Kelly and Liz dive into their latest micro hobby obsession with vintage toys from the 90s, particularly the Fisher Price Loving Family dollhouse. They share their excitement over finding deals on Facebook Marketplace and discuss the nostalgia of childhood toys. The episode also touches on parenting, car seat configurations, and the impact of AI on social media. With light-hearted banter and relatable stories, they aim to bring joy and connection to listeners navigating the challenges of motherhood.
A winter storm isn't going to bring the Car Mom down! Kelly and Lizz are bunkered down and ready to bring you a cold episode of the Carpool and they're kicking it off strong with Kelly's first micro-hobby of 2026. Is she canning? Reading? Quilting? Nope! It's all about hunting down the old school Fisher Price Loving Family House. Toys from the 90s really have nothing on the toys from today.
Kelly had a lot on her Driveway Dump today, including some social media trends that are driving her crazy. AI has her second guessing everything on the internet and one video got her good. Lizz is starting to think of baby names, but is coming up empty. Could the name Kelly be an option?
There's a correction from last week Kelly needs to make to kick off Industry News. But the biggest story is the Chicago Auto Show and the Car Mom tour you could be a part of. Get your tickets here!
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Like I'm sitting on cash.
Yeah, I know you are.
Like if my house gets robbed, like, let me just be clear.
The robbers will be looking at the wrong places.
Yeah.
Because anything I have of value is in my toy room.
And Liz.
Is Kelly, not Kelly.
Kelly.
Kelly like belly.
Kelly smell like jelly.
Kelly rub jelly on her belly.
Your mom time off starts now.
Welcome back to the Carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz.
Happy Wednesday.
You know, I hope by now we are all just thriving.
This has passed.
No, it's like negative still here.
We're recording this on Sunday because like we're not going to have
childcare this week due to the roads like schools are closed.
So while our husbands are home, we had to like get this recording
out.
And let us just say the sun may not be shining, but our spirits
are because we have.
No, I'm saying like we are here to bring some light.
Yeah.
And some joy to your listening ears because I have a driveway
dump.
Like I'm actually so happy recording this on Sunday because I
simply couldn't wait until tomorrow morning to say the
things that I need to say.
Like Kelly.
I have so many.
We have never.
Interesting thoughts.
We have never texted more and I'm so excited about talking about
this one specific thing, your new micro hobby.
Like I can't stop thinking about it.
I'm so excited to talk about it.
I know.
I know.
So that's what that's what we're here to do.
You've maybe been stuck at home with your kids.
You might be going a little stir crazy.
We're here to just hopefully give you some mindless banter and take.
Yeah.
Take a break.
To get you out of your rut, whatever that rut may be.
So let me start.
We're always in a rut.
Let me start with my new micro hobby.
And it's my first micro hobby of 2026.
You know, and I just let micro hobbies find me.
I mean, I like I'll I have some things I'd like to do.
But for the most part, my hobbies find me.
This is my favorite micro hobby you've ever had.
I'm so invested in it.
I am having so much fun with you.
Thank you.
So I spoke earlier this week on my stories about some of my
favorite vintage toys.
And I know the word vintage sounds crazy because I'm talking
about toys from the 90s.
But like whatever, we're calling them vintage.
Nineties toys were superior.
Like 100 percent.
They were made better.
They were made smarter.
They were made to last like everything about them is better.
I've been so vocal on my dislike for the Gabby dollhouse.
I think it's the most biggest piece of garbage ever made.
I can't believe they're selling them to have 3D printed crap.
Sorry to say a bad word.
But like the Gabby dollhouse is horrendous.
And those vintage toys are it.
So I love sharing things like my McDonald's drive-thru,
the Clip Clop Castle, the Little Tykes Play Garden.
Like I love them.
And I have always wanted the Fisher Price family house
from 1993.
Loving family.
Loving family in 1998.
Loving family.
That's what they're called.
And I have seen these here or there.
Like when you, if you Google the picture,
you'll, you'll, you'll recognize it if you were 90s.
Exactly what she saw.
And I don't even think, I should ask mom,
but I don't even think we had one.
I think we just like would have them at friends houses.
I don't remember having one.
I don't know, but like I see the people and I see the house
and I know it so well that it makes me feel like I played with
it so much.
So it makes me feel like we did, or maybe one of our,
like you said, our friends or our cousins had one.
Yeah.
You'll, you'll, you will know it.
So Kelly calls me, Kelly calls.
Can I just say it from my view?
That's not, that's not.
Kelly calls me the other day and she goes,
well, I had just picked up the Little Tykes Activity Garden.
And I'm so happy that you like put it on my heart to find it
because it just popped up for $25, 10 minutes from my house.
And you said, just do it.
And I did it and like Sloan is obsessed with it.
She's constantly in it.
And every one of my DMs is saying, oh, one's listed for $400
near me, $125 near me.
Like I got a steal.
I paid 17 bucks for mine.
You got an amazing deal.
So like the deals are out there, but you were so right.
It was so good.
And so this came up and you go, it's as if you had been
married on it for like literally months, the way that you said
it, you know, I need the 1993 Fisher Price loving family doll
house with the characters without real hair.
And she sent me a like eBay listing for $700.
And of course I'm not going to buy this, but like this is what
this is what I'm trying to find.
Because I want all the pieces.
I want, I want the set.
I don't just want like a rundown house.
And I don't want to, I'm obviously not going to put my crap
Gabby doll house pieces in it.
So I want, I want it all.
So since you told me that my Facebook marketplace was like all
these houses popping up.
So I started sending them to you.
I'm like, Oh, here, here's this type.
Oh, here's the mansion for $100.
Here's this house for $75.
Here's some people.
Maybe you can split it up.
They're asking for way too much.
And it's been so much fun to try and figure out how you can get
this thing.
So I, now I'm learning about the different editions of the,
the loving family.
Elizabeth is right.
When I want, I want the characters who don't have the hair.
So I believe like in the late nineties, early 2000s,
the loving family got real hair and they look ratty because
real hair sucks.
I hate real hair on toys.
The, the loving family of 93, they are the one,
here's there.
They're the perfect size.
They're not chokies, those not to keep dragging Gabby's doll
house.
Those are like chokies for Libby.
They're the perfect size.
