 Yeah, it's mom's turn season. You know what that means? What? That's called looking the other window. The storm is actually coming. Yeah. How many windows are there you got? Look how dark it is. It's only four o'clock. A water rescue. Why are people driving in that water? Oh. Let me turn off the clothes captioning. You're okay, baby. If it gets bad, you can sleep with mommy and daddy, okay? It's gonna be even worse than this. Jamie was like, Jamie's looking at the news. She's like, is this Florida? Look at that storm. Oh my God. Get a record. I don't think they're going to be able to see it as much, boo boo. Y'all ain't going to be able to see it. All that brown right there is a dust storm. Where is it? Is this in Mesa? Look at that. Oh my goodness. Is that in Phoenix? Baby, yes, we're still in Phoenix. So that right there is a dust storm and it's coming. So when people are driving in that dust storm, there's zero visibility. I've been in one. It's horrible. It's almost like being in it. It's completely dark when you're in the middle of it. Yep, they all blew over here. The floaties didn't blow anywhere. So, y'all, it's been about an hour since the first storm has hit. This is what it's looking like now. It's looking a little windy. Yeah, it's still a little windy. I don't want to be out here too much, boo boo, because it can start thundering and lightening. Any time I come over there, like I told y'all these last couple of weeks, I've just been, I haven't been myself. I've been a little bit of depressed. A little bit of depressed. A little bit of depressed. A little bit of depressed. A little bit of depressed. A little bit of anxious and some anxiety. And it has to do with my trip back to Texas. Y'all, I'm going to try really hard not to cry. And I want to say it's positive and uplift, you know, as possible. But I was looking at another YouTuber. And I have seen her video before. She lives out here in Phoenix. And so she commented on a very old video of mine. So she's like, oh my God, another blogger in AZ. Subscribe. And I go, cool, I'm going to subscribe. And I saw that she has a couple of different videos. I believe her YouTube name is Dwelling in the Desert. I'll put her, you know, channel down below. Great content. She does a lot of things with her kids, her children. I believe she has three kids. I saw two women in the video, but I also think she just had a baby. She's Congolese, if I remember correctly, lived in Dallas before coming here, which is really ironic. She did comment on her video that we have a lot in common. Living in Dallas, but she absolutely loves it here. She has tons of videos on why she love it here. You know, her interacting with other people. She loves the outdoors. And I'm looking at her stuff and I'm like, I don't feel the same. Absolutely happy for her, but I was also sad for myself because I don't feel that way out here, y'all. I don't have any other interaction with other women besides the brunch I go to a few times a year. I don't have any other adults besides my best friend. Yes, I am an introvert, but I don't mind interacting with people. You know, I think as humans we have that my husband doesn't. He is an extreme introvert. He has not made any friends out here at all. I was starting to get a little depressed over the course of the, you know, 24 hours. I had to get myself out of that and not focus on the negative. Yes, I don't like it here. So instead of focusing on what I don't like, let's focus on some things and turn this negative into a positive. So, y'all, I'm about to make some energy balls. Now, I've made these. I'm sorry, y'all. I think balls is the funny word. I need to get over it. I am silly if you don't know by now. I'm going to be making some energy balls. I have made these before using just different type of ingredients. And I like them. Sometimes I get a sweet tooth and this hits the mark for me. You can use anything. There's a variety of different type of recipes you can find online. This is what I'm going to be using. Some chocolate chips. Sweetened coconut flakes. You can get unsweetened. I'm having some flaxseed. A little bit of honey. Some Quaker Oats. And some peanut butter. Now, I did have some dates in there, but they were looking a little suspect. Even though dates can last for a long time. It's just dried fruit. I did have some dates in there, but this is a lot. I think I know what to do. It's been a while since I've done this, but I think I know what to do. This is what the mixture looks like. Now, I limit myself to these, you guys. Like I said, I don't know what it is, but it made my husband a little sick. He has some digestive problems. I think it was due to the flaxseed. Flaxseed, of course, is a fiber. I'm good with it. All you would do for now is roll them up in balls, place them in the fridge, and then I'm going to put them in Ziploc bags and eat them throughout the week. Now, I do limit myself, like I said earlier. Maybe the most I'll eat is two. So, I may make these on the medium size size. When I first made them, they were big. Yeah, on the medium size size, one to two every other day. And this will last me all week. Yummy, yummy, yummy. All right, y'all. So, this is our office, now I've been putting a lot of our homeschooling stuff in here, and as you can tell by now, girl, it is packed. I have stuff overflowing at this point. I even