WHOLE HOUSE DEEP CLEAN WITH ME DECLUTTER |NIGHT TIME CLEANING MOTIVATION CLEANING ROUTINE HOMEMAKING

[Music] if you're in need of some cleaning motivation or you just need a friend to hang out with and get things done I am here for you there's also going to be two chances to win $100 in PayPal cash in today's video so a big giveaway and before you get confused we did not move again we are going back in time for some serious fall deep cleaning and decluttering we're going to be doing some deep cleaning in my old house I'm combining multiple videos from the past in one long super motivating video I'm going to be sharing all of the top cleaning tricks tips hacks cleaning tools that just get the job done and make cleaning easier we're going to be doing some deep cleaning outside deep cleaning inside decluttering I'm going to be decluttering a super messy garage cleaning outdoor Windows decorating for the fall we're ultimately going to get this done together I am here with you like I said there's going to be two chances to win $100 in PayPal cash I thought it'd be fun to go back and see how I cleaned old messes when I cleaned to my old house reminisce with me if you're new here these videos are from my old house so it's kind of fun to go back and see ultimately guys we are going to get this done together reminisce with me if you're new here these videos are from my old house so it's kind of fun to go back and see I want you to do this with me remember you have the power to tackle any project or cleaning task that you want to put me on your TV tablet or phone Clean workout whatever it is let's be productive today I'm here with you let me know what you're going to be cleaning and give me a thumbs up and let me know what you're going to be doing [Music] today I don't want to make this too hard for you to enter but the giveaway question is in either the third or fourth video of this Marathon I'm wearing a white and brown striped sweater I know I'm wearing a white and brown stripe sweater in this first video but it's it's not in this the question isn't in this first video again the giveaway question is in the third or fourth video of this Marathon I just want to thank you for being here and being such a big bright part of my life I know I say this a lot but this community means so much to me and I just want to say thank you so put me on your TV your phone your tablet let it play enter the giveaway later on and good luck this giveaway is open internationally and there will be two chances to win $100 in PayPal hash all you have to do is enter is answer the question that I ask later on in that video again it's in the third or fourth video of the marathon you also have to be subscribed to my YouTube channel and have the notifications turned on more details and how to do that will be with the [Music] question [Music] thank you so much for being here I'm Jamie and I just want to welcome you to Jamie's Journey we have a lot in today's video I am a wife and a mom to three daughters I have twin three-year-olds three and a half they just started preschool and then my oldest Avery is seven and in second grade so I like to share all of our everyday crazy messes and I am just a mom doing my best trying not to lose my mind keep it all together and I would just love for you guys to join my journey every single week I post videos on cleaning organizing decluttering we are moving into a new home at the end of this year so a lot more cleaning and organizing coming your way on my channel again thank you so much for being here let the rain wash away hey the tears that keeps crippling now looking up I can see it your but now this sun is ring we're people let's be new people there don't let me down down down don't let me down down down I want to be up up up so high cuz I've been down down [Music] down so I was getting ready to scrub out my sink with the Mrs Meyers baking soda cream cleanser I typically use this the scrub mommy po power paste or Dawn power wash I just kind of switch it up depending on my mood what I'm feeling how much time I have and then here I go again with my scrub mommy sponge but I also want to say thank you for last week's video I got a lot of positive feedback when I shared some of my work history and what I did for 10 years a lot of you if you guys are new here I have a degree in um education I went to school to be a teacher I have a bachelor's and master's degree in educ a but that dream of being a teacher and having my own classroom never worked out but I found a calling working for a nonprofit working in organ donation for 10 years and I talked a little bit about it in last week's video and I was just blown away by the support and you know the cause that I put so much time and energy in for 10 years and so many of you guys shared stories of maybe a family member received an organ transplant or a family member donated which is just truly [Music] amazing [Music] so I have been loving the Sprayway stainless steel cleaner it's usually that or my e-cloth um microfiber cloths those are my go-tos for cleaning my stainless steel appliances but I'm going to wipe everything down and then I'm going to go and rake our stairs and then vacuum the stairs so this is kind of embarrassing but I recently fell down the stairs and to be honest I actually did it I think it was back in December and it was really bad back in December I pretty sure I fractured or I don't know I did something to my tail bone because I fell in the middle of the night I was going downstairs to get something to drink some water I couldn't sleep so I went downstairs and I slipped and went straight down on my tailbone and I am not exaggerating I could barely walk the next day and it did not fully heal for it was probably 2 months before I wasn't sore so this time middle of the day it was like noon and I was walking downstairs and I went to grab something on the ledge that's in our upstairs and I slipped fell on my side and when this happens I know it's time to vacuum the stairs because I think what happens when I go too long without vacuuming the stairs I know I need to do it more the carpet kind of gets matted down and it it becomes more slippery I don't know if that makes sense so I fluffed up the stairs by raking it I will have the rake Linked In the description and then [Music] vacuumed [Music] [Music] are you ready for fall Ready for football what about fall fall football comes in the fall so all right we're going to do this [Music] ready so in the morning after I get the girls all off to school we are going to decorate for fall and it's a little bit bit better sweet because all of this everyday Decor I will likely never see again here in this home so I'm like as excited as I am to decorate for fall it's like it's a little bitter sweet I hope you're ready I hope you're excited you say you don't want to get in trouble that you're doing fine cuz you got me I don't want to break your little bubble but you got to wake [Music] up today is the day I'm going to be decorating I got the girls up and out the door for school took them to school um it's kind of different for me because the twins are in preschool now they don't go full day but they still nap in the afternoon so now I have a little bit of time in the morning and then a little bit time in the afternoon to do whatever I need to do and that was the plan for today I was going to decorate and I was going to save some decorations for Avery when she got home I wanted her to be able to decorate she was excited so we had talked about it the night before and I was going to save Halloween decorations for her I don't typically decorate for Halloween but she really wanted to decorate for Halloween so I told her I'd let her decorate when she got home see you as dating while you're waiting like somebody's going to give it to you you got to chase it got to believe it you got to go get it for yourself cuz I can see your eyes your head is full of Dreams tears are in proof of failure you just got to let them flow without judge there's manys so in some of my videos I like to share the hyp point to my week the low point to my week just to kind of start a conversation and you guys are always welcome to share your high point or maybe your low point if you want to share in the comment section but this week I'll start with the low point to my week because I want to end on the positive so the low point to my week was it was a very good week but it was that time of the month not to be too TMI and I had a couple of days I just wasn't feeling it wasn't feeling myself and there was no particular reason why the past couple of weeks have been very busy I'm sure it's been like that for you guys as well we are starting up fall activities school starting and there's always so much you have to do right before school starts so it has been a busy past couple of weeks and then you add in that time of the month and I had one evening that I just I feel like I wasn't the best version of myself the person that I don't want to be um and probably not the best mom and you know I guess the good part is I recognized it I just lost my patience lost my cool when I probably didn't need to you know so that's my low point but I think like I said the good point is is I recognize it and you know I I know I got to give myself some Grace as a mom I hope a lot of you guys can understand what I I'm going through but it's all good now everyone's happy happy healthy and I'm good now but I just didn't like how I lost my patience too much those two [Music] [Music] days [Music] [Music] [Music] okay in the middle of decorating I think I had gotten into the microwave and I noticed how dirty it was I mean it wasn't horrible but it needed to be clean so what I did was I take a bowl um a bowl you can put in your microwave I pour in some white distilled vinegar and then I put it in the microwave for about 7 minutes and what that does is the vinegar vinegar heats up and kind of coats the inside of the microwave and then when I'm done with that you'll see me going in with with some Dawn power wash and I'll spray that all over the insides and then I wipe it down and just the combination of the vinegar and the Dawn and it's all hot and humid in the microwave it just makes it really easy to wipe down [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so I shared my low point with which again I hope a lot of you parents can relate now let's talk about the high point the high point was they went off to school and they loved it they loved it they are thriving and it was crazy cuz Mike and I both took them so they were in the back of the car they jumped out and I honestly expected them to cry I was expecting some tears from at least Addison but we pulled up so the teachers come out they get them out of the car we pull up they go bye hi and hopped right down walked right in and then Mike and I pulled away and I'm like what is going on I can't believe this I mean I'm happy they weren't sad obviously but it it was just it was crazy to watch them go um but they're thriving they're already making friends coming home and singing songs and I'm just so happy for them so I like to see them all [Music] happy with I come for you I need you to know that I would never walk [Music] away I know what you need I want what do you think looks nice smells like fall it does yeah it's awesome that's what that's why I have all these candles around I don't want you caught off guard or a longarm way I come for you I want you to know that I would never walk away I know what you need I would bleed for you but you're taking somebody home I know I need to move on I need to be strong but I don't want to r no no no [Music] no I don't want to go [Music] alone now so this is something that I like to do I think ideally every other month but it had been a while was to clean my rugs so all of my rugs that are in the doorways when you walk in our home they have a rubber backing on the bottom and you not supposed to put rugs with a rubber backing on in your washing machine because it can it can start to come off which that actually has happened to some of our rugs and then it damages the inside of your washing machine I'm not going to say I've never thrown my my rugs in the washing machine but I really try not to they get pretty dirty as you're going to see from the water the dirty water they get pretty gross so I like to clean them with my Hoover power- pet carpet cleaner I will have this Linked In the description but it's my lightweight more compact carpet cleaner this is great if you don't have a lot of carpet um if you need something more lightweight it doesn't have an attachment so that is a negative to it it's also not super easy to clean you'll see me here um cleaning it what I do is I just put some water in the bathtub and then kind of stick the bottom part in it and then shake it around that's one of the ways um other carbet cleaner the other carpet cleaner I have is a lot easier to clean um but this one like I said is just perfect for smaller areas and rugs [Music] now no I don't want to Home Alone Now [Music] toone now I don't toone so that scrub Dy damp duster I've really really been enjoying this is like the second time I've used it and I think in the first time the video that I used it someone asked where I had gotten it in a super sweet viewer sent it to me which I'm so grateful for because it's been sold out every time I've gone on their website I went and ordered a few things on The Scrub Daddy website the other day and it was sold out every time I go and look it was sold out so I've been thoroughly enjoying that for dusting like baseboards and blinds now it's not like a heavyduty cleaner but I think it's great for maintenance you just wet it with water and it wipe it you know you can wipe whatever down you need to dust um so like I said I don't decorate really any other rooms in the home except for you know this bathroom not really sure what I think about the little decorations what I basically did was I took a look at the little pieces of decorations that I had left over and I just kind of threw them in there to be honest with you with us moving I'm not stressing too much about the perfect placement of everything in here um and I don't want a lot of stuff in the bathroom so I probably would like some fall flower or something like that but again I even though I know that you can get that pretty cheap I still just don't want to buy anything right now for this [Music] [Music] house [Music] the [Music] so at this point I just wanted to vacuum the sectional I just love seeing the vacuum lines on the sectional and then I was going to get our crock poot meal going just so we could eat that for dinner Avery had salt ball practice this evening and Mike's her coach so they always need to eat pretty early um and it is a six can Croc chick white chicken chili crockpot recipe so super easy super simple so right up my alley and I love cooking with my crock poot but even more so in the fall [Music] time [Music] [Music] he [Music] I really wanted to get it right I will have this recipe Linked In the description just so you guys have all of the ingredients my girls thought it was okay I thought it was pretty good it's nothing special but if you just need something quick and easy and healthy this is a great option and what I like about it is their can so you can it's well it's cheap and you can just keep the stuff in your pantry for those nights where you're like I don't know what to make or I just need something really quickly really quick I did use canned chicken which typically is not my favorite to use I like using ACT actual chicken breasts or rotisserie chicken but I'm having a hard time getting my girls to like Chicken it's chewy um I get it I remember feeling that way when I was little I feel like when I give the girls chicken even if it's cooked in like a soup they just seem to chew forever even if I cut it up in little pieces so I was wondering if yes I know canned chicken can be full of a lot of extra sodium not as healthy as like a regular chicken breast but it's usually softer and not as chewy so that's why I went that route and again something that is shelf stable that you can keep in your pantry the one thing that I would make a change is I did dice tomatoes with green chilies next time I would take out the green chilies and just do the DI SP