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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo in the morning. Shannon.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is an interesting question because of I've often wondered this, Uh,
you wanted to bring up something right now that you
kind of were relating to last night.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's something that's starting to bug me, and I think
it's been bugging me for a while, but last night
it like really hit me, and I think it goes
back to it's rooted in something that I wanted so
badly when I was a kid growing up, I always
was really jealous of my friends that had family dinners,
(00:32):
Like they all sat around the table and mom put
the you know, the chicken and the broccoli in the middle,
and you passed it around and you talked about your day.
And I can remember my neighbors, the Casperic family, they
always like I would hear missus Casperrat calling all the
kids for dinner, and I could see them through the
window all sitting around the table and having family dinner.
And we That was never the case for my family.
(00:56):
My mom like didn't really cook. I'm the oldest of
three girls. We were all very busy with our activities
or whatever. My stepdad at the time was never really home,
so we just like kind of all ate whenever, And
that's basically my situation right now. And I hate it
(01:16):
because I always vowed when I grew up and have
a family, we're going to do family dinners. And last
night it was like six thirty, okay, and my stepdaughter
Samantha had gotten home from her cross country practice and
school and stuff at five point thirty. She was starving.
She ate leftovers, went up in her room to study.
Then Smith told me he was hungry like an hour
(01:38):
after that, so I made him some chicken nuggets in
the air fier. Wes wasn't home yet from work in
the gym, and then I started to get hungry, and
I'm like, all right, well, I'm just going to make
myself something. Then Wes came home, then he was hungry.
Lucy didn't get home from swim until seven forty five.
Then I had to make her dinner. So we all
ate in a span of like three hours, and nobody
(01:59):
was sitting at the table together at any time. And
I feel like, more and more, that's just how it is,
maybe not just for us but for everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But it's like, have you ever tried to do a
We're going to have a family dinner on this day
and say every Sunday we're doing this. Like the days
where you don't have the kids and activities and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It just never like with our schedule with the kids,
that would never that would maybe could maybe possibly happen
once a month. Yeah, like you just like based on
when we have Samantha, when I have Lucy and Smith
my kids, and then when Wes and I have nothing
or everybody's in town, it's just like it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I mean our case, we only had the three boys,
but Chelsea used to demand it, and we would say
in because the boys were all in all different things.
But when all the three boys were under the house
the root same route before Joe went away to college,
because that kind of I think once he went away
to collegeanged everything. But Chelsea would say we are having
dinner on this day or you know whatever the day
(03:05):
of the week. It was that there was no activity,
and there was always seemed to be one day, like
when it was a football season, it was always Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, and maybe I just need to be a better
planner and looking at the calendar and going like, okay,
this is important enough to us that nobody's doing anything today, I.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Think, honestly, can I tell you this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think in this is going to be one of
those ones where there's gonna be people going, oh, you're
just a fricking you know whatever. You know, they're going
to say that I'm making this like a political thing.
This is not political. But I think this is why
our family we got kind of a messed up world
right now, is that we don't put enough emphasis on family.
(03:40):
Chelsea's mom and dad when we were first married, demanded
that every Sunday night we were at their house. They
were Italian family, and it was always some kind of
a pasta on the table, and it was that was
our deal, but it was her grandfather demanded it. It
was like, every single Sunday night, we are doing this thing,
even if it's Sunday night at nine pm, because that
was the only time that we could do it. I
(04:00):
remember we would all go over there. But I do
think that we don't as a group. Chelsea and I
can now as a couple when the kids all moved out,
say we're eating at the table, We're not eating anywhere else,
because it used to be that we would eat on
the couch or one of us would on the couch
when they the table, she's like, no, we're gonna eat.
