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from my trip to Chicago. Yeah, yeah, every day we had a
good time. Uh, you know, it was fun. Sonny and I
traveled by ourselves the first first couple of days, and then Natalia stayed and
had a little Thanksgiving holiday with her boyfriend and then got on the plane and
met us, and oh my god, Wendy made like she made the best
turkey. We Uh, she made a turkey, and then she decided because
she hasn't cooked thanks I didn't realize this, but she hadn't made Thanksgiving meal
in like years because usually they go either like to Florida or she goes to
like her daughter in law's house and they've been making Thanksgiving. But this year
she had everybody come to her house and she made the turkey, and then
we ordered the sides from Capitol Grill, I think is the restaurant, and
eh, I mean, you know when you order it from a restaurant,
it doesn't have that flavor. It seems so like, you know, kind
of like the stuffing was. I was really looking forward to the stuffing and
it's like these big ass, like Creuton looking pieces of bread and shit in
there. It's like, just do the stovetop stuff, like we should have
made it. I didn't even think about it, but because it was you
know, it's gonna be a lot of work, and it was a lot
and it was all fell on Wendy, which also of course fell on me
because it still was a lot of work because even ordering out all the sides,
yes, because first of all, she's got grandchildren that you know,
they they eat like mac and cheese and whatever, so she's gonna make them
their thing. Then we had to go pick up the turkey. We had
to, you know, dress the turkey. It just was I don't it
was a lot of work. It seems like, oh, this is yes.
So she goes this year, I don't want to make I'm gonna just
make the turkey. I'm gonna order all the sides. We don't have to
cook anything. I'll make appetizers. Because she was literally across the street from
Trader Joe's. It's like her pantry is Trader Joe's. Like, oh,
I forgot butter, can you go? We just like go across the street
get Trader Joe's. Okay. So she's like, I'll make the you know,
all the apps from Trader Joe's and blah blah blah, but you okay.
But then it's like then the kids come the day before Thanksgiving and there's
just breadcrumbs everywhere. They make a mess if you forgets mobile muffins up the
ying Yang. So there's we have Nicholas who's got a well he's like six
almost six months old, and z and then you got Anthony's kids, Riley
and Wessy. Wessy Wes he is two and he's a terrible two. And
then Riley she's like six. Okay, she's fun, like she's really she's
they're both, I mean, they're all great kids. But when they come
there, they're just like, you know, Nana, I want some more
bread, buddy, Nana, I want some more Nana? Can you make
me? You're Nana Smorgas sport Like she makes them a whole, you know,
she's she's like got them in their their high chairs, she's got their
toys out, and then they leave and it's just like a freaking disaster,
just like just crumbs and toys everywhere, you know. So it was a
lot of cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and a lot of like setting everything
up and like and then and then with the kids, Caylin, you know,
they make a mess and and you have to clean it all up and
then they make it a mess again, and then it's like, oh a
never ending just never yeh. That happens like somewhere between seven and ten times
a day. Yeah. And when they always seem like they're gonna help,
well, you're like, guys, come and help put your toys away,
and they're like no, bye bye. Oh. They throw the biggest fits,
especially Isila just will not do it. And then if one's doing it
and the other one isn't helping out. Uh oh, then and then one
is one is doing it, they're dragging the other one in to do it,
like oh yeah, you get your ass in here and help me.
And Wendy is anal and wants her floors like spotless, so because she's got
like little kids crawling around on the floor. So she's constantly like we're vacuuming,
and you know, there's people that are in town are coming over there
eating in her kitchen. There's dishes just constantly. So I'm always like read
unloading the disharger loading the dish. I mean, I didn't get any rest.
I was gonna say, no, you're supposed to be on vacation.
Oh hell no, there was no vacation for me. No no, no,
no, no, no no. We were going to Whole Foods.
We were going to all these like different stores. She had. She was
making rice the day before, her special rice. She was gonna make it
for Anthony's family because Anthony's family was over at his Anyway, it was just
a lot. It was just was never ending. And then when you throw
little kids in the mix, oh forget it, forget about it. There's
no, and you know they come over first thing in the morning too,
It's like no, it is Auntie Lynette up yet? You know, it's
like one of those Auntie Lynnette is she sleep? Auntie Lynette, are you
up yet? Like the door open? You know, it's like I am
now. But it was so much fun though. We had a good time.
