(calm music)
- [Emily] (laughs) Is that nice?
Good morning, Jacks.
- Good morning!
- [Emily] Jackson's got third baby problems
'cause he's wearing Christmas pajamas in the summer
because it's a hand-me-down.
- No!
He's trying to get it.
- [Emily] Is he becoming annoying?
Are you always taking his things now?
Yeah, you're a menace.
Hiya, hiya!
I'm not a crazy boy, oh no!
(laughs) He's obsessed with the camera!
Morning, guys.
The boys have just gone off to football
because Fraser goes every Saturday
and 'cause it's so nice out, Caleb's gone as well.
My mother-in-law is taking them
which helps me out so much.
So now I am just running around trying
to tidy up this complete mess of a house.
And then I'm going to have a real treat.
Something I actually never do on the weekends
and going and get my nails done at Matt's Salon.
'Cause look what's happened (laughs).
So I'm gonna go in and get them fixed
while my mother-in-law has the bigger boys
and then yeah, we're gonna have some fun today.
It's really nice out.
(laid-back electronic music)
Right, and we're off.
- Hello!
- Right, I'm having my nails done at my husband's salon,
Ace in Shenfield, this is it here.
You're on the move.
What you doing?
Right, my nails are done.
I went with this really green color for spring.
I thought it was quite nice
and Jackson was really good when we did that.
But I think that is probably the last time I'm going
to take him to have beauty treatment with me.
And it's not because of him.
He was so so good and he actually had so much fun,
playing with different bits in the salon.
But I didn't find it very relaxing (laughs)
'cause I was like, don't hit your head.
And then I was like, don't do that, don't do that!
So it's probably the last time I'll do that.
But yeah, at least I got my nails done
and now I'm going to pick up the boys from Nanny's house
and then we're off to meet some friends at a soft play.
- We're going to Ashlyns Farm to see Freddy and George.
There's a soft play there.
We feed the animals.
There's parks.
Someone on my team got a hat trick, Henry.
- [Emily] Wow, that's good.
- I scored the other goal for our team so it was four one.
We got four.
- [Emily] That's good, you scored a goal?
- Yeah.
- [Emily] Wow!
- I scored the last goal of the minute.
- [Emily] That's brilliant.
- I scored it on the last two seconds.
- [Emily] That's brilliant.
- Bye bye!
(lighthearted playful music)
- [Emily] We got Freddy, Fraser, George.
- Look at my best friend, Freddy.
- Ahh!
(laughs)
- This is my best friend, Freddy!
- Yay!
- We finished in the soft play and we've come outside
to the farm bit and we're gonna feed the animals
'cause the boys were like really play fighting in there
so we thought we'd take them outside and cool them down.
A bit windy!
Have you had a blue lolly?
- Yeah.
- [Emily] Was it yummy?
Let's see your tongue.
Ehh!
They sent these shoes from Beam, I've got to show you.
Bryce, can we show them your shoes?
Look at how great!
Are you feeding the peacocks?
- Where's Jacksy?
- [Emily] He's in the buggy.
Ah, we just got caught in the rain, didn't we?
(laughs) So we've decided to make our way home now.
(sighs) Right, we're like drowned rats now.
We got so poured on so the big boys are downstairs.
They've got hot chocolates.
They've changed into pajamas 'cause they were soaked
and they're just chilling out with blankets and stuff.
So I thought while they're quiet and chilled,
I would just come and have a chat with you.
So if you don't follow me on Instagram or Facebook,
you may not have seen, but I announced it last week,
because I have officially quit my day job.
I am like full-time vlogger now.
I'm not returning after maternity leave
and I'm so thrilled.
Like whenever I say that, I'm so excited
and it's not, I quite liked my job,
but I just cannot believe that I can work from home
and juggle everything and be with the kids
as much as I can.
I started this vlog three years ago
and I never thought that this could potentially
be my career.
I just did it for fun and it was very much a hobby.
I've always loved social media
and taking too many pictures of the kids
and videos and stuff.
So I decided to upload a video to YouTube
and then I loved it.
And then I literally decided
to keep uploading every single week.
When I started my channel, for ages,
I kept it a massive secret and I didn't tell anyone
because I was a bit embarrassed and worried
about how people would react to it.
Even I think some of my close family
didn't really understand at the beginning
and I think it took me a good six or seven months
to even hit 100 subscribers.
It took me ages.
And then after a year I think I hit a thousand
and then it slowly started to pick up, didn't it?
But I would've done it anyway
even if I wasn't really growing just
because I enjoy it so much
and I love making the memories with the boys.
But about two years in, I started working with Channel Mum,
who are incredible.
I'll link them down below.
And I started doing other videos
for a few other places and I thought,
well, maybe I could make this my job somehow.
From when I got pregnant with Jackson,
it became my dream to not go back
after my maternity leave with him.
I haven't really been a very natural person
at going back to work when I have my babies.
I find it so hard but I've always had to.
I went back after Fraser four days a week.
I went back after Caleb three days a week.
And I was gonna go back after Jackson
but obviously this has grown
to a point where I can get by.
Now I can stay at home and I can vlog on the side
but I can also look after my three boys
and I'm thrilled because Fraser's at school now, isn't he?
So it's like clubs here, parties there,
parent's evenings you've gotta go to.
It's really hard to juggle when you're a working mom
and you've got the kids.
I know all of you working moms,
and that was obviously me until last week,
know how hard it is.
But basically, the whole point of me sitting down
to do this bit is I just wanted to say,
thank you so, so much.