We're eating together, facing each other, looking at each other.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's some truth to what you're saying, though, And I
find value in it because just simply being in the house,
you think you're together, and that's not the case because
there's no real intentionality in it. Like we can be
under the same roof, but it doesn't mean we're spending
time together, quality intentional time, but we're actually having discussion, conversation,
how was your day having that conversation. My grandma used
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to like, she used to be really on this bro
it was like six seven o'clock. My cousins we used
to live with her after our house burned on and
I feel like every every day six seven o'clock we
used to sit down at the table and there's one
thing running around playing and like you see people. But
when you actually have to like sit your ass in
the table and you can't move, it's like that's where
I feel like the more of the connection that I
(05:02):
was able to receive from a family came from it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's said that Thanksgiving is so fun to the kids
because not just the food and everything that we're eating
but it's the idea that we're all sitting and we
actually do Thanksgiving in that room that nobody ever uses,
you know what I mean. It's got a table that
nobody ever sits at, and we do it there. And
Chelsea demands that, like, we don't just do it at
(05:23):
our regular you know, just sitting around a kitchen table or.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Whatever the deal is. And I will say this to.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You, you don't need to wait for Thanksgiving to do this,
and you bringing this up is a great, you know
thing of take the take the reins from here now
and everybody, you know you guys, I know you have
multiple calendars in your house and stuff, and say all right,
this is the day we're all going to do it.
And even if it's just your kids or just Wes's kids,
(05:49):
and say we're going to do this. Yeah, and make
it more intentional, because I will say this to you
that I think intentionality. We have it in our our
lives when we go exercise or we go to work.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You know, Yeah, it's an accountter. We got to be
more intentional with our family.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, because I keep saying, like I keeps saying to us,
I'm like, it's it's the season. Of life we're in.
It's a season of life we're in. Like everybody's busy,
everybody's doing their own thing. We're all kind of just
like scattered. But it is really important to me. I mean,
I truly go back to being eight years old and
looking across my driveway into my name and being like,
one day I'm going to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
You know, I wonder if it has more to do
with the fact that more mothers are working, Like it's
both mother and father, because when I was growing up,
we also did not really sit down and eat dinner together.
But it's because my mom was working and she would
get home, she's in the medical field. She would get
home late, and it would just be hard for her
to prepare a meal for everyone in that time. Framing
(06:45):
us all to sit down, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think that it's in Anna that it is a
good point. I think that it's that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But I think also I think that there is not
there's not a like a like a priority on the family.
I think we're juggling so much, and you know, there's
a lot of people that honestly just can't afford to
do it. But in reality, what does it take just
to sit at a table together and just catch a
moment with each other.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And I feel like, Shannon, for you, it'd be dope
just to start where you can start if there's two
people at the table, and then it builds to three,
then it builds to four, like you.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Like, Yeah, this was like even if you and I
sit and everybody else sees us sitting, like hopefully they'll
feel like they want to calm And even if they
just sit down, yeah, you know, if they've already eaten
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, what I'm sam.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Hey, So I wanted to get Shannon a recommendation because
obviously family is very, very very important. My dad's side
of the family is not very close and his brother
just recently passed away. So like, this is really like
hitting home for me. We as a family meet, my
husband and my son do Sunday breakfast. My husband will
get up in the morning and he'll make pancakes and
(07:54):
bacon and bring me coffee, and when I get up,
it's ready, and he then and fits and eats with me,
and my child sits eats with me. It's pick any
meal of the day and once a month is more
than not at all.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, that's great. That's great piece of advice. Sam, That's awesome.
Thank you for the call. Yeah, of course, what's going on? Jen?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Hi? You know, I just wanted to see personal Don't
feel bad, Shannon, I think you know, when my kids
were little, we always used to sit down and eat together.
But now they're eight and thirteen.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
And like, every single day of the week we have
something going on, and it always starts between five thirty
and six thirty. A lot of times they eat in
the car yep, on the way to whatever activity we're
going to yep.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And you know, you know what are we here's a
question for you. Are we over activitying our families?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
You know, I think.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yes, but I think we're overcoming Yes, who's Who's Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I agree with I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I agree with what you just said because there there
isn't a lot of that, So, you know, I I
do love them having like Lucy had some swim last
night and I'm like, Okay, that's like an hour and
a half of like doing something active, which I love
for that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
We have tier in gymnastics and basketball and youth group.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Every single day of the week, there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And to your husband who gets no time to talk.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, I can't play when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hey, what's your name? What's your name? Mark? Mark? Mark?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You have a say in this one, say hey, I'm
you know, I'm the dad, and we're going to sit
around the table.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Let's all. God, you should speak up right right? But
you know, they they they need to stay active.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You know, sometimes I feel like, can I be honest
with you? Sometimes they need to stay active. Is a
great way of saying, my family doesn't need to be together.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I really do. And I'm gonna say this to you.
