Shannon's Baby Announcement!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo in the morning, Shannon with

(00:02):
a big baby announcement. I think I do baby announcements here,
and I don't think I've mentioned you with baby announcement.
I've mentioned it before, like Megan and stuff like that,
but it hasn't been since Smith that we've even had
a baby announcement. But what's going on, Shannon?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
So I have been experiencing something really I'm trying to
think of.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
The right word to use weird lately.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
A handful of people in my life are pregnant right now,
and it has been.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Screwing with my head so much. And even though.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Wes Wes has been fixed, as people say, Wes has
been snipped, I had a surgery that the purpose wasn't
for me to not have any more kids, but it
would make it very difficult for me to have more babies.
So we are both like out of commission at this point.
I mean, obviously there are ways we talk about, doctor,
it would still be possible if we really really want
to have a child together, But seeing everybody else being

(01:03):
pregnant and my Lucy and Smith are about to get
a sibling here in a couple of months, and so
that piece of it like really made me go, Okay,
that's like wonderful for them and their family to have
that additional piece to blending, Like is that something that
we should have on our side, Like, is that something

(01:25):
that we want our specifically that I want. I think
Wes would have ten more babies if this man could.
He love babies specific he loves kids. You cannot pry
a baby out of his hands if he's around to be.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I actually asked you, guys. I mean I've talked to
you guys when we've all been together and stuff, and
I've said that I wondered because sometimes you see second
marriages with blended kids, and Wes's kids are a little
bit older, but now he's taken on the role of
parenting younger kids and he's so amazing. If the listeners
ever get a chance to see Wes out with Lucy
and Smith, oh my god, I mean he and Smith

(02:01):
are you know, they're like crazy with each other. There's
so much fun. Yeah, So what's going on? Are we excited?
Do you want? Do you guys want to have a
kid too?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And honestly, we we have talked about it, but it
was just one of those things where he will kill
me for saying this. You know, Wes is a little
bit older and I and we both I don't know
like it had been talked about, but I had been
really in my head about it a lot lately. So

(02:31):
this weekend, my little sister Jacqueline is out of town
and so our family and her really close friends are
all sharing responsibility of caring for her two girls, my
nieces Stella and Navy, and we had them Friday and Saturday.
And I don't mean this in a in a funny way,

(02:53):
but having them made me realize that I am good.
Like I am good, I am good with my family.
My family is very very very one more very.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Complete as we are.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I just don't have the energy for that stage of
life anymore. I like, and I think I needed that.
I was so excited and happy to help out my
sister with the girls, but at the same time, like inside,
I think I really needed that, Like, Okay, this is
it was and they are very good girls, they are easy.

(03:35):
I just I was like, I love being at the
stage in my life where I can be like Lucy,
go get your Cota and go get your boots on,
get in the car, ye Smith, go fix yourself a snack.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Guys go upstairs.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
To bet, Like I Gabby's dollhouse is not a thing
for me.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
House take my line, what life them? But no, that's
that's actually that's interesting though.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's a big moment for women.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
By the way, you do have a big moment for
women especially.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I will say this too, and I mean, this
is being extraordinarily vulnerable. But I've said this before, like
when you are heading into that phase of life, like Perry,
menopause has just about kicked my ass and that is
all that also screws with your brain of like all
of these other women in my life. We're pregnant right
now and I'm having hot flashes all night long like that.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
It is really weird. Well it's also too kind of
an interesting thing too. And I don't know if you
ever forget this, but you sometimes go, God, I wish
that we would have had more kids earlier, like in
it just ch else and I face this with a
lot with Luke was our surprise baby, and we should
have gone for another one right away, just because then
your family feels like it's a little bit more complete.

(04:49):
But you have like and then you you and Wes,
you want to kind of like, Okay, we want to
have something together, but yeah, but we do do you
have to? Do you have?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
And also could you imagine telling Kieran, who's a senior,
you're going off to college and we're gonna be in
the hospital, like he would die?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
But can I can I tell you something? And this
is really interesting. It is very cool when I do
see Wes with with Smith and I see you with
with with West's kids. You guys have done a really
good job because you don't ever like I never see
you as mom with West's kids, but I see you
as a really cool confident for those kids. Thanks, especially

