The Bobby Bones Show - Amy’s Christmas Changeup & Morgan’s Goal For The Holidays

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

Amy and Morgan share their plans for Christmas, including the change Amy will have this year and Morgan’s goal while she’s with family. Amy shares how Stevenson’s big half-marathon for charity came together and their plans to do it again. Plus, Morgan and Amy’s friends both were accidentally served alcohol and we think it’s a bigger conversation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Part one. Behind the scenes with a member of the show. Happy weekend, friends, and we are nearing Christmas time. I'm really excited about that. Amy is joining me this weekend. What's up, Amy? Hello, hello. Thanks for being here. And speaking of Christmas, what are your Christmas plans? What's happening in the Amy household? Yeah, we're just going to be in Nashville. We're staying here. It's been a minute since I've stayed. I actually, maybe last Christmas we did, I honestly cannot even remember. No, I went to Colorado. That's normally what we do.

I know that there was a Christmas in the last five years where we stayed home and didn't go to Colorado, but Pretty much every year for the last 20 years or so, we go to Colorado. And I'm staying home. Well, you know, I alternate when I have the kids. So this year I had them for Thanksgiving. And Ben has them for Christmas this year. And my boyfriend's family's from here, they normally stay put because they do. They have like a spring break trip coming up, which is pretty quickly after Christmas time.

And so they're just staying here. And I was like, okay, I'll stay and the kids are going to go do something with their dad. And while that has been the case in the past, I normally go and we swap in Colorado because their dad, we go to the same small town. He's got family there. I have family there. So we still go there together, just separately, if that makes sense. But they're not even doing that.

They're going to California. So with his parents. And so I'm like, well, I guess I'll just stay. And my sister and her husband were just here a couple of weeks ago. I don't know what it is. I just feel like that's what I need to do is stay put. I could go see my sister in Colorado. I'm like thinking this through live with y'all.

I'm like, wait, why am I staying? I feel like parts of me feel like I should go. But also it's okay for me to stay. And I now have this new extension of my family with my boyfriend and his kids and they're all going to be here. So it's not like I'll be alone. And then my kids will come back to me from, they fly. back from California on the 26th. So. Okay. So these are follow-up questions. One, do you plan to spend Christmas with your boyfriend, his family? Is that on the docket? Yeah, because otherwise I'd be alone.

Yeah. Okay. So this is the first one you guys are spending together? Is that right? Yeah. We were together last Christmas, but I was in Colorado. Okay. So how do you feel about that? Are you excited? Oh yeah. It feels normal. I feel like, I mean, I've spent this Thanksgiving was the second time I had been with his family and yeah it feels like that's what we should be doing so nothing about it I'm not going to wake up there Christmas morning or anything like I I'll wake up it will be interesting I'll be by myself so I'll wake up at my house and I got my dog and my cat and then I guess I'll get ready and go over there probably first thing maybe even wear my pajamas his daughter and I bought some pajamas the other day that are really cute and she's excited to wear him Christmas morning

Amos? They're not matching, but they're the same. Okay. Same brand. Yeah. But they weren't matchy, matchy, only because we actually both like the one she got,

but they only had one in that size and we both wanted the same size. So I was like, you get them or I'll get you that pair and I'll get this other pair. Do you know what they're getting for Christmas gifts from their dad? Were you part of that experience? Yeah. I know what he got them and I got them gifts from just me. Okay.

So you have them individually. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like he shoped. I mean, of course, he told me, like, I'm thinking about getting this, thinking I'm getting that, you know, and then I was like, yeah, you should do that. I'm going to get this.

They make lists. Like his daughter, she's 17. She sent me a Google Doc with links. I love that. Honestly, my kids are the same way. You know, you get to a point where at least you're getting things that you're going to use and you want versus things that it feels like almost bad when you get something that you know you're not going to use or you can't take back and then you don't know what to do with it.

And then his boys use some app called like Giftly or something. where it, yeah, it's giftly.com. I just looked it up. And they, it's almost like a registry. And you can check off. But they have, you know, aunts and grandparents and cousins and all these different people that are shopping so they can just send them to Giftly, I guess. His, the daughter doesn't use it.

She's like, I prefer a Google Doc. I'm like, that's fine. I love the organization. Google Doc is awesome. It makes it easy. And she's got some stuff coming up. She's doing an internship in D.C. So she needs professional clothes.

So honestly, most of her list was. was for things that she needs for that. And I was like, oh, okay, well, I'm sure your dad would get you this stuff anyway because you need it. So I'd milk other things, but okay. And the gifly one, can you mark if you bought something? Yeah. You mark it as like. It really is like a registry. And then I guess they know that they're getting those. Yeah, they don't really, they like update it. And I don't think they go back and like check it out. I guess you could. But I think they want to be. They don't know who got them what. Mm-hmm. Okay. And then it just helps keep it organized. So, like, who's checking off stuff? So the Christmas that you'll go over to, it is extended family also.

So it's not just their core family. I think in the morning it might be, I don't know in the morning who shows up. Maybe his dad and so, yeah, there probably could be some extended. I should know yet. My family, we always make sausage gravy and cinnamon rolls. So I feel like I need to make that for them. which they've never had before. Yeah, you have to blend the traditions together.

