EXTREME Get It All Done With Me! | Cleaning, Organizing, Decorating & Homemaking Motivation

Everyone, welcome back to a new vlog. We're gonna get some things done together, done today together. What did I just say? We're gonna get some things done together today. Whatever. I am going to be going through these junk drawers and making them functional. Both of these drawers have become junk drawers again, which is why I ordered a really nice tackle box because the tackle box is gonna be the new junk drawer. Instead of having it in here, because we need this space for like the, what are these called? Ziploc bags, cling wrap, aluminum foil, and then I need one to be for all the rags and stuff. That's the game plan is to go through these two drawers today and hopefully get the kitchen cleaned up, get my daughter's room cleaned. She also wants me to decorate her room for Halloween because her birthday is coming up. So we're going to do that and I'm going to show you guys what we ended up getting her for her birthday. So her birthday gift, we already gave it to her early because Obviously it was huge. We had to put it together and it took us way longer than we expected to put together. So I'm so glad we did it when we did it. First of all, they were gone. They were over at their aunt and uncle's house staying the night and she came back and it wasn't done. We still had to finish it. So it took us, I think six hours total to put it together. It was a job. It was so bad, but it turned out so good. So I'll show you guys that when I work on her room and then we're going to decorate some other areas in the house too. So let's get busy. is going to go in here instead. Y'all want to know what's funny? I really don't need to be doing this right now. Nobody even goes in these doors, but just in the event that somebody is looking for something and decides to open up the kitchen island, I want to make sure that everything is organized. The things we do before parties hit. I'm telling you right now, you want your house organized, clean, in tip-top shape, just invite a bunch of people over. Just throw a party, and I promise you you'll find motivation that you never had before. But on a serious note, I'm going to quickly go through all this stuff. Most of this was garbage, and I'm, like, kind of piling up here. It's, like, little things to other things that we don't have anymore, or, you know, it's like, why is there so much little stuff all the time? And I feel like we accumulate quite a bit of little stuff. It's crazy. Like, stuff that doesn't even make sense. I don't even know where it came from. But... Anyway, I got that all cleaned out. I'm going to go ahead and use this drawer for all the Ziploc bags, aluminum foil, cling wrap, that kind of stuff. And then the other drawer I'm going to use for the dish towels. I have like one little... Like container I'm going to use for flashlights, things that are quick, easy access. I'm only keeping it in there because I don't really have anywhere else that makes sense to put it. But overall, I really wanted to just eliminate the actual junk drawer from this whole situation because I think that has been the problem. We keep using it as that because it's there and that's what we keep using it as. I think if we eliminate it and use it for things that are actually functional, it'll stay that way. No more. No more. We have our little toolboxes now. If we need something, we can go find those. We can add to those if we need to. Everything else either needs to go into an actual home or just get thrown away. Got my tackle box full of junk drawer stuff. It's really not junk. And we call it a junk drawer. That's what we call it here. I got handcuffs here in the south. But it's full of all the good stuff. So closing. I have handcuffs. I'm sorry. It's so annoying. I'm finding a spot for it, which I don't know where I'm going to put it. So I ended up putting it in my closet. Just thought it was like out of the way, but also easy to access. But anyway, so here's how the drawer turned out. You can see that one little container. I have my tape measure, some flashlights, and a pair of scissors. That's it. That's how I plan to keep it. And then over here, all the baggies and stuff. And I'm so happy that's done. Alright, I'm glad I have that taken care of. I'm going to go ahead and get the Halloween totes out now and see if I can get my daughter's room done first and then we'll get back into some cleaning and stuff because I really want to have her room done before she gets home from school. So I'll work on that. I also want to decorate a little bit of the living room. Alright, so here's the totes. I'm pretty sure, oh yeah, because there is one tote under this one that I'm going to What I'm going to use to like put... The stuff that I'm not using right now over here or actually the stuff that I plan on using in her room I'll put in there that way it's easier for me to carry. So this year we ended up with a heck of a lot more Halloween stuff than we typically do just because it was my daughter's birthday and it was themed as Halloween so that's why I ended up buying a lot more and I went ahead and picked up three of these black totes. This is where we store all of our Halloween stuff, Christmas