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Sunday Night Confessions: Raw, Real, and Ridiculous
Sunday Night Confessions returns with anonymous mother confessions ranging from pretending the laundry machine is broken to avoid chores to the creative extremes of potty training. We share stories of guilt over discarding children's artwork, keeping unusual mementos like baby teeth and surgically removed tonsils, and maintaining aesthetically-pleasing Christmas trees despite children's handmade ornaments.
• Anonymous mom confessed to telling her husband the washing machine was broken to avoid laundry duty
• Discussion about what to do with the overwhelming amount of children's artwork and school projects
• Sharing strange keepsakes including baby teeth and one host's surgically removed tonsils displayed in a jar for years
• Creative potty training techniques including telling a child that "Obama passed a law" prohibiting more diaper purchases
• Strategies for balancing aesthetically-pleasing holiday decorations with children's handmade ornaments
• Healthy snacking alternatives including protein-packed energy balls and dessert hummus options
• Celebrating podcast milestones with listeners in 26 countries and over 1,000 downloads
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Welcome to Sunday Night Confessions on the Anxiety Ridden Moms Club, where we trade perfection for honesty, laugh at the chaos, and share the little secrets that make us all feel a little more human.
SPEAKER_03:Every week we read your confessions. Funny, messy, heartfelt, and mix in a few of our own. Because let's be honest, motherhood, womanhood, and life in general are way too unpredictable to do alone. So grab that snack you're hiding from the kids, settle in. And remember, there's no judgment here. Just a lot of same girl, same. And maybe a few crumbs in our bras from the snacks we swore we wouldn't share.
SPEAKER_01:Welcome back to the Anxiety Ridden Moms Club. It's Sunday night, which means it's time for Sunday night confessions, where moms spill the tea, share their secrets, and remind us all that none of us have it 100% together all of the time.
SPEAKER_03:And that's okay. We asked you to send in your confessions this week, and oh, did you deliver? Remember, these are totally anonymous. We don't know who sent what, and that makes it even more fun.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. First one. I told my husband the laundry machine was broken. It wasn't. I just didn't want to do laundry that week.
SPEAKER_03:Uh so I wonder how it all of a sudden miraculously started working again.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Did you call a repair man? That's that's interesting. Um I don't do laundry every week. I hate laundry. It's my least favorite. It's my least favorite.
SPEAKER_02:I can't stand laundry.
SPEAKER_01:So I don't even come up with an excuse anymore, but hey, that works.
SPEAKER_03:Or you just bring over the hot handyman to fix it.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, if you've got a hot handyman, all yeah, all's welcome.
SPEAKER_03:Now you've covered all the bases.
SPEAKER_01:I like that. That's a good one. Um, another confession was when my kids come to my bed to get me in the middle of the night, I just pretend I'm sleeping, so they will turn around and go back to sleep. Preach. Does it work? I guess that is the question. Does it work? Because I feel like mine will just scream louder or you know, whatever the case, like they they, yeah, that wouldn't work for me because they would be bound and determined to yeah. Yes, definitely. Definitely to wake me up. That's funny. So I have a confession with school back in session. Um what did you do or what do you do with all of and I feel like it's worse when they're younger, um, but they're so proud of like the arts and crafts that they bring home. Um, and I'm trying to go through the basement and clean out things. And I feel like there's a kid watching me, like even though they're at school, I like I could feel their eyes like piercing me, and all I want to do is throw the stuff away. But I still feel guilty. What do I do?
SPEAKER_03:Um, I always displayed it like on the fridge or something for a period of time, and I threw a lot of it away. A lot of it went away. But I do have like a huge bucket in my basement that's got a nice big tub, you know, with the top on and container and everything. And I've got a lot of pictures in there, and I do have a stack full of some pieces of artwork. And that's those are the ones usually at least I felt like you even seemed maybe like you had some talent so you could feel better about it later. They weren't like your worst projects that you did as a kid, they were usually ones that I was like, it's pretty impressive for that age or something, you know. Those I would toss in the bucket, but the vast majority of them went the trash. And I just I think after a while they've been in my fridge, they you know, I wasn't at least usually asked where that guy what I did with anything.
