September 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Mindy and Mikaela discuss their experience with Grandparents for National Grandparents Day!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
So two things we have to talk about. First of all,
it's Grandparents' Day and it's kind of sad because, yeah,
my grandparents aren't here. They haven't been here, but this
is the first year that my kids don't have any
living grandparent anymore because of mister Cage's passed and he
was the last one standing. Yeah, you know, my mom
(00:24):
passed it couple years ago. Well it'll be a two
years in November, and she lived to be almost ninety three.
And then my dad died several years before that. Missus
Quartercracks died many years before that, and then mister kay
is now gone. So my kids don't get to call
up grandma or grandpa and say Happy grandparents Day.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Hopefully your boys do call theirs.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, they're supposed to. My parents might be listening to
this on some stream in Georgia right now and they're like,
your kids haven't called this, damn Mikayla. But it's five
twenty three. We still got time, still, plenty of time
to plenty of time. But if you want to call
in and say Happy Grandparents' Day to a grandparents in
your kids' lives, or have your kids say it, that's fine,
or you know that that'd be great six point forty
(01:06):
two one nine eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Six, or if you want to share an awesome memory
that you have with your grandpa or your grandma or
I have heard of my goodness, Mikayla from so many
of my friends who adored their kids but now that
their grandparents is the best thing in life. I have
heard that from so many people that it goes beyond parenting,
(01:29):
like grandparenting is legit one of the best times of
their life.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I think I just saw something about a guy who's
a grandpa that wrote the book good How to Be
a Good Grandpa, because I think sometimes it does it
is a different place, and I think sometimes it's a
different place for dudes. And I loved that because he's
really engaging with his grandkids. And I do think a
lot about grandma is because you know, they're like the cookers,
the nurturers, the cares, right, not that the grandpas aren't great,
(01:57):
but like just you know, it's get down there, get
down the floor, play with those kids.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, and I've heard that it's great because, yeah, you
get to spend all this time, you get to spoil
the kids, You don't have to be the disciplinarian. And
then you give them back to the papers and them
you can fatten them up with all kinds of sugar
and candy and whatever you want to do, and then
go have at it, buddy.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know, the grandmas are coming to stay with my
kids for the two weeks we're gone. No, we haven't talked.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
About this way. Both grandmas are going to be Both
grandma's fly.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
In the day before we leave. Oh, that's interesting and
so and you know, Debbie lives in Texas and my
mom lives in Georgia. Marcus is from Texas. I'm from Illinois.
I mean they've only been together a handful of times. Right,
like our wedding. They happen to be in town for
one of the kids confirmations. So, yes, the two grandmas
(02:46):
are coming in. I think it's going to be a
great time, and they could have a really great time.
You know, you're not going to be surprised. Debbie's like
the more laid back one. My mom's a little more intense.
You've met my mom before and but trees, So I
think it's like, I'm so grateful I sent them both
a Texas weekend I was.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Up early yesterday. Well that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And I said, I don't know if you guys know
how special this is what you're doing. Marcus and I
have not been alone for more than three or four
days tops in fifteen years, and you're letting us have
two weeks out of the country in an amazing place
like this is kind of like a gift of a
(03:28):
lifetime what they're doing for us.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But that's what grandparents do. I just kind of need.
I think it's neat that they're both doing this together.
I wonder if they'll get along, because I'm sure they
have different ways of raising their own kids, let alone.
Now they're going to be taking care of your kids
for two weeks. It'll be fun odd stories, I know, right,
So I could tune in whenever I would want to.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So what's your second thing?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Second thing was Powerball? Did you play the power ball?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know how to play the lottery.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You just go to the store and ask.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I feel a lot of pressure, so Marcus sent me
to the gas station. He's like, get a ticket.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm like, what do I do? Randy said the same thing,
and I've never gotten him on my own either. But Okay,
so the Dixie lives buying lottery.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
By lottery ticket. So I think we bought a couple.
Is it up again tonight?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
No, because there were two winners. Oh there was that
until Texas and one in Missouri. Is that Rights is saying? Yeah,
when we didn't win anything, we bought twenty dollars worth
of ticket.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, we did the same.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The ten ten tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I just I have I'm challenged even when it's that high.
I just know the chances, and I know you don't
You can't play if you don't. You can't win if
you don't play right. But at the same time, it's
twenty dollars and you are the cheapest. You're even cheaper.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Randy and I split it. So but I thought the
same thing you did. I'm like, what's our chance You're
never gonna win? But I'm sure everybody says that. I'm
sure everybody thinks that there has to be a winner eventually,
and there were two of them. Somebody win anything, No, didn't,
because if you match a few numbers, you get something, right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't think we want anything either, But Marcus loves
to play when it's big, and so Dixie is.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A lottery player. She always plays. I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Do you think people are lottery players based on if
their parents played or not.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I think everything gets passed down. I cannot tell you
how many people I run across that new mom from
years gone by or family members and they're like, you
are just like calm. And do you know how many
people tell Cammy, whether she wants to hear it or not,
just like you are just like your mom. And I
have heard from their friends and my friends. Kimmy's just
(05:32):
like you, Like I cannot believe DNA is reel And
there's what we we live and we learn from who
we love, and it just kind of trickles down the
good things and the bad things. There's parts of her
that are like me that I wish they weren't. She's
very stubborn, you know, and it's it's she gets it, honestly.
