Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: A Day in the Life
What does a day in the life of a Cajun Mama really look like? Join us as we share our laid-back journey through content creation, our relaxed approach against the fast-paced trends on social media. From the laughter-filled hours spent crafting our "Home Bayou Self" parody to the playful process behind each video, we open up about the joy and creativity that fuel our work. Whether you're a fellow creator or just curious about the behind-the-scenes magic, you'll find our reflections both insightful and entertaining.
Our mornings kick off with coffee, devotionals, and the juggling act of balancing work and friendship. We dive into the rituals that set the tone for our day, from the calming drip of a percolator to the inspiration found in scriptures. As we tackle the demands of content creation, homeschooling, and managing Cajun Mama's merch, we cherish the moments that allow us to simply enjoy each other's company. It's in these moments that we find humor and comfort, turning busy schedules into opportunities for connection and laughter.
Family life and the quest for quiet moments take center stage as we explore the importance of bonding over shared experiences. Whether it's indulging in a favorite family show like "The Chosen" or piecing together a puzzle, we emphasize the value of being present in a world full of distractions. As our episode winds down, we offer a heartfelt prayer, expressing gratitude and seeking guidance in our journey. We invite you to be part of our experiences on Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas, where life's simple joys and meaningful connections are always in focus.
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Well, hello and welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We are deep into January at this moment. Yes, and today we are going to be talking about a day in the life.
Speaker 2:What is it like A day in our lives?
Speaker 1:A day in our lives. Okay. So you know that if you watch social media, you either like this or you don't, but people do a day in the life, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all these creators. They set their phone up on a tripod and walk through their house and they'll narrate like what they're doing To me. That's what I think of when I think of a day in the life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's what we're going to do for you today, but it's just going to be podcast style life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's what we're gonna do for you today, but it's just gonna be podcast style and um, so we hope you're interested in this.
Speaker 1:Similarities in our day. Uh, there's. It's gonna be interesting, I think okay we'll relate a lot.
Speaker 2:We'll see how this goes okay all right.
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Speaker 1:Please check out GoTro's Donuts and order up those king cakes y'all Yep, all right, so a day in the life? I don't know. There's a couple of creators I like to watch that do a day in the life. If they cut too quickly, yeah, okay. Or they talk and they and they're. I can't do it.
Speaker 2:Some of them are so fast I'm like, oh my God, yeah, it's kind of like, the equivalent of like when you have a shaky camera and you just like you can't focus, of like when you have a shaky camera and you just like you can't focus like Blair Witch. Yeah, but these are just like clip, clip, clip, clip, clip, clip, and I'm like what? First of all, how are they editing this? Is this an? Is this a thing? Is this a new app that they're using to cut every like, say, every two and a half seconds?
Speaker 2:they cut, cut, cut yeah, I can't because personally, that's not how we edit our videos. Like we, we go in and we cut where we want it to stop, then we'll drag and like we'll place the clips or whatever, and if I had to cut that much it would take forever. So there's no way they doing this like that. I don't think so. It must be, is it CapCut?
Speaker 1:It's in the name. I don't know. I hope to God it is, because that is a lot of work and I remember talking to a couple of creators and we were like editing takes so long and now we can whip stuff out real quick, you know, and they're like not really Most of the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, sometimes it's like, depending on what we do, depending on what we're doing. Home by yourself. Somebody asked me the other day like long process.
Speaker 2:How long did it take y'all to make home by yourself? And if you don't know what we talking about, you got to go look on our Facebook. Well, we posted it on Facebook, instagram and, tik TOK, we made a parody of home alone.
Speaker 1:Except it was called home by yourself, and it was quite the production it was a production and it wasn't just the filming um that took three to four hours four hours, uh, but it was the planning process you had it all scripted out. I scripted it out, and so I sat and I watched home alone and I scripted out the cajun version of home alone. Um, and just what we would wear you you know, kind of it was a whole production.