That's how you start to do that. Yeah. So we'll see. Is it feel weird that this is going to be a different year? No, I'm excited about it. I think I just want, I think the reason for not traveling to is it's like it's okay to be still and not create extra stuff. Like, of course, wanting to see my family and that would be a big blessing. And I think I just have the self-awareness that I need to stay and be still.

Like, because even Ben was like, you know, made a suggestion like, if you wanted to come out to California, you could too. And then we could make the swap out there. Um, and I was like, I think I'm good. I think I'm going to just stay. Okay. Then it's probably exciting to have the, I think the feeling that you want to stay, the feeling that there's something here that. you're excited about. Yeah. It's not like a, like, oh, whoa, is me like, what, sad I'm staying? It's, oh, okay, yeah, I have an option here. And it's okay for me to stay. I don't need to force a trip

or force travel and add that to my plate. So good changes. It's good changes. Yeah. What about you? So we're going to Kansas for Christmas, which will be my boyfriend's first trip back home. But his mom is currently about to make her way here. She gets here probably about the time that you guys are all listening to this podcast and we'll be staying with us for the week. So we get spend time with her and his sister. And they had all gotten together for Thanksgiving in town as well. So we had seen most of them. But so she'll come stay with this. It'll be the first time she's staying with us. So we have my learning lesson of what it's like to be around other family. I'm really used to my own and I can like tell my parents they make me mad or something. This will be a new

experience for me that I'm looking forward to. But she's excited because we do a bunch of sweet treats that we make for everybody every year. And I do. And he's now like taking on that tradition and we're making a whole bunch. And his mom is so excited because she's like, I'm going to be part of this. I have a whole bunch of things I can add. So I'm really excited to see what that's going to be like. And then extra hands. Yes, I love extra hands. It's a lot of work to make treats for that long. And that many people, we have an extensive list this year, two people versus my one list that I used to do. Yeah. So that I'm excited for. We're going to do a bunch of Christmas stuff around town. We have Christmas bars that we're going to go see the pop-ups and different lists that I've found from being chronically online too much of things that are happening in Nashville for the holidays.

And then, yeah, around like a few days before Christmas, we're going to drive back to Kansas and we'll be there through Christmas and New Year's Eve. All of my childhood friends are coming into town for New Year's Eve. So we're all going to go on a New Year's Eve party together. Okay. So you're going to be there for a little bit. A while. And those girls are the same ones. you were here the night that I met him. Oh, that's cool. Yes. So I'm excited for them to all actually

get to spend more time together now that that's transpired and for him to meet all their husbands and partners and stuff like that. So I'm just excited. It's going to be a lot of firsts and a lot of things happening. But I think it'll be really fun. Yeah. I mean, I think so too. A lot of first for you that are, you know, new. And I've never taken a guy home for Christmas. That's not wrong. I, that's wrong. I've taken one, but it was the abusive relationship. And so I think I've kind of blocked out. He blocked it out. Yeah. That never happened. That one I don't really remember. But anything else I never have. So this feels good and different and really exciting. So, and we're in such a good place in our relationship. So I'm excited to see what all comes about. I think we're going to do a podcast episode too, like after the holidays, debriefing what it was like for our first ones. I was like, you want to do this? He's like, heck. That'll be fun to have. Yeah. Like listen back on and see how far you've come.

And I'm trying to get. When you got your fifth Christmas together or something. Right. Like that's the hope. That'll be the cool part of it. And I'm trying to get my 88 year old grandma to do an episode with me. I don't know if she will. She used to be an English professor.

So she's super smart, but she's the one who lives out on the farm by herself. She lives this very like independent, fierce, just cool life out on the farm. So I really want to do an episode with her. Hopefully she will. I hope so too. All the ones I've done with the Abe's Garden residents, the

it's okay. We had a little sneezes. Sorry, this is real on the best. I saw you holding it. I'm trying to hold it and then I was like, oh, I got to go.

No, it's okay. The families of their residents when I do those episodes, they get really excited because they wouldn't have had those stories and all of that elsewise, I guess. I keep saying elsewise

and I don't know. I think that a way for you to convince your grandma might be telling the stories of how other people have come on and how their families have been so grateful. Yeah, because you just get, I feel like when it's different than when you sit with your grandparents somewhere and they tell stories, you may never ask the questions that somebody's going to ask during like an interview because you just, it's random to be like, so tell me about that time that you were five years old and this was happening in your life or whatever. You know what I mean? So I'm hopeful that she'll do that, but that's my only.

work plan for for when you're gone. Other than that, I'm trying to actually like full blown get everything done so for a week and a half I can completely check out. Unplug. We'll see if I can accomplish that though.

