 Hey, hey, hey you guys, so I am officially back. I am recording this a bit early in October Now the footage you about to see is everything that occurred in September Fair warning girl if this is gonna this is real life stuff that was occurring at the time And it was very stressful. So let's recap and rewind and I'll let you guys know what was occurring and why I need needed to take a break First off you guys don't know this, but I have several underlying health issues I haven't shared I probably plan on never sharing only because this is a certain part of my life that I Like to keep private and let me say this to a lot of my friends don't even know this No, you know, they know that I have a compromised immune system But that's due to several health issues. Okay, so Those of you who've been subscribing to me for a while know that we all had coronavirus in July You don't know is that my husband was literally Showing symptoms for about eight weeks you guys He was one of those people that had a lingering cough and so it cleared up It got better and better, but you know how when you even when you're already sick with an upper respiratory Virus how that cough can linger this cough linger You know So that what's going on? You guys also know that we're homeschooling JV and that has been very very challenging I wasn't anticipating for it to be that much of hate only because one I work in education to I have resources are Available to me everywhere and it's something we consider But from what I understand It will be this way especially depending on how long your child has been in the public System that it can be like this for until they get used to it for a couple of weeks up to a couple of months actually I did join a Facebook group Working homeschooling moms and it seems like a lot of families are experiencing the same things that we have and Are experiencing so I don't feel alone and their respect We had a couple of home renovations going on We have corporate being installed here in a couple more weeks And so making YouTube videos was not a priority even though it's a hobby and I really do enjoy doing it It is a lot of work. And so to add that on top of what I was already doing I just did not have the bandwidth or I didn't have the time y'all and then I also felt that My My energy was off very very all low bar low vibrational and Not to say that you need to be up and perky all the time, but I know a lot of you guys watch me To be getting a better mood honey You would not be getting in a better mood at you know what I was Releasing out in that atmosphere or whatever. Hell it was making me depressed So no, I don't want to come on and be like that all the time But with that being said some of the footage you will be seeing here in September. It's a little yeah Especially the first beginning of it. Yeah, but we did end up going on a staycation. We went to Tombstone So that was fun. And so yeah y'all so Hopefully I will have two vlogs for you guys Well, we had going on in September and what we had going on in October So thank you guys so much for your patience. Enjoy the video Y'all get this tub around my belly I Am so frustrated Just finished homeschooling JB y'alls homeschooling has been for lack of a better word. It's been a better words It's been a shit show Which I'm just so frustrated on like today I was brought to tears because I'm very frustrated. I'm frustrated at Jamie. I'm frustrated with my husband It's just a lot So recap girl we are in the second week now it's the second week of September and I'm waking up really early to Get started for the day I'm waking up really early in the morning to get started up for the day before anybody else gets early My job is extremely stressful right now Let me just say this I'm very grateful to be able to work from home I've been working for home for seven years now. I'm used to it But when I tell you is it's stressful at my job Like it's September and September is typically when we roll out compliance for the entire company But we're also doing things internally. We're also switching to another system Now you guys I told y'all before I'm a learning management system administrator So technically I work in education. That's I you know, I work in learning services. That's my department But I work for a healthcare IT company. I've been working in education for 15 years now So we're we are in the middle of switching to another system like it's going to happen within three weeks and I am stressed about that because it's just two people me and another person managing 50,000 people in a system And I have a seven-year-old that I'm trying to homeschool and run to excuse me three YouTube channels Yeah, I think this is the game. This is why I took a break So this is not me complaining This is me venting because I have to get it out because I'm fed up especially after today So yesterday I had like three actually for the past two days I've had three laptops out between yesterday and today. I uploaded and edited edit it and uploaded 11 videos Today, I said, okay, we have to start a little bit early. It's Labor Day. I'm off Let's start a little bit early so that we could go to the park and chill out Started at eight o'clock We you know, we're doing fairy tales this month You know starting up with fairy tales and I got this cute little book with black characters thinking That he would be excited Child five minutes into trying to read the book. He starts playing with rulers. He starts y'all me. He's bored I'm like, okay. Well, you know, do you want to read another story? So you clearly you're bored. He's like, no I don't know reread it read the story Get into spelling now. We do weekly spelling. We only have six words a week at his school. He had 20 okay 20 a week they have to learn so I brought it on to six and so He writes, you know, he starts to write the words and he's like, this is about the third word girl. He's like, I'm bored I'm tired of this. I'm like, oh my god He's this extremely bright child But it is a struggle trying to figure out how to appeal appease Him to where he will enjoy learning and not look at it as a task So one of the things that I switched it up and I really did not feel like doing shit Let me tell you