What does it take?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What does it take to sit there and say no,
we're not gonna do We're gonna have family movie night
and we're all gonna sit on the couch and we're
all gonna sit here and watch this movie together.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Or we're gonna hang.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Out for game night or something like that. Yeah, you know,
as can listen, And I'm not I'm not trying. I'm
gonna tell you this as somebody who's My kids are
grown up now and they're you know, at a point
where they don't even you know, they don't even love
me anymore except for when their college payments come into
play time is time is gone. Shannon's kids one started
(10:36):
middle school, the other one is still in grade school.
But you will have a high schooler, and you'll have
a middle schooler, then you'll have a college kid in
a high schooler, and then you will have two kids
that are going to be out of your house and
you're gonna be sitting there And this is for you too,
Jen and Mark. You guys then are gonna be sitting
there and you're gonna be going where the hell did
time go? I wish I would have done it. And
(10:56):
I'm not gonna lie to you, but I think the
most important thing that we have as our family. It's
more important than any activity that the kids are going
to do, you know. And honestly, I don't think you're
gonna you're gonna see your kids become fat because they
do one last activity, you know. And if that's what
you're worried about, I don't know. But I just it
is really really sad. It's funny. I've really kind of
(11:18):
taken to my therapist. Dennis brings up all the time
a couple of different other therapists that they do things.
One of the therapists that he talks about. I don't
know what the guy's name is. I have no clue.
Dennis is one of those guys that literally can tell
Bible verses and stuff, and I'm like, how do you
know this stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Like you're the smartest guy ever.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dennis told me there's one therapist that says, once a
week he takes his phone and he doesn't use his
phone at all, not one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
He doesn't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He takes his phone, does not look at it, and
takes one day away from his phone.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Dennis says, could you do that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I said, there's not a chance I could do that,
and he goes, do you love your family, love Chelsea,
love Joey, Jacob and Luke enough to give them one
day a week of justus you being focused? Honestly, I
don't think I could do it, But here I am
practicing to these guys that I just want them to
sit at a table. Think about that for a second.
If you could take one day and just give it
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to you and devote it to those that you love
and not devote it to this the sick spit that's
all over social media every single day.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I love I hope that This is a catalyst for you,
Shannon and other people that are listening to this to say,
you know what, let's have a sun Let's have.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
A Sunday dinner this week. I'll just text my moms
like Sunday dinner. IFI.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, I don't know what we're gonna eat, but Boston
Market beast mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Ever, that's my family's fear.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
They're like, oh great, now it's just going to try
to coax something.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Or honestly, how about how about Sunday ice cream? And
then we are going to get ice cream something right?
I mean you talked about Wes in his jeep that.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That he you know, I will say that is something
we do a lot together. We do get ice dump
together a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But it was kind of like, hey, I want this
jeep because this is something that something I love and
we all jump into the same thing together.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You know what I mean? Courtney, I'm gonna grab you.
What's going on? Courtney?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Good morning, Mojo. I just sent my kids off at
school and you are going to make me cry about
how fast time goes with them. It's hard. I mean,
you're you are not alone. We I have an eight,
six and four year old and we can never do
family dinner because I'm gonna stay home mom, And it's
like a whole new day starts after pick up with
how many activities they have and they either eat an
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eight or like three thirty or eight thirty, and it's
so late, and it's hard because it's hard to find
that balance of them doing sports. And I mean, my
kids are young and they eat sew anywhere from like
one to three sports and it's hard because it's it's
not easy. And then my husband works usually until like
seven seven thirty, so we never do family dinner. My
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daughter just brought it up to me, my oldest, about
how it makes you so sad and we wish we
could do it, and it just broke my heart because
I I need to try and figure out how to
do that because she's noticing and I don't want her
to think about that when she's an adult.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's amazing, isn't it. It is amazing when you were
a kid, the things that you wished for. It's wild
that you talk about that, you know, you talk about
looking at that other family, going, God, I wish I
had that. And when I'm older, I'm going to do
that well, you're older, you know what I mean. So God,
I got to tell you something. Lydia, we got deep
with this one.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
This guy a little good and Kevin just invited us
all five o'clock Sunday.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We're part of the family, are we? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
For sure it's gonna be off first, I mean catfish.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh, I love Katy.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I'll tell you what. I'll come over ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We'll do ice cream after, will bring the tea before
I come over.
