 Hey you guys, so I know those of you who are confused, this is in the past, way back in the past. It is January 10th, three days before JB's birthday. Y'all, introvert parents to an extrovert child. I should probably start a vlog, excuse me, on that because JB has indirectly scheduled a birthday party for himself. I initially had just invited over one little boy, right? And so I went over to where he is at during the daytime. One of the neighborhood parents, he keeps him. And I've been over at her house several times. She's real cool, real chill, from Chicago. Chicago people are real chill, right? So I reminded him, I said, baby, remember, I'm gonna go over and ask your mom, but remind you to come over on Saturday for your birthday party. Some other little kids over her, that. And she was basically like, can I come? There was like a three second pause, me looking at her with cute little long hair. And before I could even like make up something, JB was like, yeah, you're all invited. I was like, yeah, sure. Yeah, you, no, it's okay, it's okay. So overall, there's gonna be about three or four kids. Well, yeah, three or four kids and about five or six adults. So anyway, I went to the Dollar Tree. I immediately went to the Dollar Tree because you guys, I'm a type of person, when I invite, usually I invite people over, but she's a baby. So when I invite people over, I plan like two or three weeks in advance because that's just how I am. So I literally have three or four days to put this all together. Went to the Dollar Tree, got a few things. Dollar Tree is slacking. Then it hard to have hardly anything. So I told them all, I said, this is very informal. You don't even have to give gifts. You don't have to bring any gifts, it's very informal. I'll probably do like two or three appetizers. I'll show you guys all of that, all of the setup because I like to make people feel at home. These people have never been in my, actually that's all I, two of them have been in my home. The other family has been in my home, but I like to make people feel comfortable. So I'll probably make about two or three quick appetizers, make sure there's all kit-friendly because it's for the kids. And I will be serving a punch. I won't be serving, put it like this. I won't be serving loose alcohol. So you can't come over here and have vodka for cranberry. I'm not gonna be having no beer. I'm not gonna be having no wine. And it's walking distance. Everyone is walking distance between, for me. I'm a little, when it comes to alcohol with kids, especially at birthday party, because it's supposed to be about the kids. But since I know these people, and again, we're walking distance, I'm okay with serving just a punch. Girl, just a punch. If it was like people from the school or people, parents, I don't know, I would not serve alcohol. That's just how I feel. I wouldn't do any alcohol at all. But I wanna do a little punch. A little cranberry, cranberry vodka punch. And like I said, everyone is like walking distance. Anyway, meatballs, chicken nuggets, all corn salsa. And that's it, his birthday cake, child. JB doesn't eat cake. And y'all see me? I am pretty good, I think, at making cake. So I'm gonna make a regular white cake with a strawberry filling. Cream cheese, buttercream cheese, buttercream cheese, whatever, frosting, girl, it's gonna be good. And I'm gonna decorate it with gummy bears for him. So yeah, it'll be cute. It'll be cute, it'll be something. I just get a little, what is that? I am cleaning. You guys, I don't keep my hair, house hair. I don't keep my house cluttered or very dirty. But I'm looking at my house with Southern Baptist eyes. I'm judging everything. So it's three days before the get together. I don't even wanna call it a party. Three days before the get together, I'm gonna go ahead and straighten everything. Just start straightening stuff, putting stuff away. Like my camera equipment and my background. They don't need to see all that. I'm gonna put that in the guest bedroom. Wiping everything down with bleach. I don't know, I'm getting to the point where I really don't like candles as much. And I don't even like those glade plugins. Those can be overwhelming to me. I like incense still, because I'm, I don't know, a little old school, I like incense. But from what I understand, those candles can even be a little bit toxic. We ain't gonna get into all of them. Anyway, like to straighten up, get everything ready. I really focus on the areas where the people will be walking in and the bathroom, really focus on that girl. Y'all, I took the time, the perfect time to stop vlogging because, hold on, let me kind of zoom this