Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley - We're Country Now!

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

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I hate gift giving and receiving. Receiving gifts is so weird. What do you say thank you? This is Coffee Convo's with Kale Lowry and Lindsey Chrisley. I really want you to be in your feels, Kale. That does not interest me whatsoever. I feel very attacked by you. A spirited discussion about motherhood, friendship, family,

and life in the public eye. I'm just not with the fakery anymore. There's a fakery bakery around here. Here's Kale and Lindsey. The rain has, Do you see this? Like do you see this right now? You know what it looks like? It looks like end of like an old timey mop. Yeah. You know, like the ones with the strings. A literal mop and it's they're frayed on the end. Like we

pray we played the Braves last night at baseball and it was the Orioles against the Braves. I think, no, it was the Red Sox. I'm lying. That's weird because the actual Braves played the Red Sox last night. Oh, really? Yeah. We have four baseball games this week. I'm definitely putting a hat on for baseball today. This is embarrassing. How I am walking around today is embarrassing. Good morning and welcome to Coffee Convo's podcast. I have so much shit to tell you.

I don't even know if we have enough time, so I'm just going to try to give you a quick run through. Can't wait. I woke up this morning, went to look at my ferns on my front porch to see how dead they actually were and realized that the first sale sign had been posted in my front yard. So I was like, oh, okay, so we are actually really doing this.

My life has been absolute chaos. I don't know if you felt like that, whenever you were in the process of moving and selling your home that you were in. It's- I don't do that. I can't do that. I literally can. I have to move out before I show my house. I can't to get seven kids, animals and all the things out of my house. And now that we have

chickens like I could never I would never be able to do it. There's just it's the way that my office is never in the shape to be shown. It can't happen. office is never in the shape to be shown. It can't happen. Bye. No, right now, on my counter, I'm literally looking at JS health vitamins that I ordered that colostrum brand. I don't know how to say it. But looking at that, I'm looking at a new water pick situation that I ordered for Jackson because please tell me why when we were trying to

use his water pick the other day it exploded all over the fucking bathroom and went everywhere. I feel like I'm still cleaning up from that mess. So I, when Isaac got his braces on, I, I love water picks. I fucking love them. We had gotten one for, I had gotten one for Isaac that That was a handheld one. But the way that it worked was the craziest thing and water would be shooting all over the place. I prefer the tank with the cord because they're less of a mess for us. Okay, that's, I'm looking at this one right now.

That's the one that I got, like what you're talking about. The one that you had an issue with is also the same style that I had an issue with. When I tell you all over the bathroom, also if you're an adult and you don't use a water pick yet, do yourself a favor and go and get you a water pick because you would be amazed at what actually comes out of your mouth after you have brushed your teeth and floss

and then use a water pick, it's insane. Yes, agreed. And I'll post, I'll send links for the water pick that we have and then you post links for the water pick that you have. Yes. Also, I'm looking at the bag of stuff that we got from the Braves game last night. I really wanted to talk to you about this. Number one, Jackson and I went to the Braves game last minute.

I was going to take him tonight, but it's supposed to rain. There was no rain in the forecast for yesterday. So it was like, okay, we're going to go to this one. I absolutely hate during the school year, we can't really go to sporting events. And if we do, we're getting in the bed so late, but whatever end of the year risk I was willing to take, if you go to a sporting event for a professional team, I don't know how people do it with multiple children and buy them all something.

Because the amount of money that it costs to go to these games, it was like $40 parking, the price of the tickets. If your kid wants a jersey, $140, a hat, $50. That's when we just went to WrestleMania a couple of what was it April the beginning of April. I mean, I we had four tickets. It was me was it four or five with five tickets. I think I don't remember but I had Lincoln Lux and Creed plus

me. So we had four tickets and then they all wanted shirts then they needed signed merch then they needed the pictures because some of the older generations of WWE wrestling, they pay per picture, per signature. So you can't just get like a picture and a signature. Everything is separate. They want the toys, they want the special edition,

they want this, they want that. It's an entire, like you have to save for months to do shit. Absolutely for months. And I also wanna say that we are not tone deaf. I'm just saying, like, I know that our children do not need all of these things. No, 100% no.

And that's not what I'm saying, but here's my thoughts on it. If I'm spending the money to number one, drive 45 minutes to the stadium, park for $40, pay for the tickets, then I'm going to let him get something from the store. I just feel so bad for the people that have so many children. I saw so many arguments in this store yesterday of two specific situations. One mom that had two girls in there and they both wanted jerseys. Okay, well, that's $140

a piece each. And how do you tell one that they can get something and then the other that they can't? You can't. So like, how does that work? You literally can't. And it's just, it's insane. And I get it. Like they're going to make their money as well. They're going to do this, keep these prices because they know that people are going to pay for it. It just sucks because the way that the economy is right now plus that kind of stuff like every little bit is an extra at

this point, you know, everything. It's so hard. It's so fun. And then I was thinking because at the brave stadium, they have it's called the sand lot, I think is what it's called. And it's a whole kids like play area and it has arcade games. It has like the zip line the rock climbing wall like all that stuff Okay, again, it cost me $12 for Jackson to do four different things But imagine you taking your kids that's $12 times. However, many kids that you take absolutely insane

So I'm looking at all of that shit on my counter and I'm like, wow, I'm probably gonna have a showing in two days and I need to get this house clean the hell up. Also, just to piggyback off of that, I thought I was going to get a lot of backlash about not taking the babies with me on vacation this year. But part of that is like all the extra stuff that I thought we were going to come home with from vacation to like the merch and the souvenirs and all the things. I did away with that. You get a towel from wherever we go and that's about it.

