 Happy holidays. You guys look I got on a big old bonnet Um, this is the red bar kiss bonnet. It's Friday. It's Friday And I'm ready to swing Oh child Girl, let me take off this bonnet. I have a scarf up on any that looks better I'm so glad you got to be careful when you order stuff through amazon because Anybody can create an account on amazon and sell you some fake knockoff stuff So one of the One of the presents that he really really wanted. I read some of the reviews. They had mixed reviews overall It had almost five stars though But there were a couple of people who said they got a ripoff a ripoff game. Basically he wants a nintendo 2ds and this particular Game was refurbished, which you got to be careful with that too. Although it said it was sold by nintendo So just to be safe, I went ahead and ordered a brand and went through walmart. It was actually $40 cheaper I ordered him his game that I could actually pick up today So I ended up saving $50 total Putting together some information For a video i'm doing it will be a part of vlogmas. Hold on y'all. Let me fix this It will be a part of vlogmas, but it's basically A year in review Um, I'd already get torched around with this idea of just going you know having a video just talking about how the year went Um, but I will also be announcing that I will be cutting back on videos next year like drastically Um, if you can't tell by now, I haven't really done a lot of new product reviews this year I did I went back to more comparison reviews um The first half of the year I was growing out my hair due to My set back around this time of last year so I'll go into it a little bit more in The video, but yeah, yeah, it's gonna be some changes on my channel. Um I feel kind of bad, but it's just youtube is not what it used to be and There's some things that I want to do in my personal life that youtube is literally taking over A good part of my days, especially now that i'm doing vlogmas And i'm behind on sponsored at a sponsored reviews like i'm literally I'm literally almost a month behind on this corner press I need to go ahead and put it in one of my you know what I'll do it. I'll do it next week. Someone sent me a um Coffee grinder grinder and corner press and I just need to put it in one of my vlogmas videos The only thing is that I have to do it with my husband is up and jb is up and I drink coffee first thing in the morning So I'll just wait till they're up and grind it Ciao, I don't know. I don't even know how to use a coffee grinder. We'll see Yeah, I picked up the baby early from school. No debating. He's still calling me. I picked up jb early from school And he was about to start crying because I was late But one of miss lori's granddaughter russian gave him his food. So he was able to eat some of that school I felt so bad Are they playing with it yet? Yeah Yeah, let's see I'm showing jb some of his gifts. Oh, they're still building it. Yeah Y'all can see I have a lab my work laptop here personal laptop here because I'm editing videos. I mean Let me stop complaining girl. I've complained. Oh my god for you like both Well, yeah, I have that laptop and my keyboard on my personal laptop doesn't work. So I have my yeah, I don't want to know Who y'all jb is over My neighbor's house miss lori. I know this is right. Hold on. Um I think I may invite my other neighbors to come over to see jb open up his christmas presents. Um They've had some family dynamics where they haven't been able to see their grandchildren in a long time So I think I um, they've been very sweet and helpful with for us and you know helping us to um um Just helping us with jb, you know last minute offering to keep him and so, you know This can be a very sad sad time of the year for people who are not With their family and technically they're not even though the family their family is here They're not able to to be with their grandkids. Um Well, my back is starting to burn. So yeah jb's over there a little bit. Um, I was talking to Uh Talking to miss lori miss lori is a type of person and I've met people like this. Um She's a type of person. She she's a fixer a fixer-upper People mostly And that could be a very draining personality to be that way and she she's like they were for children She was a teacher for 20 plus years also And so, you know, she's just telling me about um her oldest daughter and How you know her I'm not gonna get into detail because it's just private I told her, you know, one of the job is a parent, you know, if you were to die today How would your child survive? Will your child be okay? Well, your grown ass child be okay In this case, they wouldn't they will fall apart. I mean eventually they would But they depend on her for all a lot of different things and some of it is her fault I told her you need to you need to fall back some Let your child these are grown when we're grown people or kids are both her kids are over 30 Allow your children to learn and be adults Like my mama was doing that too I'm like y'all need to fall back. My mom was doing it with my With my niece and my sister and I told my mom When all this was happening this was a couple of years ago Um, because my mom raised basically my oldest niece. She stays there and she considers her her My niece does and we've seen this happen before especially in the black community and my thing is this allow your kids to be Apparent and the reason why my mom was so Controlling of that situation. She's like, well, I just didn't want her to fall in the wrong I was just didn't want her to struggle and I didn't want her to fall in the wrong hands And I was telling my mama I said, but that's how she would have learned meaning my sister If she would fail multiple times eventually hopefully she will learn But you didn't give her that opportunity you took the child and raised her, you know off and on as your own so You know, I mean, I don't believe in that I really don't I mean if there was a situation to where um The grandchild whoever is in a environment that is not good for them Whether it be mentally physically Absolutely, but in this case it's just a matter of I think I can do a better job So I think for your your child needs to come over here or another you know In other instances the child can actually manipulate the situation especially doing the teenage years Never I'm not taking my grandkids because I look I'm gonna be old. I'm gonna be in my 50s once today I know I'm gonna be an older grandmother. I guess is what I'm saying. So no We We ain't gonna we ain't doing that. I'm not about that life I it's hard to see it. I can only imagine that's apparent But that's how your child will basically, you know learn to be an adult Oh, yeah, let me go ahead and pour me a glass of wine. Hold on child I left JP over there and I told him do not be bringing up anything at all About Santa and he said no, I have it but I have been telling people that Santa was black I'm like, oh lord Jesus Miss Lori heard him say that she said well, it wasn't a Middle East. He wasn't white I said she said and she's like in Jesus wasn't white either. I said Come through miss Lori. Miss Lori is Jewish too. So she knows what's down. She knows what's up Cheers probably makes some turkey Um low carb tacos or nachos tonight. I'll show y'all what that looks like because the meat is already done It's frozen that I froze um a couple of weeks ago and all I'm doing is just making the peppers and adding my Little