have some stuff in my guest bedroom. So, I purchased a six cube bookcase. I think I'm going to put it right here. Yeah, I'm going to move for an impromptu mukbang. I know me need a girl. Let me see what's on TV. Y'all work is so slow. I cleaned up the catalog, yelling at people. I'm yelling at people. Helping Christine, gossiping with Christine. I know, I feel like it's the calm before the storm, because we get really busy. Come September, I'm going to be eating my words. I got a salad from Panera Bread. I haven't been eating a lot of greens, so I'm going to grocery shopping tomorrow. I'm going to make sure to get a bunch of lettuce and stuff to make my own salads at home. This is their spicy chicken salad. It's really good. Let me go get a fork, y'all. That's annoying. Yeah, y'all today, just focusing on getting the stuff organized, because I want to do it before JV is here. Because JV is going to be a big girl. JV is a boss. I'm not trying to do this stuff with this child, so this is a lot of salad. Maybe I should have gotten half a salad. Yeah, so that's why I did all the shopping today. I want him trying to dictate what I should buy. He's so dang on bossy. I didn't know 5-year-olds could be this bossy. Excuse me, 5 and a half. He's quick to correct you. Someone asked me if he was 5. He said 5 and a half. No, I'm 5 and a half, ma'am. I'm like, you don't sit your 5 and a half ass down. He's so funny, y'all. I'm going to even eat all of this. I'll see if my husband wants some. Now, look. I'll be watching people, y'all. I'm very observant. So, when I was at getting my salad, I noticed a young man who was in the back working, right? And then he came out from behind the counter and started ordering. He ordered him something to eat. Why? Okay, he had on gloves, right? The plastic gloves which he used to handle food. Why didn't he start touching the gang-on credit card thingy? You better not be touching my food with that. You need to change gloves. That's another small YouTuber I want y'all to follow. Ms. Rhonda told me about her. Her name is Donna's Journey. She's from the south. Is she from Atlanta or does she live in Atlanta? She's funny, y'all. I like her. She's an old soul. She's an older woman. I think she's over 45. She may be in her early 50s. You can't tell by black women. Black women, even any given day, we can be anywhere between 25 and 45. You never know how old someone is. So, I don't even try to guess. But I know she has an adult daughter. So, she has to be in her late 40s, early 50s. So, I'm binge watching how to get away with murder night, y'all. Everyone was so crazy about it when it first started, but I didn't want to watch it. That's the type of person I am. I don't follow trends. I'll wait... I'll wait damn near 10 years later. Before that, I binge watched Happy Valley, which was really good. I had to pay for that, though. I mean, Happy Valley is a BBC show. It was really hard for me at first to pick up on the accents, which was surprising with me because I watched Keeping Up With Appearances almost every day. That's what I watched to help them to fall asleep, right? But their accents were almost like they were mumbling. And, of course, everyone's from different regions. But a couple of them I could not understand. So, after I got through the first few episodes, I was able to pick up more of their accents. The dialects, I should say, were a little difficult for me to understand, but there's something in here I don't like. I think it's these carrots. I've never liked them. They're not cooked. And they're big. They might use shredded carrots. And I think they're like roasted or something. Something about it is not good. I'm gonna write them a letter. Tell them to use shredded carrots instead. I'm not doing that. No. They're getting on my nerves. No. I'm not saying about that. Oh, my God. It's more work. All you have to do is worry about yourself. Well, maybe you could maybe you could just go out with someone and just not, you know, get serious, though. It's gonna be a lot harder, you know. I just got off the phone with my friend Snow. My friend Snow is an older Vietnamese woman. And I used to work with her when I worked at David's Bridal Girl. She, I love her because she, once you get past 60, you will say whatever the hell you want. So, y'all heard it. She has a strong accent, but I can understand her. She's been retired, but now she's living comfortable. And so she is traveling, girl. She was in Vietnam for two weeks. Then she said she went to Hawaii from one week. Then she went to California. And so I was like, okay. You know, maybe we need to get together because I have these jackets still and she has a dress to mine. She's like, okay. Well, contact me after Labor Day. I started laughing. I said after Labor Day. I'm like, oh my God, but she started laughing. She said I'm kidding. She's like me in August next month. We can meet up next month. She is such a jewel, y'all. She's so funny. She actually is the one who also altered my wedding dress for me. She's altered a lot of my clothes. This is Mozart. Y'all listen to Mozart. I introduced JB to a variety of music. For homeschooling this week, we're going to be focusing on rock and roll and blues. I think it goes hand in hand. Really, rock and roll came from blues. And so with this song, y'all have heard him sing the hook to this song. But what