That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Shaznay Lewis

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

Shaznay Lewis shares the importance of family and how her kids bring her joy (even if they're ganging up on her) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Right, here's our extra nugget of joy with Shaznae Lewis. We ask all of our guests every single week, what brings them joy? You have your phone in your hand. I don't think you're going to say that the phone brings you joy. The phone does not bring me joy, actually. The phone brings me nothing but brief. Yeah, it's that thing, especially with our kids. Yeah, it's a photo.

Are you on the phone? I should have been able to, yeah, all the time. Are your kids to say? It's the bane of my life. Yeah. Do you make them put them down at meal time? I do. They're not allowed to have them at mealtimes.

But sometimes I try to do this with my daughter where as soon as we get home, it goes off, her phone goes off so that she can be present. Lovely. There's one of these things where it's like, yeah, but my homework's on it. My homework.

So there's all of that. But yeah. But it's a picture of the kids. I'm trying to get it. I'm trying to get it out. Sorry, I'm really disorganized. That's fine. And it's just of one of,

basically because I couldn't bring them in with me. But my joy, is them being together. It might sound really simple, but because... I like simple. Yeah, because especially, you know, my son's 18, my daughter's 14. And actually only now he's coming out of that teenage phase where his sister, he didn't want anything to do with her.

And he's now coming out of that and he actually enjoys her company. And so even if I hear them talking, like so last week my son had break. and he wanted me to take them out and I couldn't because I was in the middle of cooking, which is very rare. I have to say that just in case they're listening and they go, oh my God, listen to her dog. You've actually cooking as if she does it all the time.

What were you cooking? What was the cooking? I'd be chicken. Chicken, I was doing baby chickens for them all. And so his sister, he asked her to unplat his braids and so off they went. And then I could hear them laughing and joking upstairs and I went up to have a look

And he was laid out. So if you can imagine, a six-foot-something, 18-year-old boy, he was laid out on her bed with all her tapestry. I mean, like very girly room. He was happy in and amongst all of that. He was laid back. And she was unplutting his braids and they were laughing and joking. And I love that more than anything, especially because when they were babies,

they did everything together. There's like, what, three and a half or something like that years between them. They did everything together. then suddenly they grow and get to this phase where she became the annoying little sister. And he was finding new friends and going off and doing his own thing. And she was no longer allowed to trail behind or hang out with them. So yeah, so that bothered me for a long time. It broke my heart.

And so now he's come out the other end. And when they're together laughing and joking, I don't even mind if they're ganging up against me. They're doing it together. It's fine. And that brings me the most joy. Because like we said, he's going off in September and she's going to, you know, she'll be at home without him. So them two being together, laughing and joking,

brings me the most joy. That's perfect. And I love that it's that. Thank you, Chasmay. Thank you.