WHOA That's Good Podcast - Doomscrolling, Sitting Jeans, Casual Posts, & Healthy Habits | Sadie, Bella, Mary Kate, Rebecca, & Abby

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

For the first time Sadie is joined by ALL her sisters for a lively discussion on what's in and what's out for the year ahead. Abby and Bella educate us on sitting vs. standing jeans. Mary Kate and Rebecca are prioritizing their family and building healthy habits. Sadie quickly identifies who's a JOMO and who's a FOMO girl. Mary Kate can't wait for Sadie to finish reading her first ever fantasy book. And Bella is just FINE with everyone noticing how much she says "like!" She's working on it! https://www.audible.com/whoa — New members try Audible FREE for 30 days Or text WHOA to 500-500 to try Audible FREE! https://drinkag1.com/whoa — Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 AND for a limited time you’ll get 10 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase! https://www.drinklmnt.com/whoa — Get 8 single serving packets FREE with any LMNT order! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let's go. We have Bee. We have Mary Kate. We have Rebecca. Y'all kept saying, bring your sisters back. I said, I want to do y'all one even better. I'll bring them all back. And I'm so excited.

We have been laughing already though, because we've been talking about this problem we share when we're together. And that is the obsessive use of the word like. It is a real struggle. And Bella, Rebecca, and I were made aware by our problem, by all of your lovely comments from our last podcast.

And so here's the thing. We have prayed. We have prayed that the Holy Spirit would empower us to not use those words. Bella's even told us that it's a lack of intelligence that we use this word so often. That's not exactly what I said, but I'm glad we're getting this out here so that everybody knows if we say it,

we feel bad about it and we don't need you to keep telling us like we know. Don't remind us. Please don't comment that we say like because we know. Bella said it's lack of intelligent to use filler words like like and that is a very and that's that's like a 30-minute video. Taking out a con. That's not like the whole I mean it's a whole video but it's not it's that's a very like brief way of saying what he

said. There's a lot more grace involved. Yeah, so not saying he said, if you say like you're stupid, that's not what he said. But then Rebecca, I got on defensive. Rebecca said, talking is not the way that you can tell someone's intelligence. Not the only way. Not the only way.

Words. So then we got to thinking, well, is talking actually the way that you do share your intelligence? Because that is kind of how you express what is happening in your mind. So we were having all kinds of deep convos. Okay, we already had to cut because we already started laughing so hard. And here's the thing, I said this on the podcast, I just interviewed Lainey and I said, Lainey, you're one of the hardest people for me to interview because you're one of my best friends.

And interviewing your best friends or your sisters is extremely hard to stay on track. And it's all of you are listening into a conversation that we're having. And when you think about lack of intelligence, the time is that you're going to be the least intelligent and the most relaxed of the way you talk are with your sisters, which is the beauty of sisterhood. And this whole podcast, Sisters and Friends, we created it for it to feel more real because sisterhood is the most real relationship.

You laugh so hard that you cry. You cry so hard that you laugh. This is just the most honest relationship you're gonna have with someone. And so we might say like a time or two. We might say dumb things. We might start laughing for no reason. And that's just what sisterhood is.

But I really am so excited to have them on the podcast today and we're gonna kinda actually answer some of your DMs that you guys have sent in. But before we get to some of your DMs, because we're in the month of February, I was like, you know, we always have conversations about New Year's resolutions in January. But it might be actually more fun to talk about them in February because it's like,

did we stick to them? How are we doing in them? Is it something that's attainable? All the things. So Abby, you kick us off. What were your New Year's resolutions? Did you have a word for the year? What's going well?

What's not going great? So I kind of went more with like ins and outs of 2023 and 2024. And then I chose a word for the year. The word is more, more of everything, more of more peace, more patience, more spending time in God's word. And I have all of like my prayers listed out, but ins and outs, I actually want to read them

cause I can't think of them all off the top of my head. And I had a longer list, but I left in my office. So I'm mourning that. So when you first said it was like ins and outs, because I can't think of them all off the top of my head. And I had a longer list, but I left in my office. So I'm mourning that. So when you first said it was like ins and outs, but I forgot, that's the trend right now. It's a trend, yeah. What's in and what's out, I like that, that's good.

So outs, washing my hair every day, these are just like attainable ones. Out, out, good. You got to stop washing my hair every day. Yes, it's like a thing with curly hair, you have to wash it very often, but they're supposed to be a way that you can train your hair to like not get as greasy as quick. So I'm going to try to, I'm trying to do that today is day two and I'm not having a good time.