I don't. I think you can. And now you've got a partner that can maybe hold you accountable. Obviously if something comes up and there's a fire you have to put out, you're going to maybe do it. But otherwise he might be like, hey, which would you get off

socials, just? just in general, like, do you ever take a break from that just for a few days? Like, don't even open it up at all whatsoever, not even for your personal? No. Because it's just, it feels not possible. I feel like I miss stuff if I don't. And that's probably me and my like brain that I've set up that pattern. But I just, I feel like anytime, even if I've gone 24 hours where I just had a really

busy thing, we had plans. And I get on Saturday afternoon. I feel like I've missed 80 different things. But what is it about what you're missing though? Like what does it matter? Really not my personal one as much. Like I still check it. But I'm saying if you're taking a week and a half off, like what if you miss something,

it doesn't matter because you're not working. I know, but it feels like I should be reposting things and making sure that everything is seen on our page. But when you take a week and a half off, are you taking time off from socials too or just your other stuff. I mean, I'm trying to do it of all of it. Okay. That would be, that would be the best thing for my body to ever experience. Yeah, that's why I'm like, okay, let's, let's commit. Let's get more going to break from socials. I just don't feel like it's possible. I feel like I'm going to get an email or something's going to happen where I'm going to have to do something

and the minute that I check back in, there's no going back. That's the spirit. I might try though, maybe at least a few days. Just try. Yeah. A weekend. Yeah. It'll be a my goal. I'll schedule some posts or something so hopefully I can. We'll see. Yeah. I'll check back in with you next time you're all. Yeah. Okay, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. On a recent episode of the podcast Money and Wealth with John Hobriant, I sit down with Tiffany the budgetista Aliche to talk about what it really takes to take control of your money. What would that look like in our families if everyone was able to pass on wealth to the people when they're no longer here? We break down budgeting, financial discipline, and how to

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Soccer moms So I'm Leanne This is my best friend Janet And we have been joined At the Hips since high school Now a redacted amount of years later We're still joined at the hip

Just a little bit bigger hips Wider This is a podcast We're recording it as we tailgate Our youth soccer games In the back of my Honda Odyssey With all the snacks and drinks Sidebar

Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer Oh they had a bogo Well then you got it Do you want a white collar something here? Just hit it. What are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album?

Oh, I would. Come on. Could you buy it? Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic.

You are. I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Oh. Oh. Listen to Soccer Moms on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And speaking of holidays, Thanksgiving, I was watching on your Instagram Stevenson's run.

That was such a cool thing to watch happen. Yeah, it was, well, I was inspired. I was so proud of him. And he wants to do it again next year, but he wants to do a full marathon instead of a half. So he went from trying to double his running goal or his, furthest he's gone was five miles, so we're going to double that to 10 miles.

And it wasn't that he saw the donations coming in per mile, because some people were pledging per mile. So I started to realize some people think, oh, he's running more to try to get more money out of people. Well, what really was going on in his brain was that money was coming in,

not just pledges, actual donations. And he felt like, if these donations are coming in, I need to give them a show, you know? Like, I need to really push myself. So 10 miles seems doable. I better try to go for a half marathon. And so that's what that was

about. It was because most people just paid in advance. So it's not like they were like, oh, well, I'm going to go back and do 3.1 more miles in a donation. No, he just felt like he was so grateful they were making donations as part of this fundraiser in his honor or however you want to look at it to the orphanage where he grew up. And he wanted to, he wanted to, he wanted to to make sure he was working for the money. Yeah, he wanted to push himself a little bit harder. How did he feel after doing a half marathon? Because great.

From going five miles to a half marathon is a pretty massive jump. Yeah, he was a little sore, but nothing about his body was winded. Like his cardiovascularly, he felt totally fine. I think his shins were bothering him a little bit. I went and got Epsons salt and ran him a bath. He'd never taken one of those before. He never taken a bath? I mean, when he was a kid, he took a bath, but he'd never taken an Epsonson.

Epsons salt bath. Oh, okay. Especially as a teenager. Like, I don't think he's taking a bath since he was maybe when we first adopted him. He was seven, eight, nine. I think he would take baths. But after that, he stopped. Okay.

And I shouldn't react that way. I feel like there is a lot of people out there that probably have never taken a bath. It's just, it's more of a foreign concept a little bit. I don't think I would. He was like, what? I have to sit in this water with this salt. And, yeah. Did you get him the lavender Epsen salt or was it just regular?

I just got plain unscented because I thought, oh, if I get a scented version, it's going to throw them off. For sure. So not sore. And how much money did he end up raising total? Over $34,000. Wild. Yeah. It's also crazy to me.

You were listing off on the show how many things that that's going to take care of. Yeah. I actually just got a text from the treasurer of Team Haiti. And she was updating me that, like, she was able to send a wire. I'll just Here's the like I literally just got it this morning She was wiring like 10,000 of it today And she'll be saving the rest

To go towards teacher salaries for next year But all that's going to cover is Christmas There's an itemized list that was given to teacher Johnson And it includes the nanny bonuses as part of that 10,000 then there's six teachers and then the head of the school is getting a bigger bonus. Then she was able to wire as part of that the teacher salaries for January, February, and March, and increase one of the teachers pay by $250 so that all the teachers make the same amount. Also a scholarship for another kid's student that's wanting to go to the school.

And then she threw $500 for emergencies that may come up, which we never have access for just in case emergencies. Obviously, they let us know what that is. And then we have to pay a $50 wiring fee to get the money there. So it was just cool to see, like, all of that is covered. And the rest of next year will be covered. We're not going to send it all at once. But at least the teacher salaries part is covered.

