- Hi guys!
Welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I thought I would share with you
my morning cleaning routine.
This is an updated version I will link
my past one down below and I'm so excited
because this is also a collab with Love Meg.
I have followed her channel for ages
and I really want to share her with you
because I think if you like my videos
you will really like Meg's videos.
She does cleaning routines, organization,
all kinds of helpful videos and she has
the sweetest Southern accent.
So I thought I would actually let her
introduce herself on my channel.
- Hi guys!
My name is Megan, from the channel LoveMeg
and I will be doing my morning cleaning routine
over on my channel today as well, so I hope you
guys decide to go check me out after you watch
Emily's video.
My channel is a lot like Emily's channel
in that we do a lot of Mommy style stuff
and cleaning videos, all that fun stuff
over here.
Y'all feel free to come check me out and
if you like what you see, go ahead and stick around.
- Yeah, so definitely check out Meg's channel
and let her know that I sent you over and
if you've just popped over from her channel,
thank you so much for checking out my videos.
Don't forget to subscribe if you like what you see
and thank you so much for watching.
Let's get into the cleaning.
So when we come down in the morning
the house is nice and tidy because in my
evening routine I put all the dishes into the
dishwasher and wipe down the sides,
so it's always nice to come down to a clean house.
But the first thing I will do is put
Jackson on to his play mat with some toys
so that he can have a bit of a play while I
get on and unload the dishwasher.
This is the first thing I do every morning
before I've even had a coffee
or made anyone breakfast.
I will unload the dishwasher with the help of the boys
because if I don't do this straight away
we get a big backlog of dishes
and it just really builds up,
so I just like to do this, get it done
first thing in the morning.
Once that's all done it's time to make breakfast
and breakfast in our house is very messy
because I have an 11 month old baby
and he does baby led weaning, so he likes
to do everything himself.
He's taking the porridge spoon right from me,
but I'll feed the boys and I'll also try to
have my own breakfast.
I'll sit with them, encourage them to eat
and feed our baby as well.
And when I am making breakfast I really try to
tidy as I go and be a tidy chef.
It just makes things a lot easier if you
can put things in the dishwasher as you're
making breakfast, but anything I don't manage
to tidy up, my husband isn't far behind me
and he's really good, he will tidy up as well.
So it just saves us a lot of time.
Once Jackson's finished breakfast
I'll use a baby wipe to wipe up
all of the food that is on the floor
and he will quite happily sit in the high chair
and play peek a boo with me while I clean the floor.
This is like one of his favorite games,
so we do this pretty much every day
and every meal.
And I forgot to put a bib on Jackson this morning.
I do this quite a lot because I know
he hates wearing a bib, so I will often just
take his Babygro straight off of him
because it will be really messy
and then I will put it in the sink with a little bit
of Vanish to get the stains out.
I have a Megapack because I have so many stains
having three boys and I'll just put some
warm water in the sink and then sprinkle this over
like the stains and leave that until
I put a wash on.
And then I will let the boys have a play and
I will wipe down the surfaces with my Method spray.
I really love this spray, I'm always
talking about it because I love the fact
that it's non toxic, so when I'm spraying it
on areas where the boys eat that always makes
me feel better and I think it cleans pretty well.
So I'll do the high chair and also the table.
Jackson was quite clingy today,
so I'm doing it one handed, but that is mum life,
isn't it?
Then I'm gonna put everyone's dishes into
the dishwasher and away and then
I'm going to open up our doors because
it's a beautiful day today.
It is August and it's quite warm,
so I'm gonna open all of the doors up.
And then it's time for laundry
and with five of us in this house
I do one to two loads a day, so I
always throw on a load first thing
in the morning and today it's a lights load
because I want to wash that Babygro.
So I'm gonna put in a Non-Bio capsule,
and also some more Vanish.
I do a scoop in a light wash just to
get any stains out and then if there's
anything in the dryer, and this is a load
that I put on last night.
I will get that out and if I have time
I will fold it.
If I don't have time though, I'll just leave it.
