Made uh de same, Joe, I'll face sunny sune on. I had
a vision like nice. So let's up, everybody, what is up?
I'm happy twenty twenty four. Oh my god, it's twenty twenty four.
I remember when my kids were like at the preschool and you know, people
would go, oh when they graduated high school, it's going to be twenty
twenty four, Like, oh my god, that's so far away. It's
now year. It's scary and I hate it. I don't like it.
I know Elbie was born in two thousand and four, twenty years ago.
Wow, she'll be twenty this year. That's crazy. I know my kids
are going to be eighteen this year. Isn't that insane? I know I
don't like it. I don't like it either, you see, Kaylin,
this is your future. But at the same time, like now that my
twins are sixteen, I do I am really trying to appreciate this time and
trying to do too, and not just because not just like oh I only
have like two years left, but like the baby years were so hard,
you know, so so hard, and I just remember thinking like will it
ever feel that thing of like we just have a family, like right,
it was there ever going to be a time that things are just kind of
good, right, And now I look at my twins and for the first
time in so long, they have friends. Like they're both they're both happy,
right, you know, they're knock on wood. They both seem to
be yes, yes, thriving, and like, you know, we can
get into like what everybody did for what holiday, but like they're just both
doing their thing, getting good grades, like enjoying their school. And I
don't think I've had that in so many years. Like all the elementary there
was always like stuff going on and either either Xander was going through something major
or then Sadie was that going through something kind of major and all the trials
and tribulations, and now they're just pretty fine. Obviously life has ups and
downs, but it's like I just go, oh my gosh, my older
one is fine right now, my younger ones are fine. Everybody's fine,
Like, oh, let me just try to be present in the time of
life for and but I understand also I do have my moments where I'm like,
holy shit, I hate it. I will go away, then I'll
be on the final Then what am I going to do? Well? That's
what I'm saying. I mean, my kids are both gone at the same
time, and maybe maybe we'll see any updates on the college stuff for them.
Natalia's pretty much going wants to do Santa Barbara, that's what she wants
to do. Oh but did she find out if she go to her but
she but she early decisioned. Uh yeah, I don't think it happened or
we didn't hear anything yet, so there's nothing. There's no news there.
She did get into. I think she would have a couple Yeah, she
would have heard by now. No, I'm saying if she didn't hear that
she didn't, then there's every possibility she still did. Oh really, I
think so, se Yeah, you've been through it. I don't know.
Well, just because of my stupid paying for college one oh one Facebook group,
I hear all the time people that say their kid applied to Early Decision
and just found out they were deferred or or rejected. Yeah, well,
I don't know. In Sunny and she didn't hear from the other one either.
Miami, No, I don't think she's getting into Miami. No.
Okay, that's where she wants to go. Okay, and she applied anywhere
else. Yeah, she applied to like six or seven I think. Okay,
yeah, and so her backup plan is still going to community college in
Santa Barbara. That's what she wants to do no matter what. Oh she
does, Yeah, unless she gets into Miami, because that's where she wants
to go. But what's the Texas one? I think if she does too,
but if she gets an early decision, if she gets into that,
then yes she'll go there, right okay, Okay, Okay, and Sunny
so then and Sunny Sunny heard back from uh. I think Montana and Washington
so far, and that's it as far as I know. But did he
get in or no? Yeah, he got in to Washington State, Yeah,
Wazoo Yeah, Okay, is he inst in either of those? He
really wants to go to Colorado? Okay, he hasn't heard yet, hasn't
heard yet. Okay, So that's where we're at there. But yeah,
I'm like in six months things are just gonna change, and you know,
they're going to be eighteen and also now like they're driving, so they don't
need me anymore as much, you know. But but we had a good
like you know, they were with their dad for Christmas, and I went
to Chicago for Christmas and and then I came back and then I spent this
last weekend with them New Year's Weekend, which was fun. I spent all
day watching football with Sunny on Saturday. Sunday, yeah, Sunday, and
then Monday was a big Yesterday was a big the Michigan Alabama game. Watched
it? Did you watch it? Everybody watched us? Everybody watched it.
Great. Yeah, Michigan Alabama. Yeah yeah, same with Sunny. Yeah,
same with us. Yeah, and uh we because we lived close to
the Rose Ball so we heard the Fighter Jets go over. It was like
really exciting, said, he had like ten guys over all day. Oh,
and you were trying to get tickets, but yeah, but we didn't
know it's and and he was like, I'm I was fine watching it at
home with my friends and being at the stadium with like one friend. They
had like nine or ten guys over all day watching football. It was like,
So I watched football with just Sunny on Sunday. Wait, and then
yes, and then watch it Washington watched I didn't ending if that was great
as well. Washington, Texas. Yeah, it was a great game.
Yeah, you didn't watch that one, no, because I was leaving football.
He was with his friends, like even to college football there and watch
football with him and his friends. But but on Sunday, NFL we watched
football. You gave me a whole story about Joe Flacco on the Browns,
because the brown it's a great story, the story. Browns are my team,
and they suck bad for years and they're notoriously like have been the worst,
the worst laughing stock kind of the NFL can't ever draft the right quarterback.
