ONLINE SCHOOL MORNING ROUTINE WITH 3 KIDS & WORKING FROM HOME | Emily Norris

hi guys welcome back to my channel and to a lockdown morning routine with our family today i'm gonna take you through everything that we do in the morning to get ready for a day of homeschooling and working from home i thought this would be an interesting video but also a nice keepsake to have so that one day we can show the boys what life was like in the third lockdown while we were stuck at home so in today's video i'm gonna show you what we have for breakfast in the morning how we all get ready in the morning the snacks that i lay out for the boys their homeschooling setups how we attempt to work from home and all of the chores that i try to get done first thing in the morning before they even start their lessons so i hope you really enjoy this video if you do give it a big thumbs up and if you're new to this channel i would love you to consider subscribing for more videos like this i post three videos a week on a monday wednesday and friday at 7 p.m and i would love to have you as a viewer so with all that said let's get into this morning routine so on this morning i woke up at 7 00 a.m and it was just before the boys so i could actually get dressed for the day and i'm just wearing lounge where i've been living in these leggings from fabletics my hoodie is from arquette and my slippers are i actually got them for christmas they're from the small home and they're really comfortable i just want to be like really cozy while we're at home i can't actually imagine wearing jeans anytime soon again but anyway i come down to the kitchen and the boys weren't far behind me so first thing fraser will normally make himself some cereal and then he might have some toast or something later on so he's having that caleb didn't want any cereal today but jackson also did so i'm gonna make his and he loves to have his cereal in this little straw bowl we've had it forever i get loads of questions about it you can get them on amazon but i randomly picked this up at the co-op i just saw it in there one day so he's gonna have some cheerios and milk he tends to just drink all the milk through the straw and then eat the cheerios pretty much dry but while they're sat at the dining table eating their cereal i can get on and empty the dishwasher and i still did the thing that i always do and that is i put the kettle on and while it's boiling i try to empty the dishwasher in like quicker than it takes the kettle to boil i just find that that really speeds me up in the morning and i always beat the kettle so i don't know it might be a weird thing that i do but it tends to work so i'm just gonna do that now [Music] so once i've emptied the dishwasher i'll make the boys some breakfast something a bit more substantial than the cereal so it depends on the day but sometimes they have french toast sometimes it's protein pancakes or porridge or they love cinnamon rolls on the weekend but today i'm actually gonna make them these bagels they love the warburton thin bagels and i'm gonna put some om butter and jam on top of them for the two little ones and then fraser he just really wants a piece of jam toast so i'm gonna do that he had a huge bowl of cereal so he just wants one piece and then i'm also gonna give them a vitamin i tend to just give them one of these they've got omega-3 in them and they love them they always remind me if i forget to give it to them so they really like them and i just think in like the current time it's really important that i just make sure that they're getting enough of everything vitamin d and all that stuff um so yeah that is pretty much how they have it they like it closed and they'll just hold the whole bagel and eat that for breakfast for matt's breakfast he's having a vegan pancake he meal preps these so he'll make five on a sunday and then he'll have one each day during the week with fruit he's very much a creature of habit and he really likes it and today i'm gonna have some porridge so i'm just putting half a cup of jumbo oats into a pan and then a cup of boiling water in as well and i'll just pretty much stand there at the stove and stir it for about four to six minutes i know there's quicker ways that you can make it but i just really like doing it this way and while i'm stood there i will put the news on and just take in any headlines of course if i'm feeling anxious um at all i'll just put some music on or i'll watch a youtube video but i'll pretty much just stand there because all the boys are eating and they're all happy so i can kind of like just chill make my breakfast and my coffee as well so on top of my porridge it varies every day what i have on it sometimes it's raisins sometimes it's bananas sometimes it's flaked almonds sometimes it's strawberries i always put something on with some maple syrup and of course i'm having some coffee we'll just pretty much have some instant coffee with some oat milk so this morning matt is making it for us so then matt comes into the office and he starts printing the kids work for the day do you it's fantastic and we print it on we are recycling the kids yeah and we use the paper don't we so we'll print the work each morning we did actually try printing it all for the week but we found it quite confusing um so we find that works better and once the boys have had their breakfast they'll put their dishes into the dishwasher or they'll wash up their bowls by hand and then i'm gonna run upstairs and do my skincare routine and my makeup because i didn't get a chance this morning so i wash my face with the dermalogica special cleansing gel i use a tiny amount probably a pea-sized amount with some water and then i always take it off using a face cloth and then i will tone using the dermalogica multi-active toner and then i actually got a new eye cream i did an order from beauty pie because so many of my friends were recommending their products so i ordered an eye cream which so far so good i'm quite liking and i also got this serum which is called super healthy skin it has vitamin c in it and i put that on before my moisturizer so just two pumps and then rub that all in and then i use something called dermalogica dynamic skin recovery it's basically a day moisturizer but i really like it because it has an spf of 50 so loads of protection which is great to like slow down like the aging process of your skin then i'm gonna brush my teeth i'm still loving my spotlight oral care i do i worked with them um but i really like their whitening products so i use their whitening toothpaste and they're mighting mouthwash and while i'm upstairs the boys are getting ready downstairs with matt and we keep a box like this of toothbrushes toothpaste and hair gel downstairs it used to be there and so they could quickly brush their teeth before they ran out the door to school but we've kind of just kept it downstairs so anyway they've got dressed for the day matt still does their hair every morning fraser's hair has actually gotten so long in the front but he really likes the way that it looks um and yeah he still does their