New Year…Same Noras: A Lot of Catching Up and A Little Bit on Resolutions

Join us for a lighthearted chat as we recount the delightful chaos of the holiday season, from the excitement of long-awaited gifts like the Dyson Airwrap to the strategic dismantling of festive decorations that magically transform our living spaces. We'll share our insights on juggling the joyful chaos when kids are home and the tricks to managing post-holiday routines. Expect a generous dose of humor as we dive into household habits and explore how small changes can lead to a more spacious and organized home. 

Get ready for a whirlwind of topics that range from the quirky Swedish fitness trend "fartlek" to the possibility of skinny jeans making a comeback by 2025. We share our thoughts on the unconventional "nesting parties" for parents-to-be while pondering our own New Year's resolutions and the quest for non-alcoholic wine options. Whether it's committing to Olipop or tackling more New York Times crosswords, discover how setting specific, measurable goals has shaped our lives in unexpected ways. Plus, hear how "Mindful January" can pave the way for positive life changes without the pressure of strict resolutions.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:07

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, welcome back, welcome back, happy New Year, yes, all of the things. Welcome back to you, to us, to our listeners, absolutely 2025.

Speaker 2 0:20

Yeah, just like our kids, we took a little break. We did. You were very gracious.

Speaker 1 0:25

I think I needed the break more than you, so thank you for being so generous, but is Christmas break really a break when you have kids at home? I was thinking about this.

Speaker 2 0:35

So I was like oh, I'm so excited for break and I was just very excited to get to the hotel we were staying in, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Yes, I remember you saying that, Because I was like and then I can just relax.

Speaker 1 0:48

Yeah, I need to rename Christmas break. Christmas shuffle Away from school.

Speaker 2 0:55

I don't know, but yeah, it is a break in some ways. There's no homework, there's no lunches to make, there's no uniforms to wash Like. There's definitely more like loosey-goosey elements to it. But ours was good, busy that's, you know, like all good things, but it was a lot, and then at the end, it's like clean everything up.

Speaker 1 1:17

Yes, it was a lot. I cleaned everything up the day after because I just wanted the stuff See, I think that's too soon For me.

Speaker 2 1:24

that's too soon For you. I know that's how you roll.

Speaker 1 1:27

Yeah, and Catherine Grace is my Christmas girl. Oh, she's well. She went, she had a trip and she was lucky enough to spend the week with my mom and dad in Scottsdale with her oldest brother, while the rest of us hung back here. It just kind of worked, kind of fell into their lap and it was a good fit. But while she was gone I thought this is the time.

Speaker 2 1:50

She doesn't have to see it coming down Because she wouldn't have to see it all be disassembled. Yeah, it is amazing to me, though, now that all my Christmas stuff is down, my house looks bigger. Yeah, it feels like when I was, like, oh, look at all the space we have here without a tree in here, right, and you have a real tree.

Speaker 1 2:08

No, no, it's fake. I forgot. You ordered that kind of on impulse.

Speaker 2 2:12

I was like I think we need a new tree, and it's beautiful. I really do like it.

Speaker 1 2:16

I do too.

Speaker 2 2:17

Because we saved the old one and we put it upstairs on our living room.

Speaker 1 2:19

Oh, that was a good idea.

Speaker 2 2:20

And we put all our ornaments from trips up there and the other places we've lived and all the schools my kids have gone to. That's the travel tree and when I take that tree is so sad looking where I'm like, oh I'm sorry, old tree, but at least we still use it.

Speaker 1 2:36

Oh no, that was a good idea to keep using her. Yeah, Keep her there, but when this airs it's mid-January.

Speaker 2 2:49

Holy smokes, it's mid-January, so, like Christmas, I just feel like it was a million years ago. It was. It does feel like a long time ago Because I also think when you come back, when the kids go back to school, it's like all systems go and I have an eighth grader again this year.

Speaker 1 2:58

I'm living your life from last year, another eighth grader.

Speaker 2 3:01

Not a son.

Speaker 1 3:02

You said I have an eighth grader again, so I just didn't want our listeners to think that Aiden was super senior, that eighth grade style.