Speaker 2:I will not forget that day. Like my face hurt from laughing so much. We laughed so hard. But somebody recently asked me how long did that take y'all? And I was like a good three to four hours. I was at your house, just the filming, not the editing. Yeah, you know. And then we, not the editing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and then we did a blooper reel too. So for us, you know, I just hope that those little people that are going real fast or not doing that, there is some kind of app helping them. I hope so, because that is a lot of work, a lot of work. People think, people think you know that.
Speaker 2:Oh, I want to be. I want to go viral, I want to be a content creator.
Speaker 1:I want to be a.
Speaker 2:YouTuber or whatever, whatever. But there is lots of time and thought and stuff that goes into making these videos and, of course, like it's fun work for us. I mean and we always said this if it ever becomes not fun for us anymore, we would really take a look at things. But for us it's fun work, but it's still work. You know, it's still like you ain't gonna post and we I don't know we call it post and pray you know, yeah, it's not a post and pray, it kind of is but you have to be like, consistent with your posts too.
Speaker 2:You know that's a whole nother topic, but anyway, yeah, it's, it's well, it's work. You know it is. If you want to be consistent with it.
Speaker 1:It takes work, it does so a day in the life as for us is gonna look different for a day in the life of other people. Okay, our specific days look different, Ours do. Yeah, Because you know I personally. I have my kids with me all day long. I have and then I have to.
Speaker 1:there's no really set time where I work, it's just all kind of melds in throughout the day, or whenever I can find a moment where I'm not holding somebody or feeding somebody, or getting food thrown at me or trying to use the bathroom or taking a bath, you know, like when you're not needed. You mean when I'm not needed. That does Very rare, but I do find myself working throughout the day a lot so, and it could look so different each day. So a day in the life there's no really typical day for me. There's really nothing typical.
Speaker 2:What's something that you do consistently every day? Is there something?
Speaker 1:I will drink coffee every morning. There we go. I will fix coffee every single morning.
Speaker 2:And don't you look forward to that every morning? I don't know about you, but sometimes the thought of fixing my coffee gets me out of bed, like okay, because, especially right now, when it's cold outside and I'm warm and toasty in my bed and I don't want to get up, even though I know I have to you know, get the kids to school and stuff but I'm like okay, coffee, okay, I can do this, I can do this.
Speaker 1:I can get to the coffee. It's the prize. It's coffee, it's the prize. It's the prize for getting out of bed and being cold. Yeah, because I mean, um, it starts first thing in the morning and, honestly, if I don't get up at four o'clock in the morning, or earlier than my kids it is, I feel like I can't get you feel behind.
Speaker 1:I feel behind already. So, um, I guess, before we go any further, let's talk about laura huvall. Okay, laura huvall is a cajun mama, um, and she is a grammy nominated recording artist. She's a catholic speaker, author, music minister, educator, retreat leader. She is a a member of sweet cecilia it's her family band, but she she has, so she wears so many hats, does pilgrimages, guided pilgrimages to holy sites in South Louisiana. You can book her for an event at info at laurahuvallcom. She's available for mornings of reflection, adoration, parish missions and so much more. You can find her at laurahuvallcom.
Speaker 2:Yes, and go listen, and you can listen to her for free on spotify too. Like it'll bless you it will bless you and her music is very soothing and it's, it's great, like driving music cleaning.
Speaker 1:Pop it, your buddy, in peaceful sing along, sing along yep I agree all right, so a day in the life we both start off with coffee. Yeah, okay, I um, I make mine in my little drip pot and I love a drip pot. I love the drip pot and I and I just put away my coffee maker and that's what I use all the time is my, is my drip pot. If I plan, if I want to like, really have a slow, I'll do the percolator.
Speaker 2:Percolator is for special slow mornings when you don't have anything on the books that day. Oh yes, which is rare.
Speaker 1:Very rare, but especially when I have my husband's home on the weekends and I know he can help with the kids, percolator is the way to go.
