Mr. & Mrs. Inglis

All aboard the chaos express! If you’ve got a ticket for this ride, you already know it. It’s the one where there’s never enough time in the day—kids’ schedules outpace yours, work demands keep piling up, and oh yeah, the laundry, dishes, mowing the lawn, and bills aren’t going to handle themselves. Let’s not forget staying connected with friends and family, even though you planned to be in bed by 9 pm…but it’s now 11 pm, and tomorrow starts before the sun does. Sound familiar?

We’re right there with you. Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Inglis Podcast, hosted by Shaen and Meghan Inglis—a weekly show where we dive into real and honest conversations about the wild ride of raising kids, growing careers, and managing family and friendships in the middle of life’s beautiful chaos. So, grab your ticket and join us for a weekly dose of camaraderie, connection, and a reminder that you’re never in this alone.

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What is Mr. & Mrs. Inglis?

We’re right there with you. Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Inglis Podcast, hosted by Shaen and Meghan Inglis—a weekly show where we dive into real and honest conversations about the wild ride of raising kids, growing careers, and managing family and friendships in the middle of life’s beautiful chaos. So grab your ticket and join us for a weekly dose of camaraderie, connection, and a reminder that you’re never in this alone.

Follow and subscribe to the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast and visit our channel and our website at shaeninglis.com to check out and follow our other podcasts. You can also follow Shaen and Meghan @ShaenInglis on Instagram, YouTube, etc. Feel free to share the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast with someone who would enjoy and benefit from our weekly discussions.

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26 just came in fast, right?

Came in hot.

Rubbers.

Oh, yes, yes.

Shoe rubbers is what they're called.

Oh, that's my sock.

That's my sock.

Okay, well, this is weird.

It's like, thank

goodness I'm wearing gloves.

I actually wear more layers on the

sideline than I wear

skiing, which is smart.

It really starts cooking in there.

It's nice.

Whoa, that's like-

There's a lot of cushion there.

There's a lot of cushion.

I could be hit by a car

going 60 miles an hour and-

You'd be fine.

You'd be totally fine.

I would just bounce.

I feel like the cold's

gonna creep and women are tough.

That's why you outlive us.

You guys are just tougher.

I would actually totally agree with that.

And twist, double twist,

then triple vortex, close.

I don't know that I'm ready for that.

I actually look homeless.

I was out and about.

Did you wonder at some

point if that person was dead?

No, because where I was going-

And I let it go.

Welcome to the Mr. and

Mrs. English Podcast.

I'm Megan.

And I'm Sean.

We're here to talk about the wild ride of

raising kids and growing careers, keeping

life together in the

middle of all the chaos.

So buckle up, because we're all in this

crazy journey together.

All right, we are back

after skipping a week.

Skipping a week.

The first time in a year

that we skipped a week.

Yeah, on purpose.

Kind of.

I mean, I have truly been going back to

be like, when could we have done it?

Yeah.

I mean, we were already not going to bed

until very, very late.

It was just a heck of a week.

It's the chaos train, as

usual, just plowing through.

There was no conductor even.

I feel like it was- I feel like the train

over the last two

weeks was similar to like

Polar Express, right?

Yeah.

When it's like no one's

really being the conductor.

We were on the Ice Lake.

Yeah.

Which is all over the place.

Like, 26 just came in fast, right?

It came in hot.

Like you think like, all right, 26 gonna

be great, blah, blah, blah.

It came in hot.

Yeah.

And nothing, nothing out

of the ordinary, really.

No.

It's just we knew we had a lot of soccer.

We knew it all the kids stuff.

Yeah.

Back to work.

Some work things just kind of Christian

doing all at the same time.

Yep.

Oh, because we had

basketball, two soccer tournaments.

I was telling, I counted it up.

We had 12 soccer games, three practices-

or sorry, not soccer games.

12 games, three practices,

and a birthday celebration.

Last weekend.

And we barely fit in

the birthday celebration.

We had two hours and then

we got kicked out of Topgolf.

Yes!

Can you talk about that

in an I'm Peave segment?

Our I'm Peave segment,

yeah, should definitely, yeah.

What was that?

Well, the Topgolf was fun.

It's just, yeah, they were

like, yeah, you can't extend.

Usually you can extend it on it.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

So what was it, 13 games?

12 games.

12 games. Yeah.

12 games, three practices,

and a birthday celebration.

Oh, oh, and like six hours of like

community service hours

for one of the kids too.

Got squeezed in there.

Yeah.

All on a weekend.

Which left us zero time to record.

Zero.

We were home, I counted it, 29 waking

minutes on Saturday.

Waking minutes, that's crazy.

I think when you can count it, almost the

total number of

minutes at home, like on your

fingers and toes, it's pretty bad.

That's crazy.

It was a crazy weekend, no doubt.

It felt like 26 just came in.

And then that was last weekend and now

this is Monday that we're recording on.

So this, that was two weekends ago.

I guess as you look at it.

This last weekend, I was in Florida.

For sure.

With our youngest for a

soccer tournament there.

Yeah.

You were here for a soccer tournament.

Here.

Turns out you probably got more of the

short stick on that one

because it was freezing

here.

Totally.

Now, I mean, I at least got

to sleep in our bed and I mean.

Yeah.

But no, I was like, huh.

But that one was what,

seven games, one track practice.

I don't know.

Only basketball games over this weekend.

Yeah, no, not this weekend.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

Two states.

Yeah.

A thousand miles, four flights.

