Good morning guys and welcome back to my channel and another Get It All Done video. Although
I may have to rename this one to be Getting Nothing Done video because although I had
loads of plans to get stuff done today, my middle son is really unwell. He was up all
night being sick, poor thing, so he's off from school obviously and he's just hanging
out in the front room. So this morning, I've pretty much been running around cleaning the
house with this all in one disinfectant spray. I use this whenever the kids are unwell because
you know how germs can go in family homes, like one goes down and then they all start
going down, so I've been trying to keep it at bay and then I've quickly run around, done
a clean, put the chairs up to turn on our little Roborock Hoover because also there
was just loads of bits on the floor. Caleb's got really into making snowflakes out of paper...
Sorry, it's coming my way, which is a really cute hobby, but it goes absolutely everywhere.
So I was just turning that on this morning to clean that up, obviously done a quick clean
this morning. And then now, I've got my hairdresser coming over. I've got a hairdresser that just
comes to my house. I started using her when I started having children because I found
it so difficult to get to the salon with a young baby. And it's been so nice, especially
when they were little. They can be playing with their toys at home while I get my highlights
done or get a haircut or they can be napping in their own bed while I get my hair done.
It's been amazing and it's meant that I haven't had to rely on anyone or drag a child to the
salon, so I totally to recommend that if you know someone.
She's become a friend now because I've used her for so very long. So yeah, she's coming
this morning and then I'll show you what else I get up to today. I'm going to try and still
get stuff done because he's pretty much just laying around recovering, so I wanted to organize
a few rooms, maybe make a few recipes. So I'll show you everything that I get done and
let's go.
Great. So my hair is all done now. I'm nice and blonde underneath again, so I've just
put my hair up. I've got nothing on and I didn't want to blow dry it and all of that
stuff, so it's just up in one of these like bun things. But now, I'm going to make a carrot
soup. But Caleb is just watching a film in my bed, so I'm just going to quickly make
soup for lunch. I've been trying to be really healthy as I've mentioned in a few videos
for 2020, but I struggle to just eat salad. When it's so cold out, I want something really
warming, so I've been loving making soups. So last week, you may have seen in my meal
prep video I made a butternut squash soup, which was really delicious. But today, I'm
going to make a carrot and coriander soup.
So when I was looking for a recipe, basically what I do is I go onto the BBC Good Food website
and then I just searched healthy soup and then I just go through and look at what they
have. But more than that, I look at the ratings. So the soup that I'm going to make today,
it's had 450 ratings and it's still five star. So whenever there's loads of reviews and it's
still five star, you can assume that it's quite nice and it only takes 20 minutes. It's
really simple, so I'm going to make enough soup so that I can eat it all week for lunch
so I just have it ready in the fridge to hopefully stop me reaching from anything that's not
super healthy. So yeah, I'll show you what goes into it.
So going into this soup is 450 grams of carrots, a liter of vegetable stock, and my little
veggie things, like my vegetable stocks, they go into 500 mil of water each, so that is
why I've got two of them to make a whole liter. Then, one chopped up onion, a chopped up potato
and then some fresh coriander. Okay, so the first thing that I'm going to do is make the
vegetable stock, so I'm just going to put that into my measuring jug and then add a
liter of boiling water. I wanted to do this first to give it a chance to all melt down
before I need it to put it into the pot. So this recipe actually called for I think 1.3
liters of water. But then in the comments, so many people said that one liter gave a
really nice consistency, so I'm going to go with the comments on that post.
Next up, I'm going to chop up my onion. I kind of finely chopped it, but I don't think
you actually would have to do it this finely because you're going to whiz it all up in
a soup anyway. Though then I'm going to stick that into my pot with a little bit of oil
and then turn that on to give the onion a chance to soften on its own before I add the
potato and the carrot as well. So I was kind of just going between stirring the onion and
then preparing the rest of the veg. So I'm just peeling the potato straight into the
bin.
When I don't have loads to chop and peel, I tend to just do it straight into the bin.
So I did the potato and then I was doing the carrots and halfway through, I thought, "I
probably don't need to peel the carrots. I probably should have just washed them and
then chucked them in." But there you go, that's what I did on this day. Then I'm just going
to chop up the potatoes to the size that you would if you were mashing it. And then again,
just chop up the carrots just like. Obviously, this can be quite chunky because we're going
to whiz it all up into a soup. So then I added some fresh coriander, the potatoes and the
carrots. The recipe said you can actually just use dry coriander, but I had fresh to
hand and then I'm adding in the vegetable stock.
All right, so the soup is now simmering away in this pot and it needs to simmer for about
20 minutes until the carrots are soft. And then once it is, I'm going to whiz it all
up and have it for lunch, but now I have 20 minutes before I need to do that so I'm going
to try and organize something and it's something I feel like I'm organizing every other month,
but it's basically our shoe storage and because there's five of us in this house, we have
a lot of shoes. It gets pretty messy, so I'm going to do that now. Some of you may have
seen this storage. I love it. It's under our stairs and it just slides out. It's not like
horrendous, but because I have a little bit of time, I'm going to spend it clearing this
out.
