Episode 5 | Podcast, Interrupted

This episode will cover: 

• Podcast equipment updates—Vanessa paid for nothing
• Rescuing dirty dog toys 
• Aubrey's fettucini alfredo—get the recipe
• New giveaway for podcast reviews & update on the emerald ring giveaway
• Momobiles—enter the minivan
• Backing into parking spaces—yay or nay?
• Vanessa voted 2nd worst driver on her team at work
• Aubrey interrupts us to complain about dinner 2 nights ago—?!?!
• Aly's 18th birthday (inappropriate) surprise
• The (teddy) bear-skinned rug
• Elf on the Shelf stories
• Vanessa hits the vintage Barbie jackpot
• Future guest preview—Vanessa's husband Max joining the show soon

Transcript

Vanessa Van Arsdale  0:02  
Is this thing gonna work if we,

Aly Klidies  0:05  
Vanessa, it's on. Hi. Welcome to ridiculous conversations. You might be asking yourself, what is that beautiful microphone accessory? We have to describe things for those who listen. Okay. Yeah. All right, true. So, you know, we're really investing in in podcasting. Now. Just Allie, I have not contributed that and don't plan to that is actually true. You did not buy any of these things.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  0:34  
Well, it's okay. Because you still love podcasting. But, um, so we got this. You're like my network, and I'm just the talent. Oh, okay.

Aly Klidies  0:43  
There you go.

But we got this foam topper onto the microphone. So suppose you found the phone. I got the phone topper. And then we also got this little pop filter. So don't you feel like you should have gotten to though, am I allowed to criticize if I did none of the purchasing? I don't think you're allowed to say anything when you didn't actually buy any of the mail. Like, if you're gonna get one spit guard for two people. It just was not a wise choice. Well, newsflash, is it about the look into proper podcasting? We should both have our own microphone. I have not read one link.

I keep sending her articles of like things we should be doing.

And I'm like, I just know, from the way she's not specifically mentioning anything from the what I what I sent her that she didn't read it.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  1:33  
didn't read it. didn't read it. Oh, and the podcasting tip, but anyway, we both have our own microphone.

Aly Klidies  1:41  
And that requires like a mixing board and it just got too complicated for me. I thought I was like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we'll tough it out. Yeah, with one mic and just get a podcast. I like it. But I feel like if you weren't sisters or people who know each other really well, it would be very awkward to sit this close. Like, is this what are we gonna do with Hey, how you do live? Is this too close Vanessa? Alright. Yeah, that is too close.

Oh, my God. Okay, Aubrey keeps piping in. And I think you can only see one eyeball. your watch. I do like a shimmer of her glasses. Yeah. Wait. Aubrey. Wait. Hi. Say hi. For those listening. She's sitting behind us in a chair. are you texting somebody or what are you doing?

She doesn't. She doesn't. She's totally being fake. That was not real life. She does not have a boyfriend. And if she did, her father would invest heavily in armory.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  2:39  
We're gonna wait for that step. She's only 11. Everyone only 11 going on. 20. Yeah. But what's new in your life this week? Well, um, I told you before we got here that I wanted to talk about the thing I found in your house today.

And we go into that hold on before we go into that, oh, it's crossing me out.

Together get this is just I mean, let me describe it. For those who can't listen. It's about three feet. It's stuff. It's soaking wet. It's a carrot.

As a carrot, it has a line of dirt. I think it's a dog toy. But it looks like one of those things you put on the bottom of your door to stop the draft

talking about but at carat size. It just looks like it should have been thrown out a long time ago and I did trip on this getting a water Okay, well, that's a little gross. I feel bad for you. But just for I will pay you $5 if you sniff this right now, I will sip it. No, no, don't do Oh guys. I can't

Aly Klidies  3:47  
even snip it. But the reason I said that I said it just came out of the washing machine. No. Yes it did. You don't have any idea what it looked like before this. Was it gross. Yes. Okay, so I have a goal. Why are you

Vanessa Van Arsdale  4:02  
spending money on the podcast equipment you can't afford?