And yeah, Joe flaccos of Super Bowl winning quarterback who pretty much retired
like he was out of it. But they had such bad problems on the
Browns with quarterback, you know, Deshaun Watson got in and then they were
trying to get some other guys they didn't work out. So they got Joe
Flacco to essentially come back, and he's just been like lighting it up every
game. He throws for like over three hundred yards. He's like the second
oldest player in history to throw for over three hundred yards in three straight games.
Oh wow, so cute too, He's kind of cute. And also
they're in the playoffs. The Browns. Now they've won like every game he's
been story come back, He's gonna be come back, comeback Player of the
Year. Yeah, and it's funny too because he's so you know, he's
very again super Bowl winning, he spent all his time with the Ravens,
but he so he's very seasoned, so like he's been there, done that.
So every time they cut to him, like on the bench, he's
just like sitting there with like at one point he puts his eyes down and
all the memes were like, I'm just trying to take a nap in between
taking care of the carpool lines. He showed me the Sonny showed me those
memes. Yeah, that's like, here's Joe Black, I'll taking a nap
on the sideline. Like just jokes about him being old. Yeah, like
he's a dad and he's old. He's kind of like a Tom Brady,
Yeah, a little you know, it kind of reminds me of Tom Brady,
like a little older in his career. But yeah, like very interesting.
So spend all day on Sunday watching football with Sunny, and then yesterday
on Monday, on New Year's Day, was he was with his friends and
then I watched most of the game, like, you know, just upstairs
because they were downstairs. And then did Sunny talk at all about how I
won the fantasy football League? No, he didn't tell me anything. Well,
yeah, when did he find out on Sunday? On Sunday? Yeah,
oh yeah he did. I was going to ask him about the football
league and I totally forgot. So you won. Yeah, that's right,
I'm the champion. That's right. You were in it. Oh wow,
that's a big win. Yeah, it was it good money. Oh nice,
Aleen, congratulations, you very proud. Nice. Yeah, Kaylin had
a good second. Yeah, second. Best thing that happened to me on
New Year's Eve. Everybody needs to listen to Patreon. Yeah you'll hear why
join Patreon, which you'll hear tomorrow. Good good story, good Sunny,
a really funny story. Yeah yeah, okay, so you watched TV lets
a lot of like you know, it's just a good weekend with the kids
and what they do for New Year's Eve. They both went to the same
party, which is weird because this party, when I find on Life three
sixty, was right down the street from our old warehouses, the old studio.
Oh like literally right right, there, and I guess that there's some
there was some party at a at a park that their friends at their school
had hosted whatever, But the two of them they went and they came home
like it was like twelve forty five. She had her friends spend the night.
Sunny and his friends came back to the house, went to the theater
and hung out and it was nice. And then I stayed home like waiting
for them. You know, I was on the phone with friends all night
watching Andy Cohen and I just love Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper on CNN,
which was fun. Did you want? It was like one of the gayest
New year'sy? I love? It was so funny and again drink again Yes
he was drinking. Yes. At one point it was just like all of
this whole line of gay men like bringing in the New Year, and I
was like, this is so appropriate. There's something very gay about New Ye's.
Y. Yeah, I mean yeah, they after the ball dropped,
it was like the first kiss of the year was two guys. Yeah really
yes, yes, yeah, it was a gay New Year. Yeah,
it was really fun. Did you so you watched Andy Collins? Uh?
I went to a party? What would you do for New Year's I went
crazy. I went I just got crunk, you know me, just drank
my face off. Now I went to my friend, my little mom group
of friends, my one mom friend, Laura, the one who's the one
whose daughter I always have to like repeat this for people, but her,
she's my mom that I met, og mom friend, first true mom friend
I had that I met at Mommy and Me. Yeah, and our daughters
have been friends for their whole lives. Yes, they we met when when
they were six months old. But she likes to have a party at her
house every New Year's Eve for the parents or for the parents and the kids.
It was so funny because it was a this is one of those awkward
things which I'm sure you remember from when our kids were a little bit younger.
But she was trying to have it be for adults. But you know,
you get these people that are like rsvping like with their kids. Yes,
like and then she she was like, yeah, so I mean just
FYI like this is like, you know, adults party. But like she's
also not trying to be like you can't bring your kids cuse she doesn't want
that to be a deal breaker. But also like what she basically said,
listen, my kids aren't going to be there, just FYI like yeah,
so but then some of the kids came, but then they were like,
we're going to do something with each other and we're probably going to go out.
But then they were like, oh, appetizers, so they were kind
of like pouring themselves drinks, got my kid. My kids weren't there,
and then you know, just like hanging out in a corner. This was
kind of funny, and Laura was telling me after she was like, yeah,
it was kind of awkward because I told some people like, hey,
no kids, but then here's some kids that are like, well, they
weren't supposed to be there, but then they're like, oh, well why
wouldn't we be here. There's like free alcohol and food. So they were
hanging out. Then they finally left, and then really it wouldn't it didn't
matter. It was like chill there maybe like fifteen of us. Yeah,
we were talking. Susanna and I were talking about this last night because she
stayed home with her boyfriend, didn't do anything, and uh, we were
talking about because we're going to have our ABC girls night, like instead of
doing it, do the holidays everybody's so busy. We're doing it this Friday,
and it's like, it would be great if we could all get together
have a New Year's Eve party. But the problem is is, like Susanna
and I, our kids are grown and they're not hanging out with us on
New Year's Eve, right, But the other girls at ABC have little kids,
and what do you do? You know, it's like, well,
then whose house are you gonna have it at? And then the kids like
it? And then if I had it, I guess I would say bring
your little kids. So I guess you got to do that, Like you
know, it's just you never you just don't. Nobody has a party.