They fit so good in the kids' hands.
There's no real hair.
There's no clothes to take on and off their clothes are painted
onto their body.
Like it is the perfect doll in my opinion.
Like that is, they should have never deviated from that.
So I was like, okay, I'm not going to, I guess I kind of had
just been like waiting for it to like come across my desk at
like a Jbf sale once upon a child, like a garage sale.
Cause I've never actually like paid for, I never paid market
for my vintage toys.
They've always just found me.
But it's getting to the point where like my kids are getting
older and let me be clear.
I want my kids to play with it.
Like I don't, I don't want to just put it away and like it
never be touched.
I want my kids to play with it and then I want to keep it.
I also find it so interesting.
I was thinking about this, Elizabeth.
We were all told as nineties kids like keep your beanie babies.
Those are going to be worth something.
Yeah.
Those aren't worth anything.
They're not worth anything.
But a Fisher Price Loving Family 1993 mint condition.
Hundreds.
Those are worth something.
Hundreds.
So it's, it's an investment.
It's an investment.
Now I have kind of like set a budget for myself on what I think
I should, what, what I'm willing to stomach to acquire all of
these things.
Um, and it's around like $300.
Like I'd like to spend around there to get everything.
And I think I can do that.
That would be.
Let me be so clear.
We will never tell my husband what I have paid for this.
I was like, if any of you, if I know that any of you go behind
my back and tell my husband, I'm going to block you.
No, he can never know about this.
Here's the thing.
This is a hobby.
Like you and I are texting back and forth.
We're getting excited.
I'm like, oh my gosh, this mansion looks so nice.
This one looks even nicer.
This is in your area.
Look, this one's only 10 minutes from you.
Like it is fun.
We're connecting.
And isn't that what it's all about?
A hundred percent.
And actually he, he, he's not going to care, but he won't care
that I spent that money.
He will care what I spend that money on, but that's not his
business in my opinion.
Sorry.
No, it's, it's, it's high.
It is.
That is, that is a lot.
Um, it's, but I'm telling you it's market and he's a man who
can understand an investment.
So I have notes.
Everything's pending pickup as of now, but I have all of the
characters in all of the furniture.
Well, it's, then it's hard because like then they had
so many families.
They have families of every ethnicity.
So I kind of want all of them.
You can't drive yourself that crazy.
Kelly, like I feel like you need.
No, I know you need a lot.
Like you need a lot of people, not a lot of people, but they,
the lot of people.
Um, you need some furniture, like you need it so your kids
can play with it.
Yes.
And then I have to buy the house.
Now the 1993 house in the mansion are different.
I'm kind of leaning towards the mansion.
I just think I like the looks of it more.
I did find it in a 1993 house for $75.
Um, kind of in St. Peter's, Missouri on marketplace.
Send me that link.
I will.
And then as I'm like digging, cause I, I'm liking to look the
problem with marketplaces.
I feel like I'm learning more from the eBay listings cause
that's where the collectors are.
Yeah.
So the marketplace listing, like you're not going to get a
deal on eBay, but I like knowing the eBay people know the
bright name, the year, like they have all the details.
So I'm kind of cross referencing my eBay to marketplace,
you know, to get some information.
And then I find out that from the nineties to the early
2010s, they sold loving family, family cars that included
several different kinds of mini vans and some SUVs.
Yeah.
And I'm telling you, they just don't make toys like this
anymore.
And I'm like, I need these mini vans.
Like that is so car mom coded to have these mini vans.
So the mini vans are kind of standoffish.
So I have been on Poshmark for those.
I've already placed and got offers accepted for two of them.
Kelly, this is so funny.
I know, but I'm having fun.
No, it's a lot of fun.
I've never collected it.
I've never collected anything.
I would like to be a collector.
It's a game.
It really is.
I mean, you could, you could insert in anything that we're
talking about.
Like it doesn't have to be this Fisher price loving family.
It is fun to find a deal.
It's fun to find something that's right.
They are rare.
They're vintage.
Like it is.
Yeah.
It's a Russian.
It's fun.
And that's what you've been up to.
Yeah.
So I do like the people who don't, I mean, I think it'll be fun.
It's fun.
When you come, when you come by someone who like doesn't know
what they have.
They're like just trying to sell this for my mom.
Like that.
My McDonald's thing, five bucks, five flipping dollars.
They're on, they're $800 on marketplace.
Like I'm sitting on cash.
Yeah.
I know you are.
Like if my house gets robbed, like let me just be clear.
The Roberts will be looking at the wrong places.
Cause anything I have a value is in my toy room.
Yeah.
Totally.
So interesting.
So anyway, I'm probably going to make it like a series because
like you have to see these toys.
Like they are just incredible.
And I'm just, yeah, if anything else I'm having fun,
it's my newest micro hobby.
You know what I'm so, the mode I'm most obsessed with with
these toys is the furniture is like the Fisher price furniture
that they, Fisher price also sold life size.
So it's, it's the Fisher price turtle sandbox.
You can get the turtle sandbox for your dollhouse.
And it's, do you remember that pink Fisher price plastic vanity
that girls would have in their room?
I know.
They have that in the toy version.
It is just, it's so great.
It's so full circle.
It's so nostalgic.
And I'm so curious, you know, like if your kids love playing with it
or if this was all just like a fun Easter egg hunt for, for you.
Well, it's a good question.
You seem to have really good, you seem to have a really good eye
for what kids are going to like, like the Paw Patrol tower.
No, I think my kids are going to love it.
I actually think my kids are going to love it,
which is why I'm kind of like putting, which is why I want to get it now.
So my kids can like play with it for these years.
And then, you know, I can save it for my grandchildren.
They just, I can't say enough.
They just don't make it like they used to.
And like, I'm just going to put this out there.
I'm going to shoot my shot if anyone's listening.
New dream partnership, Fisher price.
I'd like to come across your desk.
I think we should bring back one of these mini vans as a collab in a major way.
Yeah, totally.
Like look at this one.
It's, it's, it's, they have seat belts.
It's amazing.
They just don't do it like this anymore.
I'm obsessed.
The boy is in a little harness.
Car seat.
No, I'm obsessed.
And they make like toddler size dolls.
I'm just, I can't like this, this mini van with all the pieces.
