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Welcome. Today we're just going to be
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doing a day in the life. Um, it's
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already pretty late in the day. got a
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late start because yesterday we had
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family over and we blew up the bounce
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house, the water slides, and we had a
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pretty fun day yesterday. So, my husband
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barbecued and all of that fun stuff. And
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basically, I didn't pre-prep for the
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week yesterday, like I like to do on
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Sundays. So, today I'm going to try to
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catch up a little bit. I'm going to try
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to make some bread. Um, we're going to
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do some dinner today. Going to do a
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little bit of home school, clean up a
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little bit. just feel like I'm just a
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little bit behind because I didn't
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pre-prep. So, just looking around, it's
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not too too bad. Like, I'll show you
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guys. My daughter's birthday was this
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past week as well. So, I still have like
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buffet serving dishes out, but at least
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like the sink isn't too bad. So, but
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definitely like got swimsuits and towels
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on the table from yesterday with water
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play. Um, yeah, some stuff to meet we
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need to be doing in here. For now, I'm
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just going to get the kids fed and try
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to get the meat into some cool water so
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that it can hurry and thaw because I
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would love to be able to just put it in
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the slow cooker and let it cook so that
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I can catch up on the cleaning and stuff
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today. So, let's just go ahead and just
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see where the day takes us. Change of
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plans. We got to go change her diaper
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and her dress. It's actually been a
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little while since we did a day in the
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I've been trying to do like some helpful
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like sit down content, some homemaking
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content, but I haven't done a whole lot
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of motherhood and parenting content.
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So, I want to do a bit more of that,
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especially while babies, the kids are
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babies and littles. So,
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a lot of that does just look like this.
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A day in the life of me just doing all
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the mama stuff. What are you going to
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What's wrong, baby girl? I see you
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right. So, I got the chicken in some
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cool water and Va is eating some
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muffins. But I'm also making her the
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peanut butter banana bread waffles by
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Evergreen. Six g of protein. So, I'm
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going to see if she likes these.
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Is it good? Is it yum?
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I think she looks like she might be
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coming down with like a cold or
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something this morning. I thought that
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she was a little bit warm. Um
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the temperature was reading like 98, but
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I only did a forehead temp. So I always
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just estimate a little bit higher than
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where she's getting from the forehead
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temperature. So, pretty sure she has
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fever this morning, but she feels she
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seems to be a little bit better now, but
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I can see in her eyes, I just think she
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looks tired. So, I don't know. Like, we
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had a long week. We had lots of people
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over throughout the week, so it's
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possible. But these are But this is what
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the waffles looks like. They're pretty
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soft. So, I'm going to give her one of
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these and see if she likes it. So, let's
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take a quick break here and take a
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moment and step away from our motherly
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duties and get into a bit of homemaking.
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So, if you guys need some homemaking and
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cleaning motivation, then this is the
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part here. I'm getting ready to begin
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dinner prep while both the kids are
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taking a nap right after they ate lunch.
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They both fell right to sleep. And so,
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that's like the perfect most ideal time
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for me to prepare dinner, at least if I
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want to do so uninterrupted. So, I'm
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going to go ahead and chop some veggies
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and throw those inside of the slow
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cooker. And then I'm going to add the
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chicken that I took out to thaw. It took
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a couple of hours to thaw in cool water.
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Now, it's ready for me to go ahead and
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put it inside of my Pioneer Woman slow
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cooker. It has two settings where I can
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either do a very low setting for 8 hours
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or I can do a medium high setting for 4
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hours. And so that's what I'm going to
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be doing. Just slow cooking this for 4
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hours so that we'll be able to eat
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dinner around 7:00 tonight. So putting
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that in right now while the little ones
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are asleep. And then I'm just going to
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get into some cleaning. Just trying to
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get a lot of my homemaking done. It
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typically takes me about an hour and a
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half to get it done. So morning is, you
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know, just that morning breakfast prep,
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homeschool, all that good stuff. And
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then afternoon is when the kids are
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having their downtime when I'm able to
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get a lot of my homemaking done. So
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that's typically when I'm doing dinner
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or cleaning up after breakfast. It's not
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really a strict schedule, just more so
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like just a flow or a daily rhythm.