I did is I showed him Patti LaBelle and I showed him Fantasia. This is where it really came from. So with the Fantasia one, he's like, I like all the screaming. He's like, I like all her screaming. I said that most people do baby. Most people not all. So it's Friday. It's season two season. We're going to be in it. So it's like chances of rain up until Tuesday. I like this song. I used to play this for JB. And then later on, we're just going to go to Chick-fil-A so that he can play indoors. I don't want to be outside because it's dusty too. And then tomorrow, we're going to go to another indoor. But this Sunday, I'm going to try out the new church. And yes, Rhonda, AKA Ms. Delightbow. Tomorrow is love to play. Just send me if you can remember, sis. I'm going to send you a text message here. Y'all, Ms. Delightbow is another YouTuber. Y'all, keep her in your prayer. She lost her job this week. But she is a praying woman. And her faith is strong. I am very impressed, sis. Because my faith isn't all the way there yet. I'm just being real. I'm not all the way there yet. Now, I wouldn't be worried about not finding another job if I ever lost my job. I wouldn't be worried about that. My whole thing would be about why didn't they want me? That's where I would be at. It wouldn't even be about the money. It would be mentally, why didn't they want me? Why me? It would be the self pity, why me? But she's doing really good. She's staying very, very positive. But again, keep her in your prayers. And I know you're going to get a job, sis. Remember what we talked about. We know what's happening. We have a new church on Sunday. The one I was telling you about. Y'all were telling y'all about. And that's it. This is going to be another long vlog. But I think y'all like that. Yes, this morning I submitted my payment to Ratchet-O'-Canon. And my new camera she beat here next week. What? Yeah, we saw what. Oh, you kids did? Wasn't close. Just far away. Girl, I am so afraid of lightning. And it's mostly from being grown up raising up old school. When it was storm in East Texas my big mama would be like, turn off the TV. Oh, I know what you're talking about, baby. My big mama would be like, turn off the TV. Sit down. Don't touch no paper. Don't take a bath. Take off your glasses. Don't get on the phone. Get off the phone. We couldn't do anything, but sit there and be quiet. I'm out running around all morning. All day. Not all morning. It is 5 o'clock. Almost 6 o'clock. Put that back, sweetheart. It's about to storm again. I took my hair down because it is very frizzy. Look at that shrinkage. That's crazy. Because I'm going to go ahead and twist it up. And then it will be frizzy and like this. Because it's humid too. But I'm going to go ahead and set my hair and twist. I'm going to show y'all the homeschooling area. And I'm still waiting on my books. Sorry, y'all. I ordered about 10 books through thriftedbooks.com. The books only cost me $50. I think that's a good deal. For 10 books? Yeah, that's it. What is that? Oh, the pool supplies. These are things that I have gathered over the course of a year. So over here, I have my printer table. There's really nothing in these drawers related to homeschooling. But I have all of our books that we're going over just from the past two weeks or so. These are enlisted books. I am, sweetheart. These are enlisted books for the library. And then these are enlisted books that are his books. And these are, of course, not all his books. He has a little mini library in the back there. Between 40 and 50 books. Hold on, sweetheart. I'm going to show them. And this crate here, I purchased this crate at Walmart for less than $5. And I have some hanging folders here. This is how I'm going to map out my week curriculum. And other moms have done this. And I've seen Pinterest diagrams of this. And it's basically going to be an example. This will be a week one, week two, week three, week four. This is going to be for 12 weeks straight. And then I'll rotate it for the following weeks. Now through that, sweetheart. And this is the bookshelf, bookcase, excuse me, that I purchased through Wayfair that goes back over here. Thank you. And so I have some bands here I got from the Dollar Tree. And this right here is basically for me to throw stuff in. This has markers and stuff. If I don't have time to organize them, I'll take it out and put things where they need to go. We have his hot dots here. A collection of pens, highlighters and Sharpies, pencils. Some of his heart books, excuse me, heart books, including the Bob books. I think I'm going to get to more Bob books, but we just need to go through this set. He has tons of books. And this mesh like compartment, and this came with the actual bookcase. And includes things like blocks. I have some popsicle sticks that I got from the Dollar Tree. They have sight words on them, numbers. I have some pom poms. There are some pipe cleaners. Don't do that, sweetheart. Put that back. Some sight word books are down here. Now when the books come in that I ordered from thrifted books, they're going to go here, here and there. So what's down here, sweetheart? We got some name puzzles. Name your name puzzles? Sight word cards. That's what I got from school. Yeah. I found them in your backpack. And we got some more sight word cards. Yeah. So this has all of his flash cards. And I