I Figured Out My Biggest Problem!

that's another problem let's talk about all my problems today we'll talk about everything wrong with Daniel I think I'm finally okay you guys today I am starting something new I'm going to use my planner I've had it this is the second one actually two months left no it's an 18month one no it's not it is an 18-month one and I've gotten to there are only two months left okay but for real I bought one last time and I loved it I never used it I bought another one this year because I love it it's so beautiful it's scripture in it and everything and I love it like look August do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind it's just beautiful um but it is it is empty we're committing to a new thing that that boys in mint condition so if someone in like 20 years is like man I wish I had a planner from 2023 Daniel's going to be like I got you I got you no there are some months where I colored things this week I that's a child's oh there's more children's drawings okay hi this he you're the look see okay September was see September didn't we host the coat yeah that was a busy month and I'm glad I have this there's more stuff okay okay all right okay so it's not completely new but it's fairly new to me but really we need to like get organized we have been living by the seat of our pants um in chaosville yeah just it basically is like running around and just putting out one fire after the other when you don't have a plan and you have a large family so we're trying to like just get on track get on top of things meal planning planning out like business things like just planning out you know but structuring our home school like just a little bit more structure than we've had the last several months John's got a baby he's about to to go lay him down so John is going to sit down with me he was walking Cohen to sleep but you're lay down yeah Israel's napping what he never naps but he's napping now and then the rest of our kids are downstairs um playing quietly for now so we are going to try to get some stuff doneo I hope he doesn't wake up this might not last long anyway um before we dive into our little planning session for the day um you guys this is the coolest thing let me tell you how long have we had children 12 years yeah 12 years like multiple children you know eight of them over 12 years and we've never had a video monitor or any baby mon we've never had a baby monitor M Boke sent us this and we're super pumped on it especially John cuz it's been on his wish list for 12 years now so it's going to be amazing for nap time clearly you can see little Cen he's sleeping there but then you can also change it cuz there's two cameras and I can see my kids downstairs hello how's it going we need more M how did you eat all of those already slow down turn and wave so like earlier today I made them clean up down there it was a disaster Zone as it is when they are down there unattended we just set this up but the first thing we did was like while they're cleaning and I'm up here making breakfast or whatever it was this morning I was telling them okay you missed that over there go to do this and so we were able to like monitor their progress okay so it comes with two cameras which is super cool because we can split screen it watch Co and sleep and watch them make sure that they're cleaning or doing what they're supposed to be doing or just like generally not destroying things so it's also this is completely run off of the antennas not Wi-Fi so there's no concerns yeah it's an antenna there's no concerns of like someone hacking your Wi-Fi which is a reason that I didn't want a you know all those stories of people hacking into the baby monitors and like so like that's a big reason why I was like there's no point to get one John we really don't but this doesn't use Wi-Fi no it doesn't and I really love on this split screen feature I was playing with it earlier and I was like this thing is way cool cooler than I realized it was because you can switch the different cameras you I don't know if you can see here but it goes like a green box around which camera you're on you can talk to each one individually you can also change the camera so like right here we're not a little very centered oh I'm on the wrong camera it's on this camera you can change the camera placement on each camera individually too that John so you can change the camera placement I think it oh yeah so you can do that when it's split screen or this is actually nice cuz I could just set it next to me and see both at the same time right so it goes like 1,000 ft which means we could literally walk down to there like right now everybody's pretty happy it's quiet if I was like hey let's go for a date let's go for a walk we could just walk down to our Creek yep and we could stay there for 23 hours because this battery that's how long the battery lasts so we I mean 22 and2 we'd probably want to come back and give it a little buffer um and make sure we were back before it died but car like it's a portable video monitor yeah that's cool cuz like one it sets up by itself I can still use my phone my phone's not preoccupied and oh my gosh and [Music] and you get cute things like this all day that you get to look at um okay so I can just like set it here I can keep an eye I can work I can use my phone if I need to get up and like go to the kitchen and do something I just take it with me it's really cool like I'm I'm sold out for this yeah this thing is like $200 if you use our discount code it's even less um we'll put that in the description so you can check it out it is called Ben Hoke and it is probably the coolest video monitores ever seen are you happy yeah I like it a lot super happy with it so now I feel like we can actually get some stuff done um and keep an eye on these kids and not let them destroy the basement area like they usually do anyway so that's it that's this