Speaker 2 3:09

Yes, my second son is in eighth grade, so I'm appreciating how you felt last year, how knowing what's ahead of me. Because at our school there's so much Packed into a small amount of time and with the late Easter break it's going to be bonkers.

Speaker 1 3:30

Wait, I want to talk to you about something, switchita, please. Yeah, I don't know if we talked about this off air or in a previous show, but remember you told me you don't make your bed immediately after getting up, yeah, and so that kind of stuck with me and I looked into it. Yeah, and so that kind of stuck with me and I looked into it. Yeah, and that's the thing, is it?

Speaker 2 3:47

Yes, oh, because I just don't like that. It's like warm when you get out of it and then you're putting the covers back on.

Speaker 1 3:53

Okay, so making your bed 30 minutes to an hour after you wake up is the ideal time to make it, because it eliminates mites and germs getting trapped.

Speaker 2 4:05

Oh my gosh, I was right. Yes, look at me.

Speaker 1 4:09

I know You're such a scientist. Well, I think sometimes it could be seen as lazy, but it just grossed me out, and I've never thought about that because it's like I like to do it immediately. So have you been trying to wait? Yeah, and I've been waiting, yeah, okay, yeah, that's nice, I just wanted to let you know like you were on to something.

Speaker 2 4:30

Something else we talked about on air when we had our little mini episode, our little nightcap episode. Remember we were talking about my anniversary and copper being the traditional gift. Yes, and I said it was. Is the modern gift a Dyson Airwrap? Yes, my mother-in-law got me a Dyson Airwrap. She didn't hear it on the podcast, no, but she had just bought me one. What? Oh my God, it's so amazing, nora.

Speaker 1 4:55

Happy anniversary to you.

Speaker 2 4:57

It was a Christmas present.

Speaker 1 4:59

That's a real nice gift.

Speaker 2 5:00

I opened it like Rose opened her American Girl doll. She got from Santa. Because that's. I opened the paper and I was like no, no way.

Speaker 1 5:10

How did she know? Because everyone would want one of those yeah.

Speaker 2 5:13

She had talked to Al and Al had once asked me like what do you think of those Dyson things? And I was like the hairdryer is a meh, but the air wrap. I always look at it. I'm always like I can't spend that kind of money. Yes, so I must have been good this year. I was so excited. I opened the box right away and watched tutorials. Oh, you did, you did. It comes with seven attachments. It's so fun. I don't really understand totally how to use it yet, but I'm trying.

Speaker 1 5:40

Well, you're a good person because you will watch the videos.

Speaker 2 5:43

If you can set up a Zoom with Dyson and you'll get a person to teach you, you would do that. I will do that. I want to do it with my niece because she kind of wants to learn how to do it too. That was a great gift.

Speaker 1 5:54

I know Hooray for your mother-in-law because she doesn't have daughters.

Speaker 2 5:59

Right, but she's very on trend. She knows what's cool, she knows what's up, that is cool.

Speaker 1 6:05

Yeah, so that was like the best gift ever.

Speaker 2 6:09

And I told her I was like Pat, I talked about this as a joke on the podcast that I would like one. So oh my gosh. And then the boys are like, what is that You're like? But you know what? You don't have to share it. Rose was excited. How did you celebrate your anniversary? We had lunch, nice, at a restaurant.

Speaker 2 6:25

Yes as one does. It would be great if it was like we had lunch at my in-law's house Sandwiches for everybody, just me and Al and then we went back to his parents' house and just kind of hung out. And then his brother and sister-in-law came over and our nephew. We had dinner. He left and went out because he's in college, and then we were kind of just like making fun of ourselves for being tired at 930. And then there was a big thunder, lightning, storm in New York on New Year's Eve. Oh, my in-law's basement flooded. It did. They had like two inches of water. When did you discover? And then my father-in-law came downstairs and he's like I'm going to check on the basement. And then Al's brother went down and then we heard the shop vac. Oh, it was a mess. I was just glad we were there to help. Oh, yeah, like Beth was on the shop vac, I was like mopping water towards her. So oh, but then we made it till midnight. Oh well, there you go.