hair every morning i guess he wants them to look smart on the zoom calls and i get loads of questions about what gel uh matt uses in their hair but he uses something called american crew forming cream i'll link it in the description because matt he really rates it he thinks it like holds their hair well um so yeah but anyway back upstairs i am gonna put on my makeup for the day oh i probably have two or three makeup free days a week but most days i still need to film or do instagram content so i am going to put some on today i'm just using my estee lauder double wear foundation this is the one i've used forever i'm in three and one and i really like how much coverage it gives me but i'd actually be so interested to know if anyone has recommendations for a lighter foundation um because i think that might be nice especially while i'm at home then i'm also gonna use some concealer and this is the clarins instant concealer in number one i feel like it really brightens up my under eye because i have quite dark circles now and then i'm using a charlotte tilbury blush with a little bit of highlighter in the middle of it and then i'm also going to use some benefit hula i have literally used this since i was about 17 years old and i still really like it for contouring so i'm just gonna put that on i do the three and the e on either side of my face doing a tiny bit of highlighter which is a bobby brown one and while i'm doing all of this i tend to watch instagram stories or like little videos i'm watching a garyvee video i find him really inspirational and he just motivates me in the morning and then i'm also gonna use a tiny bit of the benefit gimme brow i think it's in number three and i'm also gonna put on a tiny bit of pink lip gloss and then that is me done for the day so not a huge amount of makeup but i feel a million times better than i did then i'm gonna come downstairs and lay out a few snacks for the boys i picked up these baskets from poundland years ago and i've been using them for their snacks each day i like to just put a few in here so at any point if they're hungry and they want to get a snack they can help themselves i might be working or matt might be helping caleb but if fraser wants a snack he can just run and get one so we've got apples barney bears crisps yogurts and some peaches so more than enough and then they can just feel free to grab a snack if and when they're having a little break so first thing with jackson we're going to do some coloring sometimes we do lego sometimes it's shopkins or play mags but he's a very keen colorer quite a few teachers have messaged me and said he's got great fine motor skills so he loves to draw and as we were doing this he requested a snack so he wanted to have some strawberries this morning he really loves them so matt has just gone off to make him some strawberries and then we're gonna do some coloring and he really likes to just look at coloring pages on my phone and then i'll print one out he almost prefers that to coloring books but now that he's got his snack he wants to go and chill out on the sofa while he eats it watch some tv so while he's happily doing that i'm just going to tidy up after breakfast put everything into the dishwasher put on a load of laundry wipe down the sides and everything and just make it clean and tidy before the boys have to log on for homeschooling it's 2 am and i can't fall asleep cause i'm not tired i'm thinking about the days we used to shine when we were young i told you that we should start a band and reach for the sky it's 2 am and i can't fall [Music] but [Music] [Applause] i just miss you [Music] so at this point in the morning it's nearly 9 a.m so the two older boys need to log on to their class calls for registration so fraser is set up in our front room he's 10 years old so he's very independent he'll just log on listen to the lessons and get on with his work whereas caleb's seven years old so he needs a bit more support from us so what we tend to do is either me or matt we'll sit next to him in the office try and do some of our own work but then we're also on hand to help him and support him if he needs it but he's actually getting so much better they're really like adapting to this whole homeschooling thing um he's able to listen to lessons for longer and just do the work so we're so proud of them and how they've handled all of it and now i wanted to show you a very random job that i do some mornings basically if it's rained at night or if it's wet on the trampoline in the morning i will dry it with a towel because when it is the boys break time they love to run outside and basically go on the trampoline for like 15 minutes and i just always want it to be like ready for them so i am going outside and i'm going to dry the it's trampoline outside and i kind of feel like [Music] but it's too late and because jackson is still happy chilling out in front of the tv i'm gonna run upstairs and quickly make our bed obviously we don't have to do this every day but i really love to make my bed it only takes a few minutes and it just looks nice and tidy for the day so that is our bed all done and then i thought i'll just go and check the boys rooms and cadebs was like this but then i remembered it's because he actually slept in fraser's bed last night they've been having sleepovers way more than normal rules have definitely relaxed during lockdown normally we let them have sleepovers on the weekend but now like if it's something that makes them happy i'm kind of like going with it because they really look forward to it but that lump in the middle of fraser's bed is a little bumper we've put down the middle because fraser was complaining that caleb um makes him really hot at night so now we've kind of split them up but they can still have sleepovers and anyway then i'm gonna fill up my liter bottle with water i showed in my fitness video that i try and drink three liters a day so i need to have that on me at all times and i'm also gonna have my second coffee of the morning and that's all the caffeine i'm gonna have for the day i find if i have too much caffeine i get a bit anxious but i do like to have two so that is it and now i'm just gonna quickly check my emails this can be my working from home set up sometimes i'm in the kitchen obviously a lot of the time i'm filming like this morning just filming this routine that was work and it was actually really nice to film this video because like the filming part of my day was done by like 10 a.m and then at 10 30 a.m it is the boys break time the two older boys only get a 15 minute break so we just run outside if the weather is nice and let them go nuts on the trampoline and i actually love to go on with them i know it seems pretty weird but it's great to get my steps up and for a little aerobic workout the boys are getting so good at doing flips on the trampoline as well but that is it for this video i hope you enjoyed it and i'll see you in my next one bye

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Length: 15min 48sec (948 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 08 2021