Happy Wednesday, everybody. Welcome to another episode of mommy group. Hello. So today, we're going to be talking about Instagram getting rid of the likes. I'm actually I don't know. I don't know how it feels I kind of thrive on seeing all my life's grow up. Oh my God, I wouldn't have thought that about you. Okay, we're gonna get into that. We're going to talk about Christy Turlington and her decision to not use botox or not. The filler I love this one.Not over. This is a good one, and we're going to share whether or not we have Scandal our talking about CBD and certain moms from people that are using it for anxiety reduction one mom in particular shared her story and again, whether we do or we do not and how it helps. You just be a normal person. Sometimes absolutely and then last step we're going to talk about Jessica Simpson was sort of discussing the madness that is having three kids and what that does to your life and each of us are going to show early sure, it's fine. All right guys, let's get into it. Alright, so first up I want to talk about this sort of story that's been circulating about how Instagram is talking about testing out something new or they might actually remove likes all together. So they're not going to remove the action of clicking like and that actual engagement but they're going to remove the number of likes you got from your page. So when I go on your page, I don't know whether your picture about five likes or 5000 IU as the poster actually gets to see them and I'm sure here Branded things they still have Hast put it in a letter. That's what I'm wondering just as obviously content creators as we all are I was wondering if it affects us in that because a lot of times the brands ask us for the analytics like how much Impressions and to measure conversions. So let's say I'm doing a beauty brand deal and no one else can see my likes but it still doesn't take that pressure wave. Those brands are going to require us to share what our likes were and Impressions because to me you still then as the person that is posting has it Anxiety. Yes, it may alleviate it for the general public as we all don't have access to each other's yeah when you're working with the brand. It's still determines how much you're going to get paid by that? But yeah, this is really Instagram just eliminating that public pressure of the popularity contest and then making you really tag the brand so that it shows it's a brand partnership and then they get to see a limited amount of analytics. Well, I think the big thing that I took away from this which was interesting as to why Instagram was even implementing this or thinking about it was obviously this whole Eddie driven. Yeah form but also they were like this was not why Instagram was created so that people can come on and sell things. However, this is primary resource of their like what makes their platform run. Yeah is all of this. This is a business now and it's what makes it what it makes Instagram Instagram. I think that for people who work in an industry where they do use Instagram for work and they work they are reliant on that engagement. This is maybe tough news. I think for everyone else. This is fantastic. I agree. I think it's Like I'm not going to care personally. It's a relief to me because to me Instagram is this one space that I don't I just feel like I have no control. I have no understanding. I've no grasp on what works on my page on Instagram and I decided to just say like screw it. I'm not going to be sorely. FYI has reached a hundred thousand followers on God to please say they're a hundred km. Yeah, that was very excited. But and it's funny because like in that environment I would actually be really bummed if they took away the views because the views on there. Mac engagement on YouTube is so high and I'm so proud of that because I'm like, yeah, I'm creating good content and people are digging it and they're all watching it and they're sharing it and I want everyone to see that whereas Instagram. I'm like, I don't even know like half the time I get 300 and then it's like 1,400. I'm like what? Yeah talk to me. We're moving. It would be a dream come true for me as a mom and talking to some of my mommy friends who have kids that are older that are on social media. This is huge. This would be like a gymnastic. It just adds a whole other layer of pressure. Sure of social anxiety of clicks. It's like you mean it takes it away the pressure. Yeah, your social media ads that so taking this away and that comparison game would be great. Yeah, and I think that then you get back to focusing on creating cool content because you're just saying what picture would I want to post right now? If it doesn't matter about anyone elses reaction to that picture, what would I post right now? I say something though. What I know. Can I tell you something I think unfortunately what's going to happen is that they're going to implement this and it's I hope it does. You everything we're saying which is going to leave it all the anxiety and the pressures for especially the younger Generations. Now what I'm worried though, is that the next thing is going to come up and we're going to have to go to that for all another platform. Yes that for every one that is using this platform as a business and for those people and companies and influencers are content creators that are not finding it useful anymore or it's not working for them. It's just going to be another thing as creative. All I want is for whatever they're doing to stop messing with the algorithm because I am so tired. A in bed seeing a photo that my friend has posted two days ago Instagram wouldn't just run like he was going on. They think that they're creating content. That's more geared towards what you actually care about but we follow people for all different sorts of reasons. So I follow accounts for a wide variety of reasons