And so it was cool to see that the Christmas gifts check, teacher bonuses, check, nanny bonuses, a scholarship. Like, all of that was just wired today because people were so generous with Stevenson's run. And where did this start? Why did Stevenson decide he wanted to do this? Well, Chase was at my house. Did you know Chase? He's from Kansas. I do.

Chase Locke. So we, he's gone to Haiti with me. I mean, that was a long time ago. But he's been to Haiti. We do other work things together. And he was over at my house and we were sitting at a table trying to think, we were trying to think of finding monthly donors to team Haiti. So the idea was we were thinking, if we were.

we could just keep people to sign up $10 a month, but we get lots of people to do it. And that's what's crazy about Stevenson's run. A lot of his donations were $5 to $10. So it was cool to see that all adding up. I mean, there were a few people that made larger donations, but the majority of that $34,000 was people just $5, $10 here, which that's neat to see. Because when everybody comes together, it all adds up and can really make a difference. So we were trying to brainstorm what we could do for monthly donors. So Chase and I were already having a conversation and Stevenson got home from a run.

He had just run five miles. And he was like, oh, you're all talking about the orphanage. We're like, yeah. And so we just explained to him what we were trying to do. And he was like, man, do you think I could run 10 miles? He's like, I just ran five. And I was like, yeah, I think you could. Like, we might need a little motivation.

but like what would motivate you? And then that's when he was like, I don't know, maybe money for the orphanage. It just was right place, right time for all of us. Like him getting back from a run, him doing five miles, him getting curious about 10 miles, us thinking of fundraisers. And then we were like, wait a second, what if next Saturday? And that's literally how it was. Next Saturday, you do a run?

We didn't even know what it looked like. I was asking listeners for help on Instagram, like saying, do you all have any ideas? How could we do this? And that's when people are like, how people pledge per mile? And we're like, oh, okay, yeah, that's a good idea. And it just evolved from there. And then seven days later, he was running. And that's how happened.

I love that so much. He's such a cool kid. It's cool to see just from when you guys first got him to now. He has a very big heart. Yeah. He's very tender. He thinks about people. He's empathetic.

He's very, very special. Well, and I saw something really sweet that you had reposted one of Stas Chiro's post because she was so proud of her brother. Yeah, that was cool to see. Yeah, because she couldn't be there. And she was with some friends. And yeah, she was like, I'm smiling. I'm paraphrasing right now.

But in the gist of it was, I'm seriously so happy right now. I'm proud of Stevenson. And I'm like, what? Because their relationships, they're just typical teenage siblings. Like they don't totally get along that well. And one day, hopefully that will get better. right now she just finds him incredibly annoying. Oh yeah. It takes until you

are away from each other to finally realize how much you care about each other and how much that matters. Yeah. So it was special to see her happy for him and celebrating that. And I think she was genuinely happy to see also people caring about the orphanage and giving to that cause. So did that make your mom heart just kind of flutter and some tears? I was like, oh, okay, yeah, this is really

yay, yay, yay for these moments. I'm going to cherish it. soak it up because I don't know how long it will last. Yeah, I love that. I love that this is going so well. It's really been fun too. It was it was cool as somebody on the other side of the screen just to watch him do that. Yeah, and him have friends show up to run with him. There wasn't a mile that he ran alone. We were all taking turns. And next year we'll see how we do it. Maybe we'll have a little more time to plan it. And maybe that's when we can focus on getting reoccurring monthly donors. Like, hey, if you want to commit, can you commit to $5 a month?

Yeah. Because then it would just be reoccurring and we've never really focused on a plan for that. You know, some people will do that and they get something in return. Like maybe you're sponsoring a kid and then you get updates about that kid. Well, we don't want to send out specific information about each kid there or have that type of thing and then kids are getting adopted so they're in and out. And we used to post more about that. the kids there and then there's obviously a thing of protecting their privacy and exploiting their situation. So then we thought, well, maybe people would want to sponsor like a nanny or an adult,

like a, you know, because they're at least have more agency. They're adults. They can sign a paper and agree to be a part of something like that. And there's just a lot of things that we've tried to consider that would make people want to feel connected. I just haven't been able to go there since 2017. And I think when I go there, followers have more of a connection because they get an inside look, but I haven't been in so long. We still have constant contact, you know, even Ben, my ex-husband, like he's doing stuff there.

We still have the bakery there. And that generates funds as well. But some of this stuff is for, we've since opened a school there. So there's the orphanage costs, and then there's the school costs, and there's operation costs. There's a lot of costs that go into things. So it's just thankful for people that, you know, they may have no idea what the orphanages even like, but they still took time and effort to donate money to Stevenson's run. And that was really special. It is cool. One of the coolest parts about this time of a year is if you can, it's cool to see the generosity that comes out with the season of people wanting to help each other and show up for each other and causes that people care about.

like the Giving Tuesday is one of my favorite days to watch on social media because you really see everybody's passions come out, the things that they care about, the things that they want you to support and that they've been doing all year, but you just really haven't seen. Because it's just like, it's one of those Catch 22s where people are like, well, if you post about it, then you're not actually, you don't care about it in the way that you do. But then if you don't post about it, you're not raising awareness. It's like, you know, you rock in a hard place there. So I just love this time of year for that reason, too. I feel like we get to see more of the good. in the world, then, you know, every parts of the year, everybody else is keeping it silent because they feel like they have to. Yeah. So I loved that part. I wanted to hear about it. So thanks for sharing. Yeah.

