.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well in some of these, like the app is a
really good idea. These apps are a good idea because
they do exactly that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, I think that. Here's here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Oh, I know some friends that have, like you know,
the parents are divorced, but both parents are also remarried,
so their step parents, step grandparents. Yeah, and they finally
for Birthday and Christmas, put a couple of lists together
just like hey, letting you know, I want to get
this for them or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I think the problem is that when you have like
these kids that are nice cats like Shannon needs bad kids,
Like if her kids were kids that were a holes,
then nobody's buying them anything. The problem is they're good
kids and you want to buy them stuff. So now
they got too many gifts. Your kids just need to
be mean. These need to be bad kids. What's going on? Seveny?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hi? Good?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
So my mother in law is very, very sweet. She
is the best mother in law, but she spoils my kids.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Way, way, way too much.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
And last year when Ferbies were like all the rage,
she got them end of school like happy winter break
presents and she got them stuff from their Christmas list,
but it was all stuff that I bought, and she said,
well now they can have two. So my daughter had
two Ferbies that could talk to each other, and I
took those dang batteries out within a month.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well for a second, she was getting end of school
gifts like the kids were getting presents like they were
Christmas time for was it like winter break end of
school or.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, to celebrate like the startup winter break. She will
just take them to my ral and let them pick
out anything like she's just she's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It doesn't make it. Does it make it tough for
like your mom, for their other grandma to try to compete?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Oh yeah, because they always want to go to grandma's
house and not Nana.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah we need.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, there has to be I do.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
But you know, it's hard to tell my seat Italian
mother in law.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Hey, how to do if she's rich. If she's rich,
tell her to put money in a bank account. You
want that, mesp, Well they did you She.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Does that too. They're very sweet, but I can't have
two for me talking to each other when we have
pre ks and dogs and those batteries came out real quick.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I bet they did.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Thank you for the call, Stephanie, appreciate it, by all right,
take care. It's so funny because I remember as a
kid with you know, uh, surprises and stuff. I used
to say to my mom, can I go with you
in the store. I want to get a surprise. And
my dad hated that. So my dad would be like, no,
damn surprises anymore?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Like no. But I was the baby of the family.
My mom would just buy me anything.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think she also was sick at the time too,
so she knew she was probably not going to be
around for very long. I could get anything at all,
but it was the same situation. It was like, go
get everything, we're gonna rewrap it. But then my dad
felt like I got too many toys at Christmas, Like
all of a sudden, there's a bajillion boxes and stuff,
which one of your kids gets more gifts.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I really really try to make it kind.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Of even, like numbers, because usually the older Yeah, Lucy
gets more expensive stuff, probably because she's older, right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, although Smith asked for something that was a
little bit more expensive this year. I don't know. I
try to. I try to keep it as even as
I can, but I know it gets like the older too.
Like West's kids, my step kids are getting, you know,
not a lot because what they asked for are more
expensive things.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Plus you're not your kids too, so you know that's
not that you're a bitch stepmother.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's yeah, right, I did all the shopping.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Did you realize it?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, my kids complained. So Joey is thirty years old, Okay, kids,
he's a grown ass man. He pays taxes and everything
and will open up Christmas gifts, and if Luke gets
one more gift than him.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He still gets married.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh, he gets passed. And I said to Chelsea, it's
enough already.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Now I have to pay for We have to pay
for like girlfriends and boyfriends and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's ridiculous, ye, all right
All right, it is Mojo in the morning. The holiday
season is upon us. I always feel like the holiday
season starts right after Halloween. And I know that the
Christmas stations sometimes deem like a few days in or
a couple weeks in, or sometimes some people say Thanksgiving,
but I think that once you get to right after Halloween,
(00:23):
Christmas is upon us. Now there are wacky people that
like to celebrate Christmas even in July, which I think
unless it's a promotion, you know, benefiting a charity or
something you dumb. But Shannon is is done though with
some of the crazy stuff that's going on in your family.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, I just feel like, because I feel like there
comes a point in the year that you need to stop.