Speaker 1 7:25

What'd you do for new year's? We hung here, yeah, we were with our two younger ones who are home, and then a little bit later our neighbors came over to spread a little holiday cheer, which was nice and then they left just before midnight and john and katherine grace stayed up did they make?

Speaker 1 7:38

it, yep, and we heard this tradition that maybe you do, maybe you've heard of where you keep the door open, or you open the door on midnight and it lets out all the negativity from the previous year and lets in a fresh wave of energy for the new year. So we opened our door I didn't know that and then quickly shut it because it was freezing.

Speaker 2 7:59

That was chilly, did you? I don't know if maybe you had a beverage at midnight, or if you had oh, I had many beverages, had a little champagne or something, oh yeah. But I brought us a beverage to try. It's no alcohol, oh okay. Have you heard of Olipop? I've seen it, okay. So I brought an Olipop Cottage Co or vintage.

Speaker 1 8:17

Oh vintage.

Speaker 2 8:19

That's better. Although I brought us, it's fresh, but I kept seeing the ads for this and it's a probiotic soda. Yes, I've seen these. They're all over and I was very curious about it.

Speaker 2 8:32

They have a lot of flavors. It's used because it says it contains 3% juice. Does it have apple cider vinegar in it? Oh gosh, I don't know. Caffeine is from green tea, I think what you're not—oh, here's the ingredients. Caffeine is from green tea, I think what you're not. Oh, here's the ingredients Water, cassava root fiber. Chicory root. Jerusalem artichoke that's what it must have been. Is that what it was? Yeah, that's your favorite kind of artichokes, right? Nepal cactus I love it. Marshmallow root how do you say that? Flower Calendula?

Speaker 1 9:03

Yep.

Speaker 2 9:04

Oh, it's got kudzuri. Cassava root syrup, apple juice concentrate, lime juice, natural cola flavor.

Speaker 1 9:17

So no, we guys didn't have cider vinegar. Hold on, there's a few more.

Speaker 2 9:20

Nora, I said our name wrong Vanilla. Let's just try it. Cinnamon, cinnamon, cinnamon, cinnamon. So what you're not going to like about this, though, is it has 35 calories in a can. That's why I didn't.

Speaker 1 9:35

How much sugar is in it?

Speaker 2 9:37

Well, now I can't hold it upside down because I opened it. Two grams of sugar. Okay, let's go for it. Yeah, so we'll give it a shot. I was very curious because I was like Well, thanks for waiting for me. Oh yeah, Well, I have two cans, but I didn't think you'd want to drink a whole can.

Speaker 1 9:50

I don't think.

Speaker 2 9:51

Considering the calories in it. I know how you. But I've seen this in a myriad of flavors and they have a ton of flavors, but I should go with the cottage or vintage cola Cheers.

Speaker 1 10:13

Oh no. Why does everything we taste taste bad? This is missing the chemicals that I commonly crave. In a can it really tastes the Jerusalem artichoke. You know what it tastes like. It tastes like flat Diet Coke that's been watered down.

Speaker 2 10:29

It tastes like a leaf was left in a Diet Coke overnight and I'm already choked.

Speaker 1 10:38

It made a pop like it was going to have some giddy up. I was so, and it's falling flat.

Speaker 2 10:43

So hope. I can't believe we're taking another sip. I was so optimistic. It is a horrendous aftertaste.

Speaker 1 10:51

That's the ginger root.

Speaker 2 10:54

Cassava yeah, the calendula flower. Is this good for you? It is, it's? Well, I mean it's not.

Speaker 1 11:02

It supports digestive health.

Speaker 2 11:03

It's not like a salad, but it has probiotics in it. Okay, it's a new kind of soda High fiber, less sugar, delicious flavors they have a million flavors. So people must love it or people are lying to them. People are lying I just can't.

Speaker 1 11:23

It's the classic vintage cola flavor, you know and love.

Speaker 2 11:26

It's not.

Speaker 1 11:26

But doesn't everything taste more festive during the hot? There is no cinnamon, vanilla and caramel notes, mm-mm, enhanced with a hint of green tea, caffeine and the warmth of what Alpha? Where do you see that, ganagal? Oh, here we go. Galangal, galangal.