And for me, I was able to, luckily

enough, see a game yesterday on Sunday.

I saw a game of our youngest in Florida,

in Jacksonville,

Florida, where the cold front

finally hit there because we had two

fairly nice days there.

And Florida is always freezing this time

of year when we're there.

Yes.

It is not a vacation.

It's a family photo from being there at

one of the SuperCOBO

tournaments two years ago

or something.

Yeah.

And we're all in our ski jackets.

You've got your little hood over you.

My fur hood up.

Your fur hood up.

You can see the beach in the background

because we're on the

boardwalk and we're all just

huddled in trying to

take a picture on the beach.

So it's never fun to go to Florida in

January for a soccer.

No, it's not.

No.

Soccer tournament.

No.

The picture just showed up on our Alexa

in the kitchen and the

kids were like, where

were we?

And I was like, yeah,

that's the beach in Jacksonville.

Exactly.

It was miserable.

It was.

So we were there.

I was there with the

youngest at another tournament.

First two days weren't bad, but yesterday

on Sunday, the cold

front that you guys have

been in finally made its way there.

And it came with freezing

torrential rain for the last game.

And so we were just soaked to the bone.

Yesterday was that day

of the chaos train for me.

Not as much for you, but you

had been in it your own ways.

But for me, I told you, we woke up.

We realized we had to be at the, we had

to be there 30 minutes

earlier than we knew.

So we're running out of

the hotel, not running.

We're fine.

We had plenty of time, but

we were, we were on the clock.

You were urgent.

All day.

We were getting there.

And I knew because I had moved our flight

that we had to leave

immediately after the

game.

So right after the game, our youngest and

I went separate ways.

We couldn't find each other.

So I'm like, now we just

lost another minute or two.

And there's no time to lose.

Yeah.

You know, to get to the, to get to the,

uh, to get to the airport.

And this was of course, after our

youngest is drenched to the

bone after playing 60 minutes.

And just not, it wasn't torrential, but

it was sideways, very

heavy, freezing rain.

Um, so I can attest to this.

I was not there.

However, I did find your leather gloves,

which were soaking and

now we're almost 24 hours

past all of this rain.

But then I took our, you, you were smart.

You put the youngest, um, Jersey into a

bag, like a plastic bag,

so that it wouldn't get

everything wet.

I pulled it out and I

mean, I could have rung it out.

It was that wet.

Was it?

Yeah.

I don't doubt it.

It was soaked and everything in the

backpack was soaked and

that was probably just from

rain seeping in through the backpack.

Yeah.

For sure.

But the actual Jersey he was

wearing, I could ring it out.

Water locked.

No doubt.

We were all that way.

We were just wet humans on the sideline,

just getting, you know,

and we're traveling so

we don't have all our stuff.

We bought a really

inexpensive umbrella at Target.

I didn't realize it was

like 12 inches in diameter.

It didn't cover your shoulders.

No, it looked like a little dainty, like

I was going to tea or something.

I was like spinning it

for, you know, to look pretty.

Oh my gosh.

So I was, we were all soaked.

But that's what that, so we were on the

clock trying to get

to this earlier flight.

Right.

So I could make it home in time.

Well, just, I love getting home earlier.

I'm a homebody.

But if I got home in time, I would be

able to make our

oldest soccer game at 8 p.m.

Yeah.

So I would make that

back here in the DFW region.

But as we're going

through security, I am so wet.

My clothing, it's actually just the

bottom of my jeans down

to my socks, which I did

not have time to change.

So it set off the, it like set off

sensors in the security thing.

So I got pulled off the first one, put in

the second one where

you had to put your hands

up and it goes around you.

I did that one and they're like, they're

like, they're like asking

me questions like, where

have I been?

What have I been doing?

You know, am I wearing a chain?

I'm like, because I had

to throw something here.

I'm like, he has a big old gold chain.

I'm not wearing a chain.

But then he starts like, you know,

patting me down and stuff like that.

And he gets down to my lower

legs, which are just soaked.

Like my jeans are soaked.

And I'm like, he's got to be thinking

like, okay, well, this is weird.

Thank goodness I'm wearing gloves because

I don't know why his pants are soaked.

And I'm like, I'm sorry.

We just came.

I'm actually, we're actually

running to catch our flight.

We just came from a soccer game where I'm

just standing in the rain.

So I'm soaked to the bone.

And he's like, that would

explain what's going on.

I still have to put your shoes through.

And he's like taking my

shoes, which are soaked.

They had to put those back through.

So then we're waiting on that.

So that like slowed us

down a little bit too.

Anyways, long story short,

we made it, got on the fly.

That was fine.

Back here.

I got back here and I had 17 minutes to

change socks and shoes.

Which your socks were still so wet that

you could see your

footprints on the wood floor.

I know.

I was like, check this out.

This is how wet I slept.

My feet were freezing on the flight.

I didn't have time to change them though.

There was no time.

Yeah.

But I left wet foot marks as I walked

over and changed my socks.

So I had 17 minutes to do that.

Pop back into the next vehicle, change

vehicles and then pop out

for another hour drive out

to where our oldest was playing.

Which happened to be the nicest weather

that you had because

you had your 8am game was

21 degrees.

Actual temperature.

Actual temperature felt like I

looked on, I think it was 17.

Something like that.

Yeah.

It was so miserably cold.

It was so cold that

my hands were burning.

And you're like, well, I mean, I've had,

I've had frostbite in

my hands and toes quite a

bit.

So they get like that.

It's just like, it was so cold.