There was no snow, but it was fun, and you know,
and then the day after and then we have leftovers the day after and then
we left on Saturday, so it was kind of it felt like a short
trip. But but it was fun and I get to see the baby,
Nicholas's baby that he just had. So Natalia only stayed Italian came in on
Wednesday, okay, just on Saturday. Okay, so Wednesday night, Thursday
night, Friday. It was three nights. Yeah, and she had a
great time and you know, we had a we had and then that as
they're nice thing is that everybody lives like so close and Sonny loves to walk,
so Sonny was like walking from house to house. But we everybody lives
in Chicago, like they're all within like walking distance of each other's houses,
which is really nice. So there's not a lot of like getting the car
of New York kinda yeah, because I've never I've been to Chicago for a
blogging conference, but I've never spent like a lot of time there. Not.
It's where they're in the suburbs, and I mean some of it is
you know, there's one house that is walking distance the other one. I
mean you could walk, but like it's freezing, so you want to like
get in the car, right whatever. But so there night, that was
the nice thing. There's not a lot of getting in the car and getting
in traffic and driving to somebody else's house. Every and everybody was coming to
her house, to Wendy's like her house was central location, and we watched
movies. And then that's the other thing. It's like, let's watch a
movie tonight, so we all go in to watch a movie. I'm the
only one up. Everybody's asleep, like Wendy's like, I'm going to bed.
I gotta get up early and put the bird in the oven. Like
everybody's like, but you're like, it's kind of earlier for me, Yeah,
because yeah, two hours it's two hours earlier for me, right,
And then you know, and then you feel like if I sleep until like
eight o'clock, nine o'clock. It's like, you know, it's it's it's
really like six o'clock my time. So I'm like, oh, I got
I gotta get up, you know. So you know, yeah, it
was hard to get adjusted. But man, I was exhausted. Oh and
we could talk about this on Friday show. But I watched Squid Squid Games
because all I had was Netflix in my room. So I like the actual
Squid Games or the new reality show. Oh okay, I love it.
I'm both good. Oh yeah, I'm hooked. I do you think because
there's like a lawsuit already with the people that claim they got like hypothermia,
do you think that that's just fake that they're trying to like so that people
are like, oh, this thing's actually dangerous or do you think people really
are suing? I don't know. I think people are really sewing. Yeah
one of ours. Yeah, her son's on it. Are you serious?
I saw that last night. Yeah, she posted in the in the group
once it aired, I guess you know, she probably wasn't allowed to say
anything. Yeah, it's what's her It's a god. I don't want to
Well, you'll see, I don't remember, we have to make her come
to the hang so she can talk to us about Oh yeah for sure.
Okay, yeah, her sons in it out yourself? Tell us who you
are, she did, Okay, all right, well we'll invite you to
the hang. Yeah. But yeah it's really good. Yeah, okay,
yeah, I'll get on it. Yeah it's good. Oh. I was
kind of suspicious of it me too. You know the first one, you
know, you watch it and it's like the show, so it's it's what's
the game called light? Yeah, like, how are they deciding who gets
hit with the paintball? That's what I kind of arbitrary? I agree,
I agree, And I was like, I was thinking, did they hire
Like I felt like maybe they were hired, Like I feel like, I
don't know. In my brain. In the first episode, I was like,
I wonder if they have like ten contestants that are actual contestants because there's
so many of them, there's like a hundreds. Yeah, and so I
was like, did I wonder if the rest are just extras? But I
don't know, I don't know, were they really Just the amount of technology
it's and people you would have to have working on the show to make sure
that every time they say and there's no official stop, it's whenever this head
turns around. Right, So it's like, okay, when when when do
you determine if they've moved after that or not? And you know, I
was very suspective that a friend of mine is casting person for it. Oh
do we could have her on our show? I would love that. I
think we had her on you and I had her on certain skilled rewind.
Her name's Robin Cass. Yeah, she also cast. She casts the Early
She's cast a lot of stuff. She does blow deck, I believe house
Bosler. No, but she did. We had her on for some reason
because it had to do with the reality shows, right, Yeah, she's
she's fun and funny, and yeah we should have her. Okay, yeah,
let's take a quick break. All right, we're back. Okay,
so you're watching you what I had, like net, it's all I had
in my room. So I watched I watched the Squad so nobody could agree
on movies. I mean, you know, we watched planes, trains,
and automobiles for one hundred and eightieth time and then I don't know, and
then they and then my nephews are like showing Uh have you ever seen?
I think you should leave now. Oh it's a comedy show. It's like
a it's like one of these stoner comedy It's pretty funny though, actually.
