Welcome to Maycember - "September" Parody

Busy like Christmas but we're still in May... 🎶 This month is like December... just no cookies or twinkling lights. #comedy #parody #maycember
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[@shalawndudley2094]

The most relatable video ever. May is insane. Field trips, State tests, wearing something weird all week, teacher appreciation week, chorus, boy scout meetings, Spelling bee, 5th grade graduation. Somebody send help 😢

[@theholdernessfamily]

So. Many. Activities.

[@stephkent2736]

@@theholdernessfamily time to order some Dasherole to help out!

[@gayshafevold964]

Add some baseball games and tournaments

[@sarahgracetruth]

5th grade graduation?! 😂. Yeah NO

[@Cheray_]

🎯The mother's day stress shopping for Mom and MIL, who both have everything they want🤦🏾‍♀️

[@skival]

There is a fine line between "Parents should be more involved"and "Oh, dear lord, why did I volunteer for this"!

[@tiffanythomas7183]

I really think we should also get "Wake me up when Maycember ends...."

[@franceskoz]

The program with "And your kid goes last" was absolutely hilarious! 🤣

[@annekillheffer9700]

Penn’s utter joy as he sings and dances about your overscheduled life… I will randomly laugh to myself all day.

[@TheLauren1113]

This 100% captured my current situation. This week: 1 child had 4 exams this week. 1 child has both a band concert and a chorus concert - two different nights. The third child is in a musical opening tonight. I have to go three times because she’s in the ensemble opening night but has a lead tomorrow. Sunday is the music department banquet. Next week, more exams!

[@shalawndudley2094]

Wow! Last day of school, where are you?

[@KittiesofEvil]

To add to it both my kids were born in May. Two separate birthday parties to prep, pay for, and throw.

[@xtina1610]

I love Penn carrying the mike and walking along side Kim. 😂

[@danielleandrist2742]

This was so perfect. I’m a parent and a teacher and May is just insanity.

[@theholdernessfamily]

I can only imagine!

[@maroonwhite87]

Same here

[@c.j.snider5488]

Agree, and there isn't anything that can be omitted! Parent and teacher here. Add moving 2 kids home from college, in 2 completely different out of state schools...in opposite directions!

[@-Cece]

@@c.j.snider5488 thinking of you this season. Hooray for higher education, hope they did well!

[@deanallenjones]

I'm not even a parent and yet I can strangely relate to this :)

[@keylygar31]

Haha same

[@trinaq]

Preach, their excitement is truly infectious! ❤️🎶

[@CLB30ROX]

I work with kids a lot, so I totally relate to this 🤣

[@AlbertaRose94]

For Canadians it’s Junetember.

[@trinaq]

"Maycember" is officially the new "It's Gonna be May" meme. Your song is incredibly catchy, as always! 🎶💕

[@theholdernessfamily]

Thanks for being here :)

[@miyannapittman5580]

When your birthday is in May and can't have anyone over for a party because there's something every. Single. Weekend.

[@jamesconrad1100]

Our Daughter has a May birthday. It’s horrible every year because it usually falls on Memorial Day weekend. She either gets a party at the end of April or end of June

[@JoBenLee]

I am so glad someone made a video about May! Several years ago I realized how similar December and May are with programs, recitals, buying gifts, etc! It’s crazy!!

[@KOShea]

I can’t tell you how validating this video, and the whole “Maycember” concept, is to my life right now. Once again, Holderness Family hits the nail on the head! ❤️❤️❤️

[@SpEdMice]

The theme song of parents and teachers everywhere...thanks!

[@notvaporlocked5479]

Every time I see one of these I’m impressed by the talent required to put it all together

[@flerchin]

Yes this is exactly happening with us right now! Kim's exasperated expression while Penn sings behind her is hilarious!

[@karafuller3033]

This is too accurate. Summer is supposed to be relaxing, but it's already NUTS. Someone save us!

[@maryannhorchersmith5285]

My favorite Holderness video so far, and that's saying something. An instant classic.

[@Beth74]

Penn utterly slayed this!

[@SantosChronicles]

I need my life to he narrated by music like this. So good. My wife is a calendar machine.