And I don't feel like I can say that enough
so that you can feel it,
but if each and every one of you where
in front of me right now,
I would literally give you the biggest cuddle and kiss
because I'm just so excited.
I'm just, ah, makes me a bit emotional (laughs).
Doesn't it?
I literally started this vlog three years ago
with my iPhone and no clue.
And I have the best viewers ever.
You guys have been so supportive.
Like since I even said on this channel
that it was my dream to not go back to work,
it's like you guys have been cheerleading me.
You're like, oh Emily, I hope you don't have to.
I'm so like rooting for you.
So thank you so much.
Yeah, I'm sort of waffling.
I haven't really planned what I was gonna say (laughs)
but basically thank you so much.
Thank you to my husband who has put up
with the housework not being very good.
With me forgetting almost everything
and with me making him an Instagram husband
against his wishes (laughs).
Yeah, just thank you.
Thank you to Channel Mum.
Don't know why this has become like an Oscar speech
but I just want to say thank you for being so supportive
and so amazing in all the comments.
I recognize your names.
You know I read and reply to all my comments
and I feel like I know you guys.
I know you and obviously now that my channel
is growing a bit, I get the odd very rude comment
or very strange comment.
But it's very few and far between
and as soon as I read a bad comment,
I just delete and block that person straight away.
If your comment starts out with, "No hate Emily but,"
I just delete it.
I don't even want to read the rest of the comment.
So I'm a bit like, my friend, Jess, my friend Jess Avy,
she's a YouTuber as well,
she was like, you're one of those people
who gets a parking ticket and rips it off the car
and goes, not today (laughs)!
I'm a bit like that.
I just want positive vibes all around me.
So obviously on my channel
you may see a few branded ads
because, you know, we gotta eat,
but I promise you if I advertise or promote anything
on this channel, it will likely be
because I already use and love it.
Or because I've just tried it and love it.
I would never share with you something
that I don't believe in or really, really like,
because I just wouldn't do that.
Because there would be no point in me saying,
"This is great,"
and then you going and getting it and then being like,
"Emily lies."
I would never do that.
Your trust and you guys watching my channel
is everything to me.
100% my subscribers are my number one.
Obviously I live in the UK and everyone in the UK
is very modest and not like outwardly proud of themselves.
But if I'm not being British for a minute,
I'm bloody proud of what I've achieved on this channel.
I work so hard on it
and I know some of you might just see a video go up
and think, oh, that's a five minute video.
But that five minutes, it's taken me about an hour
to do, to get make-up on, to sort the kids out,
to get the lighting right, to set the camera,
to do it, to film it, to edit it.
It's taken quite a lot of time and effort
and I've built it up from nothing
and it's been 100% myself against people not believing in it
and thinking it's weird.
I don't know.
People just being like,
"Oh, you make those cute little videos, don't you?"
And I think, actually, no,
I feel like I'm actually helping some mums.
I get lovely emails from people saying,
"You really helped me with my first child
or with the baby blues."
So anyway what I'm saying is I'm really proud
of what I've achieved.
But I almost feel scared to say that.
You know if a friend says to you,
"Oh, I really like your top."
You're like, "Oh, well it's only Primark
and I feel a bit fat in it," and blah blah blah.
No one ever is just like, "Thanks, I really like it too."
I don't know, why do we do that?
Why do we do that?
Anyway, I'm going off on a massive tangent now.
So back to the vlog.
Poor Jackson.
You're gonna get sick of me now, aren't you?
I'm gonna be holding you and keeping you at home like this
'til you're 30, aren't I?
'Cause you're my last baby.
(folk music)
(Jackson laughs)
I also wanted to show you what we're doing
in our front room.
Basically a lot of you won't have even seen our front room
'cause we never, ever use it or come in here.
So we were like, we're gonna use it.
I'm gonna make it an office slash sitting room
because I'm gonna be working from home.
So, I'm gonna have a big desk here.
At the moment it's a pile of rubbish.
But I'm gonna have a really nice sophisticated desk.
We've got shutters on the windows.
We've had paneling put on all of the walls
by a carpenter.
So it looks really, really cool.
And we're gonna paint it a very lovely gray I think.
Shock, I love gray.
We've had a sideboard made that's gonna have a marble top
to match this marble fireplace, which we had made.
That's gonna give out actual heat
and hopefully look very nice.
And then the T.V. is gonna stay there
but we're gonna have a nice sideboard under it.
I also have the most amazing
under the stairs storage now.
You basically pull it out, so, got my hands full.
And there's gonna be shelves in it
and then you can just close it and it's self-close.
And I'm gonna chuck all the boys' shoes in there.
Yeah, so yes, I cannot wait for that room to be done.
This guy loves orange.
Don't you?
(delicate guitar music)
(water splashing)
- A toy dinosaur, wow!
- Roar!
He does this every night when I'm trying to dry him.
He loves it.
(Jackson laughing)
Because it's Saturday night, the boys
are allowed to stay up and have a movie night.
Oh, pardon you (laughs)!
- Me, sweets.
Oh you see, what do you see?
(laughs)
- Right, so baby Jackson is asleep.
So now I'm just gonna get the big boys to bed and chill.
I thank you so much for watching this video.
I hope you liked this day in the live of vlog.
I've been thinking lately if I should split my vlogs
and sit downs into like a vlog channel
or a sit down channel,
'cause lots of people, when I do my sit downs say,
"We miss your day in the life of vlogs."
So I don't know, it's a question to you really,
if you would want to see that
or if I just keep it all a mixture on my channel.
But, yeah, let me know and I will see you in the next video.
Bye!