To buy for

my

Aly Klidies  4:13  
Listen, I have a golden retriever. And her favorite thing to do in life is take her soft toys and just carry them out her mouth from point A to point B. However, there is currently a graveyard of toys in my backyard. She likes to basically carry them and then lay them in the dirt and then like roll around in the dirt. And it's really gross but so gross. That's her favorite one. And so I tried to mix the carrots are her favorite. That's her favorite because it's like the whole length of her body. That is a dairy guys how much you pay for this? Well I gotta get home good so I got a good deal. Oh, I want to say I only paid like 12

Vanessa Van Arsdale  5:00  
dollars for that giant toy. Oh, Brian is hand singling right now.

Aly Klidies  5:07  
Alfredo. Okay, goodbye. Aubrey, thank you for visiting. Yep. Wow, wow, she is cooking her own set of Cheaney Alfredo from scratch, which we will share the recipe in the shownotes because it does taste like all garden. It's like a copy of that Olive Garden, Fettuccine Alfredo. And I was really, really skeptical. She just made it for the first time like a week, week and a half ago, honestly, about the time we launched this podcast is when she made her first homemade fettuccine. But it really does taste delicious. So we'll put it in the show notes. We'll put the recipe in the show notes. And speaking of show notes, slash reviews, we have a new thing for you guys. Oh, this is exciting. Okay, so for the first person who leaves us a review

Vanessa Van Arsdale  5:51  
on the podcast on your favorite listening app? Which can we check all of them? Or should we just say Spotify?

Aly Klidies  5:59  
Actually, our number one platform right now is Apple podcast. Okay, just looking at the analytics. So should we say, on Spotify or Apple? Yeah, on Spotify or Apple, but really, it helps us not even on YouTube. But any, any app that you're watching it on any podcasting platform, if you can give us a review on there, we hope that it's five stars, right? If it's two stars, don't you don't want a piece of this? You know, any piece of this offer? Okay, just go to Joe Rogan's podcast. She's moving, keep it moving to the next. First person who does on each app will get a personalized custom made thank you note from our children. Yes, we will make them draw this weekend. Yes, we have volunteered our children. They don't know yet to make you a special fan award writing. I'll probably tell them that it's for their grandma. So that way, they're more invested. And then I'll just mail it to the first viewer.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  7:01  
Okay, well, that's one way to go about it. But I will just be honest. Ghana on it. Just know. Yeah, yeah. Close enough. Close enough. Yeah. But um, but anytime you give us a review on your preferred listening platform, it helps us a million times, because that's the only way that other people can find out about the podcast. Yep. or sharing it on your own network. But let's be honest, who's going around to sharing podcast all the time? Like, hey, guess what I was listening to. So but that's you. That's great, too. Yeah, it's over. counting on that. You'll get a note will pm will dm you? Hey, is it pm or dm anymore? I don't know what to say anymore. Because people What do you say still say dm? direct message because I think that it covers more basis and pm sounds like time sometimes it also reminds me of PMS. And so then immediately I think of my monthly cycle, okay, she's never positive. So we're gonna go Damn. So we will dm you get your address and mail the fan mail to you.

Aly Klidies  8:02  
All right, so update. Um, if you were listening on the last episode, we did mention my Emerald and diamond rings holding it up right now holding it up right now look at the beautiful sparkle. Unfortunately, no one gets to be a nerd when that because we only got to 184 listens instead of 200. And I honestly started to sweat a little bit because I was like, Wait a second. It's gonna give away $1,000.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  8:30  
Yes,

Aly Klidies  8:32  
I got really close there. But I will say that was amazing. It was amazing job the past week. So I hope that that means that you guys are really enjoying our shenanigans and ridiculous conversation. I posted it on our neighborhood group and received a comment back we will be interviewing this lady actually her husband, we're interviewing her husband, because we got a recycling story back Oh, her own recycling. Oh, the saga?

Vanessa Van Arsdale  9:01  
This recycling guy knocks on her front door.