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basis that are super awkward is there anything that comes to mind for you in this that we just like don't realize we do all the time. Oh gosh. I don't know. You mean that I do that might be awkward or that's awkward that happens to me? Yeah, like all people probably experience something like this. Like another one is when you're at the grocery store checkout and they're like, have a great day and you're like, thanks, you too or you say something weird because you're just not sure how to interact.

Oh, yeah. Well, sometimes all I anticipate that the clerk is asking me how my day is and they're not. Like they something else comes out, but I'm anticipating, how are you? And I answer with, I'm fine. How are you? And they're like, I said cash or credit or whatever. Yeah. These are like those things. I feel like we have a lot of awkward interactions on a daily basis that we just, nobody ever talks about. Yeah. And we just deal with them as humans. Hmm. There's this one guy I've been passing when we walk our dogs every day in our neighborhood, or I walk my dog every day and he walks his. So we are walking our dogs. And I pass him over and over. his dog always is so aggressive towards my dog.

And I almost like tense up when I know we're about to. And I know he feels bad too. But that's an awkward interaction I've been having in my neighborhood where I'm like, oh, shoot. And I want to just like turn around and go the other direction just to save Kara the stress and his dog the stress. But I'm like, well, I don't want him to think I'm avoiding him. So I'm like trying to hold Kara really tight.

So that's an awkward neighborhood situation that I'm having right now. Oh, that's a good one. And also another one that's awkward is when you see somebody not pick up poop and you, like, you want to say something because it's awkward. But then also you don't want to say something. I'm not saying anything, but I am judging. Right? That's one that I judge. And people do it so freely.

Thank goodness I don't see that. Not in my neighborhood. I think it's because I walk in a little park and it's a little bit more. They probably think that, oh, this is a public park. I don't need to pick it up. Yeah. I see it a lot. So that's one.

Then another one I was thinking of. was when you're at a grocery store, maybe it's a grocery store or somewhere else just in public, and somebody's on the phone and you think they're talking to you and then you respond to them. Yes, there's that. Or right now with the parking lots being so full when you're shopping, like you finally get to a parking spot, but another car pulls in like right around the same time and you're like, who had their blinker on first? And it becomes a fight, a parking lot war. Yeah, I just go ahead and drive away. I surrender.

I wave the right flag. I'm like, you can have it. I'll go. But it is awkward for a second. It is. I'm like, well, but that. Yeah, and there's no communication because you're both in cars, so you can't. Yeah. I also feel like, and maybe it's just a lot of grocery store moments for me, but there was another one where I took the last product of something at a grocery store, and then another lady was walking up to get it, and you kind of gave me the dirty eye like I wasn't supposed

to take it. Well, you were there first. Right? But awkward interaction. I've been trying to do my shopping, you know, I was thinking that's where online shopping comes in handy because you don't have awkward interaction. but I have been trying to do my shopping at some local boutiques this year. I don't know.

It just popped into my head. I went into one the other day and I was like, they have such cute stuff here. And I've never been in this store. So it got me curious about the different little boutiques that are one-offs. They're not a chain, not anything. And why have I never been into them? And so I made it my mission to go shop at them and buy gifts at those stores. Okay, so maybe this is, I don't think it's really a Kansas thing. It's more, so there was one boutique and it was called Alter Ego, way back when in Wichita, Kansas. And this is what turned me on to like boutiques was, mind you, I loved in Wichita. We didn't have, like, we had two malls, but they were a little icy. So you really just, it was hard to find places to shop at in Wichita that was like finding cute clothes or things that were in style versus like just going to Walmart or Target. And we loved this boutique. So then when I moved to Nashville, I feel like I really started to.

do boutiques all the time. And that's where I did a lot of shopping. And my mom would come to town and she'd love going to all the boutiques. So I feel like boutique shopping has been a part of my life all because of this one store and Wichita, because they never gave us other options. And but now I love it because those are the stores that I actually really like going to. Versus when I try and stop in a Walmart or a Target, half the time they don't ever have what I need. And then I have to go to Amazon. It's weird. It's like I want to shop in person. I want to support like the in-store places, but like the big ones, don't do it for me, but the boutiques, they always have things that I want or need. Yeah, I feel like I've found so many unique, special,

cute gifts, and they have everything. That's where I got the pajamas with my boyfriend's daughter. Like, I was like, I've never even seen pajamas like this before. These are so cute and they're so soft and they're so unique. And then they have like adorable kitchen knick-knack things and cute little Santa cups like that some of my friends would love little mugs and it's like a one-stop shop because then they also had jewelry and you know

blankets like they had it's like a variety which I know you have variety if you go walk around the mall but also too like something felt good about keeping it local I like the mom and pop local shops too because also again

the mall's just I'm telling you I've tried to be in store shopping be part of my community a little bit more. And they just don't, they don't have stuff anymore. It's weird. It's weird. What I've, I feel like I've witnessed as a consumer. And it makes me then go to online shopping and I hate that because I don't want to online shop. Weird. Weird balance. Weird. Awkward moments. Those are the things that I thought about. Okay. Also, we were at dinner with friends and I want your perspective on this. So the guys were drinking. They were all having a great time, but the girls weren't drinking. And one of them had ordered a mocktail.

