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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas: Mom Truths Unfiltered
Remember those bold promises you made pre-kids? Like no devices at the dinner table or never caving in to toddler demands? Join us on Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas as we chuckle over how those well-intentioned vows often unravel in the face of parenting reality. From handing over your phone just to savor a warm meal to rethinking the family dog ban, it's all about the concessions we make to keep the peace. We share our own tales of parenting surprises and small victories, inviting listeners to reflect on their own journeys through the wild, wonderful world of raising kids.
Expect laughter and empathy as we swap stories about toddler tantrums, like meltdowns over broken yolks or the insistent request to wear boots to bed. The chaos doesn't stop there; we also chat about the daily dance with endless laundry and missing keys, showing how survival mode is a shared part of parenting. Through it all, we find comfort in knowing these trials are universal, offering a sense of community and camaraderie. Tune in for a candid, heartfelt conversation that embraces the unpredictability of parenthood—with a wink and a smile.
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Well, hello, hello and welcome back to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We're so happy to have y'all here with us.
Speaker 2:Yes, another wonderful episode ahead.
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Speaker 1:So we want to discuss some things that this will be completely relatable to any mamas out there. No, completely relatable to any mamas out there, no matter your age, because I know you're going to remember some of these times, even if your kids are all grown, okay. So I put a post on facebook asking what are some things that you swore you would never do as a parent, and then you had kids, okay, and that just went out the window. Yeah, okay. So let let us go to our facebook and I'm gonna read some of these comments to y'all can I tell you mine while you please do, please, okay.
Speaker 1:So one thing I always said and look down upon oh how, how dare they, how could they do that People? How could people do?
Speaker 2:that, when they would let their kids have an iPad or something at the restaurant, okay, and I would say, oh my gosh, why would you need an iPad at the restaurant For my older kids? Absolutely not, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:Okay, we are not doing that wasn't, that's, that wasn't as uh popular, I guess 11 years ago, you know, I feel like in this, since you had your first, we didn't have really iPads. No, I think you know. So maybe it's just become easier to do, yeah, but or the phone or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like looking at something else I've been to a restaurant where we are like not we are, but like there was this family who was there to celebrate grandma's birthday. Okay, and everybody every teenager at the table had earphones on God help, or earbuds in, and I'm like Paul's bad grandma.
Speaker 1:This is mama's day.
Speaker 2:This is mama's day and everybody at the tables got their phone in the front of their face or their iPod is on. I'm like poor thing, you know, so I always said never my kids? Okay, never. But then I had a two-year-old, and sometimes it's okay to put on cocoa melon at the table, because you just want to eat your food. I just want to eat my food, man I know I will I have been known to put on cocoa melon at the table yeah, I feel you, I feel you.
Speaker 1:I've definitely handed my phone off to now, not the big kids, you know, but the little when they're at that age where they don't want to be in the chair, they want to be running around in the restaurant. No, we can't do that, we can't do that, we can't do that. Yeah. So there is a time period where we just don't go eat out, or we didn't really go eat out much. And when we did, if they was acting a fool, they got the phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and, like you said, like I would have looked down upon that prior to having a child and you don't realize the survival mode that you become, that you get in when you become a parent.
Speaker 2:you just want to survive yes, so it's like sometimes I just want to eat my food hot when I have to pay eight times as much for it. You know, yeah, I had to get out of my house with all of you, yes, okay, and then sit at this table, yeah.
Speaker 1:In public. I brought you all out in public Around the people, oh God, all the people's watching, uh-huh. You act like a donkey. No, you're not here, you go.
Speaker 2:Here you go, here you go oh look at how cute she is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because she's distracted right now. Number one comment let them watch a phone in a restaurant.
Speaker 2:So you feel?
Speaker 1:validated. I swear.
Speaker 2:The first comment let them watch a phone in a restaurant. Yeah, I've always said I would never do that.
Speaker 1:Look at that. Dana says get a dog. She said I never would let them get a dog and she got one. We're going to move on from that one. Oh, we're going to move on and quick Use glitter inside the house.