Tomatoes I like the green chilies but the girls did not it wasn't super spicy but just probably too spicy for them so next time I'll just do a can of diced [Music] tomatoes my heart but I lost it somehow wish that someone could say it'll all be okay just listen to me yes I say you will find a way slow it down still yours you want it enjoy the ride CU those STS and St what makes it worth the one you will make it in time you make it in time you make it in time you make it time [Music] so I put in one teaspoon of powder tied laundry detergent in my ocedar mop bucket and I often get asked how I choose which mop I'm using like this or my tinco or it kind of goes back to when I was cleaning our sink I said I have like three products and yeah there are times where I pick a specific cleaning product or tool based on the mess and sometimes it's just on preference it's how I'm feeling my mood I like to switch it up it kind of changes things up for me and makes it a little bit more exciting so I think one of the coolest things about this community is that we can all learn from each other you guys a lot of times if you're from a different country different part of the world different part of the country you'll share you know things that you notice in my home maybe is not pretty is not standard to where you live and I just think that's so cool like for example growing up in the midwest I live in Ohio I have always like pretty much every house here has a basement like I don't know anyone who doesn't have a basement they're just very standard here and I know that's not the case for all over the country and our new house we'll have a basement we're going to get it finished and things like that so whether it's that or ways we do things it's just it's really cool to learn from each other and I'm always interested even in weather weather pth if we're talking fall like here it'll start cooling down here in the next couple of weeks usually by Halloween it is freezing cold we need you know winter coats when it comes to Halloween so October for us is a big transitional month starts out I would say like light jacket in early October and then by the end of October it is fullon winter coats we've had it snowing sometimes on Halloween so things will start changing for us quickly here but let me know when it gets cold cold where you live [Music] live okay I'm done it's about time to go get Avery I think Mike said that he wants to go grab her so he's gonna grab her I'm gonna hop in the shower I'm feeling good the house is decorated it smells like fall it looks like fall I got some chili in the crock pooted so glad it's September ready for the fall because that means we're [Music] moving any [Music] will [Music] what are you saying hey he hey girlies hey come here hey you're being crazy hey can I ask you a question what what do you think about your new school there's a kitchen there's a kitchen yeah baby oh your baby's sleeping we got to be [Music] quiet here is the challenge I'm challenging you guys if you have laundry to fold go get it right now I'll wait go get it right now and let's hold together so we can have no laundry waiting for us you know when it just hangs over your head and you're feeling overwhelmed go get your laundry and Let's Fold It [Music] Together [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so everyone is asleep well the girls should be sleeping the house is clean I thought I'd give you guys a little home tour with come in here and with the new house I actually just got asked this question on Instagram so the new house would have more neutral colors or we'd add a lot of color I will say it is very neutral but I plan to bring in more color through my Decor I don't have a lot of decorations here in this house because if I would have picked out this house I wouldn't have picked out the busy warm countertops obviously before this our cabinets were um Brown I wouldn't have picked those out that's why we painted those um like even like the tile around the fireplace I wouldn't have picked those so anyways I chose to um when I decorate in here I try to really balance out those warmer colors personally because they're just not for me um it's just not my cell I like cooler colors I like gray Blues whites that type of stuff so here I keep my decorations very minimal now in the new house I'll still keep it minimal because I don't like a lot of stuff on my countertops but I will bring in more decorations and more colors just because things will be more white our Island will be it's like um a not a dark blue but like a a medium blue that almost looks a little bit darker gray in certain colors so we will have that it's kind of like a coastal feel to it Coastal I want to say Farmhouse there's probably bits of Farmhouse but not like full-on Farmhouse I guess that's how I would say my style like a farmhouse anyways okay so over here I got this from Target last year this is the pumpkin bonfire candle from Beth and Body Works this is from Kirklands a couple years ago um oh I did get this this year this was maybe a couple months ago I got this from the target target dollar section um and this is the sweet cinnamon Plum candle so I kind of pick up my candles and the scents based on um the months so when you start out here in August or September I go for more like sweeter like the plum but you still get the cinnamon so you get the fall scent um and then I'll start in maybe like later September and October start moving into the pumpkin pecan waffles this one smells so good and it gives off a lot of scent this is from Kirkland's um a couple of years ago and over here this is from Sweet Water Decor the pumpkin spice and I just like how it had the gold old lid to it this was actually from last year that I saved pumpkin from Kirkland's and this was just stuff I had laying around um and then I always get asked about our coffee table I got it from Wayfair I'll try to link it below it has been sold out for months but I will tell you that I don't think it was only sold on Wayfair I found it from different places or um different stores but wafer had it cheaper at the time but when I I found it I searched for round Wood round Coastal Farmhouse coffee table and that came up and I fell in love with it so um that's where I got it from but then I just added a little bit of color here to the gray sectional um just like little pops of orange and things like that I will admit that I feel like fall is one of the only times that I really like adding Bolder colors like orange um um this sign is from Kirkland a couple years ago these are from Michaels and then this was from the target dollar section this was also from Target a couple of years ago so nothing too crazy obviously oh I get asked about these baskets a lot those are from Target and then this is from wfir as well um but it was funny cuz when the girls walked in the door they're like oh Mommy decorated they were like is this our new home the twins asked if this was our new home and I'm like yeah I guess probably to you guys this is kind of a newer home huh I just love the Cozy feeling it's dark and I feel like I am in the minority here you guys I kind of like it that it gets darker earlier in the evening I know that's so weird I know like you know we all have those weird things that people are like why do you feel that way I don't know um in December it gets dark here around like 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. right now it's about 8:4 5 and it's I mean it's it's dark outside I kind of like it it's cozy I think that's what it is because like I said earlier I love my candles I love that fire going candles burning the smell in the air I don't know I I'll admit that it's a little bit different this year with decorating for fall like usually I'm like it feels so good and it does feel good but I know that we're going to be moving soon so like all of this stuff is going to be uprooted um so it's just like a different feeling um maybe unsettling feeling I guess because you know it feels good to get your house clean it feels good to have everything nice and Order and in place but I know in a couple of months everything is just going to be a mess every single room is going to be a mess every single room is going to need to be cleaned and organized and that is very overwhelming um and I if you guys have ever moved which I'm sure you have you guys totally understand what I'm saying I'm just trying to tell myself like so it's okay Jamie your house doesn't need to be perfect every room doesn't need to be perfect I guess where I'm coming from is I know how long it's taken me to organize or get my current home to the way I like it and I want it and I'm just thinking about that for the new house and I'll admit it's very very overwhelming and I'm maybe you guys can relate to this this feeling you guys maybe have homes even if you've been in it for a while maybe you have just started a cleaning Journey or a decorating Journey or an organizing journey and you're feeling very overwhelmed so if you're feeling that way please know that I totally understand how you feel and that's just how I'm feeling and I think it's just starting to hit me now because it's getting real we have a busy fall coming up um it's just going to be a lot but I'm reminding myself that it's all good things you know like sometimes you just need to put yourself in check and say number one it's all good it's good stress number two who cares if your house is a mess I mean you guys can come along my house will be a mess for a while I'm not going to put pressure on myself of having every room get unpacked and organized right away because I believe in taking your time because if you rush then things aren't going to get done right so I'm telling myself that um it's a marathon it's not a Sprint so anyways long-winded way of saying yes I'm excited to have all the fall decorations out and it feels good but at the same time I'm like uh this will be like for 2 months and then we'll be moving anyways thank you guys so much for being here I cannot wait um there'll be a lot of new things to to to clean and organize and even decorate which I am totally like at least with the organization like I got it I just got to spend a little bit of time and I got it decorating I'm really hoping that most of the the pieces of furniture we have in this house translates and looks good in the new house cuz I don't want to buy a lot of stuff um but you guys can come along with me you can help me out you you can be my friend tell me what to do help me out a little bit anyways I hope you guys are ready for fall I hope this motivated you guys to do a little bit of decorating and give you some inspiration even hopefully it just gives you some inspiration and you can kind of tweak it to what works for you in your home but thank you guys so much for being here and being a part of this amazing journey and I can't wait to bring you to the new house and the new journey and all that we have over there so anyways I hope you guys are having a good day I hope you have a wonderful week coming up happy September and Happy fall I'll see you guys next time [Music] bye hey guys I hope you're ready for some fall deep cleaning and decorating I am going to be decorating my front porch for the fall deep cleaning my grill trying out a new amazing Grill cleaner and also sharing with you our fall nighttime even evening routine so I hope you're ready we're going to do a lot of cleaning I'm going to show you how I try to stay productive and on top of things and we are going to get it done [Music] together [Music] hey guys I hope you're ready for some fall deep cleaning and decorating so in today's video I was planning on tackling the front of my house deep cleaning cleaning windows cleaning my front porch and DEC decorating and I was kind of on the fence that maybe I shouldn't decorate our front porch decorating isn't my favorite thing to do but we will be selling our house in the fall maybe late fall early winter and so I thought that maybe it would be some good curb appeal also fall is my favorite season of the year and I don't decorate my front porch or the outside of my house for any other season except for fall because it's my favorite so I figured enjoy en it Jamie decorate your front porch for the fall and it'll look nice for the potential new [Music] [Music] owners and nobody else [Music] [Music] no [Music] [Music] so I have found that a lot of people don't realize that cleaning and disinfecting are completely separate things so some things you just need to clean some things you need to clean and then disinfect so with your laundry baskets it's important to do both so what I do periodically is I will take my laundry baskets and I will put them in the bath I'll give my laundry baskets a little bath and I clean them either with some Dawn dish soap or Dawn power wash whatever I have in hand and then I spray them with some disinfecting spray so I use the Jaws dis disinfecting spray that stuff is is really great because I feel like it doesn't leave a film I also like the micr band disinfecting spray and that's supposed to be great for I think they say that if you spray it on a surface it repels bacteria or it helps disinfect for 2 24 hours after you spray it but I find that it does leave like a a film on whatever surface I spray it on so the Jaws for me I really like because I'll spray it on my laundry baskets or whatever I'm disinfecting and it doesn't feel gross or anything after I'm done we don't have to night is [Music] still let me go we got the now just let me feel you [Music] close don't ever let me go come [Music] slowly but wait for too [Music] long so before I get started outside and cleaning our Grill which I'm going to show you kind of a two-parter to when I clean our Grill and what I do I wanted to deep clean our dishwasher and I use these a fresh tablets you can get them from Walmart or Target and it's just a tablet that you put in the the dish dish soap dispenser our dishwasher is fairly new so typically when I deep clean our dishwasher I'll clean out the bottom and the filter but because our dishwasher is new I didn't need to do that I just wanted to run a clean cycle so it's just nice because the arresh box also has the monthly calendar so you can kind of stay make sure you stay on top of deep cleaning your dishwasher so I was doing that before I deep cleaned our Grill and went outside to deep clean the front of our house and decorate so you're going to see me here in a little bit deep cleaning our Grill so what I did was I took the grates and I wanted to soak them in the bathtub I know that seems crazy but it's just a like the first step before I start scrubbing the grill grates and when I put them in the bathtub I lay down a bath towel to protect the bath and then I'm going to put in some simple green and simple green is just a wonderful cleaner it they have a variety of cleaners and they meet the EPA safer standards a natural cleaner but it also decreases and cleans and I like to soak my grill grates in that first before I start [Music] [Music] scrubbing [Music] you [Music] [Music] so I started out just by hosing down the front porch and then I was going to clean the windows and the screens and typically I use my window cleaning tool but I know that not all of you guys want to buy the window cleaning tool so I was like you know what I'm going to give it a try with just good old Dawn dish soap so when I clean my windows with the window window cleaning tool that I use it has a squeegee and the scrubber on it and I just use cold water I think cold water is key so cold water and Dawn dish soap and so I was like all right we're going to try cleaning the windows with just a rag and some cold water and dish soap and and then that way if you guys don't want to buy the window cleaning tool you don't have to and first I was going to clean the screens and I did the dish shap and cold water and I was just scrubbing them down and then I was going to scrub the windows before I started [Music] decorating all okay so I need your help Halloween is coming up isn't that crazy that it's almost here give me your ideas for my girls so I know I have limited time that my girls all three of them will want to coordinate their Halloween costumes you know what I mean especially because there's a 4-year age Gap like avera's going to get