Stay strong. Oh gosh. Okay, anyways. Well, they fully slick back hairs in right now. So that's true. But also I have a really big head. So I can't do sling back as well as everybody else can. I do have a big head. I know, I do have a free. Let's see. Hey, you did your hair like mine at the beach in North Carolina and you'll do my sling. Okay, sleeping in past 10, skipping my night, my skincare nighttime routine. Because sometimes I just skip it and I'll just put like moisturizer on and anyways

No more than one coffee a day, which is a hard one. That's hard But I've been pretty good about it lately. I haven't had any more than one that I know of energy drinks doom skull scrolling FOMO doom scrolling doom scroll you know you don't know what doom scrolling? No. Like just scrolling mindlessly, like there's just no lingo for it. Just, I just can't spend hours on my phone anymore. That's good. I like that.

New term. I know. Abby, I need to talk to you more. Yes. It's very educational. FOMO, I'm so bad at having FOMO. I want to be everywhere at one time, and I just like... Seeking of lingo, have y'all heard of Jomo?

No. Did you like missing out? Did you like missing out? It's like, people who don't like to go to things, it's like, no, I got Jomo, like, when I don't have to go to something, I've got to join the scene. You're actually glad.

Yeah. Do you have Jomo? Sometimes I do. I do too. I did too, I've never struggled with FOMO. I've fought, but I don't struggle with FOMO. Maybe Do you have Jomo? Sometimes I do. I do too. I've never struggled with Jomo. But I don't struggle with Jomo. Maybe you are a Jomo girl. I am.

I really am. I don't really struggle with Jomo. You're content with Jomo. I'm just content. We're mad. Walking that confidence girl. I love it. That's good.

I need a little bit more of Jomo. Jomo. Buying more, this was one of your moms last year, knew your resolutions I think. Um, buying more product, like whatever hair, makeup, skin, when I haven't finished the last one. That's good. So I did it last year and I kind of noticed a difference,

but this year I'm gonna be like full, seriously, not even like stocking up. That's good. Before I buy it, anyways. Wait, so don't buy it? Like if you have blush, don't buy new blush. So you're actually done with the last one. Mom literally texted me on like December 28th this year

and was like, send me all your recommendations. I can finally buy stuff again. Literally, I was. Yeah, she did. And I actually told Christian the same thing because I was like, I'm not going to buy. I'm just not. I'm for the month of January, I'm not going to buy anything.

I don't need. And so I haven not gonna buy anything I don't need. And so I haven't been buying anything I don't need except for I keep adding things to my cart. I'm waiting till February and I'm like, that is so dumb. That is not the point. That is not. That's so true. I'm waiting until February to decide if you really need it.

That actually does though, because I know I'm not gonna buy all these things, but I'm like, I'm just waiting and thinking about it a little bit longer. So it actually is good, but I have learned that I did need this and thinking about it a little bit longer. So it actually is good, but I have learned that I did need this lesson. And maybe I should extend it.

I always wait too long and then it's empty for like, and then I'd never have time to go back. I'm like out of foundation, I'm out of like, literally I've been using like eyeshadow for everything because like I shadow for everything. Eyeshadow for what? For my brows, my eyeliner, for my everything, just using the same palette for everything.

She's using brown as her foundation. I use like this. Her browns are a little darker. Well, I do have the stick, but I use the little, kinda like the hot, whatever, for blush, but I use that on my cheeks and know, like cheeks and lips, like I don't, you know, have anything else. Like, so I have like three items really I use for makeup.

Wow, that's actually very impressive. And I just like run out of time to go get some and then I'm like, having had time to go get them. I'm just kind of on the last, you know, that's a different problem. Yeah. Okay. Now to ends, sitting jeans. I have fallen victim to only wearing the tightest jeans I did okay sitting jeans stand-up jeans like there's jeans you wear that's like but this is

not how I try to wear both sitting is not comfortable and then there's sitting jeans it's like jeans you can sit and you can stand in comfortably. So that's an outline. Well, do you only wear sitting jeans when you know you're, wait, do you, hold on. Do you only wear your standing jeans when you know you're not gonna be in places you're gonna have to sit often?

