What Life Look Like Now | Day in the Life After Moving

Hey guys, welcome back. I always feel like starting my YouTube videos is like the hardest part. I never really know what to say. But we've had a pretty productive morning this morning. It's around eight o'clock. Everyone got up very early this morning. I think everyone was up before seven. So we started bright and early this morning and I realized that we were out of coffee. So Caleb took the kids and ran to get some coffee beans. I'm gonna quickly get ready while he's out because he actually rented an office space. I know last week when I did the home tour I was like, oh he works from home. Then like in the next shot I was like, he has an office and I didn't really explain. But yes, he did get an office space. We decided that it was probably just best for him and his productivity to have a space for him to just like go and be able to clock in and then when he's done come home and be completely off. So we're trying it out for the first couple months and seeing how it goes. He does have a setup here for when he wants to work from home but it's not ideal. It's in our closet. So it's definitely a little more professional to have like an actual office space and if he has to do zoom calls it's not like all of our clothes hanging up in the background. We found an office space where a bunch of other Christian like business owners rent office spaces. So they do like bible studies together. But it is like a bit of a change of pace for me not having him here. Like if I need him to step in because someone had a blowout and I have to like deal with it I could just step into the office be like can you please come inside for like five minutes. So I'm having to fully be independent again which is an adjustment but I can do it. I think having him here just made me a little more reliant on him too than I needed to be. I can handle when things go south around here but because he was just like 15 steps away in the garage before I would just holler at him more often than I needed to. So yeah definitely a step up in his productivity. I'm excited for him but sad that we don't get to see him for lunch or like when he comes in and he has to use the restroom. Kids could just like give him a quick hug. So change of pace but today I'm gonna take you guys along for just a day in the life type of vlog. We're still unpacking the house. Actually we're not unpacking because we don't have anything to unpack. Our stuff still has not arrived so we are living without a lot of things that would be very convenient to have. Totally fine. It's part of moving. I feel like all of us have had a pretty good attitude about it but very excited everything should get here this weekend and then we can like fully unpack. The kids have done very well transitioning so far. They will have days occasionally where they're just acting really off. I'll be like what is going on and then I remember we just move them across the and like away from everything that they know into a house that doesn't really feel that homey. So it's a lot of transition for them and it's very very normal for small children to react to a lot of change and like disruption in their normal life by acting out or being more whiny or I've even noticed that one of my kids is just so tired like just wants to sleep all the time. Like why do you need a three-hour nap every day? So it's easy to forget that they're still kind of in the heat of getting used to their new normal. So I'm trying to be a little more aware of that. Today is just going to be a normal day around the house. I do have some errands that I need to run this evening but for the most part we'll just be hanging out around the house. I'm sure we'll get in the pool at some point. I'm sure we'll play outside for a good bit of the day and just see what we get into. I'm excited to take you guys along for the first vlog in our new house but I hear Caleb he is back with the coffee beans so I'm gonna go downstairs and make a coffee really quick. The kids were hungry so I had to make breakfast before I started my coffee. I want to show you guys this yogurt. I just picked this up at Whole Foods because it was on sale but it is the Painters Land Sisters Greek yogurt. It's like a sky Greek yogurt. Has 19 or 18 grams of protein and it is the best Greek yogurt I've ever tried. I honestly don't really like yogurt most of the time. My kids will eat it but I really avoid eating yogurt. It just like I don't know makes me want to gag all the time. So finding a yogurt that I actually like that has high protein is a game changer for me. It makes breakfast so much easier because breakfast is one of those things I'm like I know I need to eat it but I don't really know what to eat. So I've been liking this. We also just do it with some granola. It doesn't even need honey and some fruit. Easiest breakfast. The kids love it. I have mine here ready to go. We have no plates or bowls in the house still so we've been eating off of paper plates for like two and a half weeks now. Love you. This has kind of been a rhythm every morning. We'll have breakfast and then come out here before the turf gets really hot. I didn't know that about turf but turf gets so hot in the sun. They can still play on it like when it's hot but obviously they need shoes and my kids don't really like to wear shoes. So we're just hanging out here before it gets too hot. You probably saw when I was making coffee but Ollie has a band-aid on his forehead and that's because three days ago now we were playing in the pool and Ollie likes to play like in the shallow part. It's probably like foot measurements. He can sit up in it really comfortably but he likes to walk along the edge of the pool in the shallow part and he's one so he's a little busy body and I let him do it. I'm normally right there behind him. Three days ago he was walking along the edge. I was right there and basically he took a step and went to catch himself and slipped and missed and cut his forehead pretty deep on the edge of the pool. The tile is just so sharp right by the pool. So immediately I had everyone get out of the pool, went inside, assessed it and it didn't need stitches but it did need to be like glued shut. So he has a band-aid on. He's healing. It was an accident. After it happened for like two days I just felt so terrible about it. Like I was just feeling so much guilt and so much shame because he's just such a little baby and I'm like how could I let that happen and was really struggling with it so I reached out to a couple of my friends and just asked them if they would pray for me, told them the situation and one of my friends responded. She like prayed for me over the