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Well hey everybody welcome back to my channel it’s been a while since I have done a traditional Vlog I guess really since vlogmas whenever I was doing a lot of videos in December I had haven’t done anything like this in January and now it’s February so I thought a vlog was in

Order so today’s video will just kind of be on the go I will take you through my day and we’ll kind of talk and I’ll do things and we’re just going to have a very good day one of the things that I am wanting to do this week is put away

All of the winter and Christmas decor yes it hasn’t all been put away the the trees down the decorations are down but there are still just random things around that are like wintry that I want to put away so some of that’s back there both of the kids are in person at school

Today today’s not a home school day we do a hybrid home school and um so they are there and no I haven’t been crying I just am experiencing some seasonal allergies I think already we had some weird days that were like in the’ 70s strangely enough in January uh and then

We’ve had some really nice days this week with like 55 5° and sunny and 55° when you’re in the sun wearing a jacket just feels so good so the kids and I spent a lot of time yesterday outside playing I brought my chair out there and

I sat in read while they played and then I played with them some uh and then we have two dogs Jefferson and CLA and they are on like Wireless uh boundaries and they have collars and every now and then the batteries in their collars will go

Dead and we know that because they go outside their boundaries so we had to go trapes through the woods to go after Claire and I don’t know if it was walking through the leaves and kicking up like mold and dust from the leaves or if something is actually already

Blooming but I have been sneezing all yesterday evening and all this morning and when I woke up I couldn’t breathe like out of this side of my nose so I took a nice warm shower I would have done my Netty Pot but I just I didn’t

Have time before school drop off but I don’t know about you guys but I can definitely tell a difference in when I’m sick sick and when I’m allergy sick um and it’s definitely not the like trying to cover up your sickness with allergies so you can hang out with people and like

Convince them that you’re not sick it’s not like that it’s like I can really tell that this is not a cold I can tell that it is allergies cuz I’m sneezing all over the place and my eyes are watery so anyway I just wonder if anybody else is already dealing with

That in February maybe it was the leaves I don’t know so yeah I’ve got some laundry to put away and I’m going to work on meal planning but that will be a separate video actually so I won’t be showing you that today I’ll be showing

That in a later video so let’s go put some laundry away and then we’ll decide what’s next so whenever I have the house to myself it’s just nice to get things back to a Baseline and it’s not perfect but one thing that I have learned in a

Small home is trying as best as I can to reset when moving from one activity to the next the kitchen is a school area and a cookie area and everything in between so I try to kind of clean up as I go so you guys didn’t see this rice

Cooker in my organization video and it’s because it’s been living out in the shed I put a few kitchen things out there when we moved to try to evaluate do I actually need them and believe it or not I have used this twice in the past week

After not ever using it since we’ve moved because I’ve made dishes in the instant pot and then wanted rice so this makes really good rice it was a yard sale find so I went to do the laundry and do you ever just notice that you have that lint

Kind of buildup on your washing machine so I just went through with my dusting mitt and then I went through with my enviral cloth and once I got everything all wiped down then I just threw those in the washing machine I really like cleaning with these because there’s no

Harsh chemicals and like I said you can just wash them and then they are good to go so I’ve got a few different Norwex products I’m not a huge d salesperson but I do like these for those of you who had tuned in whenever I mentioned in one

Of my videos about laundry I have been adding vinegar and I’ve noticed that’s made a difference I also have tried to dry things less or dry them not at all so several of you had suggested those tips and I definitely found those to be useful so that stack of clothes that I’m

Getting ready to put away a lot of those are items that I just worked on treating some smelly spots so I will talk about that maybe in my March favorites I really was battling the allergies early in the morning on this day but as you’ll

See in the video it gets much better and this is a day after when I’m recording this audio and I feel better already so one of the little Simple Pleasures that I enjoy when I’m by myself is making a nice meal for myself and it can be very simple I make noodles

