December 20, 2023 • 28 mins
Picture this: you're in the midst of the holiday season, balancing family, festivities, and an ever-growing to-do list. Amid all this, how do you find the time for self-care? Welcome to another heartfelt episode of Five Years Time where we explore this subject with depth and authenticity. Join me, Grace, as I candidly share my journey of intentionally slowing down, prioritizing self-care, and protecting my space amidst the festive whirlwind. I let you in on the rejuvenating effects of a recent facial and the calming power of setting intentions and meditation.
What if there was a way to balance productivity and self-care without feeling overwhelmed? Let's venture into the concept of slow living, particularly as we navigate the cold winter months. We'll talk about our daily routines, from relaxed mornings to productive afternoons, and the joy of having delicious snacks within arm's reach. Discover the refreshing benefits of a morning walk, a dose of sunshine, and how these simple pleasures can set the tone for your day. We also tackle that familiar feeling of overwhelm that can creep up during routine activities like grocery shopping and meal prep, sharing personal stories and strategies for seeking support and adjusting routines based on the season.
Lastly, we'll delve into the art of planning ahead and making every moment count. From booking appointments and treating them as special moments to planning ahead for family activities during the holiday season – it's all about infusing joy into our everyday tasks. I'll also share a delightful seafood pie recipe, perfect for both special occasions and regular weeknight meals. And as we transition into mom mode and hibernation, we'll discuss the importance of making time for ourselves and finding balance between our roles and responsibilities. So, whether you're a parent or simply someone trying to navigate life's busy periods, this episode is a gentle reminder to prioritize self-care and find those precious moments of calm. Don't miss it!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hello cuties, I'm starting off with a big yolll.
I'm tired.
Good morning, welcome back toFiverr's Time podcast with your
host, grace.
I'm so excited that you'vejoined us for day 8 of PODMAS.
Today we are talking all aboutmoments for me or you, aka
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self-love, self-care, especiallyleading up to this time of year
.
It can be so busy and sooverwhelming and sometimes just
go, go, go, go go.
I've actually had a prettyrelaxing December in the sense
that I am not overbooked, I amnot over busy and I was very
intentional about that, which isabout moments for me, but I
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know that not everyone is ableto do that or has lots of family
things going on or celebrationswith friends, etc.
Busy times of work, working inretail or health care or
anything, etc.
It can feel very busy aroundthis time.
Even working in what do I workin, digital creation space can
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feel very busy If you want toreally ramp up the brand deals.
I know that this is the time ofyear that all of those
businesses have the chuchang tospend and are also looking for
people to help with theirmarketing because it is the
season of buying.
But I did not sign up for abusy season and I'm glad that I
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did that and that I slowed downand that I was really protecting
my space.
So I'm happy that I had thatability.
But, that being said, I'mfeeling so tired today I think I
just like have been very go, go, go.
I also did want to stay notbusy, but I did want to do this
12 days of Vlogmas or Vlogmas Iknew I was going to say Vlogmas
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at some point of Podmas, becauseI know that for myself.
I feel that I love podcasts.
Podcasts are one of thosethings in my life that I listen
to when I'm putting road tosleep, I love to listen to on my
walked or long drives.
I know that this time of yearcan feel lonely for some, or you
are looking for accountabilitywhen you want to get out on
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those winter walks, and that apodcast is something that can
support you through that, and soI wanted to create this podcast
series just for that reason.
But also it has been, I guess,tiring in the sense of like
having to emotionally shareevery day.
But honestly, I'm loving it.
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I'm loving it.
I think just today I'm justtired.
You know, cute tirednesshappens, and that's why I
thought moments for me would bea good episode for this, for
this day in general.
I also had a facial recently,which I wasn't planning on doing
.
I usually get a facial once ayear from my beloved Cassandra
at Calm Down Club.
She's literally amazing.
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I've never had it.
I remember the first time Iever had a facial, it was like
revolutionary for me because Inever had one before and it was
like, oh my gosh, wow, havingsomeone slather your face with
goodness for an hour is like noother experience.
But then I would try toreplicate that and anytime I got
a facial, wherever I went, Ialways felt like it was like, so
salesy, like I had ones wherepeople were like fully talking
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the entire time about theproducts they were putting my
face and they were like, oh yeah, you need this for that and
this for that.
And I was like cute, I'm hereto chill, I don't want to be
sold to.
And then I kind of realized thelike world of facials and like
beauty treatments and thingslike that.
It's very salesy, but anyways,cassandra actually used to work
in a world like that and now shehas a studio that she runs out
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of her house and it is literallyit's called the Calm Down Club
and it's literally that's whatit is, and I think she has this
beautiful philosophy where youcome here to really calm down
and she doesn't work throughsales and obviously she sells
stuff.
She creates so many beautifulproducts but, like you, will not
be sold to pretty much yourentire treatment unless maybe
you ask for something specific.
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But I think she is justphenomenal and so I I've gotten
I think this is my third facialwith her.
I think I treat myself usuallyonce a year, usually do it
around my birthday.
I didn't do it around mybirthday this year and then she
had posted something of someonegetting a facial recently and I
was like, oh my gosh, I needthat.
Like I was just watching thefingers, like like you know all
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you know those things.
Have you ever seen the videosof people getting facial
treatments?
Oh, they look so nice.
Anyways, I was like I need thatin my life and then I didn't
book it.
And then I was watching LoveIsland Australia, which, yes,
I've been watching Love IslandAustralia.
I love it, although I am at avery lull part of the season and
sometimes there is no lullparts and then that's when you
know it's like a reallyentertaining season and
sometimes they're all are lullparts and you're just like Come
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on, we got to get to cast somemore.
Bring cast some more for alittle more spice, which I feel
like is why they include castsome more.
Anyways, long story short,never short is that there's one
girl and I don't know if she'slike an esthetician or facialist
or anything by trade, but shewas.
This one guy was like hey, canyou give me a facial?
And I thought she was justgonna put like a sheet mask on
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him or whatever.
But she did the whole thing inthe massage and I was watching
and I was like I need that in mylife.
And then I booked an ASAP.
I was like she's an opening,this, I need it in my life, and
I'm so glad I did.
I really did need that in mylife.
And she always starts it offlike if you have ever gone to a
meditation class or restorativeyoga when they really tell you
to like set your intentions andwhatever.
She always starts it off withlike a little bit of that type
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of meditation to it.
And I love Loved forcemeditation, not force.
But I love being in a placewhere, like I literally cannot,
I have to sit and think aboutwhatever it is or be intentional
with that moment.
I love when I'm put in aposition like that, which is why
I love going to Restorativeyoga classes and things like
that.
But yeah, she started by saying, like, choose a word for this
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Treatment and like what you wantto set your intention for,
whatever.
And so she starts by doing thatand at the end she asked you to
do a final breathe out andbreathe out into that, whatever
your intention was and like, alot of the time it's like peace
or calm or something like that.