Is frostbite like, is

it similar to burns?

Like there's degrees of frostbite?

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

For sure.

I've never had severe frostbite, but I

mean, I definitely have had those.

I've definitely had

some type of frostbite.

Yeah.

You always talk about it.

I'm sure you do.

I mean, there's no way.

There's no way.

Live in that kind of weather.

Well, and as a kid, I was telling our

oldest as you're driving,

because they were, I mean,

they hurt all day yesterday.

My, my, my fingertips hurt.

And I was like, but when I was a kid,

you'd be playing outside

in the frigid cold, you'd

be sledding or whatever.

I mean, that's what kids do.

You play outside.

Yeah.

And you're not paying attention to it.

And then all of a sudden

you're like, my hands hurt.

And you're right.

You're like, ah, well, once

they go numb, it's better.

I can stay for a little bit longer.

I remember that as a kid too.

But in Colorado, it was cold, but we were

never at negative 30 actual temperature.

No, that's not probably

pretty common for you in Colorado.

Yeah.

But Minnesota, like

it's usually under zero.

I mean, it's below zero.

So that's, that's what it was.

So those are the last two weeks.

I don't think I've posted

anything on social media.

Not that I like am consistent on doing

that, but I do try to

put some things out there

and whatnot, but I haven't done, I

haven't done anything,

but like go to soccer games,

sleep, work and sleep.

That's all I've done.

That's it.

Nothing else has got done.

Nope.

And usually when we do have a busy

weekend, usually that

means that's something that's

postable, right?

You're posting, you know, winning a

tournament or, you know, like,

I got a lot of videos to make.

I don't know.

There may just be something where you

tell the kids like,

sorry, I'm not going to, I'm

not going to do anything from this

particular tournament.

Well, we had some great goals over this

last tournament, so I

got to do something.

And I think I did, I think I did the

tournament for the

basketball tournament two weeks ago.

So I'm not too far behind, but you know,

I know we have family

and friends that like

to see those and that's just

how people keep up these days.

Yeah.

I enjoy doing them, but

they just take so long to do.

And you're really good at it.

I'll brag on you a little bit.

I don't need to do that.

There's no need to do that.

They're just reels.

I don't know.

They're just well done.

Like, you know, it

does take an artful eye.

I think I would struggle to do it.

It's not my, my bailiwick.

Well, thank you.

Thanks.

I'll take it.

I'll take a compliment then.

So that's where we are.

So we missed an entire episode, but we're

back on it now and

moving into another week.

Hopefully this, I mean, we have another

soccer tournament coming up this weekend.

It's going to be freezing again.

Yeah, if we thought it was cold this past

weekend, it's going to

be way worse this weekend.

How do they let kids play in this?

I think they get away with it because

they're like, oh, we're in Texas.

Yeah, but it's the low on Saturday is 14

in Dallas for the record where we live.

Does anybody else play outdoor sports in

14 other than like the NFL?

I mean, I know the bears

played last night in 18.

But they're paid millions.

Like, there's a difference.

These are children.

Yeah, these kids aren't

getting NIL money just yet.

Not yet.

Exactly.

Well, and so I was complaining about how

cold it was and our

youngest sitting in Florida

sent me like the

temperature in Minnesota.

Yeah.

And I was like, you're right.

It could always be worse, but they don't

play outdoor sports.

In Minnesota, you have hockey, but you're

playing like an actual

hockey game is played

in a hockey rink.

Yeah.

You know, yes, there's pond hockey and

things like that, but

they're playing, but not organized

sports that require you to be outside

for, I mean, you think

about it, an hour and a

half game plus an hour warmup, two and a

half hours in shorts.

Let's just remember the

kids are wearing shorts.

Yeah.

So yesterday they have one, they have two

layers on very thin

layers because it's all

athletic clothing now.

Right.

So it's not like thick cotton or

something like that.

And that's just so when it, if it gets

wet from sweat or from

like freezing rain yesterday,

I mean, those poor kids, they're

literally in shorts and

what feels like 28 with just

freezing cold rain, just sopping them the

whole time for an, I

mean, 30 minute halves.

They're shorter halves at least.

Okay.

So they're sitting on an uncovered bench,

you know, and like the

bench players are just

sitting there.

Like, you know, if you're not in the

game, you're just sitting

there freezing on a cold

bench.

Oh man.

It feels like you said for the games this

weekend here in Texas,

that one game and the

next weekend, it feels like child abuse.

It does.

To put them out there.

Like there should be some level of, Hey,

maybe we don't play.

Yeah.

I think they tried to do that last night

or yesterday morning.

Didn't it move by one hour?

It moved by 30 minutes.

So it was the difference between going

out at 20 and 21 and

we're like degrees Fahrenheit.

Just to confirm this is Fahrenheit.

Celsius.

Yeah.

It's pretty nice.

It's actually a really

nice game, but no, yes.

Fahrenheit.

And I was like, who that

one degree, it feels amazing.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

So one of the things, so you don't know

how all the other parents

do it, but as I've gotten

older, I just get cold, right?

I just get colder and colder now.

I don't like being cold anymore.

I get that migration to the Sunbelt.

I am starting to get that.

I know you are too.

I don't look back.

I'm like, I think 50 is freezing now.

I don't know why I

would want anything cold.

You asked yourself, like, how did you

ever, how did you live in Minnesota?

Because that's a whole 10

degrees worse than Colorado.

Yeah.

I justified it.

And I think you can ask the people who

lived near me and my friends.

