 fine evening, it is Sunday, December 9th and I just got home from Prescott about 30 minutes ago. Cash and I were up there for the weekend and we just got back, we finished eating our food. Cash had some chicken nuggets, he had some broccoli, he had banana and he had some apple sauce. He is quite the eater. As soon as he started dumping the food onto the floor, I was like, oh, you're done. So this week I thought that maybe I would focus my vlog more on the mommy side of my life. Lots and lots of you have requested at home vlogs and vlogs of me on weekends, vlogs of me interacting with my husband and interacting with Cash. And so I wanted to take kind of a break from the teaching side of vlogging and just kind of focus more on at home and mommy and what happens after I'm done teaching for the day. So what are we doing right now? Do you ask? We are. Please also for warning, my house is a disaster because I have a one year old, I work a full time job, my husband works a full time job and we just don't have the time to like upkeep it all day every day. So we just choose not to. So you're gonna probably see a lot of background mess. Oh, did you wanna vlog? Did you wanna vlog? Oh, you wanna take me somewhere? Okay. So we're actually cleaning out the car right now from our trip. And this entails Cash just kind of roaming. Careful, there's a step. Step down. You got it, come on. Okay. You got it. Mommy's got ya. Come on. Big step. Good job. He's so self-preserving. Jump down. Good job. Okay, now go that way. Here you go. My dress, okay. So Cash and I are going to open this gift from my parents. And they said that they wanted us to open it before Christmas because it's something to. Oh, you don't wanna sit with me? Okay. It's something that will go under the tree. And they said that they want us to open it before that way we can enjoy it. Where are you going? Gift is definitely not intended for Cash to be playing with. So we're gonna actually switch locations and open this at the table because it is like a delicate little. All right guys, so this guy just got his bath and he got all in his jammies and say we opened the present from grandpa and it is this wonderful, wonderful, electric peanuts train set. It's a Christmas train set. How cool is that? So I don't think it's gonna make it under the tree this year though because this one has sticky fingers. We'll see. Maybe while he's asleep, I'll put it up and then he won't notice that it's there. Who knows? But we're gonna get ready for bed. So usually before bedtime, we do a little bit of quiet time in his bedroom for about 20 to 30 minutes before it's actual bedtime. And that just consists of him walking around in here playing with the lights down low. We read books, he drinks his nighttime bottle and then he goes down really easy. All I do is lay him down and he goes to bed without a problem. Unless he's not feeling good then he'll have a problem but only if you don't feel good, huh? So right now we're just waiting for his bottle to warm up. You can tell he's tired because he's fussing. What are you doing? You gonna hold it? Okay. He wants it so bad. I'm gonna put this camera down so he can chill. Hello guys. So it is 3.56 and I'm sitting here at discount tire waiting for them to fill up my tires with air because with the cold air comes low tire pressure. So I didn't wanna drive. I already drove here with low tire pressure. I didn't wanna drive back with low tire pressure. So I'm getting my tires filled and then we are going to go to the mall and get pictures of cash with Santa. And then I think we might go to Costco. I think we'll see about that one. This is exactly why I like leaving work right at 3.30 and getting on the road because I left work at 3.30 but I had to go get my tires filled and now I am stuck in this terrible traffic. I'm going at 10 miles an hour and I'm just crawling and I still have all the way to that mountain to go up. I don't think we're gonna have time to take cash to see Santa cause I'm probably not gonna get home till five. This is so frustrating. So because of the traffic jam I was in added on with me having to stop and get air in my tires added on to me having to stop at cash's new preschool to pick up paperwork and pay his supply fee. I am not getting home until about 5.20, 5.30. It's five o'clock right now and I still have about 20 minutes, maybe 15 minutes left in my drive. If you guys don't have a mod pizza where you are they are literally so good. You go and you build your own and this is like, I would say a medium sized pizza. It's like $7. So we always just get two different pizzas and then we split them. So we're just gonna go home. We're gonna chill. We're not gonna go to Costco. We're not gonna go to see Santa tonight. We're just gonna do it tomorrow because there was too many things going on after work. Normally I get home around 