Hey Bell Baes! We are finally tackling our closing day prep and doing the final walkthrough of our New Construction Home. You won't believe the stress!
The home buying process has been a total rollercoaster, and in today's vlog it's all about the final steps before CLOSING DAY!!! We are taking you along for the ride as we meet with our builder team to make sure everything is perfect!
Catching up on the entire 'Homeless Until Closing' vlog series is the best way to see the reality behind the scenes of our big leap into first time homeownership and how far we have come!
Make sure to subscribe to follow the rest of our journey, and comment below if you have ever been in our shoes! WE LOVE YALL BELL BAES! Thanks for watching!
0:00 The Long Wait Is Finally Over 4:03 The Builder's Guide to Our New Property 8:38 Customizing Our New Living Space 11:11 Family Thoughts on Our New Home 19:23 Exploring Our New Outdoor Space 22:37 Final Preparations Before the Big Move 36:06 The Final Steps 44:53 I Can't Believe THIS!
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A family celebrates the emotional milestone of purchasing their first home after eight months of housing instability. The content covers the technical aspects of the home walk-through, the financial strategy behind the investment, and the personal challenges of relocating. Additionally, the speaker discusses her strict approach to digital parenting and disciplining her children regarding online behavior and honesty.
My husband's taking me out.
What you want me to do? Lift the washer and dryer? I think not.
On cloud nine. Do you hear me?
My mama said, I could whoop your ass.
Did her mother say that? Perhaps.
That's not, that's neither here nor there.
For me to have the patience to sit in my mama's house
for eight months, like y'all don't even understand.
Miss Mimi is cussing a girl out.
Excited? You ready for your makeup? You ready for your makeup?
It's a you, you, and everything's so cute.
Dating parties are starting.
Wake me
in your trap and
make me wonder
who makes me
wonder who
Put a
pool
back
there
It's an alarm system
I love that it's a door
This is a door we picked
Hold on mommy
I didn't know that it came with one of these
I literally was gonna buy one
I love that
Yes, don't touch the walls please
Good, then we don't gotta
be fixed
Now we are at our house walk-through right now
We are talking with the builder
Or like the person who runs the company
who built this house
and he's basically just going over everything that we need to know
about the house our warranty
and i'm upstairs right now looking at the kids bathroom is so
cute like everything is shiny everything's brand new oh
my gosh this is um isn't our final walk
through because final walk through will be on closing day
but we are literally so excited
oh where are my manners hey girl hey welcome
to the way if you're new here girl my husband's
me out it's our first house ever
and we're just basically going over that whole process we have
been unhoused for eight full months waiting
on a house before it to get built it's finally
done it's finally built i left the finish line
and just like looking at all of that letting it
all come in oh my god y'all this is just
so bittersweet so come along for the ride if you're
girl you already know what it is y'all know where we came
from y'all know the struggle y'all know
that this is such a big deal for us we are going to become homeowners
which is one of our biggest
goals and we wanted to hit and we were ready of course
and now we are it just feels great like
our family is just growing like i don't know just like oh come
on this is all our special memories
about us we're gonna rock this away we'll come back
to this when we buy like 15 houses we'll
come back like this is our first boy low-key
this is like I guess this would
be called our starter home because it's not a starter home
but for us this would be our starter home
so it's our forever home this is the beginning
to the beginning to the beginning to the beginning
so look at these look at how shiny this is look
at how new it looks like oh everything is so shiny
clean brand-new I love it
these are the same color basically as my countertops
Hey hey, you go to that QR and you
do, it'll get you into your warranty, how to submit warranties, your home
owners manual and home owners manual will also give you just
the process what that looks like, there'll be a test at the end
I'm probably gonna fail it.
But I'll take the documentation just to be able to refer back to
That's what the Army always taught me.
As long as I can refer back to it, I'll be all right.
You can, and then there's a video going over what we're going to do.
Okay, so what is the foundation?
That's everything that's on your list.
So that includes your back porch, front porch,
your garage, of course, and your house.
Okay, that 10-year warranty.
I might be looking at my phone, obviously, it's 2026,
so I'll be just taking some big notes that I want to be able
So I'm not being rude and just looking at my phone.
So those are notes and not answering phone calls?
No, no, no, no, just taking notes.
See that 10-year warranty slap don't they? Okay
I think he was going to send me one, he didn't do it.
Oh, okay.
So I don't have it.
Okay, and you spoke to him?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
He was injured.
He was a character.
No, he was a young, young, active man.
He's Mr. Gadget.
Get up there, there's a platform.