This is the 1999 family talk and travel with luggage $250.
Hey, and this is also a reminder, like if your parents are hoarders and they've
been holding on to your stuff, go dig in their basement.
You could be, you could have like several hundreds of dollars.
Yeah.
In your, in your bank account soon enough.
I do wonder, I'm also like needing to accumulate my pieces before the market
sky rocks because like I'm not like trying to do our own horns though, but I do
feel as though I put the clip clop castle on the map.
Just wondering.
It does.
I do, I do wonder that Kelly.
I do wonder that.
Did I put the clip clop on the map because I picked a mine for $15.
And like, I just searched my sister-in-law had the clip clop castle and I went, I was
like, Oh, that's a fun toy.
I'm going to see if I can find one.
I went on found one 15 bucks bought it that day.
That was years ago.
I've just, I've just accepted in my motherhood, I will not own a clip clop castle
because I refuse to pay more than honestly $40 for that.
I just refuse.
I had a fun idea, which this is TBD.
And if I don't do it, no one be mad at me.
But I was thinking for the car on auto show this year.
We're doing like a fundraiser.
I might buy a clip clop castle to auction off.
Oh, that would be a good one.
Like maybe I'll buy some of these vintage toys to auction.
That's a good idea.
The clip clop is like so car mom coded.
Yeah, it's so true.
So anyway, that's what I've been up to.
Like literally that's it.
So I've been telling each other Facebook listings.
If you live in St. Louis and you like have a great listing, send it my way.
Don't send me any Fisher price with the hair though.
Like look if they have the real hair.
I'm not interested.
Okay.
Next on my dump.
Should I go next?
Yeah.
No, you have.
I don't have anything on my dump.
I'm curious to know what all this stuff is on her.
Yeah.
Because I just put things that you know about them.
Okay.
So speaking of just like the weather, first of all, temperatures make no sense.
Yeah.
And I just feel like we should live in a world where the temperature is the temperature.
And I'm specifically referring to this idea of like there's the temp and then there's
the feels like.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
That makes no sense because if it feels like that, then that's what it is.
And if you're like, no, because of the wind.
And I'm like, no, because if the wind is making it colder, then it's colder.
Totally.
It'd be one thing if it was like, oh, it's 32.
It feels like 30.
They're like, oh, it's 20.
It feels like negative one.
I'm like, okay, we're not going to do a 19 degree swing here because of the wind.
Like it's one degree.
Someone's wrong.
Like, and I'm going to say, like, I think feels like is what it should be.
I think this is insane.
A temperature is the how something feels.
It is how hot or how cold something is.
If something feels like it is negative one degree, you can't convince me it's 10 degrees.
Like, if we can't even believe, if we don't even live in a reality where what it feels
like is the temperature, I'm worried for our world.
What does that mean?
And then I was thinking, here's something like, which I just can't wrap my head around.
Okay.
So we always keep our house between 68 and 70 degrees.
Like that's just what our house is set at.
My husband won't let me change the thermometer.
Like he's just, he lives in the world of like open a window, take off a clothes, add some
clothes.
Like where does this is it?
This is it.
In 68 to 70, I think it's fine.
I'm for the most part very comfortable in my house.
But how come in the summer, I will wear like biker shorts, flip flops and a tank top in
my house.
And in the winter, I will wear fuzzy socks, pants and a sweatshirt in my house.
And I couldn't, I would be cold in my summer clothes, but I'm in the house that's between
68 and 70 degrees.
What is that math?
Well, I think it's like, I think it's like the, I think it's back to like the feels like
like, I think your temperature says it's 68 to 70 degrees, but it feels like 65 because
it's winter because like, because it's winter and because like you're, there's cold air
or there's hot air coming through like when you open doors and just like the cracks in
your house, like the air's coming through.
It's just kind of interesting.
It's interesting.
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Okay, this is now I'm going to move on to social media for a second.
So there's like a new trend going around and I find it to be so cringy.
I don't know if you've seen it or if I just felt like too many like women entrepreneurs on my page.
But it's like the trend of like it's like a mom doing something like let's say she's doing a spin class or like with her kids are working.
And over the tech says hating me is probably valid.
I did everything I said I would plus I'm raising two kids.
Ick.
Yeah.
Have you not seen these?
No.
Oh, Liz, it's I've seen like four to five a day.
Hating me is probably valid.
I did everything I said I would plus I'm raising four kids.
Okay.
I have to look up this trend because that I'm not trying to be a hater.
I just like such an out of pocket thing to say like you want people to hate you.
Why hating me is valid.
Oh gosh, hating me is valid dot, dot, dot.
She's combing her hair.
You've been running joke between my sister and I you've been a running joke between my sister and I.
No, you're not on the right side.
I'll send you the next one.
I see.
I mean, I'm telling you, I'm doing everything I said I would plus raising two kids.
It's just like, okay, wait, everyone's just saying hating me is probably valid because
I'm doing everything I said, plus I'm raising four kids.
Oh, everyone's using the same text.
No, it's the exact same text, but it's such a weird like message to put out to your audience.
Um, like what account would benefit from telling your followers that they probably hate you
because you're so much better than them?
I think it's like such a weird thing to say.
And that's like not like me to have to have a take like this or, but I think that's a
honestly like a really, uh, dangerous mindset.
And I think you should not say that.
That's very strange.
You know, but all the comments are like, you go girl.
Yes, you are.
Hell yeah.
But who's hating you?
So, so maybe let's back up.
So who hates you?
So actually, so actually no one hates you.
You know what?
That, that brings me into other stuff that I hate, which is like this might cancel me,
but insert the most lukewarm non-controversial at all take.
This might get me canceled, but I don't know.
Yeah.
Seventy five is the perfect temperature.
Like that's not going to get you canceled or the, um, God, I can't think of an exact
example, but it's like this, like it's like a quote, like someone said something to you
that absolutely no one ever said to you and, but you're like still doing it.
Like you can use the same example.
Like you can't work your full-time job and raise four kids and do it all me doing it all.
It's like no one, literally no one ever said that to you.
Well, yeah, or it's like, I didn't really also love that trend when it was like, and
it started out good and then people just started to take it like overdone.
And it was in your twenties, someone will tell you this, which again, no one told you that.