did order some books. African centered flash cards that are coming in. I got them from Etsy. Yeah. And then all his crayons are in here. Okay. I got some books down here. Some sight word books. Pick up that paper clip. See something like this. I'll just throw in there for now. And I'll go look at that later on. We have some maps here. We have a world map. And then we have a map of the U.S. And then we have... Africa. So I purchased all this stuff through Amazon a while back. And then my neighbors gave us a bunch of stuff about two years to go for a dictionary. Right here I have just a plain notebook. It's what I'm going to be doing to map out the curriculum. And in these drawers I have more supplies here to stuff up your land. And these two are nothing but workbooks. I tell you, I probably have about about 20... about 30 workbooks. 30 workbooks. Some different things here. Yeah. So y'all, I'm excited. I'm excited to create this and to share it with you guys. I will be sharing everything on my blog. This is good to a cookie sheet from the Dollar Tree. Y'all, I wanted to show you real quick some of the books I purchased through thriftedbooks.com. Now I purchased a total of 12 books. It only cost me $56 including shipping. So the first one is A Learning While Black by Janice Hale. And I'll be putting these below in the description box. I can tell right now this is only half the order. I have six more books that are coming. Afro American Folklore The African American Experience and History. Now I can really tell that a lot of these are schoolbooks. And it will basically college or high school books. History of Africa. This looks like awesome. And then we have A Kids Guide to African American History. Then last we have Africa and World History from Pre-History to the Present. Now the reason why I have multiple books on the same topics because one may not cover one may have different information. Also just to knock out any type of bias because I will let you know right now there is nothing like oral history. Some of the things that my husband tells me about his country when we look in the history books is not correct because he's from the country his elders have talked about what has happened and so we have people writing stuff in other countries when the source is not reliable so I like to get different books on similar subjects excuse me the same subjects to compare and contrast. So the books that I have coming up at least five of them are still African related and one of them is excuse me the subject is Africa and one of them is about SAT words. Y'all I'm in JB's room. I am so tired. We have been out we went to go get his haircut oh I went to get his haircut at 10. We got back at 3 o'clock doing all types of stuff. I took him to an indoor playground which I didn't take y'all with me because we've been there before and then we went grocery shopping. Are you going to show me what Bendy looks like baby? It's about the storm here and right now I'm in his room because I purchased him. Y'all check sales out right now. They're getting ready for fall look the color is coming in. By the way this would be the last time crossed my fingers hopefully that I'm using this camera to vlog. It's because my new camera was just shipped off I should get it on Thursday anyway um what was I was saying Walmart changes out the summer clothes for fall right now and so they put all the summer clothes and so for nothing. So I got him a bunch of stuff not a bunch but I got him like three tops in a very short. I'm going to show y'all what I got him for Trish tomorrow. We're going to be going to go into our old Trish tomorrow because I know I'm going to be tired in the morning. It's I'm exhausted um and I'm not going to want to drive for the the church I want to check out is pretty far I believe. He looks like right there. The new church so um okay. I'll check that church out this month girl probably at the end of the month. Okay baby I'll show y'all what what I'm cooking for dinner very simple black and cat fish some um smashed mashed no no mashed sweet potatoes you can't tell I'm tired. Mashed sweet potatoes since the spinach tomorrow I'm doing salad with some buffalo chicken wings or I don't know I'm tired. This animal looks like worst. I don't know why you look at that scary stuff so I want to make up JB a little cute he loves these bow ties y'all it's gotten out out of control. Baby I'm filming I'm going to show y'all what I told him that hold on y'all come on baby I'm sorry show me what it is give me a sweetheart that's what he looks like okay oh wow okay the one that kind of looks like Mickey Mouse a little bit okay um y'all let your kids talk I know a lot of parents like to cut their children off because they're children but I try not to do that unless he's really just over talking me I try to let him speak. Alright y'all let me put all this fabric out and see what we're going to do hard hey so I want to make him a double bow tie which is like this this is like a double bow tie isn't this cute um this is my favorite one though. I'll make you one baby one like that see that's cute and oh here's the fabric all the different fabrics I'm trying to think of so what I think I'm going to do is it's too much white so I'm not going to do this white here this is a white fabric we ain't going to do that um I'm thinking of I definitely want this