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Whole House Clean With Me For The New Year: 1 Hour of Cleaning Motivation | Slow Living for 2025
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Feb 28, 2025
I hope you all are ready for some extreme cleaning motivation as we close out the year and reset our home for 2025 with 1 hour of cleaning motivation and biblical homemaking inspiration. I'll be cleaning my entire home and sharing my goals for peace and slow living in the upcoming new year. I hope you'll find this helpful and realistic! Happy New Year! #cleaningmotivation #extremecleaning #wholehousecleaning #homereset #cleanwithme #slowliving #2025goals #biblicalmotivation #homemaking Disney Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OurWorldOfDisney Let’s Connect on Social Media Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heaven.shropshire/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419923541749610 Subscribe to the Blog: www.themomresource.com Visit My Store: www.beyouorganics.com Don’t forget to Subscribe and Say Hello! XOXO https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAee6gxy3h7ruz0oXFQWbvw
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hello you guys today we are going to be doing some cleaning before the new year try to CL out the year just deep
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cleaning the home or just cleaning as much as I can I'm trying to be very intentional because I have a whole lot
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to do today in such a small amount of time to get it done um I also have the kids running around and doing things
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messing up and wanting my attention as well so I'm going to be nice to myself
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while I try to get this done um I just want to try and clear out a lot of the
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Clutter and just get rid of a lot of the mess so that I can have a clear head space going into the new year so I'm
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going to take you guys along with me um and we're just going to go ahead and just get this done so if you need some
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cleaning motivation then I hope that this will be helpful and serve that purpose for you so let's go ahead and just get right into
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it one family tradition that I have always carried throughout my family
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since I was a little girl is that every year have all of the Christmas decor down before the new year my mother used
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to tell me that it was bad luck to have the Christmas decor up and to have the house messy and I think that this was
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probably because she just wanted to convince us to help her clean up the house and clean up our rooms and things
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like that whatever the case it worked but it also stuck with me for some
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reason no matter what I cannot allow my home to still have Christmas decor up
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and to still be messy once the new year begin but my reason for it has changed
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it's not about bad luck considering that now I'm an adult I do not believe in bad
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luck but I do believe that a lot of the Clutter and messiness of the home can
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definitely have an effect on my mood it can have an effect on my mindset and can
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also just create a lot of stress for me stress that already for some reason has
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been a thing to normally come about around the holiday season there is so
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much much about Christmas that a lot of people would just label as stressful
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such as the extreme cleaning the extreme decorating from Halloween to
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Thanksgiving to Christmas from gift giving and buying all the Christmas gift
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for the whole family as well as making sure the home is together to be able to host family cleaning up after family
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preparing the really big meals not to mention if you live up north like me the
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weather and the season is changing so we also have a lot of things to do outdoors
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just to get the home winterized and ready for the winter with all of this it
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can be very very stressful especially if you are a mother or a homemaker where a
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lot of the weight of this stuff falls on your shoulders since having a newborn
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who is almost 6 months now things have changed I had no desire to allow my
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myself to be overwhelmed and stressed out and it took me to hit a Breaking
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Point to realize this and this Breaking Point came about right about some time
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around Thanksgiving all of the signs and everything were you know like showing
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themsel and leading up to this moment I could feel myself slowly becoming overwhelmed you see throughout my
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pregnancy with my daughter I didn't really sit down a lot I have always been the type of person that pretty much
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likes to plan out everything down to a te it just helps me feel like I'm in
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control it helps me feel like I got to wraps over things and this can be very very harmful especially because we are
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not supposed to be in control all the time there are a lot of blessings in just surrendering control over to God
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when we try to control everything we miss out on so much for one we miss out
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on just seeing what God has in store for us and has in plan for us I believe that his plan is always you know the ultimate
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plan no matter what we do no matter how much we try to control it but when we just sit back and let God take care of
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everything it just gives us some really amazing testimonies just being able to see how he intercedes on our behalf and
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so we pretty much planned our pregnancy with our daughter and from the moment we
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um found that we were pregnant with her I began planning for her arrival I began a full Nursery transformation all of
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which you guys can find on my channel there will be a playlist about my pregnancy journey in which we began
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taking away all of the furniture in the nursery painting the walls cleaning the floors building the furniture all of the
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shopping Halls all of the things I wanted to have it done by specific date so that we can then have a honey not
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honey a baby moon and take a trip to Florida to also celebrate my son's