SPEAKER_01:So I did I did do some research, and there are some um companies out there where you can like take a picture on your phone and then like send the pictures in and then like have a book made. But like for the kid, that doesn't mean anything. Like they like their crusty piece of paper that's like crumpled up in their book bag, and like I don't know, I can just feel Nora staring at me anytime I go to like throw something away and it's yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Well, my daughter even asked me the other day, she was like, Do you um did you save my hair? The only reason she even asked that is because my dad saved some of my hair. I think because I had red hair and you know what I mean. But to me it was a little creepy when I opened up an envelope of hair. I mean, like, so no, I did not save your hair, even though it was kind of like I I felt, I don't know. It was like, okay, we saved hair. I mean, I guess that's good, but then on the other hand, I'm like, isn't that kind of weird? And I went back to, I guess it's kind of neat to see my hair color, but it was at the time I found this stuff, my hair was the same color, so it didn't matter anyway. So, what about teeth? I personally kept my teeth for a long time, but the weirdest thing I ever kept was my tonsils. So I had my tonsils removed.
SPEAKER_01:It's disgusting.
SPEAKER_03:I kept them. I asked if I could take them home. And so the doctor told me that I could. I was 11 when I had them removed. So he said, yes, after I remove them, I actually can send them home with you. I'm like, sweet. So they gave them to me in this little plastic container screw on top with this, I don't know, whatever fluid they put in that crap. And there they were floating around. And I put them front and center on my dresser for years.
SPEAKER_01:Disgusting thing I've ever done.
SPEAKER_03:I would always have anybody come over, I would gross them out by the fact I had my tassels over there. Ew. But then when the the jar began to leak a little bit, I decided it's time to throw on.
SPEAKER_01:Last week, like how long did you have them? That's insane. That's disgusting.
SPEAKER_03:But if you would have come to my house, I would have had fun.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. I literally am cleaning like my dresser out and like going through clothes and stuff, and I just keep finding little random bags with teeth. And I'm like, what am I gonna do? What do I do with these teeth? It's so bizarre.
SPEAKER_03:But see, that to me is a personal thing. Like I kept all my teeth in a little container as a kid, and I kept there for the longest time. And then finally, I think when I finally moved out as an adult, I decided I probably don't need my baby teeth anymore. And I threw them in the trash. And my tonsils were leaking, so they're so wrong. But those are the things that when you're a kid, you know, I don't know. Sometimes I think it's why I didn't decide what I kept for the kids because I'm like, that's personal. Not every kid wants to keep their tonsils, so like, you know, it's personal. Those are just the special ones, the really special ones.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. My kids give me a really hard time about Christmas ornaments, handmade Christmas ornaments.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah. I still have a bunch of those that I hang on my tree.
SPEAKER_01:That you hang on your tree. Yeah. So I love them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know. Even the goofy looking ones. I got some goofy ones that go on my tree every year, and I love it. I love themes and and colors. Oh same, not yet. I like that old time put a bunch of shit on your tree.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I can't. I can't do that. So I bought each of the kids trees for their rooms. So that's where handmade loved ornaments go. But I have very particular taste. I it is an art for me. I will stare at my Christmas tree. I will meticulously move things around.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um, I'm very color coordinated, everything's coordinated, white light. Oh my god, you're one of those.
SPEAKER_03:You know, you can pay people, people pay a lot of money for that. You should, you know, go into business, decorate people's trees. Okay, they give they pay a lot of money for that.
SPEAKER_01:Really? Yeah. I don't know. I have enough side gig. Um, this being one of them.
SPEAKER_03:But uh, just giving you another holiday idea. Yeah. Something else you need to do.
