 it's five o'clock in the morning girl jay b has been obsessed talking about fairy doors so 10 o'clock at night last night i decided i decided to make this fairy door for him girl running around looking for something so isn't this i just do it together real quick to make a little fairy door for him it's what hold on but let's let's put on some short i think there's something in here i think you gotta check the walls everywhere i gotta you gotta check the walls around the house the walls check all around what's that what do you think that is jay didn't make that i don't know when i woke up it was there you want to look closer i haven't i have not no i did not know you want to look closer at him are you scared why you look good you guys drool still in the corner of your mouth baby gotta wash your face off you think i made it hey you guys i'm in my car running around just dropped jay b off for summer school this is the last week of summer school i knew i'd be crazy this week i knew i would be crazy i'm trying to look at my anxiety get to me but my husband had a rough night let me tell you something the health care in our country is trash if you have an ongoing issue god forbid if you need meds you gotta go through all this red tape to get meds god forbid if you need a specialty drug even worse thank god that i'm able to be on excuse me i'm able to get all my medication when i need it but he he has some ongoing digestive issues overall he's fairly healthy hell he's healthier than i am but when he does have issues he has issues so last night he was up he didn't go to bed till like four o'clock in the morning and i mean calling calling calling our doctor they're not answering the hello calling our morning finally got a um a doctor's office way in another city it's not that far away but still we gotta go up to antham um for my husband to do a walk in because she's like we don't have anything available today what the actual hell there's nothing today he has to get medication um the doctor we go to she's like we don't have anything available to monday that's six days away he's he's in a lot of pain he can't be without meds right now so i'm going here i'm at offices i'm gonna go up here at abbasin's and get um some breakfast for us because i'm i'm gonna go ahead and drive him to i out not outpatient to the walk in they do walk ins so we're gonna sit there and hopefully he can be seen and he could get what he needs to get to feel better but the day after um dinner with my husband issues and just so you guys know he has some gastrointestinal issues girl and it was horrible i mean we were up from three a.m. in the morning we didn't we were literally running around till five p.m. so if i go into any detail he was in a lot of pain turned out he had some blood clots we went to the doctor the doctor was able to treat him i'm giving medication um i then had to go get his prescribed medications from wild greens that was drama we were at while i was at wild greens for damn near 40 minutes medications not covered by insurance all this madness so i was able to get everything done got home he soaked in a bathtub to relieve some pain so you knew where i'm going with this right but i'm not gonna go into any detail um he started feeling pain again i was like we have to do something so call the doctor again rush back to the doctor they you know were able to alleviate the pain i'm like we need to get something for pain medication guys i'm some pain medication my neighbors kept JB while i'm running around literally like running around for hours um got home make dinner and settle down and he started to feel himself around 6 p.m. and he fell asleep at 7 y'all i went to bed at 8 everyone was in bed by 8 p.m. i was so tired um and today i'm just emotionally exhausted i don't think i'm gonna vlog that much today i may not do that much tomorrow i'll come back on tomorrow to let you guys know how the parent teacher thing went because i am meeting JB's teacher it's it's a lot going on i mean dealing with my husband's medical issues and then with JB starting school and i'm there i have doctor's appointments for JB and i had to counsel something for tomorrow because i just can't do it i can't do it right now so but you know that leads me to this discussion yesterday was a reality not necessarily a reality check for me but when i think about um because i think about stuff you guys like in the end of life care possibly possibly because i used to work for hospice so i always think about okay you know who would take care of me as i get older and i always assume because right now on paper i'm not as healthy as my husband i mean he works out every day he's at a healthy BMI um he doesn't drink he doesn't smoke he drink occasionally um but he's not throwing back shots either he knows his limit he's relatively a lot healthier than me on paper you know what i mean um and he he handles stress very well which is the key too but you know caring for him and doing a lot of physical stuff for him yesterday i'm like what if it's not that it's not going to be that way what if he's not going to be the one taking care of me what if i'm the one taking care of him as we get older that was a huge reality check for me so and my husband's a little bit older than me too y'all not you not by a lot but he's a little hey y'all i'm in my car and i decided to do a little a little neutral beat can i see my face that's pretty hum a very neutral beat now i'm thinking about doing something can y'all see me hold on hold on girl get it together there we go look at that girl that toasted arm in it um i just have to do a little neutral beat lift up my spirit spirits what the hell is that oh amber lift up my spirits get out the house i really don't want to leave my husband alone too long i mean he's okay but you never know with me with me i mean that happened so i'm going to go to staples i have some printouts and i want to come right back home that's why i'm gonna come right back home and put together some of my home school and stuff i guess i can show you all that and quit you know pity partying around because it's not my style um but y'all like this beat yes i'm thinking i'm doing something similar to this it's a little messy like the the um blending is a little messy because i i use too many colors and i use colors some type of colors which you're not supposed to do um i don't want to do something very similar to this but glammed up for my high school reunion let me tell you something that vlog will be lit picture my best friend's wedding times 10 i'm vlogging at the high school reunion itself oh yes they better be ready i will be vlogging in my best friend's house i will be vlogging in the hotel it would literally probably be