No, you just wear them any time and then it ends up hurting your stomach if you've been sitting in them for too long. I've never heard of that. Surely you have the pair of jeans on. Oh, I do. Of course. Yeah, every time you sit down, you're like, why do I wear these?

Like, just, I'm literally kind of already took them all to. Yeah, me too. Wow. Going to bed early, taking my lunch to work. I go out way too much. Just quick and easy for lunch. Reading more, more water, casual posting, because I've been, I don't know, it's just been a whole thing. Cooking at home.

Casual posting. I love these terms. James Schill, like a term. That's so close. I feel like that's just like, doomskirly and casual posting. Casually. Wow. And sitting and saying, James. Yeah. I feel like that's just like doom, scrolling, casualty, casualty. Insisting, insinuating genes. Yeah.

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Yeah. That looks really good. It's so good. I'm impressed. Okay, I'm asking for myself, and for everyone listening, you should share your ins and outs because that was like, that honestly sounded like something

you would find on Pinterest. Like all of the, even the verbs and terms used was so good. And like, I love that. So prepared. So prepared. I don't need to follow that. It's a great thing though that I'm trying to like, be better at.

They're attainable. Yeah, they're practical. And there's like some deeper ones in there that you know you can work towards but all the other practical ones get you there too. That was really good. Thanks for sharing. All right, B. Okay, I'm gonna go a totally different direction. Right after Abby. Which I didn't really realize that this is what we were talking about but it actually works out kind of because I was writing about the Sea of the Night and so everybody knows I've been off socials, off my social game lately in a good way. I just have not been posting, not sharing, but I've been like writing a lot more and like writing things that like

maybe I'll share one day, maybe I won't, I don't know, but like just writing and I haven't felt like compelled to post what I've been writing yet, even though used to, I would have written this and just like posted it that day, but I've just been like thinking on my like words more and like really like not just, I don't know, it's like that's the whole thing of like casual posting, like I just feel like posting has become such a stressor in my life and I'm like, I just don't want to do it. And so I'm just like, anyways, I've been writing things I may post, may not, I don't know.

Anyway. It's kind of the same thing as putting things in your cart and just holding it, thinking about it a little bit longer. I think it's like, I've kind of come to realize that like not every single thing that I think I have to share on social media, and I think used to, I was like, oh, if I think of something like,

that sounds profound and that people would resonate with, and you should post it. But it's like, some things you should just keep to yourself because it's personal, you know? And it's like, the more you share, the less special your words get. Sometimes, I feel it for me, so it's like, I really share, the less like special your words get. Sometimes I feel it for me, so it's like I really need to just like go back and like start writing again like I used

to that don't have to share everything. And even like thoughts about like writing a new book, I'm like if I write a new book, like I can't write a new book if I post every single thing I write, you know, it's like if I post every single thought I have, then what's a new book gonna be? You know, I really need to just like go back and start, start, you know, kind of doing that on my own. Anyway, so I was writing about 2023 and I feel like I've realized that in my life, like I'm not a good like look forward and like do a word for this upcoming year.

Like I really am a good reflector and like a word for last year is like always like, at the end of upcoming year, I really am a good reflector. And a word for last year is always, at the end of the year, I always like to write down kind of like a bow on the year. This is what this year was for me, and if I look back and think about that year, I'm going to think that that was this year for me. That's cool, I like that.

I really like the idea of going back and reflecting, because I think sometimes I can, I just go on to the next year and then I don't look back and then you look back later and you're like, wow, so much happened. And I think I was actually telling someone this other day, it's because the holidays are so busy and so crazy. And then for us, we go straight into passion.

And so we don't have a holiday break. And then we come right back from passion on the weekend and start back work Monday. So we don't have, I haven't created that space in my schedule to just pause and reflect where I think the holidays for a lot of people are busy but then you have that one week before you like go back to school or you go back to work.

And I haven't had that in my schedule. So I haven't been intentional about scheduling in a time to like pause, say goodbye to this year, say hello to the next year, because even New Year's we don't really do anything big for because I'm focusing on the conference and what I'm gonna speak about and all those things. And I was just telling Christian next year,

I wanna be intentional about setting aside time, whether that's after New Year's or what that looks like after passion, just having a week to just reflect and think and like you said, kind of put a bow on the past year. So I really like that. Which I think too, it's like a lot of times it's just certain people's like nature and just like the way that they like think about their lives. And I feel like if you've read my book or like read anything that I've ever written, it's always like reflective. That's just the way that my brain thinks.

