I'm Taking A Mental Health Day | Self Care

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you hey everyone good morning Stephanie Denman from the Denman Homestead here and this morning I am just taking a break my second cup of coffee my cat is going crazy oh my gosh chill out if you see her hear her like flying around the background like a flying squirrel she's like got the cat Zoomies um so yeah today I just wanted to basically slow down and give you guys an update on what we've got going on coming up in the near future um and just take a mental health day really um a lot of you guys have commented in the past like I don't know how you do it your go go go go go go and um sometimes I just need to like chill uh something came to mind this morning when I was dropping Kaden off to his football camp was I can't remember where I read it what book it was or what Ted Talk it was some I can't remember now but it said when you say yes to something you're also saying no to something else and vice versa when you're saying no to something you're saying yes to something else and that resonates with me because this morning I said no to the gym like which is very rare for me because that's just my outlet of like you know decompressing and helps me with my anxiety and all that kind of stuff but I called in basically and I said I just need a rest day and I said no to the gym but I'm saying yes to my like Mental Health in a way where um or physical health or whatever where I just needed to like sleep in a little bit today have an extra cup of coffee I did not sleep well last night I was tossing and turning it was one of those nights where like the house was alive like you hear everything someone's in the kitchen um buddy was tossing and turning and stealing the sheets and I was just like counting the hours you know you just lay there and you're like three o'clock in the morning four o'clock in the morning if I go to sleep now I will get two hours of sleep it was one of those nights so this morning I called my friend or I text her and I was like hey I am sorry but I'm just gonna sleep this morning and I have to take Kaden to football camp anyway and we have Oscar we have um a very packed next week and a half because school is starting on August 9th which I feel like when I was in school and maybe even before that I don't know we had like a three-month summer vacation like it was like two and a half three months long and summers are getting shorter and shorter and shorter like they're getting out at the beginning of June and having to go back at the beginning of August and I remember as a kid getting out like mid-may and going back at the end of August to school and Kaden last night oh my God I did shed a little bit of Tears driving away but I had to drop him off at his freshman orientation last night at the high school and I'm just like how do I have a fresh I don't know um but when I picked him back up he said Mom no one's really changed they all look the same and I was like well baby you've only been away from everyone for eight weeks like I can remember going back to school and thinking that like people grew you know you you had like growth spurts over the summer and stuff like that but like that's good no stop no growth spurts over the summer and people shot up and it's just like how much can you really change in eight weeks I mean I guess you can but Kaden was like everyone looks the same I'm like yeah you had a really short summer um but it just flies by and um I am grateful for the time we do get to have and the vacations and trips that we did take to Tennessee and Buddy and I got to sneak away for a couple days um in Minnesota and yeah it was a it was a great summer but it was a whirlwind and I cannot believe next month I'm going to be starting my seeds for my fall Garden what so I want to be able to plant in October because I think that's really when the temps are going to be probably hopefully in the low 90s high 80s and then drop from there so I don't know we've had a really hot summer I don't know how it's gonna go for the rest of the year but I'm planning on starting my fall guard my my seeds indoors for the fall come end of mid mid to end of August so in about three weeks or so four weeks so that's what I'm planning on doing um it's coming up but yeah uh we've got to go back to school clothes shopping I have been deep cleaning the house because next well in just a few days we're gonna have my family over to the house to celebrate my mom's birthday and elora's birthday Elora is going to turn eight on August 2nd so we're gonna celebrate my mom's birthday and her birthday uh this weekend at my house so I'm going to be hosting um and maybe you guys will get to meet some of my family uh I'll maybe I'll be able to record some of that and introduce you to some of my family and um that'd be pretty cool um so yeah that's kind of what we've got going on it's just very busy very very busy right now kids got an orthodontist appointment later today I've got to go pick him up from football camp come home eat lunch take him to his orthodontist appointment somewhere somehow I've got to get the kids to go back to school clothes shopping I've got to go get their school supplies you know what they you know what you remember I don't if you guys had kids or grandkids or whatever or maybe you you yourself whenever I was in school we could go and buy these like pre-packaged they were like cellophane wrap like everything that you needed was in this little pack and my mom would just go and pick it up I never be there everything you need no now it's like four page list of all the things all the things um and nowadays they ask you basically to get extra stuff like why you need five pocket folders when my kid only uses like two of them is because some kids don't come to school with supplies so you're kind of like providing extra which I don't mind doing that I normally my give back to the school each year is providing extra backpacks and school supplies um so I do that as part of my business my real estate business I I do a give back from the schools but yeah it becomes really expensive um school supplies are expensive so gotta gotta get on that and uh yeah so it's kind of what we've got going on right now we are still doing stuff around the house I am gonna let you in on a little secret I'm working on a online store for my products so we do have a merch for like t-shirts and things like that we have our our shop open already for that but my things that I make and maybe you've seen some videos of some of those products that I've shown recently but I am working on a store so that come the holiday season I've got a big inventory of stuff that you guys can buy soaps honey stuff um those resealable um what am I trying to say those wraps those food wraps um loofahs I've got seeds coming I've been saving my seeds so that I could give you guys back my seeds that I've been saving um yeah so I've got quite a bit going on and more that I'm working on behind the scenes so that I can get that up and running for the holidays so just be on the lookout for that and yeah we're still doing stuff around the house around the homestead with the chickens um my garden is just it's it's just overgrown I really cannot wait until we get just a little bit cooler temperatures outside so that we can rip out a bunch of stuff and get it nice looking again because it's just like weeds everywhere so we need to get in there and get that cleaned up for the fall but the Watermelons are still growing our pumpkin patch still doing its thing it's I need to update you guys on the pumpkin patch because we planted it before we went to Tennessee and our little pumpkin plants are getting pretty big out there so I'll take you guys out there soon get them Luna get them get that garbage truck so yeah I just wanted to uh have an easy day today and just kind of update you guys on where we're at what we're doing what we've got going on future plans um we don't really have any trips planned coming up just I mean we may sometimes we like to take trips when the kids go on on their school break so either we'll take like a Thanksgiving break trip or a December break trip we don't really have anything planned right now for that um that might change I don't know but for now we don't have any upcoming trips or anything so we're just gonna hanging around hanging low and um focus in on the house and taking care of everything going on here so yeah I encourage you that if you just need a mental health day just to take a day just to take a day just take a break um sometimes you know I can tell when my kids are feeling it in the middle of school or you know after a big test or something I remember I used to like fake sick I would go to the nurse my stomach hurt I want to go home you just want to be home sometimes right you just want to be home um I I let my kids just it's not all the time just once or twice a year if I know that they are just like I need a break I need a break even kids need breaks and um yeah I'll let them stay home and just have a Couch Potato Day by themselves and veg out and you know have have their have their moment have their time and then the next day they're ready to go you know kids can't last too long indoors they get like cap and fever but when they want to be inside and they want to chill you know something's up and so I let them have their time and then back to school and um they feel better they feel good and they do good and they do better I think because they want to be there and they want to be with their friends so I don't know it's just uh I guess just being intuitive to how you're feeling mentally and how they're feeling mentally and being okay with calling in for a mental health thing that's that's what I'm doing today I'm just calling in so if you need to call in call in I'm giving you permission I'll write you a letter all right you an excuse if you need me to um but yeah so anyway I uh I hope you guys have a great rest of your day sorry this wasn't our usual you know video but that's what I'm doing today I'm just this is it just gonna hang out today and uh I will see you tomorrow and I'll catch you on the next one bye guys [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 28 2023