All right, it is Mojo in the morning. Shannon.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is an interesting question because of I've often wondered this, Uh,
you wanted to bring up something right now that you
kind of were relating to last night.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's something that's starting to bug me, and I think
it's been bugging me for a while, but last night
it like really hit me, and I think it goes
back to it's rooted in something that I wanted so
badly when I was a kid growing up, I always
was really jealous of my friends that had family dinners,
(00:32):
Like they all sat around the table and mom put
the you know, the chicken and the broccoli in the middle,
and you passed it around and you talked about your day.
And I can remember my neighbors, the Casperic family, they
always like I would hear missus Casperrat calling all the
kids for dinner, and I could see them through the
window all sitting around the table and having family dinner.
And we That was never the case for my family.
(00:56):
My mom like didn't really cook. I'm the oldest of
three girls. We were all very busy with our activities
or whatever. My stepdad at the time was never really home,
so we just like kind of all ate whenever, And
that's basically my situation right now. And I hate it
(01:16):
because I always vowed when I grew up and have
a family, we're going to do family dinners. And last
night it was like six thirty, okay, and my stepdaughter
Samantha had gotten home from her cross country practice and
school and stuff at five point thirty. She was starving.
She ate leftovers, went up in her room to study.
Then Smith told me he was hungry like an hour
(01:38):
after that, so I made him some chicken nuggets in
the air fier. Wes wasn't home yet from work in
the gym, and then I started to get hungry, and
I'm like, all right, well, I'm just going to make
myself something. Then Wes came home, then he was hungry.
Lucy didn't get home from swim until seven forty five.
Then I had to make her dinner. So we all
ate in a span of like three hours, and nobody
(01:59):
was sitting at the table together at any time. And
I feel like, more and more, that's just how it is,
maybe not just for us but for everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But it's like, have you ever tried to do a
We're going to have a family dinner on this day
and say every Sunday we're doing this. Like the days
where you don't have the kids and activities and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It just never like with our schedule with the kids,
that would never that would maybe could maybe possibly happen
once a month. Yeah, like you just like based on
when we have Samantha, when I have Lucy and Smith
my kids, and then when Wes and I have nothing
or everybody's in town, it's just like it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I mean our case, we only had the three boys,
but Chelsea used to demand it, and we would say
in because the boys were all in all different things.
But when all the three boys were under the house
the root same route before Joe went away to college,
because that kind of I think once he went away
to collegeanged everything. But Chelsea would say we are having
dinner on this day or you know whatever the day
(03:05):
of the week. It was that there was no activity,
and there was always seemed to be one day, like
when it was a football season, it was always Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, and maybe I just need to be a better
planner and looking at the calendar and going like, okay,
this is important enough to us that nobody's doing anything today, I.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Think, honestly, can I tell you this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think in this is going to be one of
those ones where there's gonna be people going, oh, you're
just a fricking you know whatever. You know, they're going
to say that I'm making this like a political thing.
This is not political. But I think this is why
our family we got kind of a messed up world
right now, is that we don't put enough emphasis on family.
(03:40):
Chelsea's mom and dad when we were first married, demanded
that every Sunday night we were at their house. They
were Italian family, and it was always some kind of
a pasta on the table, and it was that was
our deal, but it was her grandfather demanded it. It
was like, every single Sunday night, we are doing this thing,
even if it's Sunday night at nine pm, because that
was the only time that we could do it. I
(04:00):
remember we would all go over there. But I do
think that we don't as a group. Chelsea and I
can now as a couple when the kids all moved out,
say we're eating at the table, We're not eating anywhere else,
because it used to be that we would eat on
the couch or one of us would on the couch
when they the table, she's like, no, we're gonna eat.
