Time Is Passing, But You Are Not Behind | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 42

After Hours With Amanda

Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about time passing, feeling behind, dreams, motherhood, Disneyland, grief, and the version of me who once could not see how the story would unfold. I read from the journal I started when I was pregnant with London, back when I was working retail and aching to be home with her, and I talk about why Disneyland feels like coming home to my mom, Adam, and younger me. If you feel stuck, scared, or like everyone else got the map except you, this is your reminder that time is passing, but it is not leaving you behind.

00:00 Sixteen Days Until Disneyland
01:11 Jeans, Socks, and Parent Jokes
02:54 The Disney Trip Plot Begins
05:39 No Means Not Yet
06:55 Page Joins the Disney Campaign
09:06 Sometimes I Do Not Want to Grow Up
11:39 We Are Going to Disneyland
12:18 Why Disneyland Feels Like Home
13:50 Grief, Cremation, and Having No Place to Visit
15:08 Main Street Memories
16:09 Disney and the Younger Parts of Me
17:31 My Simple Goal Journal
18:37 Reading My Pregnancy Journal
25:45 Missing My Mom While Becoming a Mom
27:10 Time Passing and Working Retail
30:15 Wanting London to Know Me
31:48 Watching the Game When You Know Who Wins
33:27 The Page Turned Six Months Later
34:11 Coming Home Full Time
36:44 The Pressure We Put on Tiny Things
38:04 Time Can Work for You Too
39:38 You Do Not Have to Have the Whole Plan
44:30 Time Is Not Leaving You Behind
45:23 Learning Is Not Getting Everything Right
46:20 It Is All Happening for You
48:27 Final Encouragement

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode, you guys.
0:03.4	Oh, my goodness.
0:04.6	It's so good to be with you again.
0:07.9	It's Wednesday, and I'm recording this on Wednesday,
0:10.1	and I'm literally going to post it once all the things check out
0:13.1	because it takes a while in its video to download it.
0:16.1	So it's hump day, and I cannot tell you how thrilled I am because we are 16 days away from Disneyland.
0:25.9	The joy in my heart, the excitement I feel.
0:29.9	I was already excited for spring break because if you know anything about me, yes, I do enjoy
0:36.4	the structure that school brings, but I detest the
0:40.2	over-scheduledness of it. Like, in personally, I love when they're at home, when the tiny
0:45.4	queens are just chilling, when they don't have to deal with homework. Like, I love when they
0:49.7	have time off. So I am beside myself. And it's funny because I had decided on an episode. I had recorded the
0:59.1	episode and I was going to drop it, you know, like it posts on midnight of Wednesday, right?
1:03.7	Because I feel like that's perfect. Right. And the more I thought about it this week,
1:08.0	the more I was like, no, something else was on my heart to share and, like, talk about. I have, Lennon and I can wear the same size socks now.
1:28.5	And so between the two of us, we need to get an actual supply of socks.
1:33.6	And my haines socks that I wear, like my taller ones that I wear over my leggings, all have holes in them.
1:41.4	And Target has been out of them since forever.
1:43.6	So I just need to order
1:44.5	an amount is on. But why is it whenever, that was a long sock segue, but why is it whenever
1:49.1	you wear jeans with holes that like parents need to make a joke? My dad when he's in town
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