older and be very she's probably going to want to do stuff with her friends so I try to coordinate them every single year so this is what they have been they've been thing one thing two and then Avery was Dr Seuss so they've done that they last year Avery was the police woman and the twins were prisoners and she handcuffed them so that was super cute I'm trying to think oh and we also did toy Toy Story one year it was amazing um the Twins were slink dog so I connected them which that was hilarious to watch Toy Story we did Toy Story another year um she's been a witch and so this year we're trying to find a costume for all three girls and yeah I don't know I'm just curious like can you guys give me your suggestions what should my girls be um if Avery doesn't want to be it I'm going to let her be whatever she wants because I just I want her to enjoy Halloween I don't want to tell her what she has to be so if you guys have any suggestions for Three Sisters I kind of have thought about Hocus Pocus um but I'm kind of on the fence about that so let me know your suggestions for all three girls [Music] [Music] so another question I get asked a lot about is my workout routine so I want to share some of what I do and how I became a person who loves to work out which I know is not ideal for a lot of people a lot of people don't like to work out and I have not always been this way so I'm going to share what I do and how I became a lover of working out I'll show that here in a little bit all right so you guys know my love for the Scrub Daddy and scrub mommy Brands and so I was browsing their website the other day and I saw this and I'm like I need to get this cuz it's never fun cleaning your girl um and it be it came highly recommended by some of the cleaning accounts that I follow so I figured we would give it a try so you clean with Steam not bristles because I've heard the other um Grill cleaner brushes like if they have those bristles they can break off and stick in the grill and get into your food so those are a big no no in general and if you're not using that it can be hard to find other appropriate cleaners so I think this is their answer to that but yeah you just get a bucket of water cold water and then it uses the steam you turn on the you turn on the gr and it cleans with steam so we'll see how this [Music] works so I was just wiping everything down on the outside as it was heating up so the directions say that you need to heat up the grill to 300 or to 350 but no higher than 350 so I was waiting for the grill to heat up and then you put cold water in a bucket or a bowl and then you just dip The Scrub Daddy thing into some cold water and then you go over the grates and I just I just like I don't know I felt like I could see stuff coming off of the grates and I really really like this so if you guys are on the fence you need a good Grill cleaner I would highly suggest getting this and I got this from The Scrub Daddy website okay so I swear we had a fall mat right there I have no idea where it went so we're going to keep looking for it it might be buried somewhere in the garage but I can't find it and to be honest with you guys I'm not going to buy another map because in the new house it's a double door so we'll need a huge doorm we'll need a huge door mat next year and so I know doormats aren't that expensive but it's just a waste to buy I was going to put the old like the everyday one there but it's the same size as the as this mat and I like that for the fall I want that sticking out so I think we're just going to go without a mat right now I'm in the new house but in the new house I get a much bigger mat and then doormat as well so nothing too crazy just wanted to keep it simple so we have a little bit of curb appeal before we start putting our house up on the market um we will be adding mums and real pumpkins so that's why I kind of kept it simple we will be taking the girls to the pumpkin patch here in the next couple of weeks and then Avery school does a mum they call them mumkins I'll actually have a picture right here um we order those through a fundraiser that we'll get at the end of September so I will be Ed those for some color and fall porch appeal but it's kind of crazy to think next year I will have a completely new porch to decorate kind of exciting um I know this is dirty I am actually going to throw it in the wash here soon but I just left it out here just so I can see it all done so I've shown this before on my channel but specifically cuz I have some really dirty rags with some grease on it people will ask me how I clean my microfiber cloth so I just kind of show you what I'm going to to do now sometimes if they're really really gross but I'm just being lazy to be honest with you I will soak them kind of like do like the laundry stripping and soak them but I don't feel like doing that today so I'm just going to wash them and we'll see how they come out the process that I have does a pretty good job so so I just put in microfiber cloths that's it you're not supposed to you're not supposed to wash microfiber cloths with anything else because they will attract the lint or fibers from the other clothes or towels or cloths or whatever so just microfiber put them in there and then I will add in some oxyclean sanitizer some borax which is a laundry booster and then some powdered [Music] tide okay so I've talked about verb bars before here on my channel but they came out with these new verb Test Kitchen bars they're thicker and the reason why I tried them is cuz they have protein so the other ones so if you guys are not familiar what verb bars are they're like an energy bar they're like a chewy soft granola bar but they have the same amount of caffeine I think as a shot of espresso like 80 or 90 milligrams of caffeine so I like taking this like mid morning if I get up early and work out or in the afternoon if I'm just kind of bragging like I am today if I'm you know on these days where I'm getting a ton done I just need a little bit of caffeine and a snack um I got these and they're really good this is the chocolate chip banana bread so it's 10 10 gam of protein 190 calories and 80 Mig of green green tea caffeine so this is the consistency of them they're really really good like honestly they taste homemade to me like I would think that this was a bar that was made at home really chewy I love the chocolate chip banana bread it's really really good so give these a try if you guys like them blame coming I know that's how they do it they Dr [Music] you okay so let's talk working out and what I do so I will tell you you that growing up I've always been active I've been I've been playing sports since I was little probably about 5 years old and in high school I played three Sports I went to a small school and my kids go to a bigger school so I don't think playing three Sports will be in their future but I went to a very small school I had 70 kids in my graduating class and so if you were a good athlete and you played volleyball then they wanted you to play basketball and and softball we did not have soccer at the time so that's how small we were we did not have boys or girls soccer so we had limited Athletics um and I played volleyball in the fall basketball in the winter and then softball in the spring and summer and then in the summer I was playing all three Sports in like travel teams because your High School coaches expect you to play those Sports all year round so I have always been a lover of Athletics and being active now I will say that I went through a period After High School where I didn't like being active and I think I was just a little bit burnt out and I I always like say this because I never want people to think that my parents cuz you assume if you have someone who's younger that they were pushed to be in athletics and that was never the case my parents in fact asked me like maybe you should cut one sport um and just focus on one or two and I never wanted to so I always wanted to play all three and I think it was because I had friends I had a couple of friends who like volleyball was their Sport and they didn't play the other ones and I had some friends who just love basketball and they didn't play the other sports so I think that was why but Athletics has always been important to me but in college I I did not work out as much as I should have I did not stay active cuz I just needed a break and I think I was in like my mid 20s when I started picking up working out a little bit more and it was like a slow build like you don't go from doing nothing to doing a lot so I went from doing nothing and then I just started working like running a mile and then it was two miles or just going to the gym for 15 minutes or 20 minutes and I slowly did that and now I feel like I'm at one of the highest levels of athleticism that I could ever be even when I was in high school because I truly enjoy it and I'll kind of share more of what I do here soon so I mainly do running um but I highly suggest Caroline Gervin I think that's how you say her name on YouTube I've started her workouts they are free a friend of mine does it and she gets her butt kicked by her there's other apps that I use like pelaton open fit obey they're all wonderful and it just depends on my mood and what I feel like doing but if you're looking for something free and you just want to get started started and see if you can stick with the routine check out check out Caroline on [Music] YouTube so I actually made this the day after after I was done cleaning but it's cinnamon roll oatmeal and my girls love oatmeal I like serving it to them because I personally love oatmeal but it's also healthy and filling for them so I wanted to try a spin on a fall oatmeal and make it myself so I will have the recipe I got it from a website Linked In the description but it's so simple so easy it made my house smell like fall the girls loved it I do think the key is the icing so when I made it I feel like the just oats were just okay they weren't bad but they weren't super flavorful especially if your kids are used to the the packaged oatmeal um but the icing that I added totally made it so good so yummy so definitely give it a [Music] try I'm done so I think what you're going to so I think what you're going to see next is our nighttime routine which I actually already filmed it because I was going to do it just like on a random school night but then when I was sitting down looking at the schedule you know Avery's gone two nights a week for softball and Mike's always gone with her since he coaches so I'm like it would just be me and the twins and then um the twins have soccer practice one night a week and Mike usually takes them to that so I'm like there's really only four nights a week that we're home and on a Friday or Saturday night it's not like our typical nighttime routine so we only had two nights that we could typ or that we could film it and so I picked it just a random I just picked like a random Sunday and I already filmed it so you guys should be seeing that next I hope some of the tips and tricks and just sharing some of the stuff that we do helps you out I don't know about you guys but I feel like the night times fly by I don't know how people I don't know how there's just not enough time in the day for evenings to get to get it all done like I'm home Mike works from home so we're able to get dinner started at a decent time and we still have a hard time getting it all done in the evenings like the reading and the homework and the baths and it's a lot for sure so if you are understanding what I'm saying and you feel that way I feel you I get it uh it's crazy night times are crazy I'm sure it'll be get get easier as the twins get older and they can like shower themselves like Avery gets in the shower she showers herself so obviously that's helpful but nights are crazy nights are busy we're just trying our best over here and I'm always like afraid that I'm going to forget something like every day when I drop them off at school I'm like okay lunch okay like did they have to remember anything special for today I just feel like my head is constantly spinning so I don't know if you guys can relate to that but we will get to that nighttime routine next all right so let's get started with this nighttime routine so I set a timer every night for 6:30 p.m. so Alexa our like Amazon Alexa tells us at 6:30 that we need to get moving on our nighttime routine and so for us I think we get so busy we get bogged down with playing or doing other things that we forget what time it is so setting the timers is imperative to us staying on task and getting everything done so with Alexa we set a timer for 6:30 and she tells us okay it's time to get started started time to get started cleaning up so this is what we're doing we're uh loading the dishwasher cleaning up the living room cleaning up the kitchen getting those basic things done and by Alexa telling us like this is the signal and what's interesting is even the three-year-olds the girls know that when Alexa goes off at 6:30 it's time to get moving get cleaning up before we go upstairs for [Music] bath look at beautiful stars I want to take a trip to Mars break me nothing break [Music] me look at beautiful stars dri so Alexa tells us at 6:30 is time to get cleaning up and then at 7:00 or right before and part of the 6:30 is not only cleaning up at Avery pack your lunch so I created these lunch packing stations so she can pack her own lunch now does she do this every night no there are times that I do it for her she's seven she shouldn't have to necessarily do it every single night but she does enjoy doing it and taking that autonomy and doing it herself um so that 6:30 timer time frame is okay let's get everything done so here I am filling out a paperwork or paperwork for the twins they have a field trip we have to send in some money and do a parent signature mike always has money on himself I don't know if you guys are like me but I never ever carry cash I am like credit card debit card girl I hate like I never go to the bank mike always has cash on him which is good because someone should always have cash on them um but we had to send in cash for the field trip so you know it's cleaning up tying up Loose Ends like um lunches and things and then I make the girls put their tote bags the twins have tote bags Avery has a backpack I put them on the door so they're ready to go and then I start the vacuum and we are ready to get baths look at beautiful stars I want to drive a faster car I'm going to be myself I'm going to be someone else I'm going to be myself I'm going to be someone else I'm going to skip my breaks I'm going to make mistakes I'm going to skip my breaks I'm going to make mistakes try not to [Music] hold so typically when Mike Mike gives them a bath he is the bath Master he gives them a bath he's great at it and I am typically folding laundry putting laundry away while he gives them a bath and then we tag team and get them ready for bed what dmes do you have on um um Halloween Halloween dmes yeah what do you think about those Halloween jammies they're scary why are they scary because um it's Halloween oh it's Halloween do you have ghosts yeah say boo Bo so what this Point Mike is finishing up Avery so sometimes Avery will take a bath with the twins sometimes she wants a shower in our bathroom and she wants to be separate um but either way so Mike gets them all like he washes them he gives them a bath then he sends one girl in so Addison came in first I got her ready for the bath and then emry came in second and the Mike is finishing her up while I'm getting hair brushed hair braided for Addison and um pajamas on now for toothbrushes these toothbrushes have been game changing for us I will have them linked Below in the description but the twins are using these light up toothbrushes and I think they're a two-minute timer so they tell them how long they need to be brushing their teeth now of course we're there supervising helping them um but they're just great cuz it shows them how long they need to keep brushing and then Avery's toothbrush which I will also have linked below not only has a timer but it vibrates and tells her when to move it around in her mouth which is important for older kids so they know like you just don't brush the back of your teeth