We're eating together, facing each other, looking at each other.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's some truth to what you're saying, though, And I
find value in it because just simply being in the house,
you think you're together, and that's not the case because
there's no real intentionality in it. Like we can be
under the same roof, but it doesn't mean we're spending
time together, quality intentional time, but we're actually having discussion, conversation,
how was your day having that conversation. My grandma used
(04:41):
to like, she used to be really on this bro
it was like six seven o'clock. My cousins we used
to live with her after our house burned on and
I feel like every every day six seven o'clock we
used to sit down at the table and there's one
thing running around playing and like you see people. But
when you actually have to like sit your ass in
the table and you can't move, it's like that's where
I feel like the more of the connection that I
(05:02):
was able to receive from a family came from it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's said that Thanksgiving is so fun to the kids
because not just the food and everything that we're eating
but it's the idea that we're all sitting and we
actually do Thanksgiving in that room that nobody ever uses,
you know what I mean. It's got a table that
nobody ever sits at, and we do it there. And
Chelsea demands that, like, we don't just do it at
(05:23):
our regular you know, just sitting around a kitchen table or.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Whatever the deal is. And I will say this to.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You, you don't need to wait for Thanksgiving to do this,
and you bringing this up is a great, you know
thing of take the take the reins from here now
and everybody, you know you guys, I know you have
multiple calendars in your house and stuff, and say all right,
this is the day we're all going to do it.
And even if it's just your kids or just Wes's kids,
(05:49):
and say we're going to do this. Yeah, and make
it more intentional, because I will say this to you
that I think intentionality. We have it in our our
lives when we go exercise or we go to work.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You know, Yeah, it's an accountter. We got to be
more intentional with our family.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, because I keep saying, like I keeps saying to us,
I'm like, it's it's the season. Of life we're in.
It's a season of life we're in. Like everybody's busy,
everybody's doing their own thing. We're all kind of just
like scattered. But it is really important to me. I mean,
I truly go back to being eight years old and
looking across my driveway into my name and being like,
one day I'm going to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
You know, I wonder if it has more to do
with the fact that more mothers are working, Like it's
both mother and father, because when I was growing up,
we also did not really sit down and eat dinner together.
But it's because my mom was working and she would
get home, she's in the medical field. She would get
home late, and it would just be hard for her
to prepare a meal for everyone in that time. Framing
(06:45):
us all to sit down, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think that it's in Anna that it is a
good point. I think that it's that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But I think also I think that there is not
there's not a like a like a priority on the family.
I think we're juggling so much, and you know, there's
a lot of people that honestly just can't afford to
do it. But in reality, what does it take just
to sit at a table together and just catch a
moment with each other.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And I feel like, Shannon, for you, it'd be dope
just to start where you can start if there's two
people at the table, and then it builds to three,
then it builds to four, like you.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Like, Yeah, this was like even if you and I
sit and everybody else sees us sitting, like hopefully they'll
feel like they want to calm And even if they
just sit down, yeah, you know, if they've already eaten
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, what I'm sam.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Hey, So I wanted to get Shannon a recommendation because
obviously family is very, very very important. My dad's side
of the family is not very close and his brother
just recently passed away. So like, this is really like
hitting home for me. We as a family meet, my
husband and my son do Sunday breakfast. My husband will
get up in the morning and he'll make pancakes and
(07:54):
bacon and bring me coffee, and when I get up,
it's ready, and he then and fits and eats with me,
and my child sits eats with me. It's pick any
meal of the day and once a month is more
than not at all.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, that's great. That's great piece of advice. Sam, That's awesome.
Thank you for the call. Yeah, of course, what's going on? Jen?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Hi? You know, I just wanted to see personal Don't
feel bad, Shannon, I think you know, when my kids
were little, we always used to sit down and eat together.
But now they're eight and thirteen.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
And like, every single day of the week we have
something going on, and it always starts between five thirty
and six thirty. A lot of times they eat in
the car yep, on the way to whatever activity we're
going to yep.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And you know, you know what are we here's a
question for you. Are we over activitying our families?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
You know, I think.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yes, but I think we're overcoming Yes, who's Who's Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I agree with I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I agree with what you just said because there there
isn't a lot of that, So, you know, I I
do love them having like Lucy had some swim last
night and I'm like, Okay, that's like an hour and
a half of like doing something active, which I love
for that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
We have tier in gymnastics and basketball and youth group.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Every single day of the week, there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And to your husband who gets no time to talk.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, I can't play when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hey, what's your name? What's your name? Mark? Mark? Mark?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You have a say in this one, say hey, I'm
you know, I'm the dad, and we're going to sit
around the table.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Let's all. God, you should speak up right right? But
you know, they they they need to stay active.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You know, sometimes I feel like, can I be honest
with you? Sometimes they need to stay active. Is a
great way of saying, my family doesn't need to be together.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I really do. And I'm gonna say this to you.