After a complaint, little breadcrumb trail. Yep. Yep. So yeah. So we'll have her on and tell the whole story. But that's pretty funny. So

all right, what's on the

Aly Klidies  9:16  
agenda? Well, I thought that we could talk about vehicles, and how when you become a mom, or even just a parent in general, your vehicle needs change. And not only do they change, they sometimes rapidly change as you continue to build your little tribe of children, right. And all of a sudden now you've got all the seats filled, all the seats are filled and the moms need it because the moms are the ones driving around. You guys still have Yes, yeah. Well, which brings me to the point of I might be unique in the world of moms, because about four and a half years ago when I was just getting ready to have my third baby Beckett

I basically kind of started like waving the white flag of defeat. And I said, Forget it. Let's get a minivan. It's a third kid. I'm so tired of your door dings. We're getting a minivan. So I got a Kia Sedona and I do think that that day a little piece of my soul died because I am one of those people that always said I would never ever ever get a minivan but there I was living the dream and my Kia Sedona shout out to kiya and any other Sedona owners that rear view camera los so small it looked like the original iPhone

Vanessa Van Arsdale  10:41  
iPod well I just think I didn't have the premiums like

it was a symbol

Aly Klidies  10:50  
so it's like you could like you were prepared for things behind you but not that prepared because they were such a little shadow in the corner of your tiny little screen it's like they really should have blown that up How do people reverse without the reverse camera like I I head out the window and stuff like that?

Vanessa Van Arsdale  11:08  
A lot of this I can't do it anymore. I literally if the camera goes out I don't think I could or should be driving. I don't think so either. Definitely not rear parking. I feel like ever since rear view cameras people start arguing backwards and parking. Many people do that at my daycare. It's like a little out of control where like it's my pet peeve I don't understand it used to just be the men Yeah, okay. And you know like a lot of the dads in reverse which I get it's a good idea. But then now all the moms are reversed because we got

Aly Klidies  11:42  
I don't get it. I'm one of my nearest and dearest friends Vivian is a

is a very um chant much of a champion for backing into a spot and parking but I don't get it I feel like I've taken 10 times longer to get to the park position and I if I was rear view camera was the reason then I can use the rear view camera to get out of that spot Did I ever tell you when I first got my Ford Explorer that I could only rear park what yeah because like you did tell me that because the the car The car has such a big turn radius that I needed the guides to show me where I was going cuz I couldn't make it that's why our cars have gotten so big but too quickly and so we aren't able to adapt and yet we knew I actually really handy when I reverse part four months I got second worst driver on my team that's interesting because I would agree

Vanessa Van Arsdale  12:44  
I do whenever I run over so many car this thing is it is really not that bad of a driver Why do you run over let you constantly run over curbs constantly like just driving? I don't even think I think about it was like as short as what your reaction your reaction is really my favorite part about it because you'll be like

I really don't care.

It's also the same curves that I run over. That's our that's why our he hired he voted me second worse parents number one. Oh man, Karen has one of those

Subarus and

that's a more narrow vehicle isn't it was a super ride but she got voted the worst driver because it's like, constantly like

Warning Warning.

Aly Klidies  13:30  
Like warning or like too close to like over the line. Not far enough. Too fast, too slow. I won't say sometimes the cars I feel like I've gotten too smart to where now I'm insulted. Because, like, I haven't Yeah, I have a Nissan Armada. Now we just traded it in like I think it's a boat. It's a boat. But it's awesome. It's like a tank. Yeah, um, but we got it because we needed to pull a travel trailer camper. And believe it or not, the Nissan Armada is has one of the highest towing capacities of any like third row SUV. So it can tow like 8500 pounds. How many horses ism is that a lot. I think it's at least a few. That's all the horses you need to to go. But anyway, my Nissan Armada is constantly yelling at me. Um, it has this special feature where it's like if you didn't use your turn signal. Yes. Karen has to change lanes.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  14:36  
People don't appreciate that in their ear.

Spit cards not helping with that. Yeah, the thing of it is it

Aly Klidies  14:44  
it really is fine for me because I just have learned to tune it out much like many things in my life. But when I'm driving with someone else, they always seem very alarmed. That's how it is driving with care. Yeah, they're very alarmed. They're like, What? What was that noise? And I'm like, I don't know.