You can't add to the platform.
You can't put another room in up there.
You can't store things up there.
Right.
Because it's engineered for the weight
that's up there for a couple of miles up there.
It's not engineered for that.
How would they ever even know?
That's technical.
They'd be like, check here, check here, check here, and sign it.
They wouldn't know if you ever needed to get something big.
You'd be surprised at what they'd experience
with people storing up there in their attic.
And only one, yeah, the day's date.
You want me to put the day's date actually?
This time of year, as hot as it is, of course, these guys,
when they plant this sod, they water the same, seven days a week.
But once you guys move in, and we can adjust it
when we're out there, I'll show it to you.
I can adjust it right now.
I'm watering my yard right now because of the heat.
I'm watering it four times a week.
The grass needs water.
anything
needs
to be fixed
i just have
a little bit
of things that
i see that like
the paint has
went over a little bit
but they've already put tape on it
so like keys on that need to be fixed
he just didn't it wasn't like he
rubbed me wrong when he caught me
doing something i really really
I'm going
to put
a door
in here
going
into the
garage,
or not the
garage,
into the
laundry
room.
So basically I'm going to open up
this so I can go into the laundry room from here.
I think you're safe on that wall.
I was going to ask you if you knew.
But you'd have to go around the other side
and see if there's any outlets.
Yeah, there are.
You might run into some electrical wiring
Well, Chuck can move that. That's easy.
As far as like something else like i don't know
water pipe line i think so because you're all your
all your plumbing over on this wall okay yeah
that's what i figured it's against the back
i know i'm gorgeous i don't need no
rich off these endorsements
while i'm playing my switch
Hmm, niggas found out I feel chubby,
I look good slim
Hmm, ignoring the haters that speak on my body
In front of them, aren't you?
Tune in, you spotted me mostly
A bum bitch can't get in my car
Rounded by stars like I'm reppin' my country
Next year, whole lot of projectin'
You do the ---- that you put on the next bitch
But it gets me fucked up, you parlay
These niggas know I'm the biggest investment
Hmm, I'm at the top of my game
I'm who they hate, this ---- come with a horn
I'm gonna show you
guys what I want
Hot filler
Installing that soon
this whole kitchen i'm showing y'all now
but it's gonna be redone probably we're gonna have
um probably gold gold accents going on here it might
not sound right because gray gold but
trust me y'all when we get done with this project it's gonna
be gorgeous especially in the kitchen
i mean light fixtures chandeliers we already bought
our chandelier you guys gonna install it
right there it's going to be gorgeous
in here we might change the color of the cabinets not sure
yet I need to look in this closet
so this closet is a smaller
closet there's no bugs spiders in
there it's me, how do you feel about
your house what what were you saying about
the house how do you
feel about
your new house let's talk
to mr fly he's been here for
feel about the house would
he stopped he's trying to tell me something oh my god is that all
y'all have to say you're excited you're
You're ready to do makeup? You're ready for your baby to do makeup?
Oh my goodness, you guys are ready.
It's been eight months.
It's been eight months.
It's been almost a year of us not having a house,
of us not having a place to put your stuff,
of y'all just having to be quiet and be cramped up.
Y'all literally get... What are you doing?
What does it have to do with the... A bite?
There's a bite in your... Oh, you bit it.
Girl, you said there was a bite.
Like something crawled in your mouth and bit you.
Do you remember your things? Do you remember what you have?
Yeah, do you remember what you have because you probably
don't I might come I have my comfy pillow your comfy pillow
So what's one thing that you that's packed up that you can't wait to?
Unpack my makeup your makeup makeup in
Out of all the things yes, it is.
It's a deer bro
What's one thing that's it. I was your one thing
It's something that you're ready to unpack
that you haven't seen in almost a year
The iPad's not in the storage. I'm talking in the storage.
Mimi's in trouble. That's what she's not failing to tell y'all.
She got in trouble and got her phone and her tablet taken.
So she's stuck on that. We're talking about what's in the storage unit.
The iPad's not in the storage unit.
What is in the storage unit that you cannot wait to unpack?
That's you.
London, leave the flyer alone.
He's going to report back.
Let us know how everything goes.
So yours is makeup? Yeah.
yeah we're not we're not leaving yet
do you like your door look
at your door you can look out the
door you can't look right here you can't see nothing here
but you can see through here that's
the that's the uh what's it called the peephole
but then they can look, they can do it, why would
they be on the door like that, I would hope
not get your face off of it, fingers, fingers
wow so cool, I'm gonna give them a tour of my kitchen
so they know what to touch
and what not to touch, okay?