stuff, any holiday decor. So I grabbed these and then I've just been kind of using them to store everything as I'm decorating. So there's actually like our Our costumes are in here. There's like party favors. All kinds of randomness and I'm trying to like sort through it. I should be a little bit more organized but if it makes sense to me that's all that matters. All right so moving into my daughter's room we're gonna just switch some things around in here. She did ask me to come in here do the mom clean and also help fix up some of the decor that she had. Um, I typically let her do her thing all the time. If she wants to move it around, she totally can. Like, I don't care. Her room's her room. Um, but she wanted to hang up these, these curtains actually were supposed to go in the dining room and the living room. for fall but she loved them so much that she wanted them so I was like okay I'll just give them to you and I'll just keep it simple and we'll decorate in other ways. So she ended up with the curtains that I ordered and yeah she actually used most of my fall decor in her room. It was actually really cute. Back in like September, she asked me if I could get the fall totes out because she was feeling the vibes and she wanted to decorate her room. So I was like, okay, sure. I bring the one fall tote that I had with all my fall stuff in it and I come in here and her room was decked out. Every single thing in that tote was in her room. I was like, I have nothing for my living room now. She's like, oh, you can take some things. I was like, no, it's fine. You keep it in there. I'll grab a couple new things. I kept it pretty simple for fall decor this year just because I knew we were going a little bit more all out for Halloween. But look how cute. She's got all this stuff in here. I've already rearranged quite a bit at this point. For some reason, I thought I was filming. Y'all should have seen her little shelf over there where the lamp is. It was full, like there was pumpkins all over it. It looks so cute, but I wanted to kind of spread things out for her. That way her shelf or her new vanity was decorated. So that was her birthday gift, by the way. I should have led with that, because I know some of you were really curious on what she ended up getting, and this was it. I got it off Amazon. If you're interested, I will have it linked down below. Just fair warning, it does take a ton of time to put together. Very simple and easy. Very beautiful, great quality, but it did take us six hours total. But really, like I said, it wasn't too bad. And Dylan and I love, well, we don't love putting furniture together, but we love spending time together, and we had fun putting it together, although it did take us a long time. So it wasn't too bad, and obviously it's beautiful. It has the glass top. I love it. This is like, in my opinion, every little girl's dream to have a vanity like this. But back to decorating, you'll notice I'm just kind of moving things back and forth. I'm trying to just spread things out so that way it wasn't just this five tier shelf decorated, like the whole room was decorated. So I move things around, just try to make it, you know, a little bit more cohesive altogether. Eventually we do want to move that shelf from the corner over here. I think it looks fine, but it is like a little like decor heavy over here. So we do plan on moving that eventually, but for now, right before the party, I didn't have time to do all kinds of rearranging. I just wanted to focus on simplifying, decorating, deep cleaning her room before we have all of our guests over. And whenever I'm decorating, I make a mess, y'all. I had stuff all over the bed, so I had to quickly tidy this up. I wanted to fix up her bed again, and you will notice she did take my blanket. She loved it so much, and I was like, you know what? I have a million blankets. It's fine. I have so many blankets on my bed and I was like you take it because I just had it as like decor at the end of my bed and she wanted to use it as a full bed spread and it looks really good with these curtains in here so I let her use that and I'm going to go ahead and get everything wiped down, dusted, and then I'll give you guys like a little overview of how it all turned out. She's trying to land. I was much too old to act on a feeling. And again, I ain't never had someone to hold. Come on, leave on my door. This song's for us. Okay, I've been busy busy. I got her room cleaned, tidied. I decorated the space over here for her and I'm going to add a little bit of Halloween stuff. I'm going to put some bats up here on the wall I think. If I have enough, I'll do some up top and then I'll also put some over here and maybe a little spider webs. That's what she requested. But this is how everything turned out. I think it looks so cute. I love her room. I love her little style. She's pretty much put everything where she wants it. I just kind of tidied up, cleaned, dusted, fixed up her shelves a little bit so they weren't like super cluttered and I spread some things out. So I think it looks really good. And yeah, I'm going to finish up in here so she'll be all surprised when she gets home from school. So for the kids' rooms, I'm keeping it very simple. I'm not going all