Mid Season Moms

What is your guilty pleasure? What do you enjoy during your own time? Watching TV, reading, or movies. We all put things aside to enjoy our own guilty pleasures.

How important is it to have mom friends, how to spot toxic friends, and what to do with friends that come and go.

Seriously funny stuff listening to the difference between the mom's husbands. Not so newlywed questions game and so much laughing.

We have all had it and then we feel guilty for feeling mom guilt! How do you let go of mom guilt & mom comparing!

We all mom shame each other some of us worse than others. Why do we do it? The older we get the less shaming we do. But it can get crazy!

Sadly we didn't have many answers in this episode but we definitely shared our dilemmas with cell phones. So you are not alone!! 

Note: 40 yr setting up the audio= audio is a little crazy on this episode. Truly Chelsi was trying to deal with kids craziness until 2 minutes before recording so mic checks didn't happen.  But see which of us date our spouses, how we find time for dating and the "other" stuff.  

Goals, do we love them or hate them? Which of the moms set goals? How do we teach kids to set goals? 

Raychellene Talbot comes to talk serving with our families. She has taught her daughters to serve often, build their self-esteem through service, and empathy for others situations. 

These are the best days of our lives, or so they say. Most of us remember the embarrassing and awkward moments our kids had on dates and how we tried to help them.

Learn the signs of vaping, how quick and easy it is to get, and why it is so appealing to junior high kids and up. HOT TOPIC: Do you tell the mom if you see their child vaping or having a party where there is vaping?

So how did we do are we all just talk or did we survive back to school shopping, dropping off our college kids, carpool drama, was Hilary's son on time to leave for his mission, and we each take a stance on the Halloween Changing to Saturday Movement and Daylight Savings time. Lots of random stuff & lots of fun.

A back and forth between the teens & adult kids on what they think about their moms. They did not hold back and we tried to edit it so you could see exactly what are kids are like! In one word LOUD & HILARIOUS okay that's two words. If nothing else we will all have this awesome recording of our kids telling all our secrets.

You're not alone when feeling sad about your kids are leaving to start their new life and have their own adventures. Without mom right by their side. It is uncharted territory, hard, and we usually share our feelings in all the wrong ways. Listen to the moms tell their stories of the first child leaving home! 

This Moms Mini is with Hilary Roberts on how she sets expectations and guidelines to help to make traveling a good experience filled with memories and laughter.

Hilary shares her hilarious parenting moments and how she chooses to parent in a loving way with boundaries and expectations. She is the mom of 8 but says she is not an 8 kid mom! She shares her "banking method" of discipline and helping kids overcome shyness. We were so lucky to have her we laughed for 2 hours straight and had so much fun. We will definitely have her back!!

Do we have a love or hate relationship with Back to School shopping?  **** Side Note- After this episode, Chelsi had a moment back to school shopping. So sorry, Old Navy! The words "I hate this every year" and other words were uttered, along with finger-snapping, and the mom stare of death. There was some drama from that mama!  So when listening and she says its is overwhelming and stresses me out 3 weeks before she was right!*** Who shops, who budgets, and whats or our lists. Also, what do we do for the college kids for back to school time?

Overshare time for sure! Find out what we each secretly don't love, but everyone else does, what we would we jump into a pool of and some other fun tidbits! Also, our take on what qualities we each have that makes parenting hard or easier!

So who knew podcasting was so funny? And us moms tend to forget we are recording when we start talking. So this is the clip played at the launch party.

Get to know some fun facts about the moms & about their lives, marriages, and kids. This was our first session of recording with the equipment to it was definitely an adventure. Please pardon our editing it is truly a learning curve for us all. This is a new and exciting adventure we are taking together with our very supportive husbands and kids. We all live in Utah in the same neighborhood. We are similar in some areas of opinion and differ in others.  Our mothering skills are not more amazing then any other mom put hopefully sharing the sweet & sour parts of this crazy road of being a mom of older kids & adults. We all have had our challenges, scares, trials, and triumphs and our kids aren't perfect. 

A few fun clips of what the podcast will be like with lots of laughter and fun. We are so excited for you all to hear our first official Episode on August 1st.