Slow Living on a Hard Day Choosing Grace Over Perfection

Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to my channel. What a night. First of all, today we're doing a slow summer day in the life because I'm exhausted. And of course I'm going to do something somewhat productive, but more so I want to enjoy this day. It's my birthday week, so I'm going to start relaxing right now. It's 9.30 and I'm just waking up. And that's because I was up all night with Everleigh, who has swimmer's ear. So I was trying to do everything to keep her comfortable. And then Chris was up with Tanner, who has swimmer's ear. It's just so weird because it's on and off. Sometimes it really bothers him. Sometimes we don't even know it's here. I had stuff, drops. I can't even talk because I need caffeine, but this is decaf. But I ordered these new drops on Amazon in the middle of the night that will be here. So I think I slept for like four hours last night. And then I went back to sleep at like 6 a.m. And here we are. I also have this little one who's also stressing me out. We're going home tomorrow. I have my hair appointment and she has a vet appointment because she's still been like randomly, like, I don't want to say peeing because she doesn't like pee in the house purposes. When she's sleeping, she's like leaking urine. And she's been on UTI stuff and all this stuff. So we're going to have a fun, positive day. But it isn't perfect over here right now. They're also getting groomed on Friday, my birthday, so I cannot wait. They just really need it. And it was really hard to find groomers here near LBI. So yeah, that's what's going on. Today's one of those days that I have zero plans. I have, I want to put together my board for Classical Conversation and finish editing my video that went live Thursday when you're seeing this. I'm going to go outside. So part of my morning routine is person eating protein coffee in bed. That's not part of the routine, which is really nice, though. But I usually go and check my garden. You'll notice how quiet it is. Chris took all the kids for haircuts. And it was just like him and the boys have their favorite barber down here. And the girls wanted to go because they have, like, games there. So he said it was okay. So that was pretty nice. So I get the house to myself. I'll probably edit outside. But let's go check on the garden first. Do you want to go check the garden? Go check the garden. Come on. Let's go. I'm coming, Ry Ry. Excuse the air conditioning sound in the background. But we have this little zucchini growing. This was the first one that started growing right here. That's it for right now. This is all cucumber. But I can't find where the cucumber is that's growing. But these things crack me up. Nature is so funny. I've had to keep taming them because they keep trying to attack the snap peas. And the one was wrapped around and tied. So this one is. See how it's, like, wrapping around right there? It just blows my mind. Nature is crazy. I'm going to pull it back out and put it where it should be. I've got to get some more clips to keep them tamed. See, here's another one grabbing on. I just think it's amazing. There's another one. And more snap peas on this side. The tomatoes and peppers have been kind of boring so far. They are growing, getting tall, but I haven't really seen much going on. Krista just grabbed me another one of these tomato cages. I'm going to put that in and then just trim a couple things that are dead on the bottom. Basil is really happy, too. This tomato cage must be bigger than the other ones, which is fine. But when I was putting it in, I realized something exciting. The water tonight. It was raining a little bit yesterday, so I thought I'd be okay. But look at the flowers. This is from Ella's friend's mom. So she wasn't sure what type of tomatoes she was giving me or what type of peppers. The other stuff I got, the squash, the zucchini, the cucumbers, the snap peas, and the basil I got. But everything else is from her. I wonder if I should cut this guy off. What do you think? By the way, I have no idea what I'm doing. I do think I need to get two more bags of soil because I feel like it's gone down a lot. And this guy feels a little bit loose in here. I feel like he needs more soil. All right, let's get somebody to move. You can come up here. I'm just making some breakfast. Kind of a breakfast. I woke up, I don't know if I mentioned this, at like 5 o'clock in the morning and had a waffle with peanut butter because I was starving after being up for so long with Everly. So I'm just doing a serving of cottage cheese and then half a serving of frozen blueberries and honey. My coffee also has protein in it and collagen, so that's why I'm absolutely starving right now. So real quick before the kids get back home. I was talking to my mom this morning and she's, I don't think I've mentioned it here, I think I've mentioned it on Instagram. But honestly, I feel like since May everything has been a complete blur. Or maybe it's all past year, honestly. But I keep seeing stuff about how a diagnosis is like a curse. And I really do feel like that because you claim it as if it's your own. Like my hypothyroidism, my any other illness. But she is not in remission anymore and there are some new spots. Back in October she was in remission and they lowered her medication. She was on like the daily anti-cancer BTK inhibitor and it kind of made her feel crappy. So once she was in remission they let her cut it in half. Well, it's back now. She's on a different medication. Not