It's fine. It's just I didn't put my blinker on.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  15:03  
Art says that I'm a terrible driver because I consistently run over the same curbs. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like should you be learning a lesson? Right? He's like, you've been to this restaurant every day for lunch for the past, like nine years and every single time we go, you run over the curb. Mm hmm. I did have a slight wrong mental map. I did have a sticker on my minivan, which was really cool. It said. It said I used to be cool. I was on there. And I know Vanessa, that's like on your wish list actually. Yeah, right. Yeah. Last week on fun story. Max, my husband texted me and said, Hey, I'm going to buy a new truck this weekend. I need a bigger one. And I said, No. And then he said, should we almost see if I can even get it? I'm gonna try to pull it up verbatim. But he's I said, Why do you need it? Why do you feel like you need a bigger truck? So I'll try to be you know, not just totally shut down. Just be like, let me hear you. Let me let me hear your case. Right. And you said that whenever your spouse is trying to convince you of something that's like, you're like, literally having like a salesman's pitch. Well, verbatim read the text message. Okay. All right, Max, February 12 10:57am. I think I want to trade in my truck this weekend. me for what a bigger one. Like what I was thinking of Silverado or F 150. They are so expensive. Or maybe a foreigner This is I'm keep going said I need to understand why you need a bigger truck.

People This was his response, because I suddenly felt the urge not really selling me on it.

Aly Klidies  16:41  
Which is funny because he It was a financial advisor and the first thing of his career and I feel like every client he would ever encounter he would say no, right? Do not trade your car in. That's bad. Like just right. Do live out the life of that loan. For the sake of your finance, right? He said it's a guy thing guys always want bigger trucks. So if you're a dude, listening to this podcast, like please comment is that a dude thing that you just like? Like, oh, we just want new shoes, maybe? And also, what is considered like some of the coolest trucks? Yeah, the Raptor i think is a new Yeah. I wish I remembered off the top my head what my neighbor's truck has. But I'm Austin if you're listening. Hey, but his truck is one of the nicest truck I like drive pass. I'm like, it's so nice. And then it also never seems to be dirty. Like Yeah, on camera is never dirty. I don't understand. Like even we go through these pollen seasons here in Florida right now and notice that truck I think like Austin, he said he parks outside. He parks outside. It's not even in the garage and it's that clean. His grass is amazing. It's impressive. Oh my god, the grass made me tear darted about Zoysia grass, because Have you ever had grass envy? I think that's how you know that you've made it into adulthood. When your neighbor installed new grass and we have like this St. Augustine grass terrible. It's not good. It's like really rough. It's not good on your feet doesn't feel good. doesn't look that great? Then Then Zoysia grass came along. And it reminds me more of the grass that we grew up with or in the Midwest. It's soft and plush. And I don't know what kind of he's doing a lot to it. It was gonna say chloroform, but I don't think that's the right word chlorophyll. What makes a plant green? I don't remember. But anyway, isn't sure when we kill somebody? No, it's like you just knock people out I think no. But anyway, point is Scott a lot.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  18:41  
Anyway, if I'm on this podcast by myself next week.

Aly Klidies  18:45  
Let me know what happened. It would be me. I would be here you wouldn't be here. Oh, I was thinking you're in jail because you could

Vanessa Van Arsdale  18:55  
die. I just like killed Brian.

Aly Klidies  18:59  
Why would I Why would I kill myself off? No. I love that big lug He's my gravy train too. I gotta keep keep him on. He's awesome. Yeah, we need to have you Brian. No. So anyway, the end of this saga with the truck is Max responded a little bit while there he goes. Okay, maybe this summer.

No, fans are still revisited then. Yeah. Is it kind of like when the kids ask you something and you're like, me, maybe I'll think about it. And then the kids are like that means no. Yeah. What are some good mom like? The answers common phrases? Yeah, I'd be like, ah,

maybe like Know what? Oh, here she comes. Oh, what what am I doing Alfredo. Here she comes. What else do I say?