and things like that you need to brush all over your mouth good night good night Bears good night chairs good job ay good night good night and good night mitt good job good night clocks and good night and good night socks socks good night little house night little house and good night mouth good night MTH good night comb good night comb and good night brush good night good [Music] night and so we put them to bed and then I also created these uh weekly clothes organizers or cubes they're just like um a closet organizer you can get from Amazon or Walmart and then I pick out the clothes each day for the girls for the week now I do the twins I pick out their clothes Avery does her own and then we just go in and supervise it so we just go either mic or ey and we go in and just we say okay yep looks [Music] good night night girls don't let the bed bugs bite bite love you [Music] girls and then once everyone's down for bed typically Mike goes to the gym I would say not every night but he will go to the gym cuz he always wants to make sure he's home for the evenings home to help the kids in the evenings and put them to bed and then he'll a lot of times go to the gym or do some extra work and if there's anything that I need to catch up from the day this time is my time to edit and film I usually get most of my editing and filming done or I guess editing or answering comments done at night or if I have some stuff to catch up on at home like mopping like it was a night that I needed to mop it was also a Sunday so I needed to plan out my week and I'm going to show you what I do to plan out my week here soon H and the deal [Music] okay so I set timers on my phone to remind me clearly I need a lot of reminders and sometimes it's not even like I need the reminder to do that specific thing but I just need the reminder like get up and do this now because if you don't do it now you're not going to get it done so I set alarms on my phone for different times in the evening for myself so get up take your vitamins I take magnesium which is I have polycystic polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and I am always uh deficient in magnesium so that's why I take it but look into it because magnesium has a whole host of benefits for specifically women so I take that before bed um then I take my allergy medicines and things like that take those at about 900 p.m. and I yes I set an alarm for it and then I sit down and I plan out my the next next day or my week and then I sent a timer for getting up and doing my nighttime skincare routine and then going to bed so this is my planner it's the happy planner I've used the personal planner which I love I also love this happy planner I got it from Michaels and I sit down I look at okay what I have going on this week what I have going on um tomorrow this is my to-do list for the week so I sit down and I create a one to five to-do to-dos every single day I don't want to overwhelm myself but like let's try to keep it realistic with what we're getting done each day and so I plan out my week one to five things that I want to accomplish and then I write down a list of specific things I want to get done the next day so that's what you're going to see me doing here soon um is writing down this is what I'm doing tomorrow and so when I wake up I'm not focused on the whole week I'm not overwhelmed by what I have to get done this whole week I am just focused on Monday and this to-do list right right [Music] [Music] here end I just to hold [Music] youever my nighttime skincare routine so I always wash my face I put on some light moisturizing moisturizing lotion because I have oily skin and I put my anti-aging um stuff on and I also use this dime Beauty eyelash serum so I use the tanoan anti- wrinkle cream it's a prescription so you have to be prescribed to it by a doctor but I use that most nights to combat those wrinkles that are coming as I approach 40 and then I brush my teeth and I'm pretty pretty much ready for bed I use my lumino I use lumino mouthwash at night I use lumino toothpaste in the morning and then the Colgate whitening at night and then I always make sure that I put on my workout clothes at night cuz I'm telling you put your workout clothes on at night and then the next morning it's so much easier to get up and get working out if you're already in your comfy workout clothes and this is my night MK that I sleep with every single night and I spray my pillow spray my lavender pillow spray and it's like my own nighttime Oasis but I think that's going to be it for today's video so what I do is I get in bed at this point Mike's home he didn't go to the gym tonight but if he most nights he does go to the gym and then when he gets home he'll shower and then get in bed with me and this is usually where we'll watch a show if there's time or just sit down and chat and talk about the following day what our plans are and that's [Music] it oh it is time you guys in today's video I'm going to be decorating for fall 2021 giving you some decorating ideas getting my house all ready for the fall which is my favorite season but I'm also going to be doing a lot of cleaning so there is plenty of speed cleaning motivation in today's video I'm going to be doing some deep cleaning and then I'm even going to share a fall home tour go into more detail about all of my fall decorations so give me a thumbs up if you are ready for [Music] fall [Music] hey friends I'm Jamie and I want to thank you for being here if you are brand new hello welcome I want you to feel like you belong here because you absolutely do and I'm just glad that you're here we're here together and we are a part of this community here on Jam's journey I hope you feel like you belong here and I hope that you will take something away from this video maybe some fall decoration ideas maybe some motivation cleaning motivation or maybe you just look at me as a friend and you enoy enjoy the time that you're spending with me so thank you for being here and as always thank you to anyone who continues to come back I am grateful for all of you guys and I'm just blown away by all of your love and just thank you so I'm going to start out by cleaning my home here on day so you are joining me for a 3-day clean and decorate with me this was day one and I was getting some laundry started and I wanted to clean our bedding and then I was going to spray some Tide and antibacterial spray on the mattress let it sit for the day dry throughout the day and then I was going to make my bed later but this was in the morning before we got our day [Music] started I wish to be someone better help me with this comparison call me myy mysterious [Music] Myer so this was much later in the evening and you know one of my goals for my channel and for when I put out these videos I want to show you real life messes what a real life family living with three young kids you know this is what happens when you're living A busy life and you have young kids there are lots and lots of messes but I also want to show you that I don't do all this alone I am not a machine I can't always get it all done but I am able to stay afloat because I have a husband who takes the kids on a walk like he did tonight after dinner so I can get the kitchen all cleaned up up and I have been on this kick of playing some '90s pop music to get me pumped Pumped up to clean and it just really changes my mood and just gets me up and going so if you see me doing a little dancing that's what I'm rocking out to but yes a part of our nightly routine is tag teaming working together to quote unquote get it all done or I guess just get some of or the bare minimum done I'm my love oh I wish I could rewind it only us oh I love youed time is up and we so hard to fight it but we knew we couldn't fight it hurts every [Music] time you say you'll be mine we're going to get out of here we're going to get out of here we're going to get up this m and here on night one I wanted to do some fall cleaning I know we're not at fall like the true fall season quite yet but just with the the turn of the seasons coming up soon I wanted to deep clean my rugs you're not supposed to put rugs with a rubber backing in your washer because it can ruin the washer so I like to clean it clean my rugs with my power- pet it's a very lightweight carpet cleaner and I'm just really diligent about cleaning my rugs because you know if you think about it this is the first place you step when you come home this is where we take our shoes off and if the rugs aren't clean or whatever is embedded in those rugs it's just going to get tracked throughout the house so I like to stay on top of cleaning my rugs as often as I can but this was going to be the last thing that I was going to do here on night one or day one and then on day two you're going to see me bust out out all of my fall decorations I'm going to be decorating and transforming my home for The Fall season and actually after my 3 days of cleaning that you're going to join me for I had a little bit of like decoration holes that I wanted to fill in so I'm going to bring you along to a couple of stores show you what's out there as far as fall decorations then I'll give you a fall home [Music] tour you say you'll be mine we're going to get out of here we're going to get out of here we're going to get out this and get on out of here so if you guys notice around our basement door you can kind of see when I'm cleaning the rugs in the background the trim has come off and it's all scratched up so our dog Reese has anxiety during storms and fireworks and over the 4th of July weekend she freaked out with some fireworks and damaged a couple of our door frames we have everything under control we've seen a vet we have solutions for her to help her out so she's all good but we are having trouble finding trim we cannot find it anywhere we have looked online been to multiple home improvement stores and it's crazy cuz you know we're house hunting so it's like we could find a house at any time that we want to put an offer in if it would get you know accepted then we have to put our house on the market so we're like uh trying to run around trying to find it and it's just taking forever heart but I lost it somehow wish that someone could say it'll all be okay just listen to me yes I say slow it down still yours if you want it enjoy the ride cuz those subs and those down [Music] just kidding I'm going to go help put the kids to bed I'll see you guys tomorrow for some [Music] decorating trying to find some love in this crazy world I like I was never hurt so the full time fall decorating is my time to shine I know I've said this a mil time so I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself but decorating is not enjoyable for me I'm sure some of you guys can relate like if you guys you know don't like cleaning or organizing I enjoy that I enjoy the process I enjoy everything that comes with like cleaning and organizing but when it comes to decorating I just don't enjoy it I don't enjoy the process it's very overwhelming and I overthink myself so we have lived in this house for about 7 years and I have finally gotten my house to where I like it when it comes to the fall and I think I like decorating for the fall because I can leave it up for 3 months like it's so overwhelming for Christmas cuz it's like I don't want to spend all of the the money and the effort into getting my house looking nice for Christmas because you only leave it up for like a month you know but like fall it's like three full months so I I enjoy it um that I can leave it up for three months and I finally over the past you know 7even years have gotten my house to where I like it um someone asked me if I was going to decorate for Halloween and I do love Halloween probably more than Christmas which I know is crazy um but I'm not going to decorate for Halloween even though I love it just cuz it's such a like a short period of time that I would have to decorate you know um so anyways it was a very gloomy day it was like giving me all of the Fall feels even though it was really hot out which it'll still be hot for a while um but the mornings are starting to cool off which is nice so it's still um like I think the other mornings like we've had morning Mornings in the 50s and the 60s I mean it still gets you know to 80 or 90 um during the day but the mornings are starting to cool off which is kind of nice but yes Christmas is my time to shine or Christmas fall is my time to shine when it comes to decorating and I just love how over the years you know I just have bought a few decorations every year and slowly but surely I've gotten my house to where I enjoy it now during the fall stay alive so you know that I don't about what is wrong and what is right they keep moving in different ryms still I know what you feel we keep moving in different RM m m two different mind [Music] so I got a lot of really good candles from Bath & Body Works and also some from um Walmart that I'll share um and I'll share all of those in the scents the scents that I got when I give you my fall home tour here at the end um but like I said at the end of this video I'm going to show you where I got all of my decorations and then um some of the new decorations that I hope to get but I'll try to link all of the decorations that I can but honestly most of this stuff has been accumulated over the past 7 years that we you know we've been in here for 7 years so every year you know like I'll B buy a few new pieces and so a lot of this is not stuff you can get necessarily this year but I will still try to link as much as I can in the description just in case um you know like you guys want to go and look for something similar um but here in a minute I'm going to answer some questions that I got from a recent viewer more about my personality more about my husband's personality how similar we are how different and it's just kind of interesting that I'm going to share all of that here in a minute um but you know I've been talking a lot about that we're currently house hunting and pulling out all of my fall decorations you know I'm excited because it's like okay I finally like it's nice it's exciting for me cuz I'm like okay I'm excited to decorate because I know I have my house the way I like it and then I think like maybe next year we are going to be in a new house and then I'm going to have to find decorations that work in that house now obviously it doesn't mean just cuz you buy a new house you have to buy new decorations but you know I've gotten these decorations that I have currently compliment I believe you know the colors that are in my home like the the warm like the tan uh color on the wall and my countertops like we could get into a house with completely different tones and colors and I it'll just be interesting to see how all of these decorations translate I think more than likely what I'll probably end up doing is exactly what we did for this house cuz we lived in a h our first house we bought we lived in before this I'll probably just like hope that they all translate over and then it'll take me you know 7 years to get to get it to where I love it um just buy a few each year and I I'm never like worried about having my house perfect when it comes for decorations cuz I just know that I can't like it's just not not how I operate when it comes to decorating uh maybe cleaning and organizing I might be a little bit like more rush but decorating I don't rush myself cuz it's just too overwhelming for me so I don't know we'll see we'll see where we are next [Music] fall [Music] okay so Sierra had asked how are Mike and I similar how are we different are we introverts extroverts who's more strict with the kids so I thought that was kind of fun and a different type of question just because if you're new um or even if you're not new I mean unless you've been around for a long time you probably don't know a lot about my husband and I guess he's he's pretty quiet he's very laidback he is a financial analyst and I say that because I think that if you had your idea in your head of what a financialist would be like he probably fits that like he's very analytical into numbers he doesn't love being on camera um he's very quiet I think sometimes like if I show him on camera because he's very quiet and laidback his personality doesn't really