But then they watched that, and then they went to Nicholas's house and played
video games. So I went to bed because me and Wendy were like,
we were exhausted, but nine o'clock we were like. Wendy was like,
I got tears coming out of both eyes. I can't stop watering, like
my eyes. I just want to go to bed, and we're like,
we're going to bed. Yeah, well you kids, you know. So
it was nice because I would I would babysit Nicholas and Anthony when they were
little and take them to my house when I was like in my twenties and
you know, and I would have them for the weekend. And now it's
like payback time for paybacks, so they would come. They would take Sonny
and Natalia to their house and play video games until you know, the wee
hour, and then bring them back like I didn't have to worry about it.
Yeah, good, go go hang out with them. Yeah, it
was great. And then what they brought them back like late at night.
I slept drove him back at like I mean, they could have slept over,
but yeah, they brought him back at like two o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, and then just let him in the house. And then they
just went yeah Wendy, Yeah, oh god, because Sonny. Yeah,
they were at two different houses. Sonny was at one house and Natalie was
with me and Auntie. Wendy. Right, so but I thought Sonny was
sleeping. Sonny was at the other house, his cousin, his other cousin,
Matthew's house. Right, yeah, Okay, so there's like four houses
in between everybody. Wow. Yeah, but it was fun. Yeah,
we had a good time. How are your flights? You know, it's
pretty easy. I thought it was going to be a nightmare. But coming
home on Saturday, we had a We didn't get in till eleven, which
was nice because once we got to when The nice thing too, is Wendy
lives seven minutes from O'Hare, like very close. Wow, I mean super
to the point where when we land I just have to tell her we like
ended, and by the time we get our baggage, she's right there.
Oh wow, which was great. And then so we're seven minutes from the
airport, and oh hair, but then at Lax we landed. We landed
at eleven. It was kind of empty on Saturday, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
And then we flew home from Lax because it's eleven o'clock on a Saturday
night. Oh. Like, for one second, I was like, you
chartered at from Lax. Yeah, we did your house. Took a helicopter
from Lax to my house, like we flew home. I really seriously took
my brain a minute to just go, oh, you mean you just went
fast? Yeah, I got it. We went fast. No traffic got
it, which is nice. Had you parked at the airport or did you?
Or we took it? We took over. Yeah, it was nice.
It was it. Yeah, it was great. How is your Thanksgiving?
So our Thanksgiving was was very nice? Uh. I don't want to
like retread this old territory too much. But many years ago, my mother,
very unlike Wendy, was completely inflexible about where to have Thanksgiving, and
she had it. She has an apartment in West Hollywood. It was like
a small two bedroom, but a small two bedroom, you know, two
bedroom apartment, a small apartment, but would have me and my brother and
my sister and like a family friend of hers or two and that's it,
and it would you know whatever. And when I had my own house when
I was you know, and I had LB. So the first Thanksgiving.
I know I've told this story so many times, but the first Thanksgiving.
Elbe's birthdays on the twelfth, So the first Thanksgiving after I had her,
I was ten days out of a c section, and my mom insisted that
we have Thanksgiving at her apartment and I had to go there and make something.
There was no like, you know what, just grab John and the
baby and come over and enjoy. No, no, what are you making?
Yeah? God, I had had a baby ten days ago. Whatever,
I should have a baby too, to be my first baby. And
I was crying NonStop. I was on pain meds. I was trying to
breastfeed. I was like miserable. I couldn't get the breastfeeding. And I
know I've told this story so many times, but bad memories. But going
in the bedroom, my boobs were like on fire, you know, because
the milk, because the milk wasn't really hadn't come in like I had had
the breast reduction when I was twenty, so there was like scar tissue.
It wasn't working, and I was just miserable. And then I think I
told you that my mother was mad because I was in the bedroom and you
know, I have like freaking eighteen pillows. I'm like, I need more
pillows, more pillows. I'm like stacking them up, trying to do the
football hole, like you know, I get. It's like I needed like
a lactation consultant with me at all times, because you know the lact I
had a lotctation consultant come over or I went to the pump station or whatever,
and they show you. Then you get home and you're like, what
it worked. They're like, see see she's latched on. And then you're
like, well, great, you you did it now. But also even
when they latch on at the pump station, then when you go to like
pop your nipple back out, I had to wear those nipple shields that look
like little oh yeah, plastic pinnatas over your nips, and they because I
was in so much pain, I had to have the nipple. So I
have, like I'm at my mom, I have the numbing had numbing cream,
I had cooling, I had those like cooling circles, like you have
to keep putting them in the freezer to cool them back down. Then I
had the pinatas. Then I've got like, I've got so much crap of
me. Right, I packed for like a cruise just to go over the
hill for this Thanksgiving. It was such a pain in the ass. Right
that the following year, my mom got mad while I was in the bedroom
and she was like, why don't you come out of it and enjoin us.
