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mojo on the morning show shannon had her first opportunity to do it do it right and she failed at it and it was at being a stepmom i can't imagine i think you would be a great stepmom

i think i'm a really good stepmom so actually i do i wondered when you were becoming a stepmom

If you're going to be, like, cool stepmom, which I think you are, probably, like, the fun, like, friend.

Yeah.

The one that hides, like, things from Wes and stuff like that.

This is very accurate.

Am I good at reading this thing? Like, you're not stepmonster. Like, there are stepmonsters, you know, where they're, like, I don't want the kids around. Like, you seem like the type where you'd rather have him not around, but the kids around.

Yeah. And I love, I love Wes's kids. They're great kids. we have very different for the most part very different parenting styles Wes and I do so he is a little bit more I don't know if I want to say strict but yeah for the sake of the conversation he's a little bit more strict I his kids are very self-sufficient because that's just how he raised them we're my kids and I'm always like but they're little but I kind of do everything for them so they leave something out I pick it up put it in its place which I know is bad but I'm just I'm a way more laid back parent um so the other night our my stepdaughter sam who is going to be a high school sophomore she was doing her laundry which is amazing by the way that his kids do their laundry my kids do not um i need to start making that happen but when she was putting her clothes from the washer to the dryer Wes's clothes were in the dryer and so she took them out and she brought them upstairs to our bedroom and she plopped them on the floor and so I walk into the bedroom and I see like a pile of Wes's clothes on the floor and I was like he is not gonna like this at all and so my first instinct was to just start picking everything up and folding it and putting it away. And then I'm like, no, I know that he would get on me about that because he wants his kids to, you know, follow through with all of their chores and stuff that they're supposed to do. So I go downstairs, he was working in the garage, and I said, hey, you know, I explained what happened. I'm like, how are you, how do you want to handle that? Like, we've only been living together, all of us under one roof for like two weeks. And he was like, Shan, you need to go upstairs and tell her that that is not cool. And she needs to find a better spot for all of the stuff that she takes out of the dryer. Holy Jesus, God, anxiety. I'm like, wait, me? I go, why don't you just go tell her? And he's like, nope. This is your first task as a stepmom. Go talk to her about it and just tell her. You need to, you know, put it on the bed, put it anywhere, but you can't just throw the clothes on the floor.

Why is it you? Why was it you then?

Because he was busy doing something. And I'm, like, you know, trying to clean up and do whatever. He was out in the garage doing whatever he was doing.

I agree, because then you look like a snitch. If he's going to say something, then it's like, you want to kill him?

You want to kill him? You want to kill him? You want to kill him? You want to kill him? That part of the conversation aside, I'm like, so I'm trying to, like, give myself a pep talk here. I go upstairs. Her bedroom door is closed. And I'm like, I'm not knocking on a teenage girl's door and having this conversation with her. Right. And I also don't think that this is that big of a deal to begin with. But to him, it is, which I understand. So what do I do as stepmom? I text her. Hi. heart emoji i don't want to bother you in your room double pink heart emoji i say this super gently i think it might be a good idea to come and put your dad's laundry in a better spot than on the floor my guess is that he's not going to be super happy about that another heart emoji and the little emoji that's like and she did so then west comes upstairs and he's like see it wasn't that hard like she put the stuff on the bed i was like yeah and he goes well how did she react i'm like well i texted her and she did it and he's like you texted her why could you not just go and talk to her about it i am so scared like i want i'm so scared in those situations i don't i don't think you failed i think i i don't know i don't think you failed because you got it

accomplished and and that's how you like i think thank you but here's see i disagree with kevin on

the whole snitch thing i think that i i just know that's a rule i know she didn't know she didn't

know that you went went and said something to west west could have equally have just said to her hey you put my clothes on the on the floor come pick them up and do it you know whatever and not know that shannon's even involved in the deal i don't necessarily know why like i don't think that you necessarily needed to be the person to reprimand. I think he wants

me to kind of assert myself a little bit more and that is just really scary. Honestly it's very scary for me because you know like I said our parenting styles are different and I also I want

them to like me. At a certain point

do you think it's harder to because she's in high school? Like do you think it would be easier for kids? Oh teenagers terrify me and they're the best kids in the whole. You guys have all met them they're the best kids and i'm not like sugarcoating they are great kids and so i it's i don't yeah

but i'm a 15 year old oh my god so when sherelle moved in with josiah and i this was something that we had to go through yeah and if you do not assert yourself at a certain point inside there's no perfect time right obviously you want to do it the right way so you don't come off as like the a-hole right or who do you think you are and we went through some of that stuff it may be tough and I think age does play a huge factor into this situation, but it has to be done because they'll run over you if you allow them to.