But I chose energy.
I was like I am just lookingfor really good energy in my
life right now, and so in mymind I was like I want to be
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energized, I want to feel thatenergeticness, I want to feel
like alive and Just like all ofthose good Vibes.
And I did leave feeling thatway and so it was just like one
of those things that was like sowonderful now, while I'm here
feeling so Drained today, noteven it's just a moment, it's
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literally a moment.
Right now I'm just like oh, I'mjust feeling kind of like and I
kind of just want to like vegout and the crown season is out.
The second half.
I told you guys I watched thefirst half like whenever it
first came out I didn't realizeit was gonna be so far apart.
So now the second half is out,like I just want to sit down and
watch that, but I just haven'thad the opportunity to like, I
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have not had a chance to justlike sit and binge a show,
except for Love Island, which Ican have on the background when
I'm doing tasks and things likethat.
But the crown it's like I needto be Present, present and
watching.
I also only have Netflix on theTV, so it has to be like on the
TV.
I can't have it on my iPadwhere I can move around and do
things.
So anyways, long story short istoday we were talking about
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moments for me, embracingourselves and making sure we set
ourselves up for success.
Because I want to be, I'm inthe giving spirit of the season.
I want to be Available, andthat doesn't mean gifts.
We already had our giftconversation where you, where I,
stand with gifts and things andstuff.
But I want to be able to givemyself and my qualities and my
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personal gifts and my Justmyself to the people in my life
as best as I can.
I want to be the most present.
I want to be the most just likeHolly Jolly this Christmas
season and really enjoy thattime with others.
But I can't do that if I'm ifI'm too much, if I'm giving too
much or not giving enough tomyself.
So I have just decided thatthis year is the year where I'm
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actually gonna take time to stepback and reflect and think
about and Put in place supportfor myself so that I can be my
best version for all the thingsand people and stuff that I have
to do.
And so one was booking a facial.
It doesn't have to be a facial,obviously, but just booking
something for me.
For me, that's a facial,because that is where I can
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really just be my most Zen, andI also have been trying to take
time to have slow mornings everymorning, which row has been
really appreciating.
So I'm glad because Sometimesshe gets up and she's like let's
go, let's eat, let's do likethis.
And my mornings are totallydirected by row because,
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honestly, I cannot do.
I feel like I'm always pushedlike different reels or
Instagram accounts or tick tocksor whatever, where people are
like get up before your kids,yeah, get your day going before
them.
It makes all the difference.
And like, I always see that andI'm like, yes, I would love to,
like, I am such a morningperson, I love doing that stuff,
but Rosie wakes up at like five, five-fifteen.
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I am not waking up at four,thirty to start my day.
None, none, none, no.
We just both happen to bemorning people.
So we have to start our daytogether and right now I am in
such a Slow, cozy, morning modewhich I'm just totally embracing
, especially now that we're onChristmas holidays and
everything.
It just feels so good.
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There are times where it'soverwhelming, when we spend too
much time in bed, and then Ifeel very rushed, but right now
it feels very much part of theroutine, like it feels good.
And that's where I always tryand listen to myself, because I
know some days it's better if weget out of bed and I get in the
shower right away, likesometimes that's my first thing.
It's like okay, row, we're up,here's some milk, watch a show.
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I'm getting in the shower andgetting dressed and starting my
day right away.
But right now it just feels sogood to wake up and have my bowl
of cream of wheat.
You guys know I'm freakingobsessed with my dipping my dose
in the cream of wheat and Watchsome love Island.
She can watch a little show andwe can just chill and have cozy
mornings and it's so cute and Imake her a little snack plate
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and then I'll be.
I'd like the night before, likein the evening when I'm putting
her to bed, I actually ourlamps in our room are too bright
, so sometimes she'll come intomy room, sometimes I'll go into
hers and hers she is a littleChristmas tree, which is perfect
, it's just enough light.
But like the lamps in our room,if we turn them on it's like
it's too much for the cozymorning.
It's like I don't want it to beday-day time yet, like it's
still cozy morning.
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And so I actually found alittle red and beige silk scarf
that she was playing with.
That is mine, I think, fromsomewhere.
Anyways, I put it over one ofour lamps and it's like the
perfect lighting.
And so the other night I wasputting her to bed and she likes
to use the scarf to like wrapit around her baby here little
stuffed bunny, and I've beenkeeping at my side table so that
I have it in the morning when Iput it over our lamp.
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But she Was like oh, I want toplay with it, baby wants to
sleep with the tonight.
I was like okay, but like, ifyou come into our room in the
morning, can you just rememberto bring it?
And she was like or can we putit next to my bed tonight?
And she was like no, mommy, I'mgonna remember to bring it in
in the morning.
I'll come, I'll bring baby, I'mgonna bring the scarf, I'm
gonna bring whatever otherthings.
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She always has a list and shealways does.
She always comes prepared evenfirst thing.
When she wakes up she remembers.
And she was like and then wecan lay in bed and we can have
some snack and watch a show, andit'll be so cozy, mommy, it's
like best friend, cozy morning.
I'm like queen, yes, so justsupporting myself with those
cozy mornings.
It's been so, so, so, sowonderful.
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And on the other hand of thatis that I'm fully embracing,
like 430 is like bedtime for me,like not actual bedtime, but
like we are winding down for thenight, like I am fully
embracing that and I have noguilt in it.
Like I find that like at 3 I goto pick up a row from school
and it's like I'm like, oh yeah,it's the day like 2, 33 o'clock
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.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I feel soenergized, the day's gonna be
so great.
It's like I get my second windand then I go to pick up row and
like we will usually go dosomething Like maybe go play at
the park or play outside withneighbors or whatever.
And then it's like we come inand it's like 430 and I'm like
queen, we're just chilling,right.
She's like, yeah, we're justchilling.
It's like we just hang, make areally slow dinner, and trouble
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will sometimes come up from thebasement and be like hey, what's
for dinner?
And I'll be like I don't know,can you do something?
And then he'll make dinner orI'll have had something like in
the oven she pan, we're livingfor she pans slow, easy living
right now.
Just throw it in.
And by slow I just mean like Idon't need to be in the kitchen,
like cooking 24-7, payingattention to the meal, like just
pop it in the oven.
And so I have just been likeLoving that and I feel like it's
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made me so much more productiveduring the day, like this is a
new revelation, revelation,revolution, whatever for the
winter time for me, like I amusually, like I usually feel
like, especially on gloomy daysit's been sunny recently, which
has been so nice, but especiallyon gloomy days, which I find
sometimes can be so, so much inthe winter, like you won't see
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the Sun until literally 430 whenit's like falling beneath the,
beneath the clouds, and all of asudden this is beautiful pink
sky and you're like I've livedfor this moment.
