To My Side Dishes, 

First of all, I want to thank you guys for the amazing love and support you’ve shown this page over the last year. Making videos that reflect on the reality of motherhood, and connecting with so many other amazing parents and viewers has been something I will never forget and will cherish forever. 

With that being said, Myles and I have decided that I am going to shift my focus from content creation to other areas at You Betcha. This will also help free up more time and energy to spend with my family.

I can’t tell you how grateful I am for each and every one of you. While the Hot Dish page will come to an end, you can still follow me on Instagram @LakenOperationsGal. Love you guys so much ❤️

Cheers,

Laken

This week we have special guest Alex aka thefamilynutritionist on to talk how to handle toddlers and them being picky eaters, but before she comes on Laken, Sarah, and Kasey go over foods they use to love as kids, but now can’t STAND them as audlts.

You can find Alex on

TikTok- thefamilynutritionist

Instagram- thefamilynutritionist

Facebook- @thefamilynutritionist

Website- https://myfamilynutritionist.com/

Laken is out of the country and Kasey and Sarah have some FOMO so they bring Macey on to talk the best ways to save up for their own vacation. Later on they call Laken and get the latest on how her vacation is going.

Laken is making her last minute arrangements to leave for Mexico (Finding a house sitter, dog sitter, and packing her kids bag for Grandma's) and she talks about some of the stresses of both her and her husband being away from their child for an extended period of time. She also goes over some of her most memorable parenting mistakes she’s made.

The girls all dressed up as their favorite pop stars and talk about where their idols are at now and who’s this generation’s Britney Spears or Gwen Stefani is. Later on Dean the Military Medium joins and everyone does some intuition exercises involving Play-doh and blindfolds. (22:24)

The gals kick off the episode with their, “Rose, Thorns, and Buds” for the week. With Halloween quickly approaching, Laken wants to know if themed family costumes is annoying to do and when do you stop going with your kid trick or treating. She also brings up that houses should be handing out adult drinks for the parents suffering out in the cold.  

Laken is not in a good mood this week, she’s recovering from hosting her kid’s first sleepover, and she realized that kids today don’t realize how good they have it. With streaming services, iPad’s and not needing to memorize phone numbers. Later on in the episode Laken has been thinking about getting a side hustle to have some extra cash and the gals go over some great ones to do.

This weeks episode Laken gives a deep dive on hacks you can be doing to make your life as mom easier. With it feeling like fall now the gals go over some underrated/ overrated things about the season.

Alright Side Dishes we asked and you answered! We go through some crazy secrets involving, stalking, Frozen and getting revenge on your ex. Later on Jerrod and Jake make an appearance to go head to head and compete to see who’s more knowledgeable when it comes to women.

This weeks episode the gals recap Laken's birthday weekend and all the fun shenanigans they got into which included trivia (which they won!) and playing sex toy bingo. It’s closing in on the start of Laken, Sarah, and Kasey’s friendship and they go over some of the signs that your group of friends are in it for the long haul.