Yes, and Wes said this, and my therapist said this, because I do pick up after everybody. My kids, that is my thing, and everybody has said to me, do not set that precedent. If that's not how you want your household to operate, don't set the precedent, because to your point, I'll be a doormat.

And I bet another hard factor is, too, like, you guys didn't both move and start over in a new place, whereas they moved in with you, which makes sense. If you knew the whole backstory, that makes a lot of sense. But I'm guessing it's a little bit hard, too, to be like, you just moved into a space that was predominantly mine. And now I'm setting up these boundaries and rules, and you want her to feel welcome. It's just hard.

It's really hard. To me, you would have failed as a parent, because I still don't think you failed as a step-parent. You would have failed if you would have picked up the clothes and put them away, which would have been a Shannon thing to do. You would have just said, all right, I'll just do it. That would have been a failure. You would also have failed if you, you know, like, I don't know, I think that the text was perfectly fine. Like, I think that was actually sweet, because it shows that...

That you give a crap and you don't want her to, you know, her dad's, you don't want her dad to get mad at her for like just throwing her clothes in there. And you're like, hey, this is cool. That's actually kind of a, like, I don't think it's wrong or bad because I had a stepmother. I would rather have a stepmother who was my friend than a stepmother who was my mom. I already had a mom. I don't need another mom. And she already has a mom.

She has a great mom. Yeah.

So I think. I am not trying to step into that. Like, there may be a time where you may have to, if they're going to do something that's dangerous and going to get them in harm's way, there may be a time where you may have to go, no, you cannot do this. You're going to hurt yourself or you're going to hurt something, you know, going on. Like, you may have to step up. That will be the time that you have to do it. But I don't think that over clothes, like, you know, it's like, what do they say? Who cries over spilled milk? Who cries over spilled clothes?

Mojo, I'm not joking. I, like, walked up those stairs. I was like, I'm so scared.

Did you text her outside the door?

Why did I like that? Oh, I saw the door was closed. I was like, phew. And I just walked back into my room.

Heather, what did you want to say to Shannon?

I think she did great. You know, she addressed her on the element that the kids are used to nowadays, which is all about the phone. You know, kids today sadly don't handle face-to-face that well. So, you know, she got on a teenager's level. And I think that's awesome. You know, she reached out on the level that her stepdaughters are comfortable with. So, good job, Shannon. Thanks.

I actually think it's kind of nice that you call her your stepdaughter. Because I know a lot of times where people will marry people that have kids. And they will never refer to them. They will refer to them as Wes's kids or my husband's kids or whatever. And I will say this to you. I think that sometimes they do that and the kids, either that's how the kids want it or, you know, that's kind of how they want it because of the mom or dad, depending on it. And I think it's kind of cool that you do that.

Oh, yeah.

Because I think it makes it more like, okay, I actually care about you a little bit more than just I'm your dad's wife.

My dad's not remarried, but he is dating somebody and I call her new mom.

That's correct. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? I mean, there's something kind of cool about that. I love it. What are you going to do? By the way, doors close with teenagers. Let me give you a little advice. When a door is closed in a teenager's room, don't ever just walk in. And don't even knock and just walk in. Like, wait until you hear them because especially, you never know.

How many boners have you seen, Mojo?

Yeah, I've not seen a boners, but I've definitely walked in when I probably should not have walked in. But that's always that's always bad. I remember when my dad and my I don't I never called her my stepmother. I called her Sue. But I remember my dad and Sue got together and I never lived with them. They kind of went off on their own and did it. But I was over at their house when I stayed there. I stayed at their house one night. That was it. One time ever. I stayed at their house and it felt so weird and I remember that she knocked on the door to tell me that dinner was ready and it just was so weird for me and so I put myself into the you know Wes's kids you know um and you were like the same you were a teenager right I was at the time I was probably 16 17 years old I used to was why Wes's son's age yeah when it happened and I'm gonna say this to you it was weird because it wasn't my mom you know that was the one and it was this which i

understand that so it is i mean i had a stepmom she you know and she took me out i don't know why

i said that in past tense she's awesome so she took me out and i think you've done this with the kids but she it may and if you haven't this is kind of cool she took me out and i'll never forget this and we went to lunch she goes i want to take you to lunch and we went to lunch and we sat there and we had like a two and a half or three hour lunch where she like talked to me about my dad and what she loved about him talked about me asked me about like myself started asking all these questions and it was the most intimate I've I ever was with her other than my dad passed yeah and we were in hospice yeah and I will tell you that I almost wish I had a better relationship with her yeah you know because she was married to my dad for as long as my mom was married to my dad wow so it's pretty wild yeah that's cool i i love when i see uh wes's kids like because i worried about them having to move you know because the dad was moving to a totally different area right and in high school of all things yeah so that's cool by the way happy birthday to west

today.