SPEAKER_01:Look me up if you want your kids to hate you because you have a white tree. And this year it's gonna be hunter green, black, white. You change it every year? No, normally I'll have variations of the same. So, like um, for the longest time I did black, white, and galvanized. Like that was my thing. Um, and then I got rid of the galvanized last year and brought in hunter greens, and now there's color. I've got a little color.
SPEAKER_03:Um green is the same color as a freaking tree. It's not adding color. Yeah. Black is not Christmassy. Yeah, I don't care. I've totally embraced and I've embraced the bow era. Okay, well, once you get your tree done, then you have to post a picture of it.
SPEAKER_01:I will absolutely post a picture of it. So, yes, my my confession this month is that my kids hate me because I throw their artwork away and won't hang their handmade things on my Christmas tree. So that's that's what I got this month. What about you?
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so I was doing some thinking and some good ones. So the one that I came up with, and so mind you, before I tell you this, the president at the time was Obama. So that's why he got kind of like thrown under the bus on this month.
SPEAKER_01:Probably not the first time Obama's gonna be thrown under the bus. Maybe not the last, but here we go.
SPEAKER_03:But here we go. So Kylie was no problem in potty training her to pee on the potty, but you weren't going to get her to poop on the potty. She did not like it. She just didn't like pooping in general. So it was just an issue all around. So it finally got to the point where I'm like, this is getting really ridiculous, and she's gotta like, she's gotta like give it up. And I don't know how to give it up because she was so, I mean, just it was upsetting to her if she did not be able to just put the diaper on her and let her poop in that. So I finally came home one day and I told her, Well, I just found out there was a new law that was passed, and she's like, huh? You know, because she's little and just looks at me and I said, Obama just changed the rules and I can't buy you diapers anymore. So she was like, I said, So let's go count how many diapers we have left. I'm like, we have 15 diapers left, which means you have 15 more times you can poop. Once these are done, I can't buy any more. So when we got to the point, she was done, she had the last one. I told her, and you could tell the fear in her next kid's face was just unbelievable. So finally we have her out and she's on the toilet. And it was the sad, I felt my heart kind of broke for her. She started crying a little bit, just in the cutest little like sappy cry. And she's like, Mommy, please just go and tell them that I'm one year old. I said, You don't understand. Obama, it's the government, they know everything. And I can't lie, like they know your social security number. Poor kid. So she had to poop on the potty from then out, but she definitely had issues with not liking Obama after that. But it worked, it did work. You gotta come up with something. Yeah, that's awesome. So that was my, you know, one I dug around for thinking, what's a good one for this week for the Sunday confession for the month?
SPEAKER_01:I like it. I like it. We've we've got to have um people reach out to us and let us know. Give us your confessions or your questions if you have questions from previous episodes or things that we said we were gonna talk about and we didn't. Like now, Sunday night confessions are our time to air it all, air it all out and uh answer any burning questions that you may you may have.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, definitely. So before we though get into some, a couple of the questions that we have, I at least figured I was gonna share with everyone that I had had somebody that had actually I really enjoyed. And so they had reached out to tell us that. Um I was having a really bad evening earlier this week and had been crying for about an hour. I got back into where my phone got service and your podcast came on. Before I got home, I was literally laughing so hard about the BOA. Passersby probably thought I was nuts. Just wanted you to know your podcast truly does touch lives, and I enjoy it so much. Thank you for sharing and for all the work that goes into it. So I just really I like that one. It was so good. I'm so glad that we I think that's kind of the point. We want it's totally the point. We want it to be where people, you know, if you're having a bad day or you're unsure of yourself or whatever, that you get to listen to us and turn that frown upside down. Is that what they say?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Life is heavy.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Life is scary. Um, you know, it's it's a scary world and the world we're bringing our kids up in and the pressure of all of the things we have to do, you know, provide for our families and work hard and stay sane. And um, I don't know, everything just feels really heavy lately. And so knowing that we made someone smile is like that is so cool to me.