feeling great. Blood work is still wonky. But she was just messaging me this morning. We were checking in on how she was feeling. And she basically just has like pains all over her body. And it's just really hard to like be like, alright guys, so let's do a day in the life. And I'm so happy and everything is great and perfect. When such a huge part of your life is not perfect right now. I'm saying positive but you know, it just doesn't even feel like real life. It's just crazy. It's probably been one of my biggest fears since I was a little girl with my mom being sick. But anyway, now that I made myself completely sick to my stomach, let's go eat. Finished breakfast because there's no better time than to do this right now. Also, my finger is like peeling because I got water under my wedding ring. And I took off my fake nails because I usually have builder gel. And then here I asked for builder gel refill. And they put acrylic on and I was too scared to tell them not to. So I just blot them. And then I felt like I was suffocating and needed to rip them all off. And although they're not very pretty, it feels so good to have nothing on my nails right now. What did you get? They're home from the haircut place. It looks so fun. What'd you get? Two of these. One of this. So one plus two equals? Three. One of these. Tootsie rolls. And I already had one of them. You already had one? Yeah. So how many did you have all together? If you had three plus one? Four. Oh my goodness. Love your hair. Thank you. You look so handsome. The boys look really good too. Where are they? Out back. They went outside because Parker got all the crabbing and fishing stuff in today. Oh yeah. They didn't even come in the house. Where's Ellen? With them. I see the screen door is doing great. Yeah, it fell off again. Wait, you got something? Where? Let me see. Carter, can I see? Mom, he attacked my leg. Really? Yeah, he jumped. Carter or the crab? The crab. What are you going to do with them? I don't know. Put them back now? Chiyo, I love it. Your eyes match your shirt. No designs today? No, I don't want to get designs. You're so handsome. So they're not allowed to cut the front, right? No. So the front stays. He bites sometimes. He doesn't bite? Yeah. Let me see the back. I'm surprised you didn't do any designs. They normally get a lightning bolt or something. I said I want to do a lightning bolt. They forgot? The lady. Oh, really? I feel like short as it is though, you probably wouldn't see it. Yeah. I'm keeping it all. He looks super handsome though. Looks really good. These girls are eating their favorite. Mac and cheese with broccoli. And dino nuggets. They're struggling. You okay, babe? Mom, it's purple. I showered. We're ready. We're trying to get a house and do some errands. It's good. Do you like it? I don't really like this summer situation. It cancels soccer practice for today. I was worried about the ear thing. So no soccer training tonight. I like this stuff. No, you look adorable in your soccer stuff anyway. I just got this for the kids. So far, Carter tried it and liked it. Did you try it, Abby? You like it? You want some of that? Make sure it's mixed. This? Yeah, it's strawberry lemonade flavor. What do you mean? It's electrolytes for kids. Strawberry lemonade. Smells good. Smells like fruit punch. Yeah? Yeah. Try it. Why do I smell like nail polish or nail polish remover or something? I like the first bit and then the aftertaste is strong. Strong? Maybe I put too much. You're supposed to put a lot more water. I was giving you a sample size. At the back of my tongue, it's really sour. I probably put too much. You can add more water to it, but we're leaving. So I only did a little bit of a scoop with a little bit of water. Imagine it in one of those glass bottles that we normally use for electrolytes. Still working on getting this trap put together? Not still working. I just started because I told Carter, don't even open it. Remember the ones that we had before? It's because you get one thing tangled up and you might as well throw it away. Carter is really excited about Costco. He loves it. All the samples. Back in my day, we just grabbed a fruit by the foot and ran out the door. These girls got to have these elaborate snacks with their little snack containers. I guess your mom is Tiffany Beeston. Exactly. Took the words right out of my mouth. Oh boy. You sound like your mother too. Nothing. I first ordered business. I don't know if you can see, but there's a screen over top the kids had. We need to return it. It doesn't fit our bedroom. Hi Tantman. He said this is his house. Stinking chat GPT did me wrong. Do you think they sell our size? Looking like it. So that's a 36 by 80. I think we need an 84 and I didn't see any available. As soon as you start talking about numbers, my brain was like... Okay. So first off, we're going to get some coffee. What are you getting? What's your order today? We can get chocolate croissant. Excuse me. I just made you strawberries and whipped cream. Unbelievable. What's your order today? We got enough snacks in there to last you through. All that snacks. Natural disaster. Everything else. I get an iced Americana with... I altered the milk somehow. I know, but I have it saved under favorite. I don't know. It's like two... Yeah. Two whole milk and... Which normal is like heavy... Whatever. Half and half. And then mocha. One mocha. Wait. You already paid? What's my order? The vlog wants to know. Iced decaf with one coconut and oat milk. Yes. Very delicious. I wanted to show how they have all