Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and to a video which is pretty much I get it all done video,
but also a bit of a vlog I filmed the day that we returned from holidays, so all the aftermath
of that like the cleaning and the unpacking and the laundry. We also got to reunite with our dog
that we left for the week, and just generally everything that we needed to do once we returned
like a food [chop 00:00:24], I'm also going to show you what meals we ate, hopefully give you a
little bit of inspiration, and then show you how I also got the boys involved. I've recently got
this really cool folding gadget and the boys were loving helping me with all the laundry,
and we even made an Easter platter for an Easter party that we're going to. So I hope you really
enjoy this video. If you do, give it a big thumbs up and if you're new to this channel,
I would love you to consider subscribing. But first things first, we returned at around
midnight, but the day before we got back, we actually booked a food [slot 00:00:59] so that
the morning of our return, would actually have some food delivered to the house. This is just
something I would completely recommend. If you ever go on holiday, just book a food slot before
you go so that as soon as we got back, we had bread, milk, fruit, all of that delivered. It
wasn't like a huge shop, but we had enough for breakfast and all of the essentials that we
needed. So that arrived at about 8:00 AM, so I'm just putting everything away. I should probably
say if this is the first video of mine that you're seeing, this is actually our temporary
kitchen. We're currently redoing our kitchen and having some renovation work done, so this is what
we're using in the meantime. And I'm also going to put on a load of laundry, we've got so much to do,
so I'm going to start out with swimwear because I can actually hang all of that out to dry.
We've literally just got back from holiday last night, after midnight, so
we're all exhausted. The kids didn't really sleep on the flight at all. They traveled really well,
but we haven't had loads of sleep. But this morning, the first thing we're going to do
before we start doing laundry and cleaning and sorting and everything, we are going to go
and pick up [Kiki 00:02:13] from nanny's house and we're so excited to see her. Obviously,
it's been a week, first time we've ever left her. So we're going to try and video it, see
if she remembers us, and we have actually had a food chop this morning already. But yeah, I
think today, it's just going to be a bit of a sort out day. I had a few requests to make this video.
Some people prefer my getting home from holiday sort outs more than the actual holiday vlogs.
Seeing yourself. Yeah. They'd rather see me doing the laundry,
not doing the holiday. So yeah, that's what today's video is going to be. So first off,
let's go and see... Mummy, mummy.
My daughter, Kiki. Kiki.
He's sneezing so much.
[crosstalk
00:03:05].
So as you can see, Kiki was so excited to see us. She was sneezing, which is what
she does whenever she's excited, and she was wagging so much. And I actually shared
a similar clip to this on Instagram and a few people were like, "How long has she been in that
cage?" But she stayed with Matt's mum and she literally just popped out for an appointment,
so she'd only been in that cage for like 10 minutes, but I think someone thought
I'd actually left her in there for a week. Obviously we didn't, she had so much love
and attention and it was so nice to see her again. So we picked up Kiki and she was so
excited. She was wagging her tail for ages. Then we actually went for lunch at our local farm cafe
because the dog could come and we sat outside and it's a beautiful day. And now, we're actually
walking home through these woods, which she loves. And I was actually nervous to let her off the
lead because she's not been off the lead for a week because Matt's mom wasn't sure
if it was a good idea, but she's actually being really, really good. So we've got a
stroll home then that load of laundry should be done and we can start unpacking and then,
I think today, we're literally just going to chill, play in the garden and sort everything out.
Hey, so we're back home now and I've shared quite a few times that when we go on holiday,
I take these mesh laundry bags with us for any dirty clothes, so we have a dark
mesh bag and a light mesh bag and we had a whole suitcase of dirty clothes to come back with.
So the first load is done. I'm going to put the second one on and I thought I would show you what
I've been using, like my formula for really good smelling laundry is an Aerial capsule,
a loving [inaudible 00:05:40], you only need a tiny amount, and then also a cap full of the
Unstoppables. This is in the scent Fresh, but I like quite a few different scents to be honest,
this is probably my favorite one. So yeah, anyway, just chuck all of that in before
I chuck the clothes in and then yeah, I'm just going to empty out all of the docks, but I know,
I think in total [inaudible 00:06:03] like six or seven loads and at home, we normally
have a load a day and I actually shared on Instagram, "Oh, I've got so much laundry to do."
And someone said, "Oh, I like to do it when I'm actually on holiday." But I'm the opposite. When
we're away, I just love to have no cooking or cleaning to do. And then if I have a day like
this, I don't know, I find it more relaxing, not having to think about laundry too much when we're
away, but anyway, then I put the few bits into the tumble dry that needs to be tumble dried. But a
lot of the swimwear, I'm just going to hang out on this thing in Jackson's room. It's really sunny in
here. It's really warm. I could have probably put it outside, but I couldn't be bothered to take it
downstairs. So it's going to sit here and all of the swimwear is going to dry, which isn't going to
take very long at all. Yeah, and then I repeated this process quite a few times throughout the day.
I feel like there's two types of people that return from holiday. Either the type of person
who leaves their cases out for a couple of weeks and slowly unpacks it, or the type of person who
unpacks everything, does all the laundries, sorts their life out on the first day that they return.
Let me know what type of person you are in the comments. I think I'm definitely like get it all
done that day and then we can all move on with our lives. And actually because the weather was really
good, the kids were happily playing outside. They really missed the trampoline, so they were kind of
occupied, so I could just like carry on with all of the laundry and stuff. So this is another load
that I'm just sorting through what needs to go into the tumbler dryer, what needs to be hung out,
and then also there was a load in the tumble dryer that is now able to be folded.
