 Hey Yuka! Let me see okay? You can have it. Look who it is. A bunch of kids. What are you doing in my house? Get here. I ordered some fries y'all, okay? They can only have a few. I don't want them to spoil their dinner. Here, give them a few. My trick, we are on winter break from homeschooling. We will be on a break for two weeks. And yeah, so the kids have been here all day. I don't see how y'all do it with multiple kids. When I tell you I am tired, they got me running everywhere. They want me to play with them. They laugh. Look, I'm a fun parent. So they laugh at me because I ain't got no filter. I'm a big kid myself. And so they're like, can you come play with us on the trampoline? My big fluffy butt getting on the trampoline, falling, they're laughing. But no, I love kids. Kids are a joy. They really are. So, alright girl, I ordered some raisin cane. Yeah, like I told ya, I had no idea how I'm losing weight. I know how because I'm restricting my calories. This is my first, this will be my first meal of the day. I'm down to, I'm not gonna tell y'all my weight, but I'm in the 160s. I need to lose 20 more pounds. Let's just keep it real. Being in the 160s at only 5 foot 4 and some change is way too much weight. So I need to lose 20 more pounds to be at a healthy BMI. So yeah, that's what we're doing. I finally figured out what I'm making for Christmas dinner. I was gonna do a bunch of different appetizers, but girl, please, I'm gonna be upset eating those ragged ass appetizers, wanting some dressing. Let's just be real. So, cooking Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve so we can have leftovers. And my husband is off all week. Ciao, Lord help me now. My husband's a very quiet man, so I don't mind him being off and stuff and so. And I don't know y'all, like our, this year has definitely brought us together as a married couple since we all went through COVID together. Just going through this pandemic and some things that happened with us. Was it last year or the year before? It was actually the year before, two years ago. My husband was very, very sick and I had to end up really just, just exhausting everything to take care of him because he was not well. And so we have really grown closer. It's so funny, like you can either use an experience to complain and mope and, you know, look at it as a negative or you can use an experience like going through COVID or someone who's ill as a way to grow closer and say, hey, we went through this and we made it. And this is why I married you. Okay. So yeah, it's, it's been difficult, but we've made it and God is good. That is all I have to say. God is definitely good y'all. So let me get off of it. I need to upload some videos, some concepts. I mean onto my camera, onto my laptop and see what these kids are doing. Yeah, I scared the hell out of them earlier. I could not stop laughing. I scared them babies. Here they come. Hey y'all, girl, I can't stand kids. Yeah, I know you're thinking what, damn, did you just say in the clip before? So it's Friday. Let me start off by saying that it's Friday and I'm ready to swing. So yesterday I did a bit drinking. It was a very stressful day. So I'm not drinking tonight. I'm not drinking over the weekend. We ain't doing it. That's a lie. I may have one glass and not even that half a glass with my dinner. Y'all, I typically like to have a glass with my dinner. And it's so funny. My friend and coworker Christine, she's like, you can just have one glass. Yeah. I'm one of those type of when I drink wine. And let's have with my husband, there's really no need to be throwing back three or four glasses. But last night I had three glasses. It was stress. I'm a lightweight three glasses I can do tonight. I probably have half a glass with my dinner. But let me tell you why I hate kids today. So I had asked Ms. Lauren if JB could come over. Anyway, I didn't want him hearing what I said. So anyway, when I picked them up, I could tell you, you know, you could tell when something's wrong with your child. So when I picked them up, Ms. Lori was like, I was out there questioning them because it was two other kids, her granddaughter and the other little sociopath across the street. We seriously do nickname him the little sociopath because path because this child is a habitual liar. His business vacancy was like five. And typically, this is bad, but he was a little bully at school. And so JB has grown up with this child. And I don't mean you disrespect y'all. I do apologize. I shouldn't call someone else's child that. But the child is problematic. And so because of that, when he would go over there, Ms. Lori would be like, so-and-so is coming over. Are you okay? I'm like, yeah, it's okay. Well, today, when I picked up my baby, Ms. Lori was questioning them. She's like, I was outside questioning them because they said they said that JB just tore up a toy. And he's not in trouble. But I wanted to know why he did it. And I'm looking at and I said, mmm, JB's not in time. He said he got angry. Okay, but JB, you don't tear up someone else's child toy. But my thing is that JB doesn't tear up something like that because just to be mean because he's afraid of Ms. Lori a little bit. So he ain't gonna do that because he knows he's gonna get in trouble. So long story short, he was upset. They have been teasing him. So it took me a while to get it out of him. But y'all, then