That's what ends up happening. Well, the funny thing is, so we
have a neighbor. Our neighbor messaged me they have a like a one year
old kid, and he messaged me, Hey, is there any way either
of your kids would could babysit for us on New Year's Eve? We'll pay
two hundred dollars. We're only going to be gone from like seven thirty to
twelve thirty. And so I was going to enlist Sadie and Xander at a
babysit for them. Because I was like, what are you guys going to
do in New Year's even nothing? Dad and I are going somewhere, but
they're not gonna want to go, so they were like, well, okay,
And then then the guy, I think he got nervous because he has
a one year old, so oh, I said, you know, when
my kids were little, never went out on New Year's I think we went
out one year because our ex nanny at the time. So I had a
nanny from the time that the kids came home from the hospital till they were
like two, almost exactly my nanny, Liz, because I was writing a
book. John was working full time and I was on a book deadline.
But the second the kids started going to preschool, I did not have a
nanny. But she's still like friend of the the family, so we could
call one year and she's Jehovah's witness, so like her, he didn't celebrate
any holidays, so it's kind of yeah, it was kind of great,
like she was available for stuff. You don't celebrate birthdays like, although they
do celebrate anniversaries, so I'm not one hundred percent sure they don't do New
Year's but anyway, one year she came over and babysat on New Year's Eve
and we went and did something other than that. It was like too expensive.
Nobody was available to babysit, so we never went out. Now,
I would say that the last couple of years is when my friend Laura started
having a party and we, oh, like a couple of years ago,
we brought the kids to her house. Yeah. Remember last year was the
first year they stayed home alone. Uh huh. So they were just had
just turned fifteen, so we left them home alone, and this year they're
sixteen. So anyway, they were gonna babysit, but the guy got nervous,
I think, and like went out to a bunch of people and then
got some y'elle said yes. So by the time I asked the kids,
which was, you know, like whatever, he was like, oh,
never mind, I got somebody else, and I was like okay. So
I told the kids, you guys can invite people over. So they invited
some friends over. So we left them home alone with us out of the
house. I bought them like cupcakes with like I bought them like New Year's
Eve cupcakes. I made some onnion dip. I ordered them some pizza.
I was like, have a good time. I pulled Xander aside and I
was like, listen, motherfucker. You know there's alcohol in our liquor cabinet.
We know exactly how much we know every single one of those bottles,
Like what's in there? And I said, and here's the thing, Like,
I'm not saying that you're never going to experiment with alcohol. Uh huh.
I know that it leaves Xander has not up until this point, just
because I know that kid very well and I know where he is at all
times, and he's not been in a situation to anyway. Anyway. The
point is he was like, Mom, I wouldn't. And I was like,
no, no, I'm not saying you would, but like you're having
some friends over, and like, I know, I know what I was
up to at your age, and what I was up to was like,
hey, do your parents have any liquor in their cabinet? You know?
And I was in a special case. Yes, did I turn out to
be an alcoholic, Yes, But that's separate from the fact that all of
my friends were like, let's rate our parents' liquor cabinet. That was a
that was what you did, right, New Year's Eve? Are you kidding?
Yeah, I would have been like New Year's right. So I said,
it's just the problem is, you know, we're not going to be
home and if somebody doesn't know there. I'm not saying like I would ever
sanction it, but I'm saying, what's dangerous is that? Again, I'm
not saying like, oh, if we're home, it's okay, of course
not, but I'm saying, I know, I'm seek gone. If you
guys got into the liquor cabinet and some one of your friends was like,
Hey, I'm gonna pour myself some vodkas. It's vodka, you know,
then we could come home to an emergency situation. I was like, so
you tell your friends, Hey, my parents are real hard asses and they
know what's in there, and it's just not okay. And so Xander was
like, okay, of course, don't worry about it. And then when
we debriefed the next day, he did tell me that one of the kids
that came over was complaining. But this this one of the kids was like,
they go to a school where like all ages of kids hang out together,
you know, because it's so small. So one of the kids who
was like a junior apparently was just like, well this sucks, like no
booze, like no pot, like you know, let's go find a real
party, you know. And Xander was like, heyw but end of the
night we came home and that person that he's talking about was like happily eating
pizza, needing a cupcake mariot, So I guess he had nowhere to go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's kind of funny.
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so it was it was really fun. Yeah, he had a good time.
Yeah. You know who was there, Our our buddy Adam Lerner extraordinaire.
Yeah, and I showed him. There's some people made some Facebook posts
about Adam and how we love yeah, and he's not in the group.
So I was like, he was kind of drunk, which was hilarious.
Yeah, and he was telling me stories about the different people from for crying
out, like oh really helped get cars? Yeah, oh cute. Yeah,
and then he was gossiping about nobody from f c OL, but somebody
who was like super difficult, you know. I like stories like that.
