Worth the Walk Podcast
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The Invisible Thread | Ep. 6
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There’s a bond between a mother and her child you can’t see… but you feel it.
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Welcome to Worth the Walk, where two sisters chat about generations, raising kids, and family life with honesty, heart, and plenty of laughs. No perfection here, people, just real conversation as we walk it all out together. Let's get started. Good morning, Cher. Good morning, Claudette. It's my favorite time of the week. You and I. Here we are. My God, it is absolutely the most beautiful Sunday morning. I think I'm going to start every one of our podcasts with that exact statement. Oh my God, it's the most beautiful Sunday morning. What a fabulous day. The sun is shining again. It's absolutely gorgeous. Grass is turning green. I have seen my yellow flowers. Tulips, no, not tulips, don't tell me. Daisy? No. Maybe it's like daffodils. Okay. Knew I'd get it. Crocuses have been uh they've been popping up for a while. I've seen the crocuses, but remember my path last year, how those uh daffodils went right down the whole path. That was before I had it paved, remember? Went down all the time. And so when we got it paved, I said, Oh, I'm never gonna see those flowers again. They're so pretty and all of that. Maybe I'll think of something. I was walking down yesterday and again this morning, first thing with Minnie down the line. And I went, Are you kidding me? Look at how many are popping up. Um not the whole way, but halfway down on both sides, they're starting to pop up all the way down. I'm so glad you didn't lose those. I know. And I've got some right beside the back door.
SPEAKER_02My neighbors notice that? Beautiful, beautiful. They're like clumped, and when they bloom, it's just this, and it's at the base of a beautiful old tree.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's just gorgeous. Well, I just cannot wait until I get um my seeds all done. Because you know where John made my tree, my my my crow tree. Well, I'm gonna put all the wildflowers around the coaching. Oh, I know. That's a great idea. Do you like that for me? I really I love that for you. No, I do in a genuine way. Uh I completely can see it in my mind. So now that you've got that statement and you throw it at me, I think, does she really like it, or is she just being a smart ass again? Well, here we are, Sunday morning, episode number six. How was your week? Oh, oh, please. Now don't get me all worked up. I'm not gonna cry on this episode. Don't you even think about it. Yes, uh, Samantha and Mike and JJ left yesterday morning. Um, checked in at the hotel so early. They were at the hotel at like 3:30 in the afternoon. Or was it for 3 30 in the afternoon? Swam had a great time. She leaves me and calls me. Well, she sends me a text message at 6 a.m. this morning. They're on the road again to make their way home. All right. Making great time. Yeah. Good time here before. What was that? 15 minutes ago. She said, Hey, we're in Cornwall. So, yes, they've left. And yes, bittersweet. There's there's a little lump. Hang on, I need a moment. We're gonna have to have a worth the while box of Kleenex now. I know. I I got it. I'm okay. I I brought it back, I'm okay. But uh man, did we have fun? JJ rode his bike up and down. I guess I bought him a bike for when he's here. So you know, put that in the pipe and smoke it. I don't care. Um he loved his swimming. Loves that pool. All right, so that's gonna be a thing that we're gonna have to do all the time now because he loves the pool. And I've promised him the beaches. So they said they're gonna be back here at the uh middle of July, end of uh July, somewhere in around there. And I promised them beaches.
SPEAKER_02Nova Scotia has got some great beaches, so we that's something we could do.
SPEAKER_01I found the one I want to be at. Muscadobit Beach. Have you seen it? Muscadabet Beach.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm pretty sure there's a different name. What's it actually called? I uh uh Marguanite Margar Marguerite Beach, something along those lines. It's it is to die for beautiful. It is it is so gorgeous. I bet I've got a half a dozen pictures on my phone, but because I'm such a good girl on a podcast, I Hmm.
SPEAKER_02I I'm gonna have to Google that because that name doesn't sound familiar to me at all. No? Alright, well, it's a nice beach. I I mean I've lived here my whole life. Well, that's why I'm sitting here going, uh I Googled it. Okay.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna do the same. I like my Google. We've got a lot of beaches. I'm not I'm not familiar with it. I don't want to do the cold one because I looked that one up too, and it was ice cold. You can't swim in it, but the beach is blue, blue, blue. It looks like you're in the Caribbean. But I want to swim in it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I don't want to do it. There's definitely shores that are warmer than the others.
