Day in the Life of a Stay at Home Mom Disney Local! | Vlogmas 2024

Good morning. We're so happy you're here. We are doing Vlogmas this year from Thanksgiving to Christmas and we hope if you like this video you'll come back. So it's early in the morning. I'm gonna do a little day in the life with timestamps. I was hopeful to have a 6 a.m. timestamp because I've been trying to like come downstairs and just have like a quiet time, maybe stretch but that did not happen and so we're being real. Yes, James really likes talking about the sun. So he's been like very aware of the sun which I think is kind of funny because of it being like the winter and the sun goes down earlier and it's just darker and it's something that like Peter harps on like it's something that like I think a lot of people like you wake up it's dark you come home from work it's dark. I know he's coming so I just think it's kind of funny that he's like aware like even his body is like the sun is the sun is working or the sun is not working um and so that's what James was saying but anywho um we were up a bit during the night and so I decided to just snuggle in this morning. Where's the dinosaur? Baby Charlie's getting adventurous trying to cross the doggy bed. What is that? A dinosaur egg. Is there gonna be a little baby dinosaur in there? No. We wake James up at 6 30 so he can come downstairs and just like wake up like feel more awake by the time we drop him off so just got to get his backpack ready it's a little jack and sally backpack get him his little snack because he is there for breakfast and snack but today I'm also taking the little boys with me to drop off James so we can go to Epcot while James is at school so Peter and I have a lot more to get ready this morning than just Jamesy. Hey Teddy, do you want to go to Epcot? Yes. About to get a seriously good parking spot. I thought I was the last one I was told to go all the way down at least we're close to the front oh my god. So I was a little bit worried James is going to be tardy that was a very real Jamesy's at school monorail so maybe I shouldn't have snuggled in this morning but hey we made it everyone is happy everyone is safe we might have been a little frantic getting out the door but we did it. Boys look at those presents you see the birdie beautiful it's so fun because poinsettias actually thrive in in the humidity in Florida but they're all I don't know if they're sparkly they might be sparkly I thought that that was like frost it's cold but it's not that cold. It's so fun having the boys all bundled up we just don't get this kind of weather often don't get to see them in pants and sweaters let me call this Teddy's Weasley sweater. Yeah scuba divers and a manatee wow so the Nemo ride was not open yet but thank goodness the seas was you could come in and look at fishies right what do you see Nemo yeah two heads we're saying hi to the eels over here yeah let's go see a seahorse there's so many look there's another fish another fish good morning seahorses the yellow fish oh there's one over there wow they're just that yellow fish is checking out the starfish hi fishies those seahorses bopping around yeah let's go see more sea creatures yeah oh goodness what are they looking for maybe food maybe they're playing hide and seek I don't know see a shark oh my goodness okay who should we do next the green fish a shark oh my gosh there's a shark I don't know I think the sharks are on the other side looks like up there they're getting some food those rays the dolphins have officially been moved now all these fish are in this big aquarium the dolphins were moved somewhere else oh I see a shark look right here where are you going shark turtles right here yeah I see that turtle that ray has a bunch of fish following it interesting and a hammerhead shark come back here shark it was such a nice visit to the seas we were there during feeding and the cast members were like taking data and telling us all of their names and all of their I don't know all their details it was so magical and so great loved it um the next request is the playground so that's where we're going um I did look at the entertainment to like look when the storytellers are for festival of the holidays rock world showcase and they do not start until after 11 o'clock which I could have probably assumed world showcase does kind of get a little bit later of a start so I won't get to see those types of things while James is at school that's all right maybe we'll we'll come soon maybe like after school and of course we'll come back on the weekend but I just thought I might be sneaking in a couple extra storytellers these mornings we're stopping for a mickey pretzel is that so yummy I also have a lollipop you're blowing raspberries over there my pretzel in the shade what a view I'm so happy teddy they have new cubs our next stop is a playground get some wiggles out look at there is not a cloud in the sky today I mean it's 50 degrees but in the sun it's lovely a little peek at the Christmas merchandise love that sweater Christmas jammies stockings they have footie jammies too it is right around 11 o'clock we have to leave in like 15 minutes to go get Jamesy so our last stop is the trains these mornings are also nice for us just like get our bodies moving get some good steps in and so sometimes like it is just nice for me to stroll the world showcase or stroll the little paths at animal kingdom um but also a little tip is our favorite companion bathroom in Epcot is the Norway pavilion it's so huge actually there's a brand new one at communicor hall that's also really really nice so that'll be future world and then this is our favorite in world showcase but we just took a little group refresh there we got to like take off some of our layers because now it's like nearing 60. It's got some Christmas decorations on it here comes another one it's all righty little boys are buckled in i always say like until i have all of the kids back in the car i don't stop sweating temperature definitely worked in my favor today because sometimes i'm doing this and it's 90 degrees um but got out of Epcot to the car drive i have to take all the kids out to go in to get James to bring him back in the car just gotta give myself a pep talk before i do we are home teddy is upstairs napping this child was napping but whatever i'm doing like the the pickups and drop off and whatever his his nap schedule gets a little weird just because he'll sleep here or there he doesn't like get that solid stretch so i'll probably just base his like next wake window off of him waking up now um and james does not nap anymore but every once in a while he will like need sleep but today he he