We Didn’t Tell Anyone We Were Having Our First Baby

In this episode of Cultivated, Jeremiah and Savannah give a real-life update on their 75 Hard journey as they push through the early stages and begin to feel both the habits forming—and the mental fatigue setting in. They talk honestly about the challenges of staying disciplined, especially on weekends, and how accountability within marriage plays a huge role in sticking it out. The conversation shifts into a meaningful reflection on their son Tate turning one year old, sharing the story of his birth and what that season of life looked like for them. They also revisit how they approached their first child’s birth, including their decision to keep it private until after delivery. Throughout the episode, they blend humor, honesty, and perspective on discipline, parenting, and navigating busy seasons of life together.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's going on, everybody? Thank you for tuning in to the episode of the day here on Cultivated. This is your host, Jeremiah Jennings, and I'm excited to come to you today with another fresh new episode for you. To start the week off strong, I'm joined with my amazingly wonderful, beautiful co-host, Savannah. How are you? Good. Excited to be here? Always. Excited to do episode, I don't even know, eight, nine, ten, something like that. We're not that far out. I think this is eight. Um for sure. I think this is eight. So it'll be two months of cultivated, which is pretty crazy. Um still have not moved uh move studios or gotten the other studio built out if you watch on YouTube, so that will happen at some point, but it has been a pretty chaotic Q1 for us, just between life and work and everything in between. Yeah. It's been a pretty busy been a pretty busy couple uh weeks and months here, but we are wrapping up the end of March, which is just crazy to think about.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

Can't even think about that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

It's your birthday week. Happy early birthday to you.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

How old are you gonna be? When do you stop talking about it? Like when do you stop talking about how hard how old are you?

SPEAKER_02 1:10

I think it's after 30. I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

I thought it'd be after 40.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

I don't feel like you really talk about it once like you hit 30 and you don't really talk about it for a while.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

But when is it one of the when does it get to a point like you can't really ask a woman how old they are? Like what age do you think that is?

SPEAKER_02 1:25

I don't really I I don't ask people. Or is that just a generational thing? I I don't I don't ask people how old they are.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

I just tell you how old they are.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

I just feel like when you're in it's just more of stage of life. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:39

What? Stage of life.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

Yeah, like I have friends that are like older than me, but we're in the same stage of life, but like we don't talk about age. Yeah, but I want to know how old you are, so I don't really know.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Interesting. Okay. Yeah. Not what I would uh not what I would expect, but okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

I don't I just don't really care about age. I think it's because I feel younger than I am. So are you gonna tell me how old you're gonna be? I just just feel like it makes me sound so old.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Okay, well Savannah's reached the age of not asking because uh No, I'm gonna be 28.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

And I don't feel I I know that's not old, but it's like approaching it, kind of.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Yeah. It's getting there.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

It just like I'm in my late 20s. Like you can't even say mid-20s anymore.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

28 is late.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

I cannot get this mic set where I want it. Uh yes. 28 is you're you're close to 30, honey buns.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

I know. That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Like, I still got a good ways to go. Still trucking along.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

You're in your mid-20s.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Young Buck over here. Uh but it is weird. Like, I'm I'm stuck in like the I'm 24-ish stage. Like, I feel like I was 24. Oh, you're past that, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

No, I'm telling you, I genuinely still feel like I'm not any older than 25. Like I feel stuck at that.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

25 was the best year ever. You know why?

SPEAKER_02 3:01

What year was that for you, 24?

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Because I could rent a car.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

That was the best thing.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

So dramatic.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Makes no sense. I we haven't gone through that on this show, guys. Why can you why in the world can you drink alcohol? You can go to war for your country, but you cannot rent a car or stay at a resort, uh a resort.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

That one was honestly more annoying than that. You're over 25.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

Like, what? What is happening? What what do we what have we come to here?