But like, on days like thatwhere you don't see the Sun,
like I find it really hard tofind energy and Productiveness.
And so this schedule has beenlike it has been working so well
for me and I'm just totallyfeeding into it.
So those slow, lovely morningspent in bed, and then finally,
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and then, and then the best partis so I only eat like the
Cereal, like my cream of wheat,and Roe his or snack plate, and
then eventually we do get out ofbed, we let the dog out, we
have to get up, whatever, andthat's when I go downstairs and
I make my coffee and I'm mysweet, my sweet something.
Right now I've been enjoying myhello dollies and my shortbread
cookies delish, but I have mysweet something With my coffee
and it's like, it's like alittle something lovely.
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A little something lovely toget myself out of bed and just
like Start my day so slow andlovely.
It's been so nice, likeliterally it's been so nice I
could cry it's been so nice.
And then I drop Ro off and I goon my morning walk which has
just been so wonderful to havethat fresh air and that sunshine
even if it's not sunny, youknow what I mean like just like
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that fresh air feeling.
And then I come back and I justfeel so productive and I work,
work, work, work until I go pickup Ro.
And then it's like I know onceI pick up Ro, we're gonna have
some fun together and then we'rejust gonna wind down slow for
the night and just chill, chillthe f out.
It's literally kind of my dreamand sometimes life like that
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feels like.
Sometimes in the evening, whenthings are like that, I don't
know, sometimes I just feel likeyou, feel like you're too all
day in the wintertime and thenit's like it's dark and I didn't
do anything.
But I'm finding, because I'mhaving that slow morning,
productive day and whatever.
It's been great and sometimesproductive for me is literally
like you all know, I love myMonday show and laundry and I'll
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just watch shows All day andfold and do laundry all day and
that's like beautiful, beautiful, sometimes productive for me is
literally just making the bedsin the morning, or like I'm
happy I did that and now I'mjust gonna veg and chill out,
like I just feed into whatevermy mood is that day, when I have
the ability to do that.
Some days it's like okay, I gotdeadlines, I got things to do,
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I need to get going and I wasland, and it's like I'm not
really matching this energy.
But right now I'm being verybalanced, like I'm being ahead
of the game.
I'm not doing things lastminute.
I'm feeling so much betterabout it because I'm having just
like those slow mornings andevenings.
It's been so, so nice.
So, yeah, that's something I'mdoing to support myself right
now, and I can't say this enoughbut having wonderful and
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delicious Snacky things around,like things to make snack plates
, I am such like, I feel likesnack plates are such a winter
thing for me, especially aroundthat like a winter afternoon
thing for me, especially aroundthat like 1.32 o'clock mark,
it's like, ooh, I just needsomething that's gonna get me to
dinner and I just want a bit ofeverything and so just having
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those types of food I have beenso bad about keeping our fridge
stocked.
Recently I've just been feelingoverwhelmed.
I actually like I'm almost onthe verge of doing grocery
delivery.
I actually like groceryshopping but I just like and I
find grocery deliveryoverwhelming.
I've only ever done it oncefrom Walmart, but I actually saw
Viola who does the Farm Boygroceries the same people as
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Longos.
I actually saw that truck.
I didn't think they had FarmBoy grocery delivery here, but I
saw the truck in a neighborhoodclose by so I was like, oh,
maybe you can get it.
And I was like maybe I'll dogrocery delivery.
But then also grocery deliverykind of overwhelms me because
then you have to know what youwant and like it looks different
.
I always like going in thestore better, but right now I'm
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just like not in a good positionfor being prepared with food
and so the least I can do isjust have a few nibbly bits in
the house, like some proteincookies and some fruits and
veggies, like just things likethat.
Like I'm not in a meal moderight now.
I'm just having a really hardtime with being prepared and
ready with meals because I'mjust in that slow down era, so I
need Trevor to take over inthat part.
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I need to tell him to take overthat part.
Trevor's so good at cookingmeals, like he used to do all
our meals when we first gotmarried, because I would get
home later from work and so hewould have dinner ready Like he
was the king, and he used to doall the grocery shopping until I
like made it my thing likegrocery shopping.
So are we just to actually doit together?
Like there was a point where hewould do it if we didn't have
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time, but then we always did ittogether on Saturdays.
Now we like never do ittogether.
But anyways, long story shortis I just need Trevor to start
taking that over and I need tolet him know that I want to take
that over and he'll be so goodat it.
He's so good, I'm so excited.
I actually feel a whole weightoff for my shoulders right now
knowing that Trevor's gonna becooking for the foreseeable
future until.
I feel like I'm in that type ofmood, and that's what it's about
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.
It's about give and take, andthis is what this episode is
about.
It's about reflecting on whereyou are right now and how you
can support yourself andsometimes you just gotta lean on
your support people.
And also another thing when itcomes to that is just like also
being good with things notalways being the same routine
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they always have.
I talk about this all the timehow I am a routinely person but
my routines are short lived,like I am not the same routine
forever and I feel likesometimes my routines have
seasonal flux, fluctuation.
Fluctuation Is that itFluctuation to them.
Like I find sometimes, likeright now I'm telling you how
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I'm in my like dark, my darknessera, not me dark, but like it's
dark a lot.
So like I'm really leaning intothe darkness and the relaxation
that comes with that and therest and the restorativeness.
And then during those daytimewindows where those short light
windows, I'm being a little moreof my productive self and so
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that's working for me now when,like later on in the summer,
that probably won't work for me,like when it's summertime, it's
like after dinner I wanna beout, I wanna go to the pool, I
wanna play with the neighbors, Iwanna go get ice cream, I wanna
go to the park.
Like I wanna do that stuff, Iwanna spend time at the splash
pad, whatever it is which is sofunny.
Thinking about that now, it'slike I literally could not even
think about possibly doing thatright now, like no, 430, I'm
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like pajama's on fire, madeclove tea brewing, so.
But yeah, I just think likethat's the important thing is
touching base with yourself andreflecting on how you're feeling
right now.
Because, honestly, just talkingto you about the whole grocery
thing and how I've just beenfeeling so unmotivated with food
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and groceries and stuff likethat, and then all of a sudden
making that plan right now whereit's like I'm gonna tell Trevor
like hey, can you go groceryshopping and can you start
making the dinners.
And it's like wow, wow, wow,wow, wow.
And I just wanna stay there.
Like nobody's not been cooking,like we've just been having
whatever, pulling things out ofthe freezer here there, whatever
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, and figuring out last minutedinners, and Trevor's been
stepping in too to help out withthat.
But like now that I know thatI'm gonna give that to him as a
responsibility, I'm like wow,we're gonna eat bomb ass food
for the next little while andI'm not gonna have to be
responsible for it.
I'm so excited and he's gonnabe happy about knowing that he's
responsible for the groceriesbecause, like, he just wants to
know what he needs to do.
