Hey guys and welcome back to my channel and welcome back to how to be happy
January so first off how cute is Zoe?! Does it make you happy?? No I'm just kidding
but seriously I thought it would be cool today to do a cleaning routine to kick
off the new year and share with you guys a little bit of my current routine,
show you some more of my bath tubs since I get so many questions about that and
what a day in my life recently has looked like when I'm trying to just kind
of pull my little fake homestead together I really think that your
surroundings can have a big impact on your well-being so without any more
chatting let's hop right in!
So the way that I like to schedule my day is
kind of like block scheduling. It's this really simple concept where I basically
try to put all like things together so days where I've housework to do I kind
of try to stack all of my housework together the same thing is true for if I
have meetings or I'm going out with friends I kind of try to make things
happen in bulk I'll try to stack all of my phone meetings, all of my computer
work together, all of my whatever it is I'm doing together and so today I knew I
was going to be doing a ton of laundry and I started off my day with my laundry
so I just went through and I folded everything I tend to wait to fold
everything till I'm done with all of my laundry but I had done a ton the night
before and I wanted to kind of like make room for laundry so I just kind of hung
everything up put it away all of that jazz
and then of course every cleaning video every routine video pretty much
everything I ever do at my house in general involves essential oils because
I'm just so obsessed with the way that they lift my spirits and the smells that
they give off and I love that I'm able to smell and breathe something in that
is natural and from the earth and it can really help make my like days where I'm
stuck inside especially through cold days so much more bearable and even
enjoyable I know that's like really dramatic sounding but it's really true I
love my oils. So now I'm gonna show you guys something that I have gotten so
many questions about and that is our bathtub
this is very appropriately going on how to be happy January by the way because
my bathtub brings me so much joy and this house did not have a bathtub in it
and it was the one thing that I did not like moving in it's actually a
stand alone tub that I bought off Amazon and I want to say it was somewhere in
the ballpark of $700 I'll link it down below and guys literally just delivered
it to my house, no plumbing was required and we put it in our shower that was
very large you can see we have a large shower we didn't need all that space I
was desperate for a tub but it's so light that's why you saw Dan was able to
flip it to its side I believe it's made out of acrylic and so I used my thieves
cleaner which is the all-natural cleaner you guys always see me use I only use
this around my house because I don't like the idea of breathing in some of
the toxic cleaning chemicals that are out there and I love the way it smells
but mostly I just love that it is a safe cleaner and we use it for everything so
you just saw us scrub the crap out of our tub yeah it's kind of gross we
really didn't do that great of a job but we gave it a good scrub down and then we
used it on some other places in the shower like the corners of the seats
where things were just starting to get a little bit grody
on this day we also decided to get a couple things done around the house like
random things that we'd been meaning to do for example the
that like that helps the rug in my office stay put
has always been a little too big so Dan set aside some time to help me measure
this out he's so much more detailed than me so this is totally the job that like
he wanted to do so he cut the mat a little bit smaller and then we took this
rug that so we had an accident on about a month ago it had been washed but it
was completely wrinkled so we decided to hang it up and we steamed out the
wrinkles because at least for me I didn't feel like it was like a cool
wrinkled look I felt like it was like 'a needed to be steamed wrinkled look' so we
hung it up steamed that and then of course I made
my way to my tower garden now I have been filming a tower garden diary like
another I don't know if you'd call it edition episode chapter and I'll be
updating you guys soon because I know I recently had that meltdown on Instagram
over my tower garden but I want to give you guys kind of an update of what I've
learned but on this day this actually might have been the day that I had the
meltdown I was going through and trimming things and I checked on my
little seedlings I do have some seedlings growing although honestly it's
up in the air as to whether I'm gonna keep those because of the drama with my
tower garden you guys will hear about it soon I'll upload that video soon. After I
did that I made my way back to the bathroom and I used my thieves again
this is just in a different bottle I don't know why I showed that that was
the original bottle and I cleaned off my counters and my mirrors and so I just
kind of went through and gave everything a nice scrub and lately I've actually
switched my toilet bowl cleaner also to be thieves a friend of mine on Instagram
Emily Wrecker she showed on her stories um using
thieves cleaner in her toilet and I was like are you kidding me that didn't even
occur to me and sure enough guys she was totally right
thieves works great on toilets so it's been awesome to remove another harsh
product from my life and so then Dan took our vacuum that I actually showed
we just got this recently I showed this in our guest room prep video for when my
parents were coming to town over the holidays and so he actually came in with
the vacuum. Vacuumed up the floor and then I did the janky
of cleaning the floors get ready for it peeps I took my thieves I sprayed and
then I literally just pretty much walked around my floor ah
Janky cleaning at its finest ladies and gentlemen!
So at this point we had
decided to change our sheets so we flipped those out I will say I do have
an update on our bed I have mentioned to you guys many times that I am a night
sweater depending on the time of the month like where I'm at at my cycle in
my cycle and also I think depending on my stress levels I think depending on
how I'm feeling and doing in terms of anxiety it will also reflect in my night
sweats so recently we did get a mattress topper I forgot to film it in this video
it actually might not have even been here when I filmed this video and then
I've also started using silica bags like little silica gel bags as part of my
mattress this is so gross but it was like damp from my night sweats so I
stuck the silica gel bags on top of the mattress and by the end of the day my
mattress was completely dry it was actually crazy so um then because Dan
loves to just disrupt things as much as possible he pulled Zoey in the bed and
made her go crazy. I love that so much I also have a pillowcase for my body
pillow which is great not just to keep clean but also because I night sweat all
over that baby too so I changed out all of the pillowcases and then at this
point I had changed out my last load of laundry and so I just folded it all.
umm did all that jazz, okay so I've always actually liked doing
laundry I've mentioned this before I find it um very calming and soothing but
also I like taking an inventory of the things that I own and like just taking
care of it so this has always been kind of like a
soothing thing to me but I have especially grown to like it lately I
don't know what is going on in my life maybe I'm just like reaching that age
where straight up nesting I mean that is probably what's going on but I really enjoy it.
by the way I did fill up my diffuser to
keep me company while I did the laundry and tonight I did tangerine and
peppermint and yes it was amazing I literally just keep filling my
diffusers throughout the day and honestly speaking of like mood and
happiness diffusing oils especially I was gonna say in this citrus department
but really whatever department floats your boat is really uplifting throughout
the day I'm not kidding I find oils to be a great emotional support.
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Side note, I thought I would show you this while I was doing my laundry I
got this sweater and this mustard sweater also from recently from a place
called shop pink blush it's actually like a maternity shop but they have
really great long sweaters I got this one too so if you're still in the hunt
for long sweaters I highly recommend them because I love them.
They, um, you want to be careful when you wash them because one of them when I wash them it
already ripped a hole so just be gentle but I love the fit and they're just super duper cozy.
*music*
and at this point guys we have reached the end of the day so
that's it for this video. I hope you guys are having a great 2019 so far and I
really am continuing to hope and pray that no matter what the topics are of
these videos for how to be happy January that you're able to get something out of
these and hopefully feel encouraged in all areas of your life I really think
that small things in life can not only bring happiness but fulfillment and
glory to God because I think all things can be done in that kind of spirit so
I'm giving you a hug through this video right now I will see you guys back here
hopefully on Friday and I hope you have a great rest of your day
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