Aubrey Klidies  19:47  
You say oh, we're gonna get some we're gonna get workers same time for dinner. And then you know what you do? You go out and get Mojo's.

Aly Klidies  19:57  
Okay, I don't really think that's applicable. But

She apparently is still really holding a grudge against me that I said we were eating dinner at home and then I ordered myself a doordash of Mojo's barbecue. Wait, wait, you didn't get any for the other family? Yeah, first off, everyone else had eaten. Except Oh my god, this is great.

I just like they had eaten in their life. Or they had eaten dinner that they had eaten dinner she had already eaten and I forget what she had that had cocoa pebbles.

That was your choice. No, you didn't know you didn't. You had corndogs

you ordered yourself. Yeah. Because I was like it was getting I mean, look, I mean, you weren't hard. Hear me out. Hear me out. It was getting later. It was like 715. And I was like, I still haven't eaten.

I asked Brian. I just feel like you're not making a good well, I really feel it right now. But the point is, I wanted it there and a story period.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  21:05  
I want to make a story. Do you ever pull that like cuz this is supposed to be like a working moms podcast, but like, sometimes I feel like I do pull that shenanigans where I'm like, work. I can do what I want.

What do you mean? I don't know. Like, if I want order images for myself. Oh, I worked eight hours today. I'm wondering

Aly Klidies  21:26  
that did not have any money in this family. Honey, you didn't contribute financially. Financially? I would. Okay, all right. Go sit back down. Yeah, close. Please. Look at

what is on your shirt. Your beautiful shiny shirt says Be kind Be kind. That's a beautiful shiny, sir. Oh, you know what I did? That was kind today. It was an impulse purchase on Facebook marketplace, which can be a dangerous, dangerous area because things just look great on there. But it's this little sticker and it has a little mail truck and a couple of little hearts. And it says thank you and you put it and you put it on the inside of your mailbox. Oh, I love it so that when the mail person opens it it says thank you and they feel appreciated. Oh, I love it. I thought it was fun. I mean, it can be like a nice surprise. And then it's like a daily reminder. But somebody appreciates them over Kosta down. Oh, she's looking at herself in the webcam.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  22:19  
Go sit down over. Goodbye. See the temporary okay.

Aly Klidies  22:24  
Anyway, we'll be right back.

We're back.

Notice we had a little talking to with between. She was no longer here. She was a little bit fame hungry. I think she was literally like shopping you. Yeah, I was like talking Oprah What's happening? Yeah, she's very angry though that she got kicked out. And she's also apparently still holding a severe grudge about the Mojo's take out. But when did that happen? Like Wednesday, Tuesday or Wednesday? It's Friday.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  22:56  
She's still thinking about it.

One time that happened with Melissa and oh, we had to bring the lights on. One day she comes in in this one. We're still in the office. This was so long. Those may have been like seven years ago. And she loves hibachi and her daughter loves hibachi but she doesn't want buy hibachi for our daughter cuz it's so expensive. So she and her husband ordered it after Mackenzie went to sleep or something. But Mackenzie found the box.

She picked it out of the garbage. Yes. I was like what is your order have bought you alive? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god, it was the ultimate right? inside. That's when you put the boxes in the trunk of your car and you throw them away at work.

Aly Klidies  23:44  
This is a funny story. I have a funny story about trash and finding things in the trash. I don't know if this will be appropriate or not. But are you going with a stuffed bear?

No, I don't know what story that is. But anyway, the point is, I love you, Brady. No, no, no. So listen, when I was when I was 18, my friend and if you're any of my high school friends back from Coral Springs, Florida. Hey, girls. Hey, Well, anyways, when I was 18 my friends had a surprise birthday party for me. And by that I mean my parents were out of town. They hired a male stripper. Oh, no. Oh, I do remember my and my two friends. Like pretended that they were taking me out to dinner but left like the back door unlocked. Oh, that's funny. And because of this Keep in mind this is like seniors in high school 18 year olds, and then then is like and then and then and this is in the 90s and let my other friends into the house. And so we get back from dinner and there's this whole you know, like entourage of people I wasn't that crazy was maybe like eight friends total. And all of a sudden like the doorbell rings and it's like this pizza delivery guy and it's like hey, I've got a hot delivery for you.