It's really important.
You don't listen.
Okay.
What?
Yeah.
Gosh, people got, that was like the only trend that was going on.
That one got overdone.
That one got overdone.
And I didn't hate it in the beginning, but I agree with you.
It's like, yeah, I'm sorry.
That doesn't bother me as much as that.
Hating me is valid.
Like, okay.
What?
Who hates you?
Like this one.
Nobody, quote, nobody cares about what you post.
No one or doesn't posting this embarrass you.
No one's messaging you that.
No one's saying that to you.
Like people are just making stuff up.
They're making up scenario.
Yeah.
They're making up scenarios.
They're making up scenarios.
Don't make up scenarios.
You're interesting enough as it is.
Okay.
So funny.
So there is a real problem going on in our country and that is our intelligence.
Not that anyone needs me to tell them about that.
But the videos are progressing at such an alarming rate.
It's so annoying.
I agree.
I find it, I find it so annoying and like, we are to the point where you need to second
guess every single thing you see.
I know.
Like if you think that happened, watch it again or see who it's coming from.
Like people are insane.
So I start and I literally fell for this one and I'm actually kind of obsessed with it.
I'm not saying I like it because like I wish artificial intelligence wasn't around.
I guess.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going to happen.
But it's this AI old lady who's like, who's not real, but she like looked really good
for 75 and like she like, I need you to look it up.
Look out of your Instagram and look up too rich to age.
Everyone do this unless you're driving then wait.
Stop what you're doing.
Okay.
Evelyn.
Like.
Oh yeah, I've seen her.
She's not real.
75 plus Evelyn Evelyn, Evelyn Richard.
She like she's literally getting collapse.
I know 75 plus retired from being nice.
And she is this like really young looking 75 year old kind of.
I mean, and the videos are scary.
Good.
And like you read the comments and everyone's like, what's your sacred?
Great.
So good.
And she would be one Evelyn would be one to say, hating me is probably valid.
I look this good at 75.
Totally.
Also something that is crazy is she posts, she's posting videos like her dancing in
this dress and then she's tagging where the dress is from.
I know.
So I saw that because I was like, is she like, I'm literally like, is she real?
I'm like, there's no way she's real.
No, she's definitely not real.
No, she's not real for sure.
And I can tell you right now, like, I feel like there's always like different markers
for how we're touching AI.
Like for a while it was the hands.
Well, surprise.
They figured out the hands.
Now you can always tell in the hair.
You know.
Yeah.
No, I hate this.
But she's kind of funny.
Like she dance.
She's doing like TikTok dances.
Yeah.
No, I mean, it's like, it is fashion like goals.
Like it's of course goals.
But again, it's like, it's just, it's fake.
I just, I've been seeing so many like influencers pop up that like click on their profile and
they have like 900 followers and like, you know, you can tell like the classic pretty
like hot girl AI.
Like we all kind of know what her face looks like now.
Like what AI believes like the hot man looks like in the hot girl looks like, like you
can always tell.
I'm seeing these all pop up and it's so crazy.
I'm also seeing people all the time like AI people who make it look like they're talking
on a podcast.
So it comes off as even more like real and like they could just say anything.
They could have any, they could have any, it's so dangerous and I hate it.
And I like watch like an incredible video.
Like some just like cool or funny or incredible act of human will or something.
And I'm like, was that real?
Or was it AI?
And like people don't know like the comments are mixed.
So I just think, yeah, it's very scary.
And it's very scary because like we also like have, I mean, I just hate to be depressing.
I hate to be depressing.
But I just think we need to really work on like getting off our phones.
I could.
I definitely could.
I am.
I'm like one more screen time reminder away from getting a brick.
Have you seen the brick thing?
Yeah.
Like takes your apps off.
Yeah.
Or I'm going to like delete all my apps on my real phone and like just have it on my
content phone.
Yeah.
But.
Well, you know what?
And that's why the fish, the Fisher price hobby has been so nice because instead of scrolling
Instagram and scrolling Facebook marketplace and I'm looking for something real.
You know, I'm just trying to connect to what is real because AI could never.
AI could never.
No, I'm telling you, I just think we all need to be finding micro hobbies that and like
traders is like the best show on television.
If you're not watching traders, wake up.
Like, yeah, we just need hobbies.
Like we just need to replace our mindless scrolling with some other scrolling because
like, yeah, we used to have hobbies like as a society, hobbies existed.
We would read.
I am reading.
I'm reading.
That's good.
Um, I'm also another like micro like micro micro.
What's what's less than micro nano?
Nano, I think nano hobby of mine is I'm currently going through all of like the cheaper cuts
of me in my deep freezer from our half a cow.
You say it's nano hobby.
It's literally every time I call you all you freaking talk about and like, honestly, I
stopped caring.
So I just like we have some.
I shouldn't even say cheaper.
Well, I mean, they are the cheaper cuts, but they're a little bit more difficult to cook
with.
Like my cube steak saga.
First of all, I hate cube steak.
Like I made it the best way I could prepare it.
It literally never got tender.
Like it's just a rough cut.
Um, and then I did an arm roast, which was fine.
And today I'm doing beef short ribs, which are not a cheaper cut.
I just it's a cut I'm unfamiliar with.
And I am having fun with that.
I also have pork jowls.
I have to use up.
I've got beef soup bones.
I've got round steak.
I've got just all sorts of crazy cuts that I've got to learn how to cook with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That kind of is all I've been talking about that.
So like literally all my days consist of Fisher price marketplace, short ribs or
steak.
Yeah.
But you know, it is what's going on.
And it is, I guess a hobby.
What are my hobbies?
What am I doing?
Hmm.
You're growing a baby.
That's so true.
I just like kind of have like a mandatory nap time in my house now.
Like we all nap at one o'clock and that's been really nice.
I'm starting to feel a little bit less nauseous.
So that's good.
I posted on my Instagram and like, when did your knowledge to go away?
You know, and the amount of overwhelming DMs that I was like, I was literally throwing
up while giving birth.
I could literally never went away.
That won't be me.
Cause I just, I, I know that my first trimester is bad.
Like I've been pregnant two other times.
Like I just know I'm not going to feel horrible the entire time, but that's crazy.