Speaker 2:That's just something special.
Speaker 1:But coffee every morning. You, you know, we make our coffee in the morning and we always text each other at um varying hours, but usually first thing yes like mine is when I wake up.
Speaker 2:I will go to the couch. I have my little devotional books right there and I will try and have those first few minutes read the devotional, look up scriptures that go with the devotional. Sometimes, if it really speaks to me, I'll share it on social media and then, yeah, you're like texting, uh jesus first.
Speaker 1:You know like I have not been doing that I've been missing, missing my devotional.
Speaker 2:Well, that's, it's a new year. It's a new year we're going to devote to the devotional yeah yeah, yeah. Let's do that and look, some mornings get away from me too. Don't feel bad, but I try my best because I'll notice if I don't, if a few days pass and I miss that time. Um, crankier like I feel behind, I feel anxious. All the things you have to try. Start your day with those first few few minutes of your day.
Speaker 1:You know getting some word in you, getting some word in you? Yes, I know, and I it's. I don't go without thinking about him, you don't I?
Speaker 2:know, you know.
Speaker 1:I think about them and I say Jesus, help me through this day. Or, you know, on Facebook the morning offering will come up and I'm like I've been liking that because the morning offering it always reminds me to stop pray, at least the morning offering and then move on. You know which?
Speaker 2:lately.
Speaker 1:It's a Catholic something. I'll send it to you and then maybe it'll come up for you. Um, but uh, that that's something I like to see, cause it makes me stop and think, oh uh, you know, in the name of the Lord. Jesus, I will begin this day. And then it keeps going on, you know. But it's just, it's it's nice to stop and do that. So yeah, and then we start texting, sometimes about Cajun Mamas. What are we missing, you know?
Speaker 2:orders we have to fill yeah, or like don't forget to post this today, or today you know when you want to post this video or whatever Business things, yeah. And then I usually like get my kids off to school and then come home and fix me a little breakfast, or sometimes go straight to your house yeah, sometimes come straight to my house, yeah, if we have videos to shoot or whatever we do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's usually that's. It's been a while since you came to my house.
Speaker 2:It has been yeah we need to we're behind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know it's most of the time once a week we'll get together and we will create content for at least one Coffee Talk a week. Yeah, we try to On each of our pages, so we don't want to miss that, because that's important to us.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:That's important content for us, it's our favorite.
Speaker 2:It's our favorite, it's our favorite.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so once a week we create content and then several other times a week we may have a podcast recording. We may have some promotional videos that we've been doing, just kind of going around places and trying new things so that you can see Maybe you want to see what is around, where we are, and so we'll do promotional videos sometimes. But you know, that's what our days are filled with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the work part to you know, business part, and then we have our limelight business to that we we work together sometimes and do things for that and keep each other in the know on things. So you know, it's a blessing to be able to work with your best friend, but we do work oh, yes, not all laughing till we cry moments although I'm so thankful when we get to do that oh yeah sometimes we we like okay, we need some time to just go and be friends and not do any type of work right, and sometimes it sometimes it's like are we filming this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know. And sometimes we're like, no, this is just for us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know and you have to make that line, but just so you know. You know we were kind of like worried about where this podcast was going to go, especially for our working mamas that listen, you know, yeah, we stay home but we, we work at home and content, creating lime life, um, our homeschool, Um, and so that part that's a that's a big part of my day. You know, getting getting the girls up, making sure they get their work done, checking, and then we do family style, science and history and religion, so that takes up a large part of our day and what else Cajun Mama's merch yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, the website takes up a lot.
Speaker 2:And then throw in appointments, doctor's appointments or any type of activity, dancing things like that and there you go.
Speaker 1:There's the day, there's the entire day Cooking things like that, and there you go, there's the day, there's the entire day cooking, cleaning and cooking and cleaning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all those things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but a typical day. If I was to have a slow day, all right, we have nothing on the books.