Like we're not getting all this extra shit. Like we're not. And then, you know, same thing goes when, you know, the babies are old enough to go on vacation with us. We're not spending the money on all this extra shit. I didn't budget for that. What I budgeted for was hardly this vacation in itself. Thank you very much. Please exit the room.

Stop fucking talking to me. Also, I need to know people who have been in the moving process, are you like me where you're getting really close to the move and you start, even if it's like things you don't want to eat out of your pantry or from your freezer. You just start eating it so that it's gone. Yeah, you have to and then also like if you're canned goods, if

you don't want to take them donate them if they're not expired. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. And sometimes the places like if you like do online, I don't know about for food banks, but for Goodwill, you can schedule pickups so that you don't have to drive there. That's also an option. My church has a food pantry type situation thing where people from the community can

come and shop the food pantry. Now that you said that, that's where I'm taking my canned goods. Yeah, do that. Make sure they're not expired and then hop that right off. If you think that I'm about to get to my new house and have busted peas all over a box, absolutely not. It's not fucking happening. My nanny brought me two large tomatoes from the,

what do they call it, like the farmer's market or whatever. And they've been sitting on my counter for roughly six days. So I'm going to go and buy bacon when we get off of this recording and I'm about to slap up some fucking BLTs. Yeah. How are you looking like that? Yeah. Yeah. I saw where that was going. I saw where that was going. Why do you not like BLTs? It really bothers me, yeah. I saw where that was going. Why do you not like BLTs? It really bothers me, honestly.

I just hate tomatoes. They're so disgusting. Oh, you want me to tell you something else that I've been doing in my laundry list of things? You're going to be mind blown. So just get ready, prepare yourself mentally. I'm reading. What are you reading? I'm reading, it's

like a self-help book on attachment styles. Okay and then for your attachment style or Jackson's? No, I think it's just relationally like how you attach to people so you can learn things about, I mean you basically become a counselor for other people while you're also reading this book because you're like, oh, that person that I was with is actually this attachment style. And that's why that was never going to work. Or this is why I do things the way that I do them, because this is my attachment style. Okay, I can get behind that. What book is it? It's called attached. I might, I might actually have that. I don is it? It's called attached. I might I might actually have that. I

don't think I've read it yet. Check your library. I have a little mini one. So, I've been doing that um and just trying to get all of the stuff together in this house. Ma'am, do you realize that you don't even realize the **** that you have until you start taking inventory on stuff and you're like, wow I could have actually thrown that away like three years ago. Why did it even come to this house in the first place? Yeah, and it's a pain in the ass and you're like what in the how did I get here? And since Jackson decided that it was a good idea to get in trouble at school this week

He does not know this but he is going to be cleaning out his room and creating donation piles all weekend. I literally just said that. So I have Lincoln this weekend. Javi's away and I said, we're going through the playroom. Lucky for you. Oh, wow. Was he also in trouble?

No, I felt bad, but he's the only kid that's going to be able to tell me who plays with what because they all fight with each other about shit, so we can make piles. How do you even organize a playroom for that many kids with that big of age gaps? No, you don't. It's pure chaos. And that's the thing, it's like, I want to set up,

like, in my head and in a perfect world, I would love to have one of those toy rotation situations, but because everyone is such is such there's such gaps I mean even Rio and Creed are they're two years apart, but they're Developmentally and toy wise they're not playing with the same things and so it's really difficult Then you have Lincoln who's not really playing with toys, but he has books. How do you organize the book? It's just it's it's a literal nightmare. Oh, no, no, no, no. I told Jackson, I said, sir, this collection of Squishmallows that you have, all of that's not going to the-

Can you ship them here? Ma'am, what did you say? Can you ship them here? I promise you that you don't want these Squishmallows. Like, you don't- No, Kale, when I tell you I'm going to take a picture of them, like, it's bigger than like what this screen is that I can do my hands. They're like the full, like they're bigger than me.

So zip, what is it called? Like that air suction thing where you like- Oh, you get an air suction them and send them to you? And film it while you're doing it. Okay, also I got my Crocs and I just want to say thank you very much. I've been strolling around in them and everybody notices them.

As they should. They're bright and white and you're going to see them when you're walking. Okay. One time I put Birkenstocks, not the leather ones, but the ones that are the same material as Crocs. Goodbye. I put the ones that are the same materials as the Crocs in the dishwasher and shit melted. So how am I supposed to wash my Crocs? A pressure washer. Yeah, but they're going to fly everywhere because it's so much pressure. Wait, are you telling me that you put your, I could put my Crocs on and pressure wash them on?