Know what to touch.
Okay.
So this right here.
Don't touch it.
Do not touch.
Do not touch.
Do not touch this.
I can touch it.
This right here is going to be the point of business.
Listen, I already told you, don't touch it.
I'm telling
you now.
It better stay right here.
Then you're not kicking it here.
Nope.
I'm done.
Bye, Mimi.
I say dye the counter, oh no no, and I rebuked that because ain't nobody
and we all living up in this
house, we're living all of us, yes
ma'am, yeah we're about to go get some food after this
and um yes, the builder in the garage
um going over some more blue tape, I didn't even use a lot
of my, most of my blue tape was in the kitchen, honey
y'all know how you know I feel, oh let me
show you something
else this is the
refrigerator, look
how deep it is, mimi
no you already showed
them the house mimi showed
y'all a big tour empty house tour you did you show them everything
the what what's that what
that is come on show me show okay
show me what you're talking about
the oven you said the oven show them
the oven i thought you said the evan i'm like who's evan
the oven how this goes mariah but look
though open up open up open the thingy you're gonna be
flipping what girl flipping burgers no open open
that open that oh girl open it look inside there
look how big it is it's a fly mariah get off
of there look how big isn't that cool that's not big
girl that's bigger that's big yeah
and it's your height that's the crazy part y'all can like london
can can use it okay close it yeah it's like
yeah look Milan's favorite place is like yaya's
exactly like yaya's look how big these are the drawers isn't
that cool the drawers are huge and
then we got drawers in front of our stove we never had
that yeah those are those are cabinets
yeah and then right here look how much space
we never had an island this big that's crazy
come on London I mean what's your name London you don't have
to be dramatic we're gonna go eat
okay but just think about this the house look
at the fireplace that turns on look at the crystals
on inside of the fireplace isn't this cool maybe
gonna have to do the top you should get it okay
see and then look at this when you go right here
you go like this that's how you open it so go like
this stop and then go like this but if you're going fast like
that then it yeah to do to
slow to open it. Isn't that cool? Okay, let's go outside.
Can I try? Yes, push it up. Push it up.
See how heavy it is? I know. Oh my god, it's so heavy.
Yes. Okay, go to your new backyard.
Your new backyard, girl. Designer and Javaji gonna look.
So you don't think a pool could fit out here?
Let me see. No, pools really only take about five days.
Yaya just made it longer because she didn't
want nobody in it but we're
not doing pool right now i'm just saying you think it could fit out
here yeah leave that stick leave
that stick there let's just rinse
my face you would take the grass
up over here put a grill propane
gas right here yeah so cool
right i'm gonna do my my hand name
oh god anyways
no talking about he goes that's how he's gonna do the pool by himself
yeah look at this i'm like sinking in the grass
because they just laid the grass down
if y'all can see there's like patches and
holes in the grass fence brand new
everything is looking beautiful this is where you go out
so if we did get a pool we'd
be able to see it from our room
which I love do you hear me he'll make
sure nothing happened let me see
my water okay hook it up there
i ain't show y'all nothing but london devour all
the wings no she had a lot of wings though y'all
it was crazy would you say london she wanted to see it before
and after because she looked a mess
we missed it though i had to clean my girl up
but when she eat that girl is messy no oh yeah
y'all listen i
did i feel like
i haven't talked
to y'all in so long
so we have a lot
of catching
up to do but hi girl into the vlog i believe
this is the beginning of the vlog if not if it's
part of another vlog girl hey
because i know i ain't saying hey i just been moving and grooving
and going and going and going and going like non-stop
and i tell y'all i am exhausted i am
tired but we ain't even got through
the most exhausting part moving tomorrow oh my goodness
we get a truck we get movers we get
to that storage unit we get everything hauled onto the
truck and we drive down to dallas
for the very final time like aesthetic isn't even the word
okay aesthetic really is not even the word it's
just coming down to an end it's coming to a close
closing day is thursday wait
so today's tuesday tomorrow's moving day thursday's closing day and
then we move into the house on friday y'all like i
am so freaking happy all the long hard work the long
the dedication the the struggle girl
the unhousedness of it all the kids just not being
where you know they're comfortable at like them
not for eight long months not being able to really
run scream play like they can at our house like we don't mind
that you know what i'm saying so it's
like having to just be super duper quiet like hats off to the children
because they really really
did their best they had some little you know what i'm saying some along
the way mariah's grounded i have
to get into that with y'all later but they've had some hiccups
but they've done the best that they
can honestly like i i really really really
am so happy how everything played out so when we get
down there um like i said we have closing day
but we also have to do our final walkthrough y'all
when we did um one walkthrough where we just went through
and like blue taped the house and stuff
so now we have to basically go through
and make sure that everything that was blue taped or that
texas ain't no joke when it comes
to heat i know august i don't know why i feel like august should
be a little cooler but it is 100 and some degrees
and i think that that is just ridiculous anyways
um y'all died because i ran out of storage
but i wanted to finish telling y'all so basically i
don't even know where i was at but basically two more days
and we are officially homeowners so