When I chose to move back to Minneapolis

for my career, I was

like, well, I chose to live

here.

I can't complain.

I hate it, but I can't complain.

Yeah.

But like, so at that point in time, I'm

like, I don't like it, but I mean my job.

Good job.

I, so I got to stay here.

Yeah.

As a kid, I was like,

oh no, I can complain.

I didn't choose to live here.

This is not my choice.

That's very, yeah, that's very, that's a

very Megan thought process.

Yeah.

It's my choice to live here,

so I'm going to deal with it.

I'm going to deal with it.

Right.

But I mean, they built an entire city

that has sky waves, like

you have an entire city

that is built so you don't have to go

outside in the winter.

Yeah.

If you ever been to a city like that, a

lot of, I don't know,

there's a lot of cities

that have similar to that, but all the

downtown skyscraper

buildings are on the second level,

at least in Minneapolis is what it is.

There's sky waves from

one building to the next.

So you can go all through most of

downtown, the main

buildings at least, into where, you

know, most of the thoroughfills you can

reach it by never going outside.

Correct.

You just walk through

those things, which is smart.

Right.

The only way to do it.

Yeah.

Colorado didn't have that though.

Denver's not like that.

No, and Denver can get really

cold and it gets really snowy.

And when we lived in Chicago, I know for

a fact Chicago wasn't

like that because I remember

walking from Grand Central

Station or whatever it was.

And I knew all the

lobbies I could walk through.

Yes.

Right.

Because every building's a block.

Yep.

Right.

It's a city block.

So I knew I could walk through B of A and

then I could walk through JP Morgan.

You know, I go to this way.

I take this turn and this turn.

So I was only crossing streets to get

into the, you know, the next building.

And then I walked through that building.

Absolutely.

Because it was freezing.

Freezing.

Yeah.

And I remember, and the thing in Chicago

that I've never seen

anywhere else, but maybe

it happens.

Everyone always carried extra shoes in

their bags and like for

women anyway, because you

would get to work and you would change

your shoes because you

were walking through the

street and either your

tennies or your boots or whatever.

Like it was very normal there to always

have an extra pair of shoes in your bag.

And I learned a new term.

Rubbers.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

Men would buy shoes, shoe

rubbers is what they're called.

And they literally are like rubber, thick

rubber that goes

around your dress shoe so

that you can walk through the slush.

You can walk in the dirt and then you get

to work and you just

kind of slide it right

back off.

And they fit tightly on there.

Kind of got to snap them on a little bit.

But so I bought those, you know, and I

wore those downtown for a long time.

I think it makes more sense to have a

change, you know, a

higher, like those things should

have gone up to like ankle height because

there's plenty of

times that those gutters

were six, seven inches deep and you're

like, oh, that's my sock.

That's my sock.

Exactly what I was going to say.

And that'd be my sock.

Yep.

That'll be fun.

Yeah.

Just let that dry out.

Yeah.

Mm hmm.

But it was so normal there.

Yeah.

If you did that in Texas, people would

stare at you and be like,

what in the world is that

contraption that

you're putting on your shoe?

But everyone up there has it.

Yeah.

I think I still have them.

I may have gotten rid of

them at some point in time.

Like, I'm never going to

use these things again.

I remember my dad had them.

Yeah.

It's a very, it's

definitely a Chicago thing.

Maybe it's a northern city thing.

I think if you're in

New York, maybe has it.

I would think so.

If you're walking when it's and that's

the I loved that about

the city is that you do

walk everywhere.

Yeah.

But it's like, yeah, you have

bad weather in these places.

But and it's consistently bad.

But here.

Right.

And that's why they built infrastructure

around that because

it's consistently bad.

Here it's not

necessarily consistently bad here.

Generally the way it seems to work is we

have a great Monday through Friday.

Nice weather.

And then when we all have to go sit on

the sidelines outside,

it drops by 80 degrees

or 50.

I mean, we have had like a 90 degree

difference within like,

oh, maybe that's extreme.

But it was close.

It was a huge number.

It was like 70, 80.

It was easily.

I know just a couple of weeks ago, it was

a 68 degree drop in 24 hours.

Yeah, within 24 hours.

And that's that's a major difference.

Yeah.

Either way, point being somewhat

sarcastically here, it always

drops to low on the weekends

when we're sitting outside.

Always kids have to.

But it's also poor for us parents.

Right.

Is where I was going.

You have to sit on the sidelines, not

warming our blood by

running around everywhere.

You know, I mean, like, yeah, we're

getting upset because I'm

yelling at, you know, the

other parents, I'm yelling at the refs

that are terrible consistently.

No offense, refs or offense like, but I'm

going to call a spade a spade here.

Yeah.

So so to stay warm, I mean, I know you

guys make fun of me

now, but I don't like to be

cold. So you got me the electric vest

last year, which is fantastic.

So we counted, though, how many layers I

actually wear more layers

on the sideline than I wear

skiing.

So I take you through the

layers just real quickly.

I'll count while you while you do it.

I've got the long sleeved t-shirt.

It's my base layer.

OK, on the top.

Right.

Well, let's start on the bottom.

On the bottom, we'll start over.

I've got my I've got long johns on the

bottom with long socks

that are tucked in, obviously,

with a pair of fleece lined jeans.

Four.

That's the bottom.

I don't have anything

heated down there just yet.

I know they exist.

We might have to go there at

some point in time on the top.

Starts with long sleeve t-shirt.

We've already covered that one.

Then I go with a long sleeved, a long

armed running outdoor

running shirt that's meant

for cold because it actually has like a

turtle thing that comes up.