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Because sometimes he'll be like,hey, I'm gonna go to the store,
like he'll go to the gym in themorning and be like, okay, I'm
gonna pick up milk and eggs,like you know some essentials
that we need, that we've run outof coffee beans, whatever, like
, what do you need?
And then I get reallyoverwhelmed.
I'm like, what do I need?
What do I need?
What do I need?
And then I'm like, whatever, itdoesn't matter.
And he's like, well, what arewe gonna have for dinner?
I'm like I don't know.
And it was like too much for meto think of where.
He just is like, is theresomething you want for dinner?
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Cause, like, I'll get it, I canmake it whatever.
But it's like, now that I knowI'm giving that to him, wow, I
feel so much better.
Well, I feel so much better.
So that's really great.
That's really great.
I can't wait.
I can't wait for this episodeto end so I can go tell them.
But, yeah, what are things thatyou're doing, that you're
supporting yourself through thisbusy end of the year and also,
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if it's not busy, justsupporting yourself through this
time of the year.
I just feel like I am realizingthat I need to put myself first
sometimes and it's hard and Ifeel overwhelmed when I go to do
that.
But yeah, I'm also thinkingabout we're going to have a
whole episode about New Year'sand New Year's New Meet.
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No, just kidding About the NewYear's and how I like to look at
the New Year's and resolutionsand all of that.
But I'm also starting to putinto place things for next year
that I wish that I've donesooner.
I never planned my appointmentsahead of time.
I always book them the week of,or I think of it and then I
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book it as soon as I possiblycan.
Sometimes it has to be a coupleweeks because there's no
appointments or whatever,whereas I want to start booking
my appointments so that they'rereally thoughtfully planned and
that it's not a oh, I have to godo my appointment.
It's like I'm excited about it,this is my me moment this week
or whatever, and so I just wantto have them more spread out so
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that they don't all end up inthe same week or so where it's
like, oh OK, this week I'm goingto have this and this next week
I'm going to have that, andit's like once a week thing for
me.
That's things that I have to doanyways, but then it's like I'm
making it a moment.
So, yeah, those are things thatI'm working on right now and
I'm feeling good about it.
I'm feeling good, but I'm justreally feeling zen that I went
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and got that facial the otherday and that I have just put
myself first that way, because Ido feel like in that hour I
really did embark that, orembark, I don't even know what
I'm saying.
Cutes, I already told you I wastired today.
Ok, but embrace that word andthat was energy for me because I
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just really want to have thosegood vibrations.
I I'm just feeling.
I'm feeling really good, eventhough I'm feeling really tired
right now.
I need a sip of water.
I should have put somethingwith caffeine in here.
Hmm, delicious.
Hi, cuties, I'm not going tolie.
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If you're watching the YouTube,you know I just stopped over a
second.
I just had to go to thebathroom so bad, you know and
you just need to tinkle.
Yeah, I got to tinkle Now, Igot to sip.
But, cutes, now that I'verelieved myself, let's talk
about the recipe of the day,because moments for me also
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include.
I just talked about how I'mhanding off my cooking, but this
isn't what I'm talking about.
Something special, a littlewhatever.
That's like stress free, butfeeding the family sometimes is
going to be so freaking,overwhelming, and we all know
that.
Anyways, today we are cookingmy mom's favorite.
This is a staple.
She makes for Christmas.
Sometimes she makes it forEaster.
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It is so freaking good.
It is a fish pie.
It is a creamy delicious.
I call it fish pie.
It's actually seafood.
It's a seafood pie.
It's got shrimps and scallopsand fish and potatoes and creamy
sauce and then it's all toppedoff with a filo top.
Oh, crispy, crunchy, delicious.
It is so freaking good and itis like I feel like it's like
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something that well, I guessonly seafood lovers like, but
it's like something thateverybody really enjoys.
If you like seafood and it'ssomething simple, you just got
to throw a bunch of stufftogether and then throw it in
the oven and then let it sit abit to thicken up the sauce.
Oh, it's so good, so cutious.
If you're looking for somethingdelicious to make for a special
occasion, because seafood's alittle bit pricey, but I mean,
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you can make it for a weeknightmeal too.
It is so good and the leftoversare equally delicious.
So go check out that onInstagram, on TikTok, on YouTube
.
You know the drill already.
Come on, we're on day.
What are we on?
I don't remember anymore.
Eight and it is Tuesday, andtoday is Rose's last day of
school.
So we are officially enteringHolly Jolly Festivity season.
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Meet her jams, jams, like pumpof the jams.
All we've been listening to iscrazy frog.
And there's crazy frogChristmas.
Now, last Christmas I gave youmy heart and she loves we Be on
my free.
Literally.
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That's all you ever wonder whatI'm listening to on the way to
school drop off.
It's just crazy frog.
And just last week she wasobsessed with Larry silly songs
by Larry from Veggie Tales forlike a month, and now we're
gonna be on a crazy frog kickfor a month.
But honestly, the crazy frog isgetting me hyped.
Every day I'm like, yeah, yeah,yeah, we are the champions.
But yeah, that is what we'reheading into is the Holly Jolly
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season of just me and my girlevery day.
And then Trevor is actually offthis year I think I already told
you this but he's off next week, the week between, like,
christmas and New Year's, which,like, he's never just off.
So we're all gonna be just offJust hanging out.
I don't know what we're gonnaget up to, but me and we're
always like to do our littledaily adventure For Wednesday,
thursday, friday three days,three days, three daily
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adventures.
Probably go over to NiagaraFalls one day.
Hit up some tourist attractionthere.
Try to think of other thingsthat we'll do.
I will think of new, fun,interesting things we haven't
done yet.
You got, I look, gotta look up,gotta look up what's going on.
I do want to take her skating,but Trevor probably wants to do
that too.
So maybe we'll do that on theweekend or next week.
That's a good.
Between Christmas and New Year's.
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Oh, I wonder if there is kidsChristmas movie.
I guess wish.
I Haven't heard good thingsabout wish.
Tell me if you liked wish.
Should we go see wish, becauserow always likes a movie.
Maybe we'll go see wish.
I keep saying it's such a big SH.
Yeah, that's really.
That's really what's up.
I just like I'm trying toembrace my last day of
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independence Before I go intofull mom mode.
But honestly, I love full mommode.
It's always so fun, it's alwaysso fun and then at the end of
it I'm like I need a break.
I Need to watch my shows.
The crown, oh yeah.
When am I gonna get to watchthe crown now, thinking about it
, it's like, hmm, when am Igonna get to watch the crown?
I Maybe one day it'll stay uplate.
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That will never happen.
I literally it.
I didn't fall asleep at like839, actually was stayed up till
like 11 the other night.
I always regret that, though,because then I'm up at five with
row and it's like just go tobed early, just soak it all in
it's hibernation nationhibernation station.