Speaker 2 11:43

That's right, sorry, galang. Do you see that Ganagle? Oh, here we go. Galangal, galangal root, that's right, sorry.

Speaker 1 11:48

Galangal.

Speaker 2 11:50

Alpha galangal root.

Speaker 1 11:51

It's a good thing that you don't sponsor us, no, because it really tastes like watered down flat Diet Coke.

Speaker 2 11:58

But with like, and you were like oh, is this Diet Coke? Or muddy water, Leaf water, leaf water, leaf water. It's the aftertaste. I get that aftertaste. Yeah, because at first I was like, oh, it's okay, and then I was like, nope, nope, it's not.

Speaker 1 12:14

Even the guy on the cut, even this animal is like ugh when you drink it. You're like ugh, but it's vegan-friendly, paleo-friendly, gluten-free. It's just not taste-friendly. Gosh, everything I bring tastes terrible. No, no, no. Gosh, everything I bring tastes terrible. No, no, no. Hey, I got to ask you one more thing before we hear from our sponsor. I have a couple things too. When you were overseas, did you ever hear of Neilyard Dairy? Yes, oh, yeah, shoot, they were part. They ate the cheese.

Speaker 2 12:41

Yes, they had the cheese heist, did we talk about this? No, but I've read all about it. Oh my God, all about it, but they fattened the cheese.

Speaker 1 12:48

Yes, $381,000 worth of cheese lifted.

Speaker 2 12:54

I know From these poor guys and I feel like I don't know if they were able to use it once they got it back.

Speaker 1 13:00

I feel like it's passed through. There was 950 wheels of cheese.

Speaker 2 13:05

And they were saying, in at least the article I read, that cheese is not like wine, where it's protected, where you'll be like champagne is only from champagne. You can call it cheddar, no matter where it's from, but there is cheddar that's from like cheddar England, I believe.

Speaker 1 13:20

And is that the cloth-bound cheddar that was stolen?

Speaker 2 13:25

Yeah, Heisted Whatever Cheese thieves. It reminded me of Mousetrap, the board game. That's a lot of that's a lot of jeez. They need a probiotic.

Speaker 1 13:39

Oh my gosh.

Fitness Trends and Baby Showers

Speaker 2 13:40

That reminds me when you're. You're a wonderful person on keeping in shape and exercising, but do you ever fartlek?

Speaker 1 13:51

Oh, that's a running term. Yeah, do you fartlek Sometimes If I'm training for something? Yeah, this was in the Washington Post. Oh, yeah, that's a big part of speed. That's a big part of training when you're doing speed play in.

Speaker 2 14:03

Swedish and it's an effective way to add intensity to activities. But I am such a junior high student I was like teehee fart lick.

Speaker 1 14:14

But it sounded very, I will say, usually I will just be like I'm doing speed work today.

Speaker 2 14:18

No, you're not, I really killed it on the fart lick. I know you can incorporate it into all your training, like if you're walking your dog, if you're on your bike or whatever. Set little goals for yourself Like what, I'm gonna run to that corner as fast as I can, or I'm gonna ride my bike till the end of the song as fast as I can, or whatever.

Speaker 1 14:35

But I just got um. I love that you knew my dairy song, my dairy story. Did I ruin it?

Speaker 2 14:41

no, and that I knew your fart like okay, so here's who will go for three. Okay, have you heard the new trend in baby showers? I hate baby showers, I know. Um, no, you're going to die, I know I probably won't. Instead of gifts, new expectant parents want people to come and help them get ready for their baby. No, to put furniture together. Are you kidding me Wash diapers wash like clean up their house and get ready for their baby.

Speaker 2 15:10

It's called a handyman and a cleaning lady, if you want those things, well, that's called. If you're going to have the baby, get your own stuff together.

Speaker 1 15:17

Yeah, get your husband a bill that. Or pay that $100 fee to have him put it together. Pottery barn please drop it off. Isn't that crazy? Yes, I'm RSVPing. No to all of those things. I'm not.

