Rachel Abrams

OK, so the idea for it is that we've been collecting all of these expressions that moms say, like mom mantras, we're sort of calling them little bits of advice that moms repeat over time.

Oh, isn't that cute?

Yes.

Can you guess what I've told people yours is?

No, I can't.

Really?

No, I can't.

What is it?

These are the good old days.

Oh, of course.

Right, yes.

Of course.

Which, you mean it, like, regardless of whatever's happening, no matter how old you are, you're always going to look back at, like, this moment as the good old days, right?

Yes, because we look back at things and we say...

oh, this was so wonderful, but we don't appreciate them when they're happening.

And if you look at things as you would look at them from the future, then you can see how precious they are much more easily.

Where did this even come from, this phrase?

Did you make it up?

Um... I don't think I made it up, but, um...

it's just from experience it's like i look at that photo and i thought at the time i looked so this and so that it's like wow looking at that time years later i looked so wonderful i wish i could have appreciated it then and i don't know how many decades it took me to finally realize it you know but i did want to pass that on to you before it was too late and i'm so happy it took