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Welcome to motherhood and homemaking. My
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name is Heaven and also welcome to my
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very messy kitchen. Today I'm going to
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be resetting my kitchen as well as my
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home. This is going to be just a slow
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and relaxing kitchen and living room
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clean. There's a lot of clutter on my
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countertops that I really need to get
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to. I also have a ton of clutter in the
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pantry that you guys cannot see because
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within the next couple of weeks or so,
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I'm working on getting that organized.
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I'm going to be sharing that with you
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guys. But for today, we're going to work
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on what's here, what's in front of us
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right now. And you know what? That is
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the theme for our video today. That's
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going to be actually the theme for my
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season. So, I want to take a moment to
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ask you if you could put a title on your
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life right now. What would be the title
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of your season or what would be the
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theme of your season? For me, it's
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really just focusing on the right here
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and the right now. Because I feel like
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that's what I need to do in order to
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slow down. When anyone, moms,
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homemakers, anybody, literally anyone,
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tells me that they're feeling
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overwhelmed, they're tired, they feel
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like they need to reset their home life,
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reset their work life, their goals,
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their health, whatever it might be. My
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first um question is always what does
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life look like for you right now? What
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do you want it to look like and what can
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you slow down in? I always encourage
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people to just take a moment and slow
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down because it's so easy for us to set
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a goal and just say this is what I'm
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going to do and just get right to it.
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But we really need to take that time to
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slow down and just reflect to think
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because the thing that we may think we
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want to do might not be the thing that
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we need to do. And even most
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importantly, maybe it's not what God has
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in store for us right now. A lot of
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times when we sit back and we think
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about what it is that's causing us
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overwhelm in our life and we kind of
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think about what our purpose is in our
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life, we pray about it. Sometimes we
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realize that a lot of the stress that we
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have and overwhelm that we have in our
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schedules and in our day and motherhood
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and homemaking, whatever it might be, it
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is self-created and it's not necessarily
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what God has designed our current season
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of life to look like. And so for me
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personally, I need to slow down and I
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need to think because you guys for the
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past maybe year, my goal has kind of
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been to get where I am right now. And
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the year before that, my goal was to get
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where I am right now. And to go a little
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bit more in detail, basically I knew,
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you know, it had been five years. My son
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turned five and I knew I wanted to grow
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our family. And so that was something
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that I wanted to make time for. I wanted
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to really simplify my life, my schedule,
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get home, making under wraps and make
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sure that things were going, you know,
3:04
peacefully and in the direction to where
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we would have the capacity in our time,
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our energy, our schedules financially to
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grow our family. And God, he heard me,
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he listened to me, he guided me and my
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husband, and he blessed us with a
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beautiful baby girl. Fast forward maybe
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almost a year later. You know, my
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family, we traveled to Florida a lot
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even though we were Michiganers.
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And one goal that we have had for quite
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some time was to become part Florida
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residents. And I knew when I was ready
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to grow my family, I wanted to be closer
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to my mom and closer to my OB, who has
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been my OB since before I had my son.
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And so I knew it needed to be put off.
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But after we had my daughter, after I
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took some time postpartum stayhol and
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everything, that was our next goal. And
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God, he listened and he's always so
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faithful. And here we are in Florida.
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And I feel like everything kind of came
4:08
undone. All of the work that I put in to
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really get homemaking underwrapped. I
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got my schedules, my routine, everything
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was, you know, it was flowing, you guys.
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And then when we got here, I felt like
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it was just flipped upside down. Here we
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are with a six-year-old as well as a
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baby girl. She's one and a half now. So,
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she's running about, you guys, but she's
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still in diaper. So, I feel like that's
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not toddler stage yet. She's We're still
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nursing, breastfeeding until she's 2
4:36
years old, which is difficult. And sleep
4:39
schedule is like non-existent for our
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baby girl. like she has, you know, those
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times that she's typically down for a
4:47
nap. Typically down at night, but she
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still wakes up, you know, a couple maybe
4:52
once or twice throughout the night. So,
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she's not fully sleeping through the
4:56
night as a breastfed baby. You know, I I
4:58
don't know, maybe maybe it's me. But a
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point is that things around here have
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been slightly chaotic because our
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schedule used to be simple. We
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simplified it. We decluttered our
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Michigan home as much as we could. We
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decluttered our whole life. I did a
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whole series on this and I'm going to
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link it because I think it's beneficial.