Because it's like

But anyway, I thought I had really masterminded this whole thing. I didn't know about any of advance but then I'm like, how do I clean all this up? Well, he had left his like business card.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  25:18  
strippers have business cards. No, they do not.

Aly Klidies  25:23  
Yeah, Guess how they get their next job? And so my if somebody was like, would you ask a friend for like if they know a good stripper? Or would you Google it? Well

you got

Google and Siri up to you got to know that stripper had to know good stripper. They had to be labeled like a stripper. I mean, maybe the business card had like a percentage off or something. I don't know. But the point is that my parents found it in the trash. But yes, I got into major big trouble. So always be careful with that trash. Never know. That's a good one. Yeah. Never never know. Another good story about the trash, which is our second trash episode. But it's just a funny story. Yeah, is the bear. Just tell the story because I don't even really remember this. Well, at work. We had moved to a temporary office, and we had named it the lodge. And so I thought to myself, Oh my gosh, outside my cube, I need a bear rug. Because that's very lodgy. And I thought, well, by that you mean like, keep in mind, this is all false materials. Nothing genuinely animal related. But I'm like, where it has a head of a bear. Right? And right.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  26:39  
And so I was like, Okay, I can't get a real bear rug. So I'm going to find a teddy bear. I'm going to cut it up and I'll put it in front of my cube. And that was like rant about the race. Yeah, she was just going to take a teddy bear. Right, rip it open, take the stuffing out, like cut out half of it. So it could look like a teddy bear rug right.

Aly Klidies  26:55  
Now, first of all, this is when you were living with us. So Vanessa lived with us for like four more years, something like that for five years. And I don't want to go buy a new I didn't want to go buy a new teddy bear. No, she was like, how can I cost save on this idea? I know. I'll go to Brady's closet.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  27:13  
My oldest boy did. I was like, there's gotta be a bear in here somewhere. I found the perfect teddy bear. Classic teddy bear. Brown for nice and big. Whoo.

So one problem, Max is with me. And so we're like, yes, this is the best teddy bear. For my teddy bear rug in the lodge. Oh, we had also decorated it like a lodge. We've decorated our office like Lodge. And so I thought it was gonna be so funny. So when we cut the bear open and we're thrown out the stuffing, throwing stuffing and all sudden the trash goes

I know what it said it said grandma.

Was my mother in law's boys. right cuz she had custom made this bear on a little voice recording box and then stuffed it inside. Yeah, she has a very unique Wisconsin accent. Yeah, I knew was her so the minute grandma lost.

And I was

funny. She didn't ask me if she could have the bear. She just right. I just stood there. And then she felt to be fair, it was in the bottom of like, doesn't matter. It was very buried doesn't that was not loads of matter. But point is now I got to explain to grandma or grandpa. Where that teddy bear went. Yeah, and I'm so relieved she's ever asked me about that teddy bear. Oh my god. I forgot about that story. Right and then so then Max and I like the true people we are we just we heard the voice and we're like, oh my god. But by that point the bear is destroyed. Yeah, you were in too deep. ruined. So we just kept going. I put the bear rug on my cube. It was a share. Could you give me the vocal recording?

Aly Klidies  29:00  
Okay, and I did confess to it later after? I guess she didn't look bad. I think I handled it pretty well. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I think so. By the way, people still talk about that teddy bear rug and how funny it was. Oh, that's good. You do have the best ideas. I especially remember if you have any children ask them to leave the room now. But um, during the holiday season, we would do the elf on the shelf. Oh, yeah. together. And I swear it was never more fun. Then when we would hide the else for each for each other. And think of these like elaborate vignettes. Talk about the one where he was going on vacation. I don't remember. Oh my gosh, he had like sunscreen everything and like little tiny elf sunglasses and everything. Oh, it's so cute. And there was another one I did later that the elf had like I set up an iPad in the background and had like a crackling fire and had a little trouble.