Speaker 2 15:27

I already did that for my own kids. I washed all those baby clothes. I don't want to wash your stuff.

Speaker 1 15:31

Wash your own clothes.

Speaker 2 15:37

Right, yeah, I don't even have a working dryer right now, like, oh my gosh, you don't have a dryer, you need to have to go to someone else's party. A nesting party, a nesting party.

Speaker 1 15:43

Plus, I like to fold things my own way.

Speaker 2 15:46

Oh same, I would not like people folding my clothes for me.

Speaker 1 15:49

Is this in lieu of or in addition to? I think it's in lieu of.

Speaker 2 15:54

They're like it's just like building your neighbor's barn, like having like a barn. Because a lot of my neighbors ask me to help them with their barn People like, who were pioneers, needed people to help them with their barn raising, because it was literally 20 people pulling up a frame for a barn. These are baby clothes. You don't need help. No Folding and washing your baby clothes. You're pregnant. You have time to sit there and fold these, yes, then you know what your baby has. Oh, that's a bad idea.

Speaker 1 16:24

But people are doing this.

Speaker 2 16:27

Yes, under consumption core is a trend. Yes, under consumption core is a trend. Romanticizes buying and using only what you need. No, that's just being responsible. That's not the core.

Speaker 1 16:40

I'll tell you something else. You know another trend that's coming back. Oh, what For 2025,? They say it's a slow burn. Return, okay, skinny jeans. Oh, I'm so happy for you, I said, if you haven't already gotten rid of them you're in luck.

Speaker 2 16:58

Did you save them?

Speaker 1 16:59

Yes, it's the only thing I've ever saved.

Speaker 2 17:02

I'm proud of you, I'm proud of me, because I bet you, every time you go in your closet, you want to get rid of them.

Speaker 1 17:07

I know I do, because I what was that word that you just used? Oh um minimal core or uh under consumption yeah, I'm a total under consumptionator but consumptionist um. But yeah, I'm super excited about that and it's a legit source it was from okay.

Speaker 2 17:26

And when I think trends and fashion, no, I'm sure they're going to them for all your latest trending news.

Speaker 1 17:41

We expected to see a very slow burn return in 2025. Yeah, okay, we're definitely in the early signal testing territory here, but this season skinny jeans increased on the spring and summer 2025 catwalk for the first time in years.

Speaker 2 17:58

I do miss skinny jeans in the winter because I don't like when my cuffs get all sludgy, I know, and then I don't. I'm not worried about being like cool kid, I'll like roll them up so that I and then I'll try to remember to roll them down when I get inside. So what do you think? I'm so happy for you and I'm so happy for my sister-in-law because she uses skinny jeans too. Okay, great, I've kind of been okay with these. I like the wide leg jeans. But my mother-in-law told me that's because I'm tall, that's why I like it. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 18:32

Well, before we launch into our topic for today, should we check in with our sponsor.

Speaker 2 18:42

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Speaker 1 18:47

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Speaker 2 18:54

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Speaker 1 19:01

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Speaker 2 19:27

That sounds so refreshing and already makes me feel warm inside.

Speaker 1 19:32

I'm here for you, nora. Thanks, nora, and now back to the show.

Speaker 2 19:37

So, even though kind of our topic today is just catching up and getting back in the swing of things we're talking about resolutions A declaration of change. How did you do on your 2024 resolutions? Well, split.

Speaker 1 19:52

Okay, because I resolved to spend more time updating my blog, something that I did for years and years mindlessly, because I had a lot of time in the evenings that I no longer have and I did not do great on that, okay, so I resolved to do it again, this year. Okay, great, but I did a great job incorporating strength into my workouts. Well done, so that was kind of a win. So I'm going to kind of build on that this year and incorporate at least three strength workouts, core related.

Speaker 2 20:25

Yeah, that's one of the things I read that if you make specific goals instead of just saying like I'm going to drink more Olipop, you'd be like I'm going to have two Olipops a week, so then you have like a specific so good on you for a measurable goal.