Yeah, he was somebody that was like driving him crazy. Uh. He
says he loves all f c OL people. He's like, you guys have
the best people, the best listeners do. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah,
that's nice. So since I just said that Adam's got a car dot
com, go to his website if you need a car broker to get you
a car. Yeah. So he was there because his wife, Cecily,
is my really good friend, and it was like, you know what it
was. I you know, I don't know if you know this, but
I don't drink, so what I know, crazy new information. But it's
when you don't drink. I'm always happy afterwards because like I don't have a
hangout. Yeah. I always think like there wasn't really any reason to anyway,
but always in the moment, even when people my age are like people
were doing jello shots, you know. So I was feeling a little bit
like, okay, well, like how much cheese can you really eat?
I sort of like sat in one place and just like took all comers,
you know, like if you're sitting next to me, I'm gonna have a
conversation with you. You get to know. So when when a friend of
ours, like in our big friend circle, the husband, I'd never really
had a long conversation with him before. I didn't know him that well,
but he happened to be sitting next to me, so I was like,
what's up with you, what's your deal? And I heard his whole,
like a whole story about freaking narcissistic parents, and I was like, Okay,
I hit the gold mine, you know. And then he and I
sat and talked about like our n parents and you know, being estranged from
this one or that one. And I was like, by the end of
it, I'm like, this is how it used to be when I was
doing cocaine and you'd find out a bunch of stuff about somebody because you were
super interested in their lives. And I was like, oh, I'm high
on life and finding out Yeah, And I felt closer to this to this
guy. I already knew the It's one of those things where the moms,
the women go out sort of for to celebrate each other's birthdays. We'll all
get together, but usually we don't bring the husbands to that, right,
So I hadn't had I haven't really sat and talked to him before. It
was nice. Yeah, that's nice. That's awesome. Yeah, and John
went John went to Yeah, uh and he he had some good conversations.
It's always good to get him out of the house. That's awesome. Nice.
Let's let's turn the heat off because I'm like in asana right now.
I'm just gonna say I'm for once, I'm feel d thoded. Oh.
I think it's because I'm like, yeah, I'm sitting here, I'm in
the line of fire. Yeah, Kaylin, you don't even have to edit
that. Let them see, let them peep by the curtain scenes. Yeah.
So just know what a diva I am about room temperature. Yeah.
So, anyway, got home, the kids were fine. I have to
say it was like the first I was the year before, leaving the kids
home alone. I was a little bit less comfortable. I mean I was
comfortable, but I was a little bit like, oh, we should get
home to them. You know, we had just turned fifteen. But for
some reason, they're they're like adults. I know, they're different. It
is year between fifteen and sixteen is a big one. Yeah, yeah,
I could see that. Yeah, it is, it's it's it's different.
My kids were in New York for the week of Christmas and I went to
a crazy Christmas Eve, no Christmas Day story. So was in Chicago and
got to so I got into pretty late. And it's a tradition that they
we go to Bob Chin's seafood restaurant in Chicago, Okay, and for Christmas
Eve to do the seafood. Is my favorite food. I well, all
time, it is it. I love it too. Yeah, yeah,
well they guys would love Bob Chins. But soon my crabs oysters. I
have a story about going out for oysters December thirtieth. But go on,
well these they are crabs. Their crab legs are just like eating a steak
when you take it out of the shell. Oh my god, I know.
So you know, it's the tradition for Italians seafood on Christmas Eve.
Blah blah blah. So I was coming in on Christmas Eve. I was
getting in late, and they made reservations the latestest possible, like eight forty
five, nine o'clock. I get there, I get in the uber,
I go to Bob Chin's it's like the doors closed. It's like, oh,
it's Christmas Eve and it's cleared out by now. Now it's like ten
o'clock, ten thirty, but they're still open. They're still open. There's
probably a couple of tables. My family's there, you know, and a
couple other tables of family, and that's it. It's Christmas Eve. They're
wrapping it up there. They want out, right. Oh, so they
stopped serving or whatever. So Wendy had like three crab or four crab legs
that she kept for me. So I was that's all I needed. I
just wanted before you because I got into town Lake. Oh okay, sorry,
they lived there, right, Okay, okay, so they made the
lady you came straight from the airport. Yeah, hi, I told them
just just go, I'll join in progress. Yeah, because I was coming
in on Christmas Eve. So so I get there and she saved me like
four crab. That's all I wanted was crab. That's it. I didn't
need anything else. That's all I wanted. Nothing else. No I loshed
potatoes or spin I mean they got they saved the rolls and stuff, the
side dishes, but I really wanted those crab light. So it's like,
that's it, That's all I need. So I get there. She's got
the four crab legs, so they're wrapping it up. So we were done.
We get in the car. Nicholas is driving, you know, driving
me, and you know, Nicholas and Anthony, they they and Wendy they
all live like, you know, a few miles apart from each other,
which is nice. So I'm staying with Wendy. So Nicholas drives us,
drops us off at Wendy's at Wendy's house. Now, Wendy and I are
like exhausted. I've been traveling. She's tired. You know. She does
every Christmas morning everybody she had everybody bring their gifts to her house drop them
off. So everybody comes to her place and everybody opens presents, you know,
and she does this whole Christmas day. She gets bagels from Coffin's Bagels.
She gets corned beef and roast beef and egg bread and rye bread and
this, and then she makes she makes this incredible Oh my god, it's
called wait what is it. It's a French toast casserole. Oo, oh
my mother, It's like delicious okay. She so she's got it all made.