out with like anything crazy spooky. I just put a couple bats, some spiderwebs, a couple like little tea light candles in her bedroom. And then I will decorate my son's room. I actually didn't plan on decorating his room because honestly, he's not really in there that much. But he was like, Mom, he was a little jealous. He got home from school, which is like, my kids are always like that. If I do one thing for one, you better do it for both because they're going to say something. And he was like, I want spiderwebs in my room. So we ended up decorating his room together, and I'll share that in just a couple minutes. Yeah, I'm just throwing up these little bats. I'm actually just double siding some tape, just rolling it, but a couple of the bats fell down. So I ended up hot gluing a couple to the wall and hot glue is actually pretty easy to use because it, you can just pop it right off and it doesn't damage the walls or anything, at least at my house, do it at your own risk. But our walls are pretty tough and I have like multiple layers of paint. So Whenever you pop off the hot glue, it doesn't peel the paint, it just pops right off really easily. I do want to say though, I feel like I'm going to regret these spiderwebs whenever it's time to clean up because they are messy, but I just use thumbtacks. So the plan is just to pull them off the wall and roll up the spiderwebs. I'm not going to save them just because once you stretch them out and then you roll them back up together, it's nearly impossible to spread them back out again and look legit. A lot of times it just turns into like one big poof ball. So Most of all the spiderwebs are just going to go in the garbage so I try to keep it pretty easy as far as like how I attach them to the wall so it's easy to take down but just go ahead and prepare yourself. I'm probably going to complain. I'm just kidding. I'm gonna try not to because I'm the one who chose to do this and it's been so much fun. I've enjoyed it. Honestly it has kept me so darn busy. I have I'm not joking you I would say probably at least four days a week I have been Adding to all the decor. Seriously, because that's how much we've done, and I've also been so busy you know in life. I've just been very busy this week. I babysat two days this week, which isn't you know something I typically do, so it has been an adjustment. She's two, and I have not been in the toddler stage in a long time, so it's been a little tiring, but it's been a ton of fun. She's very independent, surprisingly, at two. She talks really well, and we've had a good time, but I have been trying to just ... Every now and then throughout the day when I have time, I'll tackle stuff. And so this is just kind of part of that. All right, so this is what I ended up doing in here. Very simple, very fall. I really love it. I love the bats and the little spider webs. I think it's like just enough to be like cutesy spooky. So I did that and then over here cleaned off her vanity, dusted everything, just kind of simplified some of this stuff and separated it a little bit and then I added some spider webs, bats. A few spiders and some little candles up there. Those are little tea lights. I got them off Amazon. They actually last a long time and they come with batteries so I got those. The only problem with them is that you have to individually turn each one off. So that's kind of a pain in the butt. They didn't come with like a remote but they were super cheap so it works. And yeah, that is how her room turned out. I love it. I think it looks so good but I'm going to turn these off until it's almost time for her to get home and then I'll... Turn them on and surprise her. You know, there's nothing better than, like, a mom clean on your room, too. They always really appreciate that. So, anyway, it's looking good. At this point, I do think I was going a little overboard, but it is what it is. I went ahead and added spiderwebs to the entire built-in, across all of the built-ins, the fireplace, the TV. I was like, you know what? We're going to go big or go home. Yeah. So, yeah. Oh, these are so much fun. So these are witch hats that just hang from the ceiling with like fishing line. These look so cool, especially at night or if like you have nightlights on. Oh my gosh, they look so awesome. So all you basically do is just tie a fishing line to the tip of the hat. There's probably some type of little hook on here. I could not see it or figure it out. So I just wrapped it into like a little slip knot. And then I'm going to use thumbtacks to stick them to the ceiling. I did this last year and then at the end of the, when I pull all the Halloween stuff down, I'll just go around and fill any of the holes that are noticeable. But a thumbtack is such a tiny little hole, you really can't see it. It's fine. So I'm going to work on this. I think I did four total down the hallway. I didn't want to do all of them in here because I still wanted to add some to the back porch. And I also wanted to add just a couple in the dining room. Like I said, I've been trying to spread everything out so that way it keeps it affordable, but I still get like the whole house done. And like I said, I'm just using a thumbtack and just tying the string around the thumbtack