Speaker 2 20:42

How about you? I'm split as well, because I wanted to do Monday, tuesday, wednesday, new York Times crossword puzzles every week for the whole year. Okay, and I did it. You did. Yes, that takes a while, doesn't it? Well, they take me about it, tells you how long it takes. It takes me about 10 to 15 minutes to do it, because you're good enough. Well, I've gotten better, I think, because now I like speak crossword puzzle.

Speaker 1 21:08

I don't have enough knowledge to complete a crossword puzzle. I don't think that's true.

Speaker 2 21:17

I'm going to try it this week. Do start with the minis. Al does the minis. They're like nine by nine, nine by nine, what? Like nine by nine squares. Like it's short answers, like four or five letter words. Oh okay, al does the minis. So I do the mini every day and then I do the Monday, tuesday, wednesday crossword puzzle.

Speaker 1 21:31

And then, if you complete it on Monday, do you get the answers on Tuesday?

Speaker 2 21:34

Well, it tells you right away Because I do it on my phone, so it will tell me as soon as I'm done. Oh, that's nice that I've gotten it all right. Can you click like hint, yes, you can. Like, you can do check Like they get progressively harder. So Monday's the easiest, tuesday and then Wednesday, and I haven't done it. I try to do the Thursday ones, but I think it's mental at this point where I'm like it's too hard, I can't do it.

Speaker 2 22:00

So I should try to do it, but it was nice because you can go look in the archive and you see all the. What are those stars? The yellow one, the star is completed, yellow is. I didn't need any hints, so I just did it all with my own brain. You have a good brain. My brain got better as I went on. Oh, it did. What was the?

Speaker 1 22:21

other one.

Speaker 2 22:21

The other one was to exercise more regularly and I was doing okay until about October.

Speaker 1 22:29

Oh well, you know what that's a win. You know why? Because the second Friday of January in this year, it's January 17th is called Quitter's Friday. 23% of people ditch their resolution or give up on their resolution by the 17th. Yeah, Quitter's Friday, Quitter's.

Speaker 2 22:48

Friday quitter's friday, quitter's friday, I know. So I just I think I need to pick specific dates. Like I will exercise tuesday, thursday, saturday, sunday, like, because now I, especially with the musical coming up, I often will just sit down and like, do stuff for the musical and then be like I don't know, I'm running out of time or you could.

Speaker 1 23:10

Could pick an amount right. That would be equally as measurable. Like I will exercise three times this week. Oh, there you go. I don't know.

Speaker 2 23:17

So I got to figure it out. Would that be?

Speaker 1 23:18

measurable. What about? Where are you with dry January?

Speaker 2 23:22

I was talking to someone, I was telling them how you did damp January, and they really liked that idea. So I'm trying to do no drinks on school nights.

Speaker 1 23:32

Okay, I'm doing Mindful. January, change the name this year.

Speaker 2 23:41

Instead of Damn, I liked Damn.

Speaker 1 23:43

Yeah, mindful January, okay. So what does that entail? Being more mindful.

Speaker 2 23:45

Okay, I was going to do it. If you were like I'm only going to have beer instead of like tequila, like no shots.

Speaker 1 23:52

No shots on Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 23:54

No shots on Tuesdays, okay.

Speaker 1 23:55

I'm just going to be more mindful. I like the idea of not during the school week, but sometimes you get invites or sometimes we're out, right.

Speaker 2 24:05

Al and I are going out to dinner tonight and where we're going it's half price wine night and I was already thinking like, oh, this is a gift card Great.

Speaker 2 24:15

I love it. I would also and I don't know if this is a resolution, but something I would like to do in the new year is find a non-alcoholic wine. I like Wait, me too, and Rebecca was talking to us. Remember Rebecca with the bracelets? Yes, she was talking about this, and I really, because I like wine. It just makes me feel sick and gives me a headache.

Speaker 1 24:37

I would love to try this, okay, okay, and we could try that in the morning, oh gosh, oh right, right, while we're recording, so let's do it.

Speaker 2 24:46

I've been doing these HelloFresh boxes and I find that when I cook I like to have a little glass of wine, but then if I get stressed I find I drink too much wine.

Speaker 1 24:58

It's not good. I can't finish the recipe so.