Speaker 2:If we have nothing on the books.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're getting up, maybe a little makeup live and then see about the kids' homeschool. We'll have lunch. Sometimes we'll run to the recycling and we'll go do our recycling, come back and we have nap time at my house.
Speaker 2:I have not ever seen a grown child and I'm talking about your oldest be so happy for nap time Because she doesn't nap. That's her time with you. That's her time with me. And I'm talking about your oldest be so happy for nap time Because she doesn't nap. That's her time with you. That's her time with me. That's why she likes it.
Speaker 1:We watch True Crime, and this is probably not my shining moment as a mother, but her and I, I don't know I used to watch the soaps with my grandma.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1:She knows what's going on in the true crime, but it's like I feel like it's something you're going to be exposed to.
Speaker 2:But it's a personality thing that intrigues her. That's her personality and I tell her all the time, and you too, same thing.
Speaker 1:The science behind true crime is what got me it's fascinating, is what got me it's fascinating. It's so fascinating to me. Csi, all the things.
Speaker 1:Oh, I loved CSI so yeah, because it's about it's the science, you know, and it's like how did they figure this out? What led you to? It's a puzzle. You know I like puzzles, so anyway, that's our time with it. We do nap time, we watch True Crime and sometimes a different sitcom. It's our time together and we do that for a while, because that's when the babies are sleeping, the little ones are occupied and I'll snooze in my recliner sometimes and we just spend some time together and then it's up.
Speaker 1:Dad's coming home. We're going to work out together. Most likely we're going to make something for supper or we already have something made.
Speaker 1:We do a lot of leftovers. So, yeah, I know you that is. All we eat is leftovers. Um, you do all your planning on the weekend, meal planning on the weekend, uh, and prepping, and then um, and then we are in bed for 8 30 and it is glorious bath time, though that takes a lot of time. You gotta bathe. Oh yeah, I don't bathe them, but, like you, have to see about house. Okay, hot water runs out. You need to get that in and don't be washing no clothes. Don't be washing no dishes.
Speaker 2:It's, it's a, it's quite the process yeah you gotta, they have to be seen about. Even if you don't, you're not physically giving them a bath, they need to still be seen about. They have to be told, though yes, even if you're not physically giving them a bath, they need to still be seen about they have to be told though.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was going to say I don't know about yours, but mine you have to Like. If I don't tell them go take a bath, it'll be almost 8 o'clock and they ain't bathed, like. But can you run the water for me, like, fine, I'll go draw the water for you. I'm gonna go draw you some water, get it started, and if I don't, if I'm not there overseeing the operation, it's chaos or they'll stay. They'll take a 30 minute bath and I'm like, I know that water's cold, get your butt out, soap it up and get out. Yes, now I know I remember as a child playing in the tub, whatever may. I don't know how long, I mean, you don't have concept of time as a child, but maybe my mama let me play for 15 or 20 minutes, but I was at the time not an only child, but my brother's, so much older than me. She only had me to see about. So, adding another or two or three or four. Like you, you got to stay on top of it.
Speaker 1:No, because they singing and all the things and I'm like that's beautiful. Please get out. There's other people. They need to take a bath.
Speaker 2:Yes, or it's like mom watch this. Okay, that's nice, okay, uh, soap, soap it up, get out, come on. Or can we play? No, this is not play time, this is bath time. I'm out and you, and like, your dad's waiting on me to go bathe before you so he can take a shower, because once he takes a shower, I can't run my water at the same time.
Speaker 1:So it does happen in people's houses. Yeah, everybody's house. You run out of hot water.
Speaker 2:It's not that it's like it's the pressure. First, it's the water pressure Because we have actually the girls have a smaller hot water tank than we have a hot water tank, but, um, the pressure. And my bathtub. He said how. Nathan said he's like I got you that like the biggest uh nozzle or the big, like my bath will fill up quick. It just dumps and so he can't shower at the same time because he'll his pressure will be like like coming out. So, yeah, he's got to wait for me to finish drawing my water before he showers.