A turtle neck that goes up to your eyes.

Up to your eyes.

A test of this.

So I can I can cover my mouth with that

if I need to or just my

lower mouth so that wind

doesn't get in.

Then on top of that, I'll general.

Oh, I go with my my ski layer, which is a

really nice, really

warm, thick, just like

three quarters that really nice and warm.

That one also has those things that cover

your, you know, your thumbs, thumb holes.

So that's my second thumb hold layer.

Then on top of that one is where I put my

heated vest because

that heated vest will start

warming everything below.

Right. And it's close enough

to the skin that it really.

It really starts cooking in there.

It's nice.

I turn that on.

I'm never cold, but

that's what layer four.

So on top of that, then goes my hooded

sweatshirt, a strong

hooded sweatshirt that's thick,

which is great to pull up over a hat.

Genuinely, I just wear a regular hat, a

build hat because it

keeps the sun out of my eyes

and over my sunglasses.

If it's really cold, I will put on an

actual stocking hat.

But usually that goes up.

That keeps all the wind

off your neck and whatnot.

Over that, I put my

second vest down vest.

This one's not heated,

but it's a down filled vest.

That one goes on.

Then over that is my top jacket layer,

which I got a new jacket

now, which is a long, like,

what is it called?

I don't know. We call

it like a coach's jacket.

It's like a coach's jacket, but it goes

down to like my knees now,

which is why only the bottom

part of my legs were soaked yesterday

because I was wearing that.

I think it's somewhat waterproof.

Somewhat.

That's been great because I'm not getting

any wind now, you know, up the back.

No drafts up the back.

So I used to like it with a ski jacket or

my other jackets every now and then

sitting on the bleachers

or sitting somewhere, you

start getting drafty on that.

So that plus we've added now the electric

blanket, the portable

electric blanket for sitting in the

stands. Adding all that together.

Oh, and are you going to

talk about the heated seat?

Oh, we also upgraded our stadium seats

this year to heated stadium seats.

So the issue now is is charging and and

transporting all the

batteries that are required to

heat us.

I saw you put them

all in a bag last night.

There's so many.

Oh, my God.

I was like, this is ridiculous.

This is like out of control.

But but officially, I mean, you are

wearing seven layers of apparel on top.

Legitimately, legitimately seven.

Yeah.

And I could work in an eighth, which I

have done before, which

might happen this week and in 15

degree weather.

But I will say with that level of

layering and electrical

heating system I've got going

on, I am actually not that cold.

Just my hands because really it's just my

right hand because I'm videoing.

Yeah.

Right outside of that.

Now, I could see adding another layer to

my legs every now and

again, but this long jacket has

really helped with that.

Yeah.

So really, my feet are the only thing now

that kind of get a little bit cool.

Yeah.

But my top isn't in a year ago or two

years ago before you

got me that heated jacket.

And before I just said, screw it, I'm

putting on as many layers as I want to.

And I don't care who thinks I'm an idiot

or was I don't want to be cold.

Sorry.

I don't want to be cold.

That affects your life.

You know, good luck with that.

That offends you somehow.

But what was I saying?

I don't even remember now.

Just how cold like I'm not cold though.

I haven't been cold.

Two years ago, I was

shivering on the side.

I'm like shivering.

Like I would, I was on control.

Like I'd lose control.

I'd be shivering.

Yeah.

Not since this.

Yeah.

I don't want to be cold.

Seven layers it is.

And we live in DFW.

Yeah.

We have outside soccer and 15 degree

weather feels like the

coldest one we've had so far.

The real feel is two, I think.

I don't think so.

I think we've ever been negative.

I don't think we were ever negative, but

it was like two degrees.

Yeah.

That's for our daughter's game one time.

But yeah.

But tell them what you wear

while I'm wearing all this.

And I'm not that bad.

Because my layers are all very tight and

stuff like that, I can actually move.

I'm mobile.

I'm not walking like a stiff man.

You know, I mean, I did do this the other

day and I was like, whoa, that's like,

there's a lot of cushion.

There's a lot of cushion.

It's like a pillow.

I could be hit.

I could be hit by a car going 60 miles an

hour and be totally fine.

I would just balance

and balance and balance.

And then I'd be fine.

Yeah.

But women on the sideline and I haven't

seen the other men drive

like me, other dress like me.

I think most other men are

just way more manly than me.

But women way more manly.

You guys are standing out there with

exposed ankles half the time.

Yeah.

With one layer of pants on.

Yeah.

Like an athletic pair of pants.

Yeah.

Which are nothing.

Yeah.

Nothing.

So when it's really cold, I do try to

wear jeans and then I

wear boots that go up, you

know, to my my calves.

That does help.

But no, this weekend I had on just a pair

of athletic pants, a

pair of leather shoes.

My ankles were kind of exposed.

And then I had on a tank top.

But you had ankle socks on, right?

With your shoes like that, right?

Yeah.

So they're low ankle socks.

Yeah.

And then and then.

Super appropriate to show my socks.

Yeah.

That would be weird.

You got to bring that.

It'd be awkward.

Yeah.

But for everyone, I do.

But you had two inches

of ankle showing at least.

Yeah.

I have ankle socks on so you

can, my ankles are exposed.

Yeah.

So you're standing out there.

Do your ankles not get cold?

Not usually.

I mean, that's not like,

oh, how is that possible?

But I mean,

well, do you have much

feeling in your ankles?

I don't know.

