Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and to a winter morning routine in our new house. This
video has been highly requested, so I thought I would just film and show you how we, as a family
of five, get up and get ready and get out of the door on an average school day. It's also December
here, so you'll see our Advent calendars. I'm also going to show you what we eat in the morning on
a school day, how we get the kids ready, all of the activities and chores that they need to do.
I'm also going to show you how I get ready in the morning, my makeup routine, and really
quick hair routine, and also some cleaning tasks as well because when you're a family,
the cleaning is nonstop. But anyway, I hope you really enjoy this video and let's get into it.
So on a school morning, I try to set my alarm and wake up a little bit before the kids, but Jackson
normally wakes up shortly after but even if I can just literally get clothes on for the day and also
start my skincare routine, that makes a massive difference. So today I'm wearing this little vest
dress that I got from ARKET and as I said, I'm also going to do my skincare just before Jackson
wakes up, because it's just one less thing to do. Now, my skincare routine in the morning is very
simple, I'm just using a pea sized amount of Dermalogica's special cleansing gel to wash my
face. I foam it up with a little bit of water and then I really like to use a washcloth to take my
cleanser off. In the evening, I will use stronger products for my skin, but in the morning, I like
to keep it really simple. Then I'm using a ZO eye cream, a multi-active toner from Dermalogica
and then I'm using a dynamic moisturizer, which has 50 SPF and then Jackson woke up.
Mom, mommy. Mom carry me. Is that a poo? It's a malteser. Do you want to eat one?
I'm not going to touch them but just I can just get to the toilet?
[inaudible 00:00:02:11]. Do you want to try it? Mom can I eat the poo?
So Jackson and the boys getting up at 07:30 is actually pretty late for us. So it will be a bit
of a rush this morning because we do need to leave the house at about 08:30 or 08:40 but the first
thing I'm going to do is give Jackson a yogurt, it's like his favorite thing every morning.
So he can then just sit on the couch and chill and eat that and watch Netflix. His favorite show at
the moment is called Kongsuni and he always wants to watch it. So I'm just going to stick that on
the TV and he can have one or two of those before his older brothers come down and take the remote.
So he's going to have a yogurt and then I can get on and make some breakfast for him
and the boys and the house, as you can see is looking at so very christmassy, and I don't
know if you can tell from looking out the window there, but it is still so dark and miserable here.
It's raining and it is going to be a bit of a dark video because
it doesn't really get bright until about 8:00 AM here. But anyway, Jackson is now having a bowl of
peaches. He loves fruit in the morning and every night as part of our evening routine, I tend to
lay out the boys clothes for the next day like this. So the two older boys uniforms are there
and then Jackson's as well and this just really helps to speed us up in the morning. First thing
Frase going to do when he gets up is make his bed. The boys have a few little chores to do every day
and they don't really even need to look at their chore charts anymore, they kind of
know what they have to do, but Fraser is smart and makes his bed first thing in the morning.
But yeah, as I said, all they really have to do is eat breakfast, put the dishes away,
get dressed, put their PJ's away or in the wash, brush their teeth, do their hair/face,
choose a snack and make their bed. So it's not a huge amount to ask I don't think. Then Matt filmed
what Jackson got in his advent calendar. Is that number nine?
Yeah. Presents.
So cute. Daddy look at all the characters.
Then the two older boys come downstairs and Fraser almost always has a Rubik's cube in his hands and
now I'm going to go in start making breakfast and empty the dishwasher but I actually realized that
I did it last night, so that was a result. So I'm just going to put away any dishes that are drying
on the drying rack and then I'm going to put some toast in and while it's toasting,
I'm going to open up my advent calendar, so sweet this year, Matt actually made me an activity
calendar using an old Jo Malone calendar of mine and he's put in special things to do throughout
the year. So he's put a date for me and Fraser one day a Canadian Thanksgiving because we didn't
get to do one this year. Yeah, very sweet of him but now I'm going to make everyone's
breakfast and I'm keeping it really simple because we do need to get out the door today.
So all the boys and me are all going to have the same thing. We're all having almond butter and
jam on toast, I'm going to do some strawberries and I'm also going to give them their vitamins.