(singing)
Now that that's all cleaned up, I'm going to check on the soup. So I'm just checking
that the carrots are fully cooked and soft before I whiz up with my little handheld whizzer.
I've had this for so many years. It's the main thing that I used when I was weaning
my babies. It's really effective and so easy to clean, so I've whizzed it all that to the
consistency that I want. And then I'm actually going to have some straight away for lunch
with some more fresh coriander on top and then I'm going to put the rest in containers
so that I can have it for the rest of the week. I think there's even going to be enough
if Matt wants some for lunch as well, then I'm going to give everything else a quick
tidy up because my soup is really hot, so I might as well do this while it's cooling
down and then yeah, I'm going to eat it for lunch.
All right, so I've had my suit and it was really delicious.
You are currently caller number seven, waiting to speak with a representative for your patience.
Sorry and I'm also just calling the doctor's office to book Jackson's next set of jabs.
I think it's his three year injections, maybe. But whenever I call my doctor's, I'm always
like eighth in line, so I'm just going to wait and have it on speaker while I do a little
bit more work, book that in and then I'm hopefully going to organize something. Caleb has fallen
asleep.
You are currently caller number seven, waiting to speak to-
So I'm hoping... He's actually in my room, so I was going to organize my wardrobe, but
I can't do that now because he's obviously resting. But to be honest, Jackson's room
could really do with an overhaul as well. He's grown out of a few bits, so I might just
organize his room. All right, so I managed to book Jackson's injections and I was going
to clean a closet, as I said, but now Caleb has woken up and come downstairs. He's just
watching a film on the couch here. So I think instead, I'm going to clear out our toy storage
or try to do as much as I can before the school run because I just really want to be like
nearish to him. He's feeling a bit like wanting cuddles and not feeling 100%, so I'm going
to just sort of be around here. I could maybe do this area and if I have time, the utility
room as well is quite messy. But yeah, let's go do
that now.
(singing)
All right, so I'm
all done clearing out the toys and I'm feeling so much better for it. It's looking so much
cleaner with nothing on the top of the toy storage and everything's where it should be.
We've got all of the cars, all of the action figures and stuff, then all of the tiny toys.
And yeah, everything is feeling like Play-Doh, so organized. And then I've a here, I've ended
up getting rid of a few bits and also moved a few things upstairs. So now on top, we've
got the play mags, we've got their little Peppa Pig toy. In here, I've put all of his
water books, like water magic books, because he has so many, he just loves them. Got the
kinetic sand. And then down here, I had a bit more room, so I've managed to put all
of their puzzles there, which is great because Jackson's really into them now. Yeah, and
I've given everything a wipe down, so I'm feeling so much more organized.
It's amazing what you can get done and I'm feeling so much better for it. And while I've
been doing this, Caleb is over here and he is building some Lego that he got for Christmas,
aren't you Bubba? And Matt has kindly offered to pick up Fraser from school. Luckily, he
had a club tonight until four o'clock. I think he had football, so Matt's going to pick him
up, bring him back and then I'm going to go and get Jackson. And that way, we don't have
to take Caleb out in the car and disrupt him. He's just like very chill. I think he's going
to have a really early night as well.
And now, I'm going to get on and make some dinner. And tonight, we're having a chicken
and veggie and couscous meal. It's a Hello Fresh one. I'm actually working with them
over on Instagram, so they sent me this box with three different meals in it. So last
night, we had a Cod dish, but tonight I think we're going to try this chicken and couscous
one and it looks really healthy and it only takes 20 minutes, so I'm going to get on and
do that now.
Now that dinner is all done and I've also gone and got Jackson from nursery, I'm just
going to do a little bit of laundry.
After dinner, I also decided to tackle my closet and give it a quick once over. I've
made a lot of videos in the past about decluttering my closet, so I'll link them down below if
you'd like to see it in more detail. But it was really needed. I haven't done this in
ages and all of the boys were just really chilled out downstairs with Matt. Obviously,
two of them are really unwell and then Jackson was so exhausted from being in nursery all
day, so I decided to just get all of my clothes out onto the bed, get rid of anything that
I no longer wear and then also put away a few of my Christmas jumpers that I'm not going
to wear again this year. So yes, I just went through everything one by one and I tackled
my hanging closets, as well as my dresser drawers.
All right. I haven't filmed for a while, but I have actually been doing so much stuff.
But the worst has happened, Fraser has now got the sickness bug, so he came home from
school saying he had a really sore tummy and he's been vomiting and on the toilet. So now,
I'm really scared that we're all going to get it. Yeah but anyway, quite a productive
day considering the bug has hit our house. I'm like fingers crossed that I don't get
it. I've been washing my hands so much and trying to clean everything, but you never
know. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching. If you're
new here, please subscribe and I'll see you in my next video. Bye guys.