Hey everybody! Welcome to Why Mommy Drinks. This is Betsy Stover. Hello. I am excited for the show. I'm so happy to be back in the saddle again.

I am joined by my guest co-host this week. Funny lady actor Amy Albert.

Hi. She almost said at Amy Cobb, which is my very name. But you know, I want to keep a fresh fresh and

fresh up on this show. Fresh and fresh. I love that. Fresh, fresh and fly. Nope, that's not it. No, okay. Today we are joined by a lovely human

Bing. He is an author. He is a lawyer. Mark Shoe. Hello. Hello Betsy. Hello Amy. Thanks for having me on. Hello.

Thank you for coming on the show. So I have three kids. They are all boys. I have a five year old, a nine year old, and a ten year old. Amy, what you got?

I have two little ones. My girl is five and a half and my boy is three and a quarter. Oh. So specific.

Mark Shoe. What happened over there? I have two girls. One is 12 and a half. Soon to become a team this year.

And the other one is 11 years old. Wow. I'm close together too. Yes. Yes. 16 months apart. Holy crap. Yes. Wow.

My older time. Yes. My older two or 20 months apart. And that those were, yeah, it was a light time. It was a, but also, yeah, dark, those hard.

Yeah. Mine are 26 months apart. And they were. It's a fucking nightmare. No matter how. No matter how you do it.

The next guest is having about eight years apart and say, oh, it's terrible.

Mark, you raised your kids in New York City, right? Yes, man. Yeah. We're still hanging on. We're living in Manhattan and hanging on with our fingernails.

Nice. Making it work. Excellent. So let's see. How y'all doing? How y'all doing?

You know, living the dream, baby. Can't wait for that, that child vaccine in the fall. Mark, does that mean your oldest kid has their, has their vaccine?

She is scheduled to have it next week. So that's very excited. Very excited. We're all very excited. Yeah. That's great.

Oh my god, because I was just telling a friend of mine today how, um, yeah, it's like the pandemic for grownups who are vaccinated. It's like, oh, life is kind of coming back online.

Yeah. But for parents of kids under 12, it is, we're still kind of in the shit.

It's exactly the same. Yeah.

And that's the same except people don't have to wear masks at Target anymore. So, you know, yeah.

Yes. Um, so my 10 year old just spent his first, well, first spot. So he went.

Both of the older kids went to camp for a week, which was very exciting. Wait, like overnight camp? Well, the

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