we're just basically getting everything done i need to get my nails
and my feet done um i did
my hair i changed my hair
to this color i thought i don't even think i told y'all last time y'all
seen my hair this color but i just i changed this color for closing day
because i wanted something
different and um what else when we saw the house
and we did the walkthrough majority of everything
was done already because we had an inspector come we've had
the va inspector come we had two
inspectors the va sent their own we paid for one
then we had the va sent their own appraiser then
um our mortgage company paid for one
so our appraisal is right around the same for both sides
um the inspection was good on both sides um what else
the inspector that we picked was actually
someone who's on social media
so it's just super duper funny he happened to be in dallas and we
saw all of his inspection videos online and they're
so funny and hilarious so we had him do
our house i'm not gonna tell y'all who because i feel like
then y'all gonna be able to go and you
might be able to like put i don't know i don't
know he know where we live so i you know what i
said you know what i said so anyways um yeah
so that was fun and hopefully if he does post
then we'll be able to like see his full like walk through
but we got his list of things um that he
didn't like and that we needed to get fixed
so we told the builder and everything walked through
the builder um everything just was a one
y'all like everything is going smoothly thank god y'all
know we've been having like little hiccups little bumps
and for it to just run smoothly finally
it's just nothing but god like i give it all to him honestly
because i we couldn't have
done this without him like we couldn't have like
for me to have the patience to sit in my mama
house for eight months like y'all don't even understand i'm
not being ungrateful because
she did let us stay there for eight months
but when you're used to having your own when you're
used to you know i'm saying just taking care
of things by yourself when you're used to not having
to hear from someone else about whatever the case may
be like my mom went off on about bread last
night like you know i'm saying like stuff like that and we
and i have been so anal i have literally
my anxiety has been on 10
because i have just been running behind the kids trying to make sure
that you know everything is clean
and not saying that our house isn't clean when you have kids
here's a tip for y'all don't go crazy running
behind them all day long trying to keep things
clean honestly tidy up throughout the day
but at the end of the night do a deep clean that's how i
function in my house my mom because she doesn't have any kids
and she's not used to having kids
you know i'm saying i didn't want to feel like it
was just a lot going on you know just just
throw that on her like just children running
around touch walls and do it you know like the
kids stuff so I tried my best to alleviate any types of stress
when it came to them which put
a lot of stress on me because that's not how I usually run
my household then having to tell them
you know to be quiet and to not be jumping around they're
not apartment kids my kids don't know
nothing about not jumping around
and not having a good time you feel me so it was just a lot of
different things when it comes to other people's in their space
and how they like their space it's
not nothing against anyone it's just that I'm ready
to go I'm ready to have my own space I
cannot deal with it any longer and I'm
so blessed to have parents who allowed us to stay with them
but honestly we was only supposed to be there
for a couple months the reason it got longer and longer
is because we ended up putting the kids
in school we ended up having an issue when we were looking
and then we couldn't find the house that we wanted
then we ended up finding the house and that house
wasn't right and then we had to switch houses like it
was a lot going on then we had to wait for it
to be built like it was just a lot going on all at once
and it took eight months so I'm telling
y'all now if y'all have ever jumped
into the buying process you already know the hecticness
of it all and if you haven't i'm telling
y'all it can get chaotic just do a lot of research
be patient don't rush into it
because it could be a long process and honestly it should when
you're investing this amount of money girl hundreds
of thousands to millions amounts of money like
you want to slow it down you want to be able
to make sure everything's right you want to make
sure you're not getting into some crazy deal you
know what I'm saying you want to make sure that your
interest rate is where you want it to be especially
in this economy we actually got a really good
interest rate our interest rate is actually 3.99
not not 3, not 4, child 3.99 and it's crazy
because a lot of our friends and people who've
also bought this year or last were like you know
that's an amazing deal they've gotten like i think five
and fours and things like that so it was
really really good like what we found was amazing
the area that we are moving to is an up and up so
right now super duper country hands down like i mean like mom
and pop shops things like that so
we are excited because we only want to stay
in this house for about three to five years depending
on how fast they build this area up
so we're excited to get in where we are because the price
point that we have like when i tell
y'all this investment is just it i'm like i came from the
heavens like i'm not even playing y'all it really honestly did
because everything lined up perfectly
everything was what we wanted it to be we're gonna
be able to flip this house and make so
much money off of it at the end of the day
when we're ready and it's crazy like our kids gonna
have a great schools you know like they're gonna
have memories like they're able to see a house
i never got to see a house being built
or my parents buying a house when i was this little
i am just so blessed like in this whole process