Speaker 1:It's a timing thing, okay, this is first world problems right here, because I'm thinking okay, I know I have an old house okay uh-uh, it's the pressure and it's timing, you know I know, I got an old house.
Speaker 1:We have one hot water heater it is a big tank you know, and like we're, like I better better not use all my hot water. You better not use all my hot water Because me and my husband, when we first moved in together like we were living in somebody's outdoor kitchen Okay, that's where we lived. Yeah yeah, and the big house took the hot water For sure, and we didn't get no hot water.
Speaker 1:Whatever was left, yeah, warm ish if we were lucky, you know, uh safe to say, we didn't live there way too long you know yeah it was just like we. If we had hot water, it was because I probably hurried up when I got out of school.
Speaker 2:And took a bath right away before the big house.
Speaker 1:So now we just have to make sure all those kids get in and out so we can have a hot bath. Yeah, or mama will take her shower in the morning, I don't know, we try to figure it out, yeah. We spend a lot of time talking about baths.
Speaker 2:This is so interesting. I hope you feel validated if your bath time at your house is crazy too.
Speaker 1:I hope we didn't lose you there, you see how these podcasts go.
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Speaker 2:it no longer bother her. That's right, and I feel bad about that sometimes, because that's the time of day where things are quiet, where we could converse. But we cannot converse because, no, my, my sleep mode goes on and I do not get notifications, and sometimes even we'll be in bed, lights off 8, 30, 8, 40 ish and my phone starts buzzing and nathan like turns over and like he can hear the light. You know he's can sense the light happening and hear the vibration and I'm like I'm sorry, my notifications won't go off until nine. And so he's like, can you just turn that off?
Speaker 2:so I like, I'm like, oh, man, I'm gonna have to stop him at eight now, man, no, I don't want to stop him at eight, that's too early. Sometimes I'm still messaging customers at 8. Oh, oh, yeah, because people work. That's what I tell them, I'm like. Sometimes it's hard because people work till 5. Yeah, they have kids, they have supper.
Speaker 2:They have all these things, so they're just getting back to me at 8. But I do prioritize, like when we get in bed I try I'm not gonna get out of it or stay on my phone or whatever, if, unless it's an emergency. I've had emergencies before, what I call emergencies anyway. But my, my, my day starts with the devotionals, 90% of the time, and a little bit of word, the Bible reading, not getting that helping me through the day. And then I get the kids to school. So that's a whole process of breakfasts, school snacks, water. You know the three like every day did you eat breakfast? Do you need me to fix you anything? And when they say no, I'm going to just eat cereal, it's like, oh, what a load off me. So breakfast, school snack, snack and water cup every single morning. How come you can't remember to do that? Grab your school, grab water cup and and snack.
Speaker 2:You know like I have to remind them to do this or do it myself you're not're not going to have it, but we do it every morning, like brush your teeth, did you brush your hair?
Speaker 1:Like these things we do every morning.
Speaker 2:Let them go over there and forget that snack, I should.
Speaker 1:You know what that is a good point, let them go over there and forget that snack or that water cup and know mama's not turning around and see how that's going to go. Maybe they won't forget.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I feel like they add the age where they can do it themselves. So I've been trying to encourage that independence, because now they want to get on their iPads. Oh, that is so textbook, sarah, if you can remember that iPad, then you can remember to do this If you can remember that iPad, then you can remember to do this.
Speaker 2:So now it's like, okay, you cannot get on your iPad until you have eaten breakfast, gotten dressed, brushed hair, brushed teeth, gotten a school snack and a water cup. So that's been the motivator lately. I'm like if you do all those things, whatever time we have left before we go to school, you can have a little bit of iPad time. So that's been helping. But still there's mornings where I'm like, okay, let's go, I don't have my water cup Too damn bad. Well, I know, that's my own fault.