and I want to see all of their content. I don't want to see the city and sometimes like I know this is so stupid, but sometimes I don't want to engage with certain people's content because I know it's going to tell the algorithm. I want more of it and I don't actually I'm just really nice that it's Someone I went to high school with and she post the same ridiculous picture of like again blurry picture of your friends with me. I like everything. Yeah, I hard. I think I comments while I appreciate that as someone who creates content and like gets makes money off of that. That's something I appreciate but I hear you I hear you sometimes I'm not I like their picture because it's like it's a friend that I want to like it but then I see every one of their pictures and they're not that good. So like I don't want to see every like I want there to be a variety that I think they're trying to figure out there also right now. Launching so they're making it so, you know how before like certain brands have the ability to have that little white bubble when they're selling something so you can have all the jewelry and like a shy get right. So what they're doing now is they're allowing influencers to have that same access if they don't get a commission yet, which hopefully that would change for some people but now like let's say I'm wearing certain earrings I could link to the shopping thing and it would then open it up in the retailer store no commission for me, but it would be basically direct shopping from my page. So you're thinking if they're doing that they're really just Turning Instagram 13 guys on things that already exactly shopping platform. That's because that is their primary what they're realizing is that what starts Facebook it? Oh, yeah, and and what Instagram used to be which was a place of creativity and you know, just beautiful pictures is of course now becoming something where millions of people are monetizing that point. So do you remember that one instagram first came out and like I thought it was just a way to edit your pictures. Oh, I didn't realize that they posted anywhere. I mean X pro fruit. With all the frames. It was like the most hideous filters with all of those frames and ex-pro filters. That was my favorite memory. Oh or something like that. Whatever I do what I like about what this could do is to focus on the content not on the shares not in the likes and as a content creator myself, I love that. I don't want to be able to show people like to see how people engage without seeing has a popular postern. All right, and I wonder though, you know, what's so funny is you know, they've said But there's it's it's you get the same reaction in your brain with like likes as you get with like certain drugs. I'm sure enjoyed an endorphin. So I wonder whether actually engagement will fall off. Yeah, because if you know that you're not actually going back to Jay likes that endorphin rush that you get when you're curious and that whole thing that happens in our brain that keeps Us opening up the app just to check just check if that talking about just drops I get that feeling when I crack open a dr. Pepper. Put your phone down and don't look at it for 30 minutes. Don't look at your post don't even scroll Instagram and just put it away. So I do think that that's been helpful and I love the feature now, you know on your phone how it tells you how many hours you're on it? Because when you look at the time what the hell am I doing with my day? It's not okay to be spending that much time. Whereas one of my girlfriend's is like two minutes. I was like Wow who are you know, no wonder I can't get a hold of you and First is that it divides It Up by productivity and like how long you were in your email and then social media, you're like, whoops. See ya in class work. It's yeah, except it doesn't factor in that certain things. Like it includes like FaceTime as social media. Yeah forgive like a 20-minute conversation with your husband or something. You're like, that wasn't so shiny. I should tell my husband that yeah, and it also doesn't include there's no way to yeah, there's no way to say like, what are you were on social media for work or whether you were just like we're putzing around Carlos of Instagram and I like Sometimes I think the thing is regardless of them implementing this it's here to stay for at least a long time. So we'll see where it goes but you know on the topic of Instagram and how everything is so beautifully curated and everyone looks so freaking Dance by the way this week. I discovered the pre-filter. Thanks. Thanks. Mommies. Are this whole thing about it guys. I only use the puppy filter. I have this whole thing again. I don't understand that's like be literally I'm a female. Don't understand why people influencers especially will go on and tout this product that they're using like skincare. Yeah Duty, especially skincare fine, if you want to do lipstick whatever but like especially skincare and you're telling me you don't have pores because of this product but I can't see your damn pores because you have artillery yeah. I'm like, I don't understand it. So I just make it a point especially for me like I'm in my late 30s. I just if someone is going to buy a two hundred dollar product that I'm telling them by us. I'm telling it to you because it really works. So so I'm happy to be able to see my skin. Yeah, so I don't know if that's just my my big pet peeve that I have with other creators. So anyways, I feel so should do a consistent thing on our biggest pet peeves on social night. I think the weight I love that I could go on a rant but so I could too but I think the biggest thing that that brings me to is I found this article that I absolutely loved and it was about Christy Turlington. You obviously everyone knows a crystal shell activities. And if you don't choose a handsome AF husband, I mean, oh really