and um shout out that's all to my husband my
husband shook me daddy did the damn thing
y'all like when i say he has been working non-stop
non-stop no breaks like he has been pushing it
to the limit to make sure we can get everything
that we want he has been on top of everybody doing all
the things i have not had to lift a
pretty little finger for much of anything
but to sign some documents you feel me like when i my
husband showed up and showed out like he did
that he did that and i love him damn like i loved him
before this but that right there was a little sexy i might have
to throw these ankles back after this
after i get my nails in my and my toes done
because uh baby i cannot repay you for everything
that you have done oh my god like biggest island i've ever seen one
of i think my granny's actually
is bigger but i've never had an island this big i haven't
been you know what i'm saying just living
an island this big like this island is huge
the kitchen is like damn near as big as the bottom
of the house like i'm just like oh my god
y'all i'm just so blessed i feel like i've waited long
and all the hard work is paying off like that's all
that matters at the end of the day i i can
see the struggle that we went through you know all the trials
and tribulations but we stuck it
through y'all and i wanted to give up
so many times i got into it i got into my feelings a few
times and i want to just
be like you know what just forget it let's just go rent because i was
just so tired i was so drained and then
also right now going through the whole summer i thought i was
gonna at least get the summer in my house
and then be able to get the kids ready for school like
going through the whole summer not having a place now it's ready
but when we get in we gotta get in
get serious the kids gotta get into school like we have
a lot that we just gotta do like when i
say the first like month is gonna be chaotic
and crazy but y'all y'all here for the ride i'm not
gonna talk y'all head off too much longer another feature
that i love about the house is that we
have it's like endless heat for our water
so our it's a water softener it's like the hot water
tank is like it doesn't it's never
not hot like you'll never run out of hot water love that we
have a 10 year warranty on our house like oh yeah
it's just like i said everything just lined up
perfectly and it was just a blessing and i am just
so grateful so let me get in here and get
pampered before the move girl i'm still
not lifting a pretty little finger i'm just a girl
my husband knows i'm just a girl
when we do moving he already didn't he look he prepping me he's
talking about i know you're not gonna be much help i tend
to the children when we have this when we
have moving situations
and things i let i let the men's do the hard lifting and the sweating
and stuff you know what i'm saying what's a girl
to do like what you want me to lift the washer
dryer i think not let me go ahead
and get these nails done before he changes mind okay before i
got these man hands before i start you know what
I'm saying let me go ahead and turn it to that
girl that I'm talking
about let's get it
actually went live
while I was in there
for a little bit
y'all my hair is like you're seeing me I feel like
when it's a color you can like see like
all the imperfections a lot easier than
when it's like black anyways um here is my nails I did like
a black tip hold on I did like a black line
and just like frenchies just with a little black splash
because I told y'all I'm wearing black and white
and then I'm really wearing like all black and
then like white like a white line
so I wanted to do like the opposite on my hands because I don't
really I'm not a fan of like black tips I don't know that's just me
so he actually free handed
these and did amazing I really love the color
that he matched with my skin tone to make it
look like a natural french and then my feet are french
also let me show you my feet are frenchies
too oh yeah on the way back home I did stop
because over here they have a lot of different
little like food spots so I did stop
and get me a little sandwich at Jersey Mike's and I'm about to
head back into the chaos of it all we
were packing doing laundry just basically getting up getting a
little bits and stuff um in my mom's house together we have
to go through the pantry um it's like low-key
like mini packing all over again like we spent
like all day packing yesterday but today I had
to take a break and get me together okay all right had
to put me first lucius had to put me first
we don't
that's
exactly
what
the
house
is like
couldn't
get it i
missed
it
y'all it
looked
like
lion king we in every goddamn movie and scary movie
and all types of stuff cartoons like we
in the back roads okay one second it's
not working because where we
are baby where black folk don't
go it's so hot yeah the trees that's what
the leaves are dying is that what you're saying
yeah the trees are dying
but if we like got stuck here we don't got no food no water that's
the last like i'm gonna walk back you know i mean obviously i've
been we've been seeing houses so i
have to plot the last one i've seen at this point it's
been a mile away yeah the last time oh look
look this is what i was talking about we're about
to let mufasa go right over there look at it it's
like a valley
and everything
somebody's like
land the road made
this road right in
the middle of the
wood yep let's go make a room down there
no stop lights no no stop signs
no nothing you just drive
it right
there's no
laws there's
no laws out
here it's
like fresh
freshly
painted right
campground
yeah
i'm on the table zero seven four you'll probably bring it up like
when it gets not this hot like
probably deserted right now that's the type
of that is somebody over there working for real look
Look at that, the tables is all the way back here
and this is where ---- go wrong
Right here, mystery person, gone
Cause they wanted to come to that abandoned campground
and do it with sharp teeth
Sharp teeth?
