How I Met Your Mother

Is this okay? Is this okay? You know she's such a warrior. That's the only thing. I mean, like, I could totally live with that. I love how Maddie needs me that way. I know that's crazy. And I don't mind cleaning up after you. So you're gonna say I don't mind Kenzie being messy, but not thinking I really don't. I really, it's you just learned to live with it. I just it's there's nothing. It's not going to change him. Sorry, I really wish I could. It's just a terrible trade.

I have. No Maddie used to be like that. So yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll turn into her once. Hey, mom my own all right? Thanks? Question, when do you think that me and Kenzie should get married? That's just what you just asked. But when? When do you think is like a good time? When did you get married after your twenties? Six? I think, like I really I do.

I actually agree with that. You know, like my sister got married when she was twenty one and she's been married her whole life, and which she's fine, But it's also like, I think I want to live out my twenties before I'm like tied down to being fully married some right, I mean it's not a bad thing. Yeah, I'm very impulsive, so we'll see how that goes. You're very what impulsive? Impulsive? That's not something you should be impulsive. That's true. You should think that through because look, look

a mom, she got her to everyone's bound to. Um. I don't know much to be asking you this question. Let's go, what's one thing we need to learn how to cook to survive on our own? Oh, we just need rice and beans to be I'm always like when we were younger, I'd be like, mom, can you cook me cereal? Please? Just like yes, listen, mom, this is actually really funny. So her food. Her burgers are always so good, so good, so good. But there's this one time where they were not good, and my and Dakota

and Colin were over. We're all having dinner eating her burgers, and I wasn't that hungry. But to Coda finishes burger, he does this thing where if he doesn't like it, he'll just eat it because he feels really good. Oh my gosh, ate it. And then Mom was like, there's another burger, eat it and he's like no, no, no, I'm so full, and she was like, no, no, no, eat it. It was like forcing them to either the

rest of her burgers. And they literally came up to me and we're like, I don't know what was wrong with those burgers, but they were not good. I don't think I cooked them long enough because I was worried I was going to burn them because I burned one of Maddie's burgers and we only had one and I had to shade the top off. He never knew because I put keys on it. Okay, Uh, what is something we still don't know about you? Um? Uh? Were you

a crazy child? No? I told my mom, Well, no, I think my mom knew, but um, we used to all go to like senior week. It was after we graduated high school, and we stayed at a big house and most boy girls, you know, all together. And I lied to my parents and told them that I was going with all my girlfriends and we were just staying. But we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have any

of that. So nice, you could just go and just yeah, But we used to lie to our parents and say we were sleeping at each other's houses and um, you'd be having a sleepover with a boy. No, we would go to New York City, my girlfriends and I and we would drive to New York City and um, yeah and stay half of the weekend. That's why I'm such a good driver, because I'm not. I was that's amazing, Say you're a good driver, but wait, that's actually amazing. I I love that you did that. And she just

went to New York for the weekend. I wish I could do that. I know, right, Like, it sounds like you had a pretty eventful teenage life. Like now I'm like, you're forcing me to leave the house. She's like, go go go to your friends. That we had fun. I mean We never did anything bad because I was really actually straight. I mean I never drank or did anything. I was always afraid because my brother did it and I never did. But we would definitely go away for

the weekends because the beach was closed. New York City was closed. What's it called, like Coney Island or something that we went to Ocean City, Maryland, taken towels that were forty dollars a night. Um, is there something that we've done that you disagree with? Like? Is it? Is it? Do you think it's tough to let us make our own decisions or no? I mean I think you guys

are I'm so lucky. Like I hear these parents talk about their kids and I'm like, oh my god, Noness, I think that we have such a good relationship for lucky, So I know, I don't think so. I think now also, we come to mom about a lot of things, and like we I mean, obviously Maddie and I have our have our things that we keep to eat ourselves because obviously that's sisters. But I feel like we talked to you about a lot of things. Yeah. No, I I'm really lucky, like I in this world that we live in.

