Hey guys and welcome to the Moms a Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing all right this week. How are you?

I am doing all right. No, I'm doing all right, all right, all right. I'm

Matthew McConaughey this week. I feel like we've parent-trapped ourselves. Normally, I'm doing

okay and you're doing great. I'm sorry. Yeah. How does it feel to be me? Right. No, I'm doing okay.

I'm doing also great, but my youngest son's birthday is coming up this weekend. So you know

how that is. The days leading up to your child's birthday are always just a little bit stressful,

you know, because I always, you know, I'm racking my brain thinking about what are we going to do that's

going to be special. What am I going to give him? All those things

that moms think about. And then it's also hard because I feel like my kids have had a lot of things and have a lot of things. So I don't, I'm out of ideas already. The kid's eight years old and I just don't really have a lot of great ideas. And now he's into things that are not toys. And so that makes it even harder.

Yeah.

Because I just don't really know.

But I can't believe it.

My little baby, baby, baby is turning. not toys and so that makes it even harder. Yeah. Because I just don't really know. But I can't believe it.

My little, my little baby, baby, baby is turning eight. And yeah, it's just the craziest thing.

So it's been a little bit of a busy week, just kind of getting things together for that and kind of

getting in touch with people who want to come see him this weekend. So it has just been, oh yeah, it's been busy. But I'm doing

great. I just remember whenever he was a little teeny tiny thing on your back, like you carried

him around all the time. And oh my gosh, I can't believe he's eight. That's crazy. I know. I know.

I feel like the, and especially with the way the last year has been, I feel like we lost that whole year.

So I feel like he should be turning seven and not turning eight and we should just have a do-over of last year entirely.

But yeah, it's hard to believe. It really is. Hard to believe that my youngest is turning eight. Yes.

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