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You guys should check it out. It was
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absolutely freeing. Decluttering all
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parts of areas of my life, my mind, my
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emotional stability, my finances, my
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wardrobe. I stopped buying so many
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things. I decluttered my
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responsibilities, my relationships.
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everything, you guys. My whole house. I
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simplified it. And then when we got
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here, it was like we had to travel
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across the country. We still have to
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manage our Michigan home. And we are
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here now. We're still trying to get
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settled. It's been maybe 2 and 1/2
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months, I think, or 3 months now. Yeah.
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And we're still settling in the midst of
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this. We're trying to get schedules
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together, like you know, trying to get
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back into good routines. But also, you
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guys, we are currently in the market
6:11
again for another spot. We're looking
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for something, I guess, maybe a little
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bit bigger because the truth is that
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apartment living is not for us. We were
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like, "Okay, part-time, if we're just
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going to be here during the fall or
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winter months, let's get a little
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apartment." But yeah, we've been loving
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it here. And at first we weren't sure if
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we were going to stay, you know,
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full-time, but it's starting to look
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like we are going to be full-time
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Florida residents, part-time Michigan
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residents. We literally, we don't know.
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And that's the scary part is living in
6:44
the unknown, you guys. And so yeah, I
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have been feeling the weight of it all
6:49
of knowing that our current living
6:52
situation is temporary and knowing that
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we are not very certain of where we want
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to go from here. We're not very sure.
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And yeah, that scares me a little bit. I
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know I want to grow our family even
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more, you know, because I mean,
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honestly, I love I love, you know, this
7:12
family and I love our babies and they
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just make me want more, but I know for a
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fact, realistically, as much as I would
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love to go for it again right now, you
7:21
guys, I know I need to take a break,
7:24
maybe even years, you know, I thought
7:27
that I'd be ready to have another child
7:29
in a year or so, and now that's looking
7:31
like we might put another 3 to 5 year
7:34
gap between our is, you know, it's
7:35
literally so much unknown.
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And so, I need to slow down. See, I've
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been so worried about what it is that I
7:44
want to do with my life that I didn't
7:46
say, you know, what does God want to do
7:49
with my life? Because, you know, that's
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eternally my purpose ultimately is to
7:54
live out whatever God's purpose is for
7:56
me here because he created us all
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for a purpose and with a purpose. He
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created us, you know, and so remembering
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that and I was reminded that this past
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Sunday during church service that God
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had already created me with a purpose
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and what is that purpose and what does
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he want to do with my life? And so right
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now
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I'm not setting too many goals. I'm not
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chasing anything, if that's the better
8:28
way to set it. We always have a goal to
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improve and get better and be better.
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That's always our goal. But you know
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what? I'm not chasing anything else
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right now. I'm just focusing on
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currently right now where I am. And just
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asking God to just lead me. Lead my
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family, my children, my husband, and
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everything that we have going on right
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now. You guide us. You lead us every
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step of the way because I am clueless
8:54
when it comes to what I want to do right
8:56
now. And I think that with how sporadic
8:59
things are right now, it's going to be
9:01
most beneficial for us to just slow
9:03
down, for me to reflect, for me to just
9:08
focus on the here and the now before it
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passes me by. So that's my current
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season right now in life. I would love
9:18
to hear what chores is. And so, yeah, as
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I'm sitting here resetting my kitchen
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and decluttering my counters, and you
9:25
guys look at look at the clutter. It's
9:27
just so much stuff. I actually started
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decluttering this before the new year.