In this town. I mean, it could get really crazy, but we're I'm lucky, and we all kind of deal with anxiety kind of in the same way, so it's really easy to talk to each other about it. Like, especially me, I've been dealing with really bad anxiety for the first time as like a young adult. I feel like, like, this is the worst it's been since I was younger. So you've definitely like helped me do that a lot. Yeah, because I went through the same thing and I still yeah,

exactly what's the hardest part about us growing up? You growing up and going away and I just like it breaks my heart. No, I mean it's actually good because I'm so proud of you. I know that you guys are good. But I always want you to want me, you know. But I feel like our relationship got better once I moved out, though, because then I was like, oh my gosh, it it made me realize how much

I still need you, you know. I love I love when I think it's funny when I would go to the grocery store and to pick you stuff up and You're like, I have my own money, you don't have money. And then I stopped doing it, and then You're like, are you going to or or she like buys another thing of toilet paper and I'm like, we don't need this much toilet paper. She's like, no, no no, no, I'm bringing it to Maddie and I was like, no, I'd leave it out there for Maddie when she comes. Yeah,

It's it's very sweet. But I'm wondering because I wonder how you're going to be That's what I'm saying. I'm well, I was it really hard on you for Maddie, Well, it definitely was because you were crying for weeks when she left, But do you think you're going to do the same thing for me? Are you? Just like, oh, I the first kid already left. So now I like understand. I think it's gonna be harder for you because Maddie is different. And I I didn't cry for weeks for

Maddie because she called me the first day like ten times. Right, Well, I'm going to do that too, which I love um.

But no, I think you're going to be harder. I'm not saying because you're not going to lock your door and because Maddie probably locks her door ten times she checks and then you know what I'm thinking it's going to be hard on your mom was just like you went from obviously it was hard me leaving, but you still had Kenzie in the house, but you know now you're not gonna So I knew it was going to

be hard. I was just wondering because I've I've talked to like a lot of parents about it, because I was curious, Like my friend's mom's like, when the first kid leaves, it's obviously really hard, But then I was like, how is it for the second kid? Are you just like you know, oh, it already happened, So like, no, I'm going to need heavy therapy, lots of die lots of diet coke, and lots of Hallmark movies. Listen, you're gonna have to be at my house telling me how

to work the lobry Regine. I called her the other day, how do you do the dishes? Oh my Kensie, she did the dishwasher. I'm probably gonna be coming. I'll be I'll probably be your house like cleaner. Oh my god, You're gonna help me decorate my house. I'm so excited to help Kensey decorate. Okay, who is someone you admire and why mm hmm, well, I really I found it. This is gonna be really weird, but I really admire

Steven Spielberg, Beau. I know this sounds really weird, but seeing him how amazing he is, and he treats everybody like they're equals and like kind and generous, and he knows everyone's name. I mean, it's pretty incredible. If you see people and you know how they're divas and he is so not a diva. I mean, he's really really someone that I look up to and admire. That's very sweet. He's an incredible man. That's really cute. Um, what age or a year did you consider to be the best

time of your life right now? Really? Oh yeah, for sure. I feel like even though with the world the way it is, Um, I'm happy. I you know, I'm at a place where I can give back and I you know, I love service work. It's like so exciting for me. Um. And I have you guys. You guys are awesome. I have you know. Greg, He's incredible. He's he's such a good dad to you guys, and he's been such a great dad for you know, since you've been five and six My goodness, good husband, And I don't know. I

just have a really good life. Yeah, m that's awesome, that's very sweet. Yeah, I feel like and I feel like now to you, like I don't people say age is just a number, but you really are just kind of like aging backwards. It's pretty crazy. And you just have such a you just have such You've always had

a very young spirit. Like you're very good with obviously, like obviously you're amazing with people your age, having conversations with them, but then you're also great a like communicating to little kids and like our age people like you just you're good at adapting. Yeah. A lot of my friends always they're like, if she was my age, I'd be best friends with her. I love that so cute. Do you do you ever wish that we went in a different direction with our career? Oh? I mean I want.