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Um, not a fan of that at all, but anyway. We survived. So we have a hard update. We told you what it would be in the first couple minutes of each show. Yes. Is what it is. What? It's 10 weeks, right? It's not that, not that many weeks. So um it's not, it is 10 weeks. 11 weeks. 75 days, seven days a week. Yeah. It's a little late. Where are we at? We're day 22 right now, wrap it up 22. If you're listening real time, day 23 or 24, depending on what it is. Yeah. Um it's good. I feel like we were just talking today. I feel like we've reached the habit phase. Like it's just an we're still, again, it's what we talked about last week. We're not doing the same thing every day. Like this, we're not up at 5 a.m. every single day doing the same workout every single time.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Uh, so we're having to still figure out like what to do and fitting it in our day, fitting it in, but it's just a part of the day now. Like, yeah, I just like I know the task get done before we go to bed.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Yeah. I think I'm unfortunately kind of at a point of it where I'm like kind of annoyed with it.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

You know what I mean? But you all came out of that. It's a news to you.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

I'm not like anti-it, but I'm just like, oh my gosh, it's just like something in my week that I like have to plan around and figure out and whatever, you know what I mean? And I think I feel that way, especially on the weekends. You know? Like during the week, it's not that big a deal, like the workout or and then the outdoor or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

See, I think the weekends are easier.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

I I just like don't like it on the weekends because I feel like I it's like we already have other things that we want to do, but we still have to do this too. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Yeah, uh, it's still easier to me though on the weekends though, because I'm not having to fit in a work schedule plus the hour and a half of workouts.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

So I guess. I don't know. Sundays are just long.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Sundays aren't long. Uh Sundays aren't long. But yeah. We're rocking and rolling and feeling pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

We're moving and grooving.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

So 22 in. How many to go? 53.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

What?

SPEAKER_00 5:37

53 to go.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

Math. 55 plus 22 is 77. Hey. How did that feel? Turn the mic off. Turn the mic off. Turn your mic off. I need to go. I need to go.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

That's two that you tried to get me with.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

I'm so unwell. Can you tell?

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Oh man. Uh as we sit here looking over the next couple months. I'm excited with where we're heading. Uh I'm excited with what we have ahead. Uh we have a lot of. We actually we don't have a ton of. You know, we actually I don't think either one of us go out of town. Uh you do, of course. April. You do, of course.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

Get out of here with that right now. Oh, and she's back, folks. She's like, get out of here with that right now. I'm not, but I will take one foot out of the grave for that.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

You leave in April to go to Disney. Right. But then I I'm not leaving again until we oh, JK, I'm leaving in like three weeks. I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

I thought you were leaving in two weeks.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Is it two weeks? Yeah, it is two weeks. Yeah, okay. Never mind. No, that's a that's a mute point.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

Let me let me go down into the grave here and just not let you run the show. Uh no, we Tate's one year old. One year.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

I'd say one year old. I think makes no sense. One year old.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Do we need to talk about that? Like, do we need to process this on the air?

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Like, I don't have the capacity to process that. No, I can't. Like, I was literally looking at him tonight and I was like, a year ago, I was just sitting here like imagining you. And like I couldn't eat he wasn't here yet. And I was so pregnant, I just was like dying.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

It was the misery stage.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

It was a hundred percent. I was just miserable in all avenues. Um, and I just remember like being so ready, so ready, so ready. And little did I know. Actually, I didn't know that for a fact because I had an induction scheduled that like within you know three more days. Three days, yeah, yeah, he would be here. But I was just still like there's just still so much that you don't know right before.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

And so I'm just like and talk about that real quick, like how that went. We had an induction set for Monday.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

No, we had an induction set for Wednesday. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Um whatever it was.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

My water broke at 11 30 on Tuesday night.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

It wasn't that late, but yeah, it was 11, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Um my water broke at 10 45 or 11, then I've got both written off induction.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Like we had both written off yeah that like you were not gonna go into labor naturally, like that was not happening.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

I guess in honor Tate's birthday, we can talk a little bit about that. But yeah, we um because it had gotten so close to the induction and that whole thing, like so I think we've talked about it here before that Tate and I share a birthday. Did we already say that?