No, because your skin will literally peel off. No, I think you could potentially soak them in the bathtub. Somebody told me a magic eraser. Oh yeah. So we're gonna try that method because for whatever reason, I decided that I was gonna get in mud like two days ago.

With white crocs. With white crocs. Well, I didn't realize that it was mud until I stepped on the grass and it sunk. You know what you're gonna get next you're gonna get extra tough, extra tough deck boots. What the hell is that? Oh my god. I'm I'm a chicken farmer now. So I can tell you

about these things. These are I do that what people like used to call mucks back in the day? Yes. Look, this is Creed's reaction to getting them. Look, he's so excited. Those are so cute. They're so good. And you can wear them out to wet ball fields.

We're going to a Morgan Wallen concert on Saturday. We're all going to wear them as a family because it's supposed to rain. I need a full reel of the Morgan Wallen concert outfits. Okay, I'm gonna give you one. It's supposed to rain. So that's why I got the ponchos, I got the deck boots, we're ready to go. I hate that it's supposed to rain for you,

but I would also go to Morgan Wallen Rain or Shine. Rain or Shine, Elijah was like, are you sure that we wanna to go in the rain? Is he sure going to play in the rain? I said, as a country man yourself, do you really give a shit if it rains? Listen, I would be there all day long. I'm very jealous that I'm going to be doing all the domesticated things while you're at Morgan Walen.

But whatever, time and place for all of us. I'm drinking an Elani and I have been drinking out of my Hydrojug. I know you're a Stanley girlie, but like how cute is this? I have that in green. I also have it in black. You can fold the straw over, take it up and it will not leak. That's why I love the Hydrojug. So I'm glad that you're also on the Hydrojug game. When I tell you the amount of water that I've consumed in the past couple of days, you don't

even realize like when you have this like carrying it around, it makes it so accessible that it just like, okay, well, I might as well just drink water. A tip for any girlies who are drinking hydro drugs, Stanley, Ouala, whatever brand you're drinking you have to activate and coolers drinking, you have to activate, and coolers as well, you have to activate them. So keep that in mind every time that you fill it, if your ice isn't staying iced, you fill it with cold water or ice,

dump it out after a couple minutes and then refill. That activates it for it to keep the cold in and same for hot. You put boiling water in or hot water in, keep it in for a minute, two minutes, whatever, dump it out and then put your soup, hot chocolate, coffee, whatever in it. That makes so much sense. Yeah, and everyone's done it though. They were like, wait, you have to activate it every time and I said, yeah. Kristen said, did you see the ice cube molds for those cups? No ma'am, we did not. Well, can you send a link? Yes. Can you help? Oh, the straw. Wait, what? So the straw goes through the ice so that it's not in the way

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money and all the things that being said, I want you to keep that in mind when I tell you what transpired during a game. There were two games in the morning on Saturday. During game one, my cousin had stopped by because we were in New Jersey. And she said, our number, whatever on our team is, is getting really frustrated. And something is about to happen. She's my cousin's about 15 years older than me. And even though we have kids the same age, I just think I like to think

she probably recognizes those types of warning signs before I do because of her age and I don't know experience I'm not sure but she did she noticed it I didn't notice it it wasn't my kid it wasn't her kid either she's like something's gonna happen and if that was my son I'd pull him out of the game and I didn't know what she was talking about truthfully I didn't notice she left game two occurs that kid grabbed another player by the neck and tried to pull him to the ground, like try to like shove him to the ground. But like I'm talking full on grabbed him around his neck. What?

Mm hmm. Grabbed him around his neck? Mm hmm. From the other team. Grabbed him around his neck and tried to shove him to the ground. My cousin called it, not her kid, recognized the warning signs prior to and then the only thing that was done was she's well, I can't say the only thing that was done. I can only tell you what I saw. Are you out of your mind? You need to go apologize to that boy and his family right now. And then he in the chat was allegedly sick for the next game. But what do you do in a situation like that?

Because the parents didn't recognize the warning signs. I know they're involved with parents. I know it wasn't their fault. I know I watched the entire thing happen. I was sitting right next to the parents. It wasn't their fault. But also how do you handle a situation like that? Well, I think this also goes back to parenting styles.

Did they not want to intervene ahead of an incident happening to see how the child was going to handle something? I really don't know. I just know as a mother, if that was the situation, like there's been plenty of times that Jackson has been heated playing basketball. And I will holler from the side of the court, like I don't give a shit.

I'll be like, you need to settle down. I'm like Caitlin Clark's dad out here. I'm like, you need to settle the fuck down. I think sometimes we don't think that it'll go that far. And so we're like, okay, we'll let it slide a little bit because he wasn't doing anything like he was getting frustrated and heated before that. But at what point are you like, okay, we need to pull it, pull them out before they get a hit before they get too far. You get what I mean? Yeah, I had it.

I used it as a learning moment for Lincoln, a teaching opportunity for Lincoln. When the game was all said and done and we were going home, I basically just like went over it because I'm like, you know, and, and I don't, like I said, I don't blame the parents. I think this was heat of the moment, bad decision on the kids part. I'm not like, I hope that if they hear this that I'm not coming from them in any way, shape or form. But at what, like, I guess what I'm trying to get at is at what point do you pull them out because you recognize something could happen? Or do you let it go to hope that nothing does happen? Like, are we just going to be over, over conservative and be like, you know what?