She showed me. All she has to do tomorrow morning is just she
doesn't have anything to do. The house is clean. Just put the food
out, pop the thing in the oven. Done, you know, everybody
come over and just graze all day and eat and open presents. Okay,
So we go to bed. We're like, we didn't eat anything, we
didn't drink anything. We got home, she showed me the food whatever,
went upstairs to go to bed. Our plan, well, her plan was
she wanted to get up first thing, early in the morning, at like
seven, and go to Nicholas's house because Nicholas had the new babies only six
months. It's his first Christmas. So she's, you know, wants to
spend Christmas morning with him and then come back to the house. So I
said, I'll go with you. Wake me, you know, wake me
up. So seven point thirty, I think, or eight o'clock I wake
up, and she didn't come and wake me up. And I go into
her room and she has been throwing up, coming out of both ends all
night long. Her arms, her fingers are tingly. She can barely talk.
Food poisoning, shellfish, shellfish, food poisoning even could have been batchulism.
Oh it couldn't. It was it because and I come to find out
later she was, uh, I think it was Nicholas's wife or my somebody
said that they were. They She was opening up one of the crab legs.
All of them were like the regular size big. There was a smaller
one in the bunch, and she cracked it open and it was discolored and
weird, and then she took she she ate, but she ate it anyway,
but she was like, this is weird. And then that she got
sick. Oh wow, So yeah, she was not this is She's like
thinking she's going to ruin Christmas, because you know, she's the one that
hosts Christmas. She didn't get it. She wasn't able to go see the
baby, you know, blah blah blah. So I knew, like it
could have been like a virus, but I was like, no, she's
got food poisoning. It feels very food poisoning. And we just ate at
a shellfish restaurant. And if you look up the shellfish food poisoning on the
CDC, which we did, she had all of the everything, every symptom.
She couldn't she could barely speak. So my nephew came out, came
over early. Matthew came over really early to help, you know, like
because at first I was like, well, we're gonna have to postpone Christmas.
And she was just like barely, like in her sickness, like just
get the food out, Just put the foods. Everything's here, Just get
the food out, you know, blah blah blah. So Matthew came over
him and I he helped me. He's like, this is how my mom
likes to put the plates out, you know, this is the platter she
likes to use, you know, which was nice that. You know,
you never think your kids are paying attention, right, you know, right,
So it was really sweet. And so yeah, I mean if it
was I basically hosted Christmas, oh wow, put the food out, I
mean, then you know she could like thankfully, she did everything. All
you had to do is so she told me what to do about the castrole
just put it in the oven. There was a French dip art to choke
dip, No, not French ship art to choke dip that she makes that
she bakes in the oven. She makes it from scratch and she's put down
in the oven. Other than that, everything was like everything was there,
all out, every and then everybody came over and we opened presents, and
she was deathly sick all day, the whole day, yeah, and through
the night. The next night. She got better as the day went on,
she stopped throwing up, you know. And you know, she did
come down for a little bit while the kids open presence, you know,
because she hears her grandchildren downstairs and they're like no, Na, na na.
You know, she says, like, I gotta get you know,
she can pull herself up and go downstairs. So she sat downstairs and she
gave me a glimpse of you. And I are gonna like being Grandma's It's
gonna be fun. Oh, I know, I can't wait. Oh,
it's so fun. I mean I can't wait. Guys, you know when
we say yeah, but like I see it, it's not scary, no
items exciting. It is exciting. Yeah, And you know, and the
kids came over and they are so good like that. These kids are really
good, Like they didn't you know, they're not tearing open one present after
another. I mean, I couldn't believe it. They came over there's presence
under the tree, and nobody's going can we open presents? Yeah? When
can we help? They're just playing and have it. You know, they're
just sweet, sweet kids. And so yeah, and we had a great
day. We had a good day opening gifts and luckily it all worked out
and luckily she prepared ahead of time. Wow. Yeah. So then like
by the next night she was much better. And then the next day we
were both craving steak, and so we went her and I went to a
steak place and had a steak dinner. And I don't know if she's ever
gonna eat seafood ever again, which sucks, you know, or go to
Bob Chin's ever again. But I mean, it happens. It happens.
It does happen, you know. But yeah, and then it was a
good you know, it was a good few. It doesn't feel long enough.
I was there for like four or five days, but we had a
good time. We went out another night, we went out with the in
laws, her in law or yeah, I'm not her in law, her
son's in laws took us out. We went we went had a nice dinner
that night too, and just basically just hung out and just watched the kids,
like they came over and baby sat them and just played and it was
fun. Yeah, but a good time. That's nice. Glad I went.
Yeah, all the kids were in New York with their dad. Did
they have fun in New York? They did, Yes, they did.
Sonny and his dad went to a Nets game together, oh wow, which
was fun. Italian went ice skating. Yeah, they had fun. They
had a good time. They were calling me a lot facetiming me, which
was nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's yeah, it's like it's it's it
was tough being away from them on Christmas. Like you know, I think
last year I was away from them too, But they it's turning out that
they want to be with me on Thanksgiving, so they're willing to give up
me for Christmas. And when we just celebrated Christmas the day before I left,
I just we just did Christmas Eve a day earlier. Okay, So
I stuffed their stockings, we opened presents. Yeah, it was really nice.
Italian got me a really nice robe. Olga got mean really nice robe.
That's like that SNL sketch, you know, the SNL sketch. It's
all uh Google, uh, I got the I got a robe sketch.