Meanwhile, her friend who had had a cold, I've got a brand
new baby, and she's like, that's perfect. Arlene's sick feeling like are
you joking? Like you know she's sick. I got a brand new baby.
I'm already a hyper drive of anxiety. So anyway, then my mom
was annoyed because I went in the other room to breastfeed, and you know,
was there for too long, right, you know, I know I
normally talk only beautiful and beautiful terms about my mother. But the point is
the following year, I was like this, that wasn't that fun. Now
I've got a one year old. Right, she had just turned one,
and she would only sleep in her crib and she was very like I knew
that it would be just too long a day for her and she wasn't going
to nap over there. And so my brilliant thinking, especially because I also
wanted to enjoy some wine at that time, was everybody should come to my
house. I have a I have a house, yes, a big house
in my estimation in Los Angeles. I have a dining room table, I
have a kitchen. Come over. And I told my mom, like,
come over and bring Arlene bring you know, hopefully she want to have exactly
but like whatever my kids won, she's fine now, you know. And
then I my mom like lost her mind. It was like no, absolutely
not. It's my holiday. I own this holiday and I will not.
And it was like making me sad when I was hearing you talk about how
Wendy's like sometimes she goes here and then she's like at once when you're once,
everybody over and is happy to go. You know what I mean.
It's like, I so, and that's what ruined our relationship, right,
she was so funded, like I mean, what kind of grandmother? I
don't know, I know, I know, But then ever since then I
was like, well, okay, like she was offended in and she didn't
want to come. So we had thanksgiving up my house and it was really
nice and I wasn't that sad and it was so much less stressful. Oh,
my brother came, my sister didn't. She boycotted, and I guess
went to my parents. My brother came, my sister in law came.
They didn't have a kid yet. But some of our friends, some of
our orphan friends. We just invited people over that didn't have somewhere to go,
some of our close friends. It was a beautiful day. We got
we made turkey, but then our friend brought like a smoke turkey because our
turkey came out terrible, but the smoke turkey saved the day. Like it
was a really nice time, thus creating the tradition of it being my family
and my brother's family. And then ever now they have two kids, and
now their kids are thirteen and nine, and then like around ten years ago,
I want to say, we added on friends that are really good friends
with my brothers, but that I've known forever too, our friends Jeff and
Gina and their daughter. So it's us. It's just the three families.
That's so nice, and it's I'm come you don't because they're out. Why
you don't have it at your house sometimes because I would would, I would
love to, and it's but I'm not like, no, we're having it
at my house. It's fine. It's just that my sister in law has
a beautiful house out there and she likes to host, she likes it being
it and the other family is also in Santa Clarita, so i'd be asking
all of them to drive to me. I don't know. It's yeah,
it's fine. It's it became kind of the tradition, and it's fine with
me. If I was to one year be like, I really really wanted
to do it at my house, my sister in law would be like,
all right, right, right, but it's just the way it's always been
done now. I think it's because it was done at my house for a
few years. But then they moved to Santa Clarita and got a house,
and then I think they were like, well, now we have this nice
house and we want to have it here, right, And then they had
babies, so it was like easier for us to go to them. At
that point. We brought Penelope. You did, so, uh. The
only thing I will kind of bitch about is that? So we always order
from Gelson's. Right, we get to ask the turkey it's cooked, but
it's not hot. It's frozen, frozen, so the turkey is frozen,
but you have to put it in. You have to cleank it. It's
already like seasoned and everything. It's so you just have to put it in
the oven for like two hours. Got it okay, So which is no
big deal. But they also make you buy the It's like not a kit.
It's just you buy everything pre made, all the sides right, kind
of like from a restaurant, but everything's frozen, got it, So you
just time everything and you put out. But over the years, our Galson's
meal has gotten skimpier and skimpier, and also they've switched out some sides for
shit you would never eat. Like instead of it used to be sweet potatoes,
mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, instead of that, it's mashed potatoes,
creamed corn, and green bean castrole, which our other friend Gina makes green
bean castle, and they make stuffing and it's stuffing. It's small portions.