You obviously can't handle this right now. I'm gonna pull you off the court for a while until you cool down or you're out the rest of the game or like how- See, that's what I would do. I would do that one. Pull him out the rest of the game? I feel like I know my child more than anybody else

knows my child and I can see warning signs of something. And if I see that he's playing overly aggressive, no, you need to be benched and I don't care if your coach isn't benching you because I am. Like that's not fair to the other players who are trying to play and staying cool, calm, and collected and you know showing good sportsmanship because that's also just a bad sign of sportsmanship as well. Like you're out there acting like a fool. Then if you want to act like a fool, you get treated like a fool. Right. Okay. Cause I have, I'm hot. I've been hot headed in my younger, in my younger years. I've been hot headed. I've also like some of my kids have

different personalities. Um, Lincoln doesn't ever get to that level. Um, but that's not to say any of my other kids never will, you know, and so I just wonder how was there a better way to handle it? I guess maybe pull them out sooner. I don't know. I don't I don't know. Because I don't think you realize until it happens. Outside of that, I wanted to ask you, and I noticed this for myself when I was going through some of my stuff through my fridge refrigerator. And when my nanny was here not too long ago,

she was like, why do you have this? Like you didn't grow up using this. Have you ever experienced, so let's say you're in a relationship and because somebody else like uses something different than what you might've grown up with or what you're accustomed to using, like you start using that or like habits change from being in a relationship.

Yeah, 100%. Like some things you're always going to buy separate. Like for me, it's two loaves of bread, but there are certain things that I know, like toothpaste. I don't give a fuck what brand toothpaste we're using. If Elijah uses a specific brand, I'll use that one. You know what I mean? So, or, no, I won't budge from my ketchup, but- Wait, what ketchup do you use? Heinz. Heinz?

Yeah. I don't know what one. Or like hot sauce. I had bought Tabasco sauce, and he lit, and cause he likes hot sauce on everything. His pasta, fucking everything. And they must've substituted it for Tabasco and he literally asked me he was like do you use Tabasco and I said what no I don't use Tabasco but so like we have adapted are you fucking kidding me why is that fly like

it's trying to get in your your rat's nest you what? It's not raining today and I'm paid actor. My, uh, my kids leave the door open when they're running out and back and forth and chicken chop, chicken chores and everything else. They leave the doors open and then they fly. Disgusting. Anyhow, the Tabasco sauce growing up, if there was ever hot sauce in my house, it was always Tabasco, but I didn't, I don't have a preference, but now any hot sauce is the hot sauce that he uses, not Tabasco sauce.

Okay, that makes sense. So why- What was it that you were gonna use? Okay, so when I started dating Will, we would go to his parents all the time, like on the weekends, to the lake, whatever. So lots of sandwich making. Make me a sandwich, bitch.

Lots of sandwich making and they always use Hellmann's mayonnaise. I grew up on Dukes and because I just got so accustomed to eating Hellmann's, I started to prefer it. And now whenever I do ever have Dukes for whatever reason, it just doesn't hit the same way as it used to because I'm so over it at this point. Like Hellmann's is like a more whipped mayonnaise. A lot of recipes and stuff call for Hellmann's like specifically.

And Dukes is more like runnier, like oily than Hellmann. So it's not like that whipped texture. And now I just prefer Hellmann's. And then that sparked a thought in my mind. I was like, what other things do I do that I never had like growing up that I do now? And a lot of it is like all of my condiments and stuff. Like the condiments that are in my refrigerator right now are specifically, I started purchasing

like that being married to Will. Agreed. Things happen. And it doesn't even have to be marriage. It can just be like a relationship. I read this thing on social media the other day and it was like, y'all be getting too comfortable in these friendships and start stealing each other's personalities. No, that's not. It's just like when you're in a relationship and you take on certain things that they are used to, or like you hang out with someone too

much and you start noticing that you're doing some of those, it's not on purpose. It's just something that happens. You know what I mean? Or like a phrase that somebody says and you just pick up on that and then you start using it because you're in communication with that person a lot because they use it. It's not like you're a follower or anything. It's just like it happens. And I guess for me, like with the whole condiment situation, I've just never really cared enough and he always cared.

So if I don't care and he does care, then it was just like a natural, okay, I don't give a shit. Exactly. And there are some things that you're dead set on that he'll just conform to. And then that's like his new norm. Oh yeah, like the no shoes in the house situation. Yeah.

Oh, actually I got a message about this from a expectant mom and she asked me, I I posted a video of Jackson wheeling the trash cans and, and I had a bunch of shoes like out of my garage. And she was like, I'm assuming you're no shoes inside the house type of girly. And I messaged her back and I was like, absolutely. Like, have you not done any research on the amount of germs that come in your house on the bottom of your shoes?