I Burns It's not George word Ed Burns. He's like, mr. New York. He's a really really talented director writer. Yeah, he's beautiful very like very like indie film be that he did with the indie film with a long time ago wasn't know. What am I getting? I miss it, you know with Cameron Diaz. Yeah and Jennifer Anne Boleyn. Yes, what was that the girl like the name of it? Anyways, great movie and like so Christy Turlington is that's her husband, and she herself. Obviously big super model in the 90s and now she's 50 and if you guys see her she still does Calvin Klein ads and stuff. She's stun. It almost feels like all those old school supermodels have like the secret to a secret sauce you I mean, here's the thing you do. You do notice them aging which I think is normal obviously, but Christie there was this whole thing about how she specifically you know, she doesn't go around talking about it, but she does not get BOTOX done. She does not get any filler. She does not do anything to her face and her whole thing is like What I do this because to me it's a racing all of these experiences I've created and I was like, that's a very beautiful that's romantic way. It is. It's a very sentimental way of seeing and obviously we hear that all the time. It's a very cliche thing right? It's like our laugh line. Yeah, that's the road map to our lives we get that but realistically like is that something that you guys are you do you guys do Botox you guys do fillers you guys do any of that style of this topic? I haven't done anything, but I can't wait for the day. I do. I am so down when it happened. Yeah. I have I get I get BOTOX in my like crows feet and says my eyes I get it in between my eyebrows the Aladdin's the yeah, although I only get one so they I don't get I don't get an eleven I get like a off-centered one, which is real fortunate. So they I do it there and then I've gotten filler before in my under eye. Oh you had you bruise? No, that's a no this girl common thing to do. Yeah this girl that did it was amazing. So she it's like there's like this portal they take this tiny tiny tiny little Needle and they put it under your cheekbone like by your cheekbone and through there which is going to sound so gross it like fish it up. Yeah, and so so your because your cheeks are fleshy, they're not nearly as delicate as a skin under your eyes so it doesn't bruise so she's going from here and then she puts the needle through that thing and goes up and just put it in and it was really subtle. It was really soft. I just felt like there I had some Darkness fell like a constantly need to wear concealer like all the time and I love wearing no makeup and I was like, I love that what the hell? Yeah girl, and it will talk about dark sir. Well you okay. Yeah, I mean whether whether it's no matter what it's in relation to your own skin changing and all of a sudden you're like man that's new and I don't like that. That doesn't make me feel great. So I did it and it was and I'll continue to do it I think as long as you're doing it really really subtly and I have someone that you trust that's not going to let you go crazy. Then I think that you can age really gracefully because I'm going to allow wrinkles to happen on my face. I'm not going to be frozen. I'm going to allow them to come but if I can just extend that for a little bit and do really subtle things as I go. I think we'll continue. I think that's really the best balance any time you do anything to your face, especially. Yeah, it's not being also from like skincare and Beauty with my stuff for me. I like to call Baby Botox. It's very minimal and I started when I was 35. So I'm 37 now and I go once a year I go very minimally but there are things that I do like like I like having a little laugh line like to me it's my signature the first time I remember I got Botox done. It was a very foreign feeling for me because you know, it doesn't settle in for anybody. That's never got like you never got Brandy takes like it takes every two weeks to like or a week and a half to like settle in so you get it done. You're like, okay, whatever and then all of a sudden you wake up one morning, like my face is frozen and God. Okay, when I go, I promise to make you guys come with me. Yeah, we'll go the bass tone age. So I'm just waiting but I never noticed like a real tightness. Like I don't know you'd I don't know. I never noticed like a religion is for a tight. Doesn't look like you get anything done, which is awesome. I like I would say like you always speak with such character that you ever use a crazy me time, but I think that's so important is to be able to see like lines. I think that I probably metabolize it really fast though because I have to go like every three months. Oh, wow. Yeah, you must so I must metabolize it fast. But but yeah, I think that for me it's one of those things I like the idea of saying yes, these are all this is the proof of a beautiful life and all of my experiences in theory. I really like that idea, but I also I feel like I have all of those experiences in my memories and in my brain, I don't need him on my face. Yeah, and if I can do something that's gonna make me feel a little better even stupid things like when you're doing now, like I need to go there. Like I definitely will continue to color my hair to get rid of Gray's until I feel like I don't want to come meet you happy then we should but I think what this really why this spoke to me was that I loved that it was coming from a supermodel and the fact that if you do Google her then and you see her you can see her elevens on her. Yes you Can see the age and then she still looks exactly and that to me was like, you know what you can age gracefully and even in this article her facialist. Who by the way if you guys want to look her up, her name is Joanna track check and I was just going to say that I love what she said