like three days of vlog so well i'll have three days of footage because we're gonna be there for six days so i want to show you guys real quick what my home school curriculum is going to be like again this is supplemental weekly lesson plans are going to be very basic girl me very basic have the date up here an area for the bible verse african proverb and then this is where i will basically list everything out math reading writing and then here we have history geography social studies art music notes and this is just writing out the notes and then directly behind this is where i will have all the worksheets and literature whatever i need map of africa you already know so the tab here is monthly um here is our monthly highlights what we just to keep me on track and these are in sleeves by the way and then we have our reading list here next up is our monthly highlights we're going to be covering um a person if we could do two even better people like maga angelo zora neal tiger woods iman i think iman is a great business woman um nilda gracey tyson field trip recommendations baby put that up right now put that up hold on god yes scissors recommendations for field trips that are here in the valley sorry about that y'all this is what the monthly curriculum look like for some reason they didn't get both pages so this i know you really can't see that okay here we go this is my subject this is september through february i have them mapped out for the entire year what else do i have i've already forgotten um i have my our goals here academic goals for the year some resources and yeah i mean i'm still working on this this is our book law and um i need to get my child together because he's acting crazy but these lesson plans will be weekly and i'll just we'll have to make copies of these i just want to see what everything looks like and i'll make adjustments we're not starting off supplemental learning until september because i want to get an idea of what kindergarten is like because they they are let me turn the camera around i received an email from the teacher introduction herself she sent an email to the entire class but she also stated that they will be doing something new this year kind of interesting i'm not sure how i feel about it but we shall see basically what they're going to be doing is rotating the children around and they will they will match up the child with a teacher based on the personality of the two to see they mesh well i'm okay with that i guess but it's interesting to see how they're going to actually do this so they're all taking down my hair i'm going to start prepping our dinner because we're going to be back so late that sorry we're going to be back so late that the dinner will are i can't see me let me turn on some lights um i decided to fry fish instead because i'm i am tired i i have so much respect for those of you who are in the medical field i'll always have in general but now that i'm having to do things can you open up my chair my chair now jb give me a minute okay um so much respect for those of you in the medical field and because i'm having to do physically stuff to help my husband out um because he just needs help and it is emotionally taxing at this point but we'll get through it excuse me i'm gonna go ahead and prepare some food now and um yeah and dealing with this one oh yeah i know this this vlog is going to be but this is real life not everything is roses every day you know this is what we this is what i'm going through so so y'all i am making a pina colada cake i'm gonna check in on my cakes i have them in nine inch cake pans i can't find my eight inch cake pans yeah let me i turned off the eye um so a traditional baby i'm recording a traditional pina colada cake well it depends the layers is typically pineapple and of course it's a cream cheese frosting now i was started off with this cream cheese frosting with of course butter and cream cheese i typically have in my ingredients you guys because i don't want it too rich i use um one-thirds of a fat cream cheese and half a stick of butter two that i added uh half of a lemon one cup of powdered sugar begin the mix i'm tasting it i then whipped in about half a cup of what was it whipped topping as i'm tasting i'm looking at it it looks a little runny what's the solution when it's a little running well i add more sugar at that point it was way it was getting a little sweet oh and i had added coconut unfortunately my coconut i added was sweetened coconut tasting it was way too sweet um the sweetened coconut more sugar so what i did to correct this was i crushed my pearls girl i took half of the icing i then whipped in another cup of whipped cream because whipped cream is not that sugary you know it's not that sweet there's a little sweetness but not really so now i have this light fluffy icing which by the way also has bits of pineapple in it now i have gotten to the point to what i don't care for fully iced cakes i don't mind i sing the layer in the top that's it i don't need anything on the side oh you don't i don't need all that icing we don't need all that icing okay um or i'll do like a pound cake with a glaze you know don't need the cake itself is good but where your calories come in girl is when you be putting on all that icing so yeah um we'll probably serve this with some strawberries to even out the sweetness tartness it's gonna be really good i have a vanilla cake in the oven that i'm gonna take out here are you guys in my guest bedroom let me sit down girl let me settle down so oh y'all look now this is my hair after the kinky dresses it looks good still uh-huh um i really do like those products by the way yeah i hear javy um everything's going good today is saturday we um now i'm going to keep talking about my husband issues you guys but he's doing a lot better um um i will say this i really had to think about my wedding vows this week girl i'm being when they say in sickness and in health through good and bad this is what they're talking about and i i could tell i mean my husband's very grateful for everything i do do around the house and do for our family in general even without this you know going on things going on this week but by the fourth day while i was helping him he said i really appreciate you doing all this and it's good to hear your significant other acknowledge you because my my husband instead of talking he does things to show his thanks but to verbatim um hear him thank me meant a lot to me i was like you're welcome i said not a problem you're welcome girl so um but no we're doing fine yesterday we met javy's teacher it was went really really well it was kind of weird they did something different um where they did a scavenger hunt so yeah that was