But if you order the meal for twelve people, even though there's twelve of
us, some of them are kids. Not everybody eats everything. So we
order the meal for eight people, which is plenty of turkey, not enough
sides. It just became a thing where it's like everybody ends up making sides
anyway. And then my sister in law doesn't really want to do anything.
She does the appetizers, so she's like, there's hardly any sides here,
and I'm like, I know, Dollson's is like gotten cheat. So then
she's like, well, let's just cater it next year, and I'm like,
no, bitch, we're catering it. Ain't there real housewives catering company
for twelve people are Come on, everybody can bring something, That's what I'm
saying. Like we'll buy the turkey all a cart like from wherever Gelson's or
Raps or something, and then like make a side. She's like, I'm
not making I was like, we'll just make mashed potatoes. She's like,
I'm not making mashed potato. We'll just order it. There's companies that do
it. I'm like, yeah, but I know, I hire a company
to make us some sweet potatoes. And it's pretty easy, Like each side
could be easy if it's just if you're just bringing let's say you and the
other two, the other couple, and like, if everybody's in charge of
like two sides, it's pretty simple. It's not that hard, right,
And already Gina and Jeff made the stuffing and the green bean castle, so
like, I'm happy to make mashed potatoes and like something else a salad it
is, but I don't mind doing it as only catering it. I mean
every year I would make the turkey and the mashed potatoes and the green beans
and the sweet potatoes and the stuffing and the homemade cranberry sauce. Oh hell
no, and that's a bridge too far. Yeah, And here's the other
thing, Like Wendy's like, oh, I forgot about a salad should I
make? I'll just go across the street to Trader Joe's and know they're closed
on things. Yeah, but like the day before so she goes to we
go to get this salad and then come. So then here's the other thing.
A lot of work people think, oh, you just everybody brings it,
blah blah blah. Well, when you're hosting, you gotta have a
clean fridge because otherwise you can't where you're gonna put the turkey, or where
are you gonna put all the stuffing right where you're gonna put blah blah blah,
you have to. So my job was to clean the fridge for her.
And this bitch got two of everything, like two ranches to this to
that, like like, oh are you gonna do with all this stuff?
Remember when I developed a bit of a sour cream problem? Remember when I
always had like five different sour creams and John would get mad and go,
why are there so many sour creams? Because every time I'd go to the
store, I'd be like, I think we might be at a sower cream
because I don't know. I don't check the fridge. I know, I
know. So she yes, so she's got like an she puts everything in
the refrigerator. I'm like, I don't think this needs to be free soy
sauce, Like does it mean to be refrigerated? I don't know? And
then how about the peanut butter? Is she one of those people that puts
peanut butter in the refrigerator? Nobody's a monster sauce? She puts hot sauce?
Oh yeah, how many hot sauces she has? She's got the truffle
hot sauce. She got the traditional hot size, Like you don't need all
this hot sauce in the fridge, Like, come on, So I clean
out the fridge and then we have the dinner, and lo and behold and
they make room for the caesar salad that she had to go by. We
completely forgot about the salad. And ain't nobody trying to eat a salad?
We eat. Everybody eats salad every single day out of the I mean pretty
much eat a salad all the time. Ain't nobody trying to eat a motherfucking
salad on Thanksgiving? That's the night, that's the time you want to eat
like starch and arms, right right. That's why when when my sister in
law was like, oh, well, we're gonna need vegetables, like somebody
to make the catering the mix, I was like, nobody's gonna eat the
vegetables. Don't get a special catering company for the vegetables. If there's anything
that you could not have exact people would not miss. Nobody's going to be
like, where's the vegetables. Nobody, nobody, no. And if you're
gonna have vegetables, you gotta drench it and all that other like like,
uh, the casserole, the green bean casserole, right right. I'm like,
well, oh, I said, I said, well we have the
green bean castle. She's like, well, that's just like full of like
that's with all the cream and stuff. We need it now want to?
And I was like, no, we don't, we don't need that.
Nobody is going to be like, oh, god, if we only had
some steam broccoli. Can somebody make some steam broccoli for God's sake? No?
No, They're going to be like, is there any more mashed potatoes?
Yeah, we're gravy. Yes, Oh the gravy. That's another kashaw,
you know, trying to make a gravy, Like oh, they forgot
the gravy when we got when we picked up everything, or maybe Nicholas forgot
to get it. I don't know. Somewhere along the line the gravy was
gone. So Wendy had to make the gravy, which requires like, uh,
what's it called? Uh? When you uh, the not the power,
what do you call a flower? Oh? Okay, so Wendy has
flower because she bakes all the time. But if it was in my house,
I'd be screwed because I'm not a baker, and when anything calls for
flower, I'm out. Anything that calls for car cornstarch or flower or some
seed oil or something that I don't have, I'm out. I've had.