Because if you have not, please do. Like I challenge all of you to absolutely do this. Also if you ever go into a house where shoes are regularly worn, look at their rugs and stuff, how much like dirtier and dingier and shit that they are. And you wouldn't even realize it until it's too fucking late. So if you guys want to go out ruining your rugs and your carpet, then that's on you. But it happened in here, sister. That's so foul. Speaking of shoes, I need to tell you a hack that Kristen taught me.

So my little critter, crack, Romero, Creed, Biggie Biggs child, All the names. Is country now. So we're country. We like to be barefoot. He decided after baseball that he was going to take his cleats off outside, leave them outside and then it rained. I'm not talking a little picture is all I'm talking about it fucking poured. It was a fucking tsunami out this bitch. So he left the shoes, the cleats outside.

Now cleats have the extra padding. So it's not like a pair of sneakers that you can just toss in the dryer. Mm-hmm So I'm like Kristen. He has a game tonight. Like what am I gonna do? This is a hack Speaking of shoes put with dirty towels old clothes Whatever in the dryer doesn't or you don't even have to put anything in the dryer Truthfully you take the strings pull them tight tie them in a knot Close the drawer close the dryer door you take the strings, pull them tight, tie them in a knot, close the drawer, close the dryer door with holding the strings so that they're hanging on the door and run

the dryer. Wait, can you do this with like all shoes? Yes. Why have I never thought of it? I took a picture and you can't really see it, but you can see the Nike check and I'll post this too. This is they're hanging so they're not gonna and then this is you close the knot right there at the top close the door so they're literally hanging in the dryer and you run the dryer. I put towels that needed to be washed just in case I didn't know if they would if they did end up

falling off which they did so that the heat would dry them. So that's a mom hack. Just wanted to tell you all that. Okay, so a lot of people also have asked me why wash shoes all the time. And I'm like, wait, are there just people out here in this world that just like stroll around with never wash us like you buy them and then you never wash them. I'm you're the only person I've ever met, unless something gets spilled on them. I've never met someone that washes shoes,

let alone on a regular fucking basis. But what do you do? Like, how do you keep them clean? What do you mean? What are we keeping? If you're taking them off at the door, Lindsey, what the fuck did the bottom of the shoes need to be cleaned for?

No, I'm saying like you're out here strolling around and they're supposed to be white Nikes and they look dingy as hell. Then it's time for a new pair bitch. No because you you might get you know like in a little bit of grass or something and then it's I'm not going and spending that same amount of money on another pair of shoes that I can just wash them. Do they get because in my experience my white shoes when I tried to clean them have turned yellow. So that's what's going on.

Are you bleaching? Cause I've tried the rubber soles, the white rubber soles, especially my forces. Like I have a dirty pair that I wear wherever, wet fields, whatever. And then I have like a good pair. So I'm not completely versed and a professional when it comes to makeup applying, but I do the best I can.

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So our shoes would get washed on a Friday after school. And whole point of me saying this was they never put our shoes in the dryer. It was always over like, a lot of houses have like the air vents like still on the floor. You know, like my house here doesn't, all of mine are like in the ceiling. I have

both. But they would put them on top like in the wintertime they would put them on top of the air vent and just like I guess the heat would dry them. Oh, wow. That's actually I never thought of that either. Yeah. So that's where I learned to start washing shoes. I've kind of given up on Jackson like with the shoe wash situation, because it's just stuff. Just leave them in the garage and wear them dirty because I don't I don't care. I can't do it.

Yeah, no. Also, um, Creed went through puddles last night with his muck boots. Tell me how they were suction to his feet. And when I pulled them off water, and I'm like, we are some country fucking bumpkins. And I'm loving every minute of it. I love this part of your life. Honestly, it's such like you've evolved so much. And I just, I love it. I don't know that I can get behind the whole chicken situation. It kind of scares the fuck out of me. But whatever. No, they're the easiest thing I've ever had. I have 15 chickens now.

Do you have eggs? Not yet. I should 15 chickens now. Do you have eggs? Not yet I should have them with the fall What do you think came first the chicken or the egg? Oh god, I think the chicken came first, but I'm getting an egg stamp. I'm gonna have like should it be kale and co farms Kailin sons farms like what should it be? What should we do a vote? Let's do a coffee. Yeah because like there's these egg stamps that we can do.

And then some of my neighbors, like my neighbors, I mean like- What you stamp it on the egg? Yeah. What? Yeah. And it'll say like farm fresh eggs, or you can put like fresh eggs

and then have the farm on the stamp. And then some of my neighbors that are like a mile away, sometimes the Amish, they have this little stand at the corner of their property. And it's like fresh eggs and you can grab them from like the carton. And then it'll have like a sold Lowry and Sons plus one. Wait, who's the plus one? Elijah. He's a Lowry now. Forget it. He's a Lowry. Lowry and Sons. Bally. Oh my god. Duh, because we have a daughter now.

But she's a Lowry. So it can still Lowry and sons because it's mostly sons, but like also, because then I was like, I can't put farm fresh eggs, killer farms. Like that's not because killer our company, like our acronym, like I can't have killer. That's like inappropriate. So then I was like, chaos farms, kale and the chaos. Wait, wait, wait, are we selling these eggs? Like, I feel like I'm a little bit behind on this conversation. So there was none. This is the first time talking about it. I didn't even tell Kristen about the stamps, the stamps yet. So probably no, not selling them, just like giving them. Because I have 15 chickens, which I also didn't tell Kristin that I did. So I rescued some yesterday.