into like a little knot. And whenever you're done, you just pull them down. Thank And like I said, I did four and I kind of staggered them and I did them at different heights and it just kind of looks like they're floating. It's pretty neat. That was like the first thing the kids commented on when they came in. I did help my son with his room since he requested that after he got home and realized that I hadn't decorated his room. So I helped him. He actually helped me a lot and he was just loving this. So you. we're going to get this done. I'll probably get a couple other things finished as well. And then I'm going to share with you guys what I made for dinner. And I think it was pretty good. Super easy, which is always the key for me. If it's easy, I love it every single time. Yeah, but I want, I want like his feet like right here and his head poking out. Like this? Yeah, no, I want his like head, like, here, here. Can you do it for me? Okay. That's cool. Yeah. Okay, here, hang on. This one's pink. Where'd the bats go? The bats? Yeah, I got one right here. Where'd the other ones go? Oh, there's one right there. Okay. It looks like he's holding it. It looks like he's holding it in his hand. Come here. Okay. What do you think? Yeah, I like that. That looks better. You like that? Yeah. I like that too. I have this that my mom just did. Over here I have a little lamp with that in it and then over here I have bats and then I have the spider webs and stuff and I guess too much of meat and then now I just need to clean it up. He acts like he's mistreated all day or something. I need to steal a box. Are you trying to steal a box? Here you can take this one. Thanks mom. It's his favorite thing to do. So we're having basically chicken parmesan. I just made some noodles that we had left over in the cabinet and then I'm gonna add this pasta sauce. This is the garlic I believe I always use the same one. It's like garlic and herbs or something like that. And then once you mix that together, you're going to add some mozzarella cheese on top. Then I use the Tyson chicken patties. These are chicken patties for like chicken sandwiches, but they work really good as chicken parmesan too. So I added those on top along with some more mozzarella cheese and a little bit of parmesan cheese. And then I baked that till it was nice and golden and all the cheese was melted. And this was so freaking good. Very cheesy. So if you don't like cheese, you will not like this. And also. You can use different pasta sauce. I just use what we have in the cabinet. I was trying to make something quick and easy before soccer. And this is like all the stuff that I have. You can definitely serve this with like garlic bread or something like that. Or even a vegetable on the side if you'd like. We didn't do none of that. I didn't have time. We literally had 10 minutes before we had to head out the door to go to soccer practice. And I actually skipped out on this day. I think I just really had enough. It has been extremely busy. And I... Look, I, you know, sometimes people make it seem like everything is just so simple and it's so easy to compare your life to other people so quick. You see all these soccer moms like doing it all and they have a perfect house and perfect schedule. Absolutely not. Whatever you think you're seeing is like a lie in my opinion, because I have been struggling to keep up with work, the house, you know, sports, um, wife life, mom life. It just feels. And I don't even have a freaking personal life, it feels like, anymore. I hardly get to spend time with any of my friends. It has just felt a little overwhelming, and if you're in an overwhelming season of life, I just want you to know you're not alone. It is happening to most of us. A lot of us are just really good at hiding it, and I'm definitely not saying that everyone's hiding it, because sometimes there are weeks where I do feel like I'm killing it, and I'm able to fill all my cups, but there are times where I'm just not, and this happened to be be one of those weeks where I have just felt like I have been running on such low fuel you know it's just been really difficult and this was one of the nights where I started to get really quiet I was just kind of like scatterbrained and Dylan's like let me just take the kids to soccer and you can finish up what you need to do and I don't know why but just like having that one less task to have to do felt I don't know. It just felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. And so he took them and I had a good hour and a half to finish up what I needed to get done today. So I was really thankful for that. And we do that sometimes. I'll take the kids sometimes by myself if he's had a hard day at work. And this was just one of those days where I was just tapped out and I just wanted to get done what I needed to get done, get the house back in order again, clean, vacuum, and And just have a fresh start for the next day. All right. So let's do a little Halloween house tour. I just finished up for now. I do plan on doing a little bit more, you know, like birthday decorations, happy birthday banner, stuff like that the day of my daughter's birthday. So that will be coming. I don't want to add that now because it's kind