Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you our
morning routine while we're in quarantine. We are doing things a little bit different
around here since we've been staying home and also homeschooling, so I thought it would
make an interesting video. We'll just show you how our family of five gets organized
in the morning and ready for the day. And it's also been ages since I posted a morning
routine on my channel, so I also thought it was about time, but I hope you really enjoy
it. I hope it gives you some breakfast ideas that you can also try. I'm going to show you
how we get ready in the morning, also, the cleaning tasks that I try to get done every
morning, show you some skincare, a little bit of makeup, some toys, and also the beginning
of homeschooling.
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But without further ado, let's get into my morning routine. So we tend to come downstairs
when our youngest wakes up. He's three years old and he will wake up and then wake up the
whole household, so then we will make our way downstairs. And as you can see on the
clock, it is about 7:25 AM in the morning and I don't know what it is about quarantine,
but my boys have been sleeping so much better since we've been staying home. Even though
they're doing less, they're actually sleeping for longer, so I'm not sure exactly why that
is. Maybe one of you could tell me why that is, but I'm not going to complain about it.
But first thing, I am going to sit Jackson at the breakfast bar and I'll normally get
him a toy, maybe some magnets or at this morning I tried to give him a puzzle and he was so
exhausted. You can see him yawning there that he was like, "Mommy, I don't want the puzzle."
So instead I put on some music on our Google Home. They love to listen to Disney music
and soundtracks. And then I am going to have a massive yawn and then get on with getting
them some cereal. So I tend to get them some cereal and that keeps them going while I empty
the dishwasher and then make their toast or whatever else they're having in the morning.
So for Jackson, he requested Rice Krispies this morning and then while I was getting
Jackson's Fraser came and got his, but the older boys are great at getting their own
cereal and toast and stuff.
Obviously Jackson is a little bit little, so Fraser was really sweet. He also made Caleb
his six-year-old brother some breakfast as well and brought that over to him. So yeah,
he's been such a good boy. I do really feel like they've matured in lockdown because we
kind of needed some help around the house with the constant snacks and meals and everything
that he is definitely getting a bit more responsible and just doing things for himself, which is
great. Then they shovel it into their mouths as you just saw there. And I'm going to get
on an empty the dishwasher. So I'm just taking out the cutlery tray and then I'll move on
to the other drawers as well.
And for the boys breakfast this morning, I'm going to be making them French toast or also
known as eggy bread. So to start out, I'm just frying a little bit of coconut oil in
our frying pan. And then I'm going to beat together two eggs and a little bit of cinnamon
as well. And once that's beaten up and you could then dip your bread into the egg and
then fry it like a pancake. This is such a great one for the little ones because there's
loads of protein in it. About a whole egg goes onto one piece of toast. It's also super
simple, really quick, and the kids just love it because you can do a little bit of maple
syrup and berries on top and my kids just eat it all up. So Caleb and Jackson, my two
younger sons, we're having this this morning. My eldest wanted to make his own jam toast,
so he is having that instead.
But yeah, while the French toast is frying, I'm also going to do things like make my breakfast.
I'm just having simple microwave porridge. This is my go to breakfast, just so simple
and healthy and I'm really trying to be good in quarantine after going a bit crazy for
the first few weeks. So yeah, that is it. I'm then going to just cut it out with my
pizza cutter, like I always do, so simple and easy. Add a tiny bit of maple syrup and
I would normally do berries by I found with Jackson, he would just eat all of the berries
first and then not as much as the toast, so I tend to let him eat all of the toast first
and then I give him the berries. Fraser eats really fast and then he's just putting that
into the dishwasher. That is one of their chores that they need to do. And then Matt
comes down, after he's got ready, bearing gifts. We've got some laundry and then he's
also brought down the clothes that the boys need to wear today. We lay them out on the
banister the night before and then he tends to bring them down. Then he's also going to
put away a few things that were drying on the destroying rack and then he's also going
to make his breakfast.
You're so funny aren't you?
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What pig are you Jackson?