translate on camera if you guys know what I mean um and so he probably just doesn't come off maybe as friendly on camera just cuz he's just really quiet I hope you guys know what I mean but he is one of the most uh laid-back gentle like most thoughtful like he is if I could take one thing attribute from him it would be to get some of his selflessness he is so he is not selfish at all he doesn't have one bit of selfishness in him and I really admire that about him um but anyways okay so we as far as similar we are both pretty quiet like if we're in a room with new people we're going to be very quiet and we're not going to talk um we open up more when we get to know you we are both introverts we are not big talkers we like being in smaller groups like a smaller group of friends and we also don't like being like go go go like as much as you guys see me moving and you know getting stuff done just cuz it has to get done but like in general we love to relax like we are not the type of like family that's like planning these Big Adventures every weekend and go go go we enjoy kind of enjoying the slowness when we can we are very similar with our values and morals and what we want in life how we parent and I think the biggest way we are different is that I am a type a person and he is a type B and I have this little cartoon that I found online and I thought this was perfect cuz I am the type of person that's like if it's there I'm going to like I am a go-getter Mike is very successful very successful in his career and he's always looking like I mean he's had since we've moved into this house I think he's had like four promotions like he he's he's a go-getter but he's also the type that like at 5:00 as long as there's nothing pressing he shuts his laptop he doesn't have his um email on his phone because I mean like when he's at work he's always on his email but like he wants to be like present he wants to be in the moment um he is he wants to enjoy life now of course I want to enjoy life but I'm am like okay we have you know the list um like the to-do list okay what's next like I'm just I'm Type A definition of a type a person and he is definitely a type B person but I guess we make it work and we work really well together so I guess we balance each other [Music] out [Music] [Music] so this was one area that I didn't really know how to decorate cuz this table is new we got it I think in February so I was trying to go around trying to figure out like plugin stuff that I had to try to make things work before I went and bought something new and I felt like it needed something taller so that's why I was going to go out and chop for something different for this table but I was trying to make it work for what I had first before I went [Music] out [Music] [Music] [Music] you just know how to push all my but theera also asked who is more strict with the kids and I was like kind of curious I was like hm I wonder what Mike would say so I asked him and he said I think we're both equally as strict like I don't think there's one parent that's more of the dis disciplinarian um than the other um if I had to pick if I had to I would probably probably say he's a tiny bit more strict than than I am but but I kind of feel like it depends on the day like I I'm sure this is very common with parents but like some days you know you're tired you're exhausted your patience is running low and you can't deal with the whining and the crying and the fighting um and there's other days where you have more patience and you're maybe in a really good mood and you're more tolerant of that type of stuff or certain behaviors so I just think we almost take our turns depending on the day um and who is more strict so yeah I guess we're we're pretty equally as strict but um yeah care at all and there is I can do I am madly drawn to you I know you feel the shame you got my heart strings tangled tangled up you got my heart strings vibrating for you now there's something more you don't want to admit W we're perfectly opposite perfectly opposite I definitely think I want to add some fall florals in here but I didn't really have any that looked good so that's something else I was going to look for when I went shopping um um but I did want to add a pop of fall in here I'm not someone who likes to decorate a lot like all over my house for the fall just because I I just try to focus on the main living areas but this is the bathroom that's like right off the kitchen that people use when they come over so I did want to put a little bit of effort into into this bathroom um but what are you guys looking forward to the most with the fall so when it comes to fall for me there's probably two things that I get most excited for number one let's see if you you guys know me what do you think I'm most excited for okay I am most excited for if you guys like I want you to leave that comment there we'll see um what you guys say but I am the most excited for college football Ohio State Buckeye football that's like Mike loves professional football as well equally as college football most of our weekends in the fall are spent revolving around football in some aspect but I love Ohio State football so um I am the most excited for college football and then after that I love Halloween so I'm excited for those two things um I have no idea what the girls are going to be this year for Halloween I mean Avery will will choose what she wants to be I have no idea what the twins are going to be so those are the two things I'm the most excited for let me know in the comment section what you are most excited for when it comes to the fall cuz I know there's a light space a gleam and Trace and I won't let it go on like this side I won't give up I won't back down and I won't stop until I fight until I find you I know we got to find a way just like I knew knew you were going to come away and never regret there's an answer you get just by looking for it [Music] oh I do plan on decorating my porch I guess that is the other area that I do decorate again it's like I get to decorate for and leave it up for 3 months so I do put in a little bit of effort for my porch like Christmas I don't do anything I don't even put up a Christmas wreath because it's such a short period of time and we get like so much snow and there's always so much snow on the porch that I just don't put in the effort for Christmas but fall I am going to be decorating this year for my front porch and I will be filming it for you guys so I didn't show myself vacuuming on the hardwood floors before I mopped I almost I mean I always mop or vacuum before I mop but I had ran the noral my robotic vacuum SL mop but I ran the vacuum part the night before and the floors weren't that dirty and I was running out of time so something had to be cut and since the floors weren't bad I didn't vacuum before I'm out [Music] so can't you make me feel like I why can we let [Music] and can you say me the L [Music] dream can we let sh and [Music] blow just away face you never let me go like this so don't give up don't back down I won't stop until I find until [Music] I but here on day two I just wanted to make my bed and then clean our master bathroom I didn't have a lot of time on my hands so this was one of those days you know like sometimes I have a lot I I get done a lot I want to get done and there's other days where it's like I just have about a half an hour to get stuff done um and so that was one of those days I had to prioritize what I had to do and I had to get the master bathroom done which I had been putting off the shower was so gross not so gross it just was not clean at all it was it needed to be cleaned um because it had been more than a couple of weeks since I cleaned it cuz I hate cleaning the master shower so um yeah oh and I was going to use the Jaws cleaner to clean the vanity and I was all out and I was being way too lazy to go downstairs and get a new Jaws pod so I just grabbed the Mrs Myers lavender multi-surface spray cuz I had it up here um [Music] but stay tuned next we're going shopping and then I'll show you my fall [Music] decor [Music] so I was going to mop in there and then give you guys like a little home tour of all of the decorations so you could see it all together I was going to light the candles but the girls woke up from their nap so it's just not going to work so um maybe tomorrow I will pick up and do it I don't know we'll see when I get time hopefully I have time before I need to edit this and get it up to you guys but stay tuned for the home tour and you can see all of my fall [Music] [Music] [Music] decorations [Music] [Music] so I am a little dressed up or I guess dressed up for me I don't really get dressed up very often or really do my makeup I'm going out with one of my girlfriends tonight just a girl's night husbands are staying at home with the kids she has like a work event that she's taking me to they have like appetizers and drinks and then we're going to go to a wine bar after that so I'm pretty excited to get away for the night and have a little bit of a girl time but I thought while I was dressed up really quickly and the house was clean I'll do kind of show you how I've decorated now I've switched some things up from what you guys have seen and I need your opinion so give me your opinion when I asked you guys but what you've already seen me decorate things are a little bit different I want to add in I'm sorry I didn't get as many Clips when I was out shopping because there was a lot of people out and I got nervous and shy whipping out my camera in public so I just got a few Clips at Kirkland's sorry guys okay so you walk into the kitchen and I keep it pretty minimal here in the kitchen um I always get asked about this I think it's called a I think it's considered a cake stand I got it from the target Dollar Tree and I've gotten that one from the target Dollar Tree as well they do have some that I'll link below that aren't dollar or like Target Dollar Tree prices a little bit more expensive um but I think there's one for like $10 and there's some nicer ones as well um but I always see them or periodically I'll see them at the Target dollar spot and I always pick them up so just have a candle a blue pumpkin and then over here um this is white pumpkin I think this is a first time I've seen this scent at Bath & Body Works and then I have this little I think it's called a trivet I'll have that link below that's from Target I got this from Hobby Lobby last year so you know I like to keep my countertops pretty minimal and bare and then over here so I always get asked about that that's an Amazon Alexa I just turned the screen off um but it plays music for us it can does reminders and things like that so um I just get asked about what what's at screen GRE but I have this is um pumpkin vanilla cream which is one of my favorites I got it last year and I bought two of them this year because it they sold out really quickly pumpkin vanilla cream it's just it's an amazing scent um and I got this from Bath & Body Works a couple years ago and then this sign from Kirkland's which I really like cuz it brings in some of those more cooler colors I guess the gray and the white as opposed to since everything is so warm and then I got this pumpkin over here to kind of again balance out the darker countertops I got this from Hobby Lobby I think last year okay so this is where it's different now you guys and I need your opinion so you guys saw me decorate those right here and I had that now I went shopping earlier and I tried to find some type of floral fall floral to put over there and I just couldn't find what I was looking for and so I I came home and I was looking online I was like just for height purposes I took those I was like from here and then I put over there to see what I was looking for height-wise and when I put this over there I was like ooh I like this over here I mean I like it on the table but I really like it over here because it adds some height height and then um like it goes along with the hello fall very I feel like it goes with the hello fall sign really well um so this is where I need your opinion do you like this setup you can let me know um this I got from the target dollar section this year this is from Target which I think is still available I'll link that these are from Michael's last year but I saw some very similar at Hobby Lobby this is from Kirkland's like probably four three or four years ago and then this is from the target dollar section last year I think it was like $3 $ so you tell me if you like this setup like does that look good I think it looks pretty good so I think I'm going to keep it but do you think this looks better there which I like cuz I think I needed some height over here and then over here I was like okay what do I put so I did just do a Target drive up I don't want to spend a lot of money on decorations like I said earlier just because I don't know where we're going to be next fall so I prefer not like I just don't want to spend money to spend money so I'm trying to make things work with what I have and um so this was up on the Manel so I pulled that down here which I like cuz um the vase that I found at Target um I'll have a picture I'll insert it here you guys can see it's very similar um but I thought that looked pretty good um because originally I was going to leave that up there and so so I guess the question is yes you tell me if you like that there if you think that looks good and then if I just threw another um what what is that called candle a Candlestick up there I had the one over here with that yellow or orange pumpkin there in the middle you guys know what I'm talking about if you watch me decorate um I had another one upstairs that I that I I just had so I just wanted a little bit of height on one side and I thought like since I have a little bit of height over there I feel like it looks fine and I just like how I don't have to necessarily buy anything to make this work um and there's enough color up here I think um so you guys tell me what you think but I think I'm going to make this work I think it looks pretty good and then over here I was looking actually for a little bit of like a a little plant with some fall florals I couldn't find anything so I just added this pumpkin from the target dollar spot right there just to add a little bit of orange and I have I had this throw from previous years I would like one that's a little bit lighter more of like that shade of orange but again I didn't want to just buy one just cuz I don't like the color so maybe next year but um I have that and so the one thing that's not here right now is I did order two big throw so that's like the one thing I guess I bought this year two big throw pillows because last year we didn't have the gray sectional it was the tan so I really kept it very neutral with the creams but now that we have the gray sectional I wanted to put in some of that muted orange color I guess so I did buy two throw pillows they're just not here yet so I am going to add and they're they're they're a good size I'm going to add one here um one there it's very similar to this color which I I just got this today from Target so I guess the one thing I bought this year was throw pillows um and I left the tag on there just cuz I want to make for sure it goes well with the other throw pillows so I think this was $15 at Target and it's supposed to be this color with a little bit of cream um decoration in it so I think this should work really well with those new throw pillow covers but um yeah I think that looks pretty good and I think it'll just be perfect to have a square big pillow throw pillow right there and right there I may have to I guess remove that throw blanket if it doesn't go well with them but that's okay oh and then over here I just have these little pumpkins I got this from Hobby Lobby a couple years ago and these from HomeGoods a couple of years ago and this is that other pumpkin vanilla cream which I highly highly suggest I did not decorate over there I know like that's where all the toys are that cabinet is way too dark but it's just not a priority right now to fix that so we'll just focus on this area um but I thinking Bath & Body Works candles I had the pumpkin vanilla cream I have two leaves candles that's another one of my favorites leaves I have um a