It's all about how the kids. We should play it right now. I
bet you it would be funny. It's a song. It's like a little
music video and the it's and the mom gets a robe and all the because
you're talking about what they got and the mom's like, and I got a
robe. It's true. It should be kind of easy to find. Yes,
it's a It's true because the kids, like Natalia is opening her presence
and she's getting like this and like perfume and a purse and clothes and this
all fun stuff. I'm like, okay, what am I getting? Got
a robe? Oh? And you got a travel mug. Here's a mug,
mom, because we know how much you like to make your iced tease.
It's like I just bought myself a mug. But okay, god is
so funny. It matches my robe. Oh my god, you're gonna love
this. Hold on when Caylin plays it. I got a nerf gun,
I got a hat, I got a baseball pant, I got a telescope,
I got a glove, I got a blot and I got a rope.
I got it tied. I got a cuffy of the kitchen in the
rye. I got a drum set, I got a pone, I got
a pin, and I got a rope cameo from mcleming. I got a
drone, I got a laptop and I got a rope. It's really really
nice. I love this rope, guys, this is great. I got
a wit, we got couppy. You had a front pig, and I'm
gonna make us breakfast Strammon Road, which I love so much. It's really
really soft. Oh sale, we got dres a roller place. I got
a Lego Millennial Falcon and I burned my arm in the oven. It hurts
pretty bad, but I didn't even scream because I keep the paint and so
ahead of me where like my stockings. Mine has a set of travel again
honest stuff with Casey can. Mine has a bottle of nice to long and
mine is completely empty stop with nothing inside. I'm thinking it up because it
looks kind of weird if it's missing in our picture. Hold on, now,
what's this size? The tree looks like someone's got a big surprise.
All you guys really didn't need to get job. He got a moon and
a squeaky to because he's a good boy. But he's and he got out
though picture I don't have any makeup on. I was up until four in
the line right, family this year get her more than one present. Moms
like stuff too and is so spot on right at my stocking always empty.
I don't have, so we don't do stocking. I mean the kids.
We have stockings for the kids, right, but it's so apropos for me
because we also get the dog presents. Yes, I mean my kids did
get me stuff. And I told John this year, I was just like,
let's just buy the kids stuff. Yeah, and then we're getting ourselves
new iPhones. Oh nice, Yeah, that's nice. But John always gets
me I think I told I told you guys this last last or last show,
but he always gets me caviar, which is really yeah, got me
my caviar. And Sadie got me a phone a new phone case for when
I get my new phone with a picture of Pipo on it. Ah,
that's because I have Pipo on my phone case. That's saying this in the
Yeah. So it was really sweet. Yeah, and uh yeah, they
got me like some nice little things. They were thoughtful, But I like,
you know, what I like is like my kids by each other.
That's what I like. Get really into it, Yeah, like pleasing each
other. It's well nice. I have half of that. Natalia gets into
it with Sonny, like she buys him like cool clothes and a hat and
shoes and all this shit. And then Sonny's like, what do I Natalia
got me stuff? What do I get her? And like, here,
I got her something you can give to her. That's how it works.
And then he says he's going Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve with his friends.
But yet I didn't. I don't know, but Natalia. No, Natalia
got me. She got me a ring, which she knows because I don't
wear jewelry, and she she she knows that I've never really wore a ring,
you know, and I was always like, I'd like a nice ring.
She got me like a costume jewelry ring, which is cute. Yeah,
and she got me a robe, and Sonny got me to travel lug.
Oh my god, I'm sorry. That is hilarious. That is so
typical. Yeah, so I didn't know what to get lbh oh, let's
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just ask me? What was there? You're going to talk about what to
get LB? Oh? I didn't know what to get LB. So Elby's
been talking about I wanted to get a tattoo now that she's eighteen, you
know, can't stop these kids it and she already has it planned out in
her head which she was gonna get. So I thought maybe I should just
get her a gift card. I know where she's gonna get the tattoo at
this place Oaken Poppy. I don't know. It's in the valley. It's
like the big It's where all the everybody goes for their here. It's overpriced,
but so I got our gift card for there. Uh. And John,
of course was kind of annoyed as an old school wasp, like he's
like, really, like, we're promoting our kid getting a tattoo, and
I was like, she's gonna do it whether we like it or not,
so like and we don't know it toget her, so let's get her that.
And then Sadie came in clutch for things to get Elby. Sadie sent
me like a whole Look, she's good a gift, Sadie. Sadie is
super sentimental, she's great at gifts. She knows everybody really well. She
I took her shopping. We went to Sephora and she was like, Okay,
we go here and this, this is what's on TikTok and this is
what's on TikTok. And I know that Albie, you know. And we
always laughed at Elbe's a basic bitch and she likes what everybody else likes.
Sadie's like, oh no, I got her, like we're gonna get her
this and this. So that was and so she told me that Elbie would
want the define jacket, the Lulu Lemon define jacket. You heard of this,
No, apparently it's been around forever, but suddenly it's sort of on
trend. It's just like a tight Lulu Lemon jacket, like like a like
workout jacket yeah, and I was like okay, like okay, So I
estimated her size and I got the jacket and oh my god, biggest hit
ever. Like she freaked out, like, oh my god, how did
you know? Like that? I was like, Sadie, did you know?