What?

Oh, for real?

Dog, why did we call him? Yeah, it's his birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.

Wait, what are you doing for his birthday?

So, he is not a birthday celebrator. He, the only, yeah, he, like, Father's Day is his holiday that he likes to celebrate. He could care, he could not care less, excuse me, about his birthday. Like, he just doesn't care. But we're still, we're doing a few things today. I got him a really good gift that I'm so excited to give him, but I can't say what it is because it'll spoil his surprise. But we're just hanging out. We're, like, barbecuing in the backyard. And we've got some stuff up barbecuing today.

Does he have to do his own barbecue, birthday barbecue?

Kieran will do it. Wes likes to do that kind of stuff. I'm still scared that if I turn on the barbecue, my eyebrows are going to go.

Hey, April, what did you want to say?

I texted in and had said that Shannon needs to stepmom it up. But I mean that completely in the nicest way possible. I understand how hard it is. I'm going through the same thing as well. And he is also harder on the kids than I am. but i'm trying to like put that role on here and then when his daughter that you know her mom's stuff that's their house and here i'm mom so it's it's been an adjustment but we're working through

it you know you need to do it's just like figuring out what those boundaries are and like where you

fit in and april you need to call and we need to get your number when shannon has issues like where she's wondering what to do and you guys bouncy things off each other since you guys are literally

in the same spot yeah it's extremely tough and i also learned like since i'm new into the circle she is pushing boundaries so that's a tough thing too like trying to juggle where my kids are my kids are not pushing him as much but she is pushing me a lot so it's like trying to figure out where the boundaries are and how everything fits in and how we all make a family yeah six

of us so it's extremely tough yeah that's cool well you guys need you almost need a moment with each other where you guys earn each other or you guys both get each other's trust uh what's up

melissa you want to say something shannon yeah i thought she just did a great job i um have been married to my husband and been and he's been in my son's life for the last 14 years and it's just i feel like it's a very delicate relationship and you know he's 15 now and even when he does correct him which i don't mind i feel like i need to kind of soften that a little bit so he doesn't resent him um and they have a great relationship but i think shannon just did a

great job oh thanks thanks guys uh-oh the birthday boy's on with us wes happy birthday happy birthday to you and you're not a birthday guy why do you not why are you not a birthday guy

Eh, it's just a day I'm big on Father's Day Make a big deal out of me on Father's Day That's what Shannon was saying

In your family, did you guys have a lot of things Do they celebrate birthdays in Canada?

They do, but they don't know when I was born So there's a whole family history They don't actually know the day Wait, Woody Stop, that's the bigger issue

He keeps telling me this And I actually don't know this story I thought you were just joking

No, I'm just kidding

They don't know the actual date that you were born?

No, there's, like, I wasn't named for about a month. And then they couldn't decide a name. They had several names. And then when I looked at, like, family records, when my mom passed away and when my dad passed away, there was conflicting information of, like, our family tree. They had, like, my baptismal record had a different birthday and another doctor had a different birthday. And we don't know. We don't know.

That is wild. I don't know if anybody else has that. Are you really your age that you're telling me?

Oh, yeah.

Are you really? Wes.

Hold on a second. Is that the Cowardly Lion talking to me right now? Dude, don't be a dick.

Wait, wait, wait. Don't be a dick.

This is a topic for another day. No, no, no. Do not be a dick. It's his birthday. Let him speak.

Maybe.

What is that all about? I need to know. That's never been a topic, the Cowardly Lion.

I thought I entered in on a topic about Samantha and Shannon. Yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

Hold on. Sarah wants to comment on Wes not knowing when his actual birthday is. What's that, Sarah?

Hi. So my parents, actually, they both don't know their birthdays, and they've just been, like, piggybacking off of their siblings' birthdays.

It's crazy. People don't know their actual birthday. Their parents didn't know. That's amazing.

It's like, like, they're, like, immigrants, So, like, the U.S. messed up with their, both of their, coincidentally, both of their, like, paperwork.

Wow.

Which is so funny.

That's unbelievable. Well, happy whenever their birthday is. Or whenever they celebrate.

You could just pick it at that point.

No, the thing that sucks, though, is you can't go and get your discount at Red Robin. You know what I mean? Your free car wash.

Your Starbucks.

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