because I'm done like I broke I told you I broke down a crime Midway through because I'm talking to my husband about it and he's just looking at me He's like, okay, what put him in school and I look we can't do that Y'all I talked to another I talked to another friend girlfriend here. She says that the schools Let me backtrack Phoenix education is one of the worst in the country and before Covid his classroom had 23 students my girlfriend told me she went to our old school They have enrolled an additional 400 students 200 for the elementary 200 for high school She's a Vivian. There were almost 30 kids in that classroom and they weren't social distancing So the classrooms are going to be very disruptive for the fall. I'm expecting it and I don't want to deal with that Are you serious? I don't want to I do I do not want to have to deal with multiple masks for my child JB already said he doesn't want to wear a mask in class So if he's having to do that and social distance and all of these Guidelines, which I totally understand But to have to do that in addition to happen him to try and learn when he was already already struggling before this happened That's not ideal for him. And I know he just will not thrive in that environment. He just won't Hey y'all just checking in with y'all while I try to straighten up this back room, honey my husband Yeah, I'm so full of shit my husband. Excuse my language. I'm I do apologize my husband Finally came back here after all this time And he was like he's like what is all this y'all all that shopping I've been doing I Horted a bunch of stuff back here. So I sound real country. Yeah, it is what it is So I had a couple of dresses back here all my nails stuff, honey I've gotten so much nails stuff. It's not even funny All my hair products hair products that came in hair product products that people are sending me still so He was like what and oh all these blow-dryers and you guys It is an astronomical amount. I am going to guess Including a new laptop though, you have to factor in that's at least $1200. I'm going to guess that I have probably spent 5,000 between five and $6,000 since March Easily that that's 6,000 is too much around probably around $5,000 Yeah, because you have to consider I bought a bunch of homeschooling stuff and So now y'all gonna just I'm gonna be talking to y'all while I'm straightening up my room But real quick, you know things are getting a little bit better with homeschooling and you know, I figured this much y'all It'll be a hit or miss Certain days on one of them homeschooling moms. Let me sit down a And I'll get back up and clean a veteran homeschooling mom basically Advice me. She's like, you know at that age He's going to have a lot of energy like I don't know these parents who are talking about. Oh, yeah We do Spanish written writing like what do you call it? spelling and science and history You know, all of these people talking about they do, you know, they do all of these different subjects of they I have no idea who these people are. I have no idea who these people are and what type of sorcery They're using to ensure that their kids do all of that every day because we can't do that We do language or which consists of we do a form of reading every day reading Writing every day two things that I've implemented though is a reward chart Which we already had a treasure treasure box or yay If you do if you'd be good all you know all week you get an actual Reward from the treasure box, but this time actually created a chart. He can see it boom. Boom. Boom One that's the first thing we did secondly, we implemented a lot of well three things actually We implemented a lot of hands-on activity, but he's having fun and he's learning Which is what we want them to do and thirdly We decided to go ahead and put him in some type of childcare when he does not homeschooling The numbers here in Arizona have finally gone down y'all a man finally these people are wearing their mask Guys we are in the car. I am on my well We're on our way to run to errands We are going to children's place because my child refuses to stop getting big Big as hell girl going to children's place to cup pick up a couple of things because Okay, baby My allergies are about to flare up. Okay, sweetheart. I will edit that out I will so we're gonna go to the children's place to pick up a couple of things for JB We are going to also go to outbursts because I want some wings tonight. I want Chinese wings and I want hot wings Yes, so give it to me mama Have I have started to work out? Thank the Lord finally. I'm now working out three to four times a week Yeah, y'all saw a quick clip of that Eating is still eh, but I need to get it together Same old thing y'all, but I'm not gaining any weight, which is good. I'm not gaining any more weight So I'm maintaining 74 75, but My goal is to is to lose 10 15 pounds one with it. You need to stop it Tim, this is the new one stop. That's the new one the other one that has oh, it's messed up So yeah y'all and I'll let you guys know we have started to do Stacations because if not, we will go absolutely crazy Stacations meaning we find a nice hotel that has really good reviews current really good reviews We'd call up to make sure how they're handling COVID I was even reading an article about three weeks ago Actually last month that stated that hotels are actually one of the safest places to be at one because a lot of people are Not traveling and two they are cleaning and some places are taking extra measures to clean so When was it in August we went to Sedona I didn't film it or anything with to Sedona and went to Jerome. It was very clean I mean, baby, I can smell the bleach and what they do is they seal the rooms So you're the only as soon as they're done they still it so so that you know that no one else has been going in your room, right? They also have been using UV light everything, you know So if you are itching to go somewhere and you used to traveling and you're afraid to look at to stay case Finding a nice hotel What prompted me to do it too is my manager who lives in Detroit Her and her husband who is very high risk. He's battered on cancer right now They did stacations in their area. They went