Okay, cute.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
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We have a shorter episode today,mainly because I'm exhausted,
and that's just where we're at.
I love you all so much, sendingyou hugs and kisses.
Go make some seafood pie.
It's literally so good.
I am so excited that I get toexperience it twice.
The best thing about making thefamily recipes is that I know
I'm gonna get to taste it againon Christmas, or I don't know if
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my mom's making it this yearfor Christmas or Easter or
whatever, but I'll get to tasteit again soon, and I already get
to have it now.
It's like twice the goodness.
Okay, I love you all so much.
Hugs and kisses.
Don't forget to take care ofyourself and reach out to your
support people and book thingsthat make you have a little me
moment, whether that be whateveryou want it to be.
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Okay, love you, cuties, oh.
Hello cuties, I'm starting off with a big yolll.
I'm tired.
Good morning, welcome back toFiverr's Time podcast with your
host, grace.
I'm so excited that you'vejoined us for day 8 of PODMAS.
Today we are talking all aboutmoments for me or you, aka
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self-love, self-care, especiallyleading up to this time of year
.
It can be so busy and sooverwhelming and sometimes just
go, go, go, go go.
I've actually had a prettyrelaxing December in the sense
that I am not overbooked, I amnot over busy and I was very
intentional about that, which isabout moments for me, but I
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know that not everyone is ableto do that or has lots of family
things going on or celebrationswith friends, etc.
Busy times of work, working inretail or health care or
anything, etc.
It can feel very busy aroundthis time.
Even working in what do I workin, digital creation space can
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feel very busy If you want toreally ramp up the brand deals.
I know that this is the time ofyear that all of those
businesses have the chuchang tospend and are also looking for
people to help with theirmarketing because it is the
season of buying.
But I did not sign up for abusy season and I'm glad that I
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did that and that I slowed downand that I was really protecting
my space.
So I'm happy that I had thatability.
But, that being said, I'mfeeling so tired today I think I
just like have been very go, go, go.
I also did want to stay notbusy, but I did want to do this
12 days of Vlogmas or Vlogmas Iknew I was going to say Vlogmas
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at some point of Podmas, becauseI know that for myself.
I feel that I love podcasts.
Podcasts are one of thosethings in my life that I listen
to when I'm putting road tosleep, I love to listen to on my
walked or long drives.
I know that this time of yearcan feel lonely for some, or you
are looking for accountabilitywhen you want to get out on
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those winter walks, and that apodcast is something that can
support you through that, and soI wanted to create this podcast
series just for that reason.
But also it has been, I guess,tiring in the sense of like
having to emotionally shareevery day.
But honestly, I'm loving it.
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I'm loving it.
I think just today I'm justtired.
You know, cute tirednesshappens, and that's why I
thought moments for me would bea good episode for this, for
this day in general.
I also had a facial recently,which I wasn't planning on doing
.
I usually get a facial once ayear from my beloved Cassandra
at Calm Down Club.
She's literally amazing.
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I've never had it.
I remember the first time Iever had a facial, it was like
revolutionary for me because Inever had one before and it was
like, oh my gosh, wow, havingsomeone slather your face with
goodness for an hour is like noother experience.
But then I would try toreplicate that and anytime I got
a facial, wherever I went, Ialways felt like it was like, so
salesy, like I had ones wherepeople were like fully talking
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the entire time about theproducts they were putting my
face and they were like, oh yeah, you need this for that and
this for that.
And I was like cute, I'm hereto chill, I don't want to be
sold to.
And then I kind of realized thelike world of facials and like
beauty treatments and thingslike that.
It's very salesy, but anyways,cassandra actually used to work
in a world like that and now shehas a studio that she runs out
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of her house and it is literallyit's called the Calm Down Club
and it's literally that's whatit is, and I think she has this
beautiful philosophy where youcome here to really calm down
and she doesn't work throughsales and obviously she sells
stuff.
She creates so many beautifulproducts but, like you, will not
be sold to pretty much yourentire treatment unless maybe
you ask for something specific.
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But I think she is justphenomenal and so I I've gotten
I think this is my third facialwith her.
I think I treat myself usuallyonce a year, usually do it
around my birthday.
I didn't do it around mybirthday this year and then she
had posted something of someonegetting a facial recently and I
was like, oh my gosh, I needthat.
Like I was just watching thefingers, like like you know all
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you know those things.
Have you ever seen the videosof people getting facial
treatments?
Oh, they look so nice.
Anyways, I was like I need thatin my life and then I didn't
book it.
And then I was watching LoveIsland Australia, which, yes,
I've been watching Love IslandAustralia.
I love it, although I am at avery lull part of the season and
sometimes there is no lullparts and then that's when you
know it's like a reallyentertaining season and
sometimes they're all are lullparts and you're just like Come
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on, we got to get to cast somemore.
Bring cast some more for alittle more spice, which I feel
like is why they include castsome more.
Anyways, long story short,never short is that there's one
girl and I don't know if she'slike an esthetician or facialist
or anything by trade, but shewas.
This one guy was like hey, canyou give me a facial?
And I thought she was justgonna put like a sheet mask on
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him or whatever.
But she did the whole thing inthe massage and I was watching
and I was like I need that in mylife.
And then I booked an ASAP.
I was like she's an opening,this, I need it in my life, and
I'm so glad I did.
I really did need that in mylife.
And she always starts it offlike if you have ever gone to a
meditation class or restorativeyoga when they really tell you
to like set your intentions andwhatever.
She always starts it off withlike a little bit of that type
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of meditation to it.
And I love Loved forcemeditation, not force.
But I love being in a placewhere, like I literally cannot,
I have to sit and think aboutwhatever it is or be intentional
with that moment.
I love when I'm put in aposition like that, which is why
I love going to Restorativeyoga classes and things like
that.
But yeah, she started by saying, like, choose a word for this
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Treatment and like what you wantto set your intention for,
whatever.
And so she starts by doing thatand at the end she asked you to
do a final breathe out andbreathe out into that, whatever
your intention was and like, alot of the time it's like peace
or calm or something like that.
But I chose energy.
I was like I am just lookingfor really good energy in my
life right now, and so in mymind I was like I want to be
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energized, I want to feel thatenergeticness, I want to feel
like alive and Just like all ofthose good Vibes.
And I did leave feeling thatway and so it was just like one
of those things that was like sowonderful now, while I'm here
feeling so Drained today, noteven it's just a moment, it's
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literally a moment.
Right now I'm just like oh, I'mjust feeling kind of like and I
kind of just want to like vegout and the crown season is out.
The second half.
I told you guys I watched thefirst half like whenever it
first came out I didn't realizeit was gonna be so far apart.
So now the second half is out,like I just want to sit down and
watch that, but I just haven'thad the opportunity to like, I
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have not had a chance to justlike sit and binge a show,
except for Love Island, which Ican have on the background when
I'm doing tasks and things likethat.