out some. It has been crazy. I mean, since I pulled JB out of his daycare, now I wanna call it daycare, out of his school. Those of you who don't know, in one of my hair related videos, I discussed how there was an incident in his school. I pulled him, immediately pulled him out. So he's been home with me for two weeks now. It has been fun, let me tell you. I mean, he has been, he was good the first week, meaning last week, but this week, baby, like the last two days were crazy. So I actually took him over to a neighbor who runs an indoor daycare and I had her to watch him for an hour or two. I actually had to pay her. My husband made a good point. He's like, because she offered to do it without me paying her. She's like, I was just watching for an hour or two for you. But he says, since that's what she does for, that's her career, I should pay her. So I'm gonna drop her off some money. Anyway, so he was over there for a few hours today and that seemed to help him because he calmed all the way down. But it's just been crazy week. I mean, because of that, I've been pulling him out and then last week was winter break out here. And I'm like, what a break, didn't ya? These kids were out for two weeks for winter break. They had a fall break. I'm like, oh my God. So anyway, everyone just got back this week as my whole point. So literally every day I've been touring a different school, you know, on my lunch break, looking at different school, finally found one I think that's gonna work out today. I interviewed them today and I'm gonna register him for that. But I'm just, I'm just frustrated y'all because I have to do all that, pay another registration fees. These fees are not cheap. I mean, I'm dropping minimum 500 on Friday, just for school. Oh my God. So anyway, that's going on. Went to the Dollar Tree and picked up a couple of more things for his party on Saturday. And he called himself, saying his throat was hurting today. Y'all, I did a quick prayer over him, dropped him some medicine. I think that is due to the weather. The weather is changing here. It dropped 15 degrees. So I'm going to just stay on him for the couple of days until his party on Saturday. He should be okay by then. I think it's his allergies. So anyway, that going on and ciao. Why did I check the mail a couple of days ago? I remember there was a ticket in there. I knew it was coming. A camera had flashed on us while I was in Scottsdale. It was the week of Christmas. They probably like, let's make sure all these cameras are in tune. Get all these dangling people. So I know what happened. I was in Scottsdale on Tatum. Was that Tatum? Yup, Tatum. I forgot that they have cameras out there. They removed the cameras on the freeways or highways, but the cameras on those damn streets. Oh yes, they got cameras everywhere. But baby, I haven't had a ticket in years. So I'm going to take driver's defense class. But let me tell you the issue with that. Got the ticket and it has my maiden name on it, right? So I immediately called the court and I'm like, look, my maiden name is on this ticket. First of all, the girl was like, I'm like Vivian L. Jackson's on this ticket. I'm Vivian Denta. She's like, oh, so that wasn't you? I said, no, the name, but she's like, oh, so that she was trying to get me out of that. But I'm like, no, because it was a sister, I could tell it was a sister on the line. But I'm like, no, y'all, I'm very honest. If something's my fault, I'm going to own up to it. And I was like, no, it was me. I got my name changed. I even changed my middle name. I have two middle names, so I changed. I said, no, that was me. I was speeding and I saw it. So this is my ticket I'm going to pay for. Thank you, but no. Because then what happens, I'll get another ticket for double that, right? It'll come around some other way. So anyway, she was basically like, oh, well, you need to contact on the MVD because the record is under your old name. So I'm like, cool. That was a couple of days ago, right? So I called back today and I'm like, well, let me figure something else out. So this young lady was like, child, she knew exactly what to say. I could tell she'd been doing this for a long time. She was like, yeah, you need to contact the MVD. I'm like, what's the number? She read it off like a dang on computer. 