SPEAKER_00 8:41

Yeah, I believe so.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Um, and so my doctor, long story short, was retiring, and it basically like if I was gonna be induced and this doctor, my doctor that delivered Jack, was also gonna deliver Tate, I had to be induced. And the only day he could do it was on March 26th, which is my birthday.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Because he was retiring on April 1 and he was going out of town to play golf after like the 27th.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Yeah, he was gonna be. Because it was like a Thursday and Friday. Yeah, and I was like, Well, why can't we do it on Thursday? Why can't we do it on Friday? And he was like, Oh my golf. I was like, get over here and deliver this baby, like you're you're this close to retirement. Like, stick it out, stick it out. Um, but no, so I knew going into it, like it what end of late 30s weeks, like I had a few weeks to prepare that that was gonna be his birthday if he did not come sooner. And so thankfully, all the stars kind of aligned. Like when that all happened, like Jack was already with family that he was gonna be staying with while we were in the hospital, and like we already had our backs totally packed because we were planning on like eight hours, like yeah, not even less than, yeah. Uh, we were gonna be there uh in that long, and so like I was you know getting a shower, we're doing some lasting stuff around the house, and I was gonna get a shower and wash my hair and like do all those things, and um my water broke at home, and so we left, and I just remember like walking up to the desk, and you have to fill out this paperwork because I buzzed in and I was like, I think my water broke, I think this is where I'm supposed to be. And they like let you in, you have to fill out some paper, and I was like, I have an induction scheduled for like six o'clock in the morning, like in a few hours, and they're like, Oh, hold on, and they just called up there, uh like to the unit and said, You can just take your stuff up there, they're just gonna go ahead and put you in a room. So we didn't thankfully, I think that was a big deal. We didn't have to like do any type of little triage or go to the OBED and like sit through all that, or they test to make sure it's actually your water and all that. We just got to go straight up there, so that was nice. And and we were supposed to get there at 6 and he was born at 658. So it's that early. It was that early, wasn't it? It was early because he almost didn't make it.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

I think in honor today's birthday, I'm gonna go back and watch all the vlogs.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

We did vlog a lot.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

We did vlog a lot, and I'm very thankful for it because now I want to watch it all. Yeah, um, but it was just crazy too.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

I took him on McDonald's though.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

You did?

SPEAKER_00 11:10

Yeah. Remember, I went down there at five when they weren't opening and she let me come in and I went in there early.

SPEAKER_02 11:16

I don't remember that. Gosh, I was so uncomfortable that whole time. I was not doing great.

SPEAKER_00 11:22

Yeah, well, neither one of us really slept. I think I slept for like we both really slept about the same time.

SPEAKER_02 11:27

A couple hours. Maybe two or three hours, yeah. Yeah. Because by the time we got situated, it was like 1 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

at 7 a.m. That makes it for such a long day.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Yeah, because we were basically awake all night. I pushed him out for like, I don't know, pushed for like less than 30 minutes. And then he was here. And then it was such a long day, and I had we had to immediately move rooms.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Like we did upgrade rooms, though. That was nice.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Yeah, except I didn't because that weird bed.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Oh, yeah, the bed, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Anyways, long all of that to say, we um I kind of had some time to prepare for that to be Tate's birthday, but it was so tiring because I just I feel like laboring through the night is such a disadvantage because you lose an entire night of sleep. But if you labor all day and have an afternoon or evening baby, you you're awake all night like while they're doing all that stuff, and the you know, so like there's no great time, but yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

No, I think I would rather be during the night like a morning like that. Like we're we're two for two on that, on morning babies.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

And I I would probably rather because people like family can come, grandparents can come that day, yeah, and see and hang, and then like they can get out the door. Like it's not yeah, I any they honestly give you a little bit of rest, too.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Yeah, Jack was 11:32, so it was a good, like, you know, that's such a funny story too, because nobody knew that we were there.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Yeah, that was a wild one. We were so do you want to talk about that?

SPEAKER_02 12:55

Yeah, pretty quickly. Like, when we had Jack, I was so adamant that I did not want to be worried about anything else other than giving birth or who was in the room. Like, just I wanted to be so present that I was not worried about anybody else. And so part of that for me was not telling people that we went to the hospital. I did not want, I just know myself. I just know myself, and I knew not that any of our family had done anything to like make me feel pressured, but I was like, I don't want anybody there. Like, I don't want anybody waiting on me. I do not want somebody waiting out there three doors away, waiting for somebody to go to leave me immediately to go tell them what happened or or whatever the case may be. I was like, I feel like this is one of the only times I can really prioritize what I want in this situation, and um and I don't want anybody here, and I don't want anybody to know because I think the difference also because I think even if we would have told people no, I think people would have come and just not bothered us.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Probably, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

It's in some way, at some time, you know what I mean? Like with it being the first, I just think that you know, and I'm not saying who specific like I don't there's nobody like that comes to my mind, but I just think like if yeah, if our families or people knew like there's a possibility that they would have come, like just being like, Oh, I'm not gonna bother them, but I just want to be here, like a case or whatever, like that. I did not want that, not that I don't love our families, I just I didn't want anybody there, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