(05:30):
like when I see you with Wes's daughter, because it's
like something kind of cool, like in both of you
guys don't ever step on the other parents. I hope not.
You know, feed it or you know the responsibilities. But
you guys are so good with these kids.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I really appreciate that I had Sam Samantha is her name.
We had a moment a couple of weeks ago. She
was going through something really tough and she came to
me with it and I was like in tears and
I I was holding her and I said to her
I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing. Like I
am trying so hard to be a good step mom
to you. I do not know what I'm doing, but
like all I can do in this moment is just

(06:04):
like hold you and love you. And I literally have
no clue what I'm doing as a step mom.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Here's what we learn if anybody does megane. If for
some reason you get the baby itch and you don't
want babies, don't put that woodcraft on me. Babysit Shannon's
sisters kids, they're such sweet curls. What's up, Molly? How
you doing? I want to be good? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
So?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
I I married my boyfriend ten years ago and I
had a daughter who's now eleven, and he had a
He currently has a fourteen and an eighteen year old.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
We were done. I have an IUD.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
We did not want to have any.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
More babies, and we just delivered six months ago. Are
triplet learned?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh my god, that's unreal.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Congrats surprise triplets with an IUD. Well that was fun.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Oh my god. So what did your man say when
they said?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
We literally both just busted out laughing.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I almost fell off the table. Actually, we didn't. We
didn't know what to do.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
There was just laughter for months, absolute month.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
You know what, though, It's meant to be and it's
going to make your family so complete. Katrina, what's up.
It's Mojo in the morning.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Hi, I'm mode.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
How We're great? What's going on? Good morning?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
I just want to tell Shannon. So I'm like her right,
like I love Shannon because I can kind of relate
to her and everything. So I have two kids grade
nine high schoolers. I'm so happy I don't have to
do anything. They can get themselves ready, take them to
school whatever. I just found fifteen years later that I'm
two months signs.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh my god, oh my So how did you react
when you first like realize it's happening.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Shannon, I was like, I gotta do it again. I
have to do kindergarten again. I have to You're like
with Rachel again, like you know Rachel that a stroller.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I was like, oh no, but you are so excited
right at the same time.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm very happy. Like everything kind of aligned.
We bought our new house, my husband opened a new business.
Like it just like if it was like I'm going
to stay last summer, like, let's stay. Before we bought
our house, I wouldn't crying because there was no room. Right,
we were living in the two bedroom apartment. Now we
have a brand new house. Like I think everything just
kind of worked out. And we've been trying for five years,
like I'm going to stay.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, Like.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
And I was like, it's never going to happen, right,
like I'm pushing forty. But no, I'm very happy. I'm
like I have the energy for him.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
I'm good, like I was amazing. Now you're gonna be
just just so you know, and you probably already done
the math, but you're going to be probably close to
six years old when you're sending your kids off to college.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
By the way, most them, my daughter has a picture
with you. She's in grade nine.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Like, I'm not going to.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Make myself feel old, but you have a picture with
her when she was six or seventy and she's obsessed
with you guys, and now she's fourteen fifteen, So.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's that's unreal. That's how he feels. I love you,
we love you too. I posted that yesterday the Bianca
when Bianca showed me the pictures of her with me
when she was a baby. Yeah, like ten or eleven
years old or whatever. Uh, it's up on Instagram. You

(09:19):
got to see that. Now she works with us. What's up, Sarah? Hi? Hey, Hey, So.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I'm forty one and I have three boys and we
my husband he was done after two, but I convinced
him for the third trying for my girl and ended
up having the boy. And I'm I'm like I said,
I'm forty one, and I'm still contemplating, like because we

(09:47):
we still have all the moving parts and working parts
and everything. But I go back and forth of like
I'm done. My my son's a leaden.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
My youngest is eleven, so I'm like, there's that gap,
and then I'm like, I'm almost free. My oldest one
is twenty one. My other son's eighteen eighteen. Yes, the house,
so I'm kind of look at that where I just want,
like I want my girl.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
But those kids are going to be if you get
if you decide you're going to have a baby, you're
twenty one year old and eighteen year old are going
to have very interesting reactions to that. Although you'll have
good babysitters.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I know my twenty one year old was ten when
my youngest was born, so now my youngest is around
the same age as when I had the bag. That's
my youngest. But yeah, I just I'm always going back
and forth where I'm like, I would love to have
my try for that girl, but I'm kind of like,
you know what, I'm almost free where I can start
traveling without having to worry about spring breaks or.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Schools and exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, it's kind of like going back and forth.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
So that's awesome. Well, you got to let us know
what you end up doing, and if you want to
make for sure, see what Jacqueline's kids are up to today.
They're so cute. It'll be a little baby