Milo slept out at his grandparents' last night so unlike most mornings where I wake up and
Michael and I are kind of tag teaming and rushing and needing to spend the whole morning
around Milo's schedule I got to wake up today peacefully and I slept in a little bit I was
initially going to go pick him up before his nap and bring him home to nap here but there's
been some banging and construction sounds happening so I'm keeping him at the grandparents
for his nap and then I'm gonna go pick him up with all this newfound time in the morning
I realized that I do want to do a little bit of meal prepping for our family this week
it's currently a Monday as I'm shooting this and on Thursday evening we are going to another
wedding in Miami Michael's College friend is getting married because it's a short week
here I don't want to go overboard with the meal prep and I was literally just about to
leave the house to go buy groceries to put this together but then I opened my freezer
and I realized that I had so much stuff in my freezer that I could pull from and basically
shop from my own freezer that's one of my favorite things about the meal prep that I've
been doing is just learning how to stock stuff up in my freezer both cooked stuff and raw
stuff so a lot of stuff that I buy now is just frozen stuff that I'll do like a big
bulk shop in a month and keep it in my freezer and then shop from my own freezer and a lot
of the stuff that I cook when I'm cooking like a batch meal I'll make a lot more than
I could possibly feed my family in a week and then I'll freeze a decent amount of it
so I had a lot of stuff in the freezer like a kimchi thing that I made that I moved up
to the fridge to defrost for the week I had salmon that I'm about to pop in the oven here
this recipe is so amazing it's basically two tablespoons of olive oil and then a lot of
different spices so I'm gonna try to rattle it off by memory but it's like two tablespoons
of brown sugar two teaspoons of garlic powder two teaspoons of onion powder two teaspoons
of paprika one teaspoon of chili powder if you want it spicy and some sea salt and that's
what's rubbed onto this salmon like you mix the olive oil with all those spices get it
into a paste and then I rubbed it on I actually only did it on these two and this third one
I just put um some paprika and avocado oil for Milo I also had some cucumbers cherry
tomatoes and extra red onion so I made a little salad of those ingredients I'll show you what
I have going on right here cherry tomatoes red onion cucumber in the interim time I popped
the salmon in and then I also made pasta and I wanted to make it a little bit different
than how I typically make it so I had in the freezer bags of frozen corn and frozen peas
so I just dumped that in I'm also going to make some of these falafels for Milo if I
have time and then I've just defrosted some of these like sausage and meatball things
that are from belinski and are gluten-free I think I'm just gonna roast these up in the
oven too oh hold on red onion done this just had the paprika and salt
yeah honestly I'm just so happy that I store stuff in my freezer because now I can eat
time we're on the way to close on our house
okay I'm gonna talk to you later because we'll do a little chit chat soon okay so this is
the mortgage that we're going to record on the land records um you need to keep it insured
you need to maintain it you can't do anything illegal your most important thing is that
you make your payment [Music]
we did it yeah
we own a house we signed all the papers and the deed is done how many signatures do you
think we had to give today we each probably signed 50 times yeah I've got to hand it to
Michael he managed so much of that mortgage and loan approval process and all the dealings
with the lawyers and oh my gosh I don't know what I would do without you ditto got anything
else to say Mr Talkative Mr Chatty Kathy
No I'm just excited to have a house and excited do it all with you thank you love you now
turn the tape off turn the tape off
Now turn the tape off
let's go we drove to visit my parents the night before so that we could leave Milo with
them while we went in the morning to visit the new house to do a walk through and then
to go to the legal team's office and sign all the paperwork of which there was a lot
and now we're back at my parents house and we're just gonna spend the day doing a little
bit of work here and then go back to the city tonight we actually sent our nanny in an Uber
to come to my parents house so she's still here for the day watching Milo and I actually
think my parents and Milo and the nanny went out for a mall trip so they're all at the
mall I've been listening to this finance podcast it's called I Will Teach You To Be Rich it's
absolutely my favorite podcast at the moment and it's this financial expert who brings
couples and people onto his podcast who share their issues that they have with money whether
it's they're an overspender and they're spending outside of their means or they're an underspender
and they have a very negative scarcity money mindset it and he kind of helps them work
through that I just love the podcast it's like a voyeuristic experience into other people's
lives and finances that host Ramit is always talking about the hidden costs of owning a