Tiny guitar was like an ornament guitar. And so he had the guitar strap on. He was playing guitar. And it was like acoustic Christmas music playing. And

I had a little like glasses case like right like one of those hardshell glasses case. And it had I had I put a little sign on it that said tips. God bless

you playing an acoustic guitar. And I put him through a couple points in there my

spirit of giving going about the Christmas off this year. I tell that story. No, I gave up completely. I think he did nothing exciting this year. Okay, so I didn't have a christmas elf because I didn't want to do it. And a lot of commitment is so violent, like midway through the Christmas, like maybe like December 15. She's like, Mom, why don't we have a christmas elf? And

Vanessa Van Arsdale  30:56  
what came out of my mouth was because I don't want you to get used to people surveilling you surveilling you.

Aly Klidies  31:05  
Like he's a spy.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  31:10  
It was like, so concerned. So I was like you already have and I kept going, of course, I was like, because we already have Alexa. She already listens to us. And we don't need a third thing. So I don't want you growing up thinking that this is totally normal. Okay. And she just was like, What is magical?

I did, I went and

did it. I do think one of the best things I did with the elf is I never did it every day. Because too much. There's too much. I can barely do it every day. I don't know how they like I really admire that amount of planning, if that's you. Teach me Your ways, please. So we've always done it, though, where it's random amount of days, like it could be like, two days, three days, whatever, it does end up being a little bit more of a surprise when he moves and a little bit less of expectation, but more so I just need time to prep. I need time because if I'm going to do these elaborate setups, like I gotta go. I know moms that have gotten out of bed to go move that oh my gosh, my friend, Miranda and Carrie are maybe the best elf vignette people I've ever seen in my life. This past year, they had an entire elfin battle. They have three L's what that they die. I don't know they have a whole posse. It's like some for the boys and one for their daughter. And I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember. I don't remember the exact story. Maybe it's for Ellen's table. It comes with a book and the book does not talk about how it was like an elf, you know, that descended upon your house.

But they set it up where they had this whole war. And they had like, Oh, yeah, boy, I do remember that. One. But Carrie had made an entire background story of this. This was the Battle of the elves and unicorns, and it was next level type stuff. Did he get it on Pinterest? I don't know. But Wow. My listener rising up I have an update. Okay, so Lori and Maya FaceTime Laurie. Laurie mores. My mother in law. My as my sister in law. They FaceTime me this week, I just thought was a regular FaceTime. It was the best FaceTime in my life because Laurie Maya has two boys and she doesn't want anymore. And so Laurie had found all of Maya's old Barbie stuff. Oh.

Aly Klidies  33:32  
It was Barbie stuff that I owned as a kid. Oh, two I was like, Oh my god, like finding a time capsule? Yes. And the world of toy. I was so excited. I was like, Yes, please mail that to me. It's a giant box. Allison is huge. And I can't wait. I'm gonna play with it. I probably get into a fight with violet. I don't want to stick out. I don't want to scare you. But I think you need to prepare yourself that your children might not like those vintage Barbie items because I'm just gonna play with them. Okay for me, okay, because target even has like this vintage toy section and my heart like almost explodes out of my chest. When I see like strawberry shortcake sitting there are the Pound Puppies and I'll pick them up.

shortcake smeller she she smells like strawberries. It's awesome. And they're literally just like

she's making like a weird face. Where where's the Brian's world? Oh my god. Wait, no answer. I love the toys. Where are those? And I'm like, you guys don't understand. Those toys are toys from our timeframe. So good. I think it's because they have a lack of marketing. They're not marketed now. So the desire is and they need to get those toys on YouTube. Yes, you know, get those YouTube commercials going then the kids go crazy for it. I'm just excited to play with the Barbies. Yeah. Oh my goodness. I told Laura I said oh my god, I'm gonna be so unproductive when those come Yeah.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  35:00  
Wow, like all it's just all work. It's gonna stop. I just want to come over I kind of know. You do kind of want to come over stuff out. Yeah. And I kind of kept inside. Yep. mildew free mildew free hair. Maya somehow kept a Barbie's hair all perfect. Oh great. That did not happen with mine. I constantly ended up with like, no clothes on and like, why and like time we are here. I think it's because I would get frustrated trying to put the clothes back on. Yeah, you know, which is the same reason nowadays I like to wear stretchy pants.

