REALISTIC MORNING ROUTINE OF A WORKING MOM | Toddler + Baby | 6am Morning Routine 2021

[Music] good morning everybody and welcome to my morning routine so as you see there i like to start my day right around six o'clock and this is the day that i'm actually going into the office so i wake up around six and then we have to be out the door by 7 30 so that gives me an hour and a half to do all my things get the kids ready all of that so as you can see i don't start my day just jumping right out of bed and getting ready i've found that my morning routine is more enjoyable and it's worth waking up a little bit earlier so i can have some time to let my brain start working and just relax a little bit before i have to be in productive mom mode so i this morning i threw on some little eye masks and then for 2021 my goal is to learn something new every day so i really enjoyed having that be the way that i start my day is i'll either read something or i'll watch a little bit of a ted talk and then i just jot down a couple of notes and it kind of gives my brain something to mull over throughout the day and it's more enjoyable than starting my day right off the bat with the baby crying or anything like that so it's just it's a peaceful meaningful way to start my day and i really enjoyed it [Music] all right so here's where the fun starts so this is when i actually start getting ready so like you see i gave myself about 20 minutes to kind of wake up and get my brain flowing and now i am doing my hair so i shower at night and then you can see my hair is just crazy i have naturally curly hair so i did this on a day so you can see like a real morning where i have to like do my hair completely all of that so this style will last probably four days and so i only have to do little touch-ups but this was like an intense like do it all type of morning so i since i'm doing that i did a little bit less makeup than i normally would just because it gives me more time to do my hair and i just start off by running a straightener through it so i do it to the ends and then i do around my face and then i'll go in with one of the three barrel like waiver things for the bottom because it kind of mimics my hair texture anyway so it makes it so i can fly through it really quickly and it holds really well and then i'll do the top with a curling iron just because i think that it looks a little bit better that way so i will fly through that and then go on to makeup [Music] so once i get the bottom pieces done i like to do my skin care that way it has some time to sit before i actually put on my makeup so i'll start with just a little bit of witch hazel spray it onto a cotton round just to take off some of the skincare that i did the night before and then it just keeps it so i don't get so oily throughout the day and then i will put on the bha serum that i use every day as well as the ordinary buffet serum i repurchase the stuff probably at least six times i'm obsessed with it i think it works so well with my skin and it sits really well under makeup follow that up with my daily moisturizer and then i will put on a sunscreen as my last step before i do my makeup and then i'll move on to the top part of my hair [Music] you never leave my thoughts alone you're the reason i'm going out my mind [Music] all that i crave when you're away nights are sleepless do we need space yeah maybe you're brave so like i said i like to do this to my hair about every four days so a lot of times i'll do this on a monday and then i'm ready for the rest of the work week so i only have to do little touch-ups and this way i the way that i do it it holds really well and i just sleep with it loose i don't put it up or anything like that i'll throw a little bit of dry shampoo in it and it just gets a little bit looser and a little bit messier but since it's already a messy style anyway it just works with it so i highly recommend finding a style that you can prolong and then that way not every morning you have to do this over and over again [Music] now on to makeup so i have like an in-depth tutorial on my channel already of like the full on makeup that i do every day this is the shortened version of that so i keep it pretty simple just throw on a little bit of concealer and where i have any discoloration usually just right around the t-zone i will follow it up with some translucent powder just to set that a little bit and then bronzer to warm up my face a little bit throw on some blush and then i also use my bronzer as like crease shadow just to give my eyes a little bit more dimension it makes me look a little bit more awake and then uh brows and throw on some mascara tinted chapstick and we are ready for our day [Music] [Music] you make me [Music] [Music] talk to me [Music] you can see that takes right around half an hour it's mostly just my hair because it takes me so long to tame it but the makeup takes like not even five minutes i'd say and then it is time to brush teeth and get dressed all right do you have your clothes out here can't go grab him get changed do you want to get changed in your brother's room when i feed him do you wanna do it [Music] good morning baby what are you doing uh this is that's the farm book yeah you guys took all his books down didn't you huh i little love i said you took all his books down huh yeah actually i did it with her but actually i did it with him you did yeah okay this is when it goes into full-on mom mode so i nurse kai i pick out his clothes to take to daycare because he just goes in his pajamas and then brecken's getting dressed during all of this so we pick out his clothes at night and he has a hatchlite in his room so he knows to play in his room while it's yellow so that's about 15 minutes before he comes out at seven when it turns green works really well for us and then i'm just getting some stuff around for a daycare so i pull out some milk from the freezer for kai i get him a pouch i put that in his bag and then all of their food is provided by our daycare so we don't have to pack that are your snow pants still in there yep okay cool so then we just need to do socks what else [Music] as you can see from that brecken's pretty self-sufficient in the morning so we've worked really hard at that um to try