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Later on tonight after we have dinner,
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I'll do like a quick evening tidy again.
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And that one is going to be a lot
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shorter. Probably take me somewhere
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around, I don't know, maybe 10 to 15
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minutes. So yeah, midday is pretty much
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the bulk of it. And that's dinner prep
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and after breakfast cleaning.
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This is good a day as they need
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to. start the rebuild of life.
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The roads that lay open are many
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when the old ones gone under the knife.
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to thought from within.
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is a good day to live.
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Excuses were too for a penny.
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But they've all gone out the window of
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this car. And when I feel
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Well, something's got to give today.
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Well, something's got to give today.
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Well, something's got to give. Today
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Well, something's got to give today.
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It's a good day. day.
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It's a good day to live.
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Na is definitely running a slight fever.
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Um, I wasn't sure earlier. He definitely
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has a slight fever. Noah, he was up
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pretty early this morning. I think he
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woke up at 7:00 a.m. And so, honestly,
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both of the kids were a little bit tired
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and they went down for an early nap
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today. So, we actually didn't do
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homechool today, which we plan to, but
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that's okay because in the summertime we
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do a more relaxed like summer homechool
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schedule. I just talked a lot about that
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in the very last video that I posted if
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you're interested if you're a homeschool
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family or if you're interested in seeing
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how we homeschool in the summertime. So,
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um, with baby girl having a fever and us
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just having a long week, I actually had
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a cold as well. I had like a 3-day cold
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or something. So, we just had an
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eventful past week. Na's birthday was
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Wednesday. My husband and I celebrated
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our 9-year wedding anniversary. Um, Naa
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turned a year old. What else? We had
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company over. So, we had like a little
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backyard barbecue and water play and
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bounce house. And I had a cold for a
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couple of days. Now, Na is running a
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and about a week before Naa's birthday,
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Noah had a cold for about 3 days. So
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yeah, it's just been pretty much us
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trying to catch back up and get back to
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like normal, I guess, or whatever that
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is. I mean, this is normal, right?
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Because things like this happened. So,
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basically, we just didn't do homeschool
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today. Um, after I fed the kids lunch,
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they Noah went straight to sleep. The
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van, she needed to be rocked, but like I
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could see it in her eyes and in her face
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and everything. So, I like just sat down
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with her. I didn't do anything. I tried
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to get some work done, but um I
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couldn't. So, yeah, I could tell she
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wasn't feeling the best. So, I kind of
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just sat down and read a book and just
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rocked her and held her. She fell
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asleep. I even held her for a while
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while she was sleep just to make sure
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that she could get a good amount of
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sleep since I know she's not feeling
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that well. Um, and then for the last
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little bit of her nap, I went
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downstairs, which you guys saw, and I
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put dinner in the slow cooker and tidied
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up a bit and knew she would want a lot
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of my time so that I'm not standing over
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the stove the whole time. I also knew
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she wouldn't nap for too too long. Um, I
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just went ahead and did it in the slow
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cooker and just put like some spices in
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there that might be good for the whole
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family's immune system like turmeric,
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garlic, onion, ginger, things like that.
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And I also cold brew um put a cold brew
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tea in the fridge as well for myself. I
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want to make bread, but I don't know yet
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if I'm going to be able to do that. If I
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can't do it tonight, then I'll at least
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get up in the morning and do some bread.
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I would love to have done it today so
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that we could have some maybe with
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breakfast tomorrow like French toast or
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peanut butter toast for Naa, you know,
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but we'll see. Right now, I'm honestly
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just going to hold her, nurse her, and
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um you know, see what else I might be
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able to get done. But yeah, that's
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pretty much what this day is looking
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like. Sometimes your babies just need
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you. And I think that that's productive,
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too. So important that we not always be
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rushing and trying to get our mile long
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to-do list done, especially if we have
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babies that need us. And that's really
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important, too. So, yeah, our family is
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all about intentionality, slowing down,
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not rushing through things, and kind of
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just, you know, being present in those
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There was sun and there was rain.