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And then, um, we ended up having to
9:36
quickly leave out because my husband, he
9:39
had made reservations for us to go stay
9:41
at a resort on Universal Property. And
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so I had kind of like grouped everything
9:45
into categories like this is my
9:47
husband's stuff, this is my son's, this
9:49
is my daughter, this is mine, this goes
9:50
in the linen closet. Yeah, all that
9:52
stuff was on this counter full of
9:54
clutter. And then I just left it and
9:56
then it just got worse and then we came
9:57
back and I added some stuff to it. So
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yeah, that tells you what things have
10:02
been looking like around here. Then
10:04
yeah, I don't know what else would. But
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I'm decluttering my countertops and
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resetting my kitchen and my living room
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area. I'm also kind of just searching
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for just an internal reset as well.
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Basically, I want to encourage you as
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well to know that it's okay to just to
10:24
just slow down and maybe not be striving
10:27
or reaching or chasing anything at all.
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And that too, it is freeing. Last year,
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I wanted to slow down. But in slowing
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down, last new year, I did a whole house
10:41
clean. I reflected with you guys. I told
10:42
you guys my goal for the year was to
10:44
simplify and slow down. And I did. But
10:47
the difference between then and now is
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that in trying to slow down and
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simplify, I had a lot of work to do. I
10:53
had a lot of things to let go of. I had
10:55
a lot of homemaking things to declutter.
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And it took a lot of work for me to get
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to where I was. And while it was truly
11:04
beneficial, that was still a goal in
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itself. And so I'm going to do what I
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can to take care of my health, my kids
11:12
health, prepare us better meals, you
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know, improve in all areas of life, you
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guys. But when I tell you I'm just not
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chasing anything and just allowing God
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to fully, and I mean fully and
11:25
completely, take the wheel, that's
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literally what I am doing here. And it's
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okay. There's nothing wrong with you.
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You're not stagnant. You're not falling
11:36
behind. You're not being lazy. Instead,
11:39
I think you're being obedient. You are
11:42
just following in the will of the Lord.
11:45
And there's nothing more powerful than
11:47
that. Releasing control and leaving it
11:51
in God's hands. I think that it can be a
11:54
really lovely and a really beautiful
11:58
experience. And so, for the remainder of
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this video, I just want us to just
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reflect a little bit. If you're cleaning
12:07
alongside with me, folding laundry,
12:10
cleaning off your counters, loading the
12:12
dishwasher, whatever it is that you
12:14
might be doing, I want you to do it and
12:18
just think a little bit, reflect a
12:20
little bit. Let this be just relaxing,
12:22
peaceful, whatever it might, you know,
12:24
be for you. I really do hope and pray
12:27
that if this video has found you, that
12:29
it has found you well, but also that it
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has been encouraging for you in some
12:34
way. I try to just be very realistic
12:36
with you guys. I try to share little
12:38
bits and pieces of my motherhood and
12:40
homemaking life, thinking and hoping and
12:43
praying that in some type of way maybe
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it will inspire you as well. Maybe you
12:48
can relate to it and maybe we can clean
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alongside each other. You know,
12:52
motherhood it's never it was never meant
12:55
to be secluded. It can often feel
12:58
lonely, but it was never meant to be
12:59
that way. So, let me be your mom friend,
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your mother friend, your homemaking
13:04
friend, your cleaning buddy, whatever,
13:06
whatever it is. But let's take some time
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for the remainder of this video to
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reflect on what we want this new year to
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look like. And what do we think God is
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calling us to do for this new year and
13:19
just for the current season? It doesn't
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even have to be the whole season, but
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currently right here where we are right
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now. And if you would like to share it,
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I would love to hear it. Let's talk
13:28
about it in the comments section. But
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other than that, I hope that this video
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was motivational, that maybe you got
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some things done around the house as
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well. As you can see, mine's look
13:37
completely different. But yeah, I'm
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going to see you guys in the next video
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and let's just let's reflect together.
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Happy homemaking.
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