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birthday I wanted all of that that to be done so that by the time we came back I could get into full nesting mode and
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then finally sit down and prepare for the labor that I desired and yes all of
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this I had planned out and everything I did some gardening I did a lot of
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walking around Outdoors at Disney World and basically just thoroughly enjoying
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every bit of my pregnancy I mean it was amazing I really did enjoy it and I
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think that that was a okay for me but after I had my daughter it took me a
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minute to snap into the whole relaxation in healing phase I immediately as soon
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as we came home we had a family member come over to spend some time with us
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whom with open arms we welcomed mostly because we knew you know that it was all
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lot of love we love her she loves us and we really wanted her to see you know the baby to meet her me and everything so we
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had her come over but instead of me just allowing her to meet me and our family
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right where we were as soon as we came home I sat the baby down and I just
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started cleaning up the house immediately out of the hospital trying to make sure that the home looked perfect just so that when my
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sister-in-law came over it it it would look comfortable and clean and good for
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her and like I don't know it's like this weird adrenaline that just works
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sometimes until it just doesn't at the moment it worked out and although I was a little bit tired I knew that my body
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at that moment had the capacity to you know push itself and I don't know what it was I always say that that is just
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got you know protecting me even when I'm not protecting myself and I love him in
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that way and so from that moment I just I just continued I you know did what I
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could I tried to just be super time and everything and slowly but surely I began
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to tire out a little bit things were still going well we homeschooled and things like that but then um eventually
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there were just days where I could feel it I could just feel myself beginning to tire out and it happened right around
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the time of which I should normally be getting up to heal right around baby girl with 6 weeks old when she was six
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weeks old all of a sudden I was I was just tired and overwhelmed so I took a
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few days got back up and did it again point is fast forward to Thanksgiving
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all the overwhelm all the stress I've gotten all the kids Christmas gifts out of the way and then came hosting the
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family and within that time frame is when I finally hit that breaking point
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and that is when I was just so tired I just I couldn't handle it anymore preparing a home for three people is one
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thing but preparing a home for more than 20 people and cooking a meal from for more than 20 people after having a baby
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that that wasn't doable in that instance when I kind of just broke down my body
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began to feel weak and I started to be dizzy every day I couldn't get rid of a headache um like there were just so many
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signs telling me to sit down and I believe that too was God interceding on my behalf trying to tell me something
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from that moment on I decided that this is going to be my slow season this is
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going to be my season of rest and a season where I'm not just going to try and keep up with everyone else I'm not
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going to try to keep up with the trends of the holidays I'm not going to do it
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all just for the sake of it I really am going forward and my goal for the
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upcoming new year is to just slow down and be intentional and be present in every single moment and give myself some
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Grace so here in this video I am cleaning my home but I am doing so kind
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of like slow I'm just doing what I can there are times where I have to clean while holding my daughter and my baby
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which you guys can see which I feel the need to inform you all that my cleaning
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spray is actually homemade it has no toxics no chemicals no fumes that the
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baby and myself really should not be inhaling so all is save here in cleaning
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if I have to stop cleaning to ttin to her that is okay too too I wasn't trying
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to make my home look aesthetically pleasing and perfect I didn't care about any bad luck mostly I just wanted to get
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rid of the Clutter so much so that I can just hear God's voice in this season I
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realize that we have a lot of stuff just looking around we have too much stuff like we literally have like three
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different syrups two different steak sauces a ton of different barbecue sauces a lot of this stuff is like half
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empty we just don't need it um a lot of it is unhealthy for us and so I'm kind
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of just going through all the things in my condiments cabinet right now getting rid of anything that we haven't really
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been using anything that's like extremely unhealthy and too salty anything that is almost gone or close to
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the expiration date and trying to really condense this stuff down and part of
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having so much stuff is also having to make a lot of decisions having to choose
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having to clean a lot more having to do a lot more laundry having to organize more stuff and everywhere you look
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there's like more more more more more stuff more cleaning more organizing more chores more work to do and less time to
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spend with God less time to spend with family less time to hear God's voice and just see what it is that he wants you to
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do in this season and so from here on out I am entering a season of rest a
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season of intentionality and a season of focusing on God and getting rid of all