But I feel like it's like, you know, I

feel like the cold is going to creep.

You get my ankle cold and it's just going

to start getting my foot cold and my leg

cold and my leg bones connected to my hip

bone and my hip bones connected to my,

you know what I mean?

Yeah.

And I don't want to.

Well, I did have a

blanket around my legs.

So that kept the wind off of them.

Kinda.

And then, yeah.

And do those leg, those

single layer leg pants?

Do they keep you warm?

Doesn't the wind go right through those?

I mean, if I put a blanket on, it's fine.

Man, women are tough.

That's why you outlive us.

You guys are just tougher.

I would actually totally agree with that.

And this is why I'm going to die at like

younger age, because I can't even, you're

out there just like braving the elements.

And I'm like, like packing my own human

oven to watch the game in.

So weak.

I'm just weakening

myself every time I do it.

You get cold though, really easily.

I do.

You do.

I sleep with heat.

Yes.

And you don't.

Oh, gosh.

You love getting into cold bed.

And I'm like, oh my gosh,

it's like ice over there.

Yeah.

I, I think that's a,

I think people enjoy.

I don't know.

I've heard more people say that they like

to sleep and it's colder than when it's

hot.

Well, I would agree with that.

I, it's hard to sleep when it's hot, but

mine just keeps me not cold.

Oh yeah.

No, no, no.

I, that would, I would be burning.

I like getting into a cold crisp bed.

That's, that's enjoyable.

Um, but yeah, no, I, I don't know.

And then on top, I mean, I do wear like a

tank top and then a, like a sweatshirt

or a sweater this weekend, I wore like a

turtleneck sweater, like a wool

turtleneck sweater, um,

and then my ski jacket.

Yeah.

Oh no, I did have, no, I had my heated

vest and then I had a ski jacket.

Cause you have a heated vest too.

And those are game changers.

And I did have that up on high for sure.

Yeah.

No.

And honestly, only my

hands and feet get cold.

Yeah.

Those are the only things

you're not getting cold.

That's fine.

But I was getting cold.

That's why I put so much

stuff on because I will get cold.

Yeah.

And it's not because I'm like a skinny

old man, just a wuss, I guess.

Or you're just sensitive to the cold.

I have sensitive skin.

I'm sensitive to the cold.

You're sensitive to the cold.

I always have been since I've known you.

That sounds like a wuss. It sounds like a wuss.

You like to wear, like you, I

get hotter faster than you do.

Yeah.

And I don't think I'm

a hot blooded person.

Like I'm, I'm usually cold.

Like if I'm one thing, I'm cold versus

hot, but I'm definitely cold, but

you're usually colder than I am.

Yeah.

That's true.

All right.

Well, what else is going on?

We just, uh, I just kind of talked about.

Uh, appropriate outdoor

dressing during soccer games.

I know.

Which, you know, I think is a good PSA.

And, um, if people have ideas on how else

you could keep yourself warm.

One of these is we're going to do those

bubbles, not those little cubes.

Everybody gets in a personal cube, but

they've got those ones on Amazon.

That's like, you can put a couch in.

I just need to be able to have, I have to

have a package generator.

It has to be plugged in.

So I have a generator there, but then we

can just like be in the

lounger, be in our

shorts, watching the game.

We can be snowing outside.

That sounds lovely.

Actually.

You've seen the picture of

that when I'm talking about.

Yeah.

Swimming feel like

you're in a snow globe.

Yeah.

Oh, it's a snow globe.

That's what it is.

Is that what it's called?

Human.

Well, no, but it's a human.

It's a great descriptor for people.

It's a human snow globe that you just zip

yourself in and out of.

Yeah.

It's the only way to camp.

Yeah.

It's how you glamp on

the soccer sideline.

So funny to do that.

You would get so many like, side eyes.

You have to show up

early and set that thing up.

Oh my gosh.

Can you imagine?

Literally like in a, in a, like a

fishbowl, people would be looking at you.

You just wave like,

bring it to TV in there.

It's hot in here.

I've heard those cubes

though, keep you super warm.

I've heard that too, but they look like I

was joking with another

parent, like, cause he's got them.

And they look like impossible to refold.

Yes.

They're one of those ones you have to do

like a figure eight and then

do like a figure G with like, they don't

just like twist and then clap close.

They're like twist, double twist, then

triple vortex close.

So they just shove them into the back of

their car, full size flat.

Cause they can't figure

out how to twist them shut.

I don't know that I'm ready for that.

I love that.

No judgment on my part.

Cause like I struggle with

the figure eight sometimes.

But I have heard that those little, the

sidelines, I mean, we've seen that

those have been more

and more popular lately.

Oh yeah.

But I still kind of laugh at

the people that are in them.

I mean, I don't know.

I wasn't judging this weekend.

It was way too cold.

Like it was just, it was, and I was

joking with another parent.

She's like, I actually look homeless.

And I was like, we all do.

Like we do.

Yeah.

Everybody does.

We had a member of the, we had someone on

the team last year for a few years.

She's super nice, but she would always

have, she'd always be in a sleeping bag.

Oh yeah.

On the sideline.

She'd stand up in a, she'd

have a, just a sleeping bag.

She'd be like walking around.

And so she had to get out, she'd have to

take the sleeping bag all the way down,

step out of it and then go do it.

And then she'd come back in and be on a

sleeping bag on the side.

Uh, the people I was standing next to all

weekend were sitting in sleeping bags.

Yeah.

They had it all the way up to their neck.