SPEAKER_03:That is just that makes every and not just smile, but somebody who actually was upset. Something was very upsetting to where you're crying. Emotionally, you were upset, stressed out, whatever it was that happened that day, you know. Obviously, we don't know, but no matter what was, it was it felt heavy. And so to have her, just listening to us change that is just makes makes me very happy.
SPEAKER_01:Me too. That's pretty cool. Now your son didn't feel the same way with the Boa situation. No, he didn't, he didn't, he didn't he didn't think that thing was so funny. But you know, they're there our families are right along here with us, letting us um, you know, some of the stories we have to ask for permission before talking about. Um so that's that's so cool.
SPEAKER_02:I love I don't really ask my kids permission, but I didn't like call him and ask him if he cared about the book.
SPEAKER_01:I asked my significant other for permission um before I talk, you know, talk about like deep dark secrets or anything like that. Um I've asked my sister-in-law before.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you know, before I would if it was outside of my kids. My kids, you you guys are too bad you're out there.
SPEAKER_01:I birth to so whatever I want to talk about is is fair game. Yes. Okay, fair enough. Right. Exactly. Fair enough. Um, okay, let's see. What are we what else do we have here?
SPEAKER_03:What's some questions that we got? Are we got any questions this month?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know, but on the topic of you know, making someone's day, I do have another. Oh, okay. Um testimonial, I guess, if you will, to to share here real quick. Um my boss always says something really poetic about feedback. I can't remember it in this exact moment. Feedback is a gift, uh, and I think that's super important when we're doing this podcast and you know, Sunday night confessions especially, or all things, people reaching out to us and asking questions. So we value it. But even in our everyday or every week episodes, like if you guys have feedback, if you love it, if it wasn't your favorite episode, right? Um, we we value feedback. So feedback is is a gift. And, you know, um, my mom after the marriage episode, she said, you know, it wasn't my favorite topic. It's just not, it's just not my favorite topic. But um my mom and dad, who just celebrated a I think it's 38-year anniversary. This, so that's pretty freaking cool. But apparently she doesn't like to talk about it. Um, so happy anniversary to my mom and dad. Shout out to them. Um, but any feedback, feedback is a gift. So if again, like I said, if there's anything you heard um that you didn't like that you really liked, please just let us know so we know that we're there's a purpose behind some of this because you know, there is a lot of time and sometimes tears and lots of Gina's laughter um that goes into this. And so just we love, we love and we want to hear, we want to hear the feedback. So next up, running a social media, several social media accounts is a job on its own that I'm not smart enough for. So just trying to to you know track this down. Um so um another feedback, feedback, I guess, that we got is your episode this week really hit home. I'm trying so hard to find my peace, and I've learned not to give a shit about having a big circle. I love my small circle of friends that are like family and second moms to my kids. Um, I laughed out loud about your uh comment on the lunch table. And uh I'm sorry, it was so stupid. And I wish I could go back and and tell 12-year-old us that um you won't even talk to those people in 20 years. So um being parents and that conversation just about how hard it is growing up and and raising little girls or even remembering our past struggles, I guess if you will. But just another listener that um just reached out to us and let us know that that episode really, really hit home. And that's just really freaking cool.
SPEAKER_03:Hey, and didn't she say something about how she just like everyone needs a Gina in their life? She did. She did.
SPEAKER_01:So um coming to our merch store soon, we will have a uh coffee mug that says something about what does it say? I need coffee and Gina. So lucky for me, I have a Gina. Um, Gina's the calm to my storm for sure. Right. For sure. For sure. So I hope you all feel the same way too. And like I said, there's gonna be merch real soon that everybody can have a little piece of Gina with them every everywhere. No, it reminds everyone, relax.
SPEAKER_03:It's not that big of a deal.
SPEAKER_01:It is not that big of a deal. So let's uh, you know, I love to give our um current numbers or our current tallies of of where we're at with things. Okay. And currently, two days, we are finally um at 1050 downloads. All right, awesome. So we've had over a thousand people download and listen to us, and we are in 26 countries.