6-0-2-2-5-0 girl. Go take a break, dang. So anyway, she gave me the number. I called them up. They're like, well, do you have a lease? Are you making payments? I'm like, yeah, I'm making payments in the car. What does that have to do? She said, well, did you change your name with them? I had to think about them. Like I changed my name with my bank. I didn't change my name with the credit union though. And that's who, so I'm like, oh, so I had tried to change my name with the credit union last year. And they were like, oh, you just can't do that. And so I just never got around to it. So again, my fault, I'm owning up to it. So I got to do that. Now I have to change my name through the credit union and then they have to resend that to the MVD. And then the motor vehicle division has to department, whatever the hell, they have to redo my registration, core registration, resend the ticket. And I'm like, I hope y'all send this within two or three weeks because, so dealing with that, dealing with JV school, birthday party coming up, y'all, it's a lot this week. And my hair is looking, all types of mess. I am way behind on a wash day. And typically I wouldn't be concerned about it, but since I'm going places and have to do stuff, I need to actually do my hair. So I'll probably wash my hair in the morning. I wanted to do that Jane Carter wash video too, but at this point, I won't be able to do that. But thank God I'm off. Both my husband and I took off doing JV's birthday. Yeah, we always do this. We always take off. We wanna focus on him. He's our only child. We just wanna focus on him. So I took off for two days and I think he took off for a week. I'm like, I gotta see you all with him. We'll probably go out to eat next week. Oh, but baby, I'm gonna sit up for this. The Black Panther tickets would on sale this week. Y'all, I knew it was gonna happen. I think that Black Panther, the movie, it's going to be the highest gross movie this year. I'm claiming it right now in the name of Black Jesus. I really do. Y'all know what I'm just playing at. I really do think that. And I'm so ready for it. I did not know. Look, now I'm really sitting up. Let me find his name. Hold on, y'all. Girl, Black people, we do not age. But when I tell you we can be anywhere between we can be anywhere between 25 and 45 if in any given day. I think that Black people don't even start to age until after 50. Chadwick Bosman is how old is he? When I found out how old he was, I'm like, that double is a lot. Chadwick Bosman, 42. Why does he look 15 years younger than that? At least, I thought he was a kid, meaning in his late 20s, like 28, 29, 42 years old. That man is fine, one, and he looks good for his age. And 42 is not old at all. He's American? That's a strong jawline. Y'all really thought that was a Nigerian jawline. I know you're thinking, what's a Nigerian jawline? Y'all know Nigerians have strong facial features. I really thought he was, but South Carolina. South Carolina brothers and sisters didn't really mix with other ethnicities or other races, I should say, but that could explain it. Yeah. Yeah, he looks like his family just was like, no, we good. How are you guys? So it is the night before JB's birthday party and this is his cake I made. I'll show them that, baby. I'll show them that stuff. He's so excited, y'all. This is his first birthday. This is the cake I made. He wanted a sour patch cake. It's not perfect, but he loves it. You like your cake, baby? It looks big. It's two layers now. I'm a bit concerned because, one, I'm not sure how to cook this. I'll have to call my mama how to cut it. I didn't put, he's laughing. I didn't put any icing in between the layers. I put, what did I put? I put strawberry preservatives, but the reason why I'm concerned is the cake, it's a little overdone. So the icing in between would have made it moist, but I did do a little drizzle of lemon, so hopefully that'll work. So, okay, baby, I'm coming over. So, this was a last minute birthday party. Somebody just willed themselves a birthday party into existence by inviting random people. So I went to the Dollar Tree and got a couple of decorations. I have some balloons here I got today from the Dollar Tree, but well I put them all up. Plastics, ware, and stuff like that. Now I will be serving, now I changed my last, I changed my mind at the last minute, for appetizers. We're gonna be having chips. Daddy's in the back, baby. I'm gonna be making Mexican corn with chips, meatballs, and chicken nuggets, and these two. I have some yellow cake, I know this is crazy because we're gonna be having cake, but yellow cake with chocolate icing, like a loaf type of cake. I'm gonna slice it up with some grapes here, and then in this little bitty cast iron skillet, I'm gonna do some beans. This is not even heavy. I know, baby. Too easy, too easy. Testing it out, girl. This will be the most amount of people we've had in our house. Hold on, baby, I'll show it to them. This will be the most amount of people we've had in