They have a vitamin every single day anyway, but now obviously it's more important than ever
that our kids are getting vitamin D and anything that's really going to boost their immune system,
with the virus going around and stuff. So that is pretty much what they're having,
Fraser also is going to have some cereal, which he would just get himself. So he's chosen a Cheerio's
today and then we're just going to sit at our dining table and have some breakfast. I'm going
to encourage them to keep eating because sometimes they like zone out or they'll start chatting or
playing with Lego. Matt this morning is having poached eggs and you guys know that he normally
has grapefruit, but at the moment he said, it's been so out of season he stopped buying it because
it hasn't been very nice during the winter. So he's just having poached eggs this morning
and then as you can see, Jackson is eating, but he's also playing with his Pepper Pig Lego,
and I nearly forgot coffee, which is pretty important. So I'm just going to make Matt and I a
coffee with some oat milk. Matt likes the oat milk in first, but I like the oat milk in after the
water. So I'm doing it those special ways but anyway, then I'm just going to sit down with the
boys and eat our breakfast. For Jackson's outfit today he's wearing so many Christmas clothes
because he has so many Christmas hand-me-downs and only really December to wear them. So he's
got Christmas socks, Christmas pants, Christmas jumper, Christmas t-shirt and some jokers. So
that is him dressed for the day and he's actually so easy to get dressed, he never puts up a fuss,
he really doesn't mind what he's going to wear. So he's very easy to get ready in the morning,
which is great. Once the big boys are done with their breakfast, they are going to
empty their plates if they need to, put them into the dishwasher and if they have to hand wash them,
they can do that as well. So that is Fraser's all put away Caleb is a bit more wild when it comes
to pretty much anything. I love his energy though and he does always get what he needs to get done,
done so I can't really complain with that. So once his stuff is in the dishwasher,
then he is going to go upstairs and attempt to make his bed. The last time I showed this in a
morning routine so many of you guys were like, I just want to crawl through the screen and help
him make his bed and I know what you mean. Sometimes it's quite painful, but anyway,
now the boys are going to get dressed. I so wish it was that easy to get them ready in the morning,
then they're going to brush their teeth. Matt always tends to do their hair, I've actually
said to Matt, maybe they should do their hair but I think he really loves to do their hair
every morning. Then we're going to choose their snacks together, Fraser almost every day has this,
an apple, breadsticks and a little hummus and then Caleb pretty much always wants
a Barney bear and a yogurt or a Barney bear and yogurt flakes today, as you can see here.
Then I'll make their water and Matt will then take the two older boys to school and then I will
hang out with Jackson for about another half an hour or 45 minutes because his preschool doesn't
open up at the same time as their school, so we kind of have to do two school runs at the moment.
Soon we will actually be able to do one school drop for all of them from next September,
so that will be incredible. Oh so nice.
It's a bunny rabbit. Oh it's really good.
So after we've hung out for a little bit, maybe played and put the paints away,
then I'll come upstairs, brush my teeth and put some makeup on for the day. It only takes me like
10 to 15 minutes and often Jackson will come up with me, hang out on the bed while I get ready. So
while I get ready, I tend to listen to some kind of book, so today I'm listening to
how to raise successful people and as I said, I going to brush my teeth and then do my makeup.
I keep all my makeup in this little Ikea makeup case, I showed it in a recent hole, but I really
like it. I felt like everything's very organized and you can see everything and my makeup routine
is very simple. I'll link below a full routine if you want to see that but it's pretty much, I work
on a little bit of foundation and I tend to always use the Estee Lauder double wear foundation.
And I don't know if you can tell, but I actually fake tanned my face last night and I tend to
always use, I think it's called The Face and it's by Fake Bake and I tend to do that once a week.
I'm also whitening my teeth at the moment. I will be doing a full video on that, I'm
not going to mention the brand because I will be working with them and I want to show you all the
guys the final results, but I'm using those little whitening strips at the moment and I've realized
that the school run is quite a good time to do that because you have to wear a mask anyway. So
I put them in and then I'm just going to finish my makeup. So I'm going to put on some, concealer and
I use the Clarins under eye concealer in number one, which is the very latest color that they do.
I really do get dark circles so I need a lot of brightening. Then I'm also going to put on a
little bit of bronzer and today I'm using Hoola from Benefit. I really like it, I've literally
used it for 20 years. It's just a matte brown and then I'll also add a little bit of pink. I've got
this Charlotte Tilbury palette, which has a pinky color, but also a highlighter in the middle,
so I'm just whacking that on. Then I'm going to use some Gimme Brow on my eyebrows just to like
smooth them out and add a bit more color and then that is pretty much all I'm going to do,
no eye makeup I mean, I don't know why I bother because we are wearing masks all the time.
And then I'm quickly just going to curl my hair a tiny bit.
I've got these curlers, I get asked all the time about them. They're just Babylist curlers
I bought on Amazon. I think they were like 20 pounds, but I quite like them for like a really
loose curl and they heat up pretty quickly. So I'm just going to finish my hair and then take
him to preschool. (Song)
Now that I'm back from dropping off Jackson, I'm just going to make his bed, make my bed as well
because I haven't got round to doing that yet. When I showed our Christmas decorate with me,
quite a few people were like, where's Jackson's Christmas bedding but I ordered him this set
from Next and it took ages to come for some reason. Anyway, that's his bed all done,
now I'm just going to make our bed and we've got the festive bedding on at the moment as well.
And then I'm going to run downstairs and literally wiped down the sides quickly,
wiped down the table and I also do need to hoover because it was quite bad this
morning and last night with crumbs, some I'm quickly going to just run around to do that.
(Song) Okay that's
pretty much it my morning routine, it's about 10:00 AM now. So I'm now going to sit here
and do a little bit of work. I'm not in my office because to be completely honest with you,
it is a bit of a mess. So that is something that I'm going to have to clean up later. But yeah,
thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.