And so the chicken coop is done. So we're going to, as a family, move the chickens from the little temporary coop to, what were they in danger of? I would also like to know what happened in this chicken rescue. Well so the crock pot, they were in danger of going to KFC. So I went so first of all, let me backtrack a little bit. So chickens are fun. They're actually fun animals to have and they're super easy, right?

But with that comes like there's lots of options for a diet. There's, you can do fruits, fruits and vegetables, you can do grain, you can do treats like they have, they have crickets and stuff in like jars. And like you can do that. And then you can do mealworms. There's all kinds of stuff, right. And then you can do like the shavings or you can do hay. So I went to Tracta Supply to go get hay bales for the new coop and lots of different things for their diet because I want to give them

like options. And while I was there, the girl working she was like, these are a dollar like you should probably get them. And I was like, yeah, they're a dollar that like, Kayla, that is not a rescue. It is though, because they started to get their feathers and once they get bigger, nobody wants them. And so I asked her, I said, what happens when your chicks don't get bought?

Like what happens? And she was like, well, then we mark them down as low as we can and somebody will get them. And it's like, I don't need them going to a home that they don't, that's not best for them. Like they need to come here and they need to be free range. Kill, you have just bamboozled the fuck out of the word rescue.

That is not a rescue. That is a purchase. It is, but it's not a good purchase because you should. It's like discount chickens. That's not fair to the chickens. What if they, what if, I don't know. Tractor Supply might have a deal with KFC. Like we don't know. They might have-

Tractor Supply does not have a deal with KFC. Do you think they might with Purdue? No, I don't. So where do you think their chickens then? If nobody buys them- I think they just get sold, or maybe they give them away. Like that's what I think happens.

I also need you to talk me out of speaking of these animals. I'm going to say I think the chicken came first. Me too. Biblically, that makes sense to me. No a lot of you people on here don't read the Bible. Perfectly fine. But did it start in an egg? But if we're going off of just like the Ark and they walked on two by two, an egg didn't

walk. Chickens did though. So that's why I think the chicken came first. I also need you to talk me out of getting a bunny rabbit. Stop looking at me like that. I don't have anything to say. Kristin's going to need to talk me out of getting it. Because I'm not. I'm talking about getting goats and you're talking about getting bunnies and I'm not. She says no. No. Here's the thing. If I get a bunny, what do I do with it when Jackson's not home? Because now I've got to go and play with it. But they can be litter trained.

Like you can litter train them. So in there, I saw this bunny at a festival like a couple of weekends ago and this bunny, kid you not, was like a cat. Like a picture of it. I will send you a picture of this. It was like a cat and litter trained and on a leash. Okay. On a leash.

Was it one of those really furry ones? Yeah. It was called a Holland Lop. Let me Google it. And I contacted a Holland Lop bunny person where they have babies and stuff. Oh, you can probably get one here from the Amish. Oh, so cute. Aren't they so cute?

Kale, Kristen's in this chat. She says, Kale, shut up, Lindsey, no. Wait, there's videos about like how to take care of them and like what's best for them. Here's my other concern though. If I get this bunny, Georgia and Della come to my house pretty often at this point. I'm actually going to pick them up

when we get off this recording. There's like no risk for my bunny like with these dogs, right? I don't think, well, probably not with your dogs, but like my dogs love the chickens and stuff like they'll go. Yeah, they'll just sit there and like watch them and like, or herd them into the because they're working breed. So they'll like herd them into the coop. Really?

And I don't mean herd actually, I just mean he'll walk towards them like Buddha specifically will walk towards them and just guide them into the thing. It's like, I don't know if, I didn't teach him to do that. That is really cool though. Like, is it just like in their nature? I guess, I have no idea, but he has not never once tried to hurt any of them.

And my cats are indoor outdoor cats. Well, two of them are indoor outdoor and have not bothered with them either. So I don't know, it probably depends on the, I don't think Della would bother a bunny. I also don't, I mean, I don't know Georgia, but she seems sweet enough. I don't think she would either. Hmm. George is my girl, honey.

I see that you have an eight year old shares eating disorder journey to talk about. And I have not seen anything about this. Like where did you find out this information and what do I need to know? Okay, so loveparents.com. And I think that they are raising awareness with this article in my opinion. I loveparents.com as well.

So this eight year old shares her journey with this eating disorder on Instagram and she has 1.3 million followers. In the article, it summarizes the backstory of eating disorders. A lot of us are familiar with bulimia, which is where you purge after you eat, or anorexia, where you're basically not eating. This article is specifically about avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, ARFID.

And it's a fear certain foods and label other foods safe food. So certain foods are, you're not allowed to have them instead of like being someone who will, taking the good with the bad, right? So like you mostly eat healthy, but you're not going to deny cravings or a cupcake in a while, right? But I guess for this one, she's specifically talking about trying new foods. So in her video, she says that she only takes three bites of new food, but she also regularly shares things she is learning in therapy and discusses the fear and anxiety she experiences when trying new foods. I almost am thinking some of my kids might have this, they will not try new foods. I almost am thinking some of my kids might have this.