our house, including my husband and I. It'll be about 10 or 11 people in this house. Woo-hoo, girl, I need some sage to cleanse my house after they all leave. No, I know these people, but, ooh, shh. Lord, I give JB two dollars. Hold on, y'all. Two money, two money. You got you some money? You got some money with two. You got another dollar? Let me put this cake back in the fridge, baby. And then you got some mother money. Okay, baby, I got to put this cake back in the fridge. I'm just gonna show you all the cake. So, it's white cake on the bottom and the yellow cake on the top. But, yeah, I couldn't put any buttercream in. I only had enough buttercream icing just for the layers. It'll work out. Good morning, you guys. That's the coffee maker being all out. It's the morning of JB's birthday. I'm a pearly because I get a pearly, but, y'all, it's staying dark here in the valley till, it's dark till close to seven o'clock. So, it'll stay dark for a while. But anyway, I'm up early, getting everything out, cleaning all the surfwear. They're gonna come, boo-boo. Okay? They're gonna come. We excited? It's my birthday today. Yeah? Happy birthday. Baby, not yet, JB. Can we wait until the other kids get here, please? Yeah, you need to wait. Let me see what's in there now. I'll show you here in a minute. Thomas says, then look at me. Yay! I know I look crazy, y'all. I'm gonna lie on my hair for a stretch. Let my hair stretch some. It is the week after JB's birthday. They're gonna light, y'all. It's the week after JB's birthday. Everything's going good. We just came back from making busters, you guys. Just a little impromptu David and Buster's run. So look, every time we go to David and Buster's, actually any of those type of kids, places where you play games, JB always win a jackpot. But today, not only did he win the jackpot, but the machine starts short circuit and it gave him every ticket that was in the machine. So literally he got over 1,000 tickets. At around 700 though, I was like, something's off because the little machine let you know a number of tickets you had. So I really didn't got someone at David and Buster's. Look, y'all, I'm very honest. I'm very honest. So I went over and got grabbed someone to work at David and Buster's and the machine just wouldn't stop. So then the kids around him were looking like, one little girl was like, she actually saw the number. She's like, why is it giving him more than 500? So I gave her like 10 tickets. I'm like here, I like paid her off. I'm like, here, don't say nothing. No, but we had so much fun. He still doesn't grasp the concept of those type of games. So he only got him like a little ball that was like 25 points. I'm like, child, you got 1,000 tickets anyway. So we just came back from there. Tomorrow is his first day of school at his new school. Y'all, he's a little bit different at this school. Not sure how I feel about it. It's way better than his other school. I mean, it's a private school and they offer private kindergarten, way more affordable, not way more. It's about $3 or $4 cheaper a day, which is still something they do. What am I trying to say? Uniforms, school uniforms. Now this school does follow the school district calendar. So he will be out for the summertime, which means that I'm gonna have to put him in it into a cab. Might as well get used to it, child, because this is, he starts school in August. He starts kindergarten, I should say in August. My husband was like, excuse me, y'all. My husband was like, well, how much is the kindergarten there? I told him, look, we are not paying for private kindergarten when kindergarten is free. He's gonna go to a charter school, public education out here. Phoenix is horrible. We're worse than Texas, no shade to Texas. He's going to a charter school. I already toured the school last month. Look, you guys, I am on my crossing my T's, dotting my I's when it comes to his education. Make sure to get, make sure we have a good foundation. But to pay for kindergarten. But yeah, you guys, everything is going well. Look, I don't know when I'm gonna load this up, but I've stopped doing hair videos. Not necessarily stopped, but I don't have any hair videos to do. I hear JP. I have a Jane Carter wash day that I need to record, but that's in like two or three more weeks. I don't have any hairstyles because I need to keep my hair in this protective style for a good three or four weeks. Yeah, so just tell me y'all what's been going on. Besides that, I really have been starting further researching what I wanted to do as a career path. I started saving images for my vision board. I'm going to do a separate vision board, like