What does it take?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What does it take to sit there and say no,
we're not gonna do We're gonna have family movie night
and we're all gonna sit on the couch and we're
all gonna sit here and watch this movie together.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Or we're gonna hang.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Out for game night or something like that. Yeah, you know,
as can listen, And I'm not I'm not trying. I'm
gonna tell you this as somebody who's My kids are
grown up now and they're you know, at a point
where they don't even you know, they don't even love
me anymore except for when their college payments come into
play time is time is gone. Shannon's kids one started
(10:36):
middle school, the other one is still in grade school.
But you will have a high schooler, and you'll have
a middle schooler, then you'll have a college kid in
a high schooler, and then you will have two kids
that are going to be out of your house and
you're gonna be sitting there And this is for you too,
Jen and Mark. You guys then are gonna be sitting
there and you're gonna be going where the hell did
time go? I wish I would have done it. And
(10:56):
I'm not gonna lie to you, but I think the
most important thing that we have as our family. It's
more important than any activity that the kids are going
to do, you know. And honestly, I don't think you're
gonna you're gonna see your kids become fat because they
do one last activity, you know. And if that's what
you're worried about, I don't know. But I just it
is really really sad. It's funny. I've really kind of
(11:18):
taken to my therapist. Dennis brings up all the time
a couple of different other therapists that they do things.
One of the therapists that he talks about. I don't
know what the guy's name is. I have no clue.
Dennis is one of those guys that literally can tell
Bible verses and stuff, and I'm like, how do you
know this stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Like you're the smartest guy ever.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dennis told me there's one therapist that says, once a
week he takes his phone and he doesn't use his
phone at all, not one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
He doesn't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He takes his phone, does not look at it, and
takes one day away from his phone.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Dennis says, could you do that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I said, there's not a chance I could do that,
and he goes, do you love your family, love Chelsea,
love Joey, Jacob and Luke enough to give them one
day a week of justus you being focused? Honestly, I
don't think I could do it, But here I am
practicing to these guys that I just want them to
sit at a table. Think about that for a second.
If you could take one day and just give it
(12:10):
to you and devote it to those that you love
and not devote it to this the sick spit that's
all over social media every single day.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I love I hope that This is a catalyst for you,
Shannon and other people that are listening to this to say,
you know what, let's have a sun Let's have.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
A Sunday dinner this week. I'll just text my moms
like Sunday dinner. IFI.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, I don't know what we're gonna eat, but Boston
Market beast mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Ever, that's my family's fear.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
They're like, oh great, now it's just going to try
to coax something.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Or honestly, how about how about Sunday ice cream? And
then we are going to get ice cream something right?
I mean you talked about Wes in his jeep that.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That he you know, I will say that is something
we do a lot together. We do get ice dump
together a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But it was kind of like, hey, I want this
jeep because this is something that something I love and
we all jump into the same thing together.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You know what I mean? Courtney, I'm gonna grab you.
What's going on? Courtney?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Good morning, Mojo. I just sent my kids off at
school and you are going to make me cry about
how fast time goes with them. It's hard. I mean,
you're you are not alone. We I have an eight,
six and four year old and we can never do
family dinner because I'm gonna stay home mom, And it's
like a whole new day starts after pick up with
how many activities they have and they either eat an
(13:32):
eight or like three thirty or eight thirty, and it's
so late, and it's hard because it's hard to find
that balance of them doing sports. And I mean, my
kids are young and they eat sew anywhere from like
one to three sports and it's hard because it's it's
not easy. And then my husband works usually until like
seven seven thirty, so we never do family dinner. My
(13:53):
daughter just brought it up to me, my oldest, about
how it makes you so sad and we wish we
could do it, and it just broke my heart because
I I need to try and figure out how to
do that because she's noticing and I don't want her
to think about that when she's an adult.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's amazing, isn't it. It is amazing when you were
a kid, the things that you wished for. It's wild
that you talk about that, you know, you talk about
looking at that other family, going, God, I wish I
had that. And when I'm older, I'm going to do
that well, you're older, you know what I mean. So God,
I got to tell you something. Lydia, we got deep
with this one.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
This guy a little good and Kevin just invited us
all five o'clock Sunday.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We're part of the family, are we? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
For sure it's gonna be off first, I mean catfish.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh, I love Katy.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I'll tell you what. I'll come over ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We'll do ice cream after, will bring the tea before
I come over.
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