Hello, everyone. Welcome to Why Mommy Drinks. This is Betsy Stover. Hi. Today I am joined by two of the three hosts of

Deck the Hallmark. They are podcasters. They are soon to be best selling authors. We will all see to it. It's Brandon Gray. Hello. Hello. Hello. And Dan Thompson. Hi, Betsy. How are you? Hello. I just wanted to I know it's always awkward. I just want to make sure people knew whose voice was who's there. Yeah, we're the I'm the one that sounds like I'm up it and there's probably going to sound more like a radio guy. So my I'm from the South. My mom.

Mom was an English teacher and my dad was from like Backwood's Benetsville. So I have this very weird southern draw, but usually proper grammar thing going on. So I'll do my I'll do my best not to confuse your L.A. audience out there. We are Southern, which means he's dumb. Yeah, everybody's my my my my mother-in-law. She is she grew up in Boston. So she's got a super hard core Boston accent to the point where her sister's name is Marsha.

And for the first like 10 years of me being with my husband, I thought his aunt's name was Marsha. Yeah. Because no one says Marsha. Everyone says Masha. Masha. Masha. Masha. Because they're crazy boss. No offense Bostonians. But but then I guess her parents wanting her to seem educated and you know out in the world had her do like some sort of speech lessons. So every now and then she'll say like the bathroom. But then she'll.

So follow it up with like aqua. Yeah. Yeah. The ball was aqua. Um. Packet can have a very yard. So I have three kids. They are all boys. I have a five year old, a nine year old, and a 10 year old. Help me. I'm dying. How many kids have you got Brandon? It's just going to be a big boy. Oh, boys. Always for all of us, which is the way it should be. Right. Right.

I have two boys, three and a half year old and a one and a half year old. Oh, you are in the shade. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. So it's great. What about you again. I have twin boys that are five twin boys that are five. So I was I was in the weeds. And now I'm starting to see a little bit of a light at the, you know, at the end. And hopefully it's not like the death light.

Hopefully it's a good light. Not the bad one where you're dying. It's the one where you're getting out of the tunnel. Yes. That's the light that I that I'm seeing right now.

Getting out of the tunnel. Not about to go see your pop off. Yes. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But pop off one day. I'm coming. Don't you heard?

Oh, wow. Yeah. I have found that five is a really is a good age. Yeah. It feels a little like, okay. I can catch my breath a bit here. Yeah.

You're more independent. But, you know, twins are still twins. It's still a lot. We talked, we talked before

hand how parenting advice is the worst. And whenever people would try to give it to me with twins,

they're like, Oh, you have twins. Here's what I do. I would just be like, Hey, here's what I do if I

was you. I would just shut up because there's no way with you and your one kid that you have any

reason to talk to me right now because it's totally different. And you and your one child where one

parent isn't out man. It is just not what I'm dealing with right now. And so it is it is having

twins. But now I think it's easier. Like now that they're five, they're a fully potty train and

they have a best friend. I think I've got an advantage on you two. Whereas from ages like one

and a half to four and a half, your problems didn't exist to me, right? So like now, but now I think

I've got it easier. Like that's where I am. Wow. Yeah. I didn't really truly understand the

plight of twin parents until someone put it bluntly as it's two fucking kids at the same fucking time

and was like, Oh, right. Yeah. It's two babies at the same time. That's a that's a nightmare. That's

crazy. Yep. Yep. You got it. I mean, just potty training two people at once. Like just work on

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