about. There's a whole article on how she got started in what she does but like what I love about her is that she actually explains like how vertical lines are different than horizontal lines on your face. And so the horizontal ones are the ones that are more like from memories, but she said vertical lines are a different thing caused by facial Quirk or pick which is which is exactly what like the elevens are on your brows. Like she's like the prime facialist and aesthetician a first sermon celebrity and when she was asked who has the best skin out of your clients. She said hands down Christy Turlington. I know that's so cool. Yeah, it's amazing. But I think that's the thing is that it just it brings these celebrities who are otherwise Untouchable Mega freeze down reality and it makes you feel like you know what? That's okay if I don't if I want to 50 I look aged. It's okay. Yes, and there is there is we all have that experience. You know, like I work on a TV show we have a lot of celebrity guests come on the show and I have to say there's something about when people end up going a little overboard and they do a little too much that really this. I hope this doesn't sound awful but I'm gonna say it. Anyway, we're instead of seeing what you what they wanted you to see all you see is their insecurities just because all of a sudden it looks like they are struggling with their identity. Identity with aging with their beauty so much that they really changed their face. They didn't just try to maintain and maybe it was an accident right? Maybe someone was a little heavy-handed. Maybe they had a bad reaction. You never know what it is. But to me when I see someone all of a sudden that looks really different that looks too tight or too small and her two frozen. You don't see anything other than a little like. Oh, yeah. That's why you know, like you're like you feel bad for them most that's why it is so important you go to someone that you absolutely trust and it's board certified so slow exactly start so Small so little scissors be conservative don't go overboard because it is something that I think you know, it's a craft. It's an art and it's very subjective. So what one person thinks looks thinks looks natural the another person may not think it's just like makeup. Where is like what you think is a smoky eye is not right and get us so and this a lot of this thankfully is reversible, you know, you can just remove it like filler you can take out but you don't you just don't want to mess around and know it's and there are some people who are like young like, I remember when Kylie first started getting all that worked in like she looks 30 and she was like 19, but sometimes it backfires colder. Exactly. Exactly exactly. I just thought I love that. We all agree that you should do whenever you want to your face when you want. Yeah, I as long as you go slow. Yeah, I say go slow. All right. So the next topic I thought this was so interesting. So there's a story of a mom sort of came forward talking about how she is starting to take CBD and she did it for what about a month and it really reduced a lot of anxiety talks about you know, like I'm the last person that would do this. I don't even really drink. Have a glass of wine at the end of the night is like not part of my process, but that so she's not someone you'd expect to sort of jump on the CB back bandwagon, but that she did it in a desire to reduce some anxiety that she was suffering and that it really did work for her. Well, this was interesting. It says like a recent survey and this is from motherly which I love that website by the way guys, but it was saying that a recent survey of more than 800 women who have tried to be found the top five reasons for taking it are reducing anxiety pain relief relaxation improve sleep and mood stability. T so obviously those are all great things especially when you're talking about new mom. You think that's major was talking about that with a friend of mine and I'm like so much of the pressure of being a new mom or Mom otherwise is just being able to function. Yeah, and when you are sleep deprived or your kids and sleeping, you're not eating. Well, I mean all of that creates anxiety and I think so much of the issues that we have is parents whether you losing your patience or you're forgetting things on your heart of depression now or yelling at your kids you all of those. I feel like go To just the basics getting a proper good night's rest and not being anxious and I love that CBD is available for people that have those issues. And also do you guys I mean Kim Kardashian just had her fourth baby shower and it was a CBE theme. Did you guys see that? This is really good. She had a whole CBD themed baby shower. It was amazing. But okay we can I ask something and I'm going to sound like a little idiot a bit of an idiot. So CBD is the action. It's not weed median is the candidate candidates like the Cannabis that so so you can have Edie without any THC and you can have no psychoactive effects that it that's just straight CBD with no THC at all. You can also have CBD that has different levels of THC and normally those are thing called tinctures and when you buy them they come in ratio, so it'll be like 1 to 1 like 1 ratio of CBD to 1 ratio of THC and that's very strong. You could do 1 2 3 1 2 4 you can get these different ratios. So some of them can have THC in them. Some of them can be pure CBD with no THC no psychoactive effects for anyone who either Doesn't want to doesn't want to take drugs in any way even something like they come in like oil form now. Well, yeah using for people that have eczema right for pain for nausea and it is really like change people's lives. Well, isn't that why marijuana in the whole different but marijuana was legalized right for the whole reason of pain reduction and stuff with cancer patients and whatnot. Well, marijuana