They're like, it actually keeps you warm

because your own body heat kind of heats

it.

I was like, it's

probably a fantastic idea.

I have to, that's going to be my husband.

That is his next layer.

I was just going to say

that might be our next step.

It's your next layer.

You're like, and then my seven layers on

top, four on the

bottom, I top it off with

a sleeping bag.

By the end of this, I'm going to be like,

how, like, you know, you remember

Darth Sidious or the emperor at the very

end of the last Star Wars where in

underground in his

thing, you know what I mean?

Like he's like held up

hanging by this thing.

I'm just going to be in like just the

craziest contraption

trying to keep myself

warm.

Oh my gosh.

But what's funny is like then in the

summertime, it's not

like you're like, oh,

this is nice.

You bring all this

stuff to make you like cool.

Yeah, we do.

We have the tent.

We have the mister.

All the cold waters.

Yeah.

It's a lot.

I know your parents visited us a few

months ago and we had, we didn't have

everything with us on that one because it

was actually a nice day.

So we just had the chairs with us.

But during the heat of the Texas summer,

which we'll play in 112, I think that's

the hottest we've ever played a game in,

but regularly we will

play over a hundred.

In the nineties all the time.

That's like nothing.

That's nothing.

But again, it is child abuse to let these

kids make these kids play out there.

Heat stroke.

Hello.

I know.

It's crazy.

And even for us, it's hot over there.

So yeah.

So to take all that stuff, the tent, the

mister, the misting

fan, you know, I mean,

there's a lot of stuff involved in that.

You have to take, you have to take it

with a wagon that you pull in the wagon.

We have now as a double

decker wagon, which is awesome.

Cause the tent goes on the bottom all

because you have to have a water bucket

that is misting and the, and the fan goes

on top of that, but then you have to have

all the, our water bottles in there.

The chairs have to go in there.

There's a lot of stuff.

We always bring like extra umbrellas

because sometimes we don't set the

whole thing up and

sometimes people don't have one.

So we borrow, we borrow out

or we lend out our umbrellas.

Anyways, that double decker is awesome.

It helps us get a rally.

Yeah.

And not many people have found them.

I don't know why not more people have

them, but the people that do, people

are like, Oh my gosh, that thing's huge.

But we were with your parents and I think

it was your dad who made a comment.

I don't remember his comment, but he was

like trashing this

person in and was like,

is your wagon big enough

guy or something like that?

You know what I mean?

And I was like, Oh,

we've got that exact one.

And ours has more in it than that.

So no, it doesn't have enough in it.

But you know what?

Creature comforts.

When we spend as much time, and that's

why we have the Sprinter van too, as much

time as we spend, and we just went

through it in the very

beginning of this podcast.

36, what was it?

29 waking hours at our house, which means

we spent, do the math, 48

minus 29 hours, minus 29 minutes.

Or not waking, but 24, let's say on a

soccer field or in a basketball gym.

Creature comforts.

I mean, you have to, you're

living away from home, right?

Yeah. Like, yeah.

So we've made the economic decisions to

try to make that as

comfortable as possible.

It's just a way of life for right now.

And here's the sad part.

I don't even want to say it, but I can

see the end of that tunnel.

I know.

Our oldest has two and a half years left.

I know.

That we get to do all that, pack all that

stuff up, put it all in there, all the

batteries, all this stuff, two and a half

more years for his games.

Right.

You know, he might do college stuff too.

That's TBD to be seen, I guess.

But that's.

And we're going to miss it.

What I don't want to, yeah, I'm going to miss it like crazy.

Like we're gonna miss it.

So I don't, I mean, yeah, it's insane and

we didn't have time

for a podcast in there.

Yeah.

But man, it was fun.

Yeah.

Like even our youngest, I mean, he'll be

a teenager this year,

into this year, very

into this year, obviously.

He just turned 12.

So, um, but you know, I mean, that's five

years, five and a half years.

I mean, that's our, that's a horizon for

this crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy,

crazy part of our life, the craziest, all

the money that's going

out to do these things.

I mean, we're flying all over

the country for these things.

You know, we just added

another track meet in Birmingham.

Yeah.

Never been to Birmingham.

Me either.

But it was really high

on the bucket list too.

I didn't know that.

I don't know.

Birmingham might be awesome.

I have no idea.

It probably is really nice.

But anywho, well,

that's, um, that's really nice.

Really?

I mean, that's a catch up for two weeks.

Two weeks.

For the most part.

What else?

Anything else to catch up on on that as

we wind this one down?

I don't think so.

No.

That's been, I mean, it has just been.

I've kind of turned

into the travel parent.

So I, you know, I'm having fun with, you

know, the parents out there.

I stayed up way too late this last

weekend with some of the dads.

Maybe we had some fun conversation and

you know, we had a really fun time with

those guys at the table down there at

the, at the bar in the Hilton.

But, um, I, we stayed up to 2am that

time, which is one of our time and.

Which?

Zombie.

I can't do that.

I can't even believe

you stayed up that late.

So first time I've done it, I know that

kind of group of guys has stayed up

before and done it, you know, and I've

been there till 9 30 before.

You probably stayed out till 10 or 11.

Yeah.

You've probably stayed out.

You've probably.

Maybe, maybe once on that.

I don't say that late hardly at all.

But I, I was there.

Uh, one of the guys, Mike, he brought

down old fashioned stuff to make old

fashions at 1am, you know, so I can't

turn that down, you know, but we had fun.

And you know, that that's always fun.

But we need to start earlier.

So we start like five.