outside of Detroit, but they did a stacation She told me on a ballot how they were really taking the time to clean it And so I talked to my husband about he's like, yeah, let's do it So we did that in Sedona or probably do this, you know, of course we're going to Tombstone, which is just y'all We're basically going to places that within two hours, honestly And we will we will probably do this type of vacation or stacations until things quiet down like we will Unless something drastic is happening. I am not getting on a plane like no way. I'm not getting on a plane I'm not getting on a train. I'm not getting on a bus We'll probably take a road trip JB. We'll probably take a road trip for JB. Are you considering a road trip for your birthday? We'll probably take a road trip somewhere that's really secluded. Like there's areas up in Sedona, excuse me in north um Arizona you guys have to realize Arizona is very very the geography can be very drastic up north We have the Grand Canyon at snows. We went up there one Christmas and it was like 12 degrees once That's just how it is, baby. So let me hush up y'all. I'm rambling, but I'm not buying no new clothes. What's the point my my big book can barely get into the stuff I got now. So I will just um, I have stuff I can wear I'm not like y'all that y'all don't need to buy something new to go But all this other stuff the quarantine shopping I did earlier this month can barely fit it Because yeah, mama needs to do something. So as Hutchison Shelly, I saw that she had posted a um y'all she said she lost something crazy like 20 pounds or something with no exercise in which I get it most of your weight It's going to be due to what you eat, which I need to get better about eating I met up with another mom who was like, you know what if you want me to help you we could do a boot camp I we can work out together and lose that weight in a month. I'm like girl a boot camp girl She acts military. She wants to put me through a boot camp Uh-uh. Yeah, I'm going outside. I'm I'm backing up. That's why the why I still not like All right, y'all I'm in the back guest room preparing to pack for our trip in a couple more days We're only gonna be there for three days. And so I got JB stuff here. He got some shirts I got some stuff here always packed what I'm gonna wear and then my two outfits He's vlogging to girl. Um What am I gonna say? So we're gonna we're gonna run to wrong one work this morning Um, just so I could pick up some groceries for when I cook tomorrow Sorry y'all and then I'll do a light light shopping again Tuesday morning And then we're going on our trip and I'll take y'all with us So one of the things I decided to do what we decided to do JB and I to do this morning was to um Decorate for fall there's something on here. I have to talk to show that clean this table girl Hey you guys so we decided to just take a staycation We're in Tucson now Um, yeah So they were a little nervous coming down here. We came Um, it didn't take long to get down here But we were like the directions kept seeing you're about four miles away in the areas that we were passing by were rough y'all Very rough. I mean trailer parks everywhere. Nothing wrong with trailer parks. Um, liquor stores cash checking places. So we're like, um Where is our where's the hotel gonna be? um But you know what you could be driving somewhere and literally literally within two minutes or two miles I should say the scenery changes. It's like it's like they where we live it actually so Um, it's an okay area, but there's a lot of places to go to within walking distance Still not sure what we're gonna have for dinner JB Still not sure what we're gonna have from dinner, but or for lunch slash dinner But I did pee in a couple of restaurants my goofy But we'll probably walk my stuff over here at this Mexican food restaurant For dinner and order us some stuff But we're gonna have to settle into our hotel my husband inside right now and trying to figure out if we can check in early He always does this JB move your hand, baby Um, he always does this we always get to our destination super early and he expects that we can check in Checking in is at three. It's one o'clock So huge You guys we're out in the morning. This is the area. This is like some type of village plaza where our hotel is within and um They've started serving breakfast, but breakfast is you know, not anything especially now in hotels Everything's individually wrapped. Hey, hey, don't do that. Do you hear me? We're gonna go down to this cafe I'm gonna go down to this cafe pick up some coffee What and see what they have we do have a stove and stuff Kitchenette, I'll show y'all some of the hotel we're moving to look my husband You guys can see some it's beautiful out here. Let me see we may I make sure y'all this Let me tell you about my husband, honey Can y'all see the statue you see it? Yeah Child my husband decided that he does not like this hotel And so we're going to another hotel today. So I'm like, okay, you know, whatever, you know So let's go down here y'all. Um, come on, baby. Come on This child has been acting crazy in the hotel. He just has vent up energy I just I just looked it up The restaurant that they have here is closed. I looked it up on the way here Restroom. Yeah, that's what I thought It did before on our stage the 18 days and you're going to see one of 10 songs most valuable You'll go down to set steps as I take you downstairs to our poker room That is where the west longest poker game was played Lasted eight years five months three days non-stop The palace alone where you belong gone now gone Pardon that interruption This is an original 1800s concord stagecoach Looks like it's been around doesn't it a little bit like my girlfriend Kate The first $1 cargo was silver A posse that was led by my good friend wired up and bat masters and rode off in hot pursuit But sadly no one was ever punished for those murders All right, y'all ready? Okay, jayby you push that too Okay Okay, okay, awesome. Did he say this building was haunted Just up the street at fifth and allen a bartender was empty in the keg of bad whiskey Say cheese jayby say cheese Hold on let me get closer to you. So cute Say cheese