TAKING A BREAK

I still remember say good morning can you say good morning see I had strawberries for breakfast we're about to have some Eggies for breakfast you can't grab the camera you silly goose you don't know how to do the camera yet Tyler will have to train you Judy can you get off the counter please this is our morning so far not too crazy but little Judy decided she's going to climb on the counter and get in stuff I have to watch you for a little minute you have to watch me for a little minute wait why you have to stay up the strawber what I have to wash strawberri the strawberries are all gone look St all right and then lastly we have little TI Tai little TI Tai reading books it read it to me let me hear you read it she likes Star Wars books well good morning everybody hope you're doing well it's so good to see you we are having a great morning here in the Murray household and yesterday I was gone all day shooting like 2 and 1/2 hours from here sa's literally gone all day long Danielle had the kids by herself that's the second time she's done that last Saturday I left and was gone all day um or I think I was home for like bedtime but this time I was not home at all for bedtime now actually last Saturday I wasn't home at all even for bedtime I got home right after bedtime and all the kids are already asleep and this time all the kids are asleep too but I got home later so she's crushing it she's like super mom right now what's WR with your hand oh no what is it what is it what did you do to your hand it looks okay it looks just like he got some strawberry on it it just got some strawberry strawberry happy Sunday everybody we are out in out as a family up seven this and we're going to church at bedtime and we're going to church at bedtime apparently it is actually Sunday evening we are going to an evening service at our church and it's really hot in here so I can't talk for too long our air condition doesn't work well like when the car is sitting it starts to get warm we have to be like driving in order for the air condition to be working but when we're driving you guys can't hear us so we just stopped at Chipotle um to get dinner and so we're we're just for a minute I wanted to tell you guys that today has been crazy I have good days and bad days okay not bad days but very overwhelming days and days where I just feel like I just can't win we were supposed to leave earlier go to the store I don't even know what we're going to do we're going to get out of the house today but it's been too hot to go outside and do anything literally dripping with sweat when you're outside so today's just been a day where I felt like I just couldn't get it together and so we ended up not leaving until later and then I thought well you know let's just go to church so here we are here we are I'm starting to sweat and it's getting really hot in here so we're going to go but we will see you guys in a little bit what where are we at church are you excited yes but I wanted to be here because I wanted to learn about Jesus that's sweet we have made it we've all eaten and we're actually a few minutes early service starts in 6 minutes so we got to get all our kids in we were trying to be a little late because I don't want to take Everly into the worship it's very loud and so we're trying to kind of Miss worship even though I don't really want to miss worship I don't want to blow our little eardrums out and I'm not ready to leave her in the nursery you want bow seats yeah I'll just wear itly probably so you want bow seats or just one oh just get both the more kids we can buckle in or have seated the easier this will be what are you doing [Music] man should have shoes that's all right all right where are your shoes Mom I don't have shoes I didn't get some stop it stop it right now none of our kids have shoes except Tyler and we here some dude good thing that we have some rain boots in here mhm okay so much stuff all these kids and all this stuff okay one 2 three four five 6 seven we done there she is everybody looking slim and sexy I'm feeling exhausted yeah they think they own this place that is one thing I love is that our kids run into church um it seems that they can't get enough of it so I'm okay with that that's the one place I'm okay with this Happ I got him I don't know if everyone hear is okay with oh every here is okay oh it's so dude get down jump on down let's go well this is what it looks like when we go to church and we try to leave church you can jump down here hold my hand stand up and I'll help you okay ready one two three good job Everly did you like your first time at church did you have a good time at church come on Jude one 2 3 four and five so it's been a pretty long day for everyone all the girls are kind of melting down they've been fighting like cats and dogs today well not really fighting but like Elena's been having kind of a rough day I think they stayed up too late and woke up too early right now is getting the bucklet in the car we've got adelene and jammie so she's ready for bed in case she falls asleep Everly is content fed and happy we've got one two and one more to buckle you got be quiet sit down but everyone's being a little bit grumpy so we're going to head home and uh get them ready for bed and then John and I will have some quiet time to sit down which I'm looking forward to just sitting down and watch your TV or taking a deep breath together and just compressing after the day I want [Music] your you're my heart [Music] desire I can feel you I will love speing well we made it home we've got all the kids in their bed Tyler and Elena are still awake but they should hopefully be going to sleep soon not talking or anything so that's a good sign but it's always good when we've got Jude in bed asleep already and then adelene is sleeping and Everly is next to me she's awake and getting ready to be wanting to eat here in a minute I'm going to feed her um John is actually having to run to our neighbor's house our neighbor went on vacation and asked us to go take care of her dogs while she was gone so he's been going over there so he's about to go do that and then uh hopefully we'll both just get like a quiet evening to ourselves because I think we both need it just to decompress today's been rough I don't know what it is I think it's something about like him being gone John was gone yesterday for I don't know like 14 hours maybe and 6:00 a.m. until like 11: so okay that's more than that but um it was just me and all the girls and it was fine we had an okay day but I think they like always kind of miss him a little bit so then the next day when he's here they all just want his attention constantly and they just like bicker with each other more and it it was just a little bit like everybody just stop so we're surviving here but things get a little crazy with I don't know if it like do you guys have a lot of kids you have kids close in age if you do comment below and let me know if your kids are like that if they're Cad and they fight like that I know all siblings kind of fight a little bit but I don't know if it's something about girls or how close in age they are or their personalities but they literally like they bug each other so bad and that bugs me so much because we really do try to teach them to like get along and I know they won't always but there are some days where it's just like non-stop somebody is crying and