Luke Wendlandt shares a warm Mother's Day recap, describing family brunch, handmade cards and a decade-long KFC dinner tradition. He reflects on preserving rituals and making special moments intentional.
Luke opens the live stream with cheerful Monday greetings, mentions the music, and gets everyone ready to begin. This brief intro sets an upbeat tone for the episode.
Luke asks who celebrated their mom and then shares how he celebrated his mother and wife, describing the egg bake, card-making, and family moments. The segment paints a warm picture of why the day felt meaningful to his household.
Luke tells the backstory of how his wife once asked for KFC to simplify the day and how that request turned into a decade-long Mother's Day tradition. He describes the specific meal and how sticking to that choice preserves the day's specialness.
Luke broadens the conversation, urging listeners to preserve special moments and traditions so events remain meaningful rather than commonplace. He shares examples like his regular half-marathons and argues that creating special moments takes discipline, intention, and the willingness to do things differently.
Luke closes by thanking his mom and wife, recapping that keeping 'the big thing' special is what matters, and encourages viewers to identify ways to make relationships and occasions special. He signs off with well wishes for the week and a final goodbye.
Happy Monday! Hope everybody's having a phenomenal start to your week already. Happy Monday to you and yours. We'll give it a second. This Teddy Swims, his voice is incredible. Absolutely incredible. Like I said, happy Monday to you and yours. Again, my name is Luke Wendlandt. I've been here since day one. I live for this community. I love it so much. Thanks for joining in. And in five, four, three, two, one, we'll stop. Oh my gosh, that's a great track. All right, happy Monday! Let's go! Who here celebrated their mom?
Who here celebrated their mom yesterday? Me too. I celebrated my mom and my wife. It was amazing. So my mom came in and stayed at our house. We had an egg bake in the morning. It was phenomenal. Just great to spend time. We opened cards. All the kids made cards. for my wife, which was so cool because they're like these special cards that they make. I will have to take a picture of all of them and post it in the chat here at Cadre, but it'll make your heart really happy. It's just beautiful. My son Cameron says, Mom, this is your special day, like in the card, Mom, this is your special day.
I can't wait for KFC. So this brings me to a tradition like any other, most people think it's the masters, in our house it's Mother's Day. Mother's Day is the most special day. It is the most special day for our family. It's all about mom, start to end, whatever she wants to do, however she wants to do it, whyever she wants to do it, it's all her day. But about like, call it 10 years ago, I don't know, don't hold me to that date, but call it about 10 years ago, M just said, we have one at home, we have another one at home.
I'm tired. Can we just order food instead of going out to eat? It's like, it's just, it's not fun for me, with the two-year-old and the one-year-old, like, can we just get food? And I'm like, that's fine. What do you want? She's like, KFC. like, KFC? Like of all the opportunities, whatever it is that you want for food, it's like, that's the one. She's like, Yes, I want KFC. I'm like, Okay, sounds great. So I go and I get the chicken, the coleslaw, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, all the things, and it has now been our tradition for Mother's Day, for dinner, for the last, like I said, 10 years.
And so again, wrap it up tonight, she takes the dogs, last night, take the dogs for the walk, has a great time with that. I come back with the KFC and that's like her dream. But at any rate, it was just all the day for moms. And I just hope that every mom just knows how special they are in this world. Moms really are the best. Cole, Speak Wonder, I hope you had an amazing Mother's Day and my mom's 95th birthday. That's amazing. I love that. You know, you just, you never know anymore, you know, how many more Mother's Days you get.
And so take them in. Have it be special. Love those individuals up in your lives that matter so much. But I think there's a bigger lesson than just Mother's Day here with keeping things special. If nothing is special, then how do you start to understand going to that amazing golf course, having a phenomenal dinner, bringing yourself to out on a boat, spending time with friends on a weekend where you guys do something special and there's tradition. So if nothing's special, then what can be? And so, but there's something really important to this.
Nor my wife or I will have KFC whatsoever through the duration of the year. Not that it's my favorite place in the world, that's irrelevant, but she won't have it. I won't have it because we're gonna keep this special for that day. So for 364 days, whether it's discipline or not, I mean, I'm not saying, I just wanna reiterate, I'm not the biggest KFC fan. It's just the special moment of this tradition that's like no other, that that's just what we do. So I encourage you to think about some things.
Cole, I saw Cole on this live stream. maybe there's like the running event that it's like really, really special to you. Maybe it's a marathon half a year, or maybe it's a marathon a year, or maybe it's two marathons a half a year, whatever it is, but then they can remain special. You know, and I think I told some other individuals about this before, but every single weekend for four and a half years until I had this lower back flare up, but every single weekend, I ran a half marathon every weekend.
That was special to me. That was my special time. That was my special moment. How do you keep things special? And what are those special things? Because I think like in our world, we're being diluted with almost anti-special. And you can create these moments, but they take discipline. They take intuition, ingenuity. But most importantly, what I would argue is they just take the ability to say, we're going to do something different here today. And we're going to change the narrative for us. And let's see what this tradition may unlike.
But at any rate, one last time, our Mother's Day yesterday was incredible. Mom, thank you so much for coming into town. It was the best. To my amazing wife, Emily, I hope you had an incredible Mother's Day. That's really what this is all about. But keeping the big thing the big thing was your special day. And inside your special day is KFC. We planted some flowers. We did everything that you wanted to do because it is your day. And that's the special part of it. We made those special cards. We had that moment with the kiddos, which was fantastic.
And it's not about stuff. It's about special. And it's about keeping things special and keeping things special for somebody. So giving yourself all to somebody else, making sure that they can experience a moment that matters so much to them. With that, you all have the best incredible week I encourage you to have some light bulb moments here to say, you know, how can I keep things special? Maybe it's a relationship, maybe it's a friendship, maybe it's at work. But what are those things that you can do to remain special for others?
You guys take care. Dr. Sreese, have the best week. It's going to be a good one. Take care of you all. Thank you again for joining. Love you all. Luke here, bye-bye.
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