harvest Gathering which was I think I'm going to use in like September like apples and like crisp apples and things like that and then the white white pumpkin and then this is the pumpkin peacon waffle which smells really good as well so those are the scents that I got this this year and I'm sorry I didn't show you guys as much shopping as I had intended to I was kind of pressed for time and there was a ton of people out and I got a little like shy like whipping out my camera so I got a few Clips at Kirkland um but I didn't film too much I had intended to but I got so nervous so anyways that is my fall home tour I hope you guys enjoyed it I am ready school is back college football is back this week upcoming week I am ready ready for the cooler weather so thank you guys so much for sticking around um I hope I gave you guys some inspiration and feel free to give me some of your opinions on the things that I switched around but I was trying to keep things not by a ton try to work with what I had and I'm pretty happy with it so far so anyways thank you guys so much and I will see you guys next time [Music] bye [Music] hold [Music] so [Music] get it hey friends welcome back to another video I am super excited for this one because it is a fall deep clean and decorate with me I am going to be transforming my house and it's going to look and feel like fall at the end of this video so get ready for some extreme cleaning motivation and when I say extreme it is seriously extreme because we even pulled out some of our kitchen appliances to clean behind them and when I am done cleaning throughout the day I'm going to also be decorating and I am ready for fall so stick around because at the end I'm going to give you a fall home tour and tell you where I got all of the decorations from and then also give you an update on all of the home updates and upgrades we're going to be making over the next couple of [Music] months the stone on turn trying to find some love in this crazy world I feel like I was never hurt all I wanted was to be Lov what if I lost touch what if I'll never get it right I try to follow my heart but I lost it somehow wish that someone could say it all so I got started by making my bed and then I wanted to clear off the living room floors and the kitchen countertops and all of that just put everything away before I got to some more deep cleaning and decorating and I just want to thank you all for taking the time out of your day to watch this video my goal is always to create content that will help motivate you you know I really hope that you can take something away from this video I know you're spending a lot of your precious time out of your day watching this video so I really hope you can take something away from this video here on my channel you're going to find a lot of deep cleaning cleaning hacks as well as just Mom life and I want to help make your life easier in some way maybe it's cleaning motivation maybe it's decorating ideas an inspiration for fall or maybe it's just purely entertainment I truly enjoy making and creating content here on YouTube and I look at you guys as truly a community you are my friends you we are a community together so thank you for taking the time to watch my video I'm Jamie I'm a mom to three young girls and if you stick around I'm going to show you some clips of my twins they will be a year and a half at the end of September but when we took a break for lunch they wanted to say hi but if you are new please make sure you say hi to me in the comment section I also would love to have you guys subscribe it's free all you have to do is hit the red subscribe button and you can join my journey join my [Music] community do you guys think I have a little bit of an obsession with pumpkins you then why so sett I miss with still it feels just like I'm waiting for something better wait a second I want to stay up late with my heart in your head maybe stay too much cuz you don't understand you got me go you don't understand so I started pulling everything out for fall some of the Fall bins that I had I wanted to see you know like what I had from previous years and then I'd also purchased some new decorations and I wanted to lay them all out to see what I had and where I could kind of plug pieces in and some of these pieces are older some of them are newer but I will explain where I got everything at the end of this video and then I just wanted to remove all of my summertime decorations before I started decorating I was first going to decorate here in the kitchen when I was done wiping down the countertops and then I was going to go in and decorate the living room when I'm with you I feel different like I'm brand new to wipe down my countertops I was using the Mrs Meers Acorn spice multi-surface spray now typically to wipe down my granite countertops I either use the Jaws Granite cleaner or my DIY cleaner that is one part rubbing alcohol one part water and then about a fingernail size of Dawn dish soap those are my go-tos and my absolute favorites for cleaning my counters but in the spirit of fall I wanted that you know lingering scent throughout the air as I was decorating so I was using the Mrs Myers Acorn spice multi-surface spray in my kitchen getting you in I'm a little bit City even a little little man might be a or just the best you ever had you ever had n or just the best you've ever had n and make sure you stick around to the very end because in the evening after I vacuum and mop I'm going to light all of the candles give you a little home tour tell you where I got all of these decorations from and whether I got them this year or last year here and I'm also going to give you some updates on some major changes we're going to be doing in our home here in the fall so stay tuned for all of that as well as saying hi to my twins if I'm the bad one take a look at yourself in the mirror if I'm the worst one ask anybody else who they preer if it comes down to me and you I think that you are the one with a bad attitude what start a conflict you got no clue tell me what is your problem all is [Music] R so it's always interesting for me to see where you guys live throughout the country or in a different country so let me know where you live um and also let me know when the leaves start to change I think our peak time to have our leaves completely change is about early to mid October so that's why October for me is the perfect fall month but let me know when the leaves start changing over wherever you live can see what happened I mean we used to be friends a while back now I know you're trapped in you ran into a deep bed a real breakdown you are in pu jealousy why would you otherwise be charging so hard at me I start a conflict can't you see that I'm not your problem all this R just make you feel good I would also love it if you guys would come over and find me on Instagram I will have it right here also the link to my Instagram will be in the description it is Jamie Lind with an s. Journey but I share more of my day-to-day life more of my girls more more of my life over there so I love chatting with you I love sharing a lot over there with you guys so make sure you come over and if you do send me a direct message and say hi a lot of Spar but I won't fall for that I won't fall for that all is wrong you sprad doesn't make you feel good [Music] to I don't get as you can see my appliances desperately needed a good wipe down I clearly have two little toddlers who love to put their little fingerprints all over my appliances but my absolute favorite cleaner for my appliances is using the e-cloth stainless steel pack I will have a link down below to e-cloths but they are cloths that you just use water so you just get them wet under the faucet and they clean and every time I say that I know so many of you guys are going to be like that doesn't seem real I feel like you're lying to us but I'm telling you if you try them you will see um and regarding that I've had a lot of you guys tell me you guys will message me like if I recommend a cleaning product um or a cleaning tool or a cleaning hack you guys message me and say oh it really worked or even sometimes you'll tell me that you didn't like a cleaning product I recommended or this didn't work for you and I love it when you guys do that I want feedback you know I want to see what works what doesn't work so if you guys ever try any of these products or hacks let me know but the e-cloths pick up bacteria um they just do an amazing job there's cloths for all over your home not just stainless steel so make sure you go check them out but you will see that I'm able to get my stainless steel appliances sparkling clean with using no chemical cleaners at all and you can just wash them like normal the rags um and I'm not sponsored At All by them I just I think they're great products with the punches we'll roll with the [Music] punches [Music] we'll roll with the punches took a dive and we now we've had our ups and downs I know with the work through the doubt yet nothing can put out a go my back against the r i got nowhere so now it's time to clean the living room and I was basically dusting all over and then I was going to decorate and I feel like the living room is the heart of the home as far as decorating that's where I focus most or I put most of my decorations throughout the home so this is where a lot of the fall decorations where you're going to see them and where most of the decorations will go and I always talk about this on my Channel about how decorating really isn't my thing you guys are always so sweet telling me that I'm better at decorating than than what I say or I don't give myself enough credit but I would say that I like to keep my decorations pretty minimal um I like a more clean look I don't like things to be cluttered and for me it it's very draining um to decorate like it's fun if I like what I'm doing and I like what I'm putting up but trying to figure it all out it's very stressful for me but if I have a space that turns out really well it's so worth it to me but I end up putting probably way more energy into decorating than I should it's just very draining for me I don't know if that makes sense I guess just anything that doesn't come natural to you it can drain you you know when you're trying to do it and that's how it is for decorations um decorating for me but I will say um me decorating for fall I I really like how it all came together um it's taken me multiple years to get it to this point so it's like every year I add a little bit more and move things around but I am finally happy with how everything turns out it's you [Music] you [Music] I will kind of give you a little bit of info as far as some of the home upgrades we're going to be doing we're going to basically be lightening things up bringing in some more updated pieces of furniture throughout the house all of the pieces of furniture in our home the couches the kitchen table the black storage Cube and this black glass drink bar cart or whatever you want to call it we just have like extra drinking glasses in there that we never use um they were all of those pieces are all original pieces of furniture from when Mike and I got married which was over 11 years ago and some of these pieces were given to us we have not updated anything in our home I think except for our bed frame our bed is the only piece of furniture furniture that we have bought besides the kids stuff but we've just been focusing on our kids having newborns and babies over the last 6 years or so we struggled with infertility before we had our oldest daughter Avery um we struggled with infertility and then we had way more issues um miscarriages and way more infertility issues before we had our twins so I think for the past six years all of our energy was going to that and them and now that things are slowly settling down a little bit our family is complete we can start focusing on our home and I'm just really excited um to update things and bring in more updated pieces and brightening and lightening things [Music] up oh and stay tuned because Mike is going to be pulling out the refrigerator and the stove sloven so we can do some true fall cleaning and get some things done that we don't do very [Music] often [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] you so I thought I would share this with you guys as I'm going around and um like dusting with this Acorn spice so they also have an apple cider one I think but I don't like the apple cider and here's why you can thank I can thank the twins for that apple cider also um from Bath and Body Works the Bath and Body Works candles the Apple pumpkin and peon pumin peon waffles I think is what it is so when I was pregnant with them I got preg pregnant end of August and so end of August was my IVF transfer um I got incredibly sick at week five like so sick I was throwing up every single day could not eat anything and if I ate it was just could not eat anything smell of everything just literally would make me throw up and I remember just wanting to make myself feel good you know you're like grasping at straws to just feel good so I remember I decorated for fall earlier that year and I was like I'm going to you know clean and I'm going to burn my candles well what ended up happening was they made me so sick that now when I smell the apple cider Mrs Meyers when I smell the pumpkin apple so if I go to someone's house I had a friend's house I went to last year and they were burning that and it's not enough to where I want to throw up now but like it just turns me off I'm like M I don't like it and so many people tell me they love the pumpkin peacon waffle Bath and Body Works candle like everyone is like you got to get that one I can't I can't the twins ruined me I was so sick I was also sick with Avery um but if you guys didn't know she was a twin she was a twin I was pregnant with two babies and we um unfortunately lost U miscarried her twin at 14 weeks um but I was really sick with her but using B12 took all of my sickness away I remember I took it and the next day I felt instantly better but with um the twins B12 the Unisom and b12 um my doctor prescribed me some medication none of it worked I was so sick the only good part was it started super early 5 weeks because I'm sure my levels were elevated because of the twins but it also went away at like week nine and you think most of the time it starts a little bit later like six or seven weeks for women and then hangs on until the end of the first trimester but I remember feeling so much better at like week 9 10 10 so anyways some of these scents are ruined for me because of the twins but it's all worth it so you guys are always asking for more clips of the girls um Avery is at a school thing so we just have the twins eating lunch oh you're feeding mommy em they took a long first nap that's why they're still in their jammies cuz we've been cleaning huh thank you thank you you guys ready for fall you ready for fall say yay fall say yay a sisters you guys are crazy you're crazies [Music] a I got this weight on my shoulders slowing me down I don't know how it came about and while the world is spinning faster every night I feel I'm stuck in Reverse somehow but it ain't no one's fault that I am stuck here notame after lunch I vacuumed the stairs and then I was going to move on to some areas upstairs I wanted to clean our master bathroom and then the girls bathroom and something I get I get asked a lot I've been getting asked this a lot recently about what my kids are doing while I'm cleaning if they're not sleeping they are with my husband um the twins still nap two times a day and Avery is five so five and a half actually so she's pretty self-sufficient for the most part like not that just like let her go and do her thing but I mean she can do activities by herself she plays you know in the backyard all of that but also my husband works from home and he is not the type to go you know upstairs in the office and kind of hold hold himself up there and work he is a great Hands-On dad and we we really do parent throughout the week together of course he goes upstairs and he has projects or meetings or conference calls that are time sensitive he does that but he would rather spend parts of his day with the girls and being around the kids and then he goes upstairs after they go