SPEAKER_01Do we want to talk about our frostbite that we did on Friday? We did a polar plunge. We did. Well, like a cold plunge, I guess. Well, the polar one would have been the top one, and I wasn't doing that one. Okay. Because that cold punch plunge, when I got to my knees, it hurt. I could feel it going like, you know, that cold through your legs. So the first time I went through, I was about three and a half seconds down the stairs, up the other stairs. There's Cher, Miss Queen of I Can Do Anything, standing in it, dunking up to her neck. And I'm like, yeah, I need to walk faster than that.
SPEAKER_02But um, yeah, I I really wanted to do it. It didn't feel as cold as what I thought it was going to. It did.
SPEAKER_01The health benefits are supposed to be very good. So the health benefit when I was freezing and we went into that hot tub afterwards. Now there's some damn fine benefits right there because the feeling came back into my legs. My tinkly fingers actually could move again. Yeah. But yeah, Sam went through it too. She sure did. Sam did twice through it too. You did three times, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I did, I did twice.
SPEAKER_02I think going like hot to cold is the key. I don't think I could just walk in, you know, sink into the cold.
SPEAKER_01Like, come on, honey, you prove that you're a hero. Get out. We all see you.
SPEAKER_02We all see you. We all see you. Yeah, I walked by her twice because I got out and then warmed up and then went back in and she was still there.
SPEAKER_01I saw her too, and I was like, I just looked at her with Yeah. That was it. That's all I could say because I needed to get out the other side. Yeah, the week was beautiful. Um, I'm so sad at how fast time flies.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01If I could hold on to those moments and bottle them and stick them someplace so that, you know, I could hold on to them forever. But, anyways, we had so much fun. We were fishing, we did bike riding, we did lots of basketball, swimming, playing cards, um, battleship, clue, you name it, we did it.
SPEAKER_02So you think 10 years old, JJ's 10, and that age, they're just so curious and want to be busy, and then also just want downtime. Like I'm sure he appreciated time just to sit with grandma or to play a video game.
SPEAKER_01So just he loves game shows on TV. Yeah. So one of his favorites is Family Feud. And you know, I don't know if you know how much I don't watch Family Feud. I just can't. It's like the the I just can't do it. Well, I bet the Canadian version doesn't work. Um, give me any of it. I'm just not I'm I'm I'm not wrapped up in it. Anyways, this week I bet I watched every episode three times. So yeah, so his downtime was watching game shows and we guessed the answers and everything. It was fun. Yeah, that's good. More fun than I could shake a stick at. Let me tell you that. Charles and I watched um a song sung blue. Did you ever want I want to see that one?
SPEAKER_02That's the Neil Diamond one. Well, wait a second. I thought it was a Neil Diamond biography movie. Okay, that's not. Oh, I went in cold as well. So I'm gonna spoil this for you. Oh, good, because I really thought it was a Neil Diamond. That's why I was watching it. Yeah, it's just not a bit of a downer. I went in thinking, like, I'm gonna learn about old Neil. Yeah. I know nothing about Neil now, then I don't know any more than I did before it started. Yeah. Why did they call us Sung Sun Blue? Because I thought it was Neil Diamond. And Hugh Jackman would have made a great Neil Diamond. I know he was looking the part. I really bought into it thinking, like, okay, when no, it's not.
SPEAKER_01I literally saved it on my watch list for us to watch the Neil Diamond biography story. Yeah. Spoiler, she gets hit by the car.
SPEAKER_02Oh, almost twice. Doesn't die. I mean, yeah, they're covered. It's like a cover band, I guess. Neil Diamond's a cover band? They're covering songs. Like they kind of do karaoke and then they do a bit of a performance and they're quite I think it's based on a true story. Anyway, when you're going in to learn about Neil and then you don't, and that's what you're up against. And it it just goes downhill from there. It just hits a little different. You saw him in concert. I didn't see him in concert.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I was so I was very close and had great seats. I was, and you know, I phoned dad, right?
SPEAKER_02I remember.
