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Momma, look!
That's you!
This is gonna be so fun, guys.
(cheerful music)
(Jackson hums)
- Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm the World's Ok-est Mom
and I have a very busy life.
Between my husband, my two kids,
and my full-time job,
my time is really split,
so I wanna get back to focusing
on quality one on one time
so I'm gonna try something.
I'm gonna give each of my kids their dream day.
One entire day for them to do
whatever they want with just me.
Now I'm nervous about what they're gonna pick,
but I'm really excited to try this,
so wish me luck!
My whole life is kind of this balance
of trying to delegate time and energy equally
between both of my kids and my husband.
And we don't often do one on one time.
I don't know if this is just me
or if this is a universal thing;
everybody in my house tries to talk to me at the same time.
Sounds like this.
(multiple voices chattering)
Blah blah blah blah blah.
So the two rules for these dream days are,
one, it has to be something possible,
that I can actually accomplish,
so no rocket ships to the moon,
no visiting Mars.
Rule number two
is it has to be something that can fit into one day.
So it can be multiple small things
that fit within a day, or one big thing,
but I'll leave that up to them.
Today is the day.
We started with Jackson's dream day on a Saturday.
He woke up at like six in the morning.
You're all dressed and ready?
It is 6:30 in the morning.
It's his day, his choice,
but like come on,
we can sleep in a little bit.
Jackson, let him sleep.
It's his dream day too,
just a different kind of dream.
He decided to start the day off with a big breakfast
at our local diner,
then skateboarding at our favorite skate park,
followed by ice cream,
and ending the day with video games and pizza at home.
We're here!
We're the only people in the parking lot,
except one person, but I think they work here.
We might have the restaurant to ourselves.
We're very early.
Hungry Fox!
(Jackson coughing)
- [Hannah] You okay?
(Jackson continues coughing)
- [Hannah] He's thinking long and hard
about his drink choice.
I never let him pick whatever he wants to drink.
Keep in mind, we are going skateboarding.
So do you want to be super heavy with root beer?
(suspenseful drumming)
- [Hannah] How's that root beer?
- Good.
- I'm slowly starting to look like the mom
who does not monitor her kids' diets ever,
but I swear my kids are healthy.
- It looks so delicious.
- [Hannah] Holy moly!
I let him order whatever he wanted at the restaurant
because it's his day.
Anyone else's kids drink the half-and-half cups?
- I do.
- I swear I'm a good mom, I swear.
- It's me and you--
- [Hannah] It's just me and you.
Being just one on one with him,
it's just so weird how quickly time flies
because Jackson is seven
and I can take him out to breakfast
and we can sit an have a conversation.
Breakfast down.
Oh my gosh, we stuffed ourselves,
and now it's time for our next stop.
The next stop was skateboarding
and we had a little hang up.
Got my helmet on,
I feel ready,
except I stood on a skateboard
and I could not even stand on it,
I was so afraid,
so instead of going to a skate park
which was our original plan,
we're just going to go to a quiet sidewalk by our street
so I can learn the basics.
So Matt is really good at skateboarding
so he's taught both the boys.
They go a lot,
it's their little activity that they do together
and that's when I stay home and watch true crime shows.
I am not coordinated.
I am not sporty.
Oh my gosh.
- [Jackson] Push it--
- [Hannah] No, I'm too scared.
I'm too scared.
I'm really proud of myself.
I actually got some movement.
(cheesy music)
I kind of like ran into a pole once
but that was okay.
No one got hurt.
Ugh, I'm saying I was okay
but that's not true.
Whenever I lie, my eyes water up
and I just really lied by saying that I was good at it.
Just watch the footage.
You can see how I did.
Oh my god.
- [Jackson] You almost crashed into me.
- Okay, your turn.
Jackson really took this as an opportunity to show off
how much better he was than I am at skateboarding.
- Look, I'm winning! Mom!
- Oh no!
He was like mom why is it so hard
as he's like zooming off
and I'm just like rude!
(laughing)
I think it meant a lot to him that I tried it
'cause they've wanted me to try it for a really long time.
No!
- Okay.
- So the fact that I did it for him
made him feel really special.
Would I do it again?
No.
I don't know if you guys noticed,
but there is a lot of trash on this street
so we put gloves on and we're gonna pick up this trash
before we go on to our next adventure
'cause Jackson is really really thoughtful
about the environment
and it was his idea.
It gives me hope for the future that at seven,
Jackson can recognize
when something's not good for the environment
and takes it upon himself to do something about it.
He has a lot of empathy
which is something you really want your kid to have
and it's hard to teach.
Trash glove high five.
Nice.