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So for Matt's breakfast, he has the same thing almost every single day. He always has a red
grapefruit and then at pancakes with berries and a banana as well. The recipe for the pancakes
is one that we found in the Fearne Cotton Happy recipe book. It's a vegan recipe and
he tends to make the mix up for a few days and just keeps it in the fridge, so it's really
quick and easy to make. He just throws it into the frying pan. It's a super healthy
one. It's got spelt flour in it and yet he really likes it. So he's having two pancakes
and then all of that fruit and a coffee. He's very routine. He likes this one. Then Matt
filmed me Instagramming some juice that I was having that morning. So I was putting
this onto my Instagram stories, so he filmed that. I tend to not touch my phone in the
morning because I feel like it's such a time zapper, but every now and then I will show
breakfast or something like that.
Then I'm quickly just going to put a few dishes into the dishwasher. Also, wash up a few of
the kids plastic cutlery. And I always tend to hand wash my bowl from porridge because
I just feel like it gets really sticky and stuff. So I'm just going to quickly do that,
wipe down the sides because all the kids were finished at that point and I thought it would
just be nicer to come down to a nice clean kitchen. So I'm going to run around and do
that. And then I'm also going to sort out the boys snack boxes. So I can't believe that
we have kept these up. I saw these on Instagram and I thought, what a brilliant idea. I will
try that while we're homeschooling and I haven't looked back.
They really do work for us. I know not everyone has got on with them, but I love that I can
just think about the snacks just once in the day, put them all into the boxes and then
for the rest of the day the kids can just help themselves when they want a snack. And
sometimes they will reach in their snack boxes by just 10:00 AM. Sometimes they still have
stuff left over at the end of the day. But I just personally love that I'm not constantly
fetching snacks all day long. Then I'm quickly going to run around with my Dyson vacuum.
I don't do this every morning, but I did notice that there were quite a few crumbs in the
kitchen and also under the boy's chairs. So this literally took me 30 seconds to do this
before I go upstairs and get ready for the day myself.
So I tend to go upstairs and while I do that, Matt stays downstairs and gets the boys ready.
He'll just make sure that they get dressed, do their hair, wash their face, make their
beds and all of that stuff. I still dress them in matching clothes and I know maybe
I should stop, but I always said I'd stop when they said that they don't want to do
it anymore and they just never have. But anyway, upstairs I am now just deciding whether I
can get away with this hair for another day and I think I've decided yes, I can just put
some dry shampoo in it and make it last a bit longer. I only tend to wash my hair once
a week. Then I'm going to wash my face with a gentle, special cleansing gel. And then
I always tend to take off the face wash with a washcloth. And I've said this before, but
what I do is I use one side for my face and then use the other side to just wipe down
the sink and just tidy it up.
There's always bits of hair or mess or soap or whatever. So I tend to do that every morning
with the washcloth. Then I'm going to tone and I'm using an active toner from Dermalogica
and then I'm also going to use a tiny bit of moisturizer on my skin as well. Rub all
that in, not forgetting my neck because the neck can be a very aging area, so I want to
make sure it's nice and moisturized. Then I'm going to open the blinds. We've got this
little remote control, which is really handy. And then I'm going to get ready into different
clothes. So I'm going from wearing leggings and jumper to wearing leggings and a jumper.
So, I recently got sent this top and I thought it was so funny. As you can see there it says
ringmaster of the beep show. So I wanted to wear this, but actually later on in the video
you see that I didn't actually wear it.
I remembered that two of my kids can read, so I decided to change. But anyway, I'm using
some dry shampoo and this is a great one. It's from Batiste and it's for blonde hair,
so it also helps to disguise your roots a little bit. Obviously none of us can get to
the salon, so it's great for that. And I know they do a brown one as well if you want to
cover grays and you've got brown hair. Then I'm going to make our bed for the day. I always
tend to make the bed every morning. It just makes me feel productive and organized and
like whatever happens in the day I have achieved the fact that I have actually made the bed.
Then I'm going to curl my hair. I don't do this every day. Obviously we're in quarantine,
so unless I am going to be maybe filming something, I probably won't bother.
