Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going to be doing an updated morning
routine for you. This is what our typical Monday morning looks like. So I'm going to
show you what we eat as a family, what makeup I wear, what clothes I choose, and of course
our cleaning routine as well. If you like this kind of thing, give it a big thumbs up,
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There are quite a few things that I do during our evening routine that really set me up
to have a good morning. One of those is to leave the kitchen clean and tidy. I really
love coming down to a clean house in the morning. Today, we came down at about quarter to seven.
Jackson was the first one awake, and as soon as we got downstairs, he started playing with
his water magic books. He really loves these. You can just paint with water, or it comes
with a little water pen as well, and then a picture appears while he's doing it. He
also got this pack of bubbles in a party bag yesterday, so he was desperate to play with
those as well. So we blew bubbles and popped them for a little while before I started to
unload the dishwasher.
This is probably the first chore that I do every single morning. I turn it on last thing
at night and then I empty it first thing in the morning for a new day, and yeah, it's
just part of my routine and something I do every day. Sometimes the boys help if they're
up, but today Jackson is the only one up. After a little while, Frazer, my eldest son,
comes downstairs, so I'm going to get them some Cheerios to start for their breakfast.
For the milk, I'm going to go and collect it from the door, because we actually get
our milk delivered three times a week, on a Monday, a Wednesday, and a Friday.
I just love having a milkman service. When I moved from Canada to the UK 20 years ago,
I remember being so excited about the fact that our milk was delivered to our door, and
now that I have my own family, I use Milk and More. We were just finding that we were
going through so much milk, so now I order four pints on a Monday and a Wednesday, and
six pints on a Friday to get us through the weekend. But it's such a convenient service.
I can add something to my order up until 9:00 PM the night before and still get my delivery
by 7:00 AM, and they don't just do milk, they do all kinds of fresh British farm food. You
can order bacon, or eggs, or juice, or bread, or ... there's so many goodies that you can
add onto it.
I just do it all by the app. It's really quick and easy to use. Matt and I both have the
app on our phone and we can just add things as and when. Like Mother's Day is coming up,
so I know Matt will go onto the app and just add on a few bits so that we can have a fresh
Mother's Day breakfast on that day, and I do that for other special occasions as well.
One of the best things about them, though, is that they are a brand that really does
care. These glass bottles are reusable, so all I have to do is leave them out for Milk
and More to collect when they're delivering my next lot of milk, and they will reuse them.
They also use small suppliers, they have a huge organic range, and they have the UK's
largest electrical fleet of vehicles. So they have some lovely values, they're a brand that
I'm really proud to be associated with, so if you want to find out more, I will link
to their website in the description down below if you want to find out more about this service.
I also give the boys a vitamin every morning, and today two of them want toast for breakfast,
whereas Caleb would like a protein pancake. He loves this recipe. I'll link it down below
if you're interested. It's really easy to make and it's also healthy. And then I'm also
going to make my breakfast. I'm having instant oatmeal. I have this pretty much every day,
just because it's so quick, and again, healthy for me to have. So I'm going to have that,
and of course I'm going to have coffee, and then sit with the boys, talk to them about
their day, and sometimes we'll practice spellings as well.
We also give the boys fruit every morning, whatever we have in, but strawberries is definitely
one of their favorites, so today they're having that. This is actually Matt's breakfast. He's
having a protein pancake as well. Jackson also wanted some blueberry yogurt and split
quite a lot of it on our counter. He was pretty pleased about it, but I'm just going to tidy
that up, and then we also try to encourage the boys to put their own plates in the dishwasher
and also to try and make their beds as well. I joke that this is husband training, but
I just think it's a good habit for them to get into.
After breakfast I'm going to play with Jackson a little bit longer before I go upstairs and
get ready. In the morning Matt and I are a tag team. He'll get ready first thing while
I do the boys' breakfast, and then when he comes down, I'll go upstairs while he gets
the boys ready for school. So I'll go upstairs, and put my hair up in a ponytail, I'll just
wash my face, then I will tone it and moisturize it as well. I'll also use some eye cream most
of the time, and then I'll also brush my teeth.
Then I'll do my five-minute makeup routine, which consists of a very bright concealer,
which I apply just with my fingers, then same again with my foundation. I will just rub
it all over my face because I have no time in the mornings. Then I'll put a pink blush
on the apples of my cheeks and a bonzer to contour. Then I'll use a gel liquid brow,
just to give my brows a little bit more definition, and then a quick spritz of perfume before
I come downstairs. The boys let Matt do their hair and then they'll normally play football
for a little bit before we go off and do the school run.
For my outfit today, I'm wearing a new jumper that I actually found on the Next website,
but it's the brand Oasis. I liked that it said "Amazing" on it in rainbow. It's actually
a Monday morning when I'm filming this, so I thought it would be good for some Monday
morning motivation. I'm also wearing some Joni jeans from Topshop. I always wear those
jeans. And then I've got some big, chunky, green velvet Nike trainers on. Matt got me
these a couple of Christmases ago, and I still wear them all the time. They're super comfortable
and I'm having a very casual day today, so that's it. School run time.
On a Monday morning, of course the two older boys go off to school, but Jackson also goes
to nursery for a few hours, so this is a great chance for me to blitz the house, clean up,
and then also get on with some work. So I'm just going to clear off all of the surfaces
of any breakfast debris that's around. I'm also going to close the breakfast larder.
This hides our blender and our toaster and things we use at breakfast. And then I'm also
going to make the living area smell amazing with some Zoflora. This is the pink grapefruit
one, so I'll just add a capful and some water from the kettle. It smells so good and it
also disinfects our sink as well.
I'm also going to tidy away all of the toys that they used this morning. This only takes
a minute, and I'm also going to quickly give everything a little hoover, just in case there's
any little crumbs or anything like that on the couch and especially where they eat breakfast.
And then if I have time, this doesn't happen every morning, I'll run upstairs and make
the beds. The boys, as I said, they do have a go at making their beds. This one's Caleb's
here, and then that's Fraser's [inaudible 00:06:53], so I'm just going to literally
straighten it out a tiny bit, and of course Jackson's isn't that messy at all.
Then every morning, without fail, there will be some sort of laundry to be done, so I'll
either put stuff in the dryer or put on a new load. Today I'm putting on some whites,
and that is it. So that is pretty much what our Monday morning routine looks like. I hope
you enjoyed this video. I'm now off out to get some supplies for another organizational
video, but thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.