4.30 and not 5.30. So I think we're just gonna wait and do it tomorrow. Also our three year wedding anniversary is on Wednesday. And I'm actually going to link our amazing wedding video down in the description of this video so that if you're interested you can check it out because it is really, really sweet. But yeah, our anniversary is Wednesday so I think we're gonna go to one of our favorite restaurants and it is in Mesa and it is called the Angry Crab. I know that there's a couple of them in the Phoenix area here in Arizona and if you're from here and you've never tried the Angry Crab you need to. It's definitely a pricier side meal but you're getting like market price seafood. So we always get like a bunch of snow crab and we split it and it's just delicious. They come with like the potatoes. It's basically like the crab shack but 10 times better. So I think we're gonna go do that for our anniversary dinner on Wednesday. Maybe go see a movie, I don't know. I think that we should do like more on our anniversary than we do on like a normal date. And we usually just go get stuff to eat just cause it's hard with cash. We have a babysitter but because Scott works on weekends we don't have the luxury of like going out on a weekend night and staying out late because he's only off when I'm working. So we can't stay out too late because I have to work the next day. So we're just gonna go out to dinner and maybe get a movie in and I don't know, hopefully. And then the food, he said it's different. They were talking about how he went from having a really big appetite to sometimes it looks like he didn't eat at all today. He said it's normal. They say basically just judge off of what he looks like. Weight-wise. Yeah. But give him his food on his tray and not to feed him by spoons. He won't know what he's doing. He'll just keep eating and they say that. What you got there? They like to hold the apple while I chew on it. I like to just hold it. Look at those fingers. Good morning guys, happy Tuesday. Hello. So the kids are at PE and I'm drinking some emergency because I feel like I'm getting a little bit sick and that's just a scary thought. So before I leave for work today I wanted to talk about something that really upset me today. So at the beginning of the school year every teacher signs up for committees and these are committees that provide events and things with staff to manage those events and things. And you just sign up for a way to be involved in your school and to basically you have responsibilities that you do outside of your normal teaching responsibilities. So at the beginning of the year I signed up for some orchestra concerts which were evening concerts. I signed up for the talent show committee. I'm also the team leader. And then I signed up for the STEM committee. So STEM night already happened. It was an evening committee event. And then tonight I actually got an email this afternoon reminding me that tonight was the orchestra concert. Now this event was marked on our staff calendar. So I did see it but I guess I just didn't register that I was signed up for this committee so I completely forgot. As soon as I was reminded I started getting really upset because tonight we were supposed to take cash to see Santa. I haven't seen my husband except for yesterday because we were in Prescott over the weekend and he was here working. So I hadn't seen him in four days. And then I just realized that if I did stay here for the orchestra concert I wasn't gonna see cash all day long because the orchestra concert doesn't end until seven and then I have an hour long drive. So I wouldn't get home until about eight o'clock and by then he would be going to bed. So I broke down crying. I ate in my room by myself and I usually eat with my team. I broke down crying in front of them. And it was just really hard. It's really hard being a mom of young children and being a teacher. And part of that is having evening events that you have to attend, especially if you live really far from where you work. If I lived around the corner from where I work I would just go home, pick up cash and come back and he would just be here with me. Or I could just see if someone could swing by and watch him for an hour or two and then I could go. Scott is home with him tonight so that I didn't need a sitter but still I don't get to go home and spend time with my baby and then come back. It's just not like that for me. So I got really upset. I started crying and it was just a really weak moment. Luckily I have a really amazing teammate who offered to switch events with me. So she's gonna take tonight's event and then I'm gonna come Thursday to our craft night. And that event is only from 4.30 to six o'clock. So that way I can be home by seven and still have an hour with cash. It's not a super eventful evening because Scott is not home, he's