My house is like there is flower, but God knows how it could be.
That's the other thing, yes, because nothing ever gets yes, nothing
gets thrown away in my house because like, well, we might need that,
right, So it's like, well we might need that, well not
for many years? Yes, come well. Sadie went through a cake baking
phase, a brief caick baking phase. Remember when I bought her this like
camp Yolanda or some YouTuber the face, and then we I had to buy
her all this equipment, so I had to. I was out at home
Goods buying her like a twelve dollars cake pan this and ended up costing me.
So the camp itself was like forty bucks, but everything else came to
like three hundred by the time I bought all the ingredients, food ingredients,
but then all the bakewear. Because I was not a baker, it was
like ridiculously too expensive. And then she never did it again, right,
got that out of her sister, let me, I'll tell you. So
let's take a quick break and then i'll tell you. Okay, and we're
back. So the day before, I think, no, two days before
the day after we got there in Chicago. Okay, Anthony's wife, Sam's
birthday. So Anthony says, everybody, come to my house. I'm going
to order Chicago pizza and we're just going to have like cake and pizza.
So then I wake up the next morning, I smell in the house cake
and I go down and Wendy's baking Sam a cake. But she didn't know
she was. Anthony asked, could you make Sam's favorite cake that morning?
I would have flipped out. She's like, yeah, sure, no problem.
She made her a huge like cake. Oh my god. Yes.
And she had food color because Sam's favorite color is lavender and purple. She
made the cake lavender. So she's putting like the food coloring in the in
the whip cream. She she whipped, she creamed, she covered it with
whip cream, not frosting. Wow. So she made like a vanilla cake.
The two she had the cake. Who's got cake tins anyway, by
the way, Yeah, and she's got the mixer going and so she makes
and then she made the blueberry and strawberry in the middle with the whip cream.
Oh my god, and the cake was beautiful. It was like,
how what like are you? I would have cried if I had to make
a cake the morning before Thanksgiving. Even in tears, She's like, you
had no problem. I got I only had one box of cake mix.
I had to go across the street get another box. But after that she
had everything she needed to make cake, Like crazy, yeah, I wish
I could do that kind of shit. I mean, I will say that
Sadie does well. When once you said cake mix, I was like,
okay, well, Sadie like made Elbie's birthday cake. Sadie was like,
okay, I got it. That's nice, but we did make I mean
she didn't make the frosting right right, you know, yeah, I don't
even have time to do that. I'm like, no, I know,
even if I have to just mix something with like a whisk, that sounds
labor intensive. I know, I know. And I just got like I
made a list of things around her house that are like that come in handy,
like she like at like at our house, Adam loves the thing that
whisks, the makes the the the battery powered hand coffee frother. Right,
Okay, so he likes that thing, but that thing is always floating around
the kitchen. It's either like laying in the on top of the sink after
because it's been because you rinse it, and then what do you put it?
If you put it in the drawer, then you can't find it.
It gets lost. Blah blah blah. What is Wendy has. She's got
a holder next to the coffee machine that you just put it in and it
holds the frother, and I was like, well, that's a great idea.
Then she's got this thing that goes over the sink that she got on
Amazon, and it's the dish rack. Instead of taking up counter space of
a dish rack, she's got like it looks like your sink's in jail.
So it's got like bars and it's magnetic and you pull it over the sink.
I've never seen that and then boom like that kind of stuff like just
little tips and things around the house that I was like, Oh, I
could use that. We had a frother holder at the studio for many years
while I was there. Oh, you did. Why didn't he get one
from home? Like I think Matt FONDI probably just ordered him one. I'm
gonna buy one of those for John for Christmas. A frother, Yeah,
a frother hold a battery card. They are fun. Yeah we okay,
for sure that's going on the list. But I don't even have a spoon
rust. That's how low tech. I don't even have a spoon rust.