SPEAKER_01Yep, I phoned dad, right? When I was at it, was it so I was in Toronto, I went to the concert, and uh when I was in the concert, I know how much dad loves Neil Diamond Rosie. And it was you know, all of it. I just I could just phoned dad from it and uh held the phone up so he could see it and hear it, and uh that was it. Yeah. So I realize I just sang and that's it was very good. I loved it. But Neil Diamond to me, I could listen to a lot of I got some faves, right? Well, my kids would love this. So uh not to get too far uh into the conversation here, but uh when we did a family trip, uh we drove from Ontario to Newfoundland and back again. Remember, we did it three weeks. Yes. We all went down together, every one of us. And in the van at that particular time, you could only have cassettes, right? We're we're not we're not talking oh CDs. I'm sorry, CDs at that time. Um Matthew was probably eleven, maybe or twelve. My mine were little. Yeah, and I don't think Oliver was even born. Samantha was small too, right? So and our bands we played were um Neil Diamond, we back back in front, um Bare Naked Ladies, um, and I cannot think of the other one, but we played these CDs all the way through the kids had them memorized. Every song. Every song could inside and out. They had it all done. They could get it, they could sing any song of Neil Diamond, and all of them. So yeah, so Neil Diamond means a lot to us. A lot of Suleiman. What does Suleiman mean? Yeah, now you ask me, because I'm on the I haven't got a clue.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it goes well in the song, right? And I was one of his big moments in his concerts. He would like Suleiman was one of his big things, I think, right? And you just you just flow right through it. No idea. It's a great song. But now we can Google that. I don't know what it means. Yes. I don't but I don't like it. I haven't done that because I've really been thinking about Neil Diamond a lot lately since I watched it. I was so disappointed. But yeah, and Kate Hudson, look, I'm telling you, I think it won awards. I think they did well.
SPEAKER_01But when you're going in to learn about Neil's life and then Thank God you told me that, because I literally have got it saved as a Neil Diamond biography movie. So that's FYI.
SPEAKER_02That's true. FYI.
SPEAKER_01It's not okay, viewers. Look at us. Man, can we get distracted or right? Can we flow off on a tune? She's Louise. All right, everybody. Um I think we'll start our day off by letting you know what the subject is. How's that? 10 minutes later. 10 minutes later. So um so Cher and I were talking about, you know, what should what should this week be? And we came up with a few ideas, this, that, and the other thing. But this one's just on my mind. I think about it all the time because it's it's not just you and I. So there's a time when Cher would say, you hammer and I have woo woo, woo-woo, right? We can we can feel and such things. But there's not a mother around that I don't think has this intuition, this gut feeling, this uh invisible line that is stuck to their kids. You can't help it, right? So today is that invisible line. That's what I'm calling it, the invisible line. I can't tell you the number of times that I knew my children were ill before they actually became really ill. But I have the funniest story that we're gonna go into soon about how I should have had more knowledge, but blame my children for why they were so sick. How's that for misplaced aggression? Misplaced aggression. So, with that being said, Sher, I think I really like to talk a little bit before we go into it about a few things that we got on our desk here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It looks like we have some listener feedback, and I'd like to share a couple of our um notes that we've received. I'm so excited. So we've had some really great feedback, and I just want to take a couple of minutes and read you some of the notes that we received in the last week. Okay. Uh, note number one I love listening to your banter and then the laughter. It is genuine, and I can't help but laugh out loud. And that's from listener Katie. Uh, the next comment was your honest conversations bring me so much joy, and your laughter laughter brightens my car ride. And that just is from S S R. And I love your podcast, and you two are hilarious. Those are little notes that we've received. So I just want to say thank you so much for taking the time to send us your feedback. And then we have an email, and this is from Kim. Loving your podcast, an idea for a future episode. As I heard someone ask the question on the radio recently, what would your younger self be proud of if they could see you now? Keep up the great podcasts from Kim O. Thank you, Kim, for taking the time to send us an email. So, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm so excited to get feedback. Come on. Really? I saw the emails and I saw the stuff come through on our Facebook as well as on um Instagram and as well as you know, people texting me because you know I'm popular. So when I seen them, I got I was all bubbly. I was just screaming out, we have email, we have feedback. So, guys, I can't tell you. I just I just can't tell you how grateful I am that you come back and give us information. Without you feeding us some insight, it would just be Cher and I bantering back and forth and laughing our guts out constantly. And by the way, it's still fun.
SPEAKER_02Honest, even if we weren't recording anything, we would be doing it.
SPEAKER_01We would still be doing that. So let's talk about Kim's question, right? Let's talk about what would you what would your future self, your younger self, your younger self think about you right now.
SPEAKER_02Um why would she think about I here's the thing, I'm trying to put this into words because I've actually thought about this recently, because I'm at a point in my life where I think I have accomplished, or just like small accomplishments, I'm not saying I am accomplished, I'm saying I have accomplished um certain things where I feel like I deserve to be proud of what I'm of what I'm doing right now and what I have done and where I've um what I've come through. I think raising four children, I have a fantastic husband, but you can raise four kids, but for them to be really great people uh doesn't, it's not luck. It takes time and energy and all the things that you, you know, you you want to, you think you're maybe missing points as you're going through the years of of adolescence, and you think like, oh gosh, I'm barely keeping things together. And then you kind of come out the other end and you see what wonderful young adults you have, and then you think, yeah, yeah, I deserve to feel a little good about that. So if I could go back for my younger self, it'd be like, keep going, even on the hard days, you don't think you're doing it, just keep trying, keep going.