Aly Klidies  35:33  
jeans on, you know, stressful sometimes. So I just go to the yoga pants. Okay, you know, you know what I'm talking about? Okay. But I think that this weekend, we're going to try to interview your husband max right on the right to interview him or is he going to force himself on this show? He is, um, everyday multiple, Greenly, excited, eager, very eager ending that. And he'll be our first actual guest on the podcast. Yeah. And I keep telling him that he's not invited. Well, you keep saying that. But then you FaceTime me the other night. And Max brought his case to me. And he says he looked, he looked really sad. He really did look very clean. And he was like laying there in the bed, his arms. Not happening. He's just like reading a book like fun. I don't care anymore, whatever. But I could tell in his heart that he really wanted that he really wants to be on the podcast. And I'm like, yep, no, there's a lot. There's honestly a lot of topics that we could cover with Max. So I think this is going to be a good thing. And if you're listening right now, and you would like to be a guest on the podcast, and you think that you might have an interesting slash hilarious talk. Dr. Okay, I drop all my, my $1,000 ring. Okay, Vanessa. Oh, that was scary. Um, enginer she's a fidgeter. But um, if you think that you might have a topic that you'd like to be a guest and be interviewed with? Then let us know I Oh, I talked to Aubrey does. All starts here. And the owner of our gym Island all stars, which is an awesome gym here in the Fleming Island, Florida area. His name is Jonathan pole. And he was talking to me as I was going into the gym the other day, and he's like, been listening to the podcast.

Vanessa Van Arsdale  37:23  
That's so great. I said, john, I need to have you on the show to give the tales of being a gym owner and all that. So we got people and then your neighbor. Oh my god. Yeah. I can't wait to have Jeff on Jeff can't wait to have We love you, Jeff. Jeff Haller. So Jeff, I'm a nominee. He does a lot of I guess what you would normally consider like the stay at home mom type thing. Like he says that he's like a stay at home. Stay home. Like so stay at home dad. Essentially. I think his actual quote was when I have a playdate. I'm the one who asks if anyone has allergies.

thrilled. I love that, Jeff. I mean, he's a heart of gold. Jeff is a better parent than I am. Because I'm not even

Aly Klidies  38:11  
on. I'm like, Listen, I'm not Well, listen, if you got the allergy, don't eat it or ask me. Okay, I can't. I'm in a triage mode when I met that grocery store, and I'm just lucky to have remembered to bring a snack. Yeah, not not if anyone has an allergy to whatever it is. That I also want to bring my friend Kim it on because she lived in Europe for a while living in Europe. Yeah, so that would be fun. Oh, we should have Brian on sometime. He is a helicopter pilot. And so I think it'd be really fun to hear his stories in the helicopter pilot world.

Some of them are absolutely hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. All good times, all the times. But anyway, we just wanted to say thank you to everyone for tuning in. We hope that you enjoyed this episode. Make sure that you like, subscribe to us on wherever you normally watch podcasts, write a review, write a review. A Thank you know, don't forget about those hand or marginal thank you notes. I don't know that we'll get more than one review. What if our children don't do it? I just draw with my LinkedIn. If our children are unwilling to do it, then we will draw with our left hand and make it look like yeah, I'll do it. Yes. Close enough. Close enough

to that they don't have that on Fiverr make custom children

on Fiverr for hiring people to make custom childlike drawings. Not children making the drawings. That's a no no, no. Just adults that can draw like show like the fake Louis Vuitton bags. Yeah, kind of like that. Exactly. Like we could be onto something with that. But uh, anyway, we hope everybody has been having a great week, and we can't wait to talk to you on the next podcast. Thanks for listening, guys. Bye.

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