I mentioned in my 2018 goals video. I'm doing a separate vision board for my career path. I really don't know which area I want to go in you guys, but I think I can get back into doing, taking care of me and figuring out what I want to do for the rest of my life. Because I'm young, you know. Yeah, besides that girl, my husband got cataracts. He has to go have cataract surgery on both of his eyes. And he, it's just a genetic thing. He had cataracts when he was, I think he told me he had cataract surgery. Do y'all know where SMU is at in Dallas? Is that, what is that? Steven, no, is it Steven? No, he said he went to SMU. Where is that at? Somewhere, I know it's in Dallas. He went to SMU and had some kids do it. He was a kid too. You know, he was, I think he said he was like 21, 22. And so, so yeah, it's not that he's getting older. It's just that he needs to have it redone. So yeah, besides that, I had stopped working out for a good two weeks, but I did a hip exercise today. I haven't gained any weight, thank God. But I haven't lost any weight either girl. I am postponing my membership, gym membership, because I'm just so busy right now. And I know I'm not gonna go to the gym. So the good thing about my gym is that you can postpone payments. And I'm also thinking that since JB is gonna be in school a lot more often and a lot more consecutive days. And when he's not in school, he's gonna be at karate. I made this continued childcare services for him, save my coins, baby. Besides that, oh, I'm getting baptized. I know I'm random, y'all. I'm getting baptized girl next week at the Juicy Fruit Church. I went from, they went from these holes they loyal to Juicy Fruit. But baby, let me tell you something. The first lady actually, they do a thing when she asked you to, I don't know what, she was doing church announcements and she asked them to play a little music for them before they do church announcements. And they started playing Juicy Fruit. And she in a very PC manner said that that was not acceptable. And I was like, high five sis. Thank you for, she did it. Yeah, she said, we gonna have to talk after services about something a little bit more holy. Holyness. So I was like good, someone said something. But no, I am getting baptized at this church. They do baptisms quarterly. And so I signed up for it for next week on the 21st. I'm really excited, y'all, very, very excited. I was going to get it done. You guys know I mentioned it briefly last year. But the church, first of all, that church were Trump supporters. One, they are still, the pastor and wife are still anointed. There's no denying that. But I didn't realize how much they supported Trump. But not only that, but it's a good hour away. I haven't been to that church in a year or two. It's a good hour away. And it's getting dark here. Like at six o'clock, it's getting dark here in Phoenix. And I honestly cannot drive in dark. I cannot, it's not safe for me to drive in the dark. And with this church, the church that I go to, now I've been going to on a regular basis. It's only 15 minutes away. And yeah, yeah, I'm comfortable with having my baptism there. I've been reading up on the scriptures on baptisms and the importance of being baptized. And I already knew this. Yeah, so excited about that. What else, you guys? I feel like I'm singing a lot right now, only because I know that I'm not doing my regular vlogs. And I want this vlogging series before I really start doing real time vlogs just to keep you guys informed on what's going on. That's all I said, y'all, I am happy. Can you tell, baby? I'm happy, I'm excited. I'm just excited about the new year. And I'm just so grateful for what God has done for me and is continuing to do for me. And I give all honor to him, you guys. There's a pet co over here. Yeah, there's a pet co. I don't do pets. I just gave him the pet talk that after his dentist appointment on Monday, candy would be like once, like a holiday or something. Right, baby? He's ignoring me, right? What do you mean? You little. Yoga. We have been back from, oh my nose, it's just, I need to organize my makeup. We're at the end of January and just a couple of things. You probably won't know until I actually upload the video. I'm supposed to be getting baptized in a couple more days, but not to share too much information, but Aunt Flo came early. So I called my mama about it and she started laughing. She said, yeah, no, she's a super safe thing. She said, oh, no, you can't get into that water unclean. I'm like, oh, you went to, you went real old testament on me. That, and of course it's tax season because it's the beginning of the year. One thing that I