I'll just throw it up in a mom-bun. Then I'm going to brush my teeth and I always use an
electric toothbrush and then I'm changing into a more sensible top. This one's from
H&M and it says love on it. Then I'm going to put on the tiniest bit of makeup. Four
days out of the week I probably don't put anything onto my face, but if I am filming
I'll put a tiny bit of makeup on, but it's actually been so nice to let my skin breathe,
do lots of face masks and stuff like that. But today I'm just putting on some Clarins
Instant Concealer in number one, which is their lightest color, but I feel like this
really lightens up under my eyes if I have any dark spots or circles. I had a random
one on my temple. Who gets spots on their temple? Anyway, and then I also tend to do
around my nose and I just feels like that brightens up my whole face.
Then I'm also going to use some Hoola from Benefit. I love it because it's a really nice
matte bronzer. And then I always like to put on a bit of pink. This has smashed, but it's
still good, so I keep using it. It's the Charlotte Tilbury blush and bronze, I think it's called.
But that's all the makeup I'm going to be wearing today. All I'm doing work-wise is
a few Instagram stories and I might do some TikToks as well because I'm obsessed. Then
Matt makes sure that the big boys make their beds for the day. This is of the chores that
they need to get done before they go off to school, or in this case go off to homeschool.
So that's Fraser's bed all done. Then Caleb is going to have a go as well. I feel like
it's a bit harder for him.
He's a bit smaller. It's against the wall and he's got a double bed now, so I don't
always go in and do it after him, but today because we were filming I was like, I'm just
going to straighten this out a tiny bit. This is how it's supposed to look. I got the sheets
from Next, they're really soft and I really like them. Then we can start with homeschooling.
So 10 minutes before we start I'm just organizing the boys things. I found that it does actually
take quite a bit of organization of what to print and just having everything set up for
them. So we always start out with maths, which is one of their favorite subjects and I just
feel like they're just raring to go first thing in the morning. So for Caleb's maths
today, he had a worksheet to do and then he was also learning about how objects can turn
if they do a quarter turn, half turn, three quarter turn, that kind of thing.
And then Fraser was doing some maths online, which I actually love it when he has online
maths work because it's all there for him. I don't have to print anything and it also
gets marked instantly as soon as he submits it, so that's really handy. So today with
their maths, both of the boys needed some support. So while Matt and I were helping
the older boys, Jackson was chilling out watching a show called Creative Galaxy. He seems to
really like it. It shows crafts and stuff like that. So he was eating an apple and watching
that for 20 minutes, because the older boys did need some support. Obviously most subjects
the boys can get on with things, but when it comes to maths and English, sometimes they
do need me and Matt to be helping them, so it is a bit tricky with Jackson, but he's
honestly so happy when he gets 20 minutes in front of the TV.
Then when they finished their maths and Fraser was playing a little maths game online. I
decided to put some laundry on, so I'm just going to throw in some darks today and then
that can be going while we're doing homeschooling. Yeah, and the boys, they're so cute. I'm just
loving how much they're bonding together. They have grown so close. They're like best
friends now, I guess because they've only got each other to play with, so it's been
really sweet to see. And I also wanted to show you how I've been managing their tasks.
Each week their teachers sends us a list of everything they need to do that week. So as
soon as the boys finish one thing, I tend to highlight it until everything on the sheet
is highlighted and that's how I've been managing what needs to be done and what has been done.
But the boys have just half an hour of maths, half an hour of English. So by 10:00 AM they
are outside having a break. And this is Jackson's little lawn mower that blows bubbles, so they
were all playing with that. And we've been so lucky again with the weather. Thank goodness
that the boys have been able to get outside into the garden and run around together. So
yeah, they're going to have some fun outside. And then after that we're going to move on
to the next subject and to the rest of our day. But I hope you really enjoyed this video.
Let me know what you think in the comments below and anything you are doing to make your
morning routine in quarantine go smoothly. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see
you in my next one. Bye guys.