They will not try new foods. They won't even try them. So it's a A-R-F-I-D is a feeding disorder where people avoid or restrict foods to the point that they experience serious consequences like weight loss, nutritional deficiencies, and psychosocial interruptions. When I tell you that specifically Lincoln, so Lincoln was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder years ago, specifically related to food. Okay. So he had it a little bit with like, he wouldn't wear long sleeves when he was a kid,

he would flip the fuck out. I didn't understand that, right? But later on I noticed that when he, I would have him try new things. I think one of the first warning signs that I was like, what the fuck is going on? Gagging. I'm talking full on about to throw up at the texture. He hadn't even tried it. Like to wow. Green beans. Okay. And green beans are not a thing. So I don't know if it's it's if that's part of it or if it's because of like the situation. Lux is more likely to try something, Creed will not.

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I wonder now with the way things are in society as a whole, if we're all kind of dealing with kids that are extremely picky because I think now when I get on social media and I see these accounts that are geared towards showing what their toddlers eat in a day and it's these these, these awesome, elaborate, very, I know I see it too. I've never met someone like that. That is the, you know, the common thing is everyone's eating chicken nuggets and mac and cheese and pizza.

Like that is common. And you, you hear about that more often than you hear of people having well-balanced diets. So I would be curious to know like, what, why is that? Is it because of lax parenting? Is it because we'rex parenting? Is it because we're not, you eat what's on your plate or you don't eat at all? Like at what point do we get here? Because growing up, I do, I, my mom made me ate tomatoes until I threw up

on my plate. So there was no- But I think there's a, there's got to be a happy balance with that though, because I don't, I don't necessarily believe in, you know, kids not trying certain things. And I don't wanna use the word made to try, but in our house, we've always had a two bite rule. And even if you don't want to try it, you're going to try it.

And if you decide that you don't like it after two bites, you no longer have to touch it, because I have the mentality that as adults, we choose what we wanna eat and what we don't wanna eat. So why am I forcing my child to eat something for what? Because as an adult, he can make his own decisions. Right. So if he genuinely just does not like it

because he's basing I don't like that off of fact because he's tried it, then you don't have to eat it. But if you haven't tried it, I don't want to hear the, I don't like it because you don't know. I just don't know at what point, because obviously if it's something deeper and it's psychological, I don't want to sit here and be like, you have to take the bait. But when as a society do we start, do we get, cause you don't, you never heard of these

things before and I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. That's not what I'm getting at. What I'm getting at is like, at what point did we, did it get to this? I think parents became more choice parents. I think that that has a lot to do with it. Look at our generation, our generation raising children. Look at how our parents raised us, we were not given a ton of choices. And not to say that choices are a negative thing, because

I'm big on choices, huge on that. This is not a dictatorship. So I don't want my child to ever feel like that. But I do think that kids have today a lot more say in what they do, they're given a lot more choices. And we were fear raised. Yeah, 100% our generation. Well, my generation you're we're in the same one, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were fear raised. And it's, you know, if you don't sit here and eat this, well, sister, then you're not gonna have dinner. Okay, well, I guess I'm gonna fucking like it.

So interesting. I just, I do like that there, you know, this girl is raising awareness from her perspective, because I think it would it's you understand it more, I think when it comes when the child understands it. So the child is like, I'm not choosing this. This is a struggle for me. I'm not choosing for myself to go through this. I just can't help it. And so then it helps our generation

is more understanding, I think. And so we're more willing to accept that and like learn from it and things like that. But I thought it was really interesting because I truly had only ever heard of anorexia and bulimia. That to me is so wild. And I agree with you that children shouldn't be forced to eat something if they do have like inversions to food in a way of like texture or something like that. I don't want to traumatize my child if it's truly like a texture situation like what you're talking that you know Lincoln has.

Yeah. But I don't know like when we go out to eat the other day we went to our club and we were playing cornhole and grabbed some food. I give Jackson choices, but you're also going to make smart choices. So it's like, you want popcorn shrimp? Okay, you need to have a vegetable and a fruit with that. So you can select whatever vegetable you want and whatever fruit cup that you want.

But it's gonna be a well-balanced meal. We're not gonna have fried popcorn, shrimp and French fries and call it a day. Right, it has to be somewhat balanced. And obviously we strive for that more often than not. Obviously there's gonna be times where that can't always be the case, but we wanna do it as often as possible.

But I hear so many times from just girlfriends that, oh, well, my kids refuse to eat fruit or my kids refuse to eat vegetables. Like there's not one single vegetable. I told Jackson when he was young, find a vegetable that you like because that's the one you're going to eat. Well, so here's the thing with that too. It's like, it's kind of like tantrums and toddlers. When you start teaching them that every single time that

they throw a fit or cry or don't like something, that's all they have to do to get what they want. After two to three weeks, in my personal experience, they start changing their attitude. When I made changes in the beginning of this year about Creed's diet at my house, very quickly I realized that the quicker I nip it in the bud, the quicker things go the way that they're supposed to. So you're not asking me for certain things in the morning because you already know you can have a banana or a bar.