Speaker 2:Oh, I made that mistake one time, and one time only, only one time.
Speaker 1:Let's see, excuse me, let them dictate what we have for dinner. Oh, that's a little. That's a little, that's a little.
Speaker 2:You know, these are step we stepping on our own toes. Right now, we are definitely doing that we are.
Speaker 1:Uh, let's see, make my kids write sentences as a punishment oh, oh, I never said, I'd never do that.
Speaker 2:I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1:This mom. She must have probably had a Matter of fact. I don't do that enough. Thanks for the idea, jennifer. She probably had to do that a lot as a kid.
Speaker 1:And so she said I will never make my kids do that. Uh-huh, oh, she's Carolee. I might be saying that wrong, but she says I will never tell my kids because I said so. I do that. I do too. And I say because I'm the mama and I said I would never say that because my mama, I hate it when my mama said that Because I'm the mama. That's why Yep, because I said so and you don't need, I don't need to justify myself to you.
Speaker 2:I said so and you don't need. I don't need to justify myself to you.
Speaker 1:No, my house, my rules, she said. I would never say that. That went out the window. You live under my roof. As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules. Letting my kids sleep in my bed Swore. I would never do that, they said Crib only I'm okay with not doing that.
Speaker 2:I can't. They don't sleep well.
Speaker 1:They kick me, they're kicking you. All night long I've been a pretty good.
Speaker 2:I've held that up pretty good.
Speaker 1:Me too. We never co-slept. Sometimes I wish we had, because then I wouldn't have had to get myself out of bed to go see about it, but we always kept that rule. We never did. Elaine says too many things to count. Yeah, yeah, let them have candy. Oh, denise, denise was strict, she said Never let them have candy.
Speaker 1:That's what she said. Okay, denise Ben says lick my finger to rub a smudge off something on my kid's face, done it. The first time I did it, I said to myself I'm turning into my mom, because I remember, I remember that. Gross. Oh, spit smell. And I've done it. Yeah, definitely have done it. I would say that I always thought I would never raise my voice, but that didn't happen.
Speaker 2:I was never that wishful and thinking that I wouldn't raise my voice sometimes that's all I got sometimes that's how we survive, yeah that's all I got. I can raise my voice now I can do that.
Speaker 1:Rachel says tell my kids be quiet before I give y'all something to cry for. It's true, I've definitely said that Like why, are you whining? I'm going to give you something to whine about.
Speaker 2:We didn't last a day.
Speaker 1:Let's see. And a lot of these comments were like like they're grandparents now they said oh, now that I'm a grandparent, none of these rules apply. Like you know, I made my kids.
Speaker 2:I was strict with my kids, but not my grandkids Exactly, and now we're trying to clean up those messes.
Speaker 1:We're trying to undo what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's see. Sorry about Denise and her candy, but there was a grandma somewhere on that end giving them candy anyway, absolutely, you know it.
Speaker 1:Jan says give them soda. Okay, let them sleep in my bed. I swore I would not scream and yell. Huh, that didn't work out. I swore my kids wouldn't get cell phones till they turned 18, like me. Ha yeah. And TJ says never say because I said me. Ha yeah, and TJ says never say because I said so Mm-hmm, these are good.
Speaker 2:The cell phone thing is something so true Like at what point do you get?
Speaker 1:I got one when I started driving Me too. Yeah, that's when I got mine. Yeah, but I don't know. These days it's a different ball game. Uh, feed my kids spaghettios. Jackie said I would never do that. Well, she has done that. That's about it but this is oh yeah I used to eat canned ravioli from the dollar store like the cheap, cheap, cheap brand, yeah, and just thought it was wonderful yeah, me too I liked ravioli.