SPEAKER_03:So yeah that's awesome.
SPEAKER_01:That's 26 countries in 148 cities. And I'm not knocking the 148 cities, but every time we add a country to the list, yeah, it's awesome. Um, Gina and I will one Google where it's at and then decide if we're gonna add it to our world tour when when that time comes. Um but we're getting a lot of love in Brazil, which just is mind-blowing to me.
SPEAKER_03:That is so crazy. It's so cool. Yes, but we definitely everybody needs a dream board, right? So all those things get put on there.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. So United States, obviously, um, number one, Brazil, Germany, and uh Saudi Arabia.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Those are our top countries. So 26 countries in 148 cities, and that just blows my freaking mind every time I see that number. Yeah. So that's awesome.
SPEAKER_03:And we appreciate everybody. Everybody.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Thank you for tuning in every single week and um putting up with our crazy social media nonsense. And uh again, if there are things you want to see, we're really gonna try to get more consistent on the barely balanced mom blueprint. Um it was just this morning I had text Gina and I'm like, okay, I need some more ideas because the peppers and cream cheese I eat every single day, and it's my favorite snack in the whole world. So hook us up. Do you have any barely balanced blueprints to share with us on this fun Sunday night?
SPEAKER_03:Um, actually, I believe I was trying to like look for some stuff because I get picky and I get in moods, and so then sometimes I like stuff and then sometimes I don't. So I kind of go in my moods. But I will tell you guys, one thing I love to snack on is um hummus, which I know when talking to you, you said that that's the consistency seems gross. And I believe in the beginning thought nobody's ever gonna get me to eat hummus. But there is a brand tribe T-R-I-B-E tribe tribe. Okay, and they have dessert ones. And I'm not kidding you, they're amazing. They have chocolate, sea salt, caramel, peanut nut butter, and cake batter. And if you have fruit, I'm not kidding you. It's some of the best like fruit dip you can have, but it's so healthy for you. But for sure, I can tell you like some brands I've had other brands and of the chocolate because I've only ever seen the other brands have chocolate, and some are good and some are not as good, so I can't tell you, can't say exactly like you know, if you get a different brand how well it's gonna turn out for you. But this brand is amazing, amazing. And I always eat cucumbers with red pepper hummus, my favorite, or carrots sometimes, but I love it with cucumbers. I'm gonna have to give it a try.
SPEAKER_01:It is it is, it's a consistency thing for me, it's a texture.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know, it's uh but I think it's what I think it's all on what you use it with, you know what I mean? So I think it's kind of like just like having in the chocolate with like strawberries and you dip it in. I'm not oh it's so cut. I haven't even had it for a little while. I'm gonna get me some. So good. And then the um, but dipping just fruit in it, so you know, which it's always good for you starch day off, and then you have your protein and your hummus, and then um the vegetables, and you can sit and eat quite a bit of it.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, that's how I feel about the peppers. I just feel like which I'm trying not to burn my no, that's a lie. I know I'm going to burn myself out on them because I'm eating them so frequently, but like they're so good though. They're so good, and I just know I could be the junk I could be eating, so I'm like, whatever. If I want to eat, you know.
SPEAKER_03:That's the thing about it, is it's like anything for snacking. Obviously, it always comes down to you don't want to eat too much of anything. I mean, that's obviously a problem. As far as like I mean, talking about portion sizes, you know, to eat it every day. I mean, uh, it's good, eat it, you know what I mean? But it's just like hummus. I mean, obviously, hummus fruit, I mean, I'm not gonna eat like a a guy, you know, gigant or bowl of something, but it is really good to like fit into just to get you over the humps of that sweet tooth sometimes, or just like having dips with veggies and so those peppers are so. I try to share stuff I really enjoy that like I really like to eat. I don't want to give anybody suggestions stuff that's doesn't taste good.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. The other, the other thing is uh substituting the ice cream for the fudge bars, and my entire family makes fun of me for my newfound fudge bar addiction. Um, I can't stop and I can't go to sleep unless I have one fudge bar. It's just a thing. Um, but I'm so scared I'm gonna burn myself out. So you gotta send us more tips and tricks.