Everyone seems quite happy today so I'm gonna
go ahead and fold this laundry, but
like I said, if I don't get the chance then I
will leave this until I have a spare 10 minutes
later on in the day and then at
about nine o'clock I will take our
baby Jackson up for his morning nap.
Our baby Jackson will sleep for one hour
and while he sleeps my older boys know
that that means it is quiet time.
They can watch a show or play nicely together
so that I can get on and get ready and
also do a little bit of cleaning.
So I'm just gonna wipe down the surfaces
with my e-cloth, which I really love
and also some more Method cleaning spray
and then I will also wipe down the sideboard
and I love these paintings that Fraser has done
for us.
One's me, one's Matt, and one's him and
then I'm also gonna do the cupboard doors
just really quickly.
I only really focus on the hot spots
so that is the handles and also behind the stove
because like splashes from cooking and
if there's any hand marks like this
from where Jackson has rubbed yogurt
all over the kitchen.
I will wipe that as well.
And that's the kitchen cleaning.
And then I will clean the floors
and I'm using my long handle dustbin
and brush and I love this.
I actually got it when I was pregnant
'cause I couldn't bend over, but I
love it so much now.
I'll use that to get the big pieces up and
then I will use my Dyson V6 to get any crumbs up.
There's always loads of crumbs on his play mat,
so I will focus on this area and then just
do a really quick once over if anywhere else needs it.
There's always quite a few crumbs in the kitchen
from where we obviously prepared food,
so I'll just give that a really, really quick Hoover
and then if it's needed, and it isn't every day,
but if it is needed, I will also mop
and I love this mop.
I know I've shown you guys before,
I'll link it down below, but it basically has
this canister on it that you can fill with some
cleaning solution and once I fill it that
will normally last me a whole week,
so I will just put about 20% of Flash
or a floor cleaner and then also some warm water
and this will basically spray out from
pressing the handle and then you can just
run around and mop really, really quickly.
And on an everyday clean like this I
will normally just focus on the high traffic areas
and where the boys have eaten their food.
And then it's time to go upstairs and
I'm gonna take the laundry that I folded with me.
I don't always have time to put it all away,
but I find if I can just get it into
the right rooms then that really helps
and I can put it away later on.
Then Jackson's actually woken up.
He didn't have a very long sleep today,
so I'm going to put him into this
activity center which I put upstairs
so that I can get ready and get stuff done
and then I'm gonna go ahead and open our shutters
and blinds and also open the window to air our
room out.
Then I'm gonna change my pillowcase.
I do this quite often.
I change my pillowcase more often than
I change the sheets 'cause I just think
it's against my face and for skincare etc.
I don't know, it's just something that I do.
And then I'm gonna go ahead and make the bed.
I always make the bed every morning.
I just feel like it makes our whole room
look so much cleaner and my eldest
is helping me out here, so that literally
takes a couple of minutes and then our room
looks nice and tidy and then I can move on to
the boy's room.
So I'm going to take Jackson with me
and Caleb for some reason has got like every
single book out that he owns, so I'm just gonna
straighten it all out.
His rug and make his bed and then
I'm going to put all of the books
back on his bookshelf and then that is
Caleb's room done.
What on Earth has happened in here?
Mister?
I thought it was quiet when I was getting ready.
- [Fraser] Caleb.
- It's not funny.
I thought the boys were being really quiet and
I come into Fraser's room and they
have literally got every single toy and
fancy dress outfit out, so I think the boys
are gonna have to help me clean this up.
- Bye!
- Wait, come back here.
So you can tell it's the school holidays here.
But now I'm gonna actually get Fraser to
make his bed.
Now that he is six he has to make his bed
every day and also get himself dressed
every morning and if he does that all
week he gets five pounds at the end of the week.
Which I think is a pretty good deal.
But I'm actually gonna leave all of this mess
because they're stull playing and you
just have to choose your battles,
so I'm just gonna leave it and then
the last thing that I'm gonna do is
go downstairs and make up our garden furniture
because we're having some friends 'round,
so I'm just gonna put all of the cushions
out on the sofas and then pass out.
So thank you so much for watching.
I really hope you enjoyed my morning
cleaning routine.
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Bye guys!