I just wanted you guys to be happy, so I don't you know, I sometimes wish we had, you know, time to go sledding, and you know, I feel like we missed out on like that stuff at home because you know, we were here in the winters, but also being now in l A and just not really having like the season's change as as much like this year, honestly, a lot of like the leaves changed colors on the trees, which was like, no, it doesn't really see that. It's

been raining since last night. It's still raining. It's really nice. But I'm really excited to like actually go to a different climate and go to snow and like have a change, because I think it will just be really fun. Right. And I think also when I was when I was younger, I didn't appreciate home that much. Like going back, I was just like, oh, it's so I feel so useless. I feel like this is not fun for me at all. But now when I go back, I'm like, it's so

pretty here. Yeah, I know it. Now we can appreciate nature more. It feels like we're literally I know this is such a stupid thing to say, but not really, but I feel like we're it's like a bob Rass painting. Where we live. It's literally just like it's beautiful. It's just a bunch of happy little trees as well the

most trees. First, a great neighbors, and we have you know, I don't know, we'll have yummy breakfast every day and there'll be lots of baked good being baked and you could dance in the dance room and Greg and just cooking tons of pictures of us everywhere you look. Oh my god, that's one thing that our mom does that annoys me. She frames all of our dance photos. Oh, I was gonna say. I was going to say it

annoys me. When we're all eating breakfast and we just woke up and we all look like a mess, and she takes the takes a photo of us and posted on our instagram. My favorite just when I was holding one of mom's hair extensions and like as a joke, and she posted it. I was like, Okay, she's like reminiscing. She's like, what a time like last week? It was not last week, that was like three years ago. I just need to those looks, Kenzie is literally going on

your Instagram right now, don't. Okay. Also, you like golfing. My mom is a great golfer, by the way, and she has the cutest little golf outfits and she's really good at it. And you do better than our stepdad, right, you do better than but he's doing much better. He's coming here soon after we get back and we're going to be golfing. So I went golfing with them. I went to Top Golf and I went actual golfing. Good for you. First of all, I just need to talk

about one thing you posted. Ivy's birthday post, and this is the same photo. She just do that a lot. She she likes to crop the photos of the dog's face is really close in because there's and also you tend to post like photos where they look kind of really not cute. Well you know, I'm blind, but she's like, wow, this photo is just absolutely My favorite is when you post like you'll find photos of us that are just

on the internet. That's one else was posted and you like just screenshot them and post them and they're extra worry and like momure like literally no one could see this picture. It's simplerry funny. When Maddie, when you were born, Um, your path, Pap and I were really close. He passed now, but he used to come to work for six months because I didn't want anybody to bottle feed you or touch you. Guys, I'm really weird. Um. He would walk with you and then I would nurse, and then you

would rock in the window. People would pass by and wave at you in the window and then Kenzie was born. I did the same thing with her. I never left you guys for like six months, the first sew months of your life. It was so it was like the best time. I remember that I had the whole wall of our office was filled with pictures of you guys.

I mean it was probably a hundred photos. Kensie was literally like the face of your work, right, wasn't she Like You're on a billboard And I remember, like a few months ago, you were like, this is me and I was like, no, that was me on the billboard, Mattie. Yeah, it was you, little chubby arms. That's one thing that we sometimes have to like look closely for it because like we look at our baby photos and I'll be like,

is this Maddie or is this me? But when we were like baby babies, not like when we were like toddlers, we looked so different. It looks so cute, so dull eyes like okay, but sometimes I looked a little scary. My eyes were so big that it was like scary, You're the biggest, brownest eyes. Yeah, it was so cute. Well I wish you were babies sometimes, same, honestly, Well, thank you mom for coming on and letting people get to know you. This is really fun. Yeah, people are

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