And drag them into the lake
We are at another one, bruh
Another one of what?
I swear to ******* god.
Hell, keep out
Riverside Park Picnic Ground
Bruh.
It is so freaking hot.
100 some degrees we're in the middle of you got
a pretty mouth in the country trying to get this
because i guess it
was a close i don't know child i i don't know i just girl i just didn't
that's my that's my that's how i participate
and and give give my guidance so he's about to get
the truck and then i have to follow him
in the van basically i'm gonna be his little assistant
today i'm probably gonna get the lunch um what else
do we need i think we both have to drop
something off at the post office i have one of my friends diploma
so i need to mail that to her
um and then he has something to drop off i think for the va
or something like that and then after
that oh and then i need to take something back
for um one of my amazon orders that i did not
that i wanted to return and what else do you need
to do something else i forget but i'm gonna be
like riding around today he's going to take
the u-haul to the storage unit he has movers there
who are gonna help him load the u-haul
then we gotta take the u-haul to my mom's house to get
a little bit of the things that we have there pack
this car he's gonna hook the maserati to
the back of the u-haul like we did when we got up here
and then we're gonna head on the road to
dallas it's been real san antonio it really hasn't i've
been here for way too long my mom
corrected me yesterday i was saying eight months we've actually
been here for 10 months i just
realized i don't know why i wasn't counting at the end of last year
because we got here in november
so we've been here for 10 months
y'all almost a year i live with my mother for almost a year
it's insane to me like i never would have thought
never would have thought and i didn't think when
this all this whole process started like
this was not how it was supposed to go but it came out
it we conquered it is what it is and it did what it needs
to do that's all that matters i don't
even care if it was two years three years four years
the fact that it's been that long though
is mind-blowing but we just gonna slide past
that okay shout out shout out to my parents because
they were g's in this situation and let us stay
with them and we are forever grateful y'all i
today hopefully we get there in enough time
to where we can have a good night's rest because
we have to get up in the morning we have
to go through our final walkthrough and then we have
closing day and yeah so we have a lot going
on it's back to back to back to back jam packed like
we we can't even have one little hiccup on the road
or like one you know mishap or deterrence
because we really need to get back
and be able to sleep i don't know if maybe we'll get a hotel
room or something um along the way if need be or something i don't know
but i don't know how long
it's gonna take to get there it's a four hour drive to Dallas
so hopefully it doesn't turn
into like six moving completely sucks i just want to let
y'all know more so for my husband
because he and me he gonna be you know stay
but moving traditionally sucks i cannot stand it if
i did not have a husband to do the heavy lifting
and all the plans and all the things girl i don't
know where i would be in life like i'd probably
be somewhere cross-eyed with a little bit of white
girl across my lip you feel me oh i wanted to tell
y'all why me me got grounded and this is a good
time to tell y'all because ain't no children in the back
but the little ones so let's get into it
so every so often probably about every two weeks
or so maybe every other week every week it just
whenever i feel like it
but right around there i like have a mental note to check iPad devices
phones messages all the things right on Roblox i
do not allow them to communicate at all they're
not able to chat i cut all communication off you don't even talk
to nobody if you know somebody in
the game then that means that you have their information
and you're able to like FaceTime
them they will do FaceTime calls
so i can hear the conversation you know i'm just real girl i'm
raising girls in 2026 you feel i'm saying
so i'll be on the edge i'll be on the edge okay what you
what you watching i can hear it when she be on um her little shows
and stuff more i know if i'm like
change it now click clack we're changing
or blocking or delete you know we're figuring it
out the algorithms uh-huh
because sometimes they just be doing too much if we do it too much so
my girls my kids they notice they know how i
am they know i don't play apparently mimi has been
deleting messages simmer i really hadn't gone through like
the deleted messages just yet y'all
know mimi got a phone for christmas
so she hasn't even had a phone a good seven months when this
happened okay so about six months of her having
a phone i'm like you know i'm not gonna i'm not
gonna i checked the deleted before check the deleted before right
but it wasn't nothing crazy
it was some things i kind of was like
but i didn't really want her to know like i could really get
down and dirty and see it all you feel what i'm saying i
also have this protection thing
parents through it's like some type of uh it's like
a parent safety it'll let you know if they're
on harmful websites or sending things
that they don't need to send like videos pictures things
like that they're on facetime
