Oh.
You're a little bit shorter than me.
I'm so short.
We can lower me down.
I don't need to be...
I mean, it's good because like I'm the more assertive and powerful and commanding of us,
but we don't need to accentuate that.
I'm sitting on an ottoman, so.
And I'm in a wheelchair.
Welcome back to Monday Grub Bag.
I need to lower the camera though.
We look silly.
Ready everyone?
You look silly.
How's that?
Is that a better height?
This is camera woman Hannah.
That's a little bit better.
Hello everyone.
It's a great shot.
We're back from our cruise.
We are and we have a vlog about that, too.
Yeah, we're not even going to talk about the cruise because we have a whole video coming.
Check that out on Friday.
But this today is Monday Grub Bag.
It's our first Monday Grub Bag in like two or three weeks.
This is the series where we answer all of your most burning questions.
And where do we get those questions Hannah?
We get them from the comment sections of our Monday Grub Bag videos.
Yes. Today we're going to be talking about whether or not we will be home schooling our children.
Along with a bunch of other questions.
As we're preparing to have kids.
You have to have these conversations.
Yeah.
And you've been asking us all kinds of things that we don't have the answers for yet.
So today we're going to break down one of those topics.
Yeah. I mean this is something that we have talked about actually.
Yeah.
Before we get to that question, we have a bunch of other questions that all of you have submitted.
So I think we should begin.
♩ Hello. ♩
♩ Welcome to the show. ♩
♩ It's time to talk about our lives. (Chloe bark) ♩
Question number one.
What do you do when you see other people in wheelchairs?
I tend to hiss. Growl.
Shane is very territorial and so it's a threat to him.
Yeah. I have to establish my dominance to make sure that they know that if they cross into my territory,
there will be repercussions.
No, I do the same thing I do for any stranger out in public.
I ignore them generally or like say hi if they're very close to me.
Yeah. I mean, it feels a little bit like should you say hi, you know, but...
Yeah, like we understand each other.
But there's like a little bit more than just like a regular stranger, but you don't want to go out of your way to be like...
(yelling) HELLO! YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME!
But you should tell them what you do.
What do I do?
I mean, if it's not too embarrassing, you might feel.
Shane's going to have-- what, Shane, why don't you tell them what I do since I'm not sure what what's coming next.
Whenever we see someone in a wheelchair, Hannah's mouth kind of begins to like froth.
Like she displays signs of excitement and I hear her mutter things like, wow, that might be a good YouTube channel.
Maybe I could get in with them.
Wow.
And I'm always like, Hannah, you're using me.
That's enough.
We don't need to bring more people into this. But...
That was a good one.
That was actually well done.
Good job, Shane.
Shane, did you have a nurse or helper at primary school or at college?
I had an aide, a personal aide until third grade.
And that was just a person supplied by the school that would help me take my coat off and open doors and cut my food at lunch.
After third grade, I decided I wanted my friends to be the ones to help with that and I had a meeting with
the administration and told them that.
And they were like, yeah, sure, as long as you're responsible, blah, blah, blah.
And from then on, my friends helped.
Has there ever been a moment when you wished you could have deleted a video because of something
you said or did years ago that you now find cringy?
Yeah, absolutely.
Do you have an example?
There's a couple of things, our early videos.
I remember I dance in one of them and we don't explain what I'm doing.
We used to just film things that we thought were funny to ourselves and then we put them in a video
and no one understands what the joke is.
We have videos of you rolling off of a bed trying to do a handstand.
I mean, they're cute. Looking back on it.
But it's also like wow, we were babies.
Why did we put that in?
I would also like to say that on my old blog, like before I met Hannah, I wrote some things that
like I was very much a 19 year old at the time.
And I looked back on them like, ha, so that's out there somewhere.
Somewhere.
Forever.
Yep.
There is one specific thing that I said in a video that haunts me like very specifically.
I think about it probably once a week and this video is from, you know, two years ago.
But I'm not going to say what it is because I don't want you guys to go look for it or think about it.
I think about it enough for all of us.
It's really not like you'd probably be like, okay.
Is it something embarrassing that you said?
It's just, it was just a little, a little...
I'm trying to get you to say it.
No, I'm not going to say it.
So I'm not, there's going to be no more information about it.
But yes, there are things that we say in videos and then afterwards I'm like, why did I say that?
It was just unnecessary.
But you know what?
That's just us being authentic.
Yep.
Shane, when you get gifts for Hannah, Christmas, birthday, et cetera, how do you keep her from seeing them when they come in?
Do you have someone wrap them or have her put them away until it's time to open?
Yeah, it's difficult because Hannah is the kind of person that...
But I mean, she doesn't want her surprise ruined.
No.
But she likes to like, shake boxes and like, rattle them, "What could be in here?"
Oh, that one's this big and that one's this big.
Yeah.
I like to enjoy my presents before I open them, but I would never go like looking in a... if I know that
they're in this closet, I will not go look for them.
But the way that we handle it is like, usually Hannah's mom will accompany me either to a store or wherever
I'm buying gifts, or I'll like give Liz a list of items and be like here.