That some people just feel horrible for 10 months.
I know.
Like they have to like, they like get dehydrated and have to like go to the hospital.
Like that is crazy that that happens.
So sad.
So it's the, just like women are amazing.
And she's like the ultimate, obviously the ultimate sacrifice, but I hear that.
And I'm like, wow, you're sacrificing so much more than I am.
Like, wow.
I can't believe you did that.
You're amazing.
And have you like been thinking about names?
You know, are we going to get like clues again?
Well, I don't know.
It depends on when we come up with a name.
I'm kind of at the phase where if a name, I don't immediately hate it.
I will put it on a list and not like revisit the list.
And Maddie and I kind of talk about names, but Sloan was obvious.
Sloan was always our girl name.
James was kind of, was kind of easy cause it's just, he's just named after both of our dads.
And like this one, I just have no idea.
Like I really don't like a lot of girl names and the girl names that I like are like, I don't know,
like top 10 list and do I want that?
But I don't.
Well, what's the deal with the top 10 list?
Like, are we always trying to stay out of it?
Or is it just like, okay to be in the top 10 list?
Well, naming baby, we need to get her back on the pod.
She had an interesting take on like top 10 names and she's like,
names feel so much more common now because of social media.
Yeah.
Like because you're hearing the names, but like you're not running in circles with all these
Olivia's or all these Ava's.
I mean, you're just not.
Or maybe you are, but like you're not running in those kinds of circles.
I like, I like a top 10.
I'm just wondering like if, because I mean, my daughter's name is Elizabeth.
My second daughter's name is Elizabeth.
So I was wondering if your second daughter, like if Kelly's even on the list.
I'm not doing my daughter Kelly, but speaking as an Elizabeth myself with the top 10 name,
like I, there were always Elizabeth in my class and like it affected me zero.
Like I live to tell the tale.
Like mom and dad just loved that name.
I've like rarely come across other Kelly's.
Can we bring the name Kelly back?
I think Kelly's not very popular.
Where does Kelly fall in the top?
Is Kelly in the top 100?
Certainly.
Look that up for me.
I'm wondering about Kelly.
I do think Kelly has grounds for a middle name for you, just like something to consider.
Also, if you didn't know Kelly was our mom's maiden name.
She was Chris Kelly, which is why I'm Kelly.
So that's fun.
Yeah.
So such a 90s name.
Like everyone thinks like Jessica Courtney.
Like what about Kelly?
Oh, Kelly is not even the top 1000 in 2026.
No one's thinking of my name.
It was the most popular in 1977.
It is kind of a weird name.
Kelly.
Jelly Belly.
You know, smelly.
That's tough.
Yeah.
Like Belly, like Belly as a Bella, like she was, you know, what's that?
Yeah.
And like, I don't think that was like good PR for that name.
So interesting.
Not even the top 1000.
It's like such a common name.
But like it's not, obviously it's not.
But obviously it's not.
But like we have Kelly Stumpy.
We have Kelly Clarkson.
We have Kelly.
I mean, you really, those are two are great.
Kelly's.
I'm not sure.
Kelly for a boy.
I don't like Kelly for a boy.
I like Kelly for a boy.
It's a totally different vibe no matter which way you go with it.
That was interesting.
Okay.
Do I have anything else on my dump?
I wrote roast.
Why did I write roast?
Oh, I wrote roast.
So I made a roast last night.
And I posted on my Instagram like, uh, when it's five o'clock and
like, it's not shredding like it should.
And normally when I post things like that, my GMs are then filled
with just like the smarter people than me being like, Oh babe,
all you got to do is X, Y and Z and then it's going to shred
perfectly.
So I kind of posted that with the hope of like getting people
who people to tell me what I have to do and everyone's like,
that's the worst.
That sucks.
Like it literally just sucks.
And there's not a rhyme or reason.
I'm sure it has to do with the real temperature of the crockpot
and the feels like temperature of the crockpot.
And honestly, probably, but people are like, maybe it's the quality
of the meat.
I'm like, this is the meat from my butcher.
Like it's good quality.
Was it an arm roast or a chuck roast?
It was a chuck roast.
It was like everything.
I had a lot of liquid in there.
Like everything, the stars were aligned.
And then I like kind of shredded what I could get so we could eat.
And then I let it sit, continue cooking through bedtime.
And there were parts of it that just like, I was never able to shred.
Sometimes it helps to like cut it.
So like with my arm roast, I made this past weekend or this past week,
I like checked it at three PM.
I'm like, this is not good.
Like it was nowhere close.
So I chopped it up, turned her on high and then she was shredding.
Yeah.
Maybe I just need to like start by just cutting it up.
But like, or maybe searing it before like, I don't know.
Well, some people say, I think searing like helps with the flavor.
I'm just like simply like, if I'm doing a crockpot meal,
I'm not looking to give them their dish dirty.
Except my new crockpot that I got.
Apparently you can saute in it, but I'm like, can you, you know?
Yeah.
What does that even mean?
I don't know.
I'm so tired.
I also started the movie.
People we meet on vacation.
I couldn't finish it in one night though because I got tired,
but it is excellent.
It's so good.
Tyler was so into it too.
Like it was, it's a great movie.
Yeah.
It makes me really hopeful.
Just like for it.
Yeah.
Because I watched that other one that regretting you,
like I kind of talked about and it was just like so average.
And that one was just like so good.
Like Netflix original.
I don't know.
Netflix just can't Netflix.
I'm on my Netflix peacock grind right now.
I mean, because they have traders.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's like really not that many famous Kellys.
Last name Kellys.
Machine gun Kelly.
It's literally you and Kelly Clarkson.
Kelly Teller.
That's Miles Teller's wife.
But she spells Kelly kind of crazy.
Guess how she spells Kelly.
Oh, I think I've seen this.
Isn't it like K E L E I G H.
Yeah.
Which is actually, I actually think it's kind of cute.
Yeah.
It kind of like makes it kind of like softer of a name.
It makes it softer of a name.
It's like a different name.
Like she's Kelly.
She's Kelly.
It's like Everly.
It's like Everly.
Like she's Kelly.
She's Kelly.
Not Kelly.
Kelly.
Kelly like Bailey.
Kelly smelt like jelly.
Kelly on her belly.