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of the distractions both physically mentally and emotionally and you guys
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for me I really want to say that this is really really hard but this is something
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that God put on my heart and I know he
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did in the Bible Psalms 46:1 tells us how important
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and how fulfilling it is to just slow down and embrace a slower season it says
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be still and know that I am God and that specific verse in one of my devotionals
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where I was just going through my devotion as like one of those things that I just kind of have to do but not
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you know actually really really spending time in that I normally am doing that
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while multitasking and doing my devotionals as like another thing that I know I have to do and check off of my
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to-do list because I need God every day but in doing so I feel like I wasn't
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reflecting enough reflection is just not something that I do often and so as we
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close out this year I am going to spend a full 24 hours just reflecting on the
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past year and sharing some gratitude just thanking the Lord for everything that he has done you know for us
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throughout the holiday season it honestly was it was a lot and the
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holiday season is supposed to be a joyful thing and thinking about this and
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realizing this is also part of what has inspired me to slow down because as the
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world rushes through the holiday season with busy schedules and endless to-do
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lists and hurried Hearts you know I decided to take a different approach and
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just slow down in the winter season and take time to pause reflect and just
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Savor the beauty of God's provision so I just wanted to trade in all the normal
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like fastpaced and Power hours and speed clean and instead just focus on
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Stillness get rid of the chaos and trade it for peace and get rid of the pressure
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of wanting to do it all and trade it for just gratitude of everything that I already have and contentment in where I
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currently am in the season that I am in and um and it's not just about doing less because as you can see I'm I'm
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still cleaning my home but it's just about being more present in it and doing it with more with more intention as you
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can see this video is a lot slower paced I realize that sometimes I can walk extremely slow like like a
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grandmother and that's part of me just slowing down I don't there's no race you
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know on the clock to to get it all done unless you're thinking about my daughter's like baby monitor where I
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have to get it done before she wakes up from her nap but even still if she does wake up so be it it's still going to be
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there I can get to it you know eventually and part of getting rid of a lot of the stuff that we have in our
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house makes cleaning a little bit more a little bit more easy but I decided to slow this cleaning video down a little
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bit for you guys instead of having it on you know speed clean mode just to have
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it on a a slower paced cleaning video a little bit more relaxing a little bit
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more just doing it not to just get it done but finding ways to just embrace it
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you know what I mean so that is my goal in cleaning um at one point I used to
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love cleaning and then eventually it started to feel like a chore and everyone labels cleaning as a chore but
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I label it as homemaking you know and homemaking isn't a CH homemaking is a
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Ministry it is a calling something that God has called us to do mother is something that God has called us to do
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it's a calling and it is a
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Ministry there are so many verses and scriptures and reminders in the Bible
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that reminds us that motherhood and homem making actually is a Ministry and
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a calling it's not just a role or it's not just a checking off of a to-do list
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but instead it is a beautiful picture of of raising our children to become
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Disciples of the Lord to love God and to make the world uh beautiful and brighter
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you know place in the future Proverbs 31:27 for instance says she watches over
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the Affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness in that way it tells us that God does call us as
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Homemakers to not just sit around and be idle but to actually you know take care
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of our home and it doesn't have to be done you know on on a checklist it
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doesn't have to be done expeditiously it doesn't have to be a speed clean or a power hour but we're doing it because
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one our family needs us to do it but also because God does call us to do that
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as Homemakers and you can find you know joy in doing what the Lord has caused
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you to do in doing something that your family and your husband and children are
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also going to benefit from as well Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 also tells us that
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these Commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts and you impress them on your children so when we do
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something a little more heartfelt without the grumbling and complaining and we do it in front of our children
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this is something that one day they too will learn to grow up and do it it's not going to be as heart aing and wrenching
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and exhausting and tiring as many many of the Homemakers of Our Generation
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constantly kind of does feel these days we feel the overwhelm we feel the exhaustion and the tiredness and part of
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it has to do with all of the new trends today that we're trying to keep us with