SPEAKER_01So yeah. I love that. That's that was very, very profound. I love it. So my younger self, hmm. I would say, I would say if she saw me today, she'd be remarkably proud, right? Um of how I am together. Okay, so let's define that. Meaning that the home is together, the family's together, uh, my thoughts are together, um I'm I'm not scattered or bouncing off walls. I am who I want to be. So I don't know if I knew who I wanted to be in my twenties. I think I was struggling to be somebody in my 30s. And in my 40s, I was kind of putting stuff together, but completely absorbed with the family life that had needed me, needed my attention. And had to give every ounce of who I was to to do things in my forties and my fifties. And I think I would have walked away and given up at some points, or probably crumbled or curled up in a little ball somewhere thinking, Oh, I can't do this anymore. But I think that person who would come back and look, she'd say, Ah, that was good. That was really good. I think that's what I would do. Love that too. Yeah, yeah. And I am very proud of my children, by the way, as well. I think there's a little bit of work put in there as well. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Not just a little, a lot.
SPEAKER_01We do a lot.
SPEAKER_02We do all kinds of things. We do excellent.
SPEAKER_01You're great. So are you, Claudette? Thank you so much here. Gosh. Kim, fabulous question. And man, I can't thank you enough. I really can't. And I would love to hear from any other listeners out there. If you had the opportunity from your younger self to look at you, what do you think they'd say? Come on, give us some feedback. We'd love to hear from you.
SPEAKER_02I think we want to get into talking about this this invisible line, this connection. Okay. So you mentioned how you knew when your your children be sick before they became sick, you knew they were in the world. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01There was one hiccup there that didn't happen that way though. Yeah. So I'll tell you when when when they were ill, I knew it. Like it was just like in it was in my soul. And even when I went to the doctor and they said, eh, no, no, here, take this, take that. And I'm like, there is something bigger, there's something more there. Um, but the hiccup that happened, and I'm certain once Matthew listens to this, he knows exactly where I'm heading down the road. All right. Love my son to the moon and back as I begin this story. Yeah, 100%. But that boy can weave a tail. He can let you know when he's sick because he can't go to school. But I mean I can I can I can smell crap a mile away. Get up and go to school. I can't because I don't feel good. I get it. And and there was always a little bit of this happening, right? I can't get there, I can't go there. As a mother, you know. This morning he got up. I don't feel well, Mom. I'm I don't want to go to school. I said, get your butt out of bed, let's go. I says, No, I don't feel very good at all. Whatever, get up and go. So he goes to school, but I get a call from the school. Oh, three quarters of the way for the Matthew's not feeling well. He is uh needs to come home with a little more gets home. Touch him, I said, Oh, you're a little warm. Get on the couch. You know, you'll be just fine. I'm gonna get you some gingerbread. A few hours later, as he's laying there and I look at him, I think this isn't right. Like he's never like this. This this is not him. I walk over and feel him, and I said, Are you okay? He says, I just don't feel well. I don't know what came in my head, but I reached down to the right side of his body and pushed down, and of course he just like went into the pretzel mode, right? And I went, Oh my god, you're having an appendicitis. I know you are. Like, how do you go from, I don't know, to having a fever that you're having like get in that car, drive to the hospital, and I'm just like losing my utter mind. We get there. We weren't in that hospital, I wouldn't say 45 minutes. He's on a stretcher on the way up to the emergency to have his appendix taken. And my whole life I kept thinking, what mother ignores their children?