to get him to be responsible for his own stuff in the morning and it really just helps it goes so much faster not all mornings will he do it but most of the time so i'm just gonna change a baby's diaper really quick before he heads off for daycare and then i will put him in his little snow suit all that's left is for me to grab my bag i make sure to pack that the night before so i can just throw my phone in it and be out the door and get my coffee and we will be on our way [Music] i'm already so 7 25 which is perfect because it gives us just enough time to throw everything in the car get the kiddos strapped in and we are on the road by 7 30. [Music] what about you little car guy hi hi little kylie for daycare [Music] that's it the kids are all dropped off at daycare and i am on my way to work [Music] all right guys so that's it that's my morning routine this is a couple days after because i wanted to look through the footage and see if there's any gaps that i wanted to fill in like any information i wanted to tell you and i want to make it clear that this is like that morning went really well so that's like the ideal situation that the baby sleeps until right around seven brecken stays in his room till seven and he got dressed without arguing with me all these things they were ideal so now that kai is a little bit older it's not as much of an issue but when he was like a a little baby i would always make sure to do so there wasn't any of that like oh i'm gonna look up stuff before he wakes up like there was none of that it was like you get up and you start grinding and that's kind of a luxury that comes once they get a little bit older but what i did is i would always do whatever is the most important first so if you're someone that can like roll out of bed and you can make your hair work it'll be fine but you would rather have some makeup on do your makeup first so if the morning starts to fall to pieces at least you get whatever is most important to you done so for me it's if my hair i mean like you saw my hair is wild if i don't do anything with it if it's like natural if i just sleep on it wet so that's what i do first because i will go to work without any makeup on and feel way better than if i were to have makeup on and have my hair look like a psycho so you just gotta kind of make sure you prioritize whatever is most important for you that morning and then um also utilize your evening don't make it crazy i think that it takes um some of the benefits out of making your mornings run smoothly if you're gonna make your evening suck so another point is how i start my morning with reading something you know learning something that's just what i've kind of found that i like to start my morning with and if you're someone that can like work out in the morning if that'll work for you i can't like if i try to work out in the morning i'm just i'm i can't like my body doesn't cooperate like i just i my body hates working out in the morning so i just i can't like give it my all um so i don't do that uh i wish that i could but it just it never it never works out and i do intermittent fasting like i said so it makes it so i get hungry quicker so i just do better if i do my workout later in the day um i'm pretending like i work out every day i don't but when i do i do it at night but um so yeah so whatever like i think it's just the point is whatever is gonna make you feel like you're starting your day with something that's nourishing to you if that is coming out getting a cup of coffee watching the news if you watch the news if you watch trash tv and this is your only time to do it just something that makes you feel like you're starting your day on a really good foot i think is what's important so whatever that means to you just find it and be consistent with it and i think that it will help you be more productive and i think it like for i guess i can't only speak for myself it helps me be more productive it also helps me be a better mom because when i start my day hearing the baby crying on the monitor like that's how i'm waking up it just it doesn't set a good tone for the day so and like and then when i come out and break and he is a question maniac so he asks 10 000 questions a day which i love it's great but first thing in the morning it's like oh my gosh i need some time to breathe before i start answering your onslaught of questioning so i will it just gives my brain time to wake up it gives me time to feel like i've gotten some time in for myself it doesn't feel selfish which i don't think that i don't think that should anyway i think that that's a that's a misconception that if you do anything for yourself it's selfish it's not um it's important and you're worth it but that's a story for another day so so yeah those are just a few things um i wanted to hit on sometimes it falls to pieces and i'm lucky to get my hair up in a messy bun and throw some mascara on it's just it's you know nature of the beast but i it it is pretty consistently this like this i you know sometimes brecken will be a little bit more finicky about things or the babies in my room and he's just tearing apart things while i get ready and you know you just make it work but um i think that's the that's the key is just finding finding a routine that is a routine that you can count on but also something that it allows for life to happen within it so that's it that's my feel i hope you guys have a wonderful day and i want you to tell me in the comments below what is it that you would do in the morning if you had just that that half an hour to yourself what is it that just like gives you life it just breathes life into your little soul so what is that for you and then i challenge you to do it try it out for like a week just see how you see how it feels if it isn't that worth it then sleep in but i challenge you to try it so if you like this please like it and please subscribe there's plenty of more content like this coming so i'm really having a fun time with this so there will be more coming to you so i hope you really good day and i'll talk to you guys later [Music]

Channel: Chelsea Amanda

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Length: 17min 0sec (1020 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021