SPEAKER_03:So we Yep. I definitely keep looking for all the different things that I think of that I enjoy that I like to eat that gets you through. Because you know, the right the rest of the time you should always have a good balanced meals, eating your healthy proteins, your healthy fats, all that good stuff. I guess it can go through it all because we all know it. But I think sometimes the reason a lot of people stop doing diets is because they're boring. You feel like you're missing out on something. So at least I want to bring to everybody stuff that's like that good little snack that gets you over the hump for the day, you know, for sure. Something keeps you keeps you steady.
SPEAKER_01:I have another confession of my own. Oh lord. So you know the monster energy balls that you sent me? Yeah. Okay. So the first time I made them, I used pancake syrup because I thought it was so the recipe said honey or maple syrup. And I thought maple syrup equaled pancake syrup. And they were the most delicious energy balls I've ever had in my entire life. I'm sure they were until my mom was like, not the same. No. Maple syrup is completely different.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:And I made them with maple syrup. And you were sad. Because they're fucking awful and they fall apart and they're dry. And you should use honey. Use honey. So you know, I made them. So my first batch, everyone freaking like ate them so fast. Like we were getting in fights. I'm like, stop, stop eating my energy balls. And my last batch has been in the refrigerator for at least like three and a half weeks, and I can't get anyone to eat them. To eat them.
SPEAKER_03:No, see, I like them with honey. I prefer honey.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna have to dry honey. Yes. Um, but I was really into them with the pancakes.
SPEAKER_03:Pancakes are you work.
SPEAKER_01:It's so loaded with so much sugar. That tells you how um I'm new to my fitness journey, obviously.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, we need to work on that.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. And we are, we are baby tips one day at a time. It'll happen.
SPEAKER_03:It'll happen. And that's all that matters, anyways. Even if you get a little healthier, a little healthier, a little healthier, eventually you get used to it. I hated it. It was disgusting to me. I'd be like, Can you put more sweetener in that? It's so gross. So then I found out how to make coffee be delicious. And now, the more and more coffee taste throughout the years, the more and more I like, I can get to almost black coffee. I'm not there yet, but I'm pretty darn close. And my husband was anti-coffee. And I said, I can make you a coffee drinker. And he's like, How am I gonna how are you gonna do that? I'm like, so go through Starbucks and get an iced car. We want to get a frappuccino. So we got the caramelish is Frappuccino, or there, what is their there? What's their caramel? Caramel, caramel, yeah, but it's a caramel, tell me it might be it's a caramel macchiato Frappuccino. I said, get that, and you need to get a cake pop. And then so he did, and I said, no, take a bite of that cake pop and take a sip of that drink. And he did, he's like, that's the most amazing thing I've ever read in my life. So as time went on, I worked with him. So now we have protein in our coffee and all those different things, but he can get a little energy from his coffee. And but we had to get we had to do the sugar thing first and then kind of bring him down, you know. Sometimes how it's how it works to get you healthy.
SPEAKER_01:I love, I love a good coffee, but I have not been to a coffee shop in months, probably like two months, because I've been making it at home. Um, we go for a walk in the morning and then I come home. And uh, I mean, obviously working from home, I have the flexibility now where you know, before I was always on the road and you ate what you could run, you know, could find. Um, but I use isapure unflavored protein. I put that in my coffee. I use my un my sugar-free coffee creamer, my skinny syrup. So I make this fabulous coffee at home too.
SPEAKER_03:And see, the other thing is we don't go buy coffee out. It's that's a treat. If I were out of town, then we would get it. But then we would do it, we'd full-blown do it and make it a dessert. And who cares? Like you're on a vacation or something. You know what I mean? Otherwise, we really don't do it anymore either, because I make it all at home and we have protein and the skinny syrups and all that stuff that we enjoy. And I mean, I love it. But I think we for him, I don't he wouldn't have liked it before. I had to kind of like start him on the high sugar and then bring him down.