SPEAKER_02Oh well, and what a great segue. What a wonderful segue into Sherry's story. So I just want to say, first of all, that my kids have always had a code. If they're in a situation where they were somewhere and they want to leave, they don't feel comfortable or they're just not feeling it, or if they've been to a sleepover and they've decided they don't want to stay, they always call and we've always we've already figured out what the story won't be. So not necessarily a code word, but it'll be, you know, mom, you remember that thing? I I forgot we have to do that tomorrow. Yeah, okay, well, I'm coming to get you now. So there's cues, and you have to be tuned into those with your kids. So I've always felt I was dialed in um to those cues. And those cues can be in those situations where they feel like they need to, you know, get out of a situation. Um, you know, it's sometimes it's silence when when your children are quiet for a little too long, but there's usually something happening that you need to prompt with questions. Don't be afraid to ask hard questions. Don't be afraid to say, let's go for a drive and start a conversation. Some of our our best conversations happened when we were driving, driving to school practices, just getting in the car to go get a, you know, fun drink at Starbucks or something. And then if there's an outburst or anger or acting in a way you just think they're just being miserable, chances are there's also something going on inside. So it's really difficult in the moment to see past that outburst because you're just so frustrated your child has decided to act in a way that you think, well, you know, what kind of demon has possessed you? But at the same time, you be like, okay, there's there's obviously something happening. They're they're either, you know, frustrated because something happened at school or they're they're falling behind, or There's something going on. So I just pr ask you to, you know, prompt, ask questions, do those things. And you have to be dialed in, pick up on those little those little cues that happen. But um, and I talk a really good story here because it sounds like I've been tuned in to all these prompts and cues. Poor kids, and they're all excellent. Come on, give yourself a pat. Yes. You've picked up a cue or two. And they all have different cues. So, for instance, you know, Avery, uh, you know, he had broke his arm once, but it was a very obvious break. And then I mean, we knew at the moment he did it. The coach called me over right away. He's like, You need to take him in. It's obviously broken. You can see it. Aileen had a very high pain tolerance. So when she was injured, it was a little more difficult to kind of pinpoint.
SPEAKER_01Aileen and Samantha, eh, with their pain tolerance. Samantha's pain tolerance is is insane. I have never in my life been I watched as they reset her hand. It was cracked. And she just kind of okay.
SPEAKER_02So I I do need to. There's a story I want to tell, but Charles tells it better and he has the details. So we're gonna call Charles.
SPEAKER_01Again with calling a friend. I need to call a friend. We are calling, like, I need to bring in my call a friend thing as well, okay, at some point in life. Right? Your call of friends have been calling a friend.
SPEAKER_02So hi, Charles. Uh, we're doing the podcast, and I have a story I wanted to tell, but you tell it so much better. Charles, hi. Say hi, Claudette.
unknownHi, Claudette.
SPEAKER_02Hello, Charles. And to all our listeners. Uh, so if you remember back, I think Sophie was three years old, and we had ice out on the front when we lived on Thomas Street. We had ice and the kids were skating. We had a whole bunch of kids at our home, and she was outside skating. Do you remember that? When she when she fell. What can you just tell that a little bit when she when she fell, kind of what she said?
SPEAKER_00They were all skating outside, and she was all bundled up in a little purple winter jacket with her little bicycle helmet on. And all of a sudden there was a knock at the door, and she came in, and she said in her little voice at the time, uh, broke my arm. Uh, broke my arm. And of course, after having few children, we really didn't expect that she broke her arm. So we said, Oh, that's nothing at all. And but eventually it got a little bit sore. And I think you had to take her in and get it checked out. And the next day she had a bubble fracture in her arm.
SPEAKER_02She did book a ball. She I broke my arm, and Charles just tells that story. Thank you, sweetheart. Thank you, Chase, for calling in.
SPEAKER_00Great to talk to you all.
SPEAKER_02Okay, love you. Bye.
SPEAKER_00Love you. Bye.