Speaker 2:That was a treat. It was a treat yeah spaghetti, I was not so much. No, I never did like spaghetti um, but I mean we can't soup and just think about what we're doing with ramen oh, yeah, I mean like yep, I don't know, I don you know, we were talking about red dye.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The other night for Isla's birthday. Oh, and I was like, and they're taking red dye out about time and my brother-in-law, james, picks up a piece of chocolate chip cookie cake with red icing on it, and he was like, yeah, damn that red dye. I'm like, I mean he just got me so bad, you know and it's just like well, okay, james, yeah, well, we don't need to do. He got my ass.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what um, but yeah, I mean, it's so many things, so many things so many never say, never yeah you should just never say never, because we don't know know, and you know what I do with my sister.
Speaker 2:It's so horrible. I'm like you know what you ought to do. You ought to do this with your kids, like I told you the other day. Hey, you know what you ought to do. Let them forget that snack. Let them forget that water cup.
Speaker 1:If it was me, this is what I would do yeah, what I would do is you say big things? Yeah, but in the heat of the moment you just trying to get them to stop whining.
Speaker 2:So you fix that cup of water, not only that, but you just want to give your kids everything you do. That is what you want as a parent. You want to give them whatever their little hearts desire you know, uh, and it's hard, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to like the line between enabling and coddling versus giving Mm-hmm yeah.
Speaker 2:We don't know what is it? I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's a situational moment-by by moment type of thing I think it's not like you can't just blanket say, oh, one way or the other, yeah, no, it's it's very situational, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, let's talk about Laura Huval music ministry. Um, our friend Laura Huval is a Grammy nominated recording artist. I mean that that in and of itself says I can't believe we met a grammy nominated.
Speaker 1:We did, we did and we loved her yes wonderful, she was just so wonderful um.
Speaker 2:She's a catholic speaker, author, music minister, educator, retreat leader. Um sweet cecilia is her family band, so it's not just her that is the talented yeah, one in her family family it runs in that family.
Speaker 2:Um. Stop in saint joseph catholic church in cecilia. She is the music director there um sing the rosaries, her new album. You can book her for events. Laurahuvalcom. You can find all the information there. She's also on Spotify at Laura Huval Music. She's on Facebook. All the socials. Check her out and I promise you you won't be sad, because she is such a holy and just an overall good person. Yep.
Speaker 1:She'll bring some peaceful joy into your life uplifting joy yep, okay, so all right so yeah, what else can? We say things that we said we would never do, or what? What about like you have any, like parenting fails that you can think of?
Speaker 2:None that I want to discuss.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, that's the thing Like shoot, but they're real things, you know.
Speaker 2:There are things that, yeah, I fail at. I don't know, like sometimes what age do you talk about certain things you know, am I failing? If I don't, am I failing?
Speaker 1:If you do.
Speaker 2:We kind of talk about. You know when's a good time for cell phones, When's a good time for do we let them go spend the night? We talked about that before. At what point are you coddling? At what point are you not doing enough? I don't know what does that look like for different people and how, overall, yeah, why don't y'all weigh in on this on our YouTube video?
Speaker 1:if you're watching on YouTube, we would love to hear your take on some of these issues that we've talked about, and let us know too if you have something kind of funny to say about how you say you would never do that until you became a parent. But it happened, you know, and now it's all. Bets are off. Let us know in the comments what that is.
Speaker 2:Because there's always a friend. Okay, when you are first having kids, there's always this one friend. That's like I would never do that. And that one friend really pisses you off because I'm. It's like you don't know, you don't know, you don't, you don't know. And then they become a parent and then they're like oh, validated what did I say again? I'm just a backup, because or you know, there's that, you know an aunt or something, something that somebody that doesn't have any kids right, oh, never let my kids do that.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't know yeah okay, yeah, because sometimes you will and each kid is different. Maybe your child was a little angel growing up, just the best, just the best little gift from the lord Almighty. And maybe mine tests my will to live every day. You don't know this.
Speaker 2:You don't know, you don't know, you don't know. That's hard. Yeah, I don't know. I definitely have something fun to talk about. Let's talk about Sure Title real quick, and then we'll go with what I got on my Facebook post.