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and the excessiveness try to keep up with what everyone else is doing and comparing our home with others but part
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of it is also that in some ways for me personally is that it wasn't really instilled in my heart it wasn't
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something that I grew up watching my mom do and love it wasn't something something that I saw her do
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intentionally but more so like a chore so when we do it in a different way that
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does have an effect on our children as well so as I begin to dive deep and
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really lean into this calling I invite you to join me and take some time out to
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just pause and reflect find time to ask God and talk to him and ask him how can
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we align our home and motherhood and home making with God's design and what
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steps can we take to bring his presence into our daily routines and use that to
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help us create a homemaking routine that works for us and to be more present and
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intentional and the things that we do with our children making sure to just remember that homemaking isn't aure but
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it is a Ministry it's creating a space where love and faith can flourish
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teaching our children not just with our words but by the way that we live the things that they see us do and how they
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see us do it because that is important how they see us do it and we want to do
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so with good intention and with a good heart because even though motherhood and
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homem making M I always feel glamorous and glorious it's extremely important
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and it's deeply sacred and we ought to embrace them as the gifts that they
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actually are so with every meal that we make every floor that we sweep every shirt that we fold and every prayer that
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we whisper over our family it's important that we remember that we are doing God's work so by the end of this
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year I'm hoping to have spent some time reflecting I'm going to do a 24hour fast of just prayer and devotions
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and Bible reading so I can see the Lord giving him gratitude and just pouring my
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heart out to him so I hope that maybe this is something that you two can do in
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your own special type of way to just figure out what works for you and your
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family and try to let go of the need to get it all done the need to do the speed
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cleans the need to rush through everything because if you like me are a mother then you too know how precious
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time is and we want to make sure that with our time we are spending it doing
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things that we love and make sure that in the midst of doing it all we are still using it as a way to disciple our
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children and to teach them out of love and out of goodness so let's just try to
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embrace the sacredness of this season no matter how messy it may feel or how
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difficult it may seem when we nurture our children just remember that we are shaping the next generation for Christ
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so I'm going to end it with this scripture whatever you do work at it with all your heart as if you are
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working for the Lord remember that your home is more than just four wads it is a
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reflection of your heart
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since my children are still pretty calm and content I'm moving on to our front room which is kind of like our
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Homeschool Room slash our sitting room kind of don't spend a lot of time in
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here unless it's for homeschool or sometimes my husband and son come in here and play the game together they
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play the piano together and my husband does my son's music lessons but after
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having to remove The Homeschool Room from upstairs and change it into a nursery we've been trying to slowly
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figure out how to convert this room into a homeschool area mostly for once NAA is a little bit older and I'll be
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homeschooling the both of them because we're going to need a little bit more space Noah's going to move up to a
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larger desk he's going to have more subjects he's probably going to begin using the computer for certain things
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like computer lessons and N is going to be doing a lot of montory learning so
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we'll have more shoving units right now Navea being only 5 month months old some
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of our homeschool sessions take place right at the kitchen table where I can
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basically multitask by doing homeschool in the kitchen sometimes NOA can sit in her high chair now that she is learning
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to sit up more or she can sit inside of her baby swing we have a bath and mat in the family room which is right off of
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the kitchen and sometimes I can also prepare breakfast or lunch or dinner
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while we are schooling I can get some cleaning done make my coffee there's a
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whiteboard over the kitchen table so yeah for all those reasons it kind of just works right now and that's okay but
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eventually I am going to move into this room but as you can see it's gotten pretty unruly and messy we had a
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Christmas tree and some Christmas decor in here that I don't think I actually had gotten a chance to show you guys
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which kind of is a bummer but I told myself I wasn't going to beat myself up
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about it because like I said I kind of had a moment around Thanksgiving where I
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kind of just be to feel extremely overwhelmed and when I feel that way I
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make sure that I really focus in on it I don't want to push myself ignore my health because my children and my
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husband need me they need me to be healthy and well so it's not fair to them either even though I feel like I'm
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doing it for them some things we do it's not that God is calling us to do those things it's just that we we want to do