and any body parts that should not be shown are shown it will cut
the facetime log off they'll have to contact
a parent all the things i have that on the on on
yes i do yes i do i have that on their ipads
and on her iphone so she knows that she knows that
right so she's probably figuring like oh you know
if something goes wrong it sends to my mama but
if i delete messages writing she doesn't say
nothing she doesn't know nothing about it
so i let her i let her think that i let
her have it i did say at different points and times whenever
i would like yell them about something i'd be like
y'all know i could see everything like you
can't like you know what i'm saying you can't get over on mrs
and mr get over okay we've been did
this like teenage years we've been locked
in we we did it all okay we ain't your dad
all parents i really feel like when y'all hit the teenage years
y'all don't want to play with me and
you're dead because we was too bad
into her phone and she was in the shower
and I was like oh let
me just like because Uriah had asked for some kind
of code he had sent to her phone so I went in
gave him the code when he got the phone I'm still scrolling through
the phone right so I'm seeing
stuff where I'm like wait something's missing here
in this this text thread so I go in I go
through the
delete it why
miss Mimi miss
ma'am where'd
she get it
from me where'd
she get and
there's another part where it's like your role player
but she called her that and it was very
offensive okay she has sent some
to one of her friends
and she didn't feel like she responded
fast enough and she was like girl
what the fuss at you not once did
she call her out her name but
maybe to call her everything
but like this little girl had been bullying her in school and all this
stuff she had got got on her in school i don't know if i told
y'all but this little girl it was
a little girl who was messing with her and she
was like taking her water bottle i had to end up
going to the uh to Ross and buying my baby a Stanley
because um what you're not gonna do
is touch her ---- and the water bottle before
that was just like a generic water bottle and i
said we coming back bigger and better baby make sure she don't touch
this and if she touch it we got a
problem at school i had to get
on her about this she didn't tell the little girl at
school if you touch my water bottle
my brand new water bottle she showed her my brand new water
bottle if you touch my water bottle my mama said i
could whoop your ass and you won't have to worry
about that kids if they tell y'all from Philly like i
was raised by Philadelphia and this is
this is the way that i was raised okay and that's it
and that's it if you put your hands on my kids
my kids hands on you but i'm like you don't
be the bully you are gonna be the one who finishes it
if someone messes with you let them know
so they don't mess with you again but you don't go up to
nobody you don't start with nobody all the things right
so she knows this so this little girl had
been messing with her messing with her hiding
her water bottle saying she ain't doing now she ended
up doing something crazy to some other little girl she gave
her medicine i still don't understand
how she i don't think she's coming back to school this year
but i still don't understand how that
wasn't like a whole big thing
because listen if one of y'all if somebody give my baby medicine
oh i'm owning the school it's gonna be the bell academy
that's period point blank i don't care
about none of that parents teachers whoever
was in the building needs uh needs to be
accounted for if you was in the area when this happened
and you what girl but they were like
foreign so they ended up just taking
their daughter out of school and going to another
school i guess but that's how you heard on there
y'all long story short it has been a lot going on
at the school with this little girl and mimi right
so mimi had already told her like don't
touch my stuff or it's up and after that she did it
which was great so we ended the year i didn't
have to cuss nobody out it was real copacetic
then the summer comes she the little girl ends
up cussing at one of mimi's friends one
of mimi's friends puts it in the group chat mimi says hand
me that phone because she don't even know
this girl she don't have her phone number they're not
friends they're not acquaintances none of that you
and then she deleted that that right there
because when i said how did you get her number she
was like oh one of my friends gave it to her
talking about she made it seem like
the little girl had texted her and started cussing at her
and that's why she had to cuss back
because she knows her mama and she knows that if somebody
does something to you if you do it to them it's
not always it's not always right it's not right
but it wouldn't have made me as mad as it made me knowing
that my baby was the one who went the
okay no there was no types of provoking there
was no reason for it there was like you did not
need to do that like just because she's going off
on one of your friends does not mean you need to
be captain save a girl and come on in there
and and and get some straightening because it wasn't
nothing for you to straighten okay what nothing
for you that you didn't have to say nothing about
nothing about nothing she told a little girl
when she texted mimi's friend she was like uh
something about she called her a bitch