had kind of sort of thought about when I was doing my recertification for my student loans last year was how we would do our taxes since now we're married. Girl, this is a bunch of bullshit. So this is why I need to get baptized to get out this attitude. So why is it that when we are, if we are to do, so best off, if we are to do our taxes married, but separately we lose all types of credits. Childcare credit done. And baby, I paid close to five. Well, we paid close to $5,000 last year. Charity done. Education done. But if we, sorry, I thought that was Shabby, if we do it married jointly, my student loans payments and his too, even though he doesn't have as much as mine, mines will literally go up by double. Yeah, I would be looking at close to 500. If not, actually, she said well over 500. I'm sorry, $500 a month. So the, I've called Navient at all. I called them, yeah, sorry, but I've been livid about this for about a week. I've been contacting Navient several times and the last for I spoke to, she was really optimistic. She's like, well, you never know. You may get a raise or a better career job. Things may happen for you, you know, happen by the time you do your recertification in September and your payments may not be that much. I'm like, please don't get me all hopes up, you know, for that, but I might just need to bite the bullet because quite as it kept, we're not really supposed to be getting, what do you call it, a tax return because that's basically mean we're overpaying every paycheck. So if we adjust our withdrawals, our withdrawal, country-ass, we will be getting more for pay period more throughout the year. So yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and then just be like, secure it. Forget the child girl credit. You scared me. Y'all, I thought there was a snake cause it was like water running. It was like, I don't know why I thought it was a snake. But anyway, y'all, come on baby, let's get out of here. Come on. I'm a snake. Besides that, I got good news from my doctor's appointment recently. My labs is good, everything is okay. I have my paperwork submitted to get these treaties taken down. What the, what the, what the, what the, what the? The back surgery is so good. Look at me. Oh Lord, y'all haven't seen the baby in a while. Look at. You too close, Pumbu. What are you doing? I need my coffee cause it's my way. Watch you. Give me some sugar. I wanna show you guys Ryan. Oh. Are you a belcher? The little stool. We're back out here at Desert Ridge again. Y'all, my hair is growing. Hey man. We're back out here just for a sec. Yo, it's snow day. And it's a little, it's cloudy as you can see. It's overcast. It was sprinkling over there by us. I'm hungry. I don't need to buy me some snacks. But anyway, they're supposed to make it snow. And so, there's a line of everything. God, there's a lot of people out here. They just started the event 20 minutes ago. Now it's about the rain. I could feel the rain. I left my umbrella in the car. I'm up here and granted it's not that far away, but just the thought of getting ready and going out. First of all, it's cold. Phoenix, we're not used to this type of chilliness. It's 55 degrees right now. I gave JB one of my gloves cause I couldn't find his gloves. I couldn't find my other two gloves. Cause we, what do we need gloves in Phoenix, right? But Chow, you could really tell that Phoenix people are not used to cool weather. And quite frankly, 58 degrees is really not that cold. So I see people with their kids. They have on mittens, they have on gloves, they got scarves. One person have their kids in these big overalls. Like you remember that scene from the Christmas story where those kids were all layered up? That's how these kids are. Now, JB has on a sweater and like you see him a little hoodie, but we ain't going all out. It's people. But it's raining. It is raining. But Jackson doesn't do the rain, I'm country. If it's raining and cold, we all gonna get sick. So we were out here for about 25 minutes. I'm like, JB, we gotta go. We gotta go. So we need to find somewhere where we can go inside while I can eat, cause I'm hungry and he can have fun. So we think about Chick-fil-A. Sorry, y'all. Y'all, I'm up in this child. We're at the dentist. We had to move JB's dentist appointment cause he's not feeling too well. It's all allergies. So come on, baby. Y'all, look at these child's cavities. Come on, baby. Let's get out. Let's hurry up. Ooh, it's cold. Ooh. My baby has on everything but a coat. He wanted his little mittens on. Look at him. Let's look at his stuff. Got my teeth hurt too. Your teeth hurt, baby? Come on, baby. Wow. You guys, I am at