to bed and finishes up more work so he's not like skipping out on work or anything he just likes being around the family during the day when he can so he basically like we're basically co-parenting together throughout the day so that's how I'm able to get all of this done if the twins aren't apping and I just I love that he loves being around the kids and would rather work at night so he can be with the kids and I'm sure me [Music] right I feel the [Music] pressure ooh when did I get so blind I didn't see this coming ooh I should have where is Faith calling trying to pull me [Music] out but how do I get out here how do I get out I feel the pressure on me how it's itching under my own skin it's getting real hard to I've really been enjoying decorating for a fall for the fall a little earlier this year I think mainly because this year has felt so crazy and I know we all feel that way we're just ready for the year to be over and it's just been a crazy year and just in some sense I want some normaly you know some sense of things being normal things that I can control and the fall is my absolute favorite time of the year I love October I love the falling leaves I love the coziness of the fall but what I love most about fall is college football Mike and I are big fo football fans specifically college football fans we are we live in Ohio so we are huge Ohio State Buckeye fans they are in the Big 10 conference and they have announced recently that the Big 10 is not going to play this year and we are devastated I know that may sound a little bit dramatic but we look forward to college football Satur Saturdays in the fall we plan things around the game so we can be at home watching the game every Saturday so we're not really happy about this and I just it's just not going to feel like fall without college football so I felt like decorating for fall early I felt like it would be something fun and make me happy and a little bit more normal have a day without no worries maybe I figur out a way [Music] to didn't I put you first first didn't I reassure you did you ever do those things for [Music] me I don't mind complicated but the line is crossed I'm waiting for a sincere apology but you can't when you're with me you need to find a way but you can't when you so now it was the evening my kids were in bed and I was going to do my nightly vacuuming and mopping I don't like to vacuum and mop before my kids go to bed because they're just going to get messy the floors are just going to get super messy especially when the twins eat I we have a mat but they still manage to get food on the floor so I wanted to vacuum and mop before I give you a little fall home tour tell you where I got everything and also give you more info and more of a timeline on our home Updates this giveaway is open internationally and it runs through October 26th 11:59 Eastern Standard Time I will announce the winner on Friday October 27th 2023 so this giveaway will run for for two full weeks I will announce the winner on my Jim's Journey YouTube Community tab on Friday October 27th and on my Instagram which is linked Below in this description I will first respond to the Winner's winning comment so if you win you should get a notification from that but this is so important please please put a reminder in your phone or your calendar to check my YouTube Community tab or or Instagram on Friday October 27th to see if you won if you don't check notifications on YouTube the winner has 24 hours to respond or I will have to move on and choose another winner and so 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YouTube channel that button is right under the video screen and have the Bell notifications turned on once you hit subscribe the Bell will pop up you click on the bell and turn notifications on all again it should be super simple good luck and thank you so much so much for being here you guys are amazing I am so grateful for you it is the end of the night and I thought I'd give you the overall home tour um show you how everything looks as it's all set up the house is quiet it's the evening the girls are in bed candles are lit and I'll go around and tell you where I got everything as well as give you guys some updates on all of the home upgrades we're going to be doing over the next couple of months I am so excited and I cannot wait to share all of this hey so this is where we typically walk in the door door and this is what you're going to see from the kitchen so over here I have the sweet cinnamon pumpkin candle from Bath & Body Works and this pumpkin pumpkin I got from Kirkland's last year now what I try to do here in the kitchen just because our cabinets are super dark the floors are super dark I tried to keep everything on the countertop pretty minimal I try to brighten it up where I can maybe pull in whites or creams or Grays to kind of brighten it all up so that was kind of my goal here um since everything I feel like is so warm and dark toned so I got this I think it's probably considered a cake stand from the target dollar spot and I just found another one there a couple months ago they go quickly and they're about $5 so make sure you watch out for it I got this little gray pumpkin grayish bluish pumpkin from Kirk cleans this year and this is the Harvest Gathering P candle from Bath & Body Works and then over here I have the cider Lane candle from Bath & Body Works and I am loving this one right now this is a really good one and I would say I've gotten six candles and this is in the top three I'll share the other two candles that I really love and then I found this sign this year at Kirkland's and I thought it was perfect I grabbed it and I'm like oh will it look good and as soon as got it in this space I knew it would look perfect because I just love the gray and the whites again against all of the darker counter tops and cabinets and then over here I got this wreath which I had a similar one up here this is from Target and I'll have everything linked down below if I can find it and then over here I have this pumpkin spice candle from Sweetwater Decor I got it off of etsy and then this candle I got from Kirkland's this year and then this vase is from Target and these are from Michaels they were perfect I wanted something lighter and I may trim them a little bit and get them to go down I don't know if they're too big right now but I may cut them a little bit more so and then down here I just have some pumpkins um pumpkins I found at TJ Maxx they were perfect they're gray like a gray bluish again trying to pull in more of the Grays and then I have the pumpkin vanilla cream candle and this is probably my number one candle it's a new one this year I believe so pumpkin vanilla cream cider Lane and there's a pumpkin bonfire candle that smells amazing those are my top three these are throw pillow covers and I need to get different pillows I have some they're just tucked away somewhere um cuz the pillows that I had in here don't F fit it out fill it out very well but I got these off of Amazon and they're cream and I just like a little bit of texture to add here okay so over here this was a pillow cover too that I got from Amazon and then this cozy blanket cable knit blanket I got from Target last year but it's so comfortable and then up here this is an old vase from Target just some stems I got from Hobby Lobby and the Dollar Tree um this gather sign I've had for a couple of years I don't even remember where I got it and then just some pumpkins um these pumpkins this one and the orange one I got from Target the dollar section Lash last year I think this is from HomeGoods last year this last area I have um all of these are not new I got this from Kirkland's last year that is from a local store that I got years ago um and then I got these from Hobby Lobby this year okay so let's talk home updates I'm so excited this house is going to change um so number one one thing we're going to change the cabinet are going to be white we got two quotes the first quote came back at about 9,000 and we weren't very happy with that quote we were not going to go for it um and our second quote came back at around $2,000 and they come in they'll do it in about 3 days they tape everything off the appliances they take care of it all they clean up the mess so they'll be in and out in 3 days and we will have white cabinets and I am so so so excited so we're going to paint the cabinets we're going to get new lighting fixtures and I think we want to get some lighting under the cabinets as well so just to kind of brighten all of that up so that will be in November so they were already booked out we booked them two weeks ago and they are booked out through November mid November so it's going to be a while but that's okay we can wait so that is number one number two we are getting new furniture or hopefully we'll get new furniture soon we actually got new furniture we bought new furniture in early February so this is the original Furniture we got when we got married so it's about 11 years old we've wanted some new furniture for a while but we had kind of put it off having kids and newborns and all of that and so finally we're like all right not that I mean we have three kids young kids they're going to get messy but we're finally ready to go shopping we went shopping in February we bought some furniture it was going to take about 6 to 8 weeks to get in and in that 6 to 8 weeks the company went out of business business and so we didn't get our furniture and then it was quarantine and Co hit all of that so we didn't get to go shopping so we're just at the point now where we can start to go shopping again so we've been looking online we have some ideas um so hopefully we get new furniture we're going to get a sectional and I want to do maybe gray so we'll see that hopefully that would be in by the end of the year that's the goal is to have new furniture by the end of the year new cabinets by the end of the year and then then I'm going to get maybe like um a coffee table or a nice ottoman I'm leaning towards a coffee table and then I also want to update this get something different here and then this room so this room honestly all of the other houses in the neighborhood this is cut off like there's a wall right here and this is either an office so like they would have like the French doors right here when you walk in and then that's an office that's what's most common and people either make it into an office or a playroom or it's cut off and it's a dining room so I'm not really sure what the goal was like I guess it was probably meant to be a dining room but I just can't imagine putting a big dining room table here and then just having our living room our living space you know like right here so I'm not really sure what the goal was here unfortunately you know it's kind of nice cuz you know we have a lot of space but I just feel like it's a room that I don't know what to do with so what I think I'm going to do is get like a big so we have all of the toys here right I'm thinking about getting like a much bigger Cube Storage right here like a much nicer one a prettier one a cuter one um that has a lot more baskets and is bigger and putting that here so we can keep the toys here tucked away and then kind of getting like a nicer accent table there that I can decorate and kind of Laten things up there again that is the goal so both of these pieces of furniture again were when we got married so all of this furniture is like original furniture from over 10 years ago and we are ready to update we have I mean even our kitchen table original table from when we got married we have not bought a piece of furniture since we got married because we've just been so busy with trying to have kids and infertility and all of that so we are finally ready to put our energy in our mind and our money into our house and updating it so that is the plan hopefully a lot of these changes happen before the end of the year I'm glad you guys are coming along for this I'm excited I'll be asking for opinions make sure you're follow me on Instagram because I'm probably going to have to be like help me out what do you think I should do so a lot coming a lot of up a lot of updates I'm really really excited I hope you guys will join me for this crazy journey of updating our house and I just hope that you guys enjoy my videos if you do do please make sure you subscribed hit the notification Bell and come follow me on Instagram you guys are amazing if you're still here so lucky that I have you guys still here watching my video thank you thank you so much I'm so glad you're here and stay tuned because there's a lot more fun fall videos coming up here on my channel I promise so I guess I will see you guys next time [Music] bye [Music] hey friends are you ready to tackle a long to-do list you are going to be joining me for a 2-day deep clean and decorate with me for fall I'm going to be tackling so much in today's video decorating my front porch making a wood sign for my front porch decluttering and cleaning out our garage are super super super messy garage cleaning up my car and just cleaning all over my house I'm also going to be working out and doing so much more so join me as I attempt to tackle my long to-do [Music] list [Music] hey guys how are you feeling today are you feeling it are you feeling it um I will admit that there are some days I just feel great I got a lot of sleep I'm just ready to tackle that to-do list and then there are other days where I'm dragging and even getting a load of laundry done seems overwhelming and intimidating but luckily for me these over these two days I was feeling pretty good and I had a long list of things I wanted to get done and here's a little spoiler alert I did not finish my to-do list but I did tackle a majority and it's not about being perfect and getting everything done it's about just doing the best we can and trying to stay motivated so this was on day one and it was in the afternoon Avery was at school the Twins were napping and I was trying to make the best of nap time and get some things done upstairs and then in the main living [Music] areas [Music] I want to welcome anyone who is brand new here this community is very important to me and I know it's also important for a lot of you so I want to recognize anyone who is new here I am glad you're here and please say hi in the comment section say hi let me know something about yourself if you're returning to Jim's Journey thank you for coming back it seriously means so much that you guys are coming back here you can say hi too tell me something about yourself in the comment section but if you don't know who I am I'm Jamie I'm a mom to three girls twin 2-year-olds and then a six-year-old daughter so three girls I'm married to my high school sweetheart and we've been pretty much attached at the hip since 6th grade um I love a clean home I love working out I also love pizza and chocolate chip cookies so thanks for being here and feel feel free to say hi in the comment [Music] section [Music] Everything feels so abstract yeah it's complicated what you say the way you act well it makes me so confused I don't know what to do anymore so the plan for day one was pretty much just picking up the area like a couple of the main living areas of the house before going outside and I wanted to clean the front porch and windows before I decorated it on the next day on day two I wanted to power wash clean the outside windows do all of that let it dry overnight and then I was going to decorate first thing in the morning and then on day two I'm also going to be doing a lot more outdoor cleaning so cleaning out my car using my power tool cleaning attachments Mike and I are going to be decluttering and cleaning out our garage so just doing a lot of cleaning outside which I like to do in the fall before the cold winter months [Music] hit [Music] baby how it hurts to see you smile like a dagger H me she just seems so juvenile I just want it to be me I want to set your world on fire feel so sure I'll Stick Around oh I'm also proud of myself because I'm going to make my first wood sign for my front porch that says hello Pumpkin using my Cricut Machine I've made one smaller sign before but but I wanted to tackle this I couldn't find a sign I really liked and I was on Etsy and I was looking at the prices