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it to either impress others or to make ourselves feel good even when it's not
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necessary you know so I told myself like I'm not going to be myself up about not
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getting up that last video of Christmas decor I didn't show you guys the outdoors or the front living room decor
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because I kind of just couldn't and that's okay so in that way I have to you
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know try to be nice to myself but I got all of the Christmas decor down or most of it I'm still like
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in the midst of moving a lot of stuff out into the garage and everything but now I'm just kind of straightening up
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this little shelf I've rearranged it so many times it's even a little bit broken but I'm trying not to spend too too much
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money and buy another one because if I do it's probably going to be another cheap one that's going to break it's not going to be one that I love so I'm going
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to wait until I can actually find one that I really love maybe something really nice and antique so for now
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makeshift is to put something up under it to hold that shelf in place and it's
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going to work for now until I need to use that book but in the meantime this is what we're going to do
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and this small little book holder that I'm taking all the books off of and putting them on the Shelf I'm actually
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going to move that bookshelf into the baby's room now that she's getting a bit older so I'm kind of just you know
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trying to go through and organize all of this stuff and just seeing if anything can be thrown out which you guys did see
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is that for the past 2 weeks I've been decluttering a lot of stuff one thing
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that I do when I I am under stress is clean more which sounds crazy but like I
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said sometimes I enjoy cleaning unless I feel like I'm doing it like ill intended
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basically like because I'm in a rush to get something done or impress someone otherwise it's just kind of therapeutic
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to get my space comfortable and clean and safe and so um I just SP two weeks
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throwing out a bunch of clothes that I don't need don't love don't work that
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much it's not in my current season anymore I'm leaning towards more modest clothing more comfortable clothing
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there's just a lot of things that I just didn't need in my wardrobe anymore and I was just like I said wanting to get rid
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of a lot of stuff a lot of clutter and lean more into a minimalistic type of a lifestyle I know that having children
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there are going to be a lot of things that I want but I'm really trying to learn how to not be minimal but just
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just simple you know I think those are two different things so a lot of things I had already gotten out and I'm hoping
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and planning to do a lot more of that and I'll share it with you guys as I dive deeper into it and now I'm just you
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know rearranging some more things to just make it work I'm not trying to make it look super pretty I'm just trying to
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make it work easier to clean easier to access and get to the things that we love our favorites and things that we
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use regularly so another one of my goals for the new year is to just really find
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the beauty of simple living and decluttering my life not just
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decluttering my home but in cluttering my life in all areas physically mentally
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emotionally and getting rid of the distractions that are keeping me from just everyday blessings and things that
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are most important important in life as well as embracing biblical peace
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motherhood wifehood servant all of the things that just points us back to God
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and Jesus our world is so full of distractions and we don't even realize
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how far away from God it takes us and a world that glorifies like busyness and
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accumulation of more things the prettiest and most aesthetically
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pleasing organizing bins where organizing is supposed to be something that just works
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for us and makes our life a little bit easy but if you just have so much stuff in clutter no matter how many organizing
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beans you buy and how much organizing you do it's never going to work you're
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going to always be reorganizing because it's not that you need to organized it's
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just that we have way too much stuff and that is just what the world has come to
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and so the idea of simple living for some might feel countercultural like go
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against what you know the world has taken an approach to lately but as a mom
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the way of just having too much stuff too many possessions too many commitments and too many distractions
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can really leave me overwhelmed and have me feeling disconnected from what really
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matters most and in studying my Bible I learned that the Bible itself offers so
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much wisdom about Simplicity that I've never noticed before it guides us to let
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go of the clutter in our lives and focus on things like God and family and the
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blessings that he alone provides blessings that this world and no amount of stuff can give us I am choosing to
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use this next year to embrace a simple living and find Freedom and peace and joy and
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just the current things that we have like there used to be a time where I wouldn't record a vlog if there were
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like imperfections in my home for instance on the floor you might see me
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trying to get up that Glue by my foot that Noah has spilt on the floor this
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was really like annoying for me like I have to get down
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on my hands and knees and use like a scraper without scraping up the laminate and get the glue off the floor and this