and and some something something and mimi was like oh
oh she wanna be tough girl she she did get
a little squabble with a little boy
in third grade and i feel like it's getting to a head
and listen here i said you we done we're
done with the phones the devices all
the things right now it's been about i think about two weeks
I think that Mimi has been grounded
and she will continue to be, I don't know how long she may not
get a phone back, I really we don't think she's getting
the phone back at all, she may, she'll get
her iPad back eventually
but her phone, I think that she's not ready for it, she's shown that she
is not capable of having one
because number one you're sneaking, hiding, deceitful because you're
you're deleting ---- not telling me mind you you didn't tell me about
this whole little fight that
y'all got into the girl's mother baby phone leaves
a voicemail, not nothing crazy, not like that but
she was just like, hey you know I'm gonna tell
the home girl over there to stop and I'm gonna need
you to stop and you know such
and such such real nice, real real demure, I was surprised because her
daughter had is rough but she was very very nice
on the on the on the thing she was like, hey I just
need you to you know stop, we're gonna block
your number, you don't need to have any more
communication because I guess she knows
that this little girl is going to another school, there's no
reason for having any communications with the kids from the past
when she's been you know who she's
been terrorizing okay, but fact that you didn't reach out
to your mother when another parent was
involved even though you didn't talk
to another parent she left a voicemail you listened to
the voicemail, you know what was said, what
was going on and you did not alert me at all that
shows me that you knew what you were doing was wrong
and you knew that if it got back to me it
was gonna be a problem and you did not want that problems at all
so you try to hide it and now that
you try to hide it you're getting an even worse problem
so y'all homegirls locked down clink clink
in the jail like ain't ain't no ain't no roblox ain't
no ipad ain't no ain't no apps she could
just watch tv that's all we got for her and only reason she got
that she lucky we wasn't in our own
house when this happened because she would have
got everything deleted and taken away she lucky
she gotta uh be able to watch tv
because your i was like you know we're not in our own space i
don't want to just kind of like shock her nervous system
by taking everything um she can just you
know have that little bit of freedom
but girl who she think she
is cussing like a sailor she's
gonna tell me but mama it was just through text i don't
do that in real life i thought it was okay
because i didn't i don't i don't do that in real life i
was just texting it so i didn't say it out
my mouth girl listen you
have to be 13 maybe it's about
to be 13 years old
y'all she's about to be
a teenager we have to nip some things
in a bud okay we have to nip some things in the bud so she
is now restricted and london
also just got in trouble yesterday it was yesterday or the day
before yesterday because she found a way around my roblox block i told
y'all they can't communicate
can't talk to nobody nothing she found a way around
that by going into some kind of chat that
allows them to chat in the game she found a way
in a place where she could go into this specific
game and chat oh you got me messed up too okay give them here give me
this one right here and
and probably only because she can't read when she
when she proceeds to start reading i'm sure she's
gonna do something that's gonna get her device taken
but as for right now she's the only one
that is is able to be on any device at all
so devices gone i have some ipads girl i got a i
got a phone two phones uh what else i got i got i got all types
of things the gadgets the gadgets
okay like they got me all the way i said as much
as we pay monthly as much as we do for y'all y'all
have everything like why does a what does
a 13 year old need with a phone an ipad a computer
like girl you got oculus like girl what
are you doing you're asking for a nintendo switch for
christmas like please sit now is these these day
and age they so tablet savvy that they have so
much like access try my best to put all the locks
and all the the things and all i'll be in there
and they be like we who's calling us their business is my business
but it's still and still
they're still able to have a lot more freedom than
when we were little so it's scary so i have
to really just be on them and i have to make sure
that they know like it is serious over here like
we ain't playing like ain't no you know i'm saying
sugarcoat nothing ain't no letting it slide ain't
no none of that i don't care how small
or how big i care about how big but i'm saying like
even how small i you you're getting it you're
getting it it's done it's over with like until
we can get some some figuring out around here you know what i'm saying
so y'all understand what you
have in the tip of your hands
y'all gonna have to sit it down okay they need to focus on go to
school anyway so that's the next step after
this is getting them in school after we get into this
house oh child pray for me babies please pray for me
and let me know below if y'all dealing with the
same stuff like teen moms are we okay because i'm not i'm really not