Where I look at Carlynn and he's just like Randy,
(05:55):
laid back, he is easy going, mild bannerd It is
just like my husband. So even from the top, look
at my mom, just like my mom. Cam He's just
like me. Now, I don't know about mister k I
think he mellowed later in life. She was not mellow
Randy like his mom. Maybe. I mean, you know what
(06:16):
the thing is. They were both educators, and what did
Randy become? How long an educator?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How long was Randy's mom around? How long did you like?
Did she she was part of his life for a while?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All yeah, I mean, I'm gonna say she passed when
the kids were maybe five or six or seven or eight.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, so you knew her for about a decade a
little under.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
She had Alzheimer's, So the end of her life was
not easy. It's a hard, hard way to go. I
don't know if you knew this or you did if
you read the Dear Mom? Was it in my Dear
Mom book? Missus Corycracks and I were in a car
accident together.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I feel like this is familiar a minute since you
wrote that, and.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Miss she had to miss what book was? I didn't
have to be in Dear Mom. No, it was in
The King. I was in The King, the book that
I wrote about Randy's dad. And she had to miss
her daughter, Beth's, my sister in law, Randy's sister, wedding
because we were in a car accident together. And no,
I wasn't driving. She was, Yeah, and she but this
(07:16):
car like rand a stop sign and crashed into us.
So we both ended up as little together. But yeah,
just memories that you share with your grandparents. And does
make me sad to think that, you know, I know
how close my kids were to my mom and my dad,
especially my mom because she lived longer than my dad. Yeah,
and that is a void that they will miss forever,
(07:38):
especially my son Kylin. He really was go guys king.
He was the only grandson, all granddaughters, one grandson. But
you get it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Pass it on, yeah, and be the same as car
Let's hope. Speaking of family and the mad parts. Speaking
of families, a family's coming together, a community that's a
family and family of a cancer patient, a beloved medical
assistant here on the west side of Central Ohio. We're
going to talk with them and how you can support
(08:09):
next on what matters
So two things we have to talk about. First of all,
it's Grandparents' Day and it's kind of sad because, yeah,
my grandparents aren't here. They haven't been here, but this
is the first year that my kids don't have any
living grandparent anymore because of mister Cage's passed and he
was the last one standing. Yeah, you know, my mom
(00:24):
passed it couple years ago. Well it'll be a two
years in November, and she lived to be almost ninety three.
And then my dad died several years before that. Missus
Quartercracks died many years before that, and then mister kay
is now gone. So my kids don't get to call
up grandma or grandpa and say Happy grandparents Day.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Hopefully your boys do call theirs.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, they're supposed to. My parents might be listening to
this on some stream in Georgia right now and they're like,
your kids haven't called this, damn Mikayla. But it's five
twenty three. We still got time, still, plenty of time
to plenty of time. But if you want to call
in and say Happy Grandparents' Day to a grandparents in
your kids' lives, or have your kids say it, that's fine,
or you know that that'd be great six point forty
(01:06):
two one nine eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Six, or if you want to share an awesome memory
that you have with your grandpa or your grandma or
I have heard of my goodness, Mikayla from so many
of my friends who adored their kids but now that
their grandparents is the best thing in life. I have
heard that from so many people that it goes beyond parenting,
(01:29):
like grandparenting is legit one of the best times of
their life.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I think I just saw something about a guy who's
a grandpa that wrote the book good How to Be
a Good Grandpa, because I think sometimes it does it
is a different place, and I think sometimes it's a
different place for dudes. And I loved that because he's
really engaging with his grandkids. And I do think a
lot about grandma is because you know, they're like the cookers,
the nurturers, the cares, right, not that the grandpas aren't great,
(01:57):
but like just you know, it's get down there, get
down the floor, play with those kids.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, and I've heard that it's great because, yeah, you
get to spend all this time, you get to spoil
the kids, You don't have to be the disciplinarian. And
then you give them back to the papers and them
you can fatten them up with all kinds of sugar
and candy and whatever you want to do, and then
go have at it, buddy.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know, the grandmas are coming to stay with my
kids for the two weeks we're gone. No, we haven't talked.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
About this way. Both grandmas are going to be Both
grandma's fly.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
In the day before we leave. Oh, that's interesting and
so and you know, Debbie lives in Texas and my
mom lives in Georgia. Marcus is from Texas. I'm from Illinois.