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happened I think on Thanksgiving he and the kids were playing and my time was
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occupied with the adults and they got some glue on the floor so as you can see a mop is not doing the trick so I'm
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going to have to come back to this and normally I would just not record because my house is a mess there's glue stuck on
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my floor I am in like raggedy clothes I don't look the nicest my surroundings
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aren't aren't the nicest and so I feel like because of that my video May
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underperform compared to the videos that look a lot more pleasing even I
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sometimes will gravitate towards those videos but then halfway through I'm like why am I watching this this is not
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helpful for me because that's not my current situation so instead of like finding it helpful in I would find
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myself wanting to compare wanting to do more just to be able to put myself on a
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Level Playing Field and I'm letting go of that and bringing back the joy in
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simple simple living stripping away the unnecessary and focusing on would truly
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add value to my home and my life and that's not about depriving myself of the
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finest things and you will actually find that by buying less stuff you have a little bit more money to spend on good
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quality items that will last you a lot longer so that in the long run you're
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purchasing less things and spending your time on less things so more about like
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purpose over Perfection and Faith over just like fleeting Pleasures you know and in like
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spending a little time focusing on the things that are more meaningful the things that you really really love as
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opposed to the things that you see everyone else doing you're not just getting whatever seems desirable and
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whatever is pleasing to you in that moment but you're focusing on what your
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purpose is and what purpose the things that you f your home with in your life
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serve and just having faith that by not you know leaning into those like
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Pleasures you're focusing on having faith that God is going to guide you into the things that you want and need
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in life so for a mom for instance simple living might mean cluttering the home
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getting rid of things that you don't need to create a more peaceful environment you know less stuff
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surrounding you and more room for peace it might mean reducing some of the
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commitments that you have in your life the things that you're doing on a daily basis so that instead of being so busy
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you can just be present and spend more time with your children it may
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prioritizing family over chasing material success and this is a big one
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because some times we can put so much time and effort into wanting to be
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successful at life not realizing that success comes in many different shapes
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and forms and it's not always measured by the amount of money in your bank account sometimes success is measured in
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your home and as a homemaker it really is that and so when you prioritize that
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you're not chasing material success meaning like more stuff in your home and more money
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in your pocket instead you are chasing success in your actual life you know
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things that matter things that are more eternal um as well as just embracing
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contentment with what God has already given you you can really fall down a
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rabbit hole of wanting more things and feeling like you need more things and in
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that way you can F to sin in which you might forget to just be grateful for
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what what you already have and I know that I have in that way and so for me
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simple living is about being able to align more with Biblical principles
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biblical motherhood biblical servanthood and biblical homemaking so that I can remember that
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my life is not defined by the things that I have but by a faithfulness to God
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and focusing on the relationship that he has entrusted me with and those relationships include my husband and my
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children so that's kind of what I'm focusing
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on Philippians 4: 19 says and my God will meet all your needs according to
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the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus and so simple living begins with
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trusting his provision instead of striving to accumulate more so that we
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can rest in his assurance that he will supply everything that we
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need I am going on a journey of getting rid of a lot of the things that at one
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point I might have felt like I need to that instead of leaning on that stuff I am going to lean on God Alone to supply
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all of my needs 1 Timothy 6: 6-7 says but
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godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it and so
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decluttering our lives isn't about just physical possessions as mentioned um it's also about cultivating contentment
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within our hearts as well um and just
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letting go of all types of things letting go of control and surrendering
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that to God which I mentioned I struggle with before letting go of like War and anxiety a thing that so many people have
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now I hear so many people now saying that they have anxiety like more than
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ever before and um the Bible even tells us that we shouldn't worry about our
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life or what we will eat or drink about our body or what we will wear because it's not life more than food and the
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body more than clothes basically it's telling us like don't worry about all of
