I have a lot of stuff going on right now it is what day is it? Friday! We're about to go out to
Michael's parents house where we're going to spend a long time for my 30th birthday celebration. By
the time you see this on Youtube I will probably be 30 already. My content is shot relatively early
so it's always a bit delayed with when it goes live. We're going with both of our families so
Michael's whole family and then my whole family. My desk is a mess. I know you can't really see it
all but I'm just packing. I just got out of the shower. I don't know if I ever really show you
guys my just natural hair the way it dries but it is relatively curly. I'm looking at myself
in the camera right now so I can make sure it's focused but relatively curly hair I've got here
i do have some postpartum hair updates for you guys that i've promised you ever since a couple
tick tock videos that i made but today's youtube video is sponsored by Aveda and their Invati
advanced haircare line I've been using various lines of Aveda products for things like shampoo,
conditioner, and heat protectant spray for years now. It's honestly one of the hair care brands
that I've had multiple hair stylists recommend to me. I love their company's mission statement.
They're 100% vegan a lot of their products are leaping bunny certified cruelty free of course
today's video is sponsored by their Invati advanced line which is specifically useful for
thinning hair and hair that needs strengthening in terms of the bulk of my hair like this
whole area back here feels pretty thick, looks pretty thick. I've been getting a lot of
comments on people saying my hair is looking at its prime. It is definitely coming out in
the shower at least noticeably a little more than it used to and I do notice some thinning in these
patches up here I guess it was thinning at one point and now there's baby hairs growing in so
I am finding a decent amount of baby hairs that frame my face. Basically, my only goal in this
postpartum period with my hair is to be doing what I can to take care of it and just to strengthen it
and support it in its time of need, but I always use their shampoo and conditioner. Then I followed
it up with their intensive hair and scalp mask it can help to strengthen and reinforce fragile
thinning hair it's 100% vegan, it's silicone free, leaping bunny approved, all that good stuff. It's
one of those masks that you put on from root to end in the shower and then you leave it for two to
five minutes before you rinse it out. I actually used their scalp massager in the meantime and just
went in a circular motion around my scalp which felt so good and I felt like it also was helpful
at getting the mask to just really penetrate the scalp. Then I rinsed it off and now I'm out of the
shower. My hair smells so beautiful, so fresh. Just a reminder to everyone that scalp care is
a type of skin care and it's also a type of hair care so check out the in body advance
line and thank you so much to Aveda for sponsoring this vlog. One little Milo update is that he has
started to be on the move. He's crawling but he's kind of doing the army crawl where he's on his
forearms and he's like dragging himself along the floor and he actually only uses one foot
to kick the other foot just kind of dangles behind him, which is pretty funny to look at. But he is
on the move and recently I've been in the kitchen and I've been cooking and I put him in the living
room on the floor to just play with some of his toys. That's part of what I've been doing is like
I like to give him alone time because I feel like as the first child and grandchild in his family he
is very heavily stimulated so I try to give him some time to just play by himself and explore
when no one's talking to him or picking him up. He crawls everywhere and now he's been crawling
into the kitchen which I think is unsafe and I'm making sure there's nothing on the floor ever
and if I'm cooking I like push everything far away from the countertops. But recently he's crawled
into the kitchen when i have the oven on and I'm like I have to stop what I'm doing and pick
you up and build a fort of pillows around you so we've decided it's time for a playpen I was highly
against the playpen concept at first because of the fact that we live in a New York City apartment
space is relatively tight and I just feel like it's going to be a massive imposition on our
space, but I gave in. I realized it's kind of essential. A friend sent me this wooden one that
is pretty like aesthetically it was like a natural wood gate it looked really beautiful but it also
was something that you screwed on and it seemed like if you wanted to disassemble it it would be
pretty difficult and you could collapse it or fold it and so I did my own research and
I found one online on amazon it's $195 dollars, so it better be good. It's from a brand called
Dora Dodie. I will link it for you down in the description box this is what it looks like
and the thing I liked about this one is that's kind of what it looks like open and the thing
I liked about this one is all the different arrangements you could put it in an octagon shape
a square or kind of an irregular shape. I'm just checking some to-do list items off and
one of those items is to purchase this thing so that it's here waiting for us when we get home,
and I will film a little bit of myself assembling it when it comes.