And every time I'm making like a chili or something, I'm like, I
really need a spoon rust. Like I'm like putting an old newspaper out on
the counter. Well, because where are you gonna put your spoon? I'm
like, I got a wooden spoon, I got this spoon. I'm stirring
things and I'm like I got nowhere to put it. And every time that
happens, I'm like, I need a spoon rust. And then I've just
never pulled the trigger to buy. It's never. I'm never in like a
bed bath and beyond which are clothes now anyway, But I'm never do you
know what I mean, I'm never like in target, going like you know
what, I need a spoon rust. You'd think after another spoon rust emergency
I would just go on Amazon and order a spoon rest. But I think
one time I went to go do it and I got overwhelmed by all the
choices. Oh yeah, you know, we used to have one that Italia
made. Then it broke. It was like her little hand, like she
made it in kindergarten. But that broke. And then I and then at
my condo, I use a paper pilate what cooking. But that's what I
mean. Yeah, but when you're like, oh, that's an invention,
that that's some news I could use having something place to rest my spoon enough
make things enough to want to rest a spoon. Yeah, but no,
no, never not. You should tell your kids you want one for Christmas.
I was gonna tell John, you know what I could really use as
a spoon rust somebody, somebody needs to pull the trigger on that. How
was it was good? It was nice. It was, you know,
nothing out of the ordinary. A couple people that normally come. We're out
of town, so it was a little smaller, but yeah, everything went
off without a hitch. Did your kids eat good? No? No,
of course not no, No they didn't they didn't need did they like the
ham? I love hamd yeah, like the ham. That was about it.
I don't and she likes we have like you know, they just passed
around like pickles and olives just as a little dish. And Iola loves pickles,
so she just had like pickles and ham mostly for like wouldn't eat the
turkey, wouldn't net the hand, Yeah, wouldn't eat mashed potatoes, nothing,
really nothing. Every year I try and get them to try stuffing because
I love it so much. They refuse every year. They Yeah, I
get it. There's too many things going on even if you don't have the
celery, and that there's still too many colors, too many like shades of
beige that you're not it's not uniform enough for kids. I think, yeah,
yeah, well so for the past well anyway, for the past few
months at least, so both girls they go to the same school, and
it's like a Christian Catholic one or one of them. It's in a church.
I don't know which one it is. This will let you know how
much we care about religion. We don't. But they do this thing in
school where they do this little pre prayer jingle and then they do like a
cute little prayer before they eat snack time and then they Blake brought it home
for so she does that before dinner. She loves doing that before dinner every
night. And it's super cute and super adorable. Again, we are not
religious, we don't care. It's just a cute thing that she does.
So we let her do it. And so for the last month we've been
like, all right, get ready, you're gonna do it Thanksgiving, go
ahead, and then uh, and then now Ila's kind of starting to find
like, I want to do the thing this time. I want to do
the thing Thanksgiving comes. Neither of them No, not happy tricks they're gonna
do Nope. No. So usually you told us that there's like thirty people.
Yeah, so there's like, yeah, maybe a little bit less.
So this year I think there was about maybe I was going a little over
on thirty. Normally I think there's probably about twenty. This year, there's
like this teen. Oh that's so that's that's reasonable. Yeah, that's a
good side. And that's including the kids. Yeah, let me ask you
this, do your kids still nap Ilah doesn't want to, and she can
get away with not taking a nap, but I just want her to take
a nap. So I'm like, no, you're taking a nap. No,
no, no, you're taking a nap. And then she always ends
up falling asleep. But she can get away with not napping, Blake.
Like we tried for a minute because it was tough picking up from school at
like two and then going home and trying to nap and get up before four.
But she just she's just a mess if she doesn't have a nap.
So, yeah, Blake always has to take a nap. Aila, I
tell her just just go take the nap. You're gonna fall asleep. Yeah.
She fights me all the time, but she always falls asleep. So
does Blake take it at school? Then no, So you bring her home
at two and then you can get her. You can get her down at
two o'clock. I mean even if you know a lot of times they like
John, I take him for John. But juice after school a lot,
that's like their favorite thing. They want some moothes. Even if we go
get a Jamba juice and we get home and it's like three, three fifteen,
then I'll be like, Okay, don't worry about the nap, Blake.
You go down for an hour, She'll go down for an hour.
Oh yeah, and then what time do they go to bed? Eight?