[@elleneastwood7435]

Penn in the closet grooving and doing his golden retriever faces just sends me.

[@barthwhittaker5422]

My wife is a teacher and this is so true. Between band, teacher gifts, mother's day, school parties and birthdays, it is nuts.

[@barthwhittaker5422]

@@sarahpounds6064 This week is teacher appreciation week. But our schools are celebrating it next week. They are not required but it is just a nice gesture to let the teachers know you appreciate them.

[@kathrynsacdalan9244]

I propose we switch Father’s Day to May. Let Mom have June.

[@christaverduren690]

Life really did get 110% better once my son graduated HS!!! He's class of 2019 and these past 4 years have been bliss filled! May/June no stress of making sure he got everything done (that final stretch to make sure he graduated! and every September the stress of buying everything and he DID NOT want to go back to school). Yeah, life is good with no school anymore, forever!

[@Knight-of-Sarcasm]

My just turned 18 year old graduates May 23rd. I'm actually not looking forward to it. I think he did better in the structured environment with some excellent teacher role models. :) Hopefully he can continue to be friends with these teachers once he exits stage right.

[@christaverduren690]

@@Knight-of-Sarcasm Even with my son's ADHD and autism, school was boring and a whole lot of sit down and shut up. Never allowed to question anything, testing testing testing and never learning. it was all about the homework. WEll I fought tooth and nail and got it that he didn't have to do the homework anymore and didn't lose credit. He passed every test with flying colors w/o doing homework. He didn't need it to remember what was taught, he knew it and could regurgitate all they'd shown him. He was so bored that he got labeled 'disruptive'. WE fostered him out to family in another state.he did so much better there as he was mainstreamed! I was so burnt out (I have ADHD and autism too) from fighting the school every dang day. They refused to follow his IEP and I actually had to get a state pro bono lawyer to go after a teacher and aid that were bullying and abusing my son and allowing (with glee mind you) other kids to bully my son, even instigating other kids to bully him and his best buddy (both have ADHD and autism) The district is huge but with only ONE autism specialist for 10 elementary schools 8 middle schools and 5 high schools, the rest were just there to help slow learners! When you get an email from the Autism Up group on how to get through an IEP without CRYING - there's a real problem, and the entire time he was in school ( he started at 3 in a special school) we had nothing but fighting for everything. If it wasn't for me being burnt out with my own health issues, my son and I planned out things to do all summer and on the weekends and vacations. I did so much better when he was home than when he was in school!! He thrived having basic rules and an idea of what we were doing for the day, than rigid structure of, as I wrote, sit down and shut up.

[@Knight-of-Sarcasm]

@@christaverduren690 I hate that you had that experience. My son is also on the Spectrum and ADHD and was non-verbal so we started at age 3 as well. Thank GOD our district had hired a specialist for that preschool that happened to be SE spec'ed in Autism so she was able to help us those first few years. Even after being mainstreamed, my son does have trouble often in some subjects if the teachers are rigid and don't understand how ASD kids. It sounds like the majority of your district fell into the latter category. Our district isn't one of the huge ones. Those are the ones up north of us in Cleveland. We have a high school and a half due to a merger and numerous middle and elementary schools so there is more support. From your description it sounds like your district is similar to Cleveland's, and I wish you could have had a better school system. I'm glad that your post-high school years are going more centered and peaceful. From one mom to another who is also on the Spectrum and ADHD herself with health issues I sent you good vibes that the peace continues.

[@christaverduren690]