was legal for medical purposes, but it became legal now and recreational way in California. So I think I don't think that the new legalization of it has Thing to do with the medical because that has always been the case. If you if you're you know for cancer patients, they could be prescribed marijuana, but now it's become it's become legalized just Recreation. You don't need we're bringing it back to what this mom said. She says before CBD, I'd find myself almost resenting storytime. My mouth would be smiling, but I would be screaming frustrated on the inside that was reading the same Batman book for the 700th time when I could be unloading the dishwasher putting away laundry catch a company males and I feel like even someone that you know doesn't want to do CBD. I mean, this is just a great reminder. Or if you are feeling that way there are so many resources available to you whether it is CBD or finding an outlet like Mommy group. This might be great or essential oils or finding a way to meditate. So you become more of a present lesson. Xiety anxious written mom. Yeah. Yeah because I think that we have this expectation that we should sort of like Relish in all things mommyhood and all of it should be great. And if if every moment of it doesn't feel pure and sweet and you know, Like it's crazy. But I love it. Like if you're not that way all the time, you're like a bad mom and you're doing something wrong and keep that to yourself because you must not love your kids. And so I think like when you feel that moment when you're sitting there and you're like I see freaking moms on Instagram posting story time and they look so happy. And right now all I want to do is Scream and get out of this room because I have so much crap to do like if you're feeling that not only are you feeling that which is not a great feeling, but then you're feeling the guilt about feeling that Significant other and I remember when we first had our first and then I got pregnant really fast afterwards. It was one of those things where I was like we need to have structure here and I need to be able to do things and have an outlet which is why we have like a part-time Nanny now, I think that because I didn't have that I would absolutely going crazy. And so there are different ways that you kind of make it work. Yeah, and obviously this is something that helps people what I like about this is that it's just like you were saying Indeed. This is a reminder that you have to prioritize yourself. It is in order for you to be a great mom and a great wife and a great friend and a great everything you have got to take care of yourself and whatever those things are for you if that is going out with your girlfriend's one night a week and having a couple too many glasses of wine and just laughing your ass off great. If that is working out hiring a nanny who can come over one hour so you can go on a run like whatever that is for you that needs to be like a non-negotiable in Europe. Changement with the people around you you're a single parent. You call all your friends who's available to swing by to watch the kids for an hour. I need a minute. I need to get a pedicure. Maybe you said this was I was talking about this on Instagram the other day and I was just pointing out how one of the best things I ever did. So I have a nanny that helps us whenever she can but then I also found a stay-at-home mom who I adore whose kids are in school full-time. She has the flexibility to pop over for a couple hours. I paid her and then also when Millie was little I would do trades with friends all the time, you know, like you want to get your nails done for an hour. I'll be at the With the kiddos will hang on the playground have a picnic but find ways to get your me time. I think every single woman needs to do that. And I love what you said early because you have to find a way to yeah, you have to or you become a crazy person putting on a big smile all the time to look like you're blissfully in love with Parenthood. When really you're freaking out. Yeah because you need things like the that person that existed before all these other people needed you still exists inside of you and she still needs some That shiz happy mom. Happy baby. Yeah, absolutely life happy life. And I just want to say real quick about one more thing about CBD real quick is I know that it's not it's not necessarily legal everywhere. So like for us in California it is so it's very easy to go into US literally like a storefront a store talk to them. Tell them what your issues are. Tell them what you want. They can help you. They're really knowledgeable. It's not nearly as sort of scary as people think it is I have gone in before I've gotten CBD to help when Can't sleep and stuff like that. So it's easy but there are also a lot of websites. There's actually a website. Maybe I'll do that as my product is going to do a different product. No, you know, I'll do it. Now. There's a website called Miss grass and you can buy it online kind. I'm pretty sure no matter where you are. Although maybe it was easy because I'm in California, but it's called Miss grass and they have a pen called a b-bow pain. It's a little bit pricey, but it's pure CBD with no THC in it. So for people that are struggling with anxiety if you're reading this and you're curious that might be a good way to start. I think they do have a couple of more inexpensive Miss grass. They have a couple more inexpensive things. They have like bath bombs CBD bath bombs. They have a bunch of stuff. So, you know, you can look around and find is like insane. It's getting the all the masks and everything probably so just in case you're curious but you're like, oh my God, I'm intimidated. Where do I start? You can always do that and they respond really well to emails. You can probably get customer service and talk about your needs and stuff like that. Well seeing a CBD, I