of like, you know, the wow factor surprise for her. So in the meantime, I did finish up decorating the rest of the house though for the party. So I have this little setup I'm going to set up over here. It's very, it's kind of simple, but also a little spooky. And I'll add some spiderwebs once I get her happy birthday banner up and stuff. We got Bobby Bones over here on the wall. We have a big arrangement with stems from our yard. And then I just added some spiderwebs to them, some bats. And I think that looks really neat. It's just like a nice big arrangement. And And this will have candy in it, but not right now because the kids keep eating it all. I got this tablecloth from Kohl's. Isn't this stunning? I love this so much. I think it's so pretty. And then I have the shelves all decorated for Halloween. Just really fun. A bunch of random stuff we picked up from Dollar Tree. Stuff that was given to us. Yes. Some things came from Amazon just a mixture. I've just kind of threw a bunch of random stuff up there We've changed it a few times, but it's because I'm trying to spread everything out throughout the entire house So there's some things I'll have to take from here and make more sense in other areas So anyway, that's how that looks and then Dylan came up with this and I thought it was so cool He did the well, I did the gauze up here and then he was like, oh, let's wrap it around the light Doesn't it look so neat and it's just basically just wrapped around it. Just kind of dangling there So I got that. I ended up taking everything off of here just because it wasn't that functional. I felt like I kept having to like pull spiderwebs off my purse. So I took that stuff down. I'll figure out something for here. But for now I put this up here. The neighbor gave that to us as well. And this is what it looks like from over here. Now. Into the living room, I have lots of spiderwebs all over the fireplace and built-ins, some big spiders, we have this skeleton going up the lamp, thought that was super cool, and down the hallway we have some hats. These are just hung up with tacks and fishing lines, that way they look like they're floating, and I have a lot more, and I think I'm going to add more. In here, but I didn't want to overdo it, so I just started off with three. And I'm also going to put some out on the porch, too. So, I got those there. And then in the bathroom, I have a little bit of gauze hanging from the shower curtain rod. A couple pumpkins, a little skeleton right here. And then more decor we got from the neighbor. And then I just made this little arrangement with some spiderwebs. And then I'll have my little Halloween towel here for guests to dry off their hands. Oh, and a cute little soap. How adorable is that? So, that's pretty much it, except for in the kids' rooms, of course. I did do my daughter's room with a couple spiderwebs, couple bats, and then a couple spiderwebs and bats up here as well. And then she's got all her little cute fall decor. So, anyway, that is that. Hi, little. So yeah, that is where I'm at. I don't know if I mentioned this, but I'm going to mention it again. This is where the birthday banner is going to go. So that's why I don't have anything on there. I have like this really pretty, it says happy birthday and it has like little bats on it and it's all sparkly. It's so cute. So that'll go there. I'll probably add some something in the corner and I'm glad I got the house cleaned up because it was a mess. And it's so funny because like when you have this amount of decor and then you have a mess, it looks 20 times worse than it actually is. So, I definitely needed to get stuff clean. And by the way, if you're wondering where my family is, they're at soccer. They went without me because I have so much to do. So, that's a little tour. I hope you guys enjoyed. I know that it's like a little different from what I typically share, but we love a good party. You wanna show them what you got? Yeah. The first thing that I got is this mini hair straight hair. I straightened her and then I got her these pajamas and then I got her this purse and then I got her chocolate and her favorite and then I got her some slime and then I got her a fog bubble wand and then I got her a bedazzling kit. Turn it around so they can see. Awesome. That's going to be so cool. Then I got her a blanket and that's it. I also picked this up for you to give to her for traveling. I figured she'd like this traveling kit. And then you got her some traveling stuff from Dollar Tree. Which bags do you want to put everything in? Give me the big blanket. We'll put that one in here. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. Alright, so I'm just going to get her stuff bagged up from him, and then she'll get all of her gifts from him on her actual birthday. That's usually how we do it, but the only reason why she got her gift early was because it was so big. Anyway, that's going to be it for today's video. Stay tuned. I have a new vlog coming out maybe in a day or two. It even might come out on actual Halloween day. We'll see. But thank you guys for hanging out with me. I appreciate your support so much. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and I will see all of you in my next one. Bye, y'all.