@@Knight-of-Sarcasm And I'm glad you've had that extra help!! My son was nonverbal too. So at 2 I started teaching him "baby ASL". I knew ASL but had no idea there was a "baby version" of it! My son went from a screaming grunting mess (I wasn't too far behind him lol) to watching me like a hawk. It took him a bit longer to do anything, but one day he climbed up on my lap and full on signed tome, "Help, more cookie please." I was so stunned, excited, overwhelmed... I gave him the entire bag! LOL That opened the floodgates for him, and we signed everything we could as I taught him more and more. He was like the robot Number 5 - more input! lol Once he was around kids in a play setting (my friends and family abandoned me once he got his diagnosis and it went from I was a lousy mother and that was why he was the way he was to this kid has legit issues and we want nothing to do with it) with other children who were verbal it blossomed quickly. I sit for hours a day even now, researching all I can about ADHD and autism. Pinterest has so much information from the kids (and adults) who live with this every day. I have it as well I think I wrote that lol Diagnosed in 2019 at 49, so I'm learning so much about myself! I never really thought of myself as 'abnormal' per se, just really quirky. But I can see kids (and teens and adults) now and recognize those traits that make them/us unique. My son is my home health aid, works 30 hours a week for 16$ an hour so he feels great about that. The special needs employment agency we went through told him to his face they couldn't help him get a job because he "refused to make eye contact" WEll after I got done -ripping them apart- educating them on how austistics cannot make eye contact and still follow conversations/instructions I realized this group was just sucking money from the state/gov and were a flop of epic proportions. He's got a ways to go, but I'll never give up on him. NY is just a lousy place for him to be. Other states have better programs and such. Maybe one day we can afford to move lol

[@Knight-of-Sarcasm]

@@christaverduren690 Erik had echophasia and so I heard Cars repeated back to me after watching it at least 16x a day, Yo Gabba Gabba, and believe it or not, Smokey and the Bandit! I'm 54 and I haven't been officially diagnosed, but I present all the signs of the ASD female symptoms. Girls/women are misunderstood because often they can do masking and be very social and still have ASD; it's just not the same as boys/men. There's a book I own that's called "Ten things your Autistic Child wants you to know" or something like that. It's on my bookshelf but I might be slightly off on the title. Reading that really helped me back in the late 00's when I was learning about Erik's needs. It also helped that I was working on my MAED and took as many extra classes to help him as I could at my university--phonetics/reading, Special needs, etc were all I was able to schedule. ASL though had a waiting list a mile long and was for the entire U and not just education students. So we learned to understand Erik's requests in other ways. Coping was a HUGE part of what I tried to teach him, and am still teaching him today as he's entering the adult world in two weeks. In teaching him, I learned myself as well as the best thing about him. Erik had a way of looking at the world in wonder and amazement, and things I just took for granted and overlooked he saw as special to him and beautiful and in time I started taking a moment to appreciate the everyday things in a new way. I still try to look at things from his viewpoint as much as I can--the scent of rain, the happy romping of a ESA dog we foster when his owner has to be away and can't have him with him, or the way our own ESA cats are laying in a puddle of sunshine on the bed curled like croissants. These kids are so unique and I love them so much. Other kids and parents just don't understand how much they could learn from our kids (and from us as well as ASD women)!

[@lavernejones4471]

You’ve done it again! You have taken one of my favorite songs and merged it with my life. The original song brings back memories of high school and the good old days. This one brings back all the parenting memories that you dreaded at the time but wish you could have again now that everyone is all grown up.😭Great stuff as always. 🤗💕

[@AS-mr4kj]

Yes! This is so true! End-of-the-year concerts, field trips, final projects, teacher presents, the strange warm and cold weather, summer camp sign-up, summer school, dance recitals, graduation, 8th-grade sendoffs, and high school transition! May is a whirlwind of crazy. Such a funny and accurate video!

[@mitchweiner]

I love how Kim keeps trying to hold in laughter! 😃

[@MsHiker100]

More partner dancing from these two!!! That was the best part.

[@MsHiker100]

I’m also remembering that these two dancing together in “libido killer” was probably one of their best comedy moments to date.

[@sheilamartin3145]

You're both such rays of sunshine and provide laughs when they are much needed! Thank you!!!!!

[@NOLAgenX]

Glad my kids are finished! This brings back so many memories I shivered in terror. Thanks so much for your consistently entertaining videos!

[@thekirksiffs5285]

I kinda got PTSD watching this. Don't forget the spring sports games, playoffs, state meets etc and banquets.