But the crown it's like I needto be Present, present and
watching.
I also only have Netflix on theTV, so it has to be like on the
TV.
I can't have it on my iPadwhere I can move around and do
things.
So anyways, long story short istoday we were talking about
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moments for me, embracingourselves and making sure we set
ourselves up for success.
Because I want to be, I'm inthe giving spirit of the season.
I want to be Available, andthat doesn't mean gifts.
We already had our giftconversation where you, where I,
stand with gifts and things andstuff.
But I want to be able to givemyself and my qualities and my
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personal gifts and my Justmyself to the people in my life
as best as I can.
I want to be the most present.
I want to be the most just likeHolly Jolly this Christmas
season and really enjoy thattime with others.
But I can't do that if I'm ifI'm too much, if I'm giving too
much or not giving enough tomyself.
So I have just decided thatthis year is the year where I'm
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actually gonna take time to stepback and reflect and think
about and Put in place supportfor myself so that I can be my
best version for all the thingsand people and stuff that I have
to do.
And so one was booking a facial.
It doesn't have to be a facial,obviously, but just booking
something for me.
For me, that's a facial,because that is where I can
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really just be my most Zen, andI also have been trying to take
time to have slow mornings everymorning, which row has been
really appreciating.
So I'm glad because Sometimesshe gets up and she's like let's
go, let's eat, let's do likethis.
And my mornings are totallydirected by row because,
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honestly, I cannot do.
I feel like I'm always pushedlike different reels or
Instagram accounts or tick tocksor whatever, where people are
like get up before your kids,yeah, get your day going before
them.
It makes all the difference.
And like, I always see that andI'm like, yes, I would love to,
like, I am such a morningperson, I love doing that stuff,
but Rosie wakes up at like five, five-fifteen.
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I am not waking up at four,thirty to start my day.
None, none, none, no.
We just both happen to bemorning people.
So we have to start our daytogether and right now I am in
such a Slow, cozy, morning modewhich I'm just totally embracing
, especially now that we're onChristmas holidays and
everything.
It just feels so good.
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There are times where it'soverwhelming, when we spend too
much time in bed, and then Ifeel very rushed, but right now
it feels very much part of theroutine, like it feels good.
And that's where I always tryand listen to myself, because I
know some days it's better if weget out of bed and I get in the
shower right away, likesometimes that's my first thing.
It's like okay, row, we're up,here's some milk, watch a show.
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I'm getting in the shower andgetting dressed and starting my
day right away.
But right now it just feels sogood to wake up and have my bowl
of cream of wheat.
You guys know I'm freakingobsessed with my dipping my dose
in the cream of wheat and Watchsome love Island.
She can watch a little show andwe can just chill and have cozy
mornings and it's so cute and Imake her a little snack plate
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and then I'll be.
I'd like the night before, likein the evening when I'm putting
her to bed, I actually ourlamps in our room are too bright
, so sometimes she'll come intomy room, sometimes I'll go into
hers and hers she is a littleChristmas tree, which is perfect
, it's just enough light.
But like the lamps in our room,if we turn them on it's like
it's too much for the cozymorning.
It's like I don't want it to beday-day time yet, like it's
still cozy morning.
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And so I actually found alittle red and beige silk scarf
that she was playing with.
That is mine, I think, fromsomewhere.
Anyways, I put it over one ofour lamps and it's like the
perfect lighting.
And so the other night I wasputting her to bed and she likes
to use the scarf to like wrapit around her baby here little
stuffed bunny, and I've beenkeeping at my side table so that
I have it in the morning when Iput it over our lamp.
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But she Was like oh, I want toplay with it, baby wants to
sleep with the tonight.
I was like okay, but like, ifyou come into our room in the
morning, can you just rememberto bring it?
And she was like or can we putit next to my bed tonight?
And she was like no, mommy, I'mgonna remember to bring it in
in the morning.
I'll come, I'll bring baby, I'mgonna bring the scarf, I'm
gonna bring whatever otherthings.
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She always has a list and shealways does.
She always comes prepared evenfirst thing.
When she wakes up she remembers.
And she was like and then wecan lay in bed and we can have
some snack and watch a show, andit'll be so cozy, mommy, it's
like best friend, cozy morning.
I'm like queen, yes, so justsupporting myself with those
cozy mornings.
It's been so, so, so, sowonderful.
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And on the other hand of thatis that I'm fully embracing,
like 430 is like bedtime for me,like not actual bedtime, but
like we are winding down for thenight, like I am fully
embracing that and I have noguilt in it.
Like I find that like at 3 I goto pick up a row from school
and it's like I'm like, oh yeah,it's the day like 2, 33 o'clock
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.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I feel soenergized, the day's gonna be
so great.
It's like I get my second windand then I go to pick up row and
like we will usually go dosomething Like maybe go play at
the park or play outside withneighbors or whatever.
And then it's like we come inand it's like 430 and I'm like
queen, we're just chilling,right.
She's like, yeah, we're justchilling.
It's like we just hang, make areally slow dinner, and trouble
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will sometimes come up from thebasement and be like hey, what's
for dinner?
And I'll be like I don't know,can you do something?
And then he'll make dinner orI'll have had something like in
the oven she pan, we're livingfor she pans slow, easy living
right now.
Just throw it in.
And by slow I just mean like Idon't need to be in the kitchen,
like cooking 24-7, payingattention to the meal, like just
pop it in the oven.
And so I have just been likeLoving that and I feel like it's
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made me so much more productiveduring the day, like this is a
new revelation, revelation,revolution, whatever for the
winter time for me, like I amusually, like I usually feel
like, especially on gloomy daysit's been sunny recently, which
has been so nice, but especiallyon gloomy days, which I find
sometimes can be so, so much inthe winter, like you won't see
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the Sun until literally 430 whenit's like falling beneath the,
beneath the clouds, and all of asudden this is beautiful pink
sky and you're like I've livedfor this moment.
But like, on days like thatwhere you don't see the Sun,
like I find it really hard tofind energy and Productiveness.
And so this schedule has beenlike it has been working so well
for me and I'm just totallyfeeding into it.
So those slow, lovely morningspent in bed, and then finally,
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and then, and then the best partis so I only eat like the
Cereal, like my cream of wheat,and Roe his or snack plate, and
then eventually we do get out ofbed, we let the dog out, we
have to get up, whatever, andthat's when I go downstairs and
I make my coffee and I'm mysweet, my sweet something.
Right now I've been enjoying myhello dollies and my shortbread
cookies delish, but I have mysweet something With my coffee
and it's like, it's like alittle something lovely.
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A little something lovely toget myself out of bed and just
like Start my day so slow andlovely.
It's been so nice, likeliterally it's been so nice I
could cry it's been so nice.
And then I drop Ro off and I goon my morning walk which has
just been so wonderful to havethat fresh air and that sunshine
even if it's not sunny, youknow what I mean like just like
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that fresh air feeling.