All right, anyway, I have to pack up, we gotta go and I'll see you for my birthday weekend!
Hey everyone, how's it going? This giant leaf is in the room just needed to show it to you
because it's probably the most beautiful leaf I've ever seen and it's real. It is sitting in
a pitcher of water which is probably the second most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
I'll put it behind me for beauty purposes. Hello everyone, I just wanted to give you
a slight update. I just had a really great call with a doctor I've been doing this like virtual
health service thing if you follow me on instagram I've mentioned it before
I had a virtual doctor's visit which I have to say, that's a game changer for someone like me who
typically forgets to make appointments for things like the doctor and the dentist every year just
because it's hard to remember to make in-person appointments. To be able to do it virtually and
to be on a membership plan basically where they remind you that your appointment is coming up or
that you're overdue for something that's great. I know you can't go to the dentist virtually but
you can do it for the doctor and then she just sends me out.
Then she just sends me out to get lab work done and then evaluates the blood tests so this was
just kind of a chat with her to talk about how I'm doing health-wise and honestly as a new mom,
and I keep saying I'm a new mom- Am I a new mom? My baby is over 8 months old.
But we talked about a few health things that I want to work on. One being I am having some
weird digestive issues which is strange because ever since going gluten-free I
thought everything was all fixed, but it's not quite, and I think it could be a product of the
fact that my gallbladder is not here. I never experienced this issue before but maybe it's
starting to happen that my stomach needs some digestive enzymes to help me digest stuff so
she prescribed me some digestive enzymes to take with my food. When you don't have a gallbladder
you are not like pumping tons of bile into your stomach to help you digest food instead
your liver is like slowly delivering bile to your stomach but it's just not the same
and perhaps that's leading to my stomach issues. I'm also working with her to kind of oversee the
whole journey that I'm going through right now with the registered dietitian. I'm working with
a registered dietitian and a fitness trainer, who I'm doing strength training sessions with
two times a week, and my goal is to put on some weight because I was at my lowest weight
since I've been nursing. I feel great, like I feel energized and normal. It's just the scale
was the lowest weight I've ever been. But my doctor and I had this incredible conversation
that was just about motherhood in general and she told me that she talks to so many new moms who are
kind of past the point of being new moms like in my stage and beyond and she was telling me that
one area and one pain point that a lot of people run into once their kids get a little older is
that they realize that they've now gone years and years and years pushing themselves to the
wayside and not prioritizing themselves as they should have been and she was just so happy to see
someone like me who is still. She did consider me a new mom. She was so happy to see someone like me
who was intentionally focusing on things like meditating and taking time for myself
and I was telling her that I often leave Michael with Milo and that Michael knows exactly what to
do. I don't have to be nervous. It's not like I'm the only one that can care for him and she was
saying it's such an amazing thing to set up and establish as a young mom because so many young
moms won't relinquish control and then before they know it their kids are 10 and they can't leave on
a journey to go somewhere because their partner is incapable of taking care of the kids and she
actually told me that's the case with her. Her children are I think she said 13 and 15 and she
said she has never left them with her partner. I just know I have such an audience of really
young people either people that are young moms or soon to be moms or people that I don't know,
maybe not soon to be, but want to be in the future and I think I could really make an impact at
inspiring people out there to make good decisions from the get-go as a mom. I know that the early
time period is really difficult to take care of yourself because you're in such a fog but really
trying as hard as you can to as early as possible implement those good habits that allow you to care
for yourself and fill up your own cup first if you will take a little moment today fill up your cup.