Speaker 2 25:01

I need to find a nice alcohol-free wine that I can have with dinner.

Speaker 1 25:06

Let's do it Okay great, Okay great, Because I have a good amount of alcohol share that we both like.

Speaker 2 25:10

Yes, I do like that, but I find when I'm cooking I'd rather have a glass of wine.

Speaker 1 25:15

Okay, let's find one. All right, let's do it. I was thinking about my resolutions of years past and some of my favorites I've really stuck with, like reading You're an amazing reader, thank you.

Speaker 1 25:27

Well, you're a dedicated and consistent reader. I am a consistent reader and for a while I kind of gave myself a hard time because I mostly read like rom-coms. But I think reading is reading, reading is reading. Yeah, and I even had the book box built. Yeah, well, I built, you built the book box, constructed the book box, book box, and I wondered if you had any resolutions that were really game changers for you any resolutions that were really game changers for you.

Speaker 2 25:54

Hmm, yeah, I mean, I really do enjoy the crossword puzzles, but nothing that springs to mind. No, I wish I did. Sorry.

Speaker 1 26:01

That's kind of do your kids make resolutions?

Speaker 2 26:04

When we were in New York for Christmas break, my mother-in-law had everybody go around and say their resolutions. Did you know that was coming? No, oh. So the kids. I was proud of them. They all thought of something Aiden wants to exercise more. And then a few of my kids were like I want to remember to brush my teeth every day and I died a little bit inside. I was like I thought we were.

Speaker 1 26:29

That's the number one lie kids tell their parents.

Speaker 2 26:32

Oh well, there we go, so so far they've been doing a good job with it. Hopefully they're not quitting on Friday. Then the young ones, obviously, but I was really grossed out. No, I think that's normal, but the top resolutions that I saw for people for 2025 were spending more time with friends and family, lose weight, eat healthier and save more money. That sounds about perfect. I would like to go on more trips.

Speaker 1 27:01

I bet you would. To that I will say you, like us, have four, four children all in full-time school. So I don't think, and if your kids are in activities, it's not happening lens. Oh, but you just put sunglasses on, I'm ready to drop a bat, although kevin's doing travel baseball.

Speaker 2 27:26

Does that mean, oh, we save some glasses? So i'll'll be traveling to Wisconsin and to. Maybe I need to be more specific.

Speaker 1 27:33

Talk to Ryan about travel sports. He went to some fabulous places.

Speaker 2 27:37

I'm going to St Louis to see my Dayton friends in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 27:40

Oh you are, I'm super excited. I might be going to play in a soccer.

Speaker 2 27:45

Oh, I think we'll see her. Well, that's nice, that's a fun trip. It's not a resolution because I really can't control it, because I said that to Al. I'm a fun trip. It's not a resolution because I really can't control it, because I said that to al. I'm like we used to travel all the time. He's like yeah, we used to not have kids. Yeah, I feel like there are people who do travel with they don't have four kids.

Speaker 1 28:00

That is true also, I feel like three of my four kids are in fairly competitive teams. And then my fourth is on off season, but I feel like that's when the majority of the rowing, yeah like the grind of, yeah the working out so he works out yeah, it's tricky, so I don't know anywho.

Speaker 1 28:25

Um, should we launch into highs and lows? Let's do it. What's your low? My low is is my ding, ding, ding. I'm drying. So I put on my Mr Fix-It hat and when our dryer started smelling like it was on fire, I was like leave it to me. I got this, except Ryan wasn't home to stop me.

Speaker 2 28:45

You took out the manual. Did you watch a YouTube video? No, you were just like let me get my hands dirty.

Speaker 1 28:51

I was just like a dryer. Ninja, all of a sudden video. No, you're just like, let me get my hands dirty.

Speaker 2 28:52

I was just like a dryer ninja, all of a sudden, were you looking for something that was on? What were you looking for?

Speaker 1 28:57

I still don't know what I'm looking for. I still haven't found, um, I don't know. I, like I something loose, disconnected it. Yeah, I disconnected it from the wall. I took some tubes out. I got a philips screwdriver. Oh okay, I took like a hose apart. I took a vent apart and I thought I fixed it.

