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Welcome to Round four of the Parenting
Roundabout podcast for the week of June fifth.

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I'm Catherine Heleco, and I'm here
with Nicole Heretics, Hello and Terry

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Morrow. Hello. As moms of
teens and young adults, we've survived those

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little kid days, yet we're still
rethinking the decisions we've made all through our

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kids' lives and worrying about what's going
on right now. Today's Thursday, which

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means it's time to give into our
obsessing. And today we're obsessing about New

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Year's resolutions because apparently June first was
New Year's Resolution Recommitment Day. Is that

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right, Terry? Yeah, that's
what I saw online. We are.

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The seriousness with which we take resolutions
is why we are now doing this on

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what day is today? June eighth? So the resolution to celebrate holiday's propertly

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across that puppy off the list.
Yeah, but it didn't happen. Yeah,

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I don't fineral way you can think
about them, I think, Yeah,

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I mean I don't really. I
don't usually do resolutions, you know,

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I if I if I do set
a goal, it's it's just when

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it when it comes to mind.
You know what I mean, like,

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like several years ago, when I
decided to do weight Watchers, it was

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literally like a whim where. Yeah, in like towards late July, I

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was like, I'm gonna do weight
Watchers. I'm gonna start right now,

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right like download the app and just
go as well. So that my way

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in was we're always on Wednesday instead
of Monday, which would be a more

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normal time to do it, right, or a Friday or whatever. Ye,

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So yeah, I'm I'm not that
much of a resolution. Uh person,

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do you have any on the burner
right now? Do you have any

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resolutions that how you have picked up
on a whim that you are still doing

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or have recently dumped recently dumped?
Um, I mean I got I got

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a new job. I don't know
if that counts. Sure, you know

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that was a whim applying for that
and then and then getting it. Yeah,

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but I suppose that's the kind of
thing that's like in the back of

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my mind, you know, like
I have job alert set up right,

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I'm always like somewhat looking Yeah,
but this was a sort of a different

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kind of a thing that I didn't
necessarily expect or expect to do or plan

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to do right? Did it well? So you resolved to find something of

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a job like nature and you have
followed into it. Yeah, excellent you.

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How about you a nixed bag?
I guess. I remember on January

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for I had found this thing online
that was to like help you keep your

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new Year's resolution. It was a
list of about ten or eleven things that

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you were going to resolve to do. And every day you would check these

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things off. And they were,
you know, get up early and eat

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good food and drink this much water, and they were all good things that

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I have at one time or another
in my life resolved to do. But

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they were all listed there nicely,
and I cut and pasted it into the

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Artful Agenda, and every day I
was checking those off for three or four

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days, maybe not quite all of
them, for three or four weeks,

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and then oh I could just do
this stuff without having a list. In

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a way it went. But I
had that work out for you. Yeah,

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so not not so well. I
don't go by the rigid rules,

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man, I just do my thing. But I had, like I'm trying

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to think when I started doing this
Kitty's Morning Glories rosary. Yeah, it

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was sometime between us the summer or
fall of last year, and okay,

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so it was that a long time. Yeah, that involves she does it

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at six am, and I really
liked the idea of getting up at six

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am to say prayers. But it's
six am Louisiana time, so it's seven

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am here, which is not quite
so exciting. So I do get up

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at six am. I started getting
up at six am, saying some other

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prayers, doing some stuff. Then
at seven to eight I would do this

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rosary. And I've had various routines
thereafter that have come and gone, but

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I have stuck to that, and
I'm really proud of myself. I am

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still getting up at six most days
and saying prayers and then doing this rosary

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from seven to eight and from eight
to nine on the weekends. And I've

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built up other little prayer habits which
I am not as consistent with, but

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I'm pretty consistent with this one.
So I'm feeling very good. I'm saying

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that was resolution and I'm still keeping
it, even though I made it prior

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to the first but I recommit myself
to it here and now it's recommitment Day.

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It is recommitment day, and I
recommit all right, feels good.

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I like it. I like getting
up earlier, and for a while I

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was then after the rosary getting back
in bed and working in bed until like

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one or two or three o'clock in
the afternoon, and then taking a shower

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and getting dressed, which was silly. So I'm trying not to do that.

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So that's my latest commitment. Now
you just don't take a shower at

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all, that's right. Why you
can get out of bed at all?

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I could just live there. People
serve me my food. I'm trying to

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use the post rosary hour to like, you know, take a shower and

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get dressed and get breakfast and stuff
like that. So we'll see how long

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that lasts. But the praying,
praying, I'm in pretty good, so

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I'm proud of myself on that,
nice nicole. Have you picked up any

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good habits? Well, we'll move
right along then. Um, I'm paying

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more attention to the amount of calories
I eat. Paying attention does not mean

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doing anything about it, but it's
the first step. You can pay attention

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by saying, yeah, I bet
four thousand calories right there. Can't minimize

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my efforts. It's all good.
You have to start somewhere. Yeah,

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I have a problem is the first
step I do get on my my bike

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a lot more, my exercise bike. I do do that. I'm sleeping

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better, I have better sleep good. Um what else? And then there's

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some goals that I just haven't reached
yet, and that's okay. Yeah,

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yeah, Solili that was the song
at theation. Oh oh gosh, that

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one just reaches into your tear ducts
and squeezes. I know. Surely when

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you have a kid for whom to
climb, it was particularly no kidding.

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Couldn't there have been a tram to
take to the top of the man come

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on from the Hannah Montana movie.
I much prefer the hohdown throwdown. That's

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I wish they would have done that. At graduation. We could have all

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just got up and done some line
dances. Yes, absolutely. Can you

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imagine, like the kids were already
in lines, they were sitting in chairs

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in rows. They could have just
stood up and yeah, sounds good,

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done it. It's such a good
song. Yeah yeah with that soundtrack,

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haven't you it's such a good scene
in that movie. Oh well, way,

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yeah, we still hope, I
mean what we have six months left?

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Sure? Yes, we do.
That's why we're recommitting today. Yeah,

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another thing I was going to do
At the beginning of the year,

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I signed up to this Dance and
Co which is an online dance and exercise

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program done by various Dancing with the
Stars people, and I was going to

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do that every morning. And that
did not last very long. But I

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have just started it again. I
am only doing fifteen minutes of each video,

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but I am doing them. Yeah, it's been a week. I

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did them pay one week. That's
a commitment, go me, yes,

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so we go. Yes. Well
I believe that was That was one of

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your Roundabout roundup items. Yes,
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