Everybody needs to stop shopping for kids who make Christmas lists,
because I can remember like even if I needed, you know,
something for school, my mom would be like, put it
on your Christmas list. Once it hit I would say
(01:04):
November right, like, we got nothing because it was put
it on your Christmas list. You can get it for Christmas.
And so I've been burned twice already this year in
the past two weeks with Christmas surprises that I was
so excited to give my kids that were bought for
them already. And so one of them is Lucy. And
(01:26):
these dang jellycats, okay, these stuffed animals that are like
all the rage now for kids and adults. But there
was one when we went to Chicago for Mojo's Hall
of Fame ceremony, there was one that was like a
Chicago exclusive. Again, I understand how silly this sounds, but
I your son Joe helped me get it from her,
and I was so excited to put it under the
(01:47):
tree and give it to her. And her dad and
stepmom got it for her and already gave it to her.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So what did they give it to her for?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Upset? Just for fun because they took a trip to Chicago,
so they ended that. So I was like, okay, crap.
That was going to be her big Christmas, her big
Christmas gift from me, So I had to okay fine.
So then my stepdaughter Samantha wanted a winter coat, a
new winter coat, and she had said it on Thanksgiving morning,
Oh my gosh, I love this coat. I want this
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coat so bad. So I was going to surprise her.
I told Wes, I'm going to buy her this coat,
and he was like, no, no, no, it's too much, and
I said no, I love doing something that they don't expect, right,
So I bought her the coat. It was being shipped.
She shows up literally a couple of days later when
we went to get our Christmas tree wearing the coat.
Her grandma waught it for her.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I died, I am dying, And again I asked what
it was grandma buying it for her.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I think she bought it. She bought it for her
for Christmas and gave it to her early.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, so she could wear it.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Do you return or can you even return a jelly cat?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know, not returning the jelly cat. The coat
is getting returned, yes, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So here's the thing, and this is one of those
things that when I was a kid, we had some things,
like we had a good life, but.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We didn't have everything. I feel like nowadays.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We didn't go when I was younger, to the store,
like to Target, like kids do with their moms, you know,
on a weekly basis. We would go to the store occasionally,
you know, every now and again, but it was never
like my mom taking me to the mall and I
can go mom, can I get this. My kids live
a different life than I lived. Your kids live a
way different life than you live, agree, right? And I
(03:35):
think that they.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But there needs to be a cutoff date.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There has to be a no. It's like a no
fly zone.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There no bottom off date. Maybe it's November first would
be a good one. The day after Halloween, right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So you can't no, If Samantha needs a coat because
she's cold and it's twenty degrees outside, let's not wait
until Christmas time to give her the coat. Maybe give
it to her early. Okay, she had a coat, but
she's gonna get her new coat. But maybe she wants to. So,
by the way, a kid asking for a coat is
an amazing thing. Like I like, that's a necessity where
(04:07):
you know, when I was a kid, I was asking
for a freaking you know, race cars and things like that,
like I wanted like my stuff. Yeah, but I but
I also I agree with you, there should be And
we used to have it in our house like my
dad used to. And I will say this to you.
I'm at a point now in my house. And don't
get me wrong, I do okay, But I basically said
to Chelsea, go we're not doing what we've done in
(04:28):
past Christmas. Is first off, the economy sucks. Yeah, and
anybody if I'm feeling the economy sucking, I know you're
feeling the economy sucking. And I'm going to say this
to you that we're seeing it and our breaking any
in Christmas wish letters. I think our kids need to understand,
as my dad used to say, that money doesn't grow
on trees.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, even this weekend, you know, with Luca and I
taking our girls trip to New York City. And this
has kind of become a tradition for us where if
she finds some things that she likes, I always kind
of save little spots on her Christmas list. I wrap
them up and put them under the tree. And this
morning and she knows that, so.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
She already sees her gifts.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
She already sees a few of her gifts because she
picks them up. But I had to keep asking her,
you didn't put these things on your Christmas list for
anybody else, Like I always I want to be mindful
of that.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But yeah, I think, like separated families, do you communicate
with her dad's side, because how do we make sure
that she's not getting double of everything or.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Obviously, I mean, Sam does a really good job. So there,
this was not This was not anything that we had
when we were little. But now there are these apps
that you can create a list on and then this
works so well for divorced families. So she could send
it to her mom and her stepdad, and she sent
it to myself in West and when we buy something
(05:43):
from it, everybody can see that it's already done. Okay, cool,
which is so smart. It's called what the heck is
it called. I think it's called gift gift fold or something.