So it was really hot out.
Skateboarding was done, so it was ice cream time.
Ice cream means frozen yogurt.
So we're gonna try a little fun game with our frozen yogurt
that Jackson thought of.
- I choose mama's and she chooses mine.
And here's a rule,
you have to make them good.
- I was very generous with my flavors and toppings
and I thought I really curated a nice frozen yogurt bowl.
I got you cake batter, blue raspberry, sour patch,
and dole whip, with animal cookies,
rainbow sprinkle, chocolate chips,
gummy worms, gummy bears, popping boba,
a maraschino cherry and I think that's it.
What did you get me?
- Cold brew mixed with tart.
- He also poured half a cup of nerds on top.
Mhm.
I can see where the effort was.
Cold brew with nerds.
(chuckling)
It was frozen yogurt.
Thank you.
- I know you would love the cold brew.
- Mhm. I do love it.
Whenever I lie, my eyes water up.
He just really overloaded it with toppings that he loved.
A lot of nerds.
But it was really cute
'cause he was excited to watch me eat it.
- I love the sour patch.
- [Hannah] I got a question for you.
- What?
- [Hannah] What's your favorite thing about yourself?
- I have a good family.
- [Hannah] What's your favorite thing about your brother?
- He's funny, kind, sometimes.
- [Hannah] What's your favorite thing that we do together?
- Having fun.
- After ice cream, we still had one thing left to do
for his dream day, and just like skateboarding,
it's an activity that I delegate to their dad.
The next order of business on Jackson's dream day--
- Is play video games and--
- Eat pizza.
I felt like a high school boy.
We're just on the floor.
Mm.
- I choosed ham and olives.
- This is really good.
I still got it.
I can still wolf down half a pizza
while I'm playing video games.
He wants to play Fortnite with me,
so he's gonna play on the switch
and I'm gonna play on my phone.
- Okay, where are you?
- Oh wait, how do I hit him?
How do I hit him?
What's going on?
Where'd I go?
I'm sure a lot of you like Fortnite out there
and you play it
and I'm sorry, this is not a criticism of Fortnite.
Please help me.
Help me understand.
- Mama, you're gonna die.
- Why?
Oh we have to go inside, huh?
- Yeah, you're going outside.
- [Hannah] I had fun with you.
- Me too.
- [Hannah] Today was really fun.
- Today was really--
- Thanks for picking awesome things for us to do.
- Thank you for picking awesome things for me to do.
- I didn't pick anything, you did.
- I did.
- You did.
- Thank yourself.
(laughing)
- It was so simple
but it seemed like it was such a full day
and we had so much fun together.
We should do this more often, huh?
- We should do this more often, huh?
- Oh my god.
He's just, he's really funny,
and he's really sweet
and he gets really excited about the things that he loves.
I just love that about him,
so it was fun to experience it one on one.
So we got Jackson's dream day in the books.
The next day was Wyatt's.
Guess whose dream day it is.
- What?
(child mumbling)
- [Hannah] Not the person who eats his boogers.
- Oh. Mine?
- [Hannah] Yeah.
- Yay!
(laughing)
- If you watch the show,
you know Wyatt's a little bit different,
and his dream day was all about being fancy
and self care.
You ready?
Nope?
Oh my god, stop eating your boogers.
So we start the day off with Starbucks,
followed by errands, including going to Target.
While we're at Target, we'll get some self care items
to then come home and have a fun spa time.
After that we'll eat sandwiches
and then go horseback riding.
After we're all cleaned off,
we're gonna read books in bed and do tuddles.
Tuddles are cuddles but he can't say cuddles yet
and I hope he never learns how.
Okay, we are headed to Starbucks.
Do you know what you want at Starbucks?
- What?
- [Hannah] Do you know?
- Yeah, cloud.
- [Hannah] A cloud macchiato?
- Yeah.
- [Hannah] We gotta figure out a way to get that
with no coffee.
I wanted to accommodate his choice
but obviously he can't have caffeine
so we got a caffeine free cloud macchiato
and he really felt fancy with that.
- Mm that's good.
Starbucks cloud macchiato's are good.
(laughing)
- I handed him my camera
and he is not a vlogger yet
but he's getting there.
- We're having, is it on?
Why is there a speaker right here?
- [Hannah] There's a microphone.
- [Wyatt] Hello.
- Oh, it's so cute.
What's your favorite store in the world?
- [Wyatt] Target.
- [Hannah] Target.
What's this on your hand?
- Oh this is a glove.
- [Hannah] It's a glove?
Are you wearing it to Target?
- Mhm.
- [Hannah] Why?
- [Wyatt] I don't have a hand.