On Thursdays I do leftovers a lot and that’s what I’m doing here but I just like actually sitting and taking that moment before I move on with the next part of my day so this is a dish that I’ve mentioned before but it’s been a while and it is called sweet potato

Black bean hash this is a recipe that I found on the tasty app and it’s a a vegetarian dish I’m not vegetarian but it is a vegetarian option so if you’re vegetarian or if you just want to do like a meatless night of the week this

Dish I think is so good you can serve it with either a fried egg on top or a softboiled egg I usually do avocado but I didn’t have that so I’m just sitting down with my lunch and I am doing some meal planning and some calendar planning

The little clip actually broke off of this pen but these are my absolute favorite these are the pilot brand and I actually have them Linked In My Amazon store I just like how fine it is and how smooth you get with your letters but it’s not too bulky and it also doesn’t

Smear so hands down this is my favorite pen well hello we are back from grocery shopping I did our big twoe trip again that will be in the meal planning video so we are making chili now this recipe of chili actually starts with bacon so

We put that in a cold oven and then heat up to 425 so I cooked it on parchment and then I’ve just got it on a wire rack drying out so this actually will get chopped to go in the Chili now while I’m chopping in just a minute I’ll hand you peels you can go with these peels not with the peppers and the lime put them in this bag okay when the bag gets full I put it in a crock pot full of water and all of thato

And Mi fro I saw since I knew that I I watched you make it when you made it the last time oh did you yeah for the dumplings that’s right and so I know how did you remember that because I watched are you crying no sometimes they

Make me cry sometimes they don’t I can feel my eyes burning just a tiny bit me too me too s so right now I just have some of the bacon grease going in here and I’ve got the vegetables going then we’ll add the beef and then we’ll add in

Beans tomato paste fire roasted tomatoes and then this Chili’s really flavorful because it has Wester sauce in it I always say that wrong I always call it w sauce it has W sauce and it has has of course chili powder it also has smoked paprika so this is just a really

Flavorful chili so I will link the recipe down below we really like it this has all your normal chili spices but it also has brown sugar you know some chilies have sugar some don’t this one does have a tablespoon of brown sugar it also calls for ancho chili powder I

Don’t have that so we’re just going to double up on the normal chili powder that’s what I did last time and it turned out great if you have ancho chili powder or you know what it’s like you have to let me know Ready for my next yeah it’s probably not going to taste Great Chen all right if you followed me for a while you know I love to use a timer it just really helps get things going I knew realistically that I couldn’t put all the groceries away and clean up the kitchen in 15 minutes but it got me started so again I’ll talk more about

That in my meal planning video and my grocery shopping video but it gave me a good start so now we’re moving on and we’re making some corn muffins I use the Jiffy cornbread mix but then I also add a little bit of sugar and I add a

Spoonful of sour cream it just makes them a little bit richer you can definitely do without that but that’s just just something that we do so once we got most of the pantry Goods put away I loaded the dishwasher and then I washed a couple things that needed to be

Hand washed again just working as I go really helps because this space is small I’m sure it’s not as small as some people but this space serves as our school room and our laundry room and our dining room and our kitchen and our entryway this is where you come into the

House so a lot of things happen so these Donuts are so cute and I will tell you about them they were an unexpected Al Define today and I just had to pick them up so I wanted to show you those donuts in case you want to go

To ALDI between now and Valentine’s Day since we’re you know less than a week away at the time that you’re seeing this um let me see how much those were Valentine’s Donuts they were $3.89 for four of them so not quite you know a doar a piece they were $3.89 I just

Thought that they would be like a fun little treat left hand yellow so we had not played twister in forever and I forgot that the little centerpiece that held the spinner on broke so This Is Us playing twister without a functioning spinner uh it was about as fun as you would think it

Is but anyway we made it through the night dinner was delicious so here’s a final glance at that thank you guys for coming along on this day in my kitchen and I will catch you next time