It's just so funny because I'm so glad I have the younger sibs tell
me what to do. It's nice. I know, I know Xander is
a typical boy and didn't know, Like was like, I don't know what
should I get, Sadie, what should I get LB? Like, you
know, yeah for him last minute, doesn't like to go to the mall.
Yeah, just like Sonny. For Sonny I got. I was excited
because so I text his co host Gabe on Benchwarmers and I was like,
I want to get Sonny a cameo of somebody, and I wanted to do
stephen A because Sonny loves stephen A, gets a kick out of him.
And I think, if you know stephen A is, he thought he would
think he would do a good job, right, but uh probably does He's
not on yes he is, and Chris collins Worth he likes to not on
cameo. So I text Gabe and I was like, okay, like what
athlete you know? And he goes, you know Sonny's been talking about And
also Sonny asked for a Italian horn necklace this year. Really, I'm like,
and I think the boys and boys that hung out on the corner in
Springfield, Massachusetts. Yeah, And I was like, oh, hell yeah,
I'm getting him that. So I got him that. But then so
Gabe's telling me this this football player Tommy DeVito on the Jets, okay,
the Giants, same thing. He does this. He does this thing after
he does a touch or after he does a touchdown, or after he does
something on the field where he does the thing where the Italians where they put
their you know, fingers, what's the matter for you like with his hand.
That's a signature thing, his signature move. Sonny has been talking a
lot about him, I guess on the podcast and he goes, he's on
cameo. I think he would be perfect. So I got him a cameo
Tommy DeVito and didn't come through. And he didn't come through yet. It
said it said, you know, seven days or whatever, and then it
said Tommy needs more time. But I've been looking at him on cameo,
and he's posting cameos in the month of December, so he's doing them,
okay, but he needed more time. I guess some matter of fact.
He's a backup and so he was. There's a stretch there where he was
playing for like, you know, every week for three weeks in December,
so he was probably a little busy at that time. Yeah, oh no,
wonder Okay, I'll give him some slack. It's funny because so the
twins' birthday was November twenty sixth, so a month before Xander got Sadie a
cameo. Now, I wish I could tell you, guys exactly who it
is, but I will tell you it's a mom from Dance Moms. And
then apparently this was like a full on funny joke. And I guess the
mom does like a that this woman does like a confessionals or I don't know,
it's something that is her signature thing. So Xander wanted her to do,
asked, requested that she do her thing. But like for Sadie,
so doesn't come through. Doesn't come through. Now it's late and Xander's like,
I know what the deal is. But same thing where they have seven
days. But at seven days, it was like she needs more four time,
right, so like another like maybe four days. So it was after
the birthday right now they're back at school because it's after Thanksgiving break, and
then it comes in and Xander forwards it to her phone or whatever, and
she played it in the car and it was the funniest thing because she was
scream laughing. Let's see, it was like the biggest hit. She was
just like wow, and it was like, oh my god. And this
woman was terrible, like she was messing up. She was like, okay,
Sadie or set oh. She she got her name wrong at one point,
but then kind of got it right. But it was like but it
was so bad that it was hilarious, right, and then she would be
like, now you're turning sixteen years old, but in December, but it
was like no, her birthday had already pat like she had the dates right.
But it was so funny because it was so I guess typical of this
woman right right that it was a classic, like it was everything brand.
It was so unbranded. It was really long, so I just went on
for like two minutes, like two and a half minutes. Now, just
hert talking and going, that's good to know that they come through, because
yeah, I told Sonny I couldn't hold it bout it. I was like,
well, I got you a cameo. He's like, I go,
do you want me to Italian? He's like, no, let me guess,
you know. And then he was like a baseball player, I mean
a basketball player, a football player, and he goes somebody on the rams.
He kept saying rams, I go, no, no, East Coast
and East Coast, and then he's like east coast and then he did say
like two people. And then he said, and I go no, and
I go. I said, and I did something and it didn't do the
Italian thing, but I don't know. And then he goes and then he
guessed. He goes Tommy, look Tommy DeVito, and I go and he
goes, no way. He got so happy. He's like, when's this
cameo coming. I'm like, it's coming, it's coming. Oh, I
love it. I love it. Yeah, I'm excited. And what did
you get from Italia? Tell you, I just got like clothes, a
bracelet. She wanted from that, Like, there's this like trendy bracelet shop.
I've seen it. In Studio City or R John or something like that.
Okay with her initial and I got her What did I buy her for?
Oh? I got her a nice purse because she was going to New
York. And this bitch uses my purse all the time, like for everything
I see her, like in pictures, She's got my purse, like she
doesn't have her her own purse. I got her nice like Tory Birch.
She likes that. So I got a Tory Birch purse and that was her.