phone but she was like, Emma just remember to try to give yourself the same grace that you would give another mom if the situation happened to them. Like if that happened to another mom I would be like it's okay girl. Like yes I totally understand feeling bad about it but it was an accident and you can't just sit there and beat yourself up over it. But for some reason for myself it was just a really, are you talking? For some reason it was really really hard to shake it. I think also too because it is on his face and he probably will have a scar. I was just feeling so much guilt of like oh he's gonna have a scar on his face. It's all my fault. Anyway I just got me thinking mom guilt is such a real thing whether it be about feeling like you don't play with your kids enough or feeling like you don't cook them healthy enough meals or whatever it may be. And really that guilt and shame doesn't really lead you to change. It just leads you to continue to spiral and feel worse about the type of person you are and it was so good for my friend to just like clock me real quick and be like girl it was an accident. It's okay and it doesn't define you as a mom and just extending that same grace to myself when I have moments where I wish I would have done a little better or just been like more on top of it. So anyway I know that all of us as moms struggle with mom guilt and it was just a good little reminder for me so I wanted to share with you guys. But I'm so hot. I know he's hot. Drinking a hot coffee outside. What am I doing? So I think we're gonna all head inside and get dressed for the day. This is my brand new waffle. It's so pink. It has an octopus sticker, a fish sticker with crown and a flower sticker. These are my new goggles and I definitely want to show you something that's very cool. And this is my favorite. It has sparkles on the outside and the back and here. And this is my new shopping cart. Wow I love it. It's so beautiful. It is beautiful. Are you gonna be a YouTuber one day? Yeah. Yeah you're gonna have your own channel? Yeah. I'm a YouTuber. You are pretty good at talking to the camera girl. You need to give me a few pointers. Okay I just got Oakley and the little boys down. It's just me and Ollie that are up now. Okay um he's so funny. Every time that I start talking to the camera he wants to talk. He's getting so big. His birthday was a week ago so he's officially one. He's walking. Maybe I'll get a clip and show you guys. Not super confident in it yet but he is taking steps. But he's just getting so big. I feel kind of bad because for his first birthday we didn't do a whole lot. You're so cute. We didn't do a whole lot because we just moved and we don't know anyone here and the first birthday is mostly just for the parents but I might wanna at least get a birthday cake or make a birthday cake and let him smash it and take pictures because I always think those pictures are so cute. But I think I'm gonna use this nap time to do some editing for some photos that I took right before we moved. My sister got married and so I took photos for that. And then one of my friends had a baby so I did some newborn photos for her. I'm by no means a photographer but I have this camera that takes really good photos so I'm trying to just like bless people here and there that need photos for small things. The wedding was a big one so that one definitely felt a little more high stakes. And after doing it I had a few people say like you should do wedding photography and there's no way that I could do it. I have friends that do it but I just would feel so bad if I didn't get like a lot of good photos. And then you have the added pressure of someone paying you know x amount of money. Wedding photography is not cheap. So I don't think I would ever do it. Obviously there's like a time aspect too that would pull me away from my kids and that's why I love doing YouTube and social media because I'm able to work from home and be with my kids all the time. But it was very fun to play photographer for the day. So now I have a bunch of unedited photos that I need to edit and get sent over to them. Caleb is actually coming home for lunch. His office is like 12 minutes from here so he is coming home. We just got a second car. We got it last night. It's like his dream car or one of his dream cars. I know I've told you guys this before but he's like a car guy. That's like his thing. And so he got a Tesla and it's just honestly I don't know it freaks me out a little bit. I think I'm gonna drive it tonight when I'm doing my errands and just get a feel for it. He's very into the self-driving stuff and thinks it's really cool. I don't really think it's that cool. I'm not really like a big AI girl or like into the robots. I think that I don't know. I can be a little pessimistic when it comes to the advances that are happening with AI. But he loves it. He thinks it's all really cool. So I'll end up driving it tonight. Or I guess actually it will end up driving me tonight to run my errands. I'm gonna work on editing. Caleb should be here soon and then once the kids wake up we will play in the pool this afternoon. Okay I'm almost done. You're good. Stay in here. Tell everybody what you learned how to do. No way. Only when daddy's around. Yeah you can only do it when there's two adults in the pool huh? Yeah. You're really good at it huh? Caleb worked with Oakley on swimming for like one afternoon and she figured it out. She can only go the length of or the width of the pool. She can't go the length yet but she's really close. She's just such a little athlete. She learned how to ride her bike at three. She learned how to do the monkey bars this summer and then also learned how to swim. She's just like she's so cool honestly. We're back inside now. I just put Ollie down for his second nap of the day. The kids are watching a little show in the living room which I'm sure you will hear in the background but I need a prep dinner so I put something on for them to watch. I did a little pickup around the house super quick before I put on their show and it's honestly so nice to have like such few things. Me and Caleb were just talking the other day. Should we even get more furniture because it is so nice to have such few things to have to clean up. If it was just me and him I wouldn't think so much about it but because we have four little kids that are just playing all the time and taking the cushions off the couch and if I throw pillows and throwing them on the ground they're just being kids. The house starts to feel really messy really quick when they do that so I don't know we might become minimalist and just leave the house how it is. I highly doubt that because