of some of these signs and I was like I just can't bring myself to buy a sign so I was like I'm going to do this I have the ability to make it and I have to give myself a little pad on the back because I thought it looked pretty [Music] good even if we can't deny that all the things you said are hurting so one be with you I think you want it to cuz baby I want [Music] to [Music] baby baby I want [Music] to my posting schedule is every Sunday and then every other Thursday in September I am going to be putting up an extra video so you're seeing this video on a Thursday the 9th and then the next two Thursdays I will also have a video up because my parents were having people over to swim in their pool before they close it up for the winter and I offered to clean my parents house and I figured you know it's a new place a new space you guys like seeing me clean at my parents house so I'm going to be cleaning over there cleaning their Furniture so a lot more to come this month and yeah more Jam's [Music] Journey [Music] okay so like I said I'm going to do a little bit of cleaning on the front porch I'm going to bust out my power washer which I will have Linked In the description I get a lot of questions when I show that in a video um I'm going to clean the windows and just really give the porch a good cleaning before waking up the next day and decorating and then doing some more decluttering and organizing outside so get ready for some more extreme cleaning on day two and also tackling more of that to-do [Music] [Music] list [Music] so I had a tall list of things I wanted to accomplish over the next couple of days and I even even through in working out because even though that's not a must in general it is a must for me I need to work out so I can be me so I can be the best version of me so I can free My Mind of everything that I have going on in my busy life it's the one time I can just let my mind go and not think about tending to all of the other things I have to do in my life and one of the most frequent questions I get is what type of workouts do you do how often do you work out how do you stay motivated to work out so a general answer for all of that is I believe you have to find something you enjoy doing something that removes the hurdles that are blocking you from working out and what I mean by that is we're all busy we all have a million things going on in our day and there just simply is not enough time to do it all but Fitness is something that I work into my day not just for the physical benefits but even even more so for the mental benefits I work out way more now than I did before I had kids and even more now because I have three kids because I need it in my life I need that stress reliever the number one way I can stay active and stick to a workout routine is because I work out from home I love running outside but um that's something I've been doing all along but I'm a baby when it comes to running outside yes it hurts my lungs so I have and when I say running outside cold like anything under 65° I know I'm crazy but so I work out in my home from about September through May because here in Ohio it's freezing cold until about May so I do like running on my treadmill but I get really bored being inside so I like to switch it up and for me being able to have the flexibility of working out from home I can work out in the morning before my kids get up I can work out during nap time I can get a workout in in the same amount of time it would take me to drive to a gym I can also work out in sloppy sweatpants in the cold winter months months so I'm removing all of those hurdles I can't say oh I just don't want to get dressed or I don't have time because I can get in a 28 minute workout in the morning during nap time um even when my kids get older you know they like when Aver got a little bit older she could play downstairs while I was getting my workout in and yeah just removing all of those hurdles is huge and gamechanging for me and being able to to keep a workout routine doing this our way we come alive in the night something about how we dance in the Moonlight that look in your eyes tells me that you want me and all my Ling we come come alive in the night time you and I we come alive we [Music] come so I'm finally done cleaning out here pulled everything over here I have we have other things that need to go and do so I'm going to take a break there's some like workers right over there I always get so nervous like these people probably think I'm so weird talking to a camera um anyways um we have a bunch of other things that we need to do tonight activities we need to get to so I just set everything there and tomorrow I'm decorate weak what's your Tye now I want to know all you deep connection lights spark you already know when dance in the dark we [Music] dream so I bought this sign from Hobby Lobby and all I had to do was paint it and then add some vinyl pretty easy and I made the sign for a fraction of the cost that I would have bought the same sign on Etsy or at Hobby lobbies or Kirland Kirklands M iive alive we come alive night something about how Dan in the Moonlight that look your eyes you me good morning so I'm feeling good today I have my second cup of coffee got my workout in I am ready to go ready to decorate which it feels a little bit crazy decorating for fall when I'm wearing my shorts but when I got got up this morning it was in the low 60s so fall is on its way it's coming we are going to get ahead of the curve and decorate let's do this so I will have as much as I can linked Below in the description but almost 99% of this stuff it's almost all left over from last year so a lot of this stuff is not available um you know other than I made the sign this year I did buy some new hay bales and then a few new plastic pumpkins from Walmart which they're so cheap there and I just did it to add a little bit of color other than just like when we get are real pumpkins and they're Orange um so that was pretty much it but a lot of the stuff is no longer available some of this stuff is but um the hay bales I got from Hobby Lobby you can also get them from Walmart but they were actually cheaper at Hobby Lobby they were 40% off compared to what they were at Walmart and then I went to make my sign I was actually nervous to put the vinyl on because I just wanted to get it right and I actually ended up well when I was filming this I had to I cut out a lot because I was just standing there thinking and I was nervous to actually put the vinyl on but this whole project ended up being way easier than I ever thought it would be and I just think it's so cool you can buy a blank sign from Hobby Lobby and I'm pretty sure Michaels also sells them too but they have various sizes multiple sizes so depending on what size you need you can get it if you have a Cricut Machine you can pretty much make anything you want I will probably do one for Christmas this year and then I'm excited because you guys know we are house hunting we're planning on moving and in the new house I may want to add some new decorations and I can do that with my Cricket machine I can make signs and all of that so um but yeah stay tuned for more outside cleaning like I said we're just trying to take advantage of the warm temperatures while we have them here in northwest Ohio these uh milder temperatures are very limited this time of the year I'm going to be cleaning out my car because when I was when I bought the hay bales there was a lot of hay that got put in my all over my car so I'm going to be cleaning that out as well I am in love with how everything turned out uh I just love the fall this is the only time I decorate my front porch um it's for the fall so it's fun for me and I like how everything came together now we will add some mums and some real pumpkins that's why like I felt like over here I probably needed maybe a little bit maybe more orange but we will go to the pumpkin patch as a family so so we will go to the pumpkin patch as a family and add in pumpkins and then as far as fall flowers Avery has a mom fundraiser every year for her school so that actually goes throughout the whole month of September and then we'll get them in early October so I don't want to go and buy any right now when I'd rather the money just go to the school so we are going to add some mums and some real pumpkins but it'll probably be later in September if not early October but so far I feel like this satisfies my decorations for the fall and it's probably perfect for early fall and then October we'll bring in a little bit more color all right guys Mike and I are back at it to clean up this garage and I know you're going to be like how does it constantly get messy I'll probably explain more of this as I'm cleaning and a voice over but we just can't have a shed the one thing we could do here is get more like storage racks and stuff like that but then it gets hard for me especially here in the summer like me being around the kids and home with the kids so much that it's hard for me to get like a wagon down or bikes down or all of that so that just makes it difficult I mean definitely we could do it for the winter time and have more organization up here but in the summertime because we use bikes and scooters uh wagons strollers and all of that it just makes it really difficult to have everything up there because if Mike's not home it's hard for me it's like near impossible for me to get that stuff down so we're just trying to make do with what we have and we are going to get this cleaned up um so hopefully it looks a little bit better I took a b took a b and now I'm filled up I don't know where you are tonight cuz you're right cuz you're right I've been starving and now I don't know what to do tonight but I've been feeling like pretty easy to like when your body is closing on mind you got me feeling like there's no one other than you who can make me lose my mind you me up like no one has ever could you feel my all the we end uping it so if we were for sure staying here and not currently house hunting we would probably try to do something with this garage and like I said I mean we're limited on what I mean I know you can hang stuff up but with me and my weak muscles it's a little bit difficult but I'm sure we would spend some money to put in some organizers or something but since we are currently house hunting and we are planning on leaving we just don't really want to put in I guess the money um because you know shelving and organizers can be a lot of money so we're kind of holding out waiting to see what happens when we find a house I guess ultimately hopefully we find something that has more storage space or an attic hey I'll just take an attic um the house I grew up in was a lot smaller than this house and we had two attics one in the garage and one in the house so at least just an attic but we will see so until then Mike and I will just periodically declutter declutter declutter and clean up and I'll film it if you guys like seeing it fire you feel my fire fire fire you feel my fire let's keep this fire alive let's keep this for alive you me up like no one ever could obviously not perfect but we were able to get all the boxes and garbage picked up and at least somewhat organize everything but either way we have a lot more room and then probably here in the next couple of weeks or maybe in the next month um I guess before it snows we'll probably put these up up there so we can fit at least one car in here during the snow and ice months so while I'm doing stuff out here outside when I had went and got the hay bales from Hobby Lobby I made a mess in my car and because of kids I have some yogurt that's spilled here and then I have some milk that's spilled on the other side so since it's still nice outside I got to take advantage of this nice mild weather I'm going to pull the mats out and give those a deep clean I always get asked about this hand vacuum but it is my cordless Dyson vacuum um that comes apart to be used as a handback it has an attachment that I just popped on the end um my model is a V8 it's super old I think almost 4 years old but yeah it just comes in handy it's powerful and then I also used a lily brush it's a good car detailing brush it just has like a rubber ring around it and you can like I was using using it to scrape up all of the extra hay that was in there and then also it does a really good job of getting into all of the cracks I'm for you yeah yeah you now we're back where it started you say it's sorry so we forget about it simple as that but I don't know where my heart is still all that I want is you yeah you you be the death you're medicine yeah I need it I need it you just to P me and then I busted out my power drill cleaning tools um these attachments just do such a good job and I was cleaning my all weather mats I got up I think last time I cleaned out my car and I filmed it I got asked where did you get those mats for your car and they came with the car now obviously we paid for them somewhere in the price of the car but they're all weather mats which I love number one for having kids cuz things spill but then I also love it because here in northwest Ohio we get a lot of snow we get a lot of ice there's a lot of slushy going on for a majority of the winter and the end of the winter and early spring and then with all that salt and ice and snow these are so nice and helps keep your car cleaner you yeah we now I'm now I'm trying to let you go but I'm always in control is there much you want me to do now I'm now I'm for you for you so while I was out here I wanted to clean the in um the inside garbage cans like the little garbage cans that we have in like all of the bathrooms and the office and things like that I wanted to give them a good cleaning and disinfect I wanted to disinfect them so cleaning and disinfecting are completely separate things so um I wanted to just like hose them down give them a really good scrubbing to clean them then I was going to use a spray disinfectant to disinfect we can't go on again cuz you seem like you want it back my head is spinning off the edge and and I'm giving way too fast way to fast so I washed the trash cans but like I'm sure I already talked about in my voiceovers cleaning and disinfecting are separate so I gave them a good cleaning and now I'm going to spray this Jaws disinfected on do you still pretend we felt the Sun what are we doing what are you doing hey what are you doing all right so me and Addison this give me high five say we're going to tackle this mine oh you found yours yeah say Let's Fold laundry it are you going to help mommy Addison hey Emmy oh is that emy's all right let's do this this daddy this daddy okay let's go say let's go no so I just had Addison with me emry was with Mike doing something so um I just had Addison and it's funny it's all about perspective you know when I just had Avery the thought of folding laundry with one toddler I would have been like oh it's too much it's so stressful cuz they're grabbing the stuff you know the laundry and all that now to have one toddler it's like a breeze like I can make that work when I have both of them up there they're like oh someone's in the bathroom getting into something the other one goes the other way and it's just so crazy and almost not worth it to try to get it done with with both of them but with one it was like a breeze my head is spinning off the edge and I'm giving to F to f it feels so good to have all of that laundry folded so good it's just been piling up um life has gotten crazy so feels good that it's all done I put the girls to bed and now I'm going to relax I had an early morning um I had a few more things that I wanted to do on my list but you know what you don't always have to finish your list can't always do it all I'm going to focus on the positives I got a ton of stuff done I'm proud of myself so we'll say the other stuff for another day thank you so much for sticking around and I am grateful for each and every one of you and I feel grateful and lucky that you guys are here in my life anyways um I will have a new video up on Sunday so stay tuned for that and I will see you guys next time bye

Channel: Jamie's Journey

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Length: 188min 7sec (11287 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 12 2023