And then I come back and I justfeel so productive and I work,
work, work, work until I go pickup Ro.
And then it's like I know onceI pick up Ro, we're gonna have
some fun together and then we'rejust gonna wind down slow for
the night and just chill, chillthe f out.
It's literally kind of my dreamand sometimes life like that
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feels like.
Sometimes in the evening, whenthings are like that, I don't
know, sometimes I just feel likeyou, feel like you're too all
day in the wintertime and thenit's like it's dark and I didn't
do anything.
But I'm finding, because I'mhaving that slow morning,
productive day and whatever.
It's been great and sometimesproductive for me is literally
like you all know, I love myMonday show and laundry and I'll
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just watch shows All day andfold and do laundry all day and
that's like beautiful, beautiful, sometimes productive for me is
literally just making the bedsin the morning, or like I'm
happy I did that and now I'mjust gonna veg and chill out,
like I just feed into whatevermy mood is that day, when I have
the ability to do that.
Some days it's like okay, I gotdeadlines, I got things to do,
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I need to get going and I wasland, and it's like I'm not
really matching this energy.
But right now I'm being verybalanced, like I'm being ahead
of the game.
I'm not doing things lastminute.
I'm feeling so much betterabout it because I'm having just
like those slow mornings andevenings.
It's been so, so nice.
So, yeah, that's something I'mdoing to support myself right
now, and I can't say this enoughbut having wonderful and
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delicious Snacky things around,like things to make snack plates
, I am such like, I feel likesnack plates are such a winter
thing for me, especially aroundthat like a winter afternoon
thing for me, especially aroundthat like 1.32 o'clock mark,
it's like, ooh, I just needsomething that's gonna get me to
dinner and I just want a bit ofeverything and so just having
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those types of food I have beenso bad about keeping our fridge
stocked.
Recently I've just been feelingoverwhelmed.
I actually like I'm almost onthe verge of doing grocery
delivery.
I actually like groceryshopping but I just like and I
find grocery deliveryoverwhelming.
I've only ever done it oncefrom Walmart, but I actually saw
Viola who does the Farm Boygroceries the same people as
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Longos.
I actually saw that truck.
I didn't think they had FarmBoy grocery delivery here, but I
saw the truck in a neighborhoodclose by so I was like, oh,
maybe you can get it.
And I was like maybe I'll dogrocery delivery.
But then also grocery deliverykind of overwhelms me because
then you have to know what youwant and like it looks different
.
I always like going in thestore better, but right now I'm
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just like not in a good positionfor being prepared with food
and so the least I can do isjust have a few nibbly bits in
the house, like some proteincookies and some fruits and
veggies, like just things likethat.
Like I'm not in a meal moderight now.
I'm just having a really hardtime with being prepared and
ready with meals because I'mjust in that slow down era, so I
need Trevor to take over inthat part.
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I need to tell him to take overthat part.
Trevor's so good at cookingmeals, like he used to do all
our meals when we first gotmarried, because I would get
home later from work and so hewould have dinner ready Like he
was the king, and he used to doall the grocery shopping until I
like made it my thing likegrocery shopping.
So are we just to actually doit together?
Like there was a point where hewould do it if we didn't have
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time, but then we always did ittogether on Saturdays.
Now we like never do ittogether.
But anyways, long story shortis I just need Trevor to start
taking that over and I need tolet him know that I want to take
that over and he'll be so goodat it.
He's so good, I'm so excited.
I actually feel a whole weightoff for my shoulders right now
knowing that Trevor's gonna becooking for the foreseeable
future until.
I feel like I'm in that type ofmood, and that's what it's about
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.
It's about give and take, andthis is what this episode is
about.
It's about reflecting on whereyou are right now and how you
can support yourself andsometimes you just gotta lean on
your support people.
And also another thing when itcomes to that is just like also
being good with things notalways being the same routine
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they always have.
I talk about this all the timehow I am a routinely person but
my routines are short lived,like I am not the same routine
forever and I feel likesometimes my routines have
seasonal flux, fluctuation.
Fluctuation Is that itFluctuation to them.
Like I find sometimes, likeright now I'm telling you how
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I'm in my like dark, my darknessera, not me dark, but like it's
dark a lot.
So like I'm really leaning intothe darkness and the relaxation
that comes with that and therest and the restorativeness.
And then during those daytimewindows where those short light
windows, I'm being a little moreof my productive self and so
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that's working for me now when,like later on in the summer,
that probably won't work for me,like when it's summertime, it's
like after dinner I wanna beout, I wanna go to the pool, I
wanna play with the neighbors, Iwanna go get ice cream, I wanna
go to the park.
Like I wanna do that stuff, Iwanna spend time at the splash
pad, whatever it is which is sofunny.
Thinking about that now, it'slike I literally could not even
think about possibly doing thatright now, like no, 430, I'm
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like pajama's on fire, madeclove tea brewing, so.
But yeah, I just think likethat's the important thing is
touching base with yourself andreflecting on how you're feeling
right now.
Because, honestly, just talkingto you about the whole grocery
thing and how I've just beenfeeling so unmotivated with food
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and groceries and stuff likethat, and then all of a sudden
making that plan right now whereit's like I'm gonna tell Trevor
like hey, can you go groceryshopping and can you start
making the dinners.
And it's like wow, wow, wow,wow, wow.
And I just wanna stay there.
Like nobody's not been cooking,like we've just been having
whatever, pulling things out ofthe freezer here there, whatever
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, and figuring out last minutedinners, and Trevor's been
stepping in too to help out withthat.
But like now that I know thatI'm gonna give that to him as a
responsibility, I'm like wow,we're gonna eat bomb ass food
for the next little while andI'm not gonna have to be
responsible for it.
I'm so excited and he's gonnabe happy about knowing that he's
responsible for the groceriesbecause, like, he just wants to
know what he needs to do.
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Because sometimes he'll be like,hey, I'm gonna go to the store,
like he'll go to the gym in themorning and be like, okay, I'm
gonna pick up milk and eggs,like you know some essentials
that we need, that we've run outof coffee beans, whatever, like
, what do you need?
And then I get reallyoverwhelmed.
I'm like, what do I need?
What do I need?
What do I need?
And then I'm like, whatever, itdoesn't matter.
And he's like, well, what arewe gonna have for dinner?
I'm like I don't know.
And it was like too much for meto think of where.
He just is like, is theresomething you want for dinner?
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Cause, like, I'll get it, I canmake it whatever.
But it's like, now that I knowI'm giving that to him, wow, I
feel so much better.
Well, I feel so much better.
So that's really great.
That's really great.
I can't wait.
I can't wait for this episodeto end so I can go tell them.
But, yeah, what are things thatyou're doing, that you're
supporting yourself through thisbusy end of the year and also,
(21:26):
if it's not busy, justsupporting yourself through this
time of the year.
