 So, we wake up really early around here. My child has actually been up since 4 a.m. Yeah, this is what my house looks like, so I'm going to go ahead and pour myself a cup of coffee. Yes, you guys, I have a horrible sleeper. My little boy has been waking up this early, typically between 5 and 6 since he was born. And yeah, so there goes my creamer, and we're going to go ahead and get started for the day. Did you say fruit loops or apple jacks, Jaydee? I'm letting you off the hook today, Jaydee, but going forward over the rest of this week, you cannot be waking up this early. I'm going to get back on schedule, even if my meat has to go down and lay with you. Okay? A little. So, I'm off by an hour, because my child woke up at 4 a.m. I already washed my face, so I'm just going to, I'm tired. My shoulder all the way down here is aching, I forgot to put the serum on, it's okay. So now I am reheating my coffee for the second or third time. So yeah, you guys, this morning was a bit of a challenge, and it's not like this all the time. I'm also going to go ahead and check my to-do list on my planner, looking at a flyer from a little boy's school just to ensure that I'm up to date on everything. I typically aren't his close, but I'm not in the mood this morning, clearly. So I'm just going to spray it down with some starch, pop it in the dryer, and it should be good in about 10 or 15 minutes. So now I'm going to get started on some work. No, it's too early, baby. Put my earphones down, put my earphones down, put them down. You know what? So now, now you have wasted water all over here, oh my gosh. Why would you do that? Why would you pour water all over there? You don't know? You will be punished. I will take that tabler away. Tabler? And the phone. What? Now that I think about it. Baby. Yes, you are. Move over here, baby, so I can do your hair. This is new. How does that smell? It smells good? Let's see how it works on your hair before mommy leaves it on her hair, you can tell. I ain't about to be upset with my hair. Leave that on, J.B. Move over here. I know something did not mesh well. That leaving does not do well with, look at that, you see all that white stuff? I see. All right, now you need to go on there and put your shoes on. What time is it? 7.30. We get good this morning below me. So I'm going to check my work email real quick before I drop my little boy off. Now I can also access my work email and the system I work in directly from my cell phone, which is very convenient. Even with that being said, I don't like to be away from my desk quote unquote for more than an hour at a time, so we're going to go ahead and head out. Let's not stay home. Come on, sweetheart. Yeah, I don't want to work, but that's not how I like this. Come on, let's go. So cute. I don't want to go to school. I understand. I really do. I am sympathetic to you. How about this? How about I get you to get you some McDonald's after school? Okay. Pincakes with some, well, we only have syrup here, okay? It's less than nine o'clock. I like to do things in less than an hour. I'm going to go home, put up these groceries, work for a couple of hours straight through because I have some things to come in through my phone. I like to listen to my ratchet music when my little boy is not in the car. Put up these groceries. Like I said, do some work, eat me some breakfast. I am intermittent fasting. I'm trying to hold off until 10 o'clock for a girl. Even up since four, yeah. I may go ahead and eat around 9.30 or so. So I'm going to go ahead and, like I said, go home, put up these groceries. I like to start cooking my husband's dinner, excuse me, lunch slash dinner around 10 or so. I also eat that as my dinner and I will make enough for two days, all right? Like I said, push out about three hours of work, take a break, and while my lunch hour, I should say, actually eat Bo Wala. While I'm on my break, I'm going to go through my planner, make a phone call, make some doctor's appointments I have to make, and review my child's home school and curriculum because home school curriculum. What is that? What the hell is that? Child. Review my child's home school curriculum because we have not been on schedule, so I need to totally revamp it, scale it down some, and yeah, and just, it's already there, just move some things around. By the way, I will be linking in the cards other videos as far as my morning routine goes, nighttime routine. Do I have to even have a nighttime routine? My first work from home as a mom video and things have changed since last year was the first year. My child started kindergarten, so the schedule for me has changed. I even have a video on tips on for working from home, and I've been working from home now. It's going on now. This year will be seven years, and I think that people automatically think or assume that, oh, you get to work from home. That's great. I will say last year was