- [Hannah] Oh, okay, so you better wear a glove.
What is on our shopping list?
I don't know what it is,
just the experience of shopping, he loves it.
- Bath bombs.
- [Hannah] Bath bombs.
- Face mask.
- [Hannah] Face masks.
We got lots of supplies for what was to come.
All right, it is spa day up and running.
So we have our candles,
I made us a spa fruit plate with of course, oreos.
I got these face masks, I don't know where they came from,
but they were straight up scary.
- [Wyatt] I knew it's so fun.
(screaming)
It's so funny.
- Wyatt's little face,
is a little too small for a face mask
and he just looked so cute.
Come here.
- [Wyatt] So cold.
- You look awesome.
(laughing)
Sometimes I forget that he's only four years old
'cause he has kind of this old soul
and he'll hold perfectly still for a face mask.
I don't think that's typical for his age.
Ready?
- Set, go.
(giggling)
- [Hannah] Oh did you just dip your sleeve in?
- [Wyatt] Oh I dipped my sleeve in.
(laughing)
(fizzing)
Oh it's drawing up your bath.
- [Hannah] Woo, it's turning green.
- [Wyatt] Whoa.
- So while he was in the bath with his bath bombs
I fed him fruit from the spa platter.
- Don't put it in the bath.
- [Hannah] I'm not, I'm just feeding you.
Do I think I'm spoiling him?
Probably.
I hope I'm helping him understand his worth.
If you don't have someone feeding you strawberries
in the bathtub, leave 'em.
How was your spa time?
- Good.
- What do you wanna be when you grow up?
- A youtuber.
_ A youtuber?
- Mhm.
- What's your favorite thing about your brother?
- Mm, playing.
- What is your favorite thing about me?
- Hugging.
- Hugging?
Okay, we're gonna finish this up and go to our next stop.
- What is the next stop?
- So after spa day was horseback riding.
It seems a little counter productive
that we did all the spa stuff
before going out to the dust and dirt
but we had to get a lesson slot
at the horseback riding place
and that's the one we got
and so that's what we did.
Oh man, I'm tired.
He's tired.
He was sleeping and I had to wake him up.
- Why does it smell so bad?
- [Hannah] It kind of does smell like horse poop, huh?
I think he was a little confused at the beginning
'cause the nap hadn't been quite long enough.
You ready to do it?
You're gonna be a horseback rider?
Wyatt?
Hello?
Wyatt!
Wyatt, look at me!
But he did get into it.
He's not a kid who gets outwardly excited often.
It takes a lot to get him to be over the moon
cheering and jumping and stuff.
- That was awesome.
- [Hannah] That was awesome?
Let's go to our next stop.
(blowing raspberries)
You excited?
Oh my gosh.
So after a long horseback riding lesson,
all Wyatt wanted to do was finish his day
with books and tuddles.
- I'm proud of myself.
- [Hannah] You're proud of yourself for your reading?
- Mhm.
- [Hannah] I'm really proud of you too.
- We help take care of the horse.
- [Hannah] Nice.
Maybe it's a younger sibling thing 'cause at bed time,
all of a sudden he turns into this kid who just wants
five thousand hugs from me
and if I don't cuddle him before bed,
it is the end of the world.
I have a child in my armpit.
Ouch.
(giggling)
Look at that.
He's really heavy and he's in my armpit.
Ugh, that's why we put up with his sass.
He's so cute.
I'm gonna miss so much when he doesn't wanna do it anymore.
It takes forever at night, but then I remind myself
that in two years he's not gonna want this anymore,
so I'll take it while I can.
Taking the weekend to give my kids their dream days
really highlighted to me
how much more of that we really need to do as a family.
Juggling siblings and everybody else,
things get buried and things get lost
and you don't have that full undivided attention.
I definitely got a better sense
of the things my kids love right now
and the things they prioritize
and it was really nice to be able to participate
in all of that with them.
It's so weird, my kids feel like mini adults, you know?
I'm not gonna cry.
My trigger is talking about my kids getting older
and that's fine and they are getting older.
Nope, nope.
They're gonna graduate, they're gonna go to college,
they're not gonna call me, they're gonna call me once a week
and then they're gonna see me on Christmas
and it's gonna be fine.
Who needs kids anyway.
So that's all I got for today.
I'm Hannah and have you ever had a dream day?
Have you given your kids a dream day?
If so, let me know how it went in the comments,
or if you have any other ideas for us for a dream day,
leave that in the comments as well.
Now if you'll please excuse me,
I'm gonna brush up on my Fortnite while Jackson isn't here.
Til next time!
I don't know the buttons.
(happy music)