Which is totally fine, yeah. Like totally valid.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

That that is not at that point, and I I was very adamant that I did not want anyone to know that was not gonna be there. There's nobody there, because I did not, did not want to look over at any point in time and maybe trying my hardest to push him out and Jeremiah be on his phone texting somebody back. That was my like biggest thing. Is I was like, you are not gonna be like updating people or like sending texts or having people call you to ask how it's going.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

We'll just FaceTime for the third one, though. Anybody that wants to know, we'll just give him a give him a quick update.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

No, I I was very adamant about that. Yeah, and so we did not tell anybody. I think at this time we had dogs, and um, I think we told one person only to come let the dogs out.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

Like I told my best friend because I was like, listen, we can't if we tell one side of the family and not the other, that's game over. So it has to be a me just like a a non, like a third party. Bipart, yeah, bipartisan. And so told her, and that was it. And then um we told people once he was bored. So like we didn't tell anybody that we were going to the hospital, we were just like, hey, he's here. I literally so vividly remember I was pretty by the book with my first pregnancy, as far as like pretty by the book. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 15:56

A hundred percent pretty by the book, yeah. Yeah, like more than pretty by the book.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

I, you know, only have the recommended.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Savannah is a rule follower, in case you didn't know or have not picked up on that yet. She's a rule follower to a T. Guess who's not a rule follower? This guy. Yeah, it's quite annoying. Um, but it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 16:14

I am a Jersey Mike's stan. I love Jersey Mics, but I did not have it. I stan. Like I that is I'm a fan. Look that up. It's a it's a phrase. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Like Stan? I've never heard that in my life. Okay, continue.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Um I'm just upset. It's like my favorite sandwich place, and I am a turkey sandwich connoisseur. Okay, I don't care what you say, I love a turkey provolone sandwich. So Jersey Mike's has the best. And so I did not eat that my whole pregnancy. And I was so like that was my first meal. Like some people like raw steak, not raw steak, but like rare steak. And some people were like sushi, yada yada. No, I wanted a cold Jersey Mike sandwich.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

So I remember because you warmed your turkey meat up.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Yeah, that's what I was I just did you say that okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

I was reading what Stan was. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Did did I use that appropriately? You did.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

I've never heard that. Uh an excessive, an extremely or excessively enthusiastic and devoted fan.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

Okay. Never heard that. Where have you heard that before?

SPEAKER_02 17:21

That's everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Oh, that's not true. That's not true. Okay. All right, let's take a poll. Let's let's just leave in the comments. Is have you ever heard of what a stan is before? Like, do you know what a stan is without googling it? Let me know because that's not common. There's no way that's common.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

You're just not hip.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

I've been here for 26 years and I've never heard that one time.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

You're not that hip.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Oh, oh, so you're hip now because you know what a stan is.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

How do you not?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Regardless. I wanted my Jersey mics. And the way that I told my family that he was born is I said, you can bring a number seven Mike's way, no tomatoes, to room whatever room we were in, and come meet Jack. And they were like, aha, like what? And dad said, okay, we're stopping and then we'll be there. Um, and that was how I told my parents that I had my child. I gave them my Jersey Mike's order and my room number.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

We told them that was gonna happen though.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

So we did tell them. I said, y'all aren't gonna tell you. What did we get this time? What did they do? We did prepare them. We told them. We were like, we're not gonna tell you until he's here. So this time we didn't even try. Somebody had our child. Um, was it not the same? I don't remember actually. I I rem I vividly remember them coming.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

We needed breakfast, my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

No, they came in the afternoon.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

They came afternoon, yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Lunchish. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

That really is one of the best parts about having a kid.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

You get a lot of food.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

You get a lot of free food.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

You know, and at that time you're so post-barded, so you're like, I don't freaking care.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Yeah. Well, your food is for survival at that point. Like, yeah, food is literally fuel for survival. Yeah, you can't. Because you don't sleep for three days straight. It's just you don't sleep. You have 72 hours of no sleep.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

We were there for like barely 36 hours.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:11

We got there at almost midnight on the 25th. Which would have been a Tuesday night at lunch on the 27th.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

On a Thursday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Yeah. Because we were like, hey, I can't stay here again.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Yeah, I know. We he we moved things right or wrong. Yeah. We were we were ready to go.