That was her gift. Cute. Yeah, yeah, then and they
were off. Yeah I was for some reason. I know that, Like
a long time ago. I was like, you guys, I am on
top of the Christmas list. I already ordered some stuff on Amazon. I
was all proud of myself, like patting myself on the back, like I
got this. No, by the time Christmas rolling around, I was like,
I don't have enough for this. I get so caught up and like,
well, now Sadie and Xander have me and a lot of stuff,
because I'll forget that I what I got them, and then I'll just get
them Like I have a list, I keep it. I call the document
taxes so that nobody bothers to try to look at it on my computer,
even if they're yeah. And then I just keep a list of what I'm
getting for everybody. But still it's like some of it is small, or
some of it I put down like that that it's an idea, but then
I haven't actually purchased it yet. So then I get all of a sudden,
I'm like, I don't have anything meaningful for this person. All of
a sudden, I was like, oh my god, I don't have enough
for LB. But then but then John would be like, we bought that
bitch a car, and I'm like, I know, but that was then
that was really we called that graduating high school gift. Like I get very
like, well, we got them this for their birthday and this for that,
and so it just becomes a whole like I know, me feeling guilty
and wanting to spoil my kids, but then maybe want toil them too much
and not wanting to. You know, it's so hard. It's a hard
damp it is, it is, But you know, they're getting older now
and it's getting easier actually because they starting to like see it, like all
right, you know, we don't need all these Bresons, you know,
which is I actually got the best gifts from my nephews this year. I
forgot from Nicholas. He gave me he knows that I like to play Fortnite
on my phone. He got me a controller that slides and goes and hooks
onto your phone so you can play with the actual proper controllers instead of you
know, instead of swiping and you know, pressing on the phone, you
know. So I got the controllers that hook onto the thing, which was
awesome. I love it. And then Anthony. I was at Anthony's house
last year and he's got this post. He's got a picture that he blew
up. He took when he was working out here on Kimmel and he was
stuck in traffic. He just took a picture of like the one oh one
in downtown, just sitting in traffic, and the way he had it angled
it was very cool looking. And he blew it up and framed it and
it's in his house and I go, mother, Anthony, I didn't want
that picture. That's so cool, like that would look good my condo.
That was last year. This year he got me the poster like blown up,
big framed, said, had it sent to my house. Yeah,
my gosh, that's so nice. I know. Yeah, so those were
that was my Christmas. Yeah, that's so nice. Yeah, I love
it. And and how was opening the I mean, we know your we
know your story about over Christmas, But how was it with the girls?
Did they like your stuff? Did they like the car? I love the
car? They I took him around the block in it yesterday over who gets
to drive it? They love the car? They I mean, they got
so much stuff they got. They liked these little Bluey toy you know,
you know the show Bluey. Yeah, yeah, they love Bluey. So
I got a bunch of Bluey toys. They like that. They've just been
playing with all the diff they got. We've been playing. They got candy
Land, so we've been playing some candy Land. And yeah, it took
them a minute to adjust to playing a board game when things don't go their
way. Huh. So we're trying to learn that. Yeah, sometimes you
don't win. Times you have to go back to the start if you get
if you go to this point, so, oh my god, that is
okay. Shoots and Ladders and Candyland were like the first couple of games that
elbe learned to lose because she would get so pissed at like four years old,
so about the same as your kids. And I remember writing an article
for some column that I was doing because Elbie was full on trying to cheat
at Candyland. She thought she was being slick and she took the ice there's
the ice cream sandwich is like all the way towards the end. Right,
it's the ice cream cone is all the way towards the end. Oh well,
it used to be old school old candy candy Land was an ice cream
was an ice cream sandwich, and it was all the way towards the very
end. You like, if you got that card, you were gonna win.
So Albie would take the card and put it like a couple like timate.
That's it. She was smart. But the thing is, like,
I wasn't sad to lose. Remember me telling you that. I was like,
okay, you like I saw her do it, and she thought she
was slick, and then she'd get the card and be like I win like
she and I was like, so you do, okay, what do you
want to do now? And she'd be like, wait, what can we
play again? Like okay, but you won so like it's over. Yeah,
but she would get so so mad if she and shoots some ladders,
if she fell down like and went back to start, she would like cry.
Yeah, I mean it was not fun. Now. When we first
played it, Iowa won like four games in a row. So she was
like high on candy Land. And I think at one point she did the
same thing. I think at one point she placed one of the candies at
the very top because oh, first card, I go all the way up.
And I was like, all right, whatever. But then we play
the next day and I don't know exactly what it is. It's like two
sticks that are crossing and if you land on it, you go back to
the start. So she was a happy win in every game. Let's play
candy Land, and then as soon as she hit one of those sticks,
it was a nightmare. She was like screw this and stormed off to a
room car. Well there you go. She can't always win. It's like
hilarious it is it is in nature. Yeah, yeah, oh my god.
And I remember when I wrote that article, somebody was so judged.
But somebody was like, oh my gosh, like you're raising your kid to
be because I had allowed her because I was like, that's fine that you
cheated, like you were teaching your kid terrible values. And I was like,
this is the person who's never had a kid, right, exactly,
teaching them bad values. Like she's four, probably going to get into finance
for her, should be a lawyer. I don't know, but like,
I don't see how that is a harbinger of bad thing, right, Yeah,
it was ridiculous. Yeah, there was another funny thing that happened.
I wasn't there, but Amy called me to tell me about it, and
we just don't know where the girls pick up, like the language. But
they got this other game that's called Pop the Pig, where you just like
feed this pig hamburgers and press it down and eventually like it pops and you
win. Well, it got it's like Phil exactly, pop the phill.
Yeah, take the pig to the vet to get its stomach pumped. So
I guess her name. You were playing. One of the little hamburgers got
stuck in the pig and so he was like broken, and so they were
trying to fix him, and Amy eventually you know, got the hamburger out
and fixed it, and I went, oh, yeah, Now the Pig's
not canceled. Oh my god, that's amazing. You gotta have to keep
like a log of the things they say. Yeah, that's what I did.
Bet, Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah
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