Speaker 2 29:17

Okay.

Speaker 1 29:17

And then, when I put everything back together, I ran a load in the dryer that I think worked and then all of a sudden it had no heat. Oh boy.

Speaker 2 29:27

So it doesn't. It's not burning anymore. No, because there's no heat. There's no heat Shoot and you're having a real hard time finding a repair person I know right. So that's my loss, stinky, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 29:41

And soggy. It's a good thing you have a clothesline. Why?

Speaker 2 29:50

It's 20 degrees out. That's something my grandma said to me once when I was pregnant with Aiden, my first child. I was like, Grandma, what was the hardest thing about having babies? And she's like, oh, when the diapers would freeze on the clothesline. And I was like, I'm sorry, what? Because I was like, oh yeah, when my uncle was born there was no dryer or disposable diapers. So she's like we would have to take them off the clothesline and iron them so that they To warm them up, To like warm them up and to get them soft again, so they wouldn't be like cold and frozen for your baby.

Speaker 1 30:20

Oh my God, they were like ice packs. Great for like you know shiners Injuries, but it was one of those things like oh my.

Speaker 2 30:30

God, I'm so spoiled Like I should never complain about raising a baby. My low, and this is going to be silly. I don't like when people take their Christmas lights down from outside their house because it makes me sad. I had that conversation with my kids in the car yesterday. Take down your like decorations like the Santas and the inflatables, but I like when the lights are out.

Speaker 1 30:51

I said to the kids I'm like what if people just always had Christmas lights on Until daylight savings?

Speaker 2 30:56

time comes back. Oh, okay, because it's so dark in our neighborhood it's so dark so early and the lights make me so happy. Same, I don't even care if they're sloppy, I just like the. I can do without all the inflatable stuff. Yeah get rid of all the extra Get rid of, like the Christmas stuff.

Speaker 1 31:14

Are your lights on?

Speaker 2 31:15

We never really put lights on. We only had two planters that are lit up. I said Al is in charge of the outside decorations and I'm in charge of inside. Okay, so yeah, I hear you, but my highest. We had an awesome time in New York and I have to say, the Tenement Museum in Ellis.

Speaker 1 31:33

Island. Oh my gosh, I didn't even talk to you about that Big hit with the children.

Speaker 2 31:37

They were. I was so proud of them, my nieces and my kids. They had the audio guides. Plugging in all the numbers, listening to all the stories, looking at all the stuff, I was like, oh my God, I'm so proud. And they were very cute at the tenement museum.

Speaker 1 31:58

They used a lot of good questions. They did, yeah, a lot of good questions and they loved it. But it's just nice to be back and, like I know, back in the groove, settled in my house and decoration free. Yeah, yeah. So that's nice. How about you? Yeah, I don't know. I got a new planner and I'm real excited for a fresh, clean slate.

Speaker 2 32:09

That's nice. My calendar's coming soon, that is exciting.

Speaker 1 32:12

So in my other house I got to spend time with my kids all over break. That's nice and I know two of them were gone for part of it, but it was just nice to just hang yeah and catch up because they're funny and they make me happy.

Speaker 2 32:24

I mean, they're a little wacko too, but like mostly and you have the time to spend with them and like hear what they have to say. It's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 32:32

Oh my God, it's so funny. John asked me today where his sweatshirt for school was, because it wasn't in his clothes container. Oh, I was like your clothes container. He's like yeah, my uniform container. Like your drawer. He's like yeah.

Speaker 2 32:46

Is it like Star Wars up there?

Speaker 1 32:48

It's like your container, my uniform container, my uniform container doesn't have any sweatshirts in it.

Speaker 2 32:57

Anyways, it was like order my sweatshirts wet. I'm sad, just think they're going back to school.

Speaker 1 33:04

No, we need to clothesline in an iron, All right we'll continue on the dryer.

Speaker 2 33:10

I hope that's fixed by next week.

Speaker 1 33:11

All right. Well, thanks for tuning in and tell a friend and we'll see you next week. Bye, bye.