[@davidmarlajurek5038]

Yup… prom tomorrow, field day today, AP Exams and finals next week… and graduation before end of May. Needed this Kim and Penn!!!! 🙏😁

[@jenfong-nelson784]

You guys rock! Every video is crazy relatable and cracks my husband and I up. May forreal is just a crazy month, field trip, final projects, rainy days, 90degree days, graduations, teacher gifts, scouts, end of the year party, birthday parties, and don't forget making plans for summer on that calendar! ❤🎉

[@rachelcrossen8136]

Yes!! My kids are complaining too and I keep reminding them it’s like this every May. We just have to get through it

[@tinaperez7393]

You guys are great. Much empathy to all for the challenge that is Maycember.

[@genxkay358]

Penn on stage rockin it! You guys are just the cutest together. ❤😊

[@soul2soul399]

Normally this is my May… but for some reason this year, it’s chill. My son is graduating high school this year so I didn’t expect it to be this chill… but it is. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@kaylaports4449]

That’s probably because they put all of the senior activities in the same week in June.

[@lauraw6977]

You two are the best! Love to see you having so much fun together.

[@karenwortham1372]

In our family May has 3 birthdays and 1 anniversary plus Mother’s Day and all the other stuff. We have an unspoken agreement that all future births and anniversaries will need to pick another month.!

[@erikajohnston7965]

Yes! Thank you for this documentary!

[@Mom-pp5yn]

Loved your video! Can SO relate 🙏 we have 3 girls…born in 96, 99 & 2000… remember it well 🙏🥰 loved every single thing… Was the mom at every event and field trip…& football games every Friday and Thursday…but we’re now empty nesters…& SO THANKFUL THAT WE ARE NOT YA’LL🤣 God bless EACH OF YOU & HANG IN THERE… it’s over in a minute… seriously, CHERISH every single moment… hang in there Mom & Dad … YOU GOT THIS! 🙏♥️

[@ronlucock3702]

Well done guys. It's a bit different here in the Southern Hemishere in Australia. We're heading into winter & the Summer holidays start in December. But great job!

[@karennealy1857]

This is flat out brilliant. Spot on and fantastic rendition of the song, Penn! I danced to this as a college freshman lol. Now I relate to your version as a “3rd time around” school mom (teen stepsons, then my daughters, now mom again to an adopted grandson). Absolutely love it! BRAVO!

[@reneeelias9514]

I just had to chime in. All this hectic Time is so crazy but BELIEVE ME when its over you will so miss it! EVERY MINUTE!!! I am loving this song and as usuual crushing on your husband. …. Ah to go back and relive the MADNESS!!!!

[@jcrussell1448]

Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Ralph Johnson would be proud! Well done!

[@Cheray_]

One of my favorites ever...too relatable! Was on the verge of tears last week as I added Field Day and a field trip to the calendar🥺😢😢😭😭😭😭

[@susanherbert3014]

Ahhhh, I do not miss that craziness! And the dance recital thing- oh and the full dress rehearsal the night before the actual recital so you get to sit through it twice!!! Ugh. Good luck to all of you this month! 💖🍀

[@TheNekofanatic]

Your stuff never gets old, and is so relatable it just increases the humor. Thank you for continually putting out new content!

[@minminsun9647]

OMG - hilarious and very creative/inventive lyrics, and so true, hits home for sure!

[@judithharley9236]

Love this!! So glad to see a new video! You guys crack me up! Thanks! ❤️

[@MsAuburnluv]

I relate to this so much. Band, Choir, Theater…. Yes. Holy Moly!

[@semontgomeryUtube]

You all nailed it with this one! We have two graduations today, a recital tomorrow, and we both have sore throats!! LOL. Thanks for the laughs! Love it!!

[@homethatilove4595]

YES! May is Sooo Difficult with all things you sang about PLUS Graduations, Mothers day gifts, Teacher Appreciation week AND birthdays too. It's ALL TOO much‼️ (so stressful!) but my family & friends don't understand why I'm overwhelmed... I can't wait for June🍹🍍!!!

[@mistysierakowski4133]

Can’t stress enough how much I love these videos!! Laugh at each one and share them with others😂

[@i.dont.like.people.]

Trust me it’s just as hard on us kids. Just this week I have more testing after two weeks of it, a science final, probably a math final if our teacher ever tells us what he’s doing more than a day before, building a bottle rocket, a band concert, an honors program, a field trip to a local amusement park, writing a commencement speech for our graduation, and of course a huge history project worth 25% of our grade.

