Patreon: A Flood, a Breakup and a Clown Car
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
This week one of the Moms shared something that you probably have experience with as well: A breakup with a friend. The kind that impacts the whole family. It's the worst!
This week we also stashed/trashed some fall treats that got a 10 out of 10 from all three Moms! Em tells the tale of her four-flood-wood-floors and Rebecky announced that she is begrudgingly giving up her clown car to perfect-picker, better-meal-Neal!
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
- Stash it or trash it: Maple Oreos & Pumpkin Pie Jelly Belly
- Em’s Pottery Barn table woes
- Rebeky’s Pura for Mojo (Use code REBECCASMITH3449 for discount!)
- Kate’s pod nook
- Sequin snake pens
- Em’s flooded wooden floors
- Rebecky’s car giveaway to Better-Meal-Neal
- Kate’s breakup with her neighbor over COVID
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's killing me softly is I had to break up with my neighbor? I told you guys hey pray for me because I'm about to have this really awkward conversation that I don't want to have |
| 0:08.1 | We tried to be cool with COVID. We tried to like open it up. Just be cool. Let the kids play outside. But then it turned into like a lot of playing inside. And I was still fine with it. It was like, they just love each other and they're so good together and this is hard and I'm |
| 0:24.4 | basically sick of saying no. So we opened it right on up. They wear you down. They wear us down and I |
| 0:30.8 | wish that I didn't couldn't see this stuff but they literally live right across the street from us and they have large parties |
| 0:37.3 | extra large big-sized parties with parking situations and like there should be somebody outside |
| 0:43.9 | directing traffic it's like a whole thing out there it's like an event it looks like a lot of |
| 0:49.3 | fun it really does seem fun so I didn't I broke. I said, look, I am so sorry that I keep going back and forth about if I'm cool or not, but I'm not cool. |
| 0:59.0 | And I didn't say anything about the parties because she knows dang well what they're doing over there and they know that we don't do that. |
| 1:05.7 | I don't want to shame her at all for what she's doing. |
| 1:08.4 | Right. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm so proud of you as an Eniagram too who just is all about what other people need and want that |
| 1:14.8 | had to have been really hard for you. It was very hard and we're the weird people that |
| 1:20.0 | stay inside and I'm just becoming okay with that. |
| 1:23.0 | How are your kids taking that news? |
| 1:25.0 | I had such a hard day, right? |
| 1:28.0 | The day that I had to do it and you know a lot of conversations beforehand. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, we'll tell the kids at dinner, |
| 1:33.2 | just because that's when we're going to see each other. |
| 1:34.7 | It wasn't like everybody's to have a seat. |
| 1:37.0 | It would you make a cake like you did. |
| 1:40.7 | You have no friends who wants a piece. |
| 1:45.0 | So anyway I said look we had to you know let them go and and |
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