miserable and like relentlessly picking on somebody else and that was today so we didn't Vlog a whole lot here um but also like I said I've just been feeling really overwhelmed I think a lot of that plays into being tired and them them too so it feels good to sit in bed um so John will be back in a little bit and then we will probably sit down and Vlog a little bit more but I am going to feed Everly for now and because I also pump while I feed her or I don't pump all the time I mean I pump in between feeding sometimes but I used this thing and this is really cool like it's like a suction suction thing and it literally just collects milk um so as I'm nursing her I use this on the other side and collect like 4 o sometimes like 6 to 8 oz it only holds four but I'll dump it into a bag and then put it back on from the other side so that's helping me reduce like engorgement because she's still not able to eat all the milk that I'm producing and it'll help me just maintain a good Supply usually my Supply dips and adjusts to like what she's eating after a few weeks but I would love just like to be able to maintain a supply where I am making extra so I can freeze it and donate milk to a mom that needs it because I think that's so important like premature babies or babies that are born and addicted to drugs or things like that I just feel like it would make such a world of difference and then there are some moms who like just aren't able to keep up their supply or you know with multiples so I always thought it would be really cool to be able to donate longterm like that but we'll see how it goes hey oh a little spit just a little bit that's why I have this cloth here because she's this I would have to wash this doat like 800 times a day hey it is easy to wash though you talk more you she was just talking earlier say hello everybody say hi YouTube do you see yourself say hi everybody I'm 3 weeks and what two days 3 days old yeah it's crazy three and a half weeks old um I think Elizabeth was looking on Instagram or something like that and she saw the the two we picture of her whenever I was shooting with her and I was like wait was that from this past Thursday like she's 2 weeks old right no wait she's three she's 3 weeks old like my it blew my mind that she's it's already been 3 weeks that she's been here with us oh look that little sweet sleepy face she ate a lot so I nursed her but I have like a really fast let down and I think um she didn't nurse that well during church so she was like kind of like not choking but just gulping a lot and so I think she had a couple big burps which we got out but so she might just want a little bit more to eat before she's ready to go to sleep but I'll wait a minute that way I'm ready to go to sleep after too so maybe for once we can sleep at the same time instead of Everly sleeping and me being up every single night she goes out she's s asleep and I'm like she goes out on the town yes she does no she's like sleeping and I'm like she didn't eat enough like I have the pump whatever until so I'm up for like an hour after she's in bed John's sleeping and then I finally go to sleep and then she wakes up a few hours later and we do it all over again so hopefully tonight um we'll be able to sleep around the same time if she just holds off but John looks like he's trying to put her to sleep now am I supposed to be I don't know what I'm doing it was nice to go to church it was nice to get out I was the family it's still kind of hard though it definitely feels like this feels like the hardest transition I think I think so too I don't know if it's just me like I'm having a harder time covering I feel like like my hormones are still off like I'm still adjusting with nursing and nursing is going while like she's growing my body's making plenty of milk but I've just been in pain I'm on some medication to treat like thrush or candida which I think it's not on her she doesn't have thrush so we dealt with that with adelyn it was horrible if you guys remember if you don't check back to our Vlogs um when Adeline was younger she wasn't gaining weight cuz we battled thresh on and off we kept passing it back and forth for like 4 months and it was really rough this time I think I have it just like very deep in my breast so I've been taking um a medicine for it for six days maybe 5 days and there's a little bit of a change but not a significant change in the pain right now so like I'm dealing with that and that and then obviously being up at night and like I said even when she's sleeping or John's sleeping I'm up or in pain or whatever and then with the other girls and now they're home all the time so it's just it's a lot to adjust to they really is yeah I feel like even going from 3: to 4 wasn't like I felt good my mom was here to help for a couple weeks so that did help I feel like I felt better sooner and I don't know it didn't feel that hard Jude was also a little older Jude was almost two Adeline is only 17 months like just now Bec my handful so it's like she's just now into like climbing on everything and getting into stuff and she's figured out what she likes and what she doesn't like so she will let you know for sure if she doesn't like something um so I yeah I feel like that's you know even more or even now she's gotten to The Dumping food on the floor if she doesn't want it and so if there's more to clean up so yeah I think overall this has definitely been the hardest transition but I do think the age Gap probably has yeah true think about that a little bit to do with it and then Tyler and Elena um those two bicker a lot over the next few months or at least over this summer just I don't know get along you know like enjoy each other's company more yeah so pray for us as we are trying to transition into this um like I said I know we haven't been vlogging a lot I haven't been but it's because I'm like I feel like my world just got flipped upside down and it's the first time I've really felt like that every time I've stepped into like having a new baby and adding a new baby to our family very much just okay we just roll with it and I think I still to an extent I'm able to do that um but it's much harder and I think emotionally it's taking like a bigger toll on me and so it's for me I just have to put something down and it's been the Vlog camera lately I've been like I just have to focus on all these other things so um bear with us but please pray for us because we definitely need it and appreciate it it and we appreciate you guys you look so tired I am tired I'm not yeah anyway I'm going to go feed this baby look she fell asleep John put her to sleep it's okay I'm not wake her up and feed her we're going to watch the office because we've been rewatching the office well let's not even go into that right now cuz I get ready to talk all about it I love it it's so funny it's so funny so if you've never seen the office go watch the office because it's awesome awesome so we're going to do that and just spend some quiet time together I told you guys how much I was looking forward to that and I am glad that we're getting that you're about to have some quiet time you you sleeping sleep so rude anyway we love you guys good night and we will see you later yep Jus died to save us and that's us really much make sure you click subscribe hey thanks for watching make sure you click the Subscribe button to follow along with the murres subscribe