he started crying. I felt bad. Ms. Lori felt really bad. She laid into in those kids, mostly when we love. She told me... Oh, it was good. But they were making fun of my babies, calling him chubby. And one of them can't talk because her butt is bigger than JB. Y'all, the kids have gained weight, but it's okay. He was crying. Ms. Lori, they felt bad. They gave him a scooter. They felt... But I get it that this is the age, but... Oh, it's okay, baby. You're good. You're perfect. Okay? Okay, sweetheart? You're perfect just the way you are. Okay? Now, we got to do something about that hair. Boy, you need to start now doing comb-backs. You know, when someone say you fat, you say your mama. So that's what we're doing. Your mama, your mama look like a basket of laundry. Your mama look like a bag of potatoes. Yeah, it just... Yes, your mama. These kids, I know nothing about that. These are suburban kids. Y'all are suburban kids. Someone gonna talk about you. Your mama, I do it with you. I say your mama and it's me. I'm talking about myself. I put it over there. Child, all this junk mail. I just be thinking about the amount of paper we waste with junk mail. What is this? Your daddy got something from the Maribands. Probably something about you. What is this stuff? Oh, that's my Christmas gift. Air quotes, y'all. So that's what he's been doing. I tried to tell him how to use it, but this child air quotes. You're so cute. All right, y'all. Let me get ready. There's nothing in there. Nothing in what, sweetheart? There's nothing in my bag. Yeah, cuz I already took it out, baby. Go have a seat. Finish your... You don't want to forget something, and you get upset. Y'all like my new mommy uniform. My husband calls. He calls these my maternity clothes. No playboy. This is this prohibit me from getting into maternity clothes. You know what I mean? So, y'all, tonight I'm going to be having cupcake red velvet blend. We'll put this over here. Why is my phone over here? This trainer is texting me or not texting me, but messaging me. Y'all, with our work phones, I get everything on my work phone. Everything. Emo. Let me show you all this cute little thing I'm going to wear for Christmas. It's really a shirt, but because your girl is short, I'm going to wear it as a dress and pair it with some tights. Isn't this cute? Yeah, I got some black tights I'm going to wear in there with some boots. I'm going to do my hair real pretty, makeup real pretty. Hey, you guys. It's really bright. We are on our way to Walmart to pick up a couple of things before Christmas. No, it's just a few more days before Christmas. This voice is being funny asking for stuff. All y'all kids doing this asking for stuff like a few days before Christmas. You don't need. Yeah. Yeah. JB, what are you going to eat for Christmas? What are you going to eat? Look, look, cereal. No, you need to try to eat some food. Y'all, JB is still not eating food food. Like we tried. He won't eat. He doesn't eat meat. Well, like I said, I'm okay with that. I don't think you're eating food. Anyway. You're going to make the phone so you can look at YouTube. Now they have these. I'm trying to keep it quiet because it's really early in the morning here. Just about five o'clock. It is a couple of days before Christmas. It's like four days before Christmas. And yeah, we are doing well. Typically around this time, my anxiety levels are high. Just really stressed out. But no, honey, we are taking it one day at a time. I'm good. So I'm really quiet. Not going to want to work at work. But we figure once it gets closer to the holidays, it will get quiet. It was just busy for us last week. But we are steadily busy because we are moving to another system. Yeah, I don't want to hear that. That's boring as hell, girl. So anyway, since it was quote unquote kind of slow yesterday, I spent time with my we wanted. Well, she's my friend, too, with one of my friends and JP played with her son, JP's good friend. But y'all, I laugh. I've gotten from other people, mostly people who are not from this country. I often got asked what country I'm from. And I don't know if they don't understand the history of some black people here, or they just assume that I'm from another country or, you know, maybe second generation. So this one, lady. Well, first of all, I'm very surprised that she still wants to be my friend because I'm telling y'all, depending on me back up and say this, I could be friends with anybody. I am a very open person. I have friends from all different types of backgrounds, religions. I meet friends with people who are Muslim, friends with people who are Hindu, friends with people who are one of my good friends as an atheist. I do not care as long as you respect me. And I respect you. We're cool. So this particular woman is a die hard conservative girl, but not in your face. But she has made some comments. And so the last time I was over to her place, she made a comment. I'm not going to go into all of it. But she made a comment and I snapped. When I tell you I snapped, she didn't even get a word in and I feel it in a very PC way. I wasn't loud. I'm talking to her the same time. I'm talking to you right now. But she didn't even, and I thought that was it. But they're Eastern European, they're Romanian, so they can, they can go hard too. So I have a feeling that when I was done, they were like, mm, we like her. So