feel like Jessica Simpson might need to get a ban on Bebo pain for herself recently. She was interviewed and she said that being Mom of three is more than a full-time job. In fact, it's like having two and a half jobs and that really resonated with me because I only have one child right now one in my belly and I swear it is just crazy how much time it takes to take care of a little one and maintain your job plus household duties isn't this fun evil. Look at this this set a survey found Mom's of four or more are less stressed because they have the body system guys if you belong to prepare Oh my god, I've always said this you got to have two more for everyone needs a bestie. So everyone can help each other. Where did you see that? I love it's on sometimes sometimes I think that the reason though for that is not because everyone has a buddy but because when you have four kids you let give yourself a break and you make your kids like you got to take care of yourself. Like listen, I got four of you like whereas with to you feel like you can do it all so you make yourself do it all we're for your like I could never possibly do this on my own everyone needs to pitch in so I don't know like a to me in my mind. I always That that was the reason why having for some people say is like actually easier. I mean I get I mean I get it because of like, you know, when you're at hotels or when you're on rides and things like that you always haven't you don't have an odd man out if you have an even number but speaking of like thinking about number three you guys know, I've talked about thinking about yes. This is a don't have a special announcement. Well, I went I went to go, you know retrieve the little IUD Ivan IUD in so I have the marina and it's every five years. I have to get it replaced. So we're coming up on five and I was like, I really lets you know, let's just see what happens. Oh and by the way background, my actual OB is dr. A who is now the one that delivers like Khloe and Kylie. So she's like some hot shit, you know, so like I you know lucky if I can get in there you're so and she said Cedar so I was like, I'm not gonna go all the way over there. I went to my general out here and I was like, I'm just gonna get this out cool as she goes in. We're in there for like 30 minutes. She's like, I can't locate your IUD and I was like, oh my God, like I have this like foreign object up in Cervix, I can't find it. So then she goes back and she's like I can't find it. You're gonna have to go to no be and get an ultrasound and oh my God, and you know, it may have potentially been pushed up to your uterus in which case it's not dangerous. I mean, she said there's no you know, I've also had about things like coming out. Oh, yeah, you can like Kodak announced the Telly but the thing is is that we were in would you not see it? I I don't know. I mean it's small but the thing is it's usually a string is there is visible which is like you say, sometimes you can feel a string but but I think is what I think is that doctor is just so badass it what she does. She probably just you know, macgyvered that and like knows exactly how to just pull it out because I'm feeling if I went to hershy big nuts right there boom. But either way I'm at a point where jobs are like on the table. I know where I have to go because the thing is if it is pushed up to the uterus, I have to get it surgically removed. I know so I was like who posted up there your who's I blame him? Damn you damn you? Yeah. I don't know but I'm I'm now like So far that it was so oh my God, because you guys I like left. I'm such a what it I know I'm such a person of like, oh my God, this is like meant to be or not to be right. So I left the office feeling like I'm just not supposed to a third baby and then I've obviously the opposite like they couldn't find it like real time. I thought that I think that they didn't find it because I think it's so pushed up there. So we'll see I'm gonna get the ultrasound next week. So to be continued so we'll see what happened. And then if it's out then obviously party time, we'll see what happens, but I was more like a At that point, you know, it's like when you know, you can't have something then all of a sudden everything is like watching every mom that's pregnant bride Brandi. I'm looking at you or like watching a good been me all the little behind you. Do you think hidden in my vagina somewhere, you know speaking of I was like, well three may not even be an option but we will see Carlos its work if you have one if it's working and I said sure what time because you know, my husband mr. A is so Hands-On. I mean he makes his dinner. He makes us breakfast. He just does so much for Mellie and I and I just can't imagine like not having a supportive husband not having help on the side. That's what I'm having an outlet for my creative career passions. I mean all of those things work in tandem. I don't know how they're made of have be okay for kids when they don't have a supportive partner. Do you know what I mean? Like when other people are so I have girlfriends who still want to have more kids even though their partner is like I don't want anymore. But if you want this and it's on you and I'm like, that's so crazy to me because I just feel like you have to be such a A team the team thing. Yes. I don't know. It's interesting. It's really it's a really weird phenomenon the like having more the thought of like the more kids. It's just a weird like like the thought that I keep feeling like there's this like third Soul that's meant to like join our family is so weird to me because I'm not that person. Like I'm not young love it though, like but whatever the happy Christian in me is so excited. Tactical side of me is overwhelmed by what it'll do to my life, but then there's just this like little tug, which is why I feel like I've always been really really