plaid to be a bow tie and perhaps I want to do a good solid color I think gray would be too much um I think the blue would be good yeah go with a ratchet ass color and again look at me we're going to talk about those compression socks in a minute girl just stopping this watching claws this last episode was weird as hell I'm glad I recorded because I fast forward this time and I'm going to watch Power Tomorrow when JB is not here girl I watch both claws and when he is here I keep my mineral control in my head because I have to fast forward through all that inappropriate stuff y'all I'm sorry um maybe I'm old fashioned I don't want to see people have sex on TV this is not porn hub there's no reason why you should be showing full blown making out S.E.X. scenes at 6 o'clock my time I don't want to see that so I fast forward all through all that drama anyway girl oh my compression socks so yeah I wear compression socks on both legs because I have a little bit of varicose veins on my left leg and I've had it all my life basically I know it's hereditary and due to your girl being a little fluffy but look it was really giving me some problems in church today um but thank god I can take medication and you know it'll go away the pain won't subside but I got on google like a dang gone fool and started researching varicose veins and whatever whatever and there are some ties to birth control pills which hormonally you know any changes in your hormones can be tied to circulation and varicose veins y'all I'm thinking about getting off these birth control pills I'm thinking about getting my tubes tied because when I went to go see my OBGYN last year the nurse practitioner was like you shouldn't even be on birth control pills she's like yes they reduce your chances of cancer you know and it's good to be on it up until your 40 but um someone is having a history of blood pressure high blood pressure um then you don't need to be on anything like that and so I really am thinking I'm going to go ahead and get off of them not only because of that because I am on medication for blood pressure and it's been in check it's been really good ever since I've been on it but these pills are horrible I am a little less string fee and quiet as it kept I got pregnant on these pills because well there's been other women too we've gotten pregnant on these pills because my cycle is not consistent I know TMI but yeah I'm going to go ahead y'all plus I'm going to be 38 next year I'm not going to want to take birth control pills for the next however I stop doing this madness yeah y'all I'm just going to go ahead and get my tubes tied I think I'm going to get it done in the fall and just take a week off work but real quick hell I was on Instagram one of the mornings because I was sidetracked by Tami Romans the one that does the bunnet whatever diaries or whatever y'all know what I'm talking about from real old school real world and now she's on the basketball wives what is wrong with her is she sick and I know people would have asked this before but I am truly concerned I understand she has diabetes and she lost weight at the advice of her doctor I guess but there's a difference between losing weight and getting healthy she looks unhealthy her cheekbones are sunken and the picture I saw she's like oh you can see my collarbone I'm like oh my god but you don't look good she has that my head is too big for my body because I lost too much weight too fast y'all know what I'm talking about I'm not trying to be shady or be petty that's not my disposition oh she's not sick I like her the few times I've seen videos of her I like her I think she's funny but oh my god she I was a little shocked I mean I took a good while to go through her pictures if that's what you know what the look that she desires for more power to her that what makes her happy you know but girl so anyway y'all let me push up around and take out my compression socks and look I've been doing natural stuff on my legs I do cypress oil tea tree oil but what really helps when I have the time is castor packs but girl who has the time for that and it's messy so right before see ya it looks really good right now right before I go to bed I'm gonna put some um tea tree oil in it on it and I stick with my legs elevated just because I've been doing it since I got back home my surgery but y'all girl we gonna get these tubes tight burn cause this look we are not having any more kids and I have a friend she's my age and she just had a baby that baby is beautiful and I tell you that it's a beautiful beautiful baby but more power to you because she's just she's just posted the other day that she can't sleep I don't know what I would I have no idea what I would do if I was 38 years old for a new one girl I would there's not enough alcohol in the world so alright you guys I am rambling this is it for this camera like I said I'm gonna lay hands on my camera when she come back oh and by the way they did say they gonna give me the exact type of camera that's been refurbished we gonna see about that we have some mashed sweet potatoes some spinach carrots catfish and some cornbread y'all some of this stuff is redundant because I'm cooking what I have in the fridge the only thing I had to buy today was the catfish everything else I had in the fridge or in the pantry the cornbread and I just cook what I had on hand