good his teacher she's sweet yeah no i'm going to be honest my only concern i don't know y'all let me know those of you who are educators this could be a good or a bad thing she has never taught at this school before she's only been teaching for three years she's she looks young um there's four kindergarten teachers and now one of the things that they're going to do this year and you guys heard me talk about this earlier is that they're going to rotate the children around and so i asked her i said so how will this work so she explained that during the month of august let's say that they want to learn a nursery rhyme or they're going to learn four nursery rhymes one nursery rhyme from each teacher i said okay that sounds good and at the end of august depending on you know the relationship they will then move the teachers um excuse me move the the children around to the appropriate teacher or whatever um so okay so we got all that i'm got a bunch of paperwork y'all this is so different and those i know i have some older um moms who watch my channel and some of you who have grandchildren so you know how it is now i mean there was one um sheet of paper that talked about how you could subscribe to text messages about assignments and that it's just so i'm like what excuse me very had a nice time last night we got there really early so we left early i'm gonna make sure that i got all his uniforms he is good for school starts Wednesday he is good got his new backpack my only concern with jb is his eating y'all he has to get better about eating so today i introduced well yesterday i introduced back i should say um nan those you don't know nan is a flat bread like a flat pita bread but jb but jb is so picky that he wants it warmed up he can eat pancakes cold so that could be an option for him because i'm trying to think what can i pack him every day that's not going to cost me an arm and a leg um we also have to make sure that he has snacks and so jb eats snacks that's all he eats you know there's no set meal for him it's just ongoing snacks so i need to cut this stuff out now because it's going to be really expensive packing him snacks every day as opposed to buying a loaf of bread you know and having turkey and him having turkey sandwiches all week girl so i'm gonna work with him like today you know i'm gonna you know have him have some he's gonna have some nan with some strawberries now he does like certain let me kind of stuff y'all he does like certain fruits so we'll see oh real quick back to the um kindergarten thing so i'm going through the paperwork just now before i came on cam and i'm looking at the kindergarten goals i'm reading through them and i look at my husband i'm like jb already knows 80 of what's on here i mean it's stuff like counting by tens well i just introduced him to that so i guess what i'm trying to say is that most of the stuff on that list i've already introduced him to or he's you know he's been introduced to it through pre-k um and a good 75 percent of it here already knows sight words spelling sight words spelling his first and last name um and i did let the teacher know that i work with him quite a bit girl she's straighten it real quick when when i um started seeing that i said you know i believe that education starts in the home i didn't come off as overbearing either you guys i'm talk i talk to her like i'm talking to you um i let her know that i do believe that education starts in the home and i'm one of those people one of those type of parents that started with my child at a very young young age however um the supplemental learning will not be um overlapping what she's doing or basically i'm not going against what she's teaching it's an addition so a supplemental so i told her it will be history it will be and i let her know i said it will be african-centered history and she really liked that um and arts and music but for homework and all that of course i'm already on it so she was like that's great that's really good to know and she said you know if you've already started with him and if you're going to be doing this in addition we he may be more advanced and he may get bored so if that's the case they will move him around so he may go you know to first grade reading and then come back to kindergarten to do something else and so that's why i like this school and i know um several other schools have um adopted this type of model sorry y'all i will show y'all what i'm cooking this cake i need to get it together girl i'm looking at everybody's weight loss journey congratulations to you ronda ronda um mr life for you guys who's a youtuber here in the valley she's lost some some weight she's on the keto um who was that simply unique do y'all follow her i this is not trying to be you know shady or anything i didn't know she was that that voluptuous that curvy i had no idea because typically all you see is her face so she showed her body and i was like i had no idea she had all that thickness so she's doing keto and intermittent fasting so she she is dropping that weight um i ain't doing a damn thing but you know now i've been off all week of course dealing with things with my husband and you know trying to get jb prepared i've been off all week i have not hit the gym um but i haven't gained any weight at all i'm still sitting at 167 so that's fine i have seven weeks to my high school reunion so if i wanted to i could definitely drop 15 pounds but i'm not in a hurry to do it y'all i'm just making sure that i'm not gaining anyway once if i get up to like 170 which is only you know a burrito away um i would definitely keeping that check but right now i'm okay i'm okay i'm just making sure that i'm not going overboard i don't overeat like if i eat something crazy if y'all see me eating raisin cane the next day i can't do that there's just no way um so yeah y'all that is it for this week i think it has been a long week but i have stayed prayful i've been getting up reading um my bible thanking god even even like i i've always told y'all even the in the midst of everything i'm thanking god giving all honor and glory to the most high for keeping me here keeping my husband here keeping my my son here we are good okay this just and i was sticking just thinking this this morning um this will bring us closer going through this it's who wants to go through something where there's significant other is sick or even a loved one is not feeling well but once we get through this um and look back on it this will just bring us closer together so that is it y'all i'm gonna show y'all this cake and i don't want to see any comments girl about you want to die in and i'll just enjoy the clip all right y'all i'll see y'all in a few more days take care bye