curious. Well not always but the last like three years. I've been really curious about like fostering and adopting and I feel like I'm trying to think of maybe that's the way maybe I'm like, maybe I'm the Practical side of me is pushing me so much so that I that that's the route because then I can we can do that when our life settles down and you know, you can really help someone and you can so keep trying to think if like there are other ways. Ways to bring another Soul into your family that's not necessarily getting pregnant. Maybe that's actually the right path for me. I mean for me being pregnant right now, you know, we're waiting to find out the sex of our baby till I deliver and every time I go to my appointment, I just think how miraculous it is that we got pregnant as easily as we did that the baby continues to be healthy. Absolutely and I think you know, sometimes it's easy to talk about. Oh, I might have another kid. I might not but like part of the reason why we're waiting to find out the sex of our baby is because so many of our friends have struggled to get pregnant or stay pregnant that my husband died. To focus on the beauty that we have a baby. Yeah, that's healthy and it doesn't matter what the sex is because we're going to love the baby anyways, and it's already written and it doesn't matter so I know we're talking about this a lot. But I just, you know, my heart started tugging at all my friends who struggle with infertility and sometimes it's not as easy as just choosing to add a third absolutely. But so true babies are so worth it. They wonder how you get pregnant. Oh that smell. Oh my God. Yes, but it was something really weird. Oh God. Yes. So when I was when I had Millie, I just turned into this pumping machine. Like I was breastfeeding. I was pumping I just felt like I needed to stock up on all the milk. So yesterday all I was cleaning the freezer and I found some milk from like nine months ago, which you know, it's it's not good. I mean they say like six months is the max. So I gave Millie a little milk bath with my old milk and I put a little petals in there. It was amazing. But here's what's funny is I Point my frozen milk in the tub. It smells like a newborn baby. Oh my God, my heart started palpitating and whereas meld like a newborn baby good idea. It's also great for their skill, but I never have thought about that even when like my milk. Yeah, but I'm thinking even in general like sometimes you know, like when you I remember I was so crazy about it. Like the milk was left in the fridge for two Yeah Yeah Yeah by giving him a bath. I mean you should never throw away. Wait, what are durned breast do you need to like do an entire post on this thing to do? I need that's expired. You know, you can make soap out of it. I tried breast milk. I made my husband. Try it. I haven't tried it. Which why would you make him eat? I try not you. Why did you make him trying to explain? What are you doing down on myself if I could reach my vagina that is like apples and oranges. That is not even one. No, I get it. It's like tasting the the fluid inside of you boy inside me because I'm like thinking perverted, but I know I never wanted to lose milk. So you can do it. You see the plans do something but there's something like this some driving scientifically known about feeding plants with breast milk. No, but I'm sure there's right. I could be killing them. I have no crystals should make a beautiful hair mask and reveals shiny Gorgeous Hair. Okay, just because you make one is their DIY know, No, I had no idea. I'm just going on I just got word Rattler. Sorry well on that note shall we get to some of our cool little picks? Yes a week then dumped on. What's yours early? Oh, you're sick, right. Sorry. That I want you guys to try out this week something that I want you to keep your eye on, you know, we're spring summer. It's time you usually buy a couple new pieces right now. I am one of the biggest trends for spring and summer is tie-dye. I love it the best part about tie-dye. There's a lot of good parts about I am currently wearing a tie. Dye shirt so cute. It's so cute. There's a couple good things about it. Number one is you can DIY it if you want to so that's number one. There's 1 million videos on it. I'll probably do on my channel soon, but you can totally do it within the colors that work for your wardrobe and your style. That's thing. One thing two is there are so many cheap tie-dye shirts available and sweatshirts available at vintage stores and I would say don't go to thrift stores because it's the chances of you coming up on a thrift store that has a really cute group of tie-dye shirts is slim to none because it's all donation-based. Okay, but vintage stores the have buyers and those buyers scour all of the thrift stores all over the place and they pulled together to make cool pieces that they then sell so it's maybe a couple bucks more than it would be at a thrift store, but it's all in one place. You can get really cool sweatshirts t-shirts there were even like the one I'm wearing right now has a graphic on it and is tie-dye and it's as long as you get one, that's not like really bright bold colors. I would look for ones that are muted and soft they work with everything they blend and I've been wearing camo with camo and tie-dye together. I know that some people play all summer and I'm just like camo and tie-dye. I don't know if I could pull it up. Yeah, it's not crazy. But is this what I'm saying? As long as they're faded they work really well together because it's about it value literally color value. So like colors you have like a weight, right? So like when you're working with certain colors, you know in certain colors work together, they're of the same value. They're the same weight. So when you're looking at like pastels the reason like multiple pastel colors work together, they're all the same