The Irish Mummy Podcast | Work Life Balance

For us, Covid really highlighted the importance of being prepared, and it was also a stimulus for Adam wanting to become a hunter after he went into the market in Portugal and found that there was no meat available for purchase. Between Covid and the war in Ukraine, we just wanna make sure we are always prepared enough within our own 4 walls that if anything ever happened, the kids would never fee...

Today we’re discussing all about whether one more child is a possibility for us or not. We feel that we were going to have 6 children because Rosie a few years back got a strong feeling that this would be the case. Adam also had a dream that he was told to prepare our home for 6 children, which coincided with the feeling Rosie had about having 6 kids. We discuss how Adam is tired and doesn’t want...

In today’s episode we are reflecting on our one year in America, which seems to have gone by really quick. We got so focused on just trying to settle in that the time has gone so fast, and we haven't known how long we would be here, and then we have gotten caught up in trying to buy all these things we want here and figure out what are all the things we want to do. Adam has adjusted so well that h...

We wanted to do an episode on Buddy, our dog, because as a mother, Rosie struggled to know if she wanted a dog even though our kids said they wanted one, and we know that other mothers out there are going through this exact same dilemma. So we want to fill you in on how things have been going with the dog since we got it in January. It has been a lot of extra work taking care of this little dog, b...

We’re excited to present this episode, which is happy/sad. Adam’s 93 year old grandfather, Max Copp, just passed away and we talk about the hard things he has experienced through his life, such as growing up in the Great Depression, or living through WWII and watching his 3 older brothers go to war. With all the hard things he went through, he really developed a strong, solid character who never c...

On today’s episode we have a very special guest, Elliot Chudleigh from the Online Parent PT on Instagram, and our topic is simple health habits and helping parents to have more energy and feel good. Often in the fitness world there’s a disconnect between being a fulltime parent and “the fitness junkie” that makes being into fitness seem difficult or somewhat impossible, but Elliot has come up with...

You may have heard a little bit about the reasoning behind our schooling plan and what we’ve decided to do with it, but we want to give a little more context into Rosie’s involvement with the school and what she’s been up to. LiftEd is an online program that allows you, the parent, to be the mentor and not the teacher, but you can choose to opt into the zoom sessions, or watch the pre-recorded tea...

The day before we recorded this episode, we started recording podcast episodes again because we were ready to recommit and get our schedule all straightened out. Everything was set up for recording again and ready to go with nothing standing in the way, and then Adam decided to bring up a very triggering topic that had been on his mind all day and that caused things to get pretty heated between us...

Adam tells Rosie in this episode about how he feels he has been failing her and Rosie didn’t know beforehand what he was going to say. Adam has gotten his own thing started recently and has found it hard to focus on Rosie’s lane at all while he’s been focusing on his own, which he originally thought was OK because he was so focused and busy, but he has recently realized that it’s not enough. He go...

On today’s episode, we are talking all about LiftEd, which isn’t school, homeschool, or online school, but its own thing. We brought on 3 guests by the names of Peter Knecht, Tim Hall & Emily Crapo of American Heritage School. We’re going to discuss the innovative worldwide education alternative infused with faith and backed by 53 years of academic excellence. Students are taught by inspiring...

In this episode we’re talking about a shift in attention? Or should we have pushed through? We haven’t released an episode since before Christmas, but we’re happy to finally be back and discussing our lives and what’s been happening. We live up in the mountains now in a city called Heber, and it has been the wettest, snowiest Winter ever. We have experienced the most crazy storms, which is hard to...

We were watching a cute little cartoon with the kids the other day and the kids were learning about how an old prophet had rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in 52 days, and nobody saw it coming because he achieved so much with his crew in 52 days that no one expected so much activity to happen. The moral of the story was when you put your mind and action into a task, miraculous things can happen in s...