I like to reflect on things and I like to think about how I could do things better. And so anyways, I also was kind of inspired. I was getting my hair done and our hairdresser was like, so do you have a New Year's resolution or like a word for you this year? I was like, no, I did not do that. I was like, I don't do words for the year. But then I started thinking like kind of what this upcoming year, I started really reflecting on last year. And I feel like 2023 was very like formative for me. Like I feel like that's the word I would use. Like, I feel like 2023 was like a year that I just like matured and grew in like a million different ways and like very slowly like I feel like it wasn't like there was something

that changed me it was just like throughout the year slowly but surely like I just grew up and like was like my whole mind was like formed and matured in a whole new way that I feel like it wasn't one big thing that just like changed my year. First of all, I love what you said. I can see that it was very formative in your life. The second thing is I think your mind working like that is actually really cool and very cool to point out because my mind does not work like that. I'm so vision focused and forward thinking where I have a really hard time reflecting because that takes like being still and thinking a little bit deeper and more.

Whereas I'm like, what's next? What's the future? Where are we going? What's today getting me? How's it gonna be tomorrow? All the things, but it is so special to look back. And I think having two kids now has really encouraged me to look back

and really focus on the days that I have because I'm realizing how fast it goes. And I'm like, wow, honey, it's two and a half years old. Like, Haven is eight months old. This is crazy. It's happening so fast. I want to treasure those memories. And so I need to look back. And so I love that you said that. But you also mentioned, do you have a word for this year? Did you do this? Yeah. So after my hairdresser, like, mentioned that to me, I was thinking, I guess like my word for the new year would be like perspectives. Like I feel like I'm trying to have a new perspective

on everything that last year, like if last year something looked hard, I'm trying to look at it in this new year as a challenge. Or like if it looked last year like it was sad, this year I'm gonna look at it as hope. And like I'm trying to have a new perspective on all the things that last year I may have like thought of negatively and think positively about things.

I love that. Let's go. You have any resolutions or challenges to yourself? I think I wanna slowly get back into like posting in a casual posting way. I want to post as a thing, because I do think I want to post, but I just like, every time I go to post it,

I can't do it, I'm just like, I can't, I don't want to. I want to, and then I get there and like. Well, I think also just going back to what you were talking about, how you're such a deep thinker, and everything is that you're thinking about what is the consequences about posters, what is the reaction you're getting and all that, but you almost just have to throw away. And just post what makes you happy, you feel good about it, you don't care about what other people are just going to say about it, that's casual posting.

And it's like, I know I really don't want to like get all back into that world. I don't want to be back how I used to be where that's all I did all day every day. I don't want that and I just have realized that's just not what I want to do with my life. But I do want to not have like anxiety about it and I don't want to have fear surrounding posting or stress about it. I don't want it to be a stressful thing. I want it to just be casual. And I really do enjoy your posts.

So like, I'm missing about us. We want more from B. And not that I don't know what's going on in your life already, but I do enjoy seeing you just be artistic and showing your talent and stuff on there. I love when you casually post. Yeah. Well you think like well why am I stressing so much about everything and this no one really cares and then you get messages of people that you're like the well dang people care more than I thought they care you know so it's kind of like a catch-point too because it's

like you want to believe that no one really cares and that you can post and like I want to think like no one's looking at me no one's thinking about me and then I get messages I'm like people are thinking about me more than yeah, I think about me Why are you thinking about all this stuff? And I was gonna say for those who are listening who are like why is it so hard to post why you feel so anxious when you have that? Much feedback whether it's praise or criticism When you have that much feedback, whether it's praise or criticism, it is very hard to navigate that, the feedback and the praise and the criticism. Too much of either is not good.

And also just having so many voices in your life who, with the best intention, you all know about us. But at the end of the day, you have to realize you don't know us. You know, our full heart, our life, our days, our ins and outs are 24 hours in a day. And we experience that every single day and a post is about a second. You know, it's a glimpse into a life.

And so there's so much behind people's life that you don't understand. Just like we, you know, made a quote from a 30 minute talk and you got a snapshot of what the whole talk was like, but you can't criticize or even speak too much either way into that quote because you don't understand the context of the whole talk. It's the same thing with people's lives.