house I think he himself is actually like kind of against home ownership so we definitely
disobeyed him and bought a house but he's right in that he's always talking about the
hidden costs like things that you don't factor in when you go ahead and purchase a house
and you don't think of all the other things you're going to have to pay for that come
along with owning a house we have not yet actually gotten to the house like moved into
it which we're not going to be doing until the summer time so I don't have first-hand
confirmation of that yet although I know it's going to be true but what I do know is that
there are so many hidden actions that go into purchasing a house that you just think like
okay we're gonna take out a more mortgage and close on the house and you just don't
realize how much upfront work legally and financially and just setting up the interest
rate and locking in your interest rate and working with a lawyer to share all of your
financial assets and wiring the money to the people and getting a loan from the bank and
there are just so many hoops and hurdles that we had to jump through before we could sit
down at that desk and sign the paperwork and get the keys to the house and if I'm being
honest like Michael and I have a division of labor in our relationship and the way we've
divided things up he manages a lot of those logistical tasks in our lives so a lot of
that work did fall on him whereas the actual searching for the house and finding the house
and coordinating all of our interactions with the realtor and then the design process and
all that is my area of interest and expertise so that's falling on me but I've been watching
Michael over the past five/six months and this man has been working hard to get us to
the place we were at this morning where we signed those papers and for me it was kind
of like I walked through the door and just give me a pen which is nice but I do want
to acknowledge how much work Michael did and how much went into this but I'm gonna get
to work right now I've got a YouTube video going up and I'm actually taking a trip the
next two weekends or not this weekend but the weekend after and the weekend after I'm
going away one is a wedding and one is a trip with a couple of mom friends so just got so
much to do I'm gonna go get into my work zone and I'll talk to you soon
all done no oh okay more french toast mm-hmm yummy more you can bite the crust it's a little
hard but you could bite it almost time to go for a walk with Mama we're gonna take a
walk we're gonna see Uncle Robert
then you're gonna take a nap then we have Charlotte's birthday then we play with Mommy
and Daddy and that's tonight then tomorrow we wake up and we drive drive drive drive
drive to the new house you're gonna get to see your new house see your brand new room
you're gonna see DD pop pop Nona Grandpa Aunt Ah Uncle Ziggy Auntie Juju and Uncle Rico
so we have a busy weekend you want some water no okay do you want some coffee coffee this
is Mommy's I shouldn't have offered it I'm sorry Mama kiss for Mommy
thank you
dip dip do you want to dip dip your French toast in some yogurt yeah you want to do dip
dip thank you yummy so yummy I'm just gonna do the dishes while you eat yogurt [Music]
[Music] [Music] take Milo's water
[Music] bye bye [Music] okay so Lucie just told me not to make her wenis look crunchy
I'm gonna vomit you guys know what a wenis is yes everyone knows what a wenis is okay
well a wenis is this part of your arm and mine's actually large I have a large wenis
she's got a huge wenis
in middle school did people like come up to you and pinch your wenis yes is mine big yeah
okay so i have a a big wenis and we're about to take photos of my tattoo which is right
here probably isn't the first time YouTube is seeing it however it might be the first
time you're seeing it in a vlog but I got a little M that stands for Mama Milo and Michael
and it's not permanent it's gonna be disappearing in 9 to 15 months and it's already starting
to fade a little like it's not quite as dark as it was right yeah but anyway we're about
to take some photos of it I still can't believe you did I figured you could watch I will make
sure her wenis does not look crunchy should I put in a low pony yeah with that thing yeah
I copied you you were wearing a low pony when I walked in so I put my hair I saw Lucie Fink
wearing a wenis and a low pony what was I saying I burned my waffle oh no hair I guess down yeah okay can we
move those tins they look ugly oh horrible Lucie remember when you stuck this to
your face and you got a it wasn't that it was something else no it was this
it was the thing that you squeeze and you sucked no I'm telling you it was this it was
not that doesn't stick to skin try it go I literally watched it happen Laura it was the squeezing
Blue Owl it was
I'm telling you
lean towards me yes I like okay now angle towards me a little other way away from me
how's my wenis it's looking crunchy as [ __ ] oh those are cute like the concept
not my face yeah give me some hair flip movement hell yeah put your arm down cute love these
yes oh my God that's really cute Lou
oh my hair looks so good for being six days postpartum
do you know what I'm saying 6 days post wash okay we got it
you like drinking out of mama's water