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those things because life is more than that it's more than the clothes that we
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wear the stuff that we have in our house and stressing over what meal we're going to prepare for our family and instead it
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just reminds us to focus on things that are you know Eternal rather than things
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that are of This World by choosing to live simply you are also choosing to
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serve God and trust him to provide everything that you need without worrying about so much stuff that can
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just suck the true joy out of life out of motherhood and out of homemaking and I don't know about you guys but I am so
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tired of just feeling empty I watch so many Vlogs and hear so many moms talk
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about how they they feel tired they feel depressed they feel empty and one thing that I struggle with every every winter
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is seasonal depression and I have tried so many things to shake this seasonal
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depression and and I think I'm really realizing now that nothing is going to
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get rid of this seasonal depression is something that I'm just going to have to find contentment in and the only way I'm
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going to do that is with God that is what I'm leaning towards that is what I
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am going to try and Conquer this season I'm not going to give into seasonal
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depression this year instead I'm going to overcome it with God
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so now we have 15 more minutes of cleaning motivation so if you are cleaning with me now is the time to kick
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it into gear and finish it out strong pick a area of the home that you can
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finish cleaning up within 15 minutes so that you will have that win for today if
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you want to keep on cleaning and you don't want to finish it up in the next 15 minutes then I highly encourage you
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to just go ahead and click on my cleaning playlist I have so much cleaning motivation for you I will link
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it below as well as in the top corner of this video but if you want to finish it
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out with me together we have 15 more minutes left so let's go ahead and kick
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it into gear and finish it out strong I am now cleaning my daughter's Nursery
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sometimes a lot of things just get put out of place she still has a few Christmas gifts that we haven't opened
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and sanitized properly yet and as mentioned before I am moving some books upstairs to her room so these are some
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books that I saved from Noah when he was a baby and they were still pretty good
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in condition so now I'm going to be putting them onto the shelf for her and as you can see I'm doing it kind of
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quickly like I'm not doing it in any pretty way because as mentioned it's not
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about being pretty it's just about being useful right now so I'm just putting them on the shelf and it's going to be
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okay later I realized that I didn't think it thoroughly through because now there's no space for the additional
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books that I need to add but I'm thinking that eventually I'm going to find her another bookshelf as well
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something that might fit better in here So eventually I am going going to replace the bookshelf but for now this
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is the one that we're using and I'm just putting some like first word books some
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easy to read like really fun picture books in here for her and besides that
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I'm just going to vacuum the floor it's not a whole lot in here I need to do because last week I went through all of
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her clothes and took out everything that she couldn't fit anymore I folded her laundry and so I do have a large bin
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that needs to go on to storage for if we have another child as well as some things that we are going to put into the
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donation bin but besides that her room was pretty easy to
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clean my son on the other hand I also went through his clothing and made sure that I got rid of anything that he could
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no longer fit and did some decluttering in here I even moved some things around
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but he still has a lot of like Christmas toys out that I'm okay with leaving out
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for him because he's been doing a lot of like television and wanting to play video games so I'm hoping that by seeing
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his toys already out and encourages him to gravitate towards that I recently had to make it to where he can't play video
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games during the week only on Fridays and Saturdays and until about 6:00 p.m. on Sunday and then throughout the week
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he can just do school workor readbooks and play with toys because he's getting older he is almost 6 years old and
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that's around the age when I hear that kids begin to stop wanting to play with toys and so I want to Foster that
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creativity in him as long as I can and not have him get bored and tired of
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finding things to keep busy so if he's still wanting to play with toys I'm going to to allow him to do that as much
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as I can especially now that he's getting towards that age where they grow out of it so leaving all the toys out
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for him to play it doesn't have to be really pretty because I have a kid and he plays in here and that's something to
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just be thankful for to just be grateful for one that he still loves to play two
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that we are able to provide towards for him to play and three that I have you
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know children running around the house children that one day when they're growing grown up and they move out I am
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truly going to M so I'm just in that way practicing some gratitude and then once
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his room is all clean I can move on to my's favorite prod of cleaning which is
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see bathrooms so while I'm cleaning the bathrooms I'm going to go ahead and play some relaxing music and try to finish