SPEAKER_02 19:28

He was rocking and rolling. I was rocking and rolling. I said, get me to my bed.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Yeah. So they sent us off. And it turned out he was the last baby delivery of your doctor ever.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Yes. That's so great. That was kind of cool. Yeah. I got to see him like I guess it was a month or two ago. Yeah. And uh show him picture and stuff. It's so so weird.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

He took pictures. He was so proud. He did take pictures. He was so glad he had to be able to do it.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Well, it's like he'd been delivering for almost 40 years. Yeah. Very 40 years.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Very popular.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

40 years of delivering babies. So he um yeah, he called him his caboose. Tate was his caboose. So crazy.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Back this episode hard a little bit here. Total change of uh conversation.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

That's not we're talking about how the nice the food is. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Because we have we don't get any good food during this. No, we don't. Uh we're on we because we did no desserts. You have to pick it up. You can do any diet you want, but what have you picked to, you gotta stick to. So we should have changed up our picking in the beginning.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

How should we have done it? Just calories and calories.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

I think we should have allowed like should have is a weird, we could have allowed like one dessert every two weeks or something like that. Something like super small, but just something like a little keep you going. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

No.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

We're better.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Weak.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

We're better than you.

SPEAKER_01 20:51

We're so toxic. We're so toxic. For each other and for everyone else. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Uh no, it's fun. That is one of the funny things though. You have to literally sit and be like, no. We can do this.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

It's such a mind game. It's where were we at? The wedding.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Yeah, the wedding. Everyone's eating wedding cake.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

And I just looked at them with the case.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

It was oh, some amazing. My brother got married, and it was they had really good pizza.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

Um it was a food truck situation, and it was good food. And here's what I want to know. I I don't really think it wasn't good food. I think it was good food. Was it good food? Or were we like Carbonate's extremely good food? We just really want this pizza.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

Carbonate is extremely good pizza.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

But it's pizza and pasta and salad and all that fun stuff. It was it was Jeremiah's holy grail of pizza. It was correct. Alfredo's been an Alfredo, like a white pizza type of guy. Like he loves like the Alfredo. Yeah, yeah. They had a and I am gosh, there's just nothing I love more than wedding cake. Like I live.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

She had to change her statement there. She was gonna say, I'm a hoe for wedding cake. I know you.

SPEAKER_02 22:02

I love cake. Anyways. And so we're just looking at her kids, just like chowing down. We let Jack have a wedding cake and Jack and Jeremiah are staring at each other.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

This is Van looked at me and said, We are better than everyone here.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

It's so bad. I just have to remind. I'm just like, no.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

That's not how we really feel, people.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

No, it's just when you have to tell yourself to get through the moment.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

That's right, exactly. You just have to lie to yourself a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Yeah, you do. You 100% how you lie to yourself.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

But in the middle of this, it is.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

I mean, like the fattest plate you've ever seen of just freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. And I was like, I didn't want one.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Yeah. You don't want one. I want my Chibani drink.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

I want my Chabani yogurt protein drink.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

That's what I want.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

I want a chocolate chip cookie. Like, what the gosh, this sucks.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

I'm telling you guys, this is what we talked about three weeks ago. We idolize food. It is an idol. Everyone in the world, everyone in the U.S. idolizes food.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

How do people do this alone? How do you do this without somebody?

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Hats off to Liz Fullerton. She did this. I never understand. She did this with two kids.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

In uh what time of the year? Did she go into winter? It was fall. She did it right after we did it.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

She did it long after us, and we ended in July. So she probably did it into early fall.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

So not winter. I was gonna say winter in Michigan, but no, it was fall. But storms. We were talking in Florida, we were talking. She was like, Oh yeah, I was literally, there were times I was in a thunderstorm out there walking with an umbrella. Um, but man, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

Were they in the camper?

SPEAKER_00 23:41

No, they were still in the uh uh apartment, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Okay, I couldn't remember that timeline.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

So man, it's great, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

Um because like if I would have looked over to that wedding and you would have been eating wedding cake, I'd have been like giving it up.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

I would have given up so fast. And and you know, oh man. Say it. Yeah, um this week's been rough because old buddy here got diagnosed with flu last week.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

He was diagnosed with flu.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Tested positive.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Jeez, yeah, I couldn't.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

I'm a I'm a patient zero over here.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Yeah, because you want tell why.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

Why what?