a challenge, and it does become a challenge if you are a mom. It can be a challenge if you are a mom to small children. I mean, if he was in high school or even grade school, I think it would be a little easier. The schedule changed one, I'm sorry, because he started kindergarten, and he's not in school as long. Before, when he was in preschool, I was able to drop him off in eight. I didn't have to pick him up till five o'clock. Now, I literally, I drop him off at 7.30. I have to be up there by 2.30 for pickup by three, so. My company, since I made the first video, excuse me, my company has undergone some changes, and so I found myself having to say no to the now a lot, but let me back up. I have a standing meeting on my schedule that starts at 7.00 a.m. That's when I'm getting my child ready for school for drop off at 7.30, so unfortunately, I can't make that meeting. I know my co-worker was sent an invite that started at 5.30, and some people have 5.30 in the morning. Some people have had to jump on calls at 3.00 a.m. in the morning, even though sometimes I do work between 5.30 and 6.00 a.m. starting time, definitely by 5.30 I'm on my laptop. I cannot be on a call at 5.30 due to my household. People are still asleep, but this is one thing I do want to say because I had to unfortunately take a family medical leave two years ago because my job was, it got so overwhelming. It was ridiculously overwhelming at this point. It was when I was getting, it was the year I was getting married, and my best friend was getting married, by the way. I had just also moved three months prior to that, so I was still getting adjusted, planning a wedding, and I was hit with a large project while simultaneously doing another, I wouldn't say the other, the other one wasn't necessarily a project. It was something that we typically do on a yearly basis, but at the time I was the only person doing it. A couple of days, a couple of weeks off, I think I took off like, I think I took off at least two weeks. I took off for two weeks straight through. So from that I learned that I need to put myself first, which is why I started having a me time in the morning, or later on when my child goes to sleep, and I take off days. Now the company I work for, I was grandfathered into a unlimited PTO. Yes. So I have unlimited time off. Let me explain. Unlimited paid time off is what PTO stands for. I get unlimited vacation days. Oftentimes people who work from home feel like they don't need to take off because they're at home. They can be there. Their schedule is flexible. However, we need to take the time off. My coworker and I were just discussing this, we've been discussing this off and on for a year that how it's important that we take time off because it's really hard to break away also when you work from home. I've learned that those answering emails at 8 p.m., that's going to be outside. That's not going to be the norm. I don't want to set the expectation that now I'm going to answer emails after 5 p.m. So even though I don't have a set schedule, there are certain things that I want to do. I want to attend meetings at 5 a.m. in the morning. Now again, I have to remain flexible because there may be some times where I have to work on the weekend to get something done. But I can't allow that to be the norm because I'm going to get burnt out and it's not fun. That also goes for your family. I have to remind my husband still today that don't mess with me. You can ask me questions on you. I shouldn't say that. Just be respectful that just because you see me and I'm here, it doesn't mean that I have time to go to Home Depot with you. Now unless you're going to buy me a KitKat or something. You know what I mean? Just be respectful of my time. I don't come up to your job and be like, oh hey, you want to look at these paint swatches? You know what I mean? He'll do that sometimes. What do you think about this towel? And my mind is focused. I'm a very focused person. So I could get into work and I am one of those type of people that can work three or four hours straight, no interruptions in my zone. That's another thing I like to get my phone. I'll put my earphones in and I'll binge watch an entire season of a show and block people out. All right you guys, I'm gonna go ahead and start working and go through a good three hours like I said and then I'll break for lunch to cook and then I'll work again straight through and then break for two hours to go pick up my little boy and then I'll come back and start working some more. I know, I know. Another thing is that you want to ensure that you are communicating with the people who need to know, on a need to know basis. Like I'm very close with one of my co-workers and I let her know when I'm leaving to do something and vice versa, she'll let me know. Even if it's something that simple, she's like, I'm gonna go run to the store. I'm like, cool. So that way