Speaker 1:Huh, too bad. If they in the car you already buckled. Let's roll, drink your spit. That's what they done, told me at school roll, drink your spit. That's what they told me at school. Drink your spit when you went to school. Do you think at all hours of the day you had water? No, no that you go to the water fountain at one point of the day. I'm going to bring you to the water fountain and then I'm going to take you to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:No snack like after kindergarten, you don't get a snack hell. No, if you if they had a?
Speaker 1:uh, oh, they had snack time.
Speaker 2:Yeah for say, but I never had snack money, no, you didn't and did you die?
Speaker 1:no, I didn't. No, look at you still right here, thriving, thriving in 25 oh, that's enough of that. You got a snack. You got a water. Yeah, listen, if you can't remember it, I don't have time, I don't have space in my brain to remember all that. I can get the two-year-old and the baby. You better get it, or?
Speaker 2:just drink your spit. They old enough to drink your spit. I'm going to tell that to them next time and see what they say.
Speaker 1:That's what they told me at school when I was in kindergarten, first grade actually, I was in first grade I wanted to go get some water at the water fountain while I waited for the bus in the afternoon, and they told me to drink my spit.
Speaker 2:You see how that made an impact on you. You still remember that I don't want to score my kids like that.
Speaker 1:Your kids is not about to be scored from that. Oh, coddling them kids, and you do too. You're like oh, let mama help, let me draw you water. Uh-uh, you do have a six-year-old, though. You've been talking to my husband.
Speaker 2:You do do that, though she's almost seven, though I need to stop oh it's January.
Speaker 1:She is seven, you know oh, that's enough of that, lord, help lord help jesus help, help this mother go through this and let that child forget a snack. It will be the last day she forgets her snack, I can promise you yeah, because she like to eat my baby they all do oh, they all love. They all do. They forget their snacks. They love their snacks all right, let's take a um laura okay a laura laura laura huval break.
Speaker 1:Uh, laura huval. Laura Huval is a Cajun mama and she's got two sons. She has a music ministry. She's a Grammy-nominated recording artist. She is a wonderful person and she just does so many things.
Speaker 2:She has such a sweet spirit about her.
Speaker 1:She does so many things as far as leading others to God. She is the music director at St Joseph Catholic Church in Cecilia. She has a new album, Sing the Rosary. It's my favorite. Even Roz sings along. You can book her for events. She'll sing for your event. Morning of Reflection Adoration sing for your event a morning of reflection, adoration, um and sing the rosary was named the best prayer resource of 2024 oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Um by I don't know how to say this elitia let me see where that's at. Oh yeah, elite elitia magazine. We might be butchering that one, but we may be butchering. There is a magazine out there. But best prayer resource of 2024.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Laura, for being our sponsor of Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. You can find Laura Heuval Music on at Laura Heuval Music on Spotify. She's on YouTube. You can support her ministry by becoming a monthly donor and receive exclusive video songs and much more laurahuvalcom slash memberships and you can find all of this information on laurahuvalcom. Thank you, Laura.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you Okay.
Speaker 1:So what's something in your day? Okay that, no matter what happens, you will get this done for sure.
Speaker 2:Wash my face at night. Oh, my God, I was thinking the same thing. Do my skincare routine, do my skincare?
Speaker 1:1,000%.
Speaker 2:Yes Even as sick as I was in December, where, like there were days where I just couldn't get out of bed or wanted to not get out of bed, I washed my face every night. Now it went from about six steps down to two cleanser serum and I was done but I did it. You hear?
Speaker 1:me.
Speaker 2:That's something I can't do without my skincare.
Speaker 1:No, me neither, because I feel like, even though I take a bath, you know I can wash off the day when I do my skincare.
Speaker 1:You know like I can wash off the day and that's something that I can control. Yeah, because if I don't take off my makeup, my face will break out. So that's something that I can easily do. That's like a little self-care. That's how I take care of myself and my mental and all the things at night. That's my time now. It might be a chaotic mess, I may have oil everywhere and still trying to feed the baby but it will get done, but it gets done because I feel like it just it's a, it's a de-stress, before I sit down in my bed yeah and and rest.