SPEAKER_02Call it a friend. So when she broke her arm. So I I tell that story because she went to bed. And again, we had mom always put a warm towel. We had a sore leg or something. She'd take a warm towel and then she'd use the strap of a house coat and she'd tie it around. Do you remember that? Oh, always. Always. She did my legs when I was little. So we put Sophie to bed. She was up all night long with this sore arm. So we we knew right away, obviously, there's something more wrong here than just a sore arm. So we took her in, and sure enough, the little three-year-old had a little cast on her arm. But here's where it gets better. Fast forward, Oliver's in grade 10. Oh, I I don't even know if I want to tell this story. Oh, that poor kid. Oh, and again, Oliver, all four children, very different. Okay. So never complained, never really, never did the, oh, I'm so sick, I can't go to school. You know, Willie wasn't really sick all that often. But he, I got a call. I was at work. Mom, I did something in gym class. And, you know, I think I think I might have broke my foot or my leg. I don't know. I said, well, are you are you at school still walking? Yes. I'm probably gonna get a ride home. I'm gonna go home early. Fine. I'll see you when I get there. He calls me when he's home, even to tell me that it's really sore. I get home and realize, okay, there might be something wrong. But if I go in, it's such a long wait. It's such a long wait. And so I say, okay, get ready for the long haul. We're gonna go in there and we're gonna sit. It's gonna be really busy and we're gonna sit and we're gonna wait. And not that, you know, it better be broken, but if we're doing this, it better be broken. What a terrible thing to say. I'm sorry, but we did we get in there and we did wait a long time. And Oliver's like, I'm telling you, mom, like there's something really wrong. And to the point where he and I are back and forth, almost like a bet. You know what I mean? Like if it's broken, like you you owe me, you know, some. So the doctor comes in and it's like, yeah, there's a it's broken, like quite a bad break, actually. We're gonna put a cast in above the knee, and he's gonna be no weight bearing. And yes, I remember. So instead of we're like, oh doc, wow, we're busted and got laughing, like, oh my God, I can't believe it's actually she's looking at the two of us as like, yeah, yeah. Okay, did you beat him? Yeah, yeah. And he's like, I told you, I told you it was broken. I told you. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, I'm I'm not I've never applied to be mom of the year. No. So, you know, just pay attention to the little cues and always go get those. And I'm also not a medical profession, a professional. You should always go get those little hurts looked at. Don't don't ignore them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So before we move on to the next one, medical professionals. So you know who my best friend in the whole world is, right? Okay. She's a nurse, all right. And then, of course, when I lived in Oswald, there was another nurse who lived across the street, and her name was Janet, and she's a friend of mine as well, all right? So, on top of that, I mean I was pretty good at picking up when the kids weren't well. I mean, even though they're talking, they're not talking, it's just that look, the the illness look. So um I could tell within minutes, as soon as someone looked at me what there was the matter, and I'd say, Oh, they have an ear infection, or um I think I think they're getting pneumonia, right? And John was like, Like, how do you go from sniffy nose to ammonia acid? I'm telling you right now, Joshua has pneumonia. I'm telling you, I know this. I I I I I'm not sitting in this house for two seconds longer, right? And uh and by the way, this is not uh an insult to my daughter or anybody else in the entire world. And they came up and said, Listen, he's just fine. He has a cold. I'm telling you right now, Joshua has no more. I picked him up, told everybody to stay to hell home and don't worry, grabbed him, walked into the emergency room, told them what was the matter, and within 15 minutes they had him in and on a ventilator and all the stuff and all the stuff going on with him because he had pneumonia.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I'm not patting myself on the back, I'm just letting you know. Sometimes when you're so in tuned, like you like as a mother, when you're so in tuned with the life that you're absorbed in, your baby, your little girl, your grandson, that that life that you just like you're breathing in and breathing out for them. Actually, pick up on stuff. That line, that invisible line is quite right. It's absolutely amazing with newborns. So I'll think about my daughter-in-law and her newborns right now. She is so in tune. Right? She can she can see it, she knows what to do, whether action is needed or not needed. Um, she's got all the home remedies that there to take care of the kids, and she can literally see what the next thing is that needs to be done.
SPEAKER_02It's hard with your first. Oh, yeah. First newborn, everything is very scary. And you want to jump at everything, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I I wasn't so great as my first, I don't think. But I was in tune. I could feel whether you needed to jump and run with urgency, or jump and run because you're just a crazy new mother, and at this particular moment you just need someone to confirm that you're actually not crazy. Like, am I crazy or am I not crazy? Do I need something? But I mean, I think every mother in the entire world. This is Claudette's advice, it's not written down in a dictionary anywhere. So be careful with the advice you hear. Every new mother should trust their their uh invisible line. And and then you validate it through medical care. As as as you should. But every single mother has got that insight that they just look and think, mm-hmm, that's not a truth. I'm sorry. I think that's a fair or that Yeah, I think you really are sick, and I think we will go have it looked out. It's just amazing how that intuition is just amplified to the nth degree with your children. Yeah, agree.
SPEAKER_02So now we're going to um close out today's episode.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you're right, Cher. It's time to close it out for today. Thanks so much for spending time with us. We really appreciate and are very, very grateful for you choosing to be part of our conversation. We'd love to hear from you, share your thoughts, your stories, and just say hello. You can reach out to us at worth the walk podcast at gmail.com or hunt Instagram, worth the walk podcast, or Facebook. Your messages truly mean the world to us. Be sure to join us each week as we continue walking through life together, one conversation at a time. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts, Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, or any favorite platform which you watch, which you listen to, not so much watch. Next time, can't wait to keep this up. Until next time, keep walking, because it's worth it. Thanks, guys.