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out this cleaning Vlog strong [Music]
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all [Music]
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[Music] you [Music]
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the preacher said God would never give more than I could handle on my own but I
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don't know if I believe that to be
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true cuz there been some times when I've been all alone and wanted to give up but
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you helped me
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stand yeah God he used
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you shine right through you in ways you will never know so many
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ways that you'll never know mountain move
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bulletproof yeah You Made Me Stronger you had a faith that'll never
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no no you had a faith that'll [Music]
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never you prayed away rainy days even kept a smile if they stayed cuz either
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way you stood on the Rock and not on the sand not the sweet memories of all the little
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things you did to show me love and you help you help me
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stand you did yeah God he used
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you shine right through you in ways you will never know so many
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ways that you'll never know mountain
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move bulletproof yeah you're made me
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strong you had a faith that I'll never
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know yeah you had a fate that'll
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never Kings will rise and fall sending for the fame the seasons come and go and
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time will bring some pain but if there's one thing that I
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know you will always remain the
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same yeah no you'll never
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change no
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God he used you he used shine right through
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you in ways you will never know so many ways that you'll never
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know mountain move bullet proof
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yeah you made me strong you had a faith that'll never
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know you had a faith that'll
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never never no you had a faith that'll never
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know you had a faith that'll [Music]
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never you had a fith that I'll never
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know everyone needs a shoulder to cry on
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everyone needs help [Music] in everyone needs someone to rely
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on yes everyone needs a
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friend so let's come together celebrate
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each other Stand United as one we live lift our hands up and
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pray lay all our love before him with all of our
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faith he is the change within us there is a light let him lead the way lift our
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hands up and pray [Music] today oh
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[Music] pray everyone needs some
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to lean on everyone needs someone who
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[Music] cares if we come together as one help
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each other get stronger we are bound in the name of the
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Lord so let's come together celebrate
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each other Stand United as one
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we lift our hands up and pray lay all our love before him with
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all of our faith he is the change within us there
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is a light let him Le the way lift our
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hands up and pray today oh
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PR oh oh
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pray oh [Music] pray
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oh
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pray so let's come
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together yeah let's come together we lift our hands up and
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pray lay all our love before him with all of our
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fa he is the change within us there is a
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light let him we the way lift our hands up and pray
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today oh PR
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oh PR [Music] oh
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oh [Music]
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oh all right you guys with that we sum up today's whole house clean with me I
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hope that you guys got some cleaning motivation for that I was able to tackle everything except for the basement which
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I'll probably head down there sometime tomorrow because now it's time for me to take a shower and prepare dinner for the family downstairs is just our um workout
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room which we are currently in the middle of like remodeling as well as our laundry room which we are reorganizing
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the kids toy rotation system and everything so a little bit more work but
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I need to tackle downstairs but we are just about almost I want to say like 75%
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done down there so I'll tackle that tomorrow but as for everything else I was able to accomplish as much as I
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needed to so I'm pretty satisfied again I was pretty much being like kind of nice to myself making sure that I didn't
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go like overboard like be super super crazy like trying to scrub the cabinets I just did that maybe like 4 months ago
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I Tred to do that at least every 6 month like get into the nitty-gritty normally it's like around this time the end of
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the year but because I did a full deep clean when I was nesting and everything um a lot of things just weren't
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necessary and this is just not that time in my season and I'm being very intentional about where I assert my time
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so now I'm going to go take a shower because I just got finished scrubing the toilet but I hope that you guys got some
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um you know motivation if you needed some motivation to clean your home for the holidays I hope that this served
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