the baby Jesuses on their thing, but I didn't want to film the guy because that would be awkward. Yeah. But they do have a lot of baby Jesuses there. What? Thank you. That was cheesy. All right. First stop was... The boys are going to pick out a pink color for their bedroom too. I hope. Daisy, I am not holding your baby. Not until I'm an actual grandma. It's because she wanted to help carry that. Really, guys? It's July. I really can't stand it. I really can't. Under five seconds, they pick the color of their bedroom. Do I just go with it and trust them? Yes. We like it. Refresh. I really like that. What's the brand? Sherwin-Williams? I want this for the shell project I've been wanting to do. It's Ella filming. She had a vision to show all the colors. I like the vision. It's really cute, Ella. Where Monsters, Inc. was filmed. Oh, with all the doors? Yeah. And there's Boo. We can make a Monsters, Inc. Boo, where are you? Do you think they'll definitely have samples? Yes. Wait, didn't last time Carter tried a coffee drink without us knowing? Yep. I'm excited for the samples. Except for one. What? I would never know by the dance you just did. If there's chips again, I'm not having that. Oh, there are chips made out of chicken. Yeah, that would be great. That was good. Chicken chips. That was disgusting. The best sample you ever had here is a quesadilla. Oh, yeah. I love quesadilla. Quesadilla with the stuff that we haven't tried. We already had at home that they didn't try at home and wouldn't try. Yeah! Well, go ahead, Ella. Go grab one. Is it good? What is it? The sweetener? It's a strawberry. Right. But then it's got, like, some sugar on it. Evie's struggling to get out. Is it good? Mm-hmm. Some kind of juice? I don't know what this is. You don't know what it is? No. Is it good? Ella did not like the strawberry. Evie wants this. Is it your size? Let me see. Hold it up to you. I'm going to try and find a dress for me. You don't have to take it off the hanger. I saw seven. Did you show seven of this one? No. Yeah, I actually did. Let me see. Go there. Wait. Go like this. Beautiful! I like it. Is it Evie's now? It is. Gosh, I'm still too tall to sit down. Ow. Where is she? What's wrong? What? Here, I got it. That crab attacked me. I hated it. A crab attacked you? Yeah, he attacked my leg and he pinched me. Yeah, a crab attacked. No, Mom. Carter wants it in the bucket. Why? There's a net right here. Look at that. He broke crab in. Holy crap. Back in. There's no chicken nugget. With a chicken nugget. No, can we check that crab? I'll tell you what, those crabs love them dino nuggets. Oh, he's so upset. We've got to let him go. I can't even see him. As a claustrophobic human being, I cannot let him stay like this. What if somebody trapped you? I would not. Yes, you would. But they eat the stuff. So, I bet I know what happened. You think he ate it and then went to the other one and then got trapped? No, I know what happened. What? It was a little guy. Alright, tell Carter to come look at this so he can let him free. Oh, Mom. His family is looking for him right now. You are on my cookbook right now, but we are cooking dinner. I have some rice in here. I'm actually making two dinners. We're doing the chipotle chicken with rice and then I'm doing a healthier hamburger helper. Get that going. This is what I'm going to be using for our high-protein hamburger helper. I'm also making this chipotle chicken. Chris just cut the chicken for me. I'm going to dice these chipotle chilies. No. Chipotle what? I enjoy my shower a lot. Good, baby. And then I'm going to dip chipotle chilies in adobo sauce. Adobo. I ate for effort, though. Back over here. Alright, back to our chicken. We already had those two tablespoons of chipotle chilies in adobo sauce. Now I'm doing, let me recheck this recipe. One tablespoon of raw organic honey. Garlic powder. A tablespoon of chipotle powder. A tablespoon of dish chipotle seasoning. One tablespoon of garlic powder. Powder's reminding me to cook my pierogies, too. A teaspoon of paprika. Teaspoon of salt. And mix this up. And I also have some just plain chicken that we'll do for the kids that don't like spicy. Time to throw everything on the grill. We got some of that fray organic wine. I haven't had wine in a very long time. I don't even know how long. But it's birthday weekend, so I love this. We'll see how I react to it. Alright, Everly wants to go to bed now, so I'm going to eat later. But this is the chipotle sauce with honey. Chris said it was really good. I'll have the recipe in my description. This is just plain chicken with garlic, salt, pepper, and onion. And this is the hamburger helper. I only say it actually like that because of the chickpea pasta. But it's really good. That's what I'm going to eat for dinner, but I'm going to put her to bed. And then Carter and Ella already started on these pierogies as well. We need a vegetable for y'all. There's vegetables in this hamburger helper. But you did eat a pepper like an apple, so that was good. Did you eat the whole thing? Yeah. Okay, you're better now? For my first class, we're going to learn about our bodies. And this is what it looks like. Oh wait, where's the head? And Tanner has a head of this. And this is a piece of it. Can you like pick it up? Like this? Yeah. Because it's gross. They're actually squishy. And this is like some tweezers that you can pick it up from. Can I see the head? This is the head. And also, it has a brain. Oh, the brain's squishy. Look at this, Jackson. Gabby. This is the Beauty and the Beast in Oh No Now.