SPEAKER_02 24:18

You have the flu.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

I don't know why. Oh, because I need the flu shot? Is that what you're trying to get at? The three I have members of this house got the flu shot. I have not gotten the flu shot in eight years. Yeah, I couldn't tell you the last time.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Controversial topic here, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

It's not controversial anymore. Uh I haven't gotten in a long time.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

Vaccines last year shots are not controversial. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Oh, I thought she went between me and you.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Oh no, I just needed general feels very differently.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

I did not get the flu shot. Uh last year was the first year I got in the flu in a long time. I got it last year. Last year got me bad. Um, I remember time and place. I know exactly where I got it from.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

You they made me take Tama flu. You remember that? Yeah, because I forgot because I was pregnant and I was like kind of worried long, and they were like, you do not need to get that. And I was like, I did not want to get that.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Yeah. Um I know exact time and place where I got it, who I got it from. I I can track it back.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

Shook hands with the person that had the flu.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Mid, like he, but he was in the early stages of it.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

He had not been he was even symptomatic yet when Jeremy got it from him.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

He but he was that night, like it was very quick. It was hours, it was hours, and so we're how this spreads. Like how quick I that happened last year. That took me it took him a week almost to get back. And this one's gonna take a week too.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Jack and I had the flu shot last year. Correct. We never got it from him.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

So this year's around, did not get a flu shot again, and this year got it from one of my employees, his whole family had it. And I don't even know how I got it from him. Like, we haven't even really interacted that much, but I guess I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

That's just the only place that we know that you've got it.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah, it's the only place that I know that have had it. So um I feel I felt bad. It kind of hit me Wednesday nine into the morning. No, Wednesday day. I was totally fine Wednesday morning, half of the day. My right side just was like weird. I was like, I'm dying. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

I thought you thought you pulled something into the water.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

I didn't know what it was, and then by the nighttime, I was like, oh, okay, this is from working out yesterday. This is day two of them.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

We did like a certain exercise, and he was like, This makes sense as a why this works.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

Then I went to bed, woke up at 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

Woke me up at 2 a.m. getting in the shower. I was like, Yeah, what are you doing right now?

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Because it was, dude, I was so cold. I could not be more cold if I tried.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

And then when I woke up, and I was soaked in sweat, I was concerned.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Yeah, and then I got back in the bed and I was in a sweater and I was still cold. Uh I took like a 20-minute shower. That goes your microphone. Yeah, um, tragic. You probably just have to hold it. It may, it may hold itself. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

I don't think it will. It won't.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

You can just hold it right there.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Just hold it right here.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Um got back in the bed, yeah. And could not get warm. So decided I was gonna go that morning and ended up not, and just went through the morning mid-morning. I was like, this is this is I got just got worse. Uh I was sitting in the waiting room.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

You know you can buy like at home.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Flu test?

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe we'll do that for next year.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Uh maybe we'll be your flu shot next year and then we'd worry about it.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

But I was sitting in the waiting room and I was like, this is this is no good. I thought I was gonna be like, This ain't it. It was not good.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Are you nauseous?

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Yeah, I got I started getting nauseous, starting lightheaded, like I did not feel good. And uh then, man, lady comes in, the MP there, so nice. Oh so nice, and prescribes me this miracle little pill called Zofluza. And uh if I you know what if if you know something negative about it, don't tell me because I've already taken it. Right, can't change it out. It's a little too late. Uh, but it was a hundred bucks just for the pill. It was not cheap, but she was like, most people are better within 24 to 36 hours. I said, that's my deal.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Because let's not forget because we were heading into the wedding. His brother was getting married the next day.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Correct. And so uh took that at 12 o'clock. Dude, came home and slept for an hour, and I was fine the rest of the afternoon. Like I felt totally fine. Yeah. Next day, totally fine.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Um let's define totally fine.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

I I was not on my deathbed. I did not. You were tired. You were feeling some chest pain. And I still have the chest pains. My chest is still super heavy, like winded. I can't sneeze. I can't, like, it's hard for me to catch like a deep breath. Yeah. Um, but other than that, I I'm I'm in pretty good shape. Nothing, no, no more fever. Fever never came back, so that was good. Uh so if you get the flu, so flu's that was a uh miracle drug.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