And so sometimes you make such a sharp comment back to something that you have little understanding for the full picture. And so that can just be hard to navigate. Friends, taking care of your health isn't always easy, but it should at least be simple. I'm all about simple. And that's why for the last several years I've been drinking AG1 each day. Just one scoop makes some water once a day, every day, and it makes me feel so energized and focused, so great. It's a total game changer. That's because each serving of AG1 delivers my daily dose of

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Why don't you want to, why do you live there? Why do you not do this? And it's like, when it's one comment, you think it's one. But if you're commenting, you're like, oh, this is sweet. I'm commenting like, why don't you have kids yet? Can you tell me that? But it's like, when you look at my messages and it's hundreds of messages of the same question, it's like, that's when it gets to be a lot, you know?

And so true. I mean, I'm sure with the all, I was like, I love that honey looks like Christian because she's so sink and cute looking like her daddy. But when that was the only comment I got on every picture I posted of honey and it was thousands upon thousands of comments that she looks nothing like me and just like your dad. It's like, that's true. That's she's so cute. Yes.

But why do you only have to say she looks like her dad? And I'm getting so many of that that that I didn't even wanna post pictures anymore because it felt like if that's the only thing people are gonna say, then you're missing the picture that I'm trying to post. And if it was one person, it's like, of course that person's not meaning any harm by it,

but if you were to look at our DMs and our messages and our question boxes and see how many we get of the same questions that can be, you know, it can be like personal questions or all this different stuff, you know, it's just, I don't know, it can be a lot. I was gonna say a lot of the time, thankfully, I don't get a whole lot of criticism, but it's like, oh, I love how you posted this, I want to see more of this. And it's like, okay, well, what if I don't want to post that every day, you know?

So it's like a lot of that. It's not really just criticism. It's hard to, if you're a person who doesn't want to share all the things, because I have friends who like get hundreds of questions with the same as mine, but they're fine to answer that and they want to answer that and they want to share that. But I'm like, I don't want to share everything.

Like I don't want to post all, I don't want to answer that and they want to share that. But I'm like, I don't want to share everything. Like I don't want to post all, I don't want to answer all these questions. But some people like Rebecca normally will tell anything. Like if someone asked her, she doesn't mind answering. And she posts every day and that's comfortable for her. She likes that, but I just don't. Oh, I ignore tons of, yeah. It's also like where you're at.

And it's not so much the people commenting that's the problem. Like you said, there's no harm in asking the question. It's that when there's something that's going on in your life privately that people don't know any better to not speak into or to ask the question to say something or there's an insecurity that people keep poking at. They don't mean to poke at it, but they are poking at it. Then you have to put up your own boundaries with social media and say, okay, I'm not in the place to get these questions. I'm not in the place to get this feedback. I'm

not in the place to get the praise, the criticism, the questions, any of it. I really need to just like have a moment of time where I'm just getting the feedback of people who know me, love me, people who are asking me the questions that they're asking me, actually know the context of where I'm at in my life. And so it's really not as much like a social media problem as much as it's just a personal like boundary that you have to create and take the time that it requires to get well before you allow yourself to be in front of so many eyes. Yeah. And it's not a bad thing. Like I'm not saying this is like, I mean, all the people who follow me, I appreciate everybody who comments, nightstandings and all that kind of stuff.

It's not that it's just in myself. I've been just like battling all of it. And it's good that you recognize that, you know, I feel like, you know, I, I think my personality, it's like I do like, I can look past thing. Like I don't get mad about like things like I'm easily like they said this I just deleted or you know like and because like genre gets so offensive like so bad and like I'm just like you don't need to like respond to this negative comment because who cares like there's some people We don't know and if they're spending time doing that kind of stuff, like they have nothing else better to do, you know?

So it's like, don't care about them. Just, you know, I'm only posting for people that know it's like have positive impact, and you know, I'm actually, you know, sharing things and helping people. I feel like they are, you know, on the same page. Yeah, and just for those listening too, that is one of the most encouraging things ever. When you get comments that are like, you know, I love what you said here. This was really helpful. Oh, having the sisters on is so fun. Like those just like positive feedback, encouragement

means so much because sometimes it is weird to sit in this room and do a podcast. And then I see the number of people listening, but I don't know what you think. Like I don't, I like, I want to see your comments. We want to see the messages. Actually, a lot of what we were gonna talk about today that I have here are from DMs that y'all have sent. And so there is such a beauty to that too. There's a beautiful side to that.