is our keys to efficiency planning get out your planner and actually use it baby monitor keep an eye on your children all of them at the same exact time but now to actually fill this which we'll start by just crossing off all the days that have already gone by we're making progress we did it we need to figure out the rest of this year figure out um our groceries this is something that's not a strength for me if you guys have tips on planning being productive in your life systems bonus points if you have a large family bonus bonus points if you can't eat gluten but we're looking for your tips for like I don't know how do you organize your chores our kids have chores that they do every day simple like repetitive things but like how do you get to the deep cleaning and organize that I know some friends do it by room like this you're assigned to this space you're assigned to this space some do it by like day of the week this day we tackle you know windows and window sills this day we tackle walls and I want to hear what works for other people because I'm been too afraid to like commit to one M that's another problem let's talk about all my problems today on today's Vlog we'll talk about everything wrong with Daniel I think I have ADHD I think I'm finally I just feel like I'm like all of those are good in different ways but which one's the best instead of just trying one I don't know why do I have to know which one to try I want the one that won't fail that's your problem is being unwilling to fail I'm afraid to fail so I don't even try wow oh my gosh but really I could actually cry thinking about that cuz that's the that is a big struggle of mine so I'd love to say that we've come here today to share with you our planning tips how we organize things how we effectively plan our lives and our schedules and our routines and but we're trying to figure that out but we don't we have never been good at that I've always been I don't know have you no oh see usually one marries the other yeah yeah I always have done better having a structure in place and me integrating into that structure I'm not trying to do eyeball you've never been good at it either no I've always like I'm better at just like integrating into a system that's already in place yeah so like I think I've learned that about myself that we're not the best but I need structure like I need it crave it need organization and structure I'm just not good at implementing it uh from scratch John is the exact same way and so we're trying to change that so we've started to implement like things I think it was just bit by bit to try to change that we have a very consistent short chart where before we were kind of like you do the dishes today and you do this and because they would complain about it we finally were like nope we're just sticking to the same thing and if you complain about it you're going to do it morning and night every day until you stop complaining so like that actually worked I mean they never got that far so like one does dishes in the morning one does them at night and we've been doing that for several months now and it has like now it's habitual for them that they are just they just do it so that's like one thing John was just talking the other day um about like our cow we she has a calf with her now so if we wanted to not milk her if we had you know a lot of stuff on our plate and on Saturdays we do that's our day off where we just don't milk the calf drinks the milk so we don't have to worry about issues but he said that he likes milking her every day because but it gives you like consistency and discipline yeah and it's just it's structure it's an area of like I know I have to milk her I have to milk or you know I like to bu this certain time and so it kind of starts every day the same way um I made like once you the less you do something the the more you're like oh I don't really want to do that like even whenever I used to do the dishes every single day or at least most days when your mom would come in town and she'd take over and do the dishes for like 3 or four 5 days straight I'd be like I don't want to do this anymore but whenever she didn't I was like in the groove and in her like I just doing I mean I minded it but I also well that was also like once a day so it was like huge pile but I like I was okay doing it and then once she did it it felt like this burden that just got placed back and was like because there wasn't the cons the consistency was gone well so that's why like even like a day to plan is part of the plan is sit down let's organize the next week of our life let's make sure we know what meals what groceries we need what you know videos things we have coming up what um what just whatever home school field trips like everything we're trying to do we're trying to get it in some sort of Rhythm routine so there's somewhat consistency I still think that like having flexibility is important you have to be able to adapt I do not want my children to grow up and not know how to like Flex and adapt and pivot you know if they need to you hit a wall like pivot figure it out figure out how to move forward instead of just getting stuck where you are I think that's I think they have that part down yeah now it's going that's that's my strength that's where I'm the strongest is in my ability to Pivot and figure it out um except for when it comes to this so anyway I wish we could say we had all these answers for you but this is the part of this community where we're coming to you and asking you for help and asking you to give us any tips tricks advice wisdom you have on organizing life with a big family again bonus points if it comes from an ADHD perspective because I think that that might be helpful for me I guess we'll see yall later yeah we look forward to hearing your thoughts and your help help us please if you're a professional life organizer call me let us know still remember