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Speaker 2:you got what you got, what you got so I put a post up on facebook of my daughter, uh roz crying. And uh, she cries about the silliest thing. She's too uh, and it could be just the most insane things. Um, so in this photo she was crying because I wouldn't give her milk. Because she is, she drinks milk. She could drink milk every 15 minutes if I'd let her, okay that's how she sounds oh my gosh, and it's just like all the time she wants milk.
Speaker 2:So and and you know, I had to ask the doctor hey, can I give her too?
Speaker 1:much milk can I give her, and she was like you can.
Speaker 2:So let's keep it down to however much it's for her, okay. And so she was crying because I wouldn't give her milk, and uh, she had to drink water, and so I I asked what are some of the most absurd things you kids cry about? We want to hear from you, okay. So she's cried about she want to take her socks off, she wanted to wear her boots to bed Just silly little thing. She wanted to wear a helmet, for no reason, you know. So I have a post with 132 people waiting on this.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to hear some of these, okay, and one of them is is a picture. I even had a picture many years ago. A toddler was upset because I peeled his banana how dare you how? Dare you peel my banana?
Speaker 1:I like the peelings. I like to eat those.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I wanted to do that myself. A two-year-old cried because his corn dog was hot so I cut it up so it would cool faster. Then he cried because it was cut up.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Oh yeah, you damned if you do and you damned if you don't. With the corn dog.
Speaker 2:There's an older child, but her 12 year old will cry if she isn't at least 15 minutes early for anything. Oh, panic attack that she'll be late, poor thing, Like you gotta be there early.
Speaker 1:Don't want to miss it.
Speaker 2:We have no phone.
Speaker 1:She'll be early for the rest of her life, while she will always be the one that's early to everything.
Speaker 2:Never late to everything. Never late, our friend Kaylin said every time she would sing, just sing, in any song and Rylan would scream her head off.
Speaker 1:So Kaylin could not sing.
Speaker 2:Uh-uh, I want you to come sing for us, kaylin, it can't be that bad. I mean, come on. And then Tamika, our friend Tamika Terrio. She said our granddaughter cries about her jeans, socks broken, candy, daily crying face, oh, everything yeah. Her iPad don't work. If the yoke is broken on her ear. Oh my goodness Rhea has definitely cried about.
Speaker 1:The socks thing got me. The child hates to wear socks, Like she would go barefoot every day everywhere. Or Crocs she's seven and I have to make her put socks on. She hates them. Yeah, she would definitely cry about that.
Speaker 2:I used to not like when I could feel the line in my sock.
Speaker 1:Like on the seam, the toe, yes.
Speaker 2:And my mama would fold them up and if it wasn't just right I'd have to take off my shoe and flatten it out, and that was a real problem for me A real issue. I can remember sitting and being very picky about that. Just upset. Yeah, if the seam in my sock was touching my toe in a certain way. Imagine my child cried and had a hissy fit because I was dancing at a wedding. Oh, avery Gordon said. I said good morning and he lost it.
Speaker 1:Good, morning Imagine Good morning.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's funny.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they wake up and they choose violence. That day they just wake up just like an angry bear. Yeah, everything makes them mad. She reminds me of sitting with a witch. Why do you think they do?
Speaker 2:that I don't know, like they don't want to sit with a witch, I guess I don't know. I've never seen that I laugh so hard. So we have a friend and her little girl is just so cute. Adorable so freaking cute and there's nothing that she can do wrong, but she's always saying that she's she's trying to tell us she's bad and we don't believe it. And we just don't believe it. There's no way sis is bad. It's bad and like they'll put. They'll always say she woke up and chose violence.
Speaker 1:Yeah. She'll bite, she'll scratch her brother and yeah, we're like, there's no way sis scratched it and she'll send us a picture of, like a big red mark across her little brother. I'm like sis and she'll send us updates. Like sis did this at daycare today and we're like we just laugh so much.
Speaker 2:There's no way they're telling lies on sis?