Oh okay, I mean that's when they're supposed to go to bed, right
Yeah, yeah, another fifteen twenty minutes to corral them, and then sometimes
they just entertain themselves for a little while. Yeah. I spent time with
Nicholas's baby, who they're trying to like he's five going on six months,
you know, but like they adjusted his time now to go to bed at
six. They're trying to put him down at six and stuff, and he
at his nap. I would I would take him upstairs, like, oh,
I'll put the baby down for a nap. It was so fun,
like to take him upstairs and give him a little bob and put him on
his side and like rock him, and it was just so cute. And
it's like, oh I kind of missed, not really, but like I
kind of miss Do you ever see Raising Arizona when Holly Hunter's in the car
and she's when they steal the baby and she goes. I feel like we've
talked about this. I've tried to watch them them but Wendy, but there
is a scene in that movie that but like, so we were saying it
all weekend where she where she sees the baby. They he goes and kidnaps
the baby and puts it in the car and Holly Hunter goes. She starts
crying. She goes, I love him so much. So we were saying
that as we were like, you know, taking turns putting the baby,
like I'll take the baby. I love him so much. It was just
so like it was just like nice to like you're busy all day, you're
cooking, you're cleaning, everybody's coming and going, and then to get away
from everything and go into the room, close the door and then try and
then I'm trying not to fall asleep because it's like all I want to do
is go to sleep. But it was just so nice, like to put
the baby down. It was just so fun, you know, to have
like a little baby around sad because like there was nobody did that for me.
I would have came out. I would have given my left tit for
somebody to be like, let me take the twins, let me put the
twins to bed. It was like it just me and John just like yeah,
drawing the short straw. Like holidays, it would take me myself and
I no offense to Adam, but it was all on me to I remember,
like every like there was one stretch of Christmas every year, either Natalia
or Sunny had a fever and I would have to take them home, put
them in their crib or stay home with them and like you know, put
the the Vicks vapor rub on them, and like Christmas Eve, like a
couple of years in a row, one of them was always sick and I
would not be able to go enjoy you know, Christmas Eve dinner or whatever
wherever we were or wherever they were, you know. So yeah, I
know, it's like it's it's nice having like family, you know. Yeah,
yeah, it's nice like too. I'm sure for you, Kaitlin,
to get to the age where they can talk to you though and tell you
something's wrong, yes, you know, I mean that's it's good, and
it's it's a double edged sword because they can get they can complain. And
then there's this thing that happens to Blake all the time, where she's like
pretty much every day at least every time she has to eat her dinner,
she goes, oh my tummy hurts, and it's like okay, all day
yesterday after dinner. We were like, does her tummy really hurt or she
just saying that because your food, Like, we can't we can't tell whether
she's actually like in some pain or she's just saying it because she says it
all the time, right, Yeah, yeah, the tummy thing. Well,
this was super fun. Yeah, I'm going to tell you on Friday's
episode, I'm going to tell you all about the twins' birthday, which was
yesterday. We had a really good time. Yeah, but before we wrap
uh oh Patreon, this week was goode Nte told a little family family story.
Yeah, which it's a good thing you heard this first, right because
it will make a lot of sense to you. But also we have a
couple of business shout out speaking of no religion, you know, not Caring
Family Skeptical. It's a podcast about raising your kids without religion. And yeah,
can't say the name of the person who brings us the Family Skeptical because
she doesn't want people up heer ass about like raising her kids without religion,
but go check that out. Also, we've got Maren who has a sugar
skull. That's the gift the Bakery gift shop on the Island of Kawaii,
so if you're out there, check them out. Otherwise you can follow their
Instagram page Sugar Skull eight oh eight also will mean Frida More just saw on
our social media that another person went to go check out out and eat some
food over there. They wanted to know what to order and I said salmon,
but it was like early in the day, so they weren't. Anyway,
go if you're in Palm Springs or Palm Desert, go check out Woman
Freda. They have absolutely delish food. Also, our new friend Aaron,
his brother, her brother and his wife are having their first baby in February
and they want to promote their plant nursery called the Backyard. This is like
a gift she's giving for the holidays to her brother, which I think is
really sweet, but she doesn't want him to know that she's promoting his It's
a Christmas tree place and like a garden, a plant nursery called the Backyard.
It's in Coast to Mesa, So if you're in Coasta Mesa, go
check it out. But you can also follow them on their socials at the
Garden CAA. So at the Garden CAA. Yeah anyway, don't oh no,
I'm so sorry Backyard c on all social media platforms Backyard CA. So
he doesn't know that she's doing the shout out, so I don't mention that
you heard it on this show. And Adam Lerner, he's a car broker.
He can hook you up if you live in California. There's no fee.
It's just he's just going to get you the best deal that you better
than you can find yourself. If you're out of California, he can still
hook you up with a car and a better deal than you can get yourself.
But there is a fee because he doesn't live in the state. So
but it's not that much. And the yeah, that's it. I'll do
the rest on all right, Okay, thanks, everybody's calin. You're a
parent now, you don't f it up. It's many