It's really helpful.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I used to circle what I wanted on magazine.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Again once it hit November, my mom was like, nope,
even if I needed it for school, nope.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Did you guys do the toys r US Big Toy Book?
We did service merchandise, Service merchant.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I was grace too.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was always in the back of the catalog, the
service market merchandise, the place that you have to wait
up in the front for them to bring the gift
out to.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You or to you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You pulled the tag and then it came up on
the conveyor bus.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So cool.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's kind of like Costco does that for like certain things.
You got to always all right eight four to four
Mojo Live. What is the no buy uh zone or
the no fly zone that you guys have? When do
you start doing this that you can't do? You know,
you can't be buying stuff for your kids my kids.
So my kids will do this. My kids will buy
(06:44):
things assuming they're going to get things, so when they're
older now, but they'll assume they're getting like some game
system or whatever, and then they'll go, well, I'm buying this.
I'm like, well, why are you buying that? You got
to have that game system? Well, I already know, mom,
got it, you know what I mean? Like you already
you ever and then your look and going well, I'm
not gonna lie to you. You're not getting it, you
know what I mean? Or or you are getting it, Adriana,
(07:05):
what's up?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hi? How are you?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We're good, Adriana.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you all. So I kind
of did a little bit of a boo boo. I have.
I have five kids and they range from twenty one
to four. And my twenty one year old, she's a
senior at Michigan State go green, Yeah, go right. She
(07:31):
needed a new coat and she really wanted like the
Arisia super Puff. So it was on Zale and I
got it for her. And I had to give it
to her because she had finals all last week and
this week and she had to walk around. I know,
but now I feel like I have to make up
the coat and give her something else under it for under.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The tree first at the same one, Samantha on. Yeah,
I hey, Adriana, but you know my son also is
a spartan, but his thing is shoes, and can you
explain something to me? And you probably see this with
your daughter's friends, the guy friends. Why are the boys
(08:11):
that are your daughter's age wearing such dirty shoes these days?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Every kid on a college campus wears like white shoes
that are basically look like their muddy You know what
I'm talking about, Adriana.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I see it even in my high school daughters.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yea, these kids they look like their parents don't buy
them shoes, but their brand new shoes, and they're all
of a sudden, they're all dirty.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Like Luke is the biggest offender.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Luke's shoes are the dirtiest I see it's gross.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And you know who I blame out of this one.