[@authorj.c.joiner7852]

My husband and I both teach, AND have kids in school, and I literally just told someone that May is as bad as December. You definitely said it more hilariously! 😂

[@sarasingssongs]

With 4 kids, I am feeling this one big time right now. Ballet recitals, choir concerts, music class "plays". Fall sports have already started practicing and add in field trips it's all too much!

[@karenwagner6880]

Love this!! Verrry triggering, since our family has three school-age kids involved in multiple sports, band, chorus, piano recitals, scouts, church, academic testing and programs, field trips, etc etc… PLUS, Mom and Dad are both music teachers, so they have their own band and chorus concerts, trips, etc. We’ll either have some wonderful memories, or our own wing at the convalescent home. 😂😂😂

[@DHoberer]

I love the cover of that recital program!

[@k-leydez5480]

Hard to pick a favorite of Holderness Music videos but this has to be it!!

[@theholdernessfamily]

You're too kind!

[@shutupshelley1793]

Just when I don't think you can get any better, you slay, slay again!! What incredible talent you two have! And seriously, you wouldn't be as good if you didn't have each other. Such brilliant fun.

[@KayoEll]

And here I was thinking you were having the same kind of weather in your part of the country that we've been having here... it's May, but the Temps are like December! Maybe not quite that bad, but other than 2 days of upper 80s (followed 48 hours later by 3-4 inches of snow), we've only FINALLY gotten out of the 50s late this week.

[@debbieg677]

LOL! Oh I can relate to this! I used to feel this way when I was raising my kids. You would think that once your kids were grown and flown that things would slow down but nope! Now we have all the grandkids things going on to attend...but we try not to miss any of those precious moments either. ;)

[@deedeewilliamson4162]

Fabulous!! Penn has the crazy eyes when not wearing sunglasses!!😂 happy Friday 🎉

[@theholdernessfamily]

Lol he really does.

[@kristinanoall]

As I just returned from my kids’ elementary school to watch my 1st grader in the Fun Run…in the cold wind…he was in the first group of the day, 5th grader is in the last. I’m supposed to check the “ABC calendar DAILY to see if 1st grader needs to wear or bring something specific to school for that day’s letter…feels like a lot, and my kids aren’t even doing any extracurriculars right now! And yes, summer camp registration always seems to be 6 months in advance! 😫 Thanks for an amazing video once again!!

[@missbeth347]

In Australia we do end of school and Christmas the same month. Seems more efficient 🎉😂

[@ophyjenkins8283]

So glad our final of 6 graduated last May. Woooooohooooo no more recitals, field trips, conferences, dance comps, and sports meets!!!!

[@rebeccawhite6620]

Another incredibly relatable, hilarious, and too true to life chart topping song! Love the insight and humor you bring to all our lives! ❤️😂

[@AnJohnson-w3v]

In Australia the school year finishes the week before Christmas so our May IS December!

[@ClarkS963]

The dance recital....SO ACCURATE

[@yazminwinsor]

My kids are 4 & 7, this is the first Maycember we ever experience! I had no idea this was a thing! I just noticed it was May and we were near the end of all of our scheduled activities and I’m running on coffee and about 4 hours of sleep trying to get through the last month. My husband says we should cool it with our activities and I agree, but I know after 2 weeks I’ll feel refreshed and sign up to a bunch of stuff all over again. I love this video! I feel seen 🤣😅

[@helenwood3199]

Great song, Penn. You are not wrong. Teachers are sooooo done by May!!!

[@sharachong]

Haha, I clicked this thinking it has to do with how cold it has been this spring 😅 but end of school year… yeah why do we have to cram it all in?

[@maryblakley3590]

That's June for us (our school year goes until June 29th). Dance recital, school play, piano recital, swimming lessons, all the other special events, "elementary school leaving ceremony", gifts for teachers (two who are pregnant), church picnic, extra field trips...and I wanna go camping.

[@erinc9672]

This is so true!!! There’s all these big projects due for different teachers, field trips, recitals, EOY scout ceremonies, soccer tournaments, it’s so busy!! Oh. Well observed.

[@fivemile13]

Love this! Great to see Penn dancing too!