way. So as long as you're wearing like you can same as you can mix prints, they just have to function in the same world. So when you're looking at it look for some faded out soft ones and it'll function almost like a really muted floral think of it like a Okay, actually that's a really good analogy of somewhere because I was like I would like to now I mean, I just keep thinking like my I need a wife beater tank know like like you don't want that really bright like the stuff from I don't know what those 80s 70s or 80s, but the really bright red. You don't want that you want soft on you did that the one she's wearing guys is like oh you didn't bury. Ya ya look like being so just one trend. Your eye out for it. If you can find it go to go to a couple of vintage stores, even you know, more fast fashion like forever and stuff. We're going to have them and just have a really great slouchy. It's gonna look so cute with jeans perfect in the summer. That's the trend. I want you guys to keep your eye on you love it. So mine is beauty focused and this one is a little bit of a dupe that I found. So elf we all know L feel like when it first started I think whenever ten years ago, I was not into it. I thought it was like Fast makeup as fast fashion is being fast makeup. Um, they have stepped up their game big time. They have these little camo concealers. Oh, sorry camo concealer. Yes. It's a camel concealer at 16 our camel concealer. I don't know if I did this one already. I think I may have already done this. You did one. That's a dupe for an arse know for the chart Chief part. So this one is different this one that was a camel concealer. This one is a corrector and it comes in light or dark. So if you guys don't know correctors or something that you put on if you do have pigmentation or you have dark circles you first correct and it looks a little bit more like bisque. Salmon, it has like a red Hue to an orange shooter who do it and it's going to help neutralize that dark color that you have. So you put that on prior to your foundation. I like putting on first people have different techniques, but you can put it on under your foundation or over your foundation and then you blend it out and then you put your concealer on and then that's what's going to help prevent looking really gray or Dusky, you know, sometimes you put it on your like wait, like I feel like I have still really sallow skin or Dusky this helps it look really bright and this corrector Is three dollars it comes in a crayon form, which I really love using the go. Yeah, we use and it's not sticky which I like because a lot of times what I don't like is when you have too much layering because then that's what causes creasing and it prevents. That's awesome think staying in place. So it's good for you guys. It's just elf will have it linked below. It's good stuff. Let me try that. But yeah, it's mine is a stabber off as we're sitting here. Brandy is taking her bra off as she's looking at her lace like you're not not like Seconds ago but like right as her topics are she's like, okay guys, so mine is strapped honey. I can't educate today's business leading. So I want to tell you guys about the stasher bag. I am obsessed with these there are a hundred percent pure non-toxic silicon. So they look like Zippy bags, but they're actually silicone bags. So I use these for snacks for Mills and silicon or silicon. I see silicon. I see some of you I didn't know what the Silicon but I wonder if it's Silicon Valley. Brandi I love you so much. I just I was it's like fondant you can say van not or fondant talking. Okay. So tomato, I just love that. They're plastic free. Okay, here's the thing. They are a bit of an investment. So one bag like a quart sized bag is $12, but I've started accumulating them. And so I don't use like plastic zip bags anymore. They also came out with ones that stand up. So the other day I did a picnic and I actually put all my mac and cheese and my potato salad and all my snacks in these bags and they just Shut up right there. You can put them in the dishwasher. You can microwave them. You can boil them. If you presume. You can freeze them, but it's just so nice to keep all of our snacks. And also I actually use it when I travel for some of my beauty stuff so that I know that it's secure Millie has Chalk in her stroller for when she goes to the park and wants to make friends. So she has Chalk in her stash your bag. I love these guys so much and also you can put I know only the chalk honestly what you want to make friend chalk is such a social activity. It is love it helps with development sharing practicing her drawing her fine motor skills. But I also really quick one of the things you can also use it for foods that have like juices and fruits. Like it completely stays sealed. So I checked it against my stuff way more fresh to I think so too young. Would you have them to I do I have all my God. I keep all like I hate when I open like especially the bags that Are open when you go to like farmer's market and stuff and then we try to put them away. It's like if you don't eat them right away, they're ruined and so these are great for those like cherry tomatoes. I'll just try to look like you're trying to eliminate plastic containers that have your home. Maybe you are these are just also great for all of those leftovers and support back and cilantro. You know, how usually you take it out of the thing you put a wet paper towel and then put in a Ziploc. Yeah to preserve it. This is Fred. I just put the wet paper towel inside the stash. Yeah awesome and it totally is worth the money like you Said it's in the investment. I had someone forever it totally made years. You see every way the return these are good ones. All right, I'm going to be buying all I spoke. I'm just going to spend money. Yeah. Okay guys, we did it. 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