I think ultimately, yes, our personal boundaries have to, we have to be responsible for where we're at. And if we're not able to casually pose or not stay away from doom scrolling, then we have to take the time we need to get off social media. That's why I was off social media for eight months of last year, because I was kind of where Bella was at, where I was like, I just can't do it right now.

I don't need it right now. I have to just get healthy in my own space. But I love that. That's a great point. You know, if you're in that space, stay on and thrive in it, you know, and then if you're not, get healthy, then come back. All right, Mary Kay, tell us about your year, any word, goals, aspirations, challenges, all the things. Well, when Abby was reading her list, I was very impressed by it because I was like, man, I wish I would have thought like a little bit more about, you know, just writing everything down this year.

But I really feel like I was just sitting here thinking about it. And I mean, I have like the typical of like, read more and exercise more. But as I was sitting here, like just kind of dawned on me, like, I feel like this year, thinking about the upcoming year, and I have thought about it. I just don't have my whole list. But it just hit me that I really feel like this is the first year that every thing that I can think of really is just for my kids.

Because it's not like I'm just setting, I think just realizing John Chepert is four. Ella's two and a half, he's getting to the age two, we're like, he's gonna remember things, you know what I mean? Like, and just, I felt like looking at this year, it was kind of like, okay, what am I wanting for them? Like what good things do I wanna set up for them

in their lives this year? And so I feel like some of that was just like, good habit building like in our family. That's cool. And like last year, like I was doing my Bible recap and then we moved and really a lot of all sorts of events and like I had some at the end of my pregnancy was just having some issues and all these things

kind of led me to getting off of that. And this year I was like, okay, I want my kids like I want to be in the word every day but I also want to make sure my kids are seeing me. That's cool. And just in that kind of sense of like, where I know this is going to benefit me, but I also know like, I want to do this to benefit them too. Yeah, that's cool.

And so even that and like we're doing like just good habits of like, we go from that to then like breakfast and like over breakfast is when we do our devotion like with the kids. That's cool. And so it's just interesting. I feel like now realizing my life and my habits don't just affect me anymore. They affect our whole family. And I think especially as women, like whether you have kids or you don't have kids, like when you're married, you're the heart of your home. And realizing like really the whole tone and mood of my home

comes from me. Yeah. And I'm who my husband's coming home to every day. He can come home to someone who's, and also realizing how I set my day affects the person I am, which affects, which is the mom that my kids have and the wife that my husband has. You know what I mean? So true. So I feel like this year it's just been like, okay, what good habits can we set to benefit like our whole family? That's so good. I love that. It's

so true and just the responsibility as a mom and thinking about, I love how you said not even just a mom, but your spouse or even in your friendships, like who you are affects so many people around you. And that's like the gift of being a healthy person. You give it to everyone around you. They get to experience a healthy friend, a healthy mom, a healthy wife and all of those different things. Y'all, I don't know if I should say this.

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Bible here at the office and not really at home as much or if I do it'll be before the kids wake up. But the other night I was reading a night where Honey and Christian were just kind of running around and Honey came over and she's like, whatcha doin? And then she's like, is that your Bible? Because she has a little princess book that she calls her Bible. And she's like, where's my Bible? Where's my Bible?

And she was like asking me what I was doin. And I said, do you wanna preach? And she was like, yeah, I wanna preach. And so she stood beside me and I'm like pulling out verses. And I was like, can you say John? She's like, John, like 316, 316. And she was preaching it to Christian. And it was so cute.

And I was like, I need to do this with her more. You know, like you're so right. Like the things we're doing for ourselves, like doing for our kids, with our kids and like training them up in that. Because we always think this, like, oh, I wish I learned Scripture more when you were younger. You wish you paid attention more in school.

You wish you did all that. But to make it something in the home, that's fun, that they see you value. And you, using your life that you really believe and you really want to speak over them, so cool to see them in return act that out that out. You know, it's awesome. That's such a good point. I love that.

Becca, what do you think about this year? Well, it's so funny because I, you know, I just started thinking about the words because I don't usually do like the new word of the year either. And so I was thinking and I came up with this word and it's kind of like a little opposite than what Mary K just said, but it's not like I'll just say the word and you're understanding what I say it's opposite. But my word is a priority, but to me it's like kind of like putting myself and my relationship

with my husband as priority this year just because I feel like in the past, I've always put like our kids like so in the front of like, you know, especially Y'all Know Holland, she just turned two. She was like so hard. And so I have basically been like just putting like everything on our kids, like everything like I had a clothing line, but then I couldn't do it because she was just so hard and just like feeding her until she was two and just like, everything is always surrounded by their schedule

with everything. So I really felt like this year, I wanted to like put myself and just like, taking care of myself and like do things I want to do and just kind of like getting back to like some of my old, like, you know, things I want to do and just kind of like getting back to some of my old things I want to do and just kind of like get back to designing and like spending a little bit more time maybe wash my hair a little bit more often and taking shower or bath by opposite of that because how many days do you go without washing your hair?