[@cathyortiz1280]

I remember all the events. My daughter was in 3 or 4 choirs (Church, School, Honors Choir in March, SD Children's choir when young, 2 yrs in Pride Choir in HS) musicals, Girl Scouts & martial arts. Oh VP of GSA so events they did too. She went to SCPA (San Diego's School of Creative & Performing Arts), so some dance recitals too. She was in GS, so we had to sell enough cookies for camp in March & martial arts. Plus, I worked at a school. So glad HS is way over & my daughter's graduating from Berklee College of Music in May. No more college tuition payments! Yeah!!!

[@alyssasmith6010]

This is so accurate! Today my kids have an art class, a track meet and a chorus/band concert and they all overlap. They had to change which events the track kids did so they can leave early to get to the concert. And I’ve got that cold. Good luck everyone!

[@dorothyzwerk3392]

When my kids have recitals or things I have to stay the while time for but my kids aren't in the majority of, I wear a hoodie or something that can hide my ears. I bring my ear buds and listen to podcasts/music/books. 🤷‍♀️ Just clap when everyone else does, fake an itch to pause your stuff when necessary 😂

[@pamelaramos6523]

I love how your videos let me know I am not the only one. And allow me to laugh at the frustrating things. So so accurate right now.

[@sparklemepretty285]

I feel this! I'm the teacher doing during the day, and the single mom supporting during the night. Last night I ran in-between banquets and performances, after having my own class field trip. May is everything all at once!🥴😅

[@judithharley9236]

I love Penn following her around with the microphone!

[@Rockout17191]

I have a five year old (all the end of year kindergarten things) and her birthday is at the end of May. Add on that I have chronic illness/pain and my mom has kidney disease and could need dialysis sometime in the future. My calender is jam packed and this song is now my theme music for the month 😂❤️

[@TEKA04ify]

Lol the dance competition!! Brutal!

[@Halledaze]

Yep! The play has just finished,choir trip tomorrow,choir show and school trip next week -also the band recital to support classmates. The amount of time AND $$$ I hemorrhage in May rivals December for sure!

[@jwrightgardening]

Add in trying to get my garden started before it's too late and all the other yard work, and that is so true of my life right now.

[@ianski11]

The lyrics and execution are top-notch! My favorite so far😊

[@sarahh1153]

Teacher Gift! Right! Thanks for the reminder!

[@kevinlorick4705]

You got points for just the choice of songs.😃

[@nanspier5681]

And here I thought it was weather related! :)) We're in Maycember out here in No. California. Back to rain and cold......then 80s next week - again.

[@lab8956]

Yep. My kids are 2 and 4 and I am already having to color code the calendar to keep track. Music, swim lessons, soccer, and gymnastics all start mid-May. Until then, preschool has 3 events per week for the end of the year.

[@amsessions]

It sure feels like December haha. I never realized that :D

[@WelcomeApathy]

The running around filming in public makes me laugh thinking about what people see when they go by. 😂 😂 This was a great parody!

[@tonygreen4551]

Haha love this! September is my fav pop song and May is Maycember for us too with weddings and graduations to go to each year!

[@belindamajors6092]

You guys are hilarious! You just made my day with this video. Thank you for making us laugh at all the everyday crazy we have to put up with.

[@gaellegoutain1286]

I am a teacher, and it is insane on our end too ;) Field trips, field day, BBQ, end-of-year testing, closing our books, graduation (for me, 8th grade), science fair, picture day + zero motivation for the kids.

[@nicolemathieu1650]

So true !Love you guys!!

[@davidcherylrindfleisch9042]

Love it! My husband and I are each chaperoning a field trip, one for each kid this month. Testing, teacher week, principal day, prepping for summer...etc.

[@loriwallach4447]

My husband and I are both college faculty and this is totally our life right now. Maycember - perfect! 😆

[@graceandtruthgina]

I’m so glad I just watched this video!!! I just remembered we have to make a board game that’s due tomorrow and we haven’t started!!!

[@TheCoolCookieKitchen]

Don’t forget gifts for teachers at the end of the year… it’s a busy cookie season too! I feel this as Mom and business owner.