I thrift way too much to be a minimalist but it sounds really appealing when it only takes me like 10 minutes to run around the house and clean up the house even though this is a lot bigger than our old house it takes me less time. So don't know how that makes sense but it does. But I think for dinner I'm gonna make spaghetti just something easy and quick and something I know that the kids will eat. We were in such a bad habit there for a couple of weeks while we were moving just eating junk. Like things that I would not normally eat and I don't know if there's any guys watching but if you're a guy watching just fast forward this part but I just had my first period postpartum. It always just takes me a while for like my body to like figure out what's going on and it happened to be at the end of those three weeks of us just eating crap. So I was feeling really gross last week then I got my period and I was like oh I think it was a combination of eating junk and you know the hormonal whirlwind that was going on within my body. But I'm feeling a lot better now. I started working out this week and I've been feeling so good. I've been really consistent this week which actually have I been that consistent? It's Thursday and I've worked out twice. I was planning on working out every day but I am you know on my period so I'm taking it easy. Two days is better than no days so I'm happy with it but I am very excited to get back into a regular workout routine. I don't know if we're gonna set up a home gym here or if I'm just gonna get a membership. I am kind of one of those people that feels very intimidated going to a gym but it is a lot of work to get a whole gym set up again and it would have to be in the garage and the garage has no ac so I would be just the sweatiest mess ever. By far my favorite way to work out is with weights. I feel like that's when I feel the best and I feel like I notice the biggest changes in my body so I want to start doing that. I know I talked about this in our home tour a little bit but this is just a temporary situation. We honestly aren't even sure how long we'll be in Vegas. We just know that we're supposed to be here for this year so if we do feel like this is our permanent home then we are going to buy a house hopefully next year. This home that we're in we're just renting which kind of adds to the feeling of not wanting to buy more stuff that we're just going to have to pick up and move in a year's time whether that be to a house down the street or across the country again or out of the country that could be fun right? So I think I'm gonna get the gym membership and just get over my fear of going to the gym but I do like to run so it will be a combination of the two. I'm gonna get started on dinner. Caleb should be home in like 30 minutes and then we're gonna trade spots. He's gonna have the kids the rest of the evening and I'm gonna go run errands. Okay let's go check out this Tesla. Let's try this out. We're gonna have it drive me just to a coffee shop down the road. I decided that I'm gonna have him go with me to run my errands tonight because I have so many Amazon returns and we also need to pick up some groceries at Whole Foods so he's gonna help me carry in some of the Amazon returns and then we're gonna grab what we need at Whole Foods and then probably pick up ice cream for like a special treat for the kids. So we're gonna just take this for a quick test drive but first impressions this thing is feels like a spaceship. So I guess I push down the brake pedal, hit self-driving, we're moving. I'm not doing anything so I don't know if I'm actually allowed to film while I'm doing this but this is so weird. I don't know if I like it. Let me know in the comments if where you live self-driving cars are like kind of normal. It's normal here in Vegas. If you're downtown you can literally take a self-driving taxi. They're everywhere so I don't know maybe it's like a normal thing and I was just in a small town and in Alaska people don't really have Teslas because they don't do very well in the cold like the batteries don't do well so I'm just not used to seeing a lot of Teslas and every other car it feels like is a Tesla down here so they're obviously very popular but I don't know. I don't know how I feel about this. It's cool. It's nice that I don't have to like especially if I had the kids in the back yelling at me and it was busy traffic self-driving would be pretty sweet but maybe I'm just not as progressive as the rest of the world but I think that the way that AI and like robots are advancing so quickly it kind of freaks me out. I know I'm not the only one that thinks that way but I am curious if it's like the majority of people feel that or if it's just the people that grew up in like a small town or maybe people that aren't super techie. I don't know but it's pretty cool honestly so I'm gonna put this down and just like enjoy the drive. Okay I'm back now that was honestly really funny. I don't know what happened. I thought I put in Dutch Bros but apparently I didn't so I was talking with you guys and in my own little world and then once I put the camera down I noticed I was in a subdivision and honestly had no idea where I was and so I was just like whatever I put it in it might just be a different location and the car kept driving me and there was all of these beautiful houses and I look up and there's this gated community and it's not like a normal gated community where you just put the code in it was like a gated community where there was a security guard and you had to like talk to him for him to let you in and I was like basically at the gate so I was clicking the screen frantically trying to turn off the self-driving and then I realized you just like hit the brake. I'm not really sure what happened there but it was a cool experience. I think it's really fun for Caleb to have this car like I said he's a car guy and he that man he just never buys anything for himself so when he brought up that he really wanted a Tesla I was like you do it you deserve it you work so hard so I'm excited for him to have a fun little toy and he did tell me that if I get a gym membership that I can drive it in the mornings but this is where I'm gonna end the video thank you guys so much for spending the day with me I love doing vlogs I feel like vlogs are probably my favorite type of content to create because it just feels like you guys are doing my day with me but if you enjoyed this video make sure that you like it and if you have not already subscribed to my channel and you want to see more of my content in the future make sure that you subscribe I love you guys so much and I will see you in the next video