Speaker 1:No way. So they had to put sis in timeout at daycare and they put. They had this like Halloween decoration.
Speaker 1:I guess it was like a little ugly witch and I guess it's you so funny to me. I guess it's used to scare the kids not to go into timeout. Yeah, you gotta sit in timeout with the. You have to sit and they face the witch at you and she sends us a picture and sis is straight up sleeping unbothered unbothered by this witch, and we're, like sis said, to hell with that witch not even a little bit.
Speaker 2:So sis ain't crying for nothing. She making her others cry. My son last year when we were picking out a Christmas tree because he thought we were getting a smaller tree than previous years. We had to explain to him that the tree was the same height, but he was not having it.
Speaker 1:He wasn't he wasn't the same height. He wasn't the same height, you see.
Speaker 2:He grew. Okay, wouldn't let her drink her bath water. Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 1:How dare you not let you drink the water that they probably to tea in?
Speaker 2:because my husband calls it ice water. I'm so sorry, I won't let you drink your ass. You're a bad parent.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's true though it's when mine would play tea party in the bathtub and I'd go in and there she is, just a drink. You know your booty's in that water right Like your butt is in that you drinking butt water they don't care, no cares.
Speaker 2:Tea party, a tea party. Legit, a tea party. Oh my goodness, oh, let Legit. Legit, a tea party, a tea party. Oh my goodness, oh, let's see what else we got Upset because she'd never met a dinosaur.
Speaker 1:Oh poor thing, Heartbroken.
Speaker 2:That's so funny though it is. Wouldn't let us stick his finger in the socket. Oh, Wouldn't let her eat the end of the charger cord. Oh yeah, you know that's the kind of stuff. Had to put his food in the microwave to heat it up, and then it's too hot and you got to let it cool down Like they just lose it.
Speaker 1:Oh, they cannot. They have no patience.
Speaker 2:No, patience, Offered him breakfast. Then I opened the muffin bag full on tantrum. Um, my husband and I looked like we are married when taking family pictures. It was disgusting. I mean I can't look married to her dad.
Speaker 1:Imagine that, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Do not look married to dad.
Speaker 1:Do not act like you love your dad. Yeah, oh Lord.
Speaker 2:Um, oh. Last night at the movies, my 11 year old cried at the latest mission impossible trailer because it's going to be the last one. I cried the last episode of full house, I know, oh well, uh, when they're not allowed to eat, restaurant crayons oh no, we're gonna.
Speaker 1:We're gonna buy some food. We're not gonna let you eat the free crayons um, I'm trying to see this.
Speaker 2:Let's see, can't eat chocolate pudding for breakfast. I mean there's just so many things Cooked. His hot dog, wina. I mean that's so funny. That is so funny. I wish I would have. Really. Let's see my son Roz cries because when I fix her a cup of water, she don't want water, she wants milk, wants milk. Wouldn't let her eat a stick of butter.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure Brynn has cried because I wouldn't let her have butter in the past. That child, I can't leave a stick of butter on the counter. She'll go run a finger through it. Just I'll have like tracks in the butter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like stop eating the butter One time JoJo, if she had butter she would do that. But then I'd find, just there was one time butter just all over my house. And then, like I was like what happened?
Speaker 2:You know, she ran around with a stick or she took it and just was like she took it out the thing and like flung it everywhere Because we keep our butter out. Yeah, okay, and so it was nice and soft. It was nice and soft and she just flung it everywhere and then, like even months later, on the back of my Mary statue had butter and I was like when is this from?
Speaker 1:Oh, that one time to joe. What is this butter oh?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, that's from the butter catastrophe of 2015. Yeah, um, but juice, you know a different.
Speaker 1:She wanted a cup, the orange cup yeah, oh, don't get the wrong color, yeah oh, I got a picture.