and peter actually are probably going out tonight i'll talk a little bit more about that later um but i think just like for so teddy is down and i'm gonna make some lunch and oh i did have the coffee still had a little bit of leftover of this thanksgiving dip we're like nearing we just gotta be we gotta cut it out with the leftovers but when you have a full day of food for basically two people you have uh-oh baby charlie baby charlie's getting his favorite ball under the kitchen table peter made me a little cold coffee drink and it's with the new pecan syrup and it is really good might even be my favorite syrup we've made so far so i will i didn't make a ton of it so i think i'll probably actually share how to make it in another vlogmas so off the cuff i would just recommend either googling pecan homemade pecan coffee syrup or if you want if if you're like good at going with the flow of things i did a cup of water and a cup of brown sugar and then i like smashed up probably like half a cup of candied pecans really really really fine boiled it like brought it all to a boil let it boil for 10 minutes um that was really sweet um where did i leave off after 10 minutes strained the pecans out and then i let it boil for like another five minutes get nice and thick and then let it cool and that was that so really tasty and helps if you are not a coffee lover like me and you need that little sugar kick to like make it tolerable that's nice it's like that would be good for any season you gonna get easy girl i think i showed charlie's arm and crawl but i'm gonna go what the heck why didn't it pop open i think i'm gonna show this this duck quickly this morning but this is the today's edmund calendar duck it's my favorite so far i want to share the dinosaurs that james make these are their mouths and then they can stand and they're doing are these t-rexes are these just all kinds of dinosaurs all different sizes at least these are oh that one has nice feet and he makes these are they so cute that one's like mickey mouse colors goodness squish flush so we will be restful while teddy snoozes just to like recharge a bit especially for jamesy um and once he's awake we'll kind of just play until peterson i've talked about this before in the vlog probably a long time ago my anxiety usually stems from having a long to-do list or like everything just sort of like starts to snowball all in my mind and so in order to keep things simple what i've found in motherhood is that i saw this online and i like have just believed that it works for me i don't think it works necessarily for everybody but it's like you can pick one kind of mom to be each day um and that is a fun mom or a productive mom or a restful mom and i mean and that kind of goes for like any caregiver parent i'm just saying mom because that's what i'm talking about with me teddy's now awake um so yeah just to focus your energy so that you don't feel pulled in so many directions that really helps me obviously it's not always possible like sometimes you really do have to wear all all that um you smell the bugs so today i'm trying to focus on being the fun mom we went to epcot we played we have an ice cream and ice pops um yesterday we were very restful i need a productive day i will tell you that where i prioritize some things peter while we were out today peter got a lot tidied vacuumed so many christmas tree needles he did so much while we were gone so that feels really good but the laundry i've been talking about could use some attention i think i captured a couple of clips we were like in the swing of dinner little high emotions here and there so i just like didn't have the camera out um but tuesdays are our date nights hold on charlie's sad i'm getting him from the crib the last clip might have been him going down i think i had a couple clips anyways tuesdays you know with us having three kids now and it's just like having to split our attention tuesday night we do a date night so each of the older boys soon this child will be in the mix too um but we switch off who takes them out for one-on-one time together maybe someone's at the door um and so peter and james went to epcot they're probably going to see storytellers um so i'll hopefully have a clip to throw in a little daddy jamesy day kind of going soaring we've already gone on limo maybe we'll go on figment after this we've already got a moana water journey of water what a great night okay we almost have the perfect spot because we're going to be we're the last two in row one in the all the way to the left which means we'll be the very top row the first two seats off the center dumbo's flying so high minnie and mickey are flying so high no they're trapped they're trapped are you free one two three i'm free i know a ghost oh no a ghost to the village with the broomstick in his hand all around the square saying catch me if you can are you dancing holler stop all righty it's 7 30. you see the christmas tree we'll get the lights on so that means we head upstairs for bath time so typically peter or i will be bathing the kids the other will be like setting up jammies and stuff washing bottles setting out jamesy's school clothes for the next day but on our date nights we do a little solo bath time and actually charlie is already out i set up this stuff while he's been just like playing with toys crawling around and then i was able to put more water in the bathtub so teddy could play a little bit longer um but that's it's always fun because usually the big boys take baths together and then we just like it's just it's a little too much commotion for charlie's age um to have all three we've done it before but it was more it was less like oh goodness it was like like fun bath time and not actual bath time so it's always fun to let to let charlie in um with one of the big brothers so now at eight o'clock be cozy we've gotten in oh my gosh we've gotten into these little like dreamlight productions shorts they're like 20 to 30 minutes so then at 8 30 we typically go our separate ways to do like one-on-one bedtime with each of the kids charlie's typically asleep before then and then brush teeth and floss storytime songs in bed for these kids oh yeah let's play for like the third night in a row i am going to go to bed instead of editing folding laundry there's a slew of other things but sometimes i don't know i have a hard accepting doing this but i know that's when i need it most so for such a good day i loved going along with you and thanks for watching it's good to be home we know what our goals are we know what we hope to accomplish and believe me it's the most exciting and challenging assignment we've ever tackled at walt disney productions