but what arrived at our table for her was a cocktail and she took a drink of it and he quickly comes over I was like that wasn't it that had alcohol or whatever I feel like like my boyfriend and I kind of looked at each other was like that was a really big mistake no that's huge should I tell you I haven't told you this

I show prepped it but we never talked about it on the show so you wouldn't have known because I just sent it to Bobby my friend was at a sound bath and she's like 14 years sober and she's at a sound bath. What kind of thing drinks do you think someone has as at a sound bath? Oh like orange water.

Sure. Sure. Yes. Something, you know, not toxic like alcohol. Because you're, it's a sound bath. You're doing healing things. It's like a, yeah, peaceful, zen yoga type experience with sound bath sounds. And they offered this drink at the end and she took a sip of it. She was like, oh, yeah, yum, I would love that. And she took a sip of it. And instantly she could tell, like, when it was hitting her nose and her lips, like something was off. And then it got in her mouth and she could taste the tequila. It was like this margarita infused something or another. And she just spit it out immediately. And then looked at the girl working and she was like, is there alcohol in here? And she was like, oh, yeah, and that festive and fun. You know, I think it was like a little festive holiday drink. And she was like, yeah, sure, but I'm 17, I'm 14 years sober. so and she was and the girl just goes she was younger and she was like oh my bad and my friend was like yeah my bad okay she didn't really know how to handle it she just kind of thought there needs to be more of a this is an alcoholic drink i mean everybody in the class was an adult so maybe that something got lost and my friend did not get the memo that there was alcohol in the post sound bath cocktail i feel like i would have missed that memo too yes because i just would have

think like a sound bath on a Tuesday night, you're having some tequila. Or just like you, you clearly state that, especially this day and age. You have a lot of people that don't consume alcohol for a whole bunch of reasons. That's something that should be like, hey, do you want this festive holiday cocktail? And if as soon as you say cocktail, it's like, okay, well, does have alcohol in it? Not just like, here's a drink to heal you after whatever. It was interesting, but that just happened to her a few weeks ago. So what, like, this is a sort of similar-ish situation. where yeah, alcohol is not to be... Well, and I don't feel like...

Thankfully, two of the girls, one of them was pregnant, the other wasn't. Thankfully, it went to the girl who isn't. But I'm like, that could have... They both ordered a mocktail. And that could have easily been the one that was pregnant. And you have a lawsuit waiting on your hands. It was just like a wild... And as someone who was a server, I get it, you make mistakes.

There's going to be times where you do things wrong. But if there was one thing I ever made sure I did not do wrong with mix up an hour. alcoholic drink. If I was unsure if something was a mocktail versus a cocktail, I'm like, make that again, because I don't know what's in that. Right. You know, I just, that's something that you can't mess with. That or somebody's allergy. There's two biggest things. Somebody's definitely allergic to something. And if they can't have alcohol, I feel like you can't miss up there. Those are like, those are fireball offenses. But it was funny because my friend was really chill about it. Thankfully, she's not like, she's sober by choice the last few years. But so thankfully,

it wasn't going to be something super detrimental to her, but she was really cool about it. And I just was like, I feel like I would have not been chill about that. Yeah. My friend was very chill about it too, but it did make her a little nervous, like having that touch because she's not sober by choice. I mean, she is by choice, but she had to get sober. Was she doing okay? Like since that moment. Yeah, she's fine. Thankfully, but I could see where in that situation, your brain getting, like, depending on how much you were to have, but like it hitting your system. And, And some people's brains just have like a, I mean, some alcoholics that I know, they have that craving all the time. They can't, they can't give into it because they know what's on the other side of that.

So they actively choose not to. But then you give your brain that the taste of that. And it might be like, okay. Okay, there it is. That's what I've been waiting for. Oh, that's what I've been missing because our brains are so different. I watched a video recently on what's actually happening. to your brain when you give it alcohol or drugs and it's quite fascinating and how all of our

chemical makeups are so different so sometimes we can't understand maybe why someone can't stop and the video talked about an analogy with like ice cream for some people or dairy like we don't ever question someone's ability to process or not process dairy like I don't. If someone's like, oh, I can't have ice cream, my body will react right away. We're like, oh, wow. And then, but yet sometimes we have a hard time understanding, like, why can't they process alcohol the same as everybody else? Like, what's up with that? Well, we need to accept it just the same of like, oh, wow.