if something comes in into the inbox that we're both monitoring, we have each other back and it's someone that I can trust. This is corporate America. Not everyone has your best interest at heart. It is a doggy dog work, like seriously, she's one of the only few people that I sincerely trust. I heard another person, I trust. And that is it. Back to work. Gonna work for another hour before I gotta go pick up my kid from daycare. Always have my cell on me to check work email. Come right back here, get him situated. Continue to work till around 4.35. If nothing comes in by three, I'll just monitor my email. Hey, yeah. So I try to do as much as possible the day before or the evening before. So here I am getting JB's school. Uniform together for the next day. I also get his lunch together later on in the evening, which you'll see in clips when I pick him up from school. Here I am doing a quick workout. I typically go to the gym, but I've been off. I've been off for about a week or so. So I think that's what he's doing. Come here, I'll deal. Hi, I'm gonna get a medium sweet tea. At McDonald's getting JB some food. JB can eat all that. Well, not my sweet tea. He ain't getting my sweet tea, girl. After this, I have a little bit of time, so I'm gonna stop by Albertsons to see what hair products they have. Yeah. Just for that one, where's the sun effect over there? You're not eating all that syrup, too. I'm gonna point when as soon as possible for my son. Oh, a piece of a toy, and it kind of portioned me with his foot, and his foot has been swollen up for a few days. And he can't. Yeah, thanks so much. Bye. I'm gonna pack you some strawberries or blackberries. You hear me? Or apple. I got this appointment first thing in the morning. Oh my gosh. Okay, baby. So now I'm back in my office because as I was dropping off, six me picking up my son, I received two emails coming in that I need to take care of today for a training that starts tomorrow. It is 4 p.m. We've been home technically since three, but as you guys can see, I had to ensure that he got fed, had his dinner slash dinner, cause as early as it was through a clock, technically. I had to make a doctor's appointment, so yeah, I'm tired. Now I'm gonna take the time to vacuum. I don't have a set cleaning schedule. If something needs to be done, I just go ahead and clean it. I save some of the major stuff for Fridays, but really it is what it is. I just clean as I go as I stated. Now you guys, it's been a crazy two or three days for us. JB accidentally stepped on a hot wheel part and the middle part went in his foot, so he injured his foot. If you heard me earlier in this video, I had to make an appointment with his pediatrician because his foot has gotten worse. So I knew he would be tired, so here he is snapping. I take the time while he's snapping to do something for myself. So I went ahead and did a facial, took a bath. I prefer to take my baths and later on the day due to our schedule. So yeah, this is what works for us. I feel so good. My skin even looks better after a shower. I like to take my showers. I just, I don't know. Maybe it's a college thing taking showers at night. I still do it just from college, daytime, unless I absolutely need to shower to wake me up in the morning that I was taking in the morning. But it's hard to do that because my husband is asleep and I'm trying to get JB ready. And then by the time I get home, it just for my schedule, it works better to take my shower and stuff in the afternoon. So I took an early shower and now I'm gonna eat and show you guys what I'm eating tonight. So I blackened me some salmon. I have some of that brown rice with the yams and this cabbage and I poured me some wine. So yes, I'm gonna go ahead and sit down, eat my dinner and silence while my child is asleep. And I'm gonna watch me some Dexter while he's asleep too. And I'm gonna wake him up. So it is towards the evening around 8 p.m. And I'm having JB to soak his foot and a saltwater solution. And he's doing much better, you guys. We had a doctor's appointment the next morning and he's doing quite well. I just really wanted to show you guys this video to let you know that not everything is roses and butterflies. And I say this often in my vlogs. This is real life. Yes, I absolutely love sometimes working from home. I appreciate, that's a better word. I appreciate being able to spend time with my child and my husband to be quite frankly, but it can be a lot. But I try not to allow things to, you know, that happen in the morning to dictate the rest of the day or the week because honestly, this was still a good day even with the stuff that happened earlier in the morning. It can be a lot, like I said, my husband works second shift in the hospital. So I am doing most of this by myself, yes. But it is what it is. And I wouldn't trade it for the world. So I hope you guys do enjoy this video. Take care, bye.