Speaker 2:I hear my my grandson when he was one. I wouldn't let him play with the turkey bones in the trash, can? He is straight up screaming. He is so mad he's screaming. He has red face. Oh my gosh, we were hurting the crawfish when we pulled their heads off. They dead already. Yeah, the granddaughter was crying when she saw us eating our crawfish because we were hurting them they don't feel nothing, baby, they dead oh my gosh, they took a hot bath that's so good.
Speaker 2:There's just so many good ones, oh no, so if you haven't seen, you may have to scroll back a little bit, but but those are some good answers. If you're watching on YouTube, weigh in. Okay, tell us what was the funniest thing your kid or your grandkids are crying about, because the simplest things, just overwhelm them. And they.
Speaker 1:You know, it just comes out in a tantrum.
Speaker 2:Now, as a mama, what do you cry about? Oh, what's some things you cry about. I can tell you If I lose my keys, I'm going to lose my mind.
Speaker 1:There's nothing that makes you more mad losing your keys.
Speaker 2:Lose my keys, boo, I'll tell you what. Oh it infuriates, it infuriates me. I always say that I'm like the little things are what really aggravates me, Like big things I can handle, like I can handle big situations. Lose my keys, I lose my mind.
Speaker 1:I just don't know. It's a trigger for you.
Speaker 2:You think I would just get one of those little tile things and really just end it you know, just end it all. End your suffering, end my suffering. But I haven't done that yet.
Speaker 1:Now I know what I should have got you for Christmas. Dang, I missed that opportunity. I'll tell you what I don't know, I'm trying to think of what really gets me. I don't know, it's not enough to make me cry, but like, well, I hate not being able to find something. Sometimes like, depending what it is, it's not necessarily the keys or whatever but like if there is something I just cannot find, that make that just you know inside, something that you have seen, you know it's there you know it's somewhere, you know it's there, but are like for me when I remember
Speaker 1:uh, finding clothes on the floor in the house like random, like mainly it's the kids rooms and stuff. And I'll tell them, and I'll tell them, and I'll tell them again you can't, don't take your clothes off and just leave them where, like you just dropped it on the floor and you move on with your life. Like put that in the dirty clothes basket. Because I, when I wash a load and I think I'm done, and then I go see them clothes on the floor in the room, I'd want to just explode you think you're done. You think you're done and you're not done. Or and I'm just nothing bad about my husband is just saying my sink is finally empty. Not five minutes later, nathan's home with his empty containers from lunch in the sink and I'm like, ooh, that could have lasted. I wish I just could have lasted longer. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm never going to catch up man and I never do, you never do, and currently, my sink is like there's so much dishes that we've already put them in the dishwasher and there's some left over. What do you do with those? What you do with those? Do you wash them by?
Speaker 1:hand. No, they wait till the next round.
Speaker 2:Thanks, because I posted that one time. I'm like what are you doing? The consensus was that they washed them by hand and good for you. I'm glad you love that life, but I do not it you. I'm glad you love that life, but I do not. It is waiting. Is there waiting? It is only getting washed by hand if it's a pot or something too large and honestly, I have been known to put a pot of two in the dishwasher okay here's the thing why I don't anymore because I finally figured out if you put a pot in the dishwasher, everything on the top doesn't get as clean the water.
Speaker 2:You know the water and so I'm like, okay, I'll wash it by hand, but you're not gonna find me now bottles I'll wash by hand, but but it's waiting.
Speaker 1:And then those tumbler cups, the stainless ones. Look, I one I've been starting to wash them in the dishwasher me, even if they don't say dishwasher safe. I'm like I'll take my chances.
Speaker 2:You are a renegade.
Speaker 1:I have had enough washing these cups by hand. Rebel without a cause Yep.
Speaker 2:Alright, did we talk about?
Speaker 1:your title. We did talk about your title. We need to discuss Laura Huval.
Speaker 2:Music.