Yeah, you can't have alcohol. It's not about willpower or like your body physically reacts totally different. And, you know, sometimes people are like, oh, we'll just switch to like this type of alcohol. Well, that's like maybe switching from chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream. It's still going to impact you. And you just, the best thing to do is to stay away from the dairy, right? So the best thing to do is just stay away from the alcohol. And I feel like culturally in the last, I guess, I've noticed it, association with social media because being in college when social media was really first hitting, I feel like you watched people have these fun lives.

And it was always revolved around alcohol. So you were kind of taught that partying and like having alcohol and drinking were associated with a good time. And that could just be my experience in the way that it all played out. But I think the correlation with social media and alcohol has definitely played a role and that you see, heck, I mean, half of my feed because I love food so much, I see a lot of food. But in association with food is drinks because you're not going to go to a restaurant and get a good food and not have the drink that pairs with it or whatever. And I feel like that has made us think that like people have to have alcohol to be having good times or having to consume alcohol makes you the normal person versus a not normal person. And I don't know, maybe that's me. Maybe that's my like experience with the comparison of Sue.

But I definitely feel like me growing up, I associated alcohol with a good time. And if you weren't doing it, you weren't having a good time. Or like you weren't a cool kid for doing it. You know what I mean? Even though we had the DARE programs and you did all the things in school that were like, like, don't do these things. But it still was associated with that. I'm sure there's other things beyond just what we saw on social media, but maybe in magazines

and on MTV and stuff too. Yeah, I think the pendulum is swinging a little bit because now on social you see a lot of the, I guess, sober curious or the mocktails are having a moment right now where, you know, people have the ability to buy a mixer or a drink where it's like you can either add nothing to this and it's going to taste like your favorite cocktail or if you want to add a shot of tequila or vodka or whatever the drink calls for. What's that Withco? That brand where you can drink it as is and have a margarita that's some, what do they say besides virgin? What's it called? Mocktail is how I, but do they're just mixers? Are they, is that what I guess? But I thought

they're like when you're at the, is it just mocktail? Like when you're out there, because they don't say virgin margarita. No, they definitely say mocktail. Or virgin pinia clotta, they say. I thought there was another word for it. That's like, because virgin's just weird now, but. Yeah. Aftail. Or virgin. Yeah. Zero proof, spirit free, non-alcoholic. Okay. Those are all though, I don't know. Spirit-free. Well, anyway, it gives you the same vibe and then you have the choice. Like, so if someone wants it alcohol-free, they have. it that way and then if you want it then you add a little dollop of a little something a little something. You know, I've been, since I started my cleanse and doing all the work I have been doing with the caromite, the functional nutritionist, I haven't had alcohol since that was like part of this cleanse

was me like removing everything bad for my body. And so I had gone two months without any alcohol and I felt the best I'd ever felt. And even since then, now we'll go out and do it. things and I might have two or three drinks and I just give it to my boyfriend. I'm like, I'm good. I had a taste of it. I'm fine. I don't eat this. That's funny. You say two or three and I'm like, oh, wow. That would be a lot for me. No, no, no, no, not like two or three full drinks. Oh, you're like, and now I just go out and have like three and I'm like, okay, we're good. And I'm like, yeah, I'd be good too. No, for sure. Even having one full drink at this point is going to zoom me over the edge. Yeah, okay, okay. Yeah, no, two or three sips of something.

Okay, two or three sips. I literally thought you were like, yeah, after the third one, I'm like, I'm good. You can have my drinks now. Could you imagine? That's what I was saying. Yeah. So it feels weird that like my whole life I was so different, but I just feel so much better. And it's, you know how awesome it is to not wake up with a hangover or feel sick or feel inflamed because I had too much alcohol that I shouldn't have been even putting in my body to begin with? Yeah, I know. I think I drink less than I ever have before. And you're right. I do feel better. And not that I was ever heavy, heavy drinker, but I definitely had times or seasons where I would have a little glass of wine. And I felt like I wanted that every night or quote unquote needed that. Obviously, I didn't. But I was just like, oh, okay, that's time for a glass wine.

It became like a routine. Thankfully, I don't have, my chemical makeup isn't going to instantly become addicted. And then I also didn't give it enough to where then my body needed. did that all the time. Thank goodness. But that's where it can get you sometimes. And I'm very thankful that that wasn't my experience. My sister and I were talking about it the other day because we couldn't remember, I couldn't remember, we never knew our mom's dad. He died. And then our mom has since passed and our uncle has passed. So now we just have our aunt left and we're going to call her and try to have a conversation of what their dad was like because I couldn't remember if he was an alcoholic,

but I think that maybe he was, and I want to know some information about that. Because other than that, I don't know of alcoholism in my bloodline, like my direct, like my mom or my dad didn't have an issue. But if my grandpa did, like that's in my bloodline. Well, I feel like, too, with those older generations, it's really the younger generations were like, oh, yeah, they were an alcoholic, but maybe at the time that person didn't think they were an alcoholic. You know what I mean?

I think it was very known, but nobody ever. talked about it. Like my sister, you're like, why didn't we talk about this more? But it just wasn't anything. I know that they got divorced for a reason. They were divorced before he died, before he passed away, my grandma had already divorced him. And I think because he treated her pretty terribly. And there was some scary moments. And to think that my mom had to witness that as a child. And I just want to kind of hug my mom with things that maybe she had to go through or witness that we just never talked about. And so that's another thing, too, you're around family this holiday season, that's when you tend to see more of your family.