So I put all of the done clean clothes on the bed, so I'll show you how much there was
later on. And then like some of the clothes I'm also hanging in our airing cupboard.
We recently did this up, it's got a [inaudible 00:07:59] and is a really handy place
to hang some of our clothes as well. And because they're on hangers, once they're dry,
you can just move them into the wardrobes as they are, which is actually really handy. So yeah,
it's going to carry on with this and then I'll show you what I'm making for dinner.
(singing) And then for dinner, I actually pulled
a Turkey Chili out of the freezer. If you didn't see my freezer meal video, I'll definitely link
that down below, so handy to have some stuff in stock. So I took one out that was for two people,
for me and Matt, and then I ordered this in this morning's food shop. These are the Turkey
Escalopes. They're the Bernard Matthews ones. The boys really like them, so I could do two of the
big ones between the three of them and I just served it with pasta and Parmesan, some garlic
bread as well, and some random peppers, bit of a random dinner to [inaudible 00:10:28], and
then we just had chili and rice. Then after dinner, this is when we were going to fold
everything. So everything on the bed is clean. I was just chucking it on the bed all day long.
And then I thought that I would enlist some help from the boys and I actually ordered
this gadget on Amazon. I saw, I think it was a TikTok of a little boy that was doing this,
but with a cardboard box, so you can actually make these yourself. But I also saw on Amazon,
you can buy these little things, which are really handy. They fold up small.
So yeah, I thought I would just try it for the boys and they absolutely loved it. They were
doing it for ages. They were fighting over who was going to fold the clothes. They were just
really having so much fun. They started folding even pants and shorts and trousers and things
I don't necessarily need to fold like this, but I was just letting them carry on with it.
They really did love it. Look like [inaudible 00:11:29] trying to fold some shorts on it.
So yeah, it was a really, really good fun gadget. I'm desperate to have capable kids. I'd really
love when the boys are older, for them to be able to do everything that they need to, like when they
go off to uni, know how to cook, know how to do laundry, know how to just look after themselves
for the future, so this is just a small step in the right direction. But yeah, they were really,
really enjoying it. So anyway, we managed to fold all of the clothes from the six loads of laundry
and get it put away. I didn't film so much to putting it away because it was just taking so
long and I was thinking, "I don't know how much of this you guys are going to want to see." So yeah,
we just finish up folding all the pants and everything on this little folder
and then I'll show you the Easter platter that we made.
So now, we're going to make an Easter platter. We're actually going to my mother-in-law's house
today, the boy's nanny's house for an Easter lunch. And as you know, we don't have an oven,
so we're not going to bake something. We're going to make a sweetie platter. And so we've just been
to [inaudible 00:13:03], we tried to get as many Easter inspired things. We found a few good things
[inaudible 00:13:07]. We got, that's right, that's Kiki, he's trying to show you. Sorry.
Got the dog. She's just over there. Yeah, so we found a few Easter sweets that will
her hopefully work quite well, like these little egg [inaudible 00:13:19] sweets got some mini eggs
here. We've got some Easter eggs strawberries. Billy got some rainbow
things [crosstalk 00:13:27]. We've got rainbow thingies, we've got rainbow
sweets and cookies. We even got some Easter biscuits. So we're going to try and put this
all onto a lovely tray, which we have here. Yeah. So hopefully, we're going to put everything onto
here and we'll show you how we do it. First thing we want to do is probably place these little pots
onto the tray. What do you think? Yeah.
Yeah? So we've got three of them. We put one in the corner.
Yeah. And then maybe one here [crosstalk 00:13:52].
Yeah. Yeah. And then we can [crosstalk 00:13:57].
Okay. Hopefully, there's enough jelly beans that [crosstalk 00:14:07].
Yeah. Okay.
My hand switch. Yes. So
as you can imagine, we were eating a few while we were doing this and you may have seen me do this
before for parties, birthday parties as well, and I made a video about hacks on how to feed a crowd
on a budget and I showed how to do that in that, but basically you just buy a bunch of stuff
and then lay it out as well as you can. And I honestly don't think you can go wrong,
so we kind of group things together around the board. So we've got a few bunches of strawberries,
few more [inaudible 00:14:40] and then when we put cookies on, we line them all up,
so it's easy for people to take them. Fraser was lining up all of the gummy
eggs and stuff. But yeah, honestly, I think these just to look great however you do them,
got some pink wafers and then we tend to save the smaller sweets.
Like we had some little Percy pigs and stuff, we kind of fill in the holes at the end with those.
So yeah, by the end, it looked great. It was a super heavy tray. We tried to hold it really
carefully in the car and it all went at the party. So the boys have done an amazing job with
this Easter sweetie platter. We've pretty much managed to get everything onto it. It is so heavy,
we're going to have to carefully hold this in the car. It's not too far to go,
but yeah, hopefully everyone will like it. I'll let you know how it goes down.
But yeah, I've got so many treats on here. It's so [inaudible 00:15:35].
Do you like the look of it? Did you do a good job? What's your favorite sweet on here?
One of the jerry beans. Mm-hmm (affirmative).
And mine are the pencil strips. Oh, these things.
Kiki starting myself for [inaudible 00:15:54]. Sorry, I had to cut the filming short because I
had to run and get that biscuit off of Kiki, but that is pretty much everything that we did
on the day that we returned from holiday. We got all the unpacking done, laundry,
all of that stuff. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much, as always,
for watching. It really does mean the world to me and I'll see you in my next month. Bye guys.