Yeah.
I've heard it all.
I've heard it all.
You think you can hurt.
Don't kill.
That's what you should say.
Quote things people have said to you.
You're smelly cause your name's Kelly and you rub jelly on your
belly.
You think you can hurt me.
I've heard this and I do it all and I'm raising four kids.
So, okay.
So I think our industry news is just like going to be some
advice segments talking about some family cars.
But before we do that, I want to make an, what do they call it
when you get something wrong, an addendum.
At our last episode, we talked about the Volvo XC90.
We have since removed it because I misspoke and I'm like,
I can't believe I didn't know this, but I'm always growing.
But we said that the Volvo XC90 doesn't have tether anchors in
the third row.
And here's the craziest part about that.
It doesn't with the bench seat, but it does have one with the
captain's chairs, which is the craziest thing.
Like how was that?
Genuinely, how was I supposed to know that?
Like, come on.
But that is the craziest thing.
So, I still think like, so if you missed, if you don't know
what we're talking about last episode, it was a mom.
She had two toddlers and a baby and she bought the Volvo XC90
with captain's chairs and I was like, oh no, the third row
doesn't have a tether anchor.
Because in every Volvo XC90 I've ever been, I guess I've been
in the bench seats the most, they've never, they don't have
them, but when you have the captain's chairs, they do.
I mean, in my team, we're talking about this and they do
that because federal regulations requires every car to have
three tether anchors.
Which we should have put that together.
Which we should have put that together.
Which we didn't at the time.
So, in the bench seat, the third tether anchor is in the
middle seat.
When you get the captain's chairs, then they add a tether
anchor to the third row.
Now, why in the world they just wouldn't keep that tether
anchor in the third row when you have the bench seat, behooves
me.
It's behoving.
It's behoving why they would remove, why would they
would literally manufacture a different third row just
because the seat is taken out or added?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
It makes me wonder if any other cars are like this because
that's like, we've never run into that.
Well, so that's why.
So, it honestly made me question everything I know.
No, I don't think there's any other cars that take it away,
but that's why every car, so that's why, for example, in the
Palisade, they put a tether anchor in the bench, even though
you can't do three across because of the third row
regulations.
It's very strange.
Also, speaking of cars, so I'm going to the Chicago Auto
Show.
Is it next week?
Am I going?
Yeah.
Next week, I'm going to the Chicago Auto Show.
Listen carefully.
Saturday morning.
What's that date, Elizabeth?
Let me look it up.
Saturday, February 8th, 9 a.m.
February 7th.
Right.
February 7th, 9 a.m.
I am doing a tour of the Chicago Auto Show.
I can only sell 25 tickets.
It'll be me and Sam, and we just like basically run around
the auto show before like everyone else gets there and
we'll go look at the new Telluride together.
I can answer any of your car questions.
Maybe we'll stop by Volvo and confirm that.
We'll see with our own eyes.
Totally.
Totally.
And if anyone from the Volvo is there, we'll give them a
piece of our mind.
I'll say, look at this crew I brought with me.
We want tether anchors in all your seating positions.
We want answers.
So if you want to come get a tour, maybe I'll bring some
of this limited edition merch with me that I'm wearing
today.
We did the tours in New York, and it was like so much fun.
And like, honestly, the best way to like get your
questions answered, because also like Kelly is a wealth
of knowledge, but like Sam, mom in his car seats is like
such a wealth of knowledge.
So she'll also be there to answer your questions.
So it's like basically you should come, whether it's just
to hang out or how can you get tickets if you're
interested?
I have a link.
So where should I put said link?
Show notes.
Show notes.
We'll put it in the show notes.
Um, okay.
Well, I have, oh, did you have something else?
No, that's all I had.
Okay.
Well, I have an advice question.
Um, this advice question is for, believe it or not,
her name is Jenny.
Um, but it's also kind of for me because I'm starting to
think about like what we're going to do with like three
car seats up at all.
So this is help to with car seat configuration for baby
number three.
I'm writing in person car slash car seat advice.
We drive a 2020 suburban with captain's chairs and I'm
currently pregnant with baby number three due in July.
Oh my gosh.
Same.
Do it all guys.
Congratulations.
We have a four year old forward facing and 18 month
rear facing both currently set up in the captain's chairs
with both my baby.
So far I've often needed to sit in the back with them for
bottles, snacks and general entertainment.
I'm trying to think of head about the safest, most practical
way to configure our car seats once baby three, baby
number three arrives.
We currently use a bright tax click tight seats for our two
elders and plan to use a Kiko key fit 35 for the newborn,
but we're open to purchasing different seats if that would
allow for better and safer setup.
How would you recommend arranging the car seats in this
scenario?
Well, I would say, I mean, you have a ton of options here.
And what's hard about your car seat setup is like today's
option is going to not be two years from now is option like
right.
Like so we're going to have to look at how things are going
to change, but I think, I mean, I think the most obvious
thing is let's put the four year old in the third row and
then let's have the other the rear facing kids, the two
younger kids in the captain's chairs.
Did you say why she didn't want to do that?
No, she's just looking for how to shoot.
You should do it.
Okay.
So the only thing she said is that sometimes she'll sit in
the third row to like entertain the kids.
That's what I thought.
That's what I thought.
I think another solution for you if you just wanted to mix it
up is I think there's a world where you put the four year
old in the third row, you also put the 18 month in a third
row in a rotating car seat and then you leave a captain's
chair open because I just wonder how easy or uneasy it's
going to be for you to buckle your four year old.
Like are they buckling and unbuckling themselves really
confidently?
Or are you still having to like go back there and tighten it
because let me tell you what a giant pain in the butt it is
to like bend over a rear facing car seat in the second row to
get to the third row to reach that child and like I'm six
feet tall and I'm like stretched across half my car.
So I see a world where like maybe you just get a rotating
car seat regardless so that way you can just rotate the 18
month old seat forward facing, get in there, get back there
with the four year old, help them and then rotate it back.
But I see a world where you put the rotating seat in the third
row and then leave a seat and rotate it forward to buckle
that kid in and then flip them rear facing and then you just
have that outboard seat and then you're back there with baby
and it's just kind of fun and dandy that way.
That's another consideration.
What?
Remember the third row accesses of the suburban?