Like seven, like a week. It's crazy. It's crazy. I know it's a little dirty right now. But, but like just even like being able to take a bath, like by myself, like I literally, like every time I go in the bathroom, my kids follow me and like, you know,

but it just, cause that's just the way they are. But like, it's like funny cause if someone's watching this, they'll be like, oh, but we're all like, yes. Yes. Okay, yes. And I'm not like, you know, I'm not the type of person like, okay, put myself first.

No, it's not like the, the worldly like, I'm going to put myself first. Like you really do do everything for your kids. And I feel like I really haven't done anything like. And you haven't left Holland. No, I've never left her overnight till literally recently, like I bring her off, like, you know, so I left her one night and it was amazing. And I just felt like just like putting that also like to like spend time with my husband and said it like my, the father of my, our children, you know?

Cause it was just like, it was so good. Just like, we went out and we found this like super cool, like little like speakeasy place. And they have a explosion kittens. Exploding kittens. Exploding kittens in the current game. We want exploding kittens. And we were playing that.

And it was like, we have not played game like together. Like it was just like so fun just getting back to that moment. Like, you know, and so not saying like completely opposite, but I'm just saying like. But what's so cool as sisters, I look at Mary Kay, and I'm like, yes. You know how like we're. That is amazing what I see for her family,

like the way that she's stepping into that. And I remember a couple years ago when you enjoyed started prioritizing date night each week and like you've been in that place and now you're in that place. And it's like, it's so cool to see because things like, just like Bella for social media, that was me last year. Now this year I'm like on it.

So it's so cool. And we all have different things that we need to work on and like they may oppose each other. And like Abby's like, I need to stop washing my hair every day and everybody's like, I need to start on. They may oppose each other and Abby's like, I need to stop washing my hair every day. Everybody's like, I need to start washing my hair more. We have different things to do. And that's just so fun about us sisters,

because we're all so different. And we learn from each other. And we see things like we love and mistake from each other that we can learn from and then you can we can all like support each other and that's like really cool. That has been really cool listening to all of y'all reflecting on where we've all been the past few years that no one knows and no one needs to know but seeing like what everyone said I'm like that's so cool because it's not what it was last year and it's different because everyone's grown since we since where we were at last year and now we're stepping into a new thing that we're learning and growing.

We just do this like every year and like look back. That's cool. Like there's something I can't remember maybe variety or something everyone does like with certain celebrities they do every single year they interview them and ask the same questions and like see what they're like. That's cool. I want to see if Abby makes it past day two I want to re-cursing I was just thinking too like Abby was like I need to stop buying makeup and I know me and said you're like we probably need to stop by makeup too

Rebecca's like I need to buy makeup yeah well it's so funny because we were talking a little bit about our resolutions on a different podcast with Christian and it was so funny because I was saying all of mine and mine were more like spiritual and just more challenging and Christian was more physical and I didn't have one workout or physical thing in mind. He was like, I'm going to give you one. You need to learn how to run a mile this year. And I was like, you're supposed to give you one. You need to learn how to run a mile this year. And I was like, you're supposed to give me one.

But thank you. But sometimes you need to be like, hey, actually, you should probably stop by and make up. And yes, I should do that too. I'm like, I'm just going to go ahead and speak for me. And say, do you probably need to not buy this much makeup? No, and I'm with Abby, though. I need to learn how to train my hair too, because I've gotten

to every other day. But I was at every day because my hair gets greasy fast and that's hard. But my word for the year, I want to read the definition because the definition of it is why it's impactful to me but it's stretch and it's because I was looking and it was not physical and that's what Christian said, oh I'm going to use that word too but I'm going to actually stretch every day and that was actually, but I'm gonna actually stretch every day. And that was actually one of mom's, she's stretching every day.

That's funny, yeah. But I was like, mine's not like, I'm physically stretching. But I probably should do that too. My stretch was, because when I was looking at the year, like sometimes I can get really overwhelmed when I look at a calendar and it's really full or busy and I'm like, ugh, like how am I gonna do that?