Speaker 1:And I feel good knowing it's marinating on my face all night while I'm sleeping and I'm just aging backwards.
Speaker 2:Waking up beautiful, refreshed, silky skin, oh yeah that's one thing I'm not going to forget. Yeah, so we're on the same page there.
Speaker 1:I might forget to brush my teeth at night and floss and forget about it. Okay, but not this skincare. That's it we taking care of that skin that's so true, and that wasn't even a plug. That is just that. It is what it is. I won't forget. I won't forget to eat. I will never forget to eat. Sometimes I will forget to eat. I will never forget to eat. Sometimes I will forget to eat, and then by the time I sit down to eat it is I am famished.
Speaker 2:And that's just because, when you're really really, really busy, right, I mean I don't know they have people like. When people tell me I only eat one, like one of our friends she eats once a day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:And I'm like how the heck do you function?
Speaker 1:No, I usually remember every meal. Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:I got to have breakfast.
Speaker 1:See it's days like this where we're at podcasts during lunch During lunch hour yeah, and it's like all I had to eat all day was a protein bar.
Speaker 2:A protein bar. You know no but when I get home I'm going to have a late lunch. I'm not going to skip lunch.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, and then a supper too. Yeah, absolutely okay. Oh yeah, I feel like sometimes my meals are skimpier on those days, my body is like what is going on here? I was supposed to eat, but I usually don't forget to eat. I'll tell you that same will not forget to eat.
Speaker 2:so what else is through our day? So get the kids off to school and then like on a day where I don't have anything and I am, I live for these moments. Okay, I want to hear I live for these moments when I'm busy, stuff, yeah, no, when I can get home after dropping the kids off and this is my favorite it's a beautiful day outside, I'll open the windows. And doesn't even happen. In South Louisiana you don't get to open open your windows maybe twice a year. But I mean the curtains. Open up the curtains, let the light shine. In my house is quiet and I fix my little breakfast and I I'll either go, I'll sit at my desk and look at eat, through emails or whatever, or I'll catch up on my social media stuff or whatever. But just being able to sit in my house quiet for a little while is just glorious you know that's.
Speaker 2:I live for moments like that. Now, there's not too many days where that happens.
Speaker 1:I don't have something you know every day but yeah, it's, it's pretty pretty booked every day, but um, but yeah, I do like those quiet moments, just the coffee time my coffee time is my time yeah, you know, sometimes I'm in the tub, sometimes I don't. Coffee time is my time. That's my time to do whatever I want. If I want to work, I can. If I don't want to work, I don't have to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I'll sit like put my phone to the side and just eat, and rarely, but every now and then put on a mindless show. Or like put on a mindless like Seinfeld when I'm folding clothes or something, just something in the background, like funny, don't have to think about it.
Speaker 1:Big Bang Theory type stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay. That's glorious too, and that's sometimes how I make myself fold clothes. I'm like, okay, but if I fold all this, I can sit down for half an hour and not have to do anything else but this one task and I can sit and you know, and just enjoy my time right, yes, yes, I like that and kind of get a laugh in or two.
Speaker 1:One thing we've been doing at night lately um, we have been, and I've been taking a lot of time off of my phone recently.
Speaker 2:You have, because sometimes I can't reach you.
Speaker 1:I know I know, and me and my husband have kind of we keep each other in check on this because, like, we'll just sit down and mindlessly scroll, or I'll be working and he'll mindlessly scroll, and I'm just like, but we have all these children we could be paying attention to right now.
Speaker 2:It's hard.
Speaker 1:It's hard, you know it's hard to balance all of that. I'm sorry it is, and so we'll have to. We've been making it a um a thing that at night we watch the chosen, and my kids are the ones that remind us they've been watching it with y'all they've been watching it with us and they are like, and it's not any surprise, what's gonna happen next?