the dentist and look at these. And look what's over here. I'm gonna raise some. Yeah, we're back from the dentist and he got himself a balloon. He did really well. The dentist, let me turn this car off. The dentist said she was very surprised at how well he did. I mean, we were done within 20 minutes. Girl, I'm not backing up. I'm not backing up. Going the other way. Anyway, he did really, really well. I could tell there were some parts where it hurt a little bit, boo-boo. The camera's green. The camera's green. I'm not necessarily hurt by a little pressure, but I made another appointment to come back up here. I'm not here in two more weeks because it's like a two-step process. And, okay, baby, they can't hear me. The silver fluoride diamine, I don't know the correct term, you guys. I've looked it all up. And again, it's just an alternative to actually having their teeth filled because having his teeth filled, he would have to go under, you know? And she made a good point. She said that children who have asthma are, you know, it's not a good idea to completely put them under. And she would even recommend me going to the hospital to do that. I'm not alone. Did I go under? You did not go under, baby, you were up. So this is an alternative to it. It's basically, it's almost like a patch. It's not like a band-aid meeting to stop the decay from wanting me further. So yeah, she said he did so good that she said he would be able to sit there while she actually fills some of his teeth. I'm like, you trying to get any type of money? I can't because this thing was free. You were okay? Yeah. And I was so okay. You did so good, baby. I know, I know, and then I got a blue. I know. Pink eye cup from. JB has the pink eye, it's not funny. But at least I know what's wrong with him for the past two days. He's been congested, coughing, and the pink eye can have cold. And stomach hurt too. Stomach hurt from coughing. You can have cold-like symptoms, but when he got up this morning, his entire eye was crusted. But thank God, I have, yeah, I'd be keeping my medication. I don't throw away nothing. So I have pink eye medication. Put some drops in his eyes. Put some drops in his eyes. And so he's gonna stay home for at least two days. For at least two days. I'm gonna turn the camera around on him so I can show y'all what he looks like of all this madness going on. With the silver, dynamite, fluoride paste for his teeth, it will turn his teeth dark. And so I've been talking to him. He's been looking at his teeth saying, oh, I'm sad. So I've been washing his teeth. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. Stop it. I've been. Stop it. You better stop it. I've been brushing his teeth with, whoa, I've been brushing your teeth with baby, baking soda. Baking soda. And that's been helping. And so he has to have another session of it in two more weeks. I want to show you guys my teeth. Okay, baby. Here we go. Did you guys see my teeth? Yeah, so what happens is that. This black stuff is gonna screw up for our face. So you say cheese, but it's really not that bad. Now that I look at it, I mean, you have to be all the way up. Oh, you see that right there? So what happens is that those are little bitty cavities, you guys. And so they put the paste on it to stop the decaying of the teeth. I'm gonna have pink eye. He has a pink eye. Just a hot mess, boo-boo. Pink eye. Yes, but that's okay. We know what the pink eye is. We have medication for it. But anyway, he did. Anyway. He did, what was that? What was that spilled? Are you peeing or was that the juice? Uh, juice? I'm about to say. He did really well at the dentist yesterday. Even the dentist, she was just very amazed at how well he did. What? What? It's just a lesson learned. It really is. No more candy. And you guys, he gets offered candy by everybody. My neighbors. And I do all the candy. I just want to break. I really want to break. Y'all know JB has pink eye this morning and I called to school and was like, okay, my son has pink eye. He will not be here. When I be going to school today, hopefully he can go tomorrow. If not, what is your, you know, policy on Ms. Day? So you just like, well, unfortunately, he has to stick to the schedule. Meaning he just can't show up. Like if he missed today, clearly he missed today. He can't show up choosing Wednesday, Thursday. Call them his sick day, right? Hopefully he'll feel better come the morning time. But then a couple of hours later, he's crying, his ear hurts. I'm like, oh my God. So now your ear hurts. Your eye hurts. And I know it's all due to, you know, he's just sick. I'm like, oh my God, can I not have a break? And it literally, y'all