And I was kinda starting to get a little stressed about it and I thought this year's gonna be a stretch. So then I looked up the definition of the word stretch. And I thought this was really cool when it says, to cause someone to make maximum use of their talents or abilities. And I thought that was a really cool definition, to cause someone to make a maximum use

of their talents and abilities. When you think about it, like, if I'm about to run a race, then I would stretch and it's like getting out all the soreness you're showing but you're doing it to be able to use your maximum strength. And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna refocus and not be like, wow, this is so busy but I'm gonna have an opportunity to stretch myself

and use different talents or use different gifts that I haven't in a while. Like I said yes to just certain events that gifts that I haven't in a while like I Said yes to just certain events that are things I don't typically say yes to that we're just a little bit more different and like this is gonna be so good It's gonna be a stretch, but it's gonna be fun. And so that's my word for the year stretch through all the the anxiousness and all the things and just show up. And some of my resolutions were don't buy things that I don't need.

But that was just some month of January, but I think I do need to put an extension on it. And then also- You and Christian get more packages than anybody I've ever seen. Yeah, but that's also not just us buying. But Christian, it's honestly Christian then. That's not just us buying.

It's Christian. It is Christian. He has mom's address. Every time we're there, there's a stack of Christian pop box. What does he buy? Like, what does he like to buy? Like, one time it was like a lion phone case or something. He does kind of have some random purchases. But also we're very like subscription people. Like, we do like groceries, meals. Yeah, you'll do that. We are very, even my mascara is just subscription. So like we don't shop out pretty much ever. Like it's always delivered. So it does seem like a lot because our paper towels, our paper plates, our cups, our everything is delivered. That's crazy.

I may get like a one package a month. Even our water. It's like the best thing. Really? Yeah, I never order anything. Wow. I get a lot too, but. Yeah. Like I do a lot one package a month. Even our water. It's like the best thing. Really? Yeah, I never order anything. Wow. I get a lot too, but. Yeah, like.

I do a lot of what we want. Jacob gets like three packages a day with vintage clothes and I'm like, that's pretty close because every day I get home and I'm like packages and they're not. And I love to like burn boxes in our fireplace and like so every time I get the boxes out. You should join Christian and Jolyx burn party. Oh my gosh. They burn once a week. It's so bad. I probably should have done do it with them outside because I do it inside and like I almost start a few fire a few times. You should go do it with them. I know. They have so much fun. So yes. We have a burn pile like on the side. You should go burn with them. They

have a good time but yeah so the boxes are really our subscriptions Which is everything that we have and then also I want to read ten books again, even though I didn't make it to ten last year That was a good goal because it got me to eight so I'm back on that train And I'm trying to read books that I wouldn't normally read like a fantasy book Which is challenging me so much because I am having the hardest time. Mary Kate Julliard just pitching this that it's so good because Mary Kate loves these fantasy books,

her and Julliard both. So I was like, I wanna get into that, but it is a struggle for me. So we'll see if I make it to the end of the wing feather saga. We'll see, we'll see. But yeah, I'm excited for this year. I feel like we have a lot of things to come.

There's some things that our families walk into that are new this year, and that was another part of my stretching. Just things that we haven't done in a long time that we're starting back up. So we have a lot of fun things to come. We'll hopefully do a recap of this podcast. And it's funny because before we started filming,

I was like, do you want to talk about resolutions or do you want to answer DMs? And we were like, let's do both. They won, do you want to talk about resolutions or do you want to answer DMs? And we were like, let's do both. It won't take us long to talk about resolutions and we're 41 minutes in. So we did spend the whole podcast talking about that, but it led us into so many great conversations. And that just means I'll have to have you all back on

to answer some DMs. But thank you all so much for listening and also all the encouragement on social media that you send is always, it means so much to just get something positive and encouraging. Like we said, we do get a lot of questions. We do get criticism sometimes too much praise. And no comments about likes. And no comments about likes.

And no comments about the amount of time that they like. I'm going to comment back. Bella's going to come at you. But the encouragement always goes a long way. It really does. And we want to hear about y'all's words of the year, some resolutions y'all have. I'm going to make Abby post her ins and outs. That's going to be her first casual post of the year. I mean, of February. So anyways, love you guys and look forward to the next shot. Oh yeah