they invited me back over there today to have some desserts and stuff. But yeah, but they didn't bring up Trump and anything else again. You best believe that. So yeah, y'all, it's Christmas. And so today I am going to be setting my hair and twist. Look, I'm getting real cute, real festive sexy fs. I'm gonna be festive sexy on Christmas Eve. We're doing our Christmas on Christmas Eve. And I'm making Miss Lori and them a huge pot of chicken tortilla soup today. Honey, her husband has me ask me first of all, I make them something at least every week. But the chicken tortilla soup, I just don't mess with because it's it's a bit tedious the way I make it because I make it with a whole chicken. Yeah, we do it from the bone. But I'm gonna make it for them today and I'm making a huge pot of it. Yeah, my battery is blinking, so this is gonna cut off. So doing that today, I have a meeting and we are chilling not doing much of anything else. My I'm me doing my hair and everything is leading up to my husband's gift. Yeah, I told y'all my husband's gift is me. I'm the best damn gift in the world. I'm gonna show y'all. I'm gonna show y'all the little thing about it. Can y'all see this? Look at that girl. I pushed all 160 something pounds into this. Yeah, so that's what we're gonna be wearing one of these. Are you excited? You're gonna get your camera? We could do this. Okay. Alex, are you gonna watch? Go ahead, sweetheart. All right. You got that, baby. Keep going. What's that? It's been dying. I could tell something was wrong with it weeks ago. Go show daddy what it is. Go show daddy. It's gonna be. Laura, you know what that is? Yeah, daddy. So you can see what you're opening. Come on. It is the morning Christmas Eve and I'm getting ready to make my coconut layered cake and I'm gonna show y'all how I make this cake and I always like to use for consistency. I like to use cake mix, but there's certain things you can do to a cake mix to make it. Pimp it up basically to make it seem like it's homemade Christmas. Oh, baby. Show me your Christmas present. A kaleidoscope. Yeah. Y'all, he has on his Christmas. I have on my Christmas. What's your favorite present so far, baby? The ride on toy. So I'm not gonna show you everything, but a couple of things I like to do to my cake mixes. Like I said, to make it seem a little bit more authentic, I like to add vanilla. I know a couple of people are gonna be a little surprised by this, but if you bake, not necessarily. Buttermilk or sour cream. Y'all, buttermilk and sour cream are fats. Buttermilk helps with moisture, makes it moist. Same thing with sour cream. It's a fat, so it helps with moisture. Another thing is cake flour. You don't want to add too much of this because that beats the purpose it'll dry it out. So yeah. All right, y'all, these are what my cakes looks like. Over here, JB's so greedy here already. I already gave him a little bit of his. The cake is kind of falling apart, which means that I possibly should have added, we need it more hold, which is eggs. You want a little bit more, baby? Oh my God, look at him. Just a little bit. Oh my God, child. And then I made my neighbors from brownies. I made, um, show y'all. These are turtle brownies. Y'all, look, my neighbors from Paris, Texas gave JB this phone. This is his present. He knows how to, my husband doesn't even know how to use it. I have to show him how to use a rotary phone. Because he's too old to know how to use it. No, that's not what it is, JB. Right? Rotary phones is something that a lot of people don't know how to use actually, unless you. And it's the person that I know how to use it. It's something. Yeah, I am surprised you know how to use it. This is my Christmas Eve makeup. Let me stop turning around. Let me go over here in the light so y'all can see it. Yes, girl. Let me show y'all what I'm wearing. My neighbor's like, why are you so dressed up? I said, because I am my husband's gift. They started laughing. Y'all. Oh, child. Let me put this like, okay, this is a, this is really a sweater. But Miss Jackson, there's only five, three and some change. So I really wanted to go in like this. I should have probably gotten a medium and it stops right here. This short. But yeah, get it. I shouldn't do that. Y'all. I'm gonna get flagged. So all right, you guys, I'm gonna go pick up my baby. He's playing with the neighbor's granddaughter. I'm gonna start eating my husband's in here on a meeting. I made myself a drink. Y'all, Merry Christmas. Like I know. Look, baby, I know it's been, let me pick this camera up. I'm sorry, y'all. I know it's been one of those years. It's been crazy. But honestly, overall, I'm not gonna say this year has been the best year. I ain't gonna be like BuzzFeed. Answer me that. But this Christmas, this holiday has been the best holiday ever. We have overcame a lot. I'm praying for abundance and hope and knowledge next year. And I am, I am, I have faith that God will see us through, amen. And I'm excited. I know that we will be victorious. And I keep saying it, but that's what's been, been weighing on my heart. We will be victorious. We will overcome this. And again, if you are alive, if you can do that, you are already blessed. You're already halfway there. I know it's a lot. So y'all, let me go get my baby and I'm gonna show you what I'm eating because he's back here in his meeting, but I'm about to eat, okay?