Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you're new around here, my name is Emily
and I'm a mum to three boys and in today's video I'm going to be sharing with you and
updated,, back to school evening routine because I haven't shared this in so long and I now
have a son in year four, in year one, and nursery as well. So this is everything that
we do on an average school evening to get everyone in bed at a reasonable hour as well
as get everything done. So I'm going to show you what we make for
dinner, all of the cleaning tasks that we do, the homework routine, the boys chore charts,
and of course the bedtime routine. So I already hope you enjoy this video. If you do give
it a big thumbs up and if you're new around here, I would love for you to hit subscribe
and let's get into it. Today we got in from school at about 20 to
four. Sometimes it is later than this if they had clubs, but the clubs have not actually
started back yet, so are home at quite a reasonable time. The first thing they do is show me the
artwork that they did that day; especially, Caleb. He's really creative. He's a keen artist.
So he normally loves to show me what he's made and then get straight back into coloring
as soon as he's home. Jackson loves it as well. So while they're
doing that, I'm going to fix them as snack. Pretty much most of the time it's something
like fruit or crackers. So today they wanted to have apples. I always tend to buy the Gala
ones. I don't know, I just feel like they like those the best and I tend to peel them
and slice them up for the boys. So they're going to have the apples and tonight
Fraser actually has football training. So because of that he needs to do his reading
straightaway. Normally we would do this in bed later on, but he's going to be so tired
because he's actually going to get in quite late. So we're going to do the reading now.
He just has to read for 15 minutes every day. Normally the boys would do homework after
snack, but I don't have any homework this evening apart from reading, so I'm going to
set them up in front of the TV while I get on and make dinner and tonight I'm making
a spaghetti bolognese using Quorn mince and I'm thrilled to say that I'm partnering with
Quorn on this video. You may have seen me use them before and work with them before.
I'm a huge fan. I just love cooking with their products because a lot of them you can cook
from frozen. They're so simple to use. They're also high
in protein, high in fiber, low in saturated fat, gluten free. They're really a healthy
option but I also like to swap out a couple of meals a week, maybe have two to three meat
free meals a week because they can be a healthier choice, a cheaper choice, but also a better
for the environment and Quorn mince has also been certified with the carbon reduction footprint.
So it's an easy step in the right direction because it helps me to reduce my carbon footprint,
but I can also make delicious meals with it. So it's something to consider because a lot
of people don't realize the impact that meat production can have on the planet. So along
with switching out your light bulbs to save energy, or saving plastic bags to reuse them,
you could also consider having some meat free meals in a week.
I will put all the links in the description down below. If you want to check out the Quorn
website, they have a really cool sustainability calculator on there as well that you can try.
So I'll link that down below and I'll also link this recipe, but I pretty much just chop
up an onion, add some garlic, puree as I'm showing there and I also grate a carrot. I
also finely chop some mushrooms and once those ingredients have cooked down, I add some peseta,
give it a stir, add some vegetable stock, some Worcestershire sauce and sometimes even
a glug of ketchup as well and then I added my frozen Quorn mince. I pretty much just
eyeball about a third of the pack or maybe half a pack and it takes just 12 minutes to
cook. So I will let that simmer and let the Quorn cook for the 12 minutes and that's the
same amount of time at that my spaghetti takes to cook as well, so it's really convenient.
It's all done at the same time. When I cook spaghetti, I break it in half towards the
pot like that and then just put it into the water. This is a really good one at that all
my boys really enjoy. Matt was being great at like clearing up while I was doing this
as well. So I filmed him and I always try and be like a tidy chef. There's nothing worse
than once everything's ready to eat, you just have like a really messy kitchen. So I was
trying to tidy as I go. Also chat to Jackson while he had some toys on the breakfast bar
and then I can serve up our bolognese and as I said, this is a great one because it's
one that I normally have leftovers from and can make again and that all the boys just
really, really enjoy. For our youngest son, Jackson, I still tend
to cut up his spaghetti or it's really, really messy. He has just turned three years old,
so he does still need it cut up and then the boys wanted some milk with dinner. I give
them the choice of having milk or water with dinner; line them all up on the breakfast
bar and slide all their food to them. You can see on the clock that it is about 5:00
PM and I know this is quite early to eat as a family, but I just find that if I don't
feed them around now, they just ask for so many snacks and then they just don't want
their dinner or it's not enough time to then get them into the bath at like six, quarter
past six. So yes, anyway, it's also Matt's day off, so we're going to eat together with
them as well. Then after dinner, the boys have to put their
dishes away. We have little chore charts for the boys. I've made a whole video on it. They
basically have tasks they need to complete in the morning and in the evening and if they
do it all week long, then they get a reward at the end of the week. This has worked so
well. They've followed these charts and it's been great for helping me out.
So now for putting the two little ones are going to have some strawberries and honey,
they love this so much. Caleb always wants to do the honey on his own, but I pretty much
always have to step in because he goes way overboard. But yes, so they're just going
to have some strawberries and honey, use a fork to eat as well, and then while they're
doing that, Matt is going to take the bins out. Oh, the glamour because it's bin day
tomorrow, so he's going to put that out. That's tended to always be his job and I'm pretty
pleased with that. Fraser is going to go outside and play football
and I'm just going to tidy up a bit in the kitchen. As I said, this normally makes a
bit more, so I'm going to save these leftovers. Someone could have it for lunch tomorrow or
what I'll often do is save it so that Jackson can have it for dinner one day. If the big
boys are having something a bit more grown up. I'm also going to turn the dishwasher
on. I normally wait till the end of the day to do this, but it was so full, I just turned
it on and then I'm hand washing all of the pots and pans. Just going to wipe down the
surfaces as well because it was quite a messy meal that I made and served as well.