When we think about fight or flight, that is usually when we think back to our biological days when people were more vulnerable and basically your digestive system and things would start to slow down to make sure all the extra blood would go into our muscles, giving them the opportunity to fight or take flight. One thing we don’t think about often though is that some of us just freeze, meaning we...

On today’s episode, we’re talking about homesteading without a homestead, until we get our own homestead or ranch. We’ve always been a little bit drawn to that lifestyle, but this is the first time where this space has actually been opened up for us to try this living, which kind of started with the homeschooling. Kids get bored easily, but living on land would create less area for them to be bore...

We for certain reasons both genuine, and stupid and frivolous as well, we had incurred debt that was necessary, but the vast majority of it was stupid debt that we really didn’t need to accrue with bad spending habits and some bad investments we had made. We have 3 things we did to get out of debt that have worked amazingly well for us. Number one was creating a budget, number two would be recogni...

We have just had Halloween 3 days ago and our pantry is just chock-full of candy. Halloween here is different than other countries because on the first of October everyone puts up their Halloween decorations and it’s kind of just a month-long celebration of fall and spooky season, and then the day afterward people are already taking down the decorations and setting up for Christmas. It’s been fun...

One of the things that we think is so important and is something Rosie loves watching on social media any time she engages, is good role models who are mothers. Actual good ones that aren’t just making their kids an accessory to the side, but are knee-deep and full on into motherhood, embracing in 100%, and you can see it in their own demeanor and their children’s demeanor that they’re happy. Most...

Today we’re having a homeschooling update and it’s gonna be 5 minute tips, tricks, and tools to make your homeschooling great. There’s a program called American Heritage School that our kids are able to do online and this program is awesome because it lets us go at our own pace and approach things how we want. We’ve been using Duolingo for language learning with the kids and they’ve loved it so fa...

The inspiration for this topic came from a post that Adam read on Linkedin. The post reads “Last year when I got laid off, I thought I had lost my dream job. Instead, I created my dream company. 12 years ago I left San Francisco heartbroken after a bitter breakup. I met my soulmate in New York soon after. We’ve been happily married for over 10 years. 8 years ago, my husband and I quit trying to co...

Today’s episode is about teaching our children about business because school is not going to do it. We’ve set up some ways to help our kids understand how business works and Rosie’s background is in branding and marketing, which concepts she will teach to them simply, and Adam will be teaching them about revenue and the financial side of things. We’ve helped our kids create a little cupcake busine...

We’ve had people say you can’t shelter your kids and if you look it up in the dictionary, it’s a horrible description that says stuff like strict parents who won’t let their children into the world. Someone requoted this definition and said it was discerning parents who are careful, and respectful to introduce kids to the real world when they’re grounded and prepared. When they’ve got the foundati...

On today’s episode we’re talking about how to teach your kids to save where they value it. Rosie is an incredible saver, is incredible at money management, and has really helped Adam change to be better with money. Our simple tip is just show your kids the principle of compound interest and how it can grow if they don’t touch it and keep adding to it. A tool that we use to change out kids’ minds 1...

Today we’re talking all about helping your children and even ourselves to tell the truth. Patty didn’t want to join a Zoom meeting he was supposed to be on, so he started fabricating an idea that would prevent him from having to go on the call. This is when Rosie just had a frank conversation with him, telling him that if he really doesn’t want to be on those calls, he can just tell us and we won’...

We’ve had a pretty amazing weekend. Our church does this thing we call General Conference twice a year where our leaders talk to us about things that are applicable to help us have more happiness and joy in our lives, and to live a more anchored life. While Adam was listening, some past things started coming up in his mind that made him start to blame Rosie and want to compete with her, but after...

Today’s episode is an exciting one because it’s Adam’s tips for raising boys. We have 4 boys and 1 girl, and we kept thinking there would be more girls, but the boys just kept coming. Adam has learned as we have had more and more boys to be attentive to the boys’ needs as they often see him as their example of how they should be. You have to realize that not all your kids are the same and you have...