I mean they've only been together a handful of times. Right,
like our wedding. They happen to be in town for
one of the kids confirmations. So, yes, the two grandmas
(02:46):
are coming in. I think it's going to be a
great time, and they could have a really great time.
You know, you're not going to be surprised. Debbie's like
the more laid back one. My mom's a little more intense.
You've met my mom before and but trees, So I
think it's like, I'm so grateful I sent them both
a Texas weekend I was.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Up early yesterday. Well that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And I said, I don't know if you guys know
how special this is what you're doing. Marcus and I
have not been alone for more than three or four
days tops in fifteen years, and you're letting us have
two weeks out of the country in an amazing place
like this is kind of like a gift of a
(03:28):
lifetime what they're doing for us.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But that's what grandparents do. I just kind of need.
I think it's neat that they're both doing this together.
I wonder if they'll get along, because I'm sure they
have different ways of raising their own kids, let alone.
Now they're going to be taking care of your kids
for two weeks. It'll be fun odd stories, I know, right,
So I could tune in whenever I would want to.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So what's your second thing?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Second thing was Powerball? Did you play the power ball?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know how to play the lottery.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You just go to the store and ask.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I feel a lot of pressure, so Marcus sent me
to the gas station. He's like, get a ticket.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm like, what do I do? Randy said the same thing,
and I've never gotten him on my own either. But Okay,
so the Dixie lives buying lottery.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
By lottery ticket. So I think we bought a couple.
Is it up again tonight?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
No, because there were two winners. Oh there was that
until Texas and one in Missouri. Is that Rights is saying? Yeah,
when we didn't win anything, we bought twenty dollars worth
of ticket.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, we did the same.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The ten ten tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I just I have I'm challenged even when it's that high.
I just know the chances, and I know you don't
You can't play if you don't. You can't win if
you don't play right. But at the same time, it's
twenty dollars and you are the cheapest. You're even cheaper.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Randy and I split it. So but I thought the
same thing you did. I'm like, what's our chance You're
never gonna win? But I'm sure everybody says that. I'm
sure everybody thinks that there has to be a winner eventually,
and there were two of them. Somebody win anything, No, didn't,
because if you match a few numbers, you get something, right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't think we want anything either, But Marcus loves
to play when it's big, and so Dixie is.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A lottery player. She always plays. I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Do you think people are lottery players based on if
their parents played or not.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I think everything gets passed down. I cannot tell you
how many people I run across that new mom from
years gone by or family members and they're like, you
are just like calm. And do you know how many
people tell Cammy, whether she wants to hear it or not,
just like you are just like your mom. And I
have heard from their friends and my friends. Kimmy's just
(05:32):
like you, Like I cannot believe DNA is reel And
there's what we we live and we learn from who
we love, and it just kind of trickles down the
good things and the bad things. There's parts of her
that are like me that I wish they weren't. She's
very stubborn, you know, and it's it's she gets it, honestly.
Where I look at Carlynn and he's just like Randy,
(05:55):
laid back, he is easy going, mild bannerd It is
just like my husband. So even from the top, look
at my mom, just like my mom. Cam He's just
like me. Now, I don't know about mister k I
think he mellowed later in life. She was not mellow
Randy like his mom. Maybe. I mean, you know what
(06:16):
the thing is. They were both educators, and what did
Randy become? How long an educator?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How long was Randy's mom around? How long did you like?
Did she she was part of his life for a while?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All yeah, I mean, I'm gonna say she passed when
the kids were maybe five or six or seven or eight.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, so you knew her for about a decade a
little under.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
She had Alzheimer's, So the end of her life was
not easy. It's a hard, hard way to go. I
don't know if you knew this or you did if
you read the Dear Mom? Was it in my Dear
Mom book? Missus Corycracks and I were in a car
accident together.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I feel like this is familiar a minute since you
wrote that, and.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Miss she had to miss what book was? I didn't
have to be in Dear Mom. No, it was in
The King. I was in The King, the book that
I wrote about Randy's dad. And she had to miss
her daughter, Beth's, my sister in law, Randy's sister, wedding
because we were in a car accident together. And no,
I wasn't driving. She was, Yeah, and she but this
(07:16):
car like rand a stop sign and crashed into us.
So we both ended up as little together. But yeah,
just memories that you share with your grandparents. And does
make me sad to think that, you know, I know
how close my kids were to my mom and my dad,
especially my mom because she lived longer than my dad. Yeah,
and that is a void that they will miss forever,
(07:38):
especially my son Kylin. He really was go guys king.
He was the only grandson, all granddaughters, one grandson. But
you get it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Pass it on, yeah, and be the same as car
Let's hope. Speaking of family and the mad parts. Speaking
of families, a family's coming together, a community that's a
family and family of a cancer patient, a beloved medical
assistant here on the west side of Central Ohio. We're
going to talk with them and how you can support
(08:09):
next on what matters
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