Can you please procure these things.
And then I do a lot of online shopping and around the holidays and birthdays,
we have a very strict rule that...
To not look at where boxes are from.
Yeah, don't look where it's from.
Yeah.
If it says it's to Shane, look away.
Yeah.
And I don't think it's ever been ruined.
No.
And then my mom just helps Shane.
They have like one day where they wrap Christmas presents or birthday presents and yeah, that's about it.
Do the two of you think you might homeschool your child when the time comes or public slash private school?
So I think if you'd asked me, you know, eight years ago, 10 years ago, before I knew Hannah, I would have said
definitely not homeschool.
Sorry, yawning.
Because I never knew anyone that did homeschooling.
And then I met Hannah who did homeschooling.
Did you know that?
Do you want to talk about that?
Some of you know that, I'm sure I've mentioned it before.
I didn't do homeschooling in like the traditional sense because I feel like homeschooling you think of young children.
I did it for 11th and 12th grade, which I feel like is a little weird.
I was in public school to start off and then I moved states and went to a private school starting in third grade
and then I eventually homeschooled, so--
And when she says homeschool it was more of like a forced exit from her school, kind of like a ban.
Oh my God. No, it wasn't.
She really had no other option.
It wasn't.
I didn't love the school I was at at the time, and I wanted to be able to travel.
I was a very dedicated swimmer.
So I had practice once or twice a day every day for most of the year.
And then when I was off, I wanted to be able to like go visit my mom's family in Poland.
Like we just wanted more flexibility because swimming was so strict.
And so I decided to homeschool and my mom was like, okay, whatever.
And for me, the homeschooling wasn't like my mom taught me because once you're in 11th,
12th grade, like that's, you know, you're pretty far into teaching.
She's not like one plus one is two.
And I can imagine like, angsty teenage you.
Yeah.
Having your mom do like time to do your math.
Yeah.
And you being like, Leave.
Yeah, what? No. So for math, I remember I did an online thing, like a program that we purchased.
I did like debate in person.
I did an environmental science thing in person.
Did you debate other homeschoolers?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I competed against schools, but like we would practice, my debate class was with homeschoolers.
There was like a thriving homeschooling community.
Yeah, it was a co-op and so was the environmental science one.
It was just other homeschoolers and we competed against other schools in this environmental science
competition and we won our second year.
We got 11th our first year and we won the second year and we beat an environmental science school.
Wow.
Come on. And they had won every year for like decades.
They were like, what?
If you've been watching for a while, you already know this.
Yeah.
Because Hannah's Envirothon victory is like a focal point of her history.
It was a great, it was great.
I loved Envirothon.
But homeschooling overall, like was it a good experience?
Yes. I really enjoyed it.
And I can imagine like when we have kids, they'll want that traditional school experience.
I feel like whatever you're doing, the other one sounds good.
So I'm sure it'll probably be a mix.
I don't think we would just homeschool our kids and like they would never go to a school.
Yeah.
But that does sound very appealing because we like to spend our winters in LA and we like to travel a lot
and so I can see that being what we would choose.
And I feel like you and me are both capable and willing to be like that teacher role.
Yeah.
I did public school all throughout my childhood and thought it was like the best.
I never really knew people that went to private school or homeschooling.
And so then to hear Hannah's experiences with it, I was like, oh, like that might be a good option.
Yeah.
And I think it also depends on the kid.
If you have a kid who is not, you know, good at staying on track, like my mom has always said my one of my brothers would
not have been good at homeschooling.
You know, I was good at homeschooling.
Like it's different, you know, for different kids.
So I think we'll have to wait and see if our kid would be a good candidate for it.
So as with all things related to our kids, it's going to be a We'll Figure It Out.
Yeah. But I hope it works because I would really like to do that.
I'm going to make them call me Professor Shane.
Okay.
Last question.
Good one, Shane.
What is your favorite type of boxed wine?
I think this one is for you.
Not for me.
I can tell you Shane's favorite type.
Let's see... oh, can you?
Yeah. Well, Trader Joe's Chardonnay.
Yes.
That's what you always drink.
I began on the Franz, the Franzia as some of you may know it.
That was when I was like, you know, early college and it was like a dollar a box.
That tastes like garbage to me today because I've become more refined over the years.
I've graduated upwards to black box Chardonnay.
I didn't think this would take so long.
Trader Joe's Chardonnay.
But really, yeah, Hannah was right. Trader Joe's is my go to boxed wine.
Yeah. Thank you.
That's all I have to say about boxed wine today.
Thank you for that in depth response about your history.
We'll have a longer video about my box line preferences coming out soon.
All right.
That's it.
Monday Grub Bag everyone.
We'll see you on Wednesday for our podcast episode.
And Friday for a vlog about the cruise.
Yeah, it should be done by then.
We'll hope, we'll keep our fingers crossed.
It'll be out on Friday.
Yeah.
Now that we've said it, you have to do it.
That's true.
All right.
Bye everyone.