Is it the...
It's a fold and flip.
Fold and flip.
Not great.
No, well it's not great but for your scenario it is kind of
great because it like...
Well for what I'm saying, yeah.
Like then you've got like a ton of cabin space like you can
load your baby up, get your kids just like in the car and then
like shut the car behind the door behind you.
Yeah.
And like just kind of take your time loading everyone up.
I kind of like the idea of putting the two older kids in
the third row or I think another solution, if you don't want
to get a rotating seat, I think getting a baseless infant
seat would just make life easier too.
Yeah.
That you can just take it out and get kids in and out.
Yeah.
It's a good one.
Yeah.
What am I going to do?
I'm probably going to be, I'm going to hopefully be driving
a Kia Carnival with a Bench.
Oh, I got all kinds of fun things for you to do.
To you?
Yeah, Carnival.
Like it's so hard to like pin the minibans against each other
but like it probably does have the most versatility when it
comes to car seat setups because you can remove any of the
seats.
So like in the Honda Odyssey, we all know Magic Slide,
Magic Slide, Magic Slide.
You can remove the middle seat but even when you push that
middle seat or that outboard seat to like when you do the
Magic Slide, the gap is not as wide as it is when you remove
an outboard seat of a Carnival.
Like you're going to be like, so we're going to do that and
then we'll probably put James in the third row.
Really?
I wouldn't do three across?
I mean, you could.
You can do three across.
I would put James in the middle then, forward facing, low on
one side and Kelly on the other.
Okay.
And so then I've been wanting to get the, I've been thinking
about getting the enjoyment latch.
I've been so excited about having a baseless car seat.
But then I was looking at my mockingbird and like they don't
have a car seat attachment.
And like I'm so used to attaching them.
I feel like they do.
They don't.
I feel like they just came out with it.
I literally looked the other day.
They don't have one for the enjoyment latch.
I thought I heard, I thought I heard rumblings.
Well, rumblings are rumbling.
No, I don't think that it will.
I don't think it's necessary for you.
Like we needed it because I was accessing the third row in
the expedition.
I don't know what a baseless seat would do for you in
terms of making your car seat set up any easier.
Yeah.
No, it's so true.
It's so true.
If I'm literally just said I want to do three across, how would a
baseless infancy benefit me?
Honestly, I don't know at all.
It's kind of fun and exciting, like the prospect of it all.
And it is fun and exciting.
Okay.
Are you ready for ditch the drive?
Yeah, girl.
I mean, are we just like ready to get to that?
Um, I thought I really thought I would have more to say.
Well, I know.
I think it's just hard because we're recording so far out.
Yeah.
I just like who I'm going to be on Wednesday.
Like, well, I don't know what we're experiencing on
Wednesday versus today.
Yeah.
I mean, I should have my future price family by now.
Like this is so exciting.
You're going to be a different person.
Yeah.
Come that time.
No, I guess I'm ready for just the drive through then.
Okay.
Now it's time for ditch the drive through when I give you an
easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of y'all.
Dinner rut.
And this one came to me.
Actually, I owe this one to my daughter, Hattie.
Because I took Hattie grocery shopping the other day.
I had Hattie and Libby with me.
Tyler had the boys.
And we walked past the soups.
And I'm so fascinated by the marketing of using characters on
food.
And it brings the age old question, like who pays for what?
Like, yeah.
And I think, I actually think I know the answer.
I don't know the answer.
I think, so anyway, we found a Pokemon, a Paw Patrol and a
process can of soup.
I do believe that Campbell's is playing, paying Pokemon to use
their name, image and like this.
For sure.
Yeah.
But you could argue it's selling more.
It's advertising for Pokemon.
But I don't think it's selling Campbell's soup.
Definitely selling Campbell's soup.
You're right.
Because it's always interesting.
Like, you know, who's on the sticker of the bananas?
Like, I just like love human behavior because like, who are
we to like literally advertise on a banana sticker?
It's so interesting.
Like rehearsal, we're always being advertised too.
So anyway, we walked by these cans of soup and I was like, oh,
my gosh, can we get these?
And it's like, you know, it's the age old thing.
It's like, of course, you want the soup that has your
character on it.
But I was like, sure, like we're kind of stocking up for the
snowstorm, whatever.
Pick out one for you, one for George, one for Fred, because
I like, I've learned a thing or two.
So we picked out a Pokemon, Paw Patrol and a princess.
They are just like noodles and chicken chunks in broth.
Like they are nothing special.
Let me be clear.
I am ditching the drive-thru here.
I'm not claiming to be anything other than not going through
the McDonald's drive-thru.
My kids each killed a can of these soups.
Oh my God.
I mean, at least it's on a soup.
Fred goes, this is so yummy, mommy.
This is so yummy.
I was like, okay.
George was like more please.
And the noodles were shaped and like, it was just a very
simple.
It was just like, literally, there wasn't a vegetable
to be found.
And let me be clear.
They're like, I make a great chicken noodle soup.
But I was like, she wanted to buy them because they had
the characters.
I was in a pinch for lunch.
I didn't know I was going to feed these kids for lunch.
Yeah.
And I literally pulled out their cans of soup.
They were all so excited to have their special soup can.
Well, here's the thing.
Microwaved them.
I put two on the stove, one in the microwave because they
all wanted them at the same time.
And I couldn't mix up the noodles because all the
noodles were different.
I appreciate the characters being on a soup because I've
certainly had to buy a fricking a pack of fruit snacks
because there was a character on it.
And I wasn't in the middle.
I didn't feel like fighting and the grocery store.
So I appreciate that they're slapping them on something
that's not terrible.
I'm telling you, it worked for us.
And you could have easily judged it.
I could have served it with a grilled cheese.
I could have.
I mean, you could add things to it, of course.
Also kind of goes to show what what would happen if you
just ordered like, what if I just ordered like dinosaur
stickers and I like put it on.
Oh, that's a great idea.
For sure you should do that.
I was also going to say I easily could have added like a can
of like, or I could have added like frozen carrots and peas.
So like add some vegetables to it.
I'm just saying like, again, it's not homemade.
It's got probably got some artificial something of another.
But again, I ditched the drive through.
I didn't go to Chick-fil-A to get them chicken nuggets.