I just feel like I am realizingthat I need to put myself first
sometimes and it's hard and Ifeel overwhelmed when I go to do
that.
But yeah, I'm also thinkingabout we're going to have a
whole episode about New Year'sand New Year's New Meet.
(21:47):
No, just kidding About the NewYear's and how I like to look at
the New Year's and resolutionsand all of that.
But I'm also starting to putinto place things for next year
that I wish that I've donesooner.
I never planned my appointmentsahead of time.
I always book them the week of,or I think of it and then I
(22:08):
book it as soon as I possiblycan.
Sometimes it has to be a coupleweeks because there's no
appointments or whatever,whereas I want to start booking
my appointments so that they'rereally thoughtfully planned and
that it's not a oh, I have to godo my appointment.
It's like I'm excited about it,this is my me moment this week
or whatever, and so I just wantto have them more spread out so
(22:31):
that they don't all end up inthe same week or so where it's
like, oh OK, this week I'm goingto have this and this next week
I'm going to have that, andit's like once a week thing for
me.
That's things that I have to doanyways, but then it's like I'm
making it a moment.
So, yeah, those are things thatI'm working on right now and
I'm feeling good about it.
I'm feeling good, but I'm justreally feeling zen that I went
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and got that facial the otherday and that I have just put
myself first that way, because Ido feel like in that hour I
really did embark that, orembark, I don't even know what
I'm saying.
Cutes, I already told you I wastired today.
Ok, but embrace that word andthat was energy for me because I
(23:15):
just really want to have thosegood vibrations.
I I'm just feeling.
I'm feeling really good, eventhough I'm feeling really tired
right now.
I need a sip of water.
I should have put somethingwith caffeine in here.
Hmm, delicious.
Hi, cuties, I'm not going tolie.
(23:36):
If you're watching the YouTube,you know I just stopped over a
second.
I just had to go to thebathroom so bad, you know and
you just need to tinkle.
Yeah, I got to tinkle Now, Igot to sip.
But, cutes, now that I'verelieved myself, let's talk
about the recipe of the day,because moments for me also
(23:58):
include.
I just talked about how I'mhanding off my cooking, but this
isn't what I'm talking about.
Something special, a littlewhatever.
That's like stress free, butfeeding the family sometimes is
going to be so freaking,overwhelming, and we all know
that.
Anyways, today we are cookingmy mom's favorite.
This is a staple.
She makes for Christmas.
Sometimes she makes it forEaster.
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It is so freaking good.
It is a fish pie.
It is a creamy delicious.
I call it fish pie.
It's actually seafood.
It's a seafood pie.
It's got shrimps and scallopsand fish and potatoes and creamy
sauce and then it's all toppedoff with a filo top.
Oh, crispy, crunchy, delicious.
It is so freaking good and itis like I feel like it's like
(24:42):
something that well, I guessonly seafood lovers like, but
it's like something thateverybody really enjoys.
If you like seafood and it'ssomething simple, you just got
to throw a bunch of stufftogether and then throw it in
the oven and then let it sit abit to thicken up the sauce.
Oh, it's so good, so cutious.
If you're looking for somethingdelicious to make for a special
occasion, because seafood's alittle bit pricey, but I mean,
(25:02):
you can make it for a weeknightmeal too.
It is so good and the leftoversare equally delicious.
So go check out that onInstagram, on TikTok, on YouTube
.
You know the drill already.
Come on, we're on day.
What are we on?
I don't remember anymore.
Eight and it is Tuesday, andtoday is Rose's last day of
school.
So we are officially enteringHolly Jolly Festivity season.
(25:25):
Meet her jams, jams, like pumpof the jams.
All we've been listening to iscrazy frog.
And there's crazy frogChristmas.
Now, last Christmas I gave youmy heart and she loves we Be on
my free.
Literally.
(25:45):
That's all you ever wonder whatI'm listening to on the way to
school drop off.
It's just crazy frog.
And just last week she wasobsessed with Larry silly songs
by Larry from Veggie Tales forlike a month, and now we're
gonna be on a crazy frog kickfor a month.
But honestly, the crazy frog isgetting me hyped.
Every day I'm like, yeah, yeah,yeah, we are the champions.
But yeah, that is what we'reheading into is the Holly Jolly
(26:10):
season of just me and my girlevery day.
And then Trevor is actually offthis year I think I already told
you this but he's off next week, the week between, like,
christmas and New Year's, which,like, he's never just off.
So we're all gonna be just offJust hanging out.
I don't know what we're gonnaget up to, but me and we're
always like to do our littledaily adventure For Wednesday,
thursday, friday three days,three days, three daily
(26:32):
adventures.
Probably go over to NiagaraFalls one day.
Hit up some tourist attractionthere.
Try to think of other thingsthat we'll do.
I will think of new, fun,interesting things we haven't
done yet.
You got, I look, gotta look up,gotta look up what's going on.
I do want to take her skating,but Trevor probably wants to do
that too.
So maybe we'll do that on theweekend or next week.
That's a good.
Between Christmas and New Year's.
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Oh, I wonder if there is kidsChristmas movie.
I guess wish.
I Haven't heard good thingsabout wish.
Tell me if you liked wish.
Should we go see wish, becauserow always likes a movie.
Maybe we'll go see wish.
I keep saying it's such a big SH.
Yeah, that's really.
That's really what's up.
I just like I'm trying toembrace my last day of
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independence Before I go intofull mom mode.
But honestly, I love full mommode.
It's always so fun, it's alwaysso fun and then at the end of
it I'm like I need a break.
I Need to watch my shows.
The crown, oh yeah.
When am I gonna get to watchthe crown now, thinking about it
, it's like, hmm, when am Igonna get to watch the crown?
I Maybe one day it'll stay uplate.
(27:38):
That will never happen.
I literally it.
I didn't fall asleep at like839, actually was stayed up till
like 11 the other night.
I always regret that, though,because then I'm up at five with
row and it's like just go tobed early, just soak it all in
it's hibernation nationhibernation station.
Okay, cute.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
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We have a shorter episode today,mainly because I'm exhausted,
and that's just where we're at.
I love you all so much, sendingyou hugs and kisses.
Go make some seafood pie.
It's literally so good.
I am so excited that I get toexperience it twice.
The best thing about making thefamily recipes is that I know
I'm gonna get to taste it againon Christmas, or I don't know if
(28:19):
my mom's making it this yearfor Christmas or Easter or
whatever, but I'll get to tasteit again soon, and I already get
to have it now.
It's like twice the goodness.
Okay, I love you all so much.
Hugs and kisses.
Don't forget to take care ofyourself and reach out to your
support people and book thingsthat make you have a little me
moment, whether that be whateveryou want it to be.
(28:41):
Okay, love you, cuties, oh.
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