know, all of these, all last month we were both sick. Mostly me, I was sick all last month. And now we're at the last end of January and he's back sick again. It's just, it's just too much for me. Need a break. I need just a damn break. Just a break. But you don't get a break when you're a mommy. Heads up, all you young girls. You don't get a break once you become a mom. You don't. My hair is dirty. I suppose I've been doing a video today. I can't do no videos when he's here. So I'm gonna have to postpone that till tomorrow and hopefully he'll be back tomorrow. You can see what my hair looks like now. So I had said that it's just, that's enough to chow because I'm just running around and my to-do lists are getting out of control because yeah, there's just certain things you can't control over. But the only thing I can control at this point is how I respond to it. And that's what I'm choosing to do, y'all, is. And look, now after everything had hit the fan. It's real quick, y'all. I just got finished watching a video. First of all, well, let me just tell you. By Cravey Craven Curly Kinks. Is it Craven Curly Kinks or Craven Kinky Curls? Anyway, I know some of y'all have seen this video because it's gotten almost 100,000 views at this point. And the title of it is YouTube broke my hair. Now before I give my take on what happened, I'm gonna say this. I'm very empathetic to the sister. I just subscribed or discovered her two weeks ago, actually. I love her hair. She has beautiful hair. She seems to know, she seems to know what she's doing. However, she had a setback. Overall, like I said, I'm empathetic to what happened because growing can happen to the best of us, right? You can know your hair for 10 plus years and still have a setback when it comes to your hair. That's just the reality of it. But this is what I think happened with her hair. And let me tell you what the video is basically about. It's fairly long. It's about 30 minutes long. She tried a new hair product on her hair at Coastal Gel. She hadn't used gel in years. I think she said she's been natural for seven years. First of all, she has beautiful hair. Absolutely gorgeous. This is one of the reasons why I subscribed to her. She has beautiful four-category tailbone length hair. She's only been natural for seven years, okay? So she basically used Eco-style gel. Let me wrap it up. She used Eco-style gel. And according to her, she said it tangled up her hair. Then she decided to use Aussies, that Aussie. But I believe she probably used the Aussie 3 in Miracle, which is a great conditioner. However, in my opinion, is not the best conditioner for detangling. She was a clarifying shampoo and it just got worse and worse and worse and worse. So now she's seeing Eco-style gel run to her hair. But in the same talk that she's also seeing, she's not sure what happened. Let me tell you what I think happened because this has happened to me before, not necessarily for product, but with a style. One, number one, you're never supposed to shampoo your hair while it is matted or tangled. That is the biggest mistake. Now she shampooed her hair, but she used a clarifying shampoo. Clarifying shampoo, meaning I need to strip the ingredients. I need to strip your hair. I need to take away all the oils, which helps you to detangle your hair. But she didn't, again, she didn't know this. Now, I think the reason why she said, maybe she used a clarifying to get rid of the buildup. So I don't know what she's done, because again, I didn't rethink, excuse me, look at the entire video, but looking at the amount of hair she has, it's gonna take her a while. I had an issue where my hair was very dry and tangled. And I did, not only did I do a treatment, I did a protein treatment on top of my hair. So my hair was tangled, I shampooed, I did a protein treatment. I don't know if you guys remember, but this was about two years ago. My hair was severe, was it this or was this side? My hair was matted, like all up in here. I cut, it took me hours to just detangle that one section, but then I had to end up cutting some hair. And I think this is what she's leaning towards, is trimming some of her hair, but looking at the way her hair looks, again, I feel bad for her, I really do. Looking at her hair, it looks choppy, but I think that's from over manipulation of trying to get all the tangles out, but yeah. When your hair is tangled and matted, don't shampoo it. Don't do it, don't sit down, get you a bottle of wine, load up your Netflix, because you won't be sitting there for a while. That's if you have the patience, but she can get her hair back together. She has beautiful hair, so yeah.