We had chicken soup.
They loved it.
It was hardy.
It was, they're a dollar a pop.
I bet my kids were three bucks.
Winning.
Shelf, shelf stable, you know, shelf stable.
Winning.
So that's my ditch.
That's my ditch to the drive.
Yeah.
I don't have anything like fabulous.
I've been making like burgers at home, which has been like
really great.
I kind of forgot about burgers.
Like I forget that.
Like when it's not summer and I'm not grilling,
I forget that I can also just like make burgers on my stove.
I like winter patty.
A winter patty is nice.
Oh, here's the ditch to the drive through.
Those soup dumplings, Kelly.
Have we not talked about the soup dumplings yet?
The soup dumplings.
We need to pull up our text from this past week.
This is so interesting.
So the soup dumplings, maybe you've seen them at Costco
or at Sam's or at Bolt.
They're frozen soup dumplings.
They come in a pack of six.
You microwave the thing and then you have a trader Joe.
They're not soup.
It's not soup.
It's just like a little doughy thing with meat in it.
Little dumpling that has like soup and a broth inside of it
and meat and stuff.
No, there's no soup inside.
It's like a broth.
No.
That's what, okay.
Yes, there is.
It's like a soupy.
Like put them.
No, you're like, they're designed to put into soup.
Oh, okay.
Anyway, so they also sell them at trader Joe's.
Now Kelly had the trader Joe's kind and she had the Costco kind
and she only had one of each left.
And or she, so she made them for me and her one day
and there was a stark difference in the Costco versus trader Joe's.
Costco were much better.
It's important to note.
Sam's was also delicious.
I just had them.
But here was the fixings.
Here was the toppings that you put on top of them
that really elevated it for me.
Cupid mayo, sriracha and what is this Japanese barbecue sauce?
What is the brand of this Japanese barbecue sauce?
I have no, I think it just says Japanese barbecue sauce on it.
I think that's the name of it.
It literally says Japanese barbecue sauce.
It's so good.
You can also get it like a, you can also get it at Sam's Costco.
Like it's replaced Chick-fil-A in my house.
Like George is asking it for,
George is asking you to put it on everything.
Chicken nuggets.
We're adding this barbecue sauce to it.
Let's see.
It is so good.
It's literally called the original Japanese barbecue sauce.
The brand is back, backhands, B-A-C-H-A-A-N-S.
Bachans, backhands.
I don't know.
It has a little octopus on the front.
Excellent.
So that's what I just made in a pinch and it was dullish.
Dullish.
Oh my gosh.
I have one more thing to say.
I'm so sorry.
I hope people are listening to the end of this episode.
If not, I'll give an update later.
I also, I have another micro hobby I'm exploring.
I am so excited about one of my recent Etsy purchases.
So as you all know, Elizabeth and I have been on our press on glue on nail grind.
Now, I don't like a print.
I don't like a pattern.
I don't like a festive swirl.
I like solid colors.
I think that's just all I'm looking for in my nails.
And I was like, I know how to paint nails.
Surely I can just bulk order.
Oh no, I don't think this is a good idea.
These nails and paint them myself.
That way, if I lose a pinky on a Wednesday, I have the pack.
So I bought 150.
This was not a good idea.
I don't think extra short nails for $7.
Okay.
What?
What do you mean?
This is a good idea.
So what are you going to do?
You're going to put them on and then you're going to paint them.
No, I think I'm going to, like they come on a sheet.
I think I'm going to paint the sheet.
I like white and blue nails.
Maybe I'll do a bubblegum pink if I'm feeling crazy.
And I'm going to paint all of them.
Okay.
I just don't see a world where you keep up with this consistently.
What do you mean?
It's just like an extra step.
Like you have to paint them.
You have to wait for them to drive to do a top coat.
I know, but I made it for $7.
No, I made it for, it's going to be a 25 cent manicure.
A dollar manicure.
I can get 15, it's 150 nails.
I can get 15 sets.
How do they come though?
How do they come delivered to you?
They come like in a tray and I guess you pop the top off
and probably file that a little bit.
I can't believe you're not more on board with this for me.
I don't see you keeping up with this,
but I hope that that fuels your fire to prove me wrong.
I just paid my girl because I have a girl who like does them
for me, but she really specializes in like nail art.
So like she doesn't charge me a lot, but I'm like,
I'm not like, she's just painting them.
Okay.
So is the paint going,
cause the problem with like just painting your own nails
is they chip.
So is the paint going to last longer on the artificial nail?
I don't know.
I'll do an experiment.
Maybe I'll pull up.
Maybe I'll get a gel thing.
I'm still in it.
Oh, don't get a gel thing.
You're not listening.
Cause the problem with my sets now I get from my girl is like,
I get my white nails heaven forbid.
I'm installing a great coastlin fit 3LX.
I hidden the lock off.
I don't realize the nails gone till the dealership.
And now I have,
now I have a set that's missing a nail and that's so annoying.
Yeah.
And that's what's hard about being a press on nail girlie is like,
it only is as good as all the nails on your hand.
Yeah.
I can't believe you're not more on board with this for me.
I'm like, I thought you'd be like,
send me the link.
I'm doing the same thing.
I'm just, I'm just because,
cause I can already picture it myself.
Like I have my nails that I like,
like they're in an area.
I can't imagine like having to store 150 nails somewhere
and the paint.
And now you're probably going to have to get the gel light
and just like all this ordeal to do like the first,
like when I'm putting on my nails,
it's cause I'm like ready for my nails.
So now you got to paint them.
You got to dry them.
You got to come back to them.
And then you got to do it.
I just, I don't know.
Well, I've got an expensive,
I'm trying to offset the cost of my Fisher price loving family.
You're, you're right.
You're right.
You got to keep a pinch penny somewhere.
I can't have weekly manicures and
Okay.
Kel.
The dollhouse.
I want this to work.
I do.
Does it feel like you do?
I just don't, I just don't have a problem with my like,
I don't have a problem with my six 99 kiss nails from target.
Like that's working for my lifestyle.
Well,
but it's not a dollar manicure.
So we'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
Well, we, we will.
So thank you so much for listening to the carpool podcast
and we'll talk to you next time.
See ya.
Bye.
Love ya.
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