I'm just going to go around and then I'm also going to give the hall the quick clean and
also our mirror splash back. This is not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be when
we got the mirror splash back. I only have to clean it once in a while, but it literally
takes seconds and I love that we have the mirror splash back because it makes the room
look so much bigger. I also wanted to do a little update on how
Jackson is getting on with potty training. We have completely mastered it over the summer
holidays and I'm so proud of him that now he doesn't even use the potty. He's just fully
using the toilet and he's great at washing his hands and everything as well.
After that Fraser is going to get ready for football training, he's just going to get
his kit on, shin pads and all of that stuff and it's so sweet. Jackson never wants him
to leave even though there's a five year gap between the two of them, they're really, really
close and Fraser will often fly Jackson around in this little box, slightly worried at how
long that box is going to hold out for now that Jackson is so big and Fraser's back as
well, but then I'm going to get everyone to help me tidy up.
What I normally do is put the tidy up song on the Google home and we will all run around
as a family for about five to 10 minutes. It doesn't take long to clean up all the toys
even though it looks horrendous and I just think it's great for all of the boys to be
involved. I don't know how much Jackson is actually doing, but he's there and he's learning
what we're all doing as a family. So we're going to get all of the toys away and then
I'll also get the vacuum out as well and just go around really quickly with that because
at the end of the day in our house, there are so many crumbs, leaves from outside, glitter,
just dirt. It's not really showing on the camera, but
it is really needed at the end of the day and once I've managed hoovering, I caught
Jackson doing this to one of his toys and he told me that he was face painting her.
He put her in a little chair and everything so it was really hard to get mad at him for
drawing on his toys. After that it's bath time. So just going to
go upstairs, quickly turn the water on, and put some bubbles in. I'm currently using Child's
Farm for them and while it's running, I'm going to run downstairs, put on a load of
laundry really quickly. Tonight I'm doing some whites and then I'm going to get the
boys into the bath and give them a quick wash. Fraser has now gone to football, so it's just
the two little ones and now that they're a bit older, I also tend to get their uniform
ready for the next day because they're just there and I know they're safe. They're not
going to go under the water or anything like that, so I always line in the boys uniform
up on the banister and in the morning, they know where to collect it from and where to
get ready. Then I'm going to tidy up the bath toys because
I find if I don't do this before I get the boys out, then they just never get tidied
up and they're still there the next day. Then I'm going to get the boys into their jammies
and then read to Jackson. We used to let the boys have a dance party
in Fraser's room, but Jackson has now given up his afternoon nap. So by the end of the
day, he is just so tired that I just need to get him into his room and read a couple
of books with him before I brush his teeth. I'm using his little electric toothbrush and
he's getting so much better at letting me brush his teeth, which is great because I
feel like they're getting so much cleaner than I used to be able to get to them.
Then I turned the lights out except for his little nightlights, put him into his cot,
which I know is crazy. He's still in a cot, but he's never tried to climb out, so I'm
just going to keep him in there.
Bedtime.
[crosstalk 00:11:09] Bedtime. We've got school tomorrow.
Today [inaudible 00:11:14] won.
And how was it?
Good.
Yeah. Did you enjoy it? Yeah. You like your new teacher? She's nice. We're going to have
two books and we need to make sure we have Little Miss Magic and Little Miss Wise.
After we've read the books, then I'm going to brush Caleb's teeth and then what I normally
do is ask him to give them a brush, see if I've missed anywhere. So he'll do that. Once
he's in bed, I'm quickly going to go wash my face. I'm actually using a Tropic range
at the moment that my friend Jess [Avy 00:11:57] sells. So I wanted to support her business
and give all of this skin care a try. So I'm washing with that toning as well and moisturizing
because now I'm off out to have a spray tan. All right, so I just got Jackson and Caleb
to bed and then I quickly took off my makeup and as soon as Matt walked in with Fraser
from football, I have run out the door. I'm actually having some beauty treatments done
tonight. I never really do this, though we have a wedding on Friday and I really want
to look nice. I have to sort out my nails, getting a spray
tan, I'm getting my lashes done. I'm getting the works. So I thought I would take you with
me as well. I get my lashes done every three weeks; my lashes and my nails. But then tonight
I'm also going to maybe have my brows and spray tan and stuff like that.
So Matt is going to like the shower Fraser, put him to bed, and I'm going to enjoy this.
Yes. So tonight as I said I'm having my nails done and I wasn't sure what color to go for,
but in the end I went for this mint green color because it kind of matches the dress
I'm going to wear and then I thought I'd show you the before and the after of my brows and
lashes. Right? So I'm back after having all my treatments
done and I feel like a new woman but it is about 10:30 now, so all I'm going to do is
throw on some laundry. Matt Has just emptied the dishwasher and then call it a night.
I hope you enjoyed this slightly different evening routine. Let me know you think in
the comments below, and thank you so much to Quorn for sponsoring this video. Of course,
all the info about them is in the description and I'll see you in my next one.
Bye guys.