So we've done it like, yeah, these are

all those signs of how do you know you're

getting older?

It's like, I do want

to be in bed at 9 30.

Like so boring.

Like I had fun doing that.

That was a grab.

I was a blast, but I

was dead the next day.

No, I wasn't dead.

I actually rallied for it.

I actually have not felt the, you have

seen after effects from it.

Like you didn't seem

like you were overly tired.

I talked to a few times.

I know when you're

tired, there is a, right.

There is a line in your voice.

Like there's how you, there's just even

like your voice sounds different

when you're really tired.

And I know like there's just, yeah, I

know when you're too tired and you

didn't seem that way at all.

Yeah, somehow I rallied through it all.

But, um, anyhow, that was tough.

That's just all those moments we just

keep talking about, but it was fun.

We were reminiscing a bunch of stuff from

like the nineties and, uh, you know,

because you're all the same.

You're around the same vintage.

Oh, we are.

There's one of us is 47.

So we had a 47 48 49 49 50 51.

That was all of us there.

I mean, that's awesome.

Isn't that funny?

Yeah.

We're all within, we all would have gone

to high school together at one point in

time, which was, it was just kind of fun

to talk through all kinds of stuff.

And, you know, and I

love that you had that.

Yeah.

That was, it was fun conversation.

That's really important.

I mean, it's really important to stay

connected with your spouse.

Obviously that's,

that's the baseline, right?

But every study will show having

connection with other same gender

adults is super important.

Yeah.

That's why we keep

you locked in the house.

I was out and about like, Oh, you were.

Well, we'll talk about that.

Not after, after two, with

the kids to bed and went out.

Well, we might need to talk about that.

I talked to the parents on

the sidelines, all of that.

Yeah.

I didn't.

Yeah.

I did not go out.

I was in bed at good times, but I mean,

my alarm was going off

at 5 45 in the morning

because I had to get

to an 80 in the game.

All right.

So real quick, any I'm peeved, we'll end

with an I'm peeved section on this.

And then we'll let the

people, the good people go.

I have a good one.

I'll give you mine.

Since you brought up alarm, my I'm peeved

moment from this last

week was in the hotel.

Some hard sleeper had set their alarm and

I know they were incredibly hard sleeping

human being because it was a

special downloadable alarm.

I'm sure because every time it went off,

it was a new sounding alarm that is

incredibly obnoxious, like one was like,

the next one was like,

I mean, like every one

of them was different.

And one of them, they slept through for

about 15 minutes and it's like,

wake up human wake up.

So my I'm peeved suggestion is if you're

one of these human beings that has a hard

time getting up, get a vibrating alarm

for when you stay in hotels.

They actually make those so that you

don't wake up

everybody that's around you.

Cause I didn't go back to sleep after

that guy's alarm went off for an hour.

But that person took an hour to get out

of bed and every five minutes their alarm

went off and they would snooze it.

And then the next

alarm sound would go off.

Except for the one that went off for 15

minutes before they

woke up enough to snooze

that one. Did you wonder at some point

that that person was dead?

No, they're just no.

Dead to the world, but not dead.

Anyways, that's my that's my I'm peeved.

And I let it go.

There we go.

Anything you need to.

I had a few of them, but I

will say we love top golf.

We had a great time.

But it was so annoying when we're like,

we just want to stay 30 more minutes.

As you always can.

And it was.

It's like they're a stick to

get 80 more bucks out of you.

Right. For 30 minutes.

Right.

And the server was like, yeah, the

manager said we can't.

We're not extending anyone tonight.

Like, what's you just

did it to them like.

This was after Domino and Domino and

Domino kept falling of

just like bad service.

Nice girl.

Horrible customers.

Yeah.

It's kind of a fail that night.

Yeah.

From their perspective.

We had a great time as family, though.

We had a great time as family and we did

learn that top golf.

Great activity to do

even in the wintertime.

He did couches.

He did like it was plenty warm in there.

It was really nice.

Yeah. From the ceiling.

He he did.

Couch was incredible.

Oh, that felt amazing.

I mean, as we're talking about through

some of the things for the sideline.

He did capture us incredible.

Yeah.

So.

All right.

Well, hey, let's let's call it then.

All right.

We will be back next

week and it all goes well.

I hope so.

It shouldn't like we

don't have another weekend.

I feel like we had a little bit of a hump

and that was it last week.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It gets the next couple of weekends.

We've had a little bit of time, but yeah,

they're a little more normal.

All right.

Well, we will see you next week.

Thanks for joining.

All right.

Ciao Ciao.

See ya.

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26 just came in fast, right?

Came in hot.

Rubbers.

Oh, yes, yes.

Shoe rubbers is what they're called.

Oh, that's my sock.

That's my sock.

Okay, well, this is weird.

It's like, thank

goodness I'm wearing gloves.

I actually wear more

layers on the sideline

than I wear skiing, which is smart.

It really starts

cooking in there, it's nice.

Whoa, that's like--

There's a lot of cushion there.

There's a lot of cushion.

I could be hit by a car

going 60 miles an hour.

And you'd be fine.

It'd be totally fine,

I would just bounce.

I feel like the cold's gonna

creep, and women are tough.

That's why you outlive us,

you guys are just tougher.

I would actually totally agree with that.

And twist, double twist,

then triple vortex, close.

I don't know that I'm ready for that.

I actually look homeless.

I was out and about, like,

did you wonder at some point

if that person was dead?

No, is where I was going.

Whoa.

You have to, and I let it go.

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