You know, Casey was telling me today though, that like all she has found and has heard that oftentimes people that get prescribed that often feel kind of like they relapse a little bit after a couple days. Because it's almost like that's probably what I felt. That's why she was like, Yeah, that makes sense. Like that you stay at home because she was like, It's almost like your body thinks it's over it, so you like do and do, but like you know, you're you still have to Yeah, because Saturday, Saturday I felt really good. Well, Friday was uh good, but then like you have to remember, like we had the wedding, so like from 3 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

to nine.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

He was up and then we were at the wedding all day, and so because like he had had no it had been 24 hours since the fever at that point, like he was feeling like physically, like sick wise, fine, just the fatigue, like you were just tired, and so obviously power through, and we have both the kids at the wedding, which was yeah, that's fun.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Yeah, they did really good though, they did, they did really good in comparison to what they could have done, or let's just walk it back a little bit, comparatively to what Jack would have done at that age, that what Tate did, let's think about that for a minute, right?

SPEAKER_02 29:57

It would have been different, yeah. But you came home and slept, and then Saturday woke up, felt really good, and I mean he started going nuts, like working in the yard, like pull some big water slot out for Jack, like they're just going ham out there, and I was like, What's happening? Like, what is going on? You've got to chill. And um did our one of the workouts that day and great workouts this weekend. Yeah, he's still gone hard on 75 strong. What?

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Oh, there's three tonight, folks, and she's out of here.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

But they've been walks this weekend, which is there's no shame in that. Like, it's been 45-minute walks for probably like three days now, which is totally fine.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

And I probably have another day or two of that before I before I'm back to like actually weightlifting, slinging weights.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Um, but doing that, and then I had some plans to go play uh mahjong. We didn't talk about mahjong on here.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Who knows what mahjong is? That's not there's no way you know what that is.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

We love mahjong.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Um I've played one time.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

You like it.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Yeah, it was good. I I wouldn't know I hadn't gotten back to play again. So that's right. I did do that first night ever, second game.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

Yeah, first night ever playing he mahjong. Um, anyways, I had plans to play mahjong, and then I come home and he's out working the yard again. I was like, okay, you literally have to stop. Like you have to chill. We had to do a second workout that night. So we did our second workout, and then we got in the bed, and then he woke up this morning and he was like, Yeah, I just cannot get up. Like, you know, he like caught up to him.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Yeah, we did our workout at five this morning, and that was rough. That was rough.

unknown 31:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

Because we that that is what's really hard when they sandwich, like when you do when we have to do like a post-bedtime. Yeah. We don't get our sick one until the kids go to bed. So it's like a 9 a.m. or a 9 p.m. workout and then a 5 a.m. workout. Those are hard. That that that's that's not ideal.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Only 55 more days though. Thank you. 53 more of them joints. But yeah, it's good. Everything's good.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

By the time we've got next week. No, no, no. Math's hard.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

Math is hard for you. Scratch. What are you trying to get to?

SPEAKER_02 32:24

I was gonna say by the time next week, we will have made it a month, but we won't quite have made it an official month yet. It'll be like halfway through the next day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

29 days.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

We're not talking about this.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

No, no, it'll be a 30. Is there 31 or 30 in March? I don't know. I I cannot tell you off the top of my head which is. 31. Okay, well there you go.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

Um, but Saturday's the 28th, which Sunday's the 29th, which means when we record this. Spoiler, we record on Sundays. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

There's no shame in that. That's just the day that we record.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Uh on Sunday we will not have made it a full month. It'll still be the 29th. Yeah. So we are trekking uh long.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

We are barely. We're barely making it. But we're making it.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

This is also Jack's spring break, which means he doesn't go to school this week.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

Get excited. And I have to be out of the church by Thursday.

SPEAKER_02 33:17

And it's Manita's birthday on Thursday. And Tate's party is Saturday.

unknown 33:22

Oh, freak. That's on Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Oh my gosh, this week's gonna be rough. Guys, just say a prayer. Say a prayer. Because our second loot of solids come on Thursday. So we have uh oh, all right.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

Well, say a prayer, folks.

SPEAKER_00 33:35

I'm gonna fight. Okay, she's throwing the mic. Here we go. Pray for me. You may not hear me next week. Uh both out of those two guys. That scrapped us enough. Thanks for tuning in, and we'll catch you here on the next one.