When you don't finish your dinner and you're hungry before bed, don't ask me if you can have chips. But if you want a banana or a bar or an apple or something like that, those changes can quickly, they're gonna figure it out. If they're hungry, they're going to figure it out. Yep. This does add a new layer, I think, to people who are struggling with, you know, that sort of eating disorder. But so far, aside from Lincoln,

I don't know if, I don't know if Creed has, I don't, I don't think Creed has anything like that, but he quickly learned, okay, no chips, banana, no this alternative, you know? I just feel so bad for the parents that have children that have like texture issues. I mean, that would be really, really hard. Also children who have allergies. Like I thank God all the time

that Jackson does not have any food allergies. If he goes to the doctor, they're like, do you have any allergies? He'll say pollen. And I'm so thankful that that is the only one. And on that note, we have foul play. I was changing my one week old newborn. He had a giant blowout, so I had him on the changing table cleaning him up. Why do I feel like this is

like deja vu for me? As this was my first child, I didn't realize that sometimes they're not done going poop. And when you wipe their butt, it actually stimulates them and they will go more sometimes. So while wiping him, he lets out a giant shart and poop goes flying across the room, lands on the wall next to the changing table. My husband was across the room saw it happen and could not start laugh could not stop laughing. My postpartum hormones were crazy. So I started crying out of frustration and then it turned into laughter. As I was only a week postpartum I couldn't control much of my stomach muscles and suddenly let out the biggest fart ever. I was mortified because after five years of marriage my husband had never heard heard me fart

until that moment. There was poop on the baby on the wall and now have farted. We're still laughing about it to this day. When we sold the house, I swear you would see where the poop landed on the wall and where we painted over it before putting the house on the market. I just want to say as as a mom, I tell moms that are about to have their first kids all the time. Modesty goes out the window. Yes. Right. Like the things that you were embarrassed about before having a child

just it, it doesn't matter anymore. It's like if the least thing that I do is fucking fart on you, then we're good. That's Elijah and I just talked about that this morning. I was like, still, he said something and I was like, that did all happen really fast. Like all of the things that could go wrong, went wrong, shit on the floor, pissed my pants in the car, like all the things and then childbirth, both natural and C-section happened in two short years. So all of it goes out the window, fucking forget about it. I also just want to say that the first week of changing a baby and a boy, that was very interesting for me because I had never dealt with, you know, changing a

boy and having a C-section or having a, what do they call it? Circumcision? Yeah, circumcision. And you have to like wipe the stuff on there and then they're like shitting when you think they're done and it's just a fucking lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I am boys are a lot. I remember. Well, verse has shit on me since birth. Like I think every day for change. She still shits on me. So it just you know, that's how it goes.

I would always the I was wasting so many diapers like probably the first week that I had had Jackson because I would try to slide one under like really quick. And then he wasn't done shitting. So I got to the point where I would fold the diaper over where you wouldn't see the shit put the wipes like inside and just like let his little butthole hang out there for a minute in case. So I wasn't wasting fucking diapers. Yeah, yeah, no 100%.

Next foul play. Okay. First off, ladies love the podcast. I specifically work on Wednesday night so I can listen to you guys Thursday mornings on my way home from work. I love that. Okay, here goes nothing. I'll start by saying me my man have been together for almost 11 years. About a year ago, I randomly started squirting during sex. Oh, wow. And when I say squirt, I mean mean like gushing out so fast and so much, sorry for the details,

but it'll make sense later. I have no clue how or why this started happening, but my man loves it. So flash forward to about three weeks ago, me and my hubby were doing the deed and he was eating the kitty from the back. To paint the image, I'm on all fours on our bed with legs spread open.

He's on his knees on the floor going to town. It felt so good and I could tell I was getting close to the big oh. All of a sudden I hear him make this strange choking noise and he coughs so hard. I turn around and he has his eyes closed like he can't see dripping wet. He yells out it went up my nose. I'm sorry. I realized what had happened. I had squirted right in his face with no warning. We both started dying laughing and I apologize for waterboarding. My second thought after I made sure he didn't aspirate on my kitty juices was saying this is gonna

make a great foul immediately upon this occurring. She was like, I gotta write coffee combos. I gotta write them right now because this has to be read on the show. I'm jealous of everyone's sex life right now because life is like things so fucking hard that there just has not been enough time in the day and I don't have a sex life right now for Elijah is like, what's going on? You know, but life is hard.

Like, are you gonna make time for it? Like, just like, what's going on? You know, but life is hard. Like, are you gonna make time for it? Like- I'm just like, I can't keep one eye open. Could you imagine like squirting on somebody's face like that? I would be, okay, that is something that I would be mortified about. What, squirting in someone's face?

Yeah, I'd be mortified of that. You know what? I think cleaning shit up off the floor was the worst thing that I should be worried about. So I would not, that would not bother me. I cannot. Well, I hope that you get to have sex at some point during the rest of the week. And for the rest of you, I just want to say thank you for always supporting our show.

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