Anyway, I just love the summertime and this room in my in-laws house is kind of like a
sun room. It is so gorgeous and this is my favorite place to hang out in the summer.
I love doing work out here. The screens let the wind through and the breeze through but it's
always you know, it's always a perfect temperature in here there's also big fans in the ceiling. I
swear if it's hot outside it's just a nice cooling breeze in here and if it's cold outside it's warm
and toasty in here. And there's a fireplace behind me so at night we do s'mores in here.
I'm putting you in the sun because I have a thing with sun. I'm in love with it. Allie's here. I'm
afraid of it. Allie's afraid of sun, but she's here. She really doesn't want to be in my vlog
today guys so you're gonna have to respect her wishes do you see that in the corner that's milo's
bubble camera I want to see it he's a little scared of it every time we pull this out he cries.
I think it's pretty amazing. Remember those like candy bubble things when you're okay yeah and you
could eat it. I love bubbles so much. I'm also feeling pretty strong from my strength training
do you guys see that this side is a little harder left side but I think I told you guys that I do
squats every single day. 30 of them in the morning and 30 at night while I'm brushing my teeth.
It's just part of my routine. It has made a big difference because now with my strength training.
One of our two days a week is a leg day and I don't even find leg day that hard because I'm
so used to doing squats. Do you see this little egg chair? This is one of the best
things in the house. I love this chair. I love this chair. I love this chair! I love this chair!
Summer 2022, Whoo hoo! I have some thoughts about turning 30. To me, being in your 30s,
it feels like it's really the time in your life when you're actively laying the groundwork
for your future habits and health. I really think even though people maybe try hard in their 20s to
establish the groundwork I feel like your 20s is you're just doing trial and error experimentation
it's not necessarily the lifelong habits, but when you get to your 30s I really feel like
you have to start doing the things that you want to do in the long term of your life in terms of
longevity and living the healthiest lifestyle and so there are things things like meditation
and exercise and journaling and whatever. Those are things I dabbled with in my 20s and I kind
of like a roller coaster went into and out of them habitually where are you going I'm getting call.
She's leaving me. Throughout my 20s I was kind of like on and off and on and off but in my 30s
if I want to be the kind of person in my life long term that does these things I need to
start doing them now, so I feel like my 30s is really where it all starts. I'm not saying
my 20's were nothing, but I really do feel like I'm entering a new chapter in my life of
this is the time the time is now the moment is here. I'm doing a little moisturizing hair
treatment with some of these Aveda products that I've had here for a while and I'm just putting it
all over my head. I don't know if I'm supposed to put this just on the ends but I'm putting
it everywhere. I did not shower. Tonight my hair is very dirty but i'm kind of using the night as
a deep conditioning treatment. I'm also going to spray it with the leave-in conditioner.
Smells so good in here. Ahh. Just going to leave it like this for my birthday dinner,
and really just let all that soak into my hair and replenish it. Happy birthday to us!
It's a video. Hey! What do you have to say to youtube? Happy birthday to us! It's really been
a great 30 years, you know from from fighting and punching each other and pulling each other's hair
and trying to see who got to sit in the middle to get our massages in the back seat to having
babies we really made it, baby, we really made it. Hey there's more on the way. Yeah okay, yay
siblings! I wonder what's happening? Hey guys..
Okay make big wishes so I can take the candles off.
I'm Lucy Fink and you're watching my
youtube chanel!
Michael went away on a bachelor party weekend and I'm home alone right now. Milo's asleep and we
bought this play pen for him that I'm setting up all by myself. So, I'm just going to set you here
and let you accompany me as I build this play pen.
I have literally no idea what I'm doing. I have to watch a video
so you'll have to stay tuned. Okay, I figured it out a little bit and I'm on a roll.
I did it wrong. It's all the wrong way, hold on.
I'm on the last step of this assembly and I just want to show you what happened
to my fresh new manicure. This is the product of being a mother.
I'll show it to you tomorrow when it's all assembled.