What's that designer brand, Golden Goose. I blame like a
Golden Goose for this thing, because the Golden Goose they
come that way. So I think these kids want to
like wear their gym shoes and they want to have
them be dirty as hell.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Hold on, Zanab, Hello, what's happening?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We're good? Ain't it? What's going on? What you're calling for?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I just stopped wrapping gifts for the kids.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
These kids, no matter what I buy it for them,
they're going to open it anyway.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So I'm just gonna let them pick it out and
wrap them on Christmas morning follow the day.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So they actually go buy their own gifts. And then
you say you want to My son is very picky
with what he likes.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, do you tell him, hey, go up in your
closet and go get that cote I got you, or
go get that pair of shoes and you just wrap them.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
He asked for a marble run and I already bought
it for him because he threw a tantrum, and so
I'm gonna wrap it up and give him on Christmas morning.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh that's great, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I wonder how many times you could actually wrap up
for your kids things that they already have and see
if they recognize it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
These kids have everything. What's up, VICKI, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Hey, how's it going good?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
I wanted to know if Shannon had ever thought of
doing a shared like Google note, or if everybody has
an iPhone or shared. I know, so that like when
Christmas time comes around, she wasn't telling anybody about the
Jelly Cat.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So yeah, like nobody like for bigger gifts.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't like the Shannon in Trouble, but yeah, I
think that everybody knew about the Jelly Cat.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well in some of these, like the app is a
really good idea. These apps are a good idea because
they do exactly that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, I think that. Here's here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Oh, I know some friends that have, like you know,
the parents are divorced, but both parents are also remarried,
so their step parents, step grandparents. Yeah, and they finally
for Birthday and Christmas, put a couple of lists together
just like hey, letting you know, I want to get
this for them or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I think the problem is that when you have like
these kids that are nice cats like Shannon needs bad kids,
Like if her kids were kids that were a holes,
then nobody's buying them anything. The problem is they're good
kids and you want to buy them stuff. So now
they got too many gifts. Your kids just need to
be mean. These need to be bad kids. What's going on? Seveny?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hi? Good?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
So my mother in law is very, very sweet. She
is the best mother in law, but she spoils my kids.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Way, way, way too much.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
And last year when Ferbies were like all the rage,
she got them end of school like happy winter break
presents and she got them stuff from their Christmas list,
but it was all stuff that I bought, and she said,
well now they can have two. So my daughter had
two Ferbies that could talk to each other, and I
took those dang batteries out within a month.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well for a second, she was getting end of school
gifts like the kids were getting presents like they were
Christmas time for was it like winter break end of
school or.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, to celebrate like the startup winter break. She will
just take them to my ral and let them pick
out anything like she's just she's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
It doesn't make it. Does it make it tough for
like your mom, for their other grandma to try to compete?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Oh yeah, because they always want to go to grandma's
house and not Nana.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah we need.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, there has to be I do.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
But you know, it's hard to tell my seat Italian
mother in law.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Hey, how to do if she's rich. If she's rich,
tell her to put money in a bank account. You
want that, mesp, Well they did you She.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Does that too. They're very sweet, but I can't have
two for me talking to each other when we have
pre ks and dogs and those batteries came out real quick.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I bet they did.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Thank you for the call, Stephanie, appreciate it, by all right,
take care. It's so funny because I remember as a
kid with you know, uh, surprises and stuff. I used
to say to my mom, can I go with you
in the store. I want to get a surprise. And
my dad hated that. So my dad would be like, no,
damn surprises anymore?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Like no. But I was the baby of the family.
My mom would just buy me anything.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think she also was sick at the time too,
so she knew she was probably not going to be
around for very long. I could get anything at all,
but it was the same situation. It was like, go
get everything, we're gonna rewrap it. But then my dad
felt like I got too many toys at Christmas, Like
all of a sudden, there's a bajillion boxes and stuff,
which one of your kids gets more gifts.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I really really try to make it kind.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Of even, like numbers, because usually the older Yeah, Lucy
gets more expensive stuff, probably because she's older, right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, although Smith asked for something that was a
little bit more expensive this year. I don't know. I
try to. I try to keep it as even as
I can, but I know it gets like the older too.
Like West's kids, my step kids are getting, you know,
not a lot because what they asked for are more
expensive things.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Plus you're not your kids too, so you know that's
not that you're a bitch stepmother.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's yeah, right, I did all the shopping.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Did you realize it?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, my kids complained. So Joey is thirty years old, Okay, kids,
he's a grown ass man. He pays taxes and everything
and will open up Christmas gifts, and if Luke gets
one more gift than him.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He still gets married.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh, he gets passed. And I said to Chelsea, it's
enough already.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Now I have to pay for We have to pay
for like girlfriends and boyfriends and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's ridiculous, ye, all right
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