Speaker 1:you know what I'm saying? So, but they to see it happen and to see, uh, the realness and and kind of relatability of the show, um, within everyday life, because they're like, wow, look he's.
Speaker 2:He's cracking jokes like you know, like yeah, my kids are so in tune to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:But beautifully done it's. It's that they have been. They ask every night do we have chosen time, do we have chosen time? Do we have chosen time? And I'm like, okay, if we get our baths taken, oh, I love it, we'll have. You know, we can watch at least one episode, or some nights we'll watch two and they're kind of long's wonderful. You know, I know my sister-in-law and them, their bedtime is their family time because they work. Yeah, you know, both of them work outside of the home. The kids go to school and then, whenever they come home, they work out. They come home homework, okay, baths, eat, and then their big bedtime is when they can really come together as a family. They watch movies.
Speaker 1:They watch a family movie. Now, they might not get through the whole entire movie in one night, but they start it and throughout the week they will, you know, finish the whole movie. And you know, sometimes just setting that time off aside to do a little something, it makes a big difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I know at some time one time when it wasn't movies they did a puzzle together as a family and they love that.
Speaker 2:They love puzzling.
Speaker 1:And, you know, setting some time aside where just the family. But that's what we've been doing Mm-hmm. It's hard, though, because you have other things that are demanding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but, and on your mind, like your mind, will still try to wonder oh yeah, away from the moment?
Speaker 1:Oh, for sure, because, roz, I tell you what she is so loud during the chosen. We have to watch everything with subtitles. Yeah, because, like, if the subtitles ain't on, um, because, like, if the subtitles ain't on, you miss something, we missing it, and we the baby's crying, or Roz is singing Itsy Bitsy.
Speaker 2:Spider or like it's there's a million distractions, yeah.
Speaker 1:But we get it done and that's what we've been enjoying lately is our little family time I love that. That's wonderful. So if you're looking for something to watch with your family, I don't think you know. My kids are 10 and 12 and they're really enjoying it. Now Jovi's already getting nervous about the crucifixion and we're nowhere near. I think we're in like season two, right?
Speaker 2:now. Oh, y'all still have plenty of times of bliss ahead of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So I'm like don't worry, I'm not going to force you to watch it. I said, if you think you're ready, you'll watch it.
Speaker 2:But it's a. We could have a whole podcast episode on this show. Oh God, as much as I love it, yeah, but All right. Anyway.
Speaker 1:We're going to go ahead and we're gonna close it out. Yep, uh, thank y'all for hanging out with us. Uh, I hope this interest did y'all. Um, we always hope that these we always hope, but you know we ramble, but we, we do.
Speaker 1:We, it's a busy, it's a busy life, but it's a blessed life, so blessed um. And so we want to say a little prayer with you about your life, wherever you are in your life, maybe you work full time, maybe you homeschool, maybe your kids go to school, wherever you are in your busy life, or maybe even your empty nester life, Different phases, different stages of life. Yes, so we're going to say a prayer with you for wherever you are in your life and whatever your day looks like. We'll do that right now.
Speaker 2:In the name of the.
Speaker 1:Father, son Holy Spirit Amen.
Speaker 2:Lord, we thank you so much for the gift of life and this life that you've given us. We ask you to be with all of us, everyone listening today, everyone that's just trying to live their life every single day the best that they can and to live with purpose and meaning. And we ask that you guide us all and direct us all, direct our paths and help us to live a purposeful, meaningful life and not just get through each day and survive each day, but to actually live and and thrive in each day and fulfill your will, and to fulfill your will in our life. Yes, lord, help us to know what your will is for our lives, as much as you want us to know, um, and we ask that you just guide and direct us and direct our paths each and every day and bring us closer to you and help us to bring others closer to you in everything that we do. Amen, in your name, we pray, amen.
Speaker 1:In the name of the Father, son and Holy Spirit, and thank you for being such a big support listening to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We will see you and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 2:See y'all next time, bye.