SPEAKER_01:Cake pop and a coffee. I could really go for that right now here on this Sunday night.
SPEAKER_03:It's so good. So good. That's awesome. Um, so do we have any questions? Do we even have like a highlight question, even like a question that we can throw out there that anybody had that was on our list? Okay. Um I found one that is a good one. It's a pretty it's a pretty good one. Um what is the most ridiculous thing that you've ever bribed your kids with?
SPEAKER_01:An American girl doll. For what? It didn't work out for me. But it didn't work for me. She didn't get an American girl doll either.
SPEAKER_03:Oh. So your bribes suck because they don't.
SPEAKER_01:I'm a procrastinator. I like to procrastinate. I don't know if you know that at all. Um, I feel like my job at the the litter box made me a procrastinator because, like, if you got an assignment or something to do and like you did it right away. They thought you could do more. They thought you could do more, or it would never be brought up again. So you wasted your entire life putting this presentation together that was never to be seen or talked about again. So it was just a waste of time. Um yeah, so I would just wait till the very last minute um and just crank out whatever I need to crank out. That that job did it for me. That it made me that way because what somebody once said, like, you're never gonna be able to handle all of the shit they throw your way. You're never gonna be able to handle it. So, like, you never do anything the first time you're asked. So ever. Don't even respond to an email the first time you're asked.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You wait until somebody says I'm following up, and that means they're not gonna let it go. Right. Like, that's your trigger to know like you're actually gonna need to do it. But like if right out of the gates, you just do everything everybody tells you to, you will never stay caught up. Great advice. It really did work. So, anyway, I procrastinate and I procrastinated to sign my daughter up for cheer. And when I went to sign her up, it was full. Cool. And so I decided I was like, okay, I'm gonna ask her if she really wants to do cheer this year and if she is kind of iffy, I'm gonna say. Like, okay, well they're full, but I will get you an we'll go to Chicago and I'll get you an American girl doll instead of doing cheer.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um and it it was all good, but then her somebody backed out last minute, and her best the mom of her best friend reached out and they're like, if she wants to do cheer, like she can totally do it. Um more year. So but yes, it didn't pan out. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:What about you? I don't think I ever bribe my kids for anything. I don't think I ever did. I don't think there's anything I'd ever bribe my kids. Bribing. You can have what about your husband? Oh, I know. I know what I would do. I would Austin was one that like a lot of time he he'd have birthday parties to go to, and I wouldn't a lot of these birthday parties back then you'd like you to stay at them the whole day, and it'd be people I didn't know when I was gonna be there. I'm like, it's like the most painful experience of my life. So I'd be like, I'll buy you a gift and then you don't have to go, and then we won't go to the party. He'd be like, right on. Brilliant. Brilliant. We did that a couple times. Because I'm like, oh my God, I don't even know these people. And I'm, you know, we had to parents are two o'clock on Saturday. Yes. And now I'm stuck there for two hours. People I don't know, don't, they don't talk to you. You don't talk to them, you just literally sit alone and just feel weird. So, unless you're like friends with these people, it's the worst miserable two hours of your life. So I'd buy him a present and we'd go back home. I love it. The only thing I can ever remember that I really bragged about. And it worked.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, that's a good one. And I think on that we can uh end this Sunday night confessions. But thanks to everyone who submitted a confession this week. You guys keep it real, you keep it funny, and you remind us that that we're not we're not alone. So we appreciate you.
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SPEAKER_01:Until next time, protect your peace, laugh when you can, and remember, you're doing better than you think. Good night, moms.
SPEAKER_03:If no one's told you lately, let me be the one to say it. You're not failing, you're growing, you're not broken, you're becoming, and you're doing better than you think.
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