Speaker 1:Ministry. Laura Huval is a Grammy nominated recording artist, catholic speaker, author, music minister, educator, retreat leader and a cultural advocate. Y'all, she's a Cajun mama, just like us she is. Her new album, sing the Rosary, is available for free at laurahuevaultcom. Slash rosary. What a great way to start your new year off by being more faithful to pray in the rosary or sing in the rosary. It's just a beautiful reflection and you will find peace in it. I want you to go and do that. You can book Laura for an event. You can email info at laurahuvalcom. She's available for morning reflections, adorations, parish missions, women's conferences and more. Go ahead and support Laura's ministry by going to laurahuvalcom and checking out everything that she can offer you. She's a wonderful person and, and I promise you, you will be blessed amen.
Speaker 2:On laura huval yes, yes, um, we were blessed enough to meet her and we were blessed enough to hear her, yeah, in the flesh, yeah, at a cathities event, and let me tell you what just a wonderful person. You'll go check her out, all right? Yep, agree. So yeah, I think that might be it.
Speaker 1:I loved discussing all these things and I hope that you found some validation in knowing that it ain't just your kids that throw tantrums for no reason, uh-uh, and if you're doing things you said you would never do, you not alone. We just aren't trying to survive we are we're trying to make the best decisions for our kids as possible, but some days it is survival mode, yeah you know it is.
Speaker 2:It's tough love. Yeah, it's um. It's we trying to love our kids in the best way that we can, and we're trying to. We don't want them to be those people who never got blank and it shows, yeah, you know. Yeah, you never got spanked.
Speaker 1:And it shows you never got told no, and it shows we don't want that, or you never got loved on or caught or seen about.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, you know going in the other direction. Yeah, you never got loved on or seen about. Yeah, right, you know going in the other direction. Yeah, you never got cherished. And it shows you know like you just want to give the best to your kids, well-rounded Balance. But it needs to be in balance. In balance it needs to be in balance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we're with you, we feel you, we hear with you. If that point is past your life and you experiencing this with your grandkids, well, you probably don't give a, you probably don't care as much now. Now it's fun time for you, if you, if you're a grandparent um.
Speaker 1:I know, with my godchildren, I'm like that, I'm like what you want yeah, well, my godchildren, that's the balance, though you know that they can the mama and daddy have to be a little more strict, and then they get spoiled by the others. I guess that's the balance, though you know that they can the mama and daddy have to be a little more strict, and then they get spoiled by the others, I guess that's the balance, you know, yeah, but it's, it's all in good it's all in fun anyway.
Speaker 2:Um, speaking of grandparents, uh, our grand sponsor is go troves and we all know those grandparents love to sugar them up and send them home so my daddy would bring my girls donuts once or twice a week.
Speaker 1:He used to go work out in rain, so he'd go grab some donut holes and bring it to them.
Speaker 2:Perfect, I know. Go to Go-Tros 705 South Adams Avenue in Rain, louisiana, grab some donuts or, you know, treat yourself to a king cake.
Speaker 1:Dude, definitely do that, that. You need at least one king cake this season. It might as well be from goat rose, because they are delicious so good, so good, a nice big king cake.
Speaker 2:Or you know, you might be having the rosary at your house and, uh, and some coffee, or coffee talk with your cajun mama friends, or or not even Cajun just your mama friends, yeah, okay uh, grab you a king cake from Goat Rose Donuts and enjoy. Enjoy some time with your friends or grandparents some delicious treats. Enjoy sugaring them up and sending them home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you supporting a family-owned and operated business.
Speaker 2:I love, love that.
Speaker 1:I love that too. 705 South Adams Avenue in Rain. Check out their Facebook page too, just in case they might be delivering some of their king cakes to a store near you if you're not near Rain. So thank you all. Gotros for being a sponsor of Coffee Talk with the Cajun Moms.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you all so much.
Speaker 1:And that is all for today. That's it. Yes, we will see y'all in February. I can't even believe we almost there February. Yes, y'all be blessed and thank y'all for watching. Make sure to subscribe on YouTube and all the places. We appreciate every like, comment, share everything y'all are. Y'all are special to us and we appreciate you so much we do. Yeah, bye y'all.