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Beauty in the mundane.
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startled our eyes, we let go of
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there's something in the air
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and a sparkly shimmer on our skin.
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Restoring everything within.
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dreamy breezy we go.
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Easy, easy on our tiptoes.
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agents of the other.
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Beyond gravel, beyond.
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Hand in hand, building castles out of
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reaching for the grand
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we lose track of time. And up high, now
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dreamy breezy we go.
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Easy, easy on our tiptoes.
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agents of the other.
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Beyond gravel, beyond.
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So, since this morning, right now is the
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first break that I have gotten away from
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my daughter. Um, she has been running a
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slight fever and it's going through all
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of the feels. So, yesterday I didn't get
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to do my bread. So, I did the bread and
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I'm going to check it and hopefully it's
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ready to be shaped so that we can let it
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finish rising and then once that's done,
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we can put it in the pan and then get it
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baked in the oven. The boys are out at
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swim. Noah had swim rehearsal today,
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swim lessons. So that's where they are.
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so it did double in size.
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Try and get this out.
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That's it. And I'm literally just going
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Oh yeah, it's coming together. It's a
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pretty good texture. Can work with this
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Let this finish rising.
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I'm going to get the stuff cleaned up so
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I can start on dinner.
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I text my husband because I'm trying to
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make sure he didn't pick up dinner
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because sometimes he does that when
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they're out and I don't want to
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if not, then we're just going to have
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some spaghetti and meatballs. Something
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very easy and simple to make.
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So, I preheated the oven and I still
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have to let the bread rise for another
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45 minutes, but um it's sitting on top
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of the stove. So, that's going to help
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it to rise faster cuz the oven is
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preheated. So, it's not in the oven, but
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it's on top of it. So, got to give it a
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little bit of warm warmth to help it
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rise a little bit. Then, we'll put it in
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the oven. Bake it up
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and then we will have bread at least for
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because right now we have none.
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I got a few more dishes here to add to
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Oh, wait. My husband started the
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dishwasher. So, sometimes I won't start
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the dishwasher immediately cuz I know
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there's a few more dishes that I can
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still add and I would rather start it
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when everything is in there from the
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day. But my husband, he'll just go
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behind me and start it. So, that's what
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he did, which is fine. Um, we just got a
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few of them. So, we'll put those in
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there with the dinner dishes. This day
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in the life definitely didn't go the way
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that I planned for it to go. It was
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supposed to be one day in the life, not
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two days in the life. Um, and yeah, with
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the baby having this like fever and
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everything. I don't know. It's just been
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a long week for us. So, just catching
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up. And again, I try not to like just
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rush things and force things. Um, we've
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really been leaning into intentionality
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and slow living, so just going with the
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day. It's pretty peaceful and quiet. Um,
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the boys are out right now, so that will
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be why. But I tried to film a lot of
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this just in real time with you guys
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just hearing like the background noise
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and everything going on so that we can
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kind of just go through this days
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together. Yeah, a lot of it was just
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down time with us just sitting down, me
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nursing the baby and just relaxing and
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things like that. But now at this point,
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I'm just going to go ahead and make
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some, like I said, some spaghetti. Very
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simple. I'm just going to ground some
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beef and boil some pasta noodles with
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some tomato sauce and throw some
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meatballs in the oven. And that is how
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we're going to pretty much end our day
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here. But yeah, I hope that you guys
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pretty much just enjoy hanging out a
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little bit. It's been a little bit of
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time since we've done that. I'm going to
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do another one of these in the next few
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weeks and update you guys because we
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have some exciting new things coming up
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for us this year that I have to share
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with you all. But that's going to be all
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for today's day in the life. Thank you
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guys for hanging out with me and I will
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see you guys in the next one.