Ask questions just to get to know family history and what life was like. Of course, this is, that might be heavier stuff. Your family may not want to revisit. But if you do have one-on-one-time or going to walk or you are talking to your mom or dad, be like, what was your childhood like? What were your parents like? Because I want to know that now. And it might explain some of how my mom was. thankfully she wasn't abusive or didn't have alcohol issues, but she was very emotionally unavailable to me. And so I think there was some neglect there that I've had to work through. And now it might make, these things might make more sense to me if I could know more of

why she was shut off in that way. Yeah. Understanding her background. And that family history and stuff, man, I feel like everybody has a family lore that you find out about as you keep getting older. There's like little pieces that just start to piece together until you're finally like in your 80s, 90s, and you finally have the whole puzzle, but it took your whole life to put everything together. Yeah. It's like the family tree that they make you do in high school, but you don't actually have all the pieces to do the family tree. Yeah. My siblings and I are

trying to figure out my dad's second wife. We know the first. We know the third. That was my mom. And we know the fourth because I was after my mom. But we don't really know anything about the second. Like nobody's seen a picture. Nobody's got, like, we have the name. But like, where is she? And what happened? And how long was it? And, you know, like, it's just, I want to know facts about my dad's second wife.

Like, I would love to know that. But he's gone now, too. And I don't really know who we could ask. I mean, we got to figure that out. But my brother has been doing something cathartic. He's been writing songs and he's not a writer. And he's in his 50s. Like, he hasn't traditionally been a writer, like a songwriter.

But he's been doing something. or writing things just for his own therapeutic process and healing. And he sent us a song that he wrote about our uncle the other day. And he was like, I'm trying to write one about dad, but it's been difficult. And so he texted me and my sisters. And he was like, send me things you all remember about dad. Just throw him up here. Like just throw everything at the wall that you remember about his cooking and different things.

And I'm curious to see what he's going to put together. He's like, I'll send it to you. y'all when I'm done. And listening to the song, like, he, or he wrote out the lyrics. So reading the lyrics to the song that he wrote about my uncle, that was really special. And then listening to how he kind of wants it to sound was cool. And I was thinking about getting with like Brandon Ray or, I don't know, somebody here. I need to ask Bobby, like, who, if I should, I want to like hire somebody to put together what my brother's done and just, just as a demo and give it to him as a gift. Oh, that would be cool.

Like, hey, I made this come to life. I feel like you could definitely have somebody help you with that. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that could be a special, I don't know, I was just thinking of activities even with siblings of like, hey, guys, let's all get together and write a song about our dad and just see what, or your mom and see what comes out.

I don't know, it was a cool group text. And I haven't texted with my other siblings. My sister and I text a lot, but then my half-brother and half-sister, we text like on the holiday, like, you know, or the day my dad died. like, oh, hey, happy day. I was going to say, I don't think it's happy.

We, I don't know what we say, but we're like, thinking of y'all today, heart, heart. Yeah. I'm a happy dad's dead day. I mean, I wouldn't put it past us to say that and sort of laugh. You know, you find ways to grief and it makes sense. It's fine. But I just thought that literally just came up this week and that's something we've been texting about.

So I was just going to share that since it's sort of related in when together with your family for the holidays. It also could just be a fun activity with your family around the table like, hey, let's write a song. Like, just come up with some verses and a chorus. Well, in my favorite way, like genuinely that I've seen more sides of my family members when we play games together. We pull out just so many, and not just one. It's not like we play one board game. We play it all night.

We bring out like 15 different games and we just rotate through all of them. And I feel like this one I learn a lot about people that you just never see another side of them. So if you don't want to be super emotionally, how to have conversations. cathartic. You just need fun. Yeah. So you can try the cathartic if it doesn't work, maybe try games. But you can have fun. A funny song. Yeah, you can write a funny song. There was a game. It's called Redneck Life. It's like Life the game, but Redneck Version. And we grew up in Kansas. We all have that, that countryside of our family. And so we played Redneck Life and we all had to, you had to talk in the game and your redneck accent. And it was the, we laughed for like six hours.

Oh, that sounds fun. Because it was literally just like us, West. we were kids coming all out and all of our like my dad's little mannerisms from his childhood because he he says things like washer and dala like he has words that he uses very in that kind of country slang and it all just came out and it was fun to watch oh I like that yeah so you can do something fun like that I'm sure there's like it's called redneck life yeah okay and it's hilarious you can only win by keeping your teeth oh that's funny keeping all your teeth yeah and I can't be insulted because I literally grew up on a farm with Redneck Life. So that was my life for a solid portion. But all right, we're going to jump out out and answer some listener questions. So go check

that out on part three. Amy, thanks for joining. Thank you. Tell the people where they can find you. Radio Amy on socials and podcast is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat. Love that. And an early, early Merry Christmas to everybody enjoy the holidays with your family. And there will be more best bits for the holidays. So you'll have plenty each weekend until we are back. Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.

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