at work and it's just much easier for me to be at that event rather than the concert. So this is just something that I struggle with as a mom and I know a lot of you other teacher moms also struggle with it or teacher parents also struggle with this, especially if your kids aren't at school yet because most of the time, if you're lucky your kids go to the school where you teach so you're able to be involved in their lives. And if you're not, I'm sure it's hard to be able to be involved, you know? So anyway, I wanted to share that moment with you guys because it really was a struggle, like I cried like really hard. So anyway, I'm gonna get going. My printer's not working in there so I'm just gonna go home. It is 3.30 right now so I need to walk out the door right now or I'm gonna be late. Hi sweetie. Hey. Get Bonnie. See? Yeah. You got wipes? Yeah. So we came here before I came here? Mm-hmm. I'm not even sure why we came here. We came for wipes. Oh, okay. And eggs. Oh. Do I get any produce? We don't ever eat that much produce. It'll go bad. What is your problem? Tell them I just wanna eat jackfruit. I don't want my food. You mean cash's food. Cash food. So I just keep pissing everywhere. The dogs are used to standing right here under the high chair and they just sit here and wait for cash to drop food and so they've started not eating their own food because they want cash's food. You look so pathetic right now. And this one, every time we pick them up to take them into the laundry room to eat, he pees, he pittles because he's scared. You look so pathetic. He's scared. We just got back from Costco. We had a great time. Cash got us picture taken with Santa and we only went to Costco to get baby wipes. But you know, Costco's like Target. You get sucked in. So we got some zebra popcorn. These things were like, they were selling them. We got some almond butter, some hot chipotle almond dip. That stuff's so good. And then these are like these little chicken melt sandwiches. They're only 160 calories each. How much sodium is in these? 475 milligrams. Woo! Okay. Last one. The chicken? Chicken? No. See? Alice is out here now. Good morning guys. It's almost 6 a.m. And I woke up feeling really gross. I'm not congested like a whole lot but I can tell that I've had drippage down my throat all night long. Cause I woke up with like a flim filled throat and my nose is kind of stuffy. So that's no good. I did notice I was getting sick yesterday though. So I think that it's just official. Look how cute. Last night Cash was not happy with Santa. Don't get me wrong. He didn't scream or like cry, but he was like, Honestly, I wish we would have printed the fenniest one. We probably should have, but oh wow, it's still cute. We're heading down to Fort. I'm gonna eat your carrots. Bye pumpkin. Eat your carrots. Oh no, thank you. You, you, oh my belly hurts. Oh, sorry. What is Poncho doing? It's too classy. Go get Christmas present. What ever that means. No. Bye pumpkin. Bye. Bye. See you later. Okay guys, I'm trying to eat my veggies. I'm back and I'm wearing my favorite lipstick and littles t-shirt. I got this one in a size large and I really like it cause it's super baggy and it's not like tight and constricting and I just. Good morning, Alexa. Pause. Are you having breakfast? What are you eating? Is that a waffle? Is it good? Say yeah, mama, it's good. Hey guys, so it has been a very long day. I apologize for this vlog being like everywhere, but that's kind of what life is like when I'm not at work. Like work is the most structured place really for me, for kids, for everybody. So as you can see, my living room is a mess. I just laid cash down. It is 827. He probably won't fall asleep till around nine if I'm lucky. So yeah, I think I'm gonna make myself something to eat and clean up this mess. And then I'm probably gonna go to bed early and watch Netflix or something. So thank you guys so much for watching this week. If you liked this mom vlog, I know that I did kind of a poor job at it this time around, but it was a really, really busy week and it was just really hard to remember to take out the camera and film everything for you guys. But I really would like to do another mom vlog for you guys, but make it more like truly a day in the life of what it's like. It is now almost winter break, so maybe I'll do a couple of winter break vlogs. I think that would be fun. Maybe I'll do like a straight up day in the life weekend vlog because weekends are when I have cash all to myself. My husband is home, but those are my days to really be home with him. During the week, it's harder because I get home and then I'm in mommy mode when I'm home and it's just like craziness. So anyway, thank you guys for watching. I will see you in the next video and I hope you guys have happy holidays. If I don't see you before Christmas, Merry Christmas.