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Summary
Hello Classic Crew! In this episode, I chat about moving into our new house, moving into a new place with my hubby, and dealing with some health issues. I also talk about my hair and nail care update, and how I m dealing with a little bit of anxiety.
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hello classic crew and welcome to today's video where we're just gonna sit down and chat
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so if you want to be a part of that make sure to head over okay so i just wanted to chat i feel
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like it's been a while since we've just hung out chatted as you can hear uh my voice is a little
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weird i've been kind of losing it on and off been feeling kind of like stuffy i had a fever one night
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but like this isn't actually coming to fruition whatever this is i don't know if i'm gonna like
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get hit like a freight train in in two days or something but it's been like three days of just
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hovering on and off with this feeling a little sick but i've got a very deep voice right now which
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is hilarious um so you could definitely hear that but i i just wanted to come on and say hey like
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now that we're in the house i feel so much better about filming because i can just film in the middle
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while mr baby takes his nap and it's so pretty and bright here um i got my hair done today
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so the story with that is that i got my hair done back in july um to look like the one of the main
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characters from the new top gun and i really liked my hair a lot but the highlights were getting more
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and more bleached out and more and more stark from my actual hair color and uh i just wanted to go
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back to basics so i went to a new hair salon in florida and i asked them to basically take my
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highlights that i had and color them like one or two shades lighter than my natural hair color
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and she did it and she also was like i'm also gonna fix up your hair i'm gonna like cut your hair
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i said okay whatever just i'm really laid back when it comes to my hair and so she just went at
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it like started cutting like crazy but i really like it she took out a ton of weight from my hair
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because i have a lot of hair like it's thin in strand but i have a lot of it so whenever i go to
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get my hair done i actually prefer when they lighten up the weight or else it just gets really like limp
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and heavy so she did a great job i really like it a lot um i also had uh like nail polish on gel
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gel nails from russia shana which is almost a month ago and i just got i just got like nothing on my
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nails because i wanted to get to keep them healthy but yeah that's my my my hair update my nail update
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so that's cool we are moved into our house we're doing some small projects here and there
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um one big project so as you can probably see we have a screened in pool so cool and we got that
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completely refurbished that was really exciting because the screen was like coming apart in a lot
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of places it had like a big one of the screens was just entirely gone and we talked to somebody and
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he refurbished the whole thing really well in like a week and it's beautiful and there are no
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more bugs in there and we can go swimming in peace uh which is a blessing um and it's really
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really cool like to think that this is my house is crazy i have to wrap my head around it it's funny
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i actually recorded a girl chat that i didn't post about two weeks ago when i was in the throes of some
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anxiety and i i'm still in like a little bit of that place just like a little bit i was really excited
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about it when i initially recorded it and then when i was editing it i thought to myself you know
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i'm not in this place anymore so i was kind of talking through some of my concerns and fears and
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and i'm not opposed to sharing that stuff i actually think it's really good to talk about it but it felt
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almost dishonest to share it in that moment because i wasn't feeling those things anymore so it's nice to
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be able to sit down and be out of that kind of haze and fog and just be a little bit more open and happy
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to talk to you guys um and not feel like i'm needing to share something or overshare which is
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an interesting thing i think it's really easy when you're in this space on youtube to overshare and to
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want to be super open and honest i think there's a fine line between being open and honest for the
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good of my subscribers and being open and honest to my detriment and i think that it's important to
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to to be true to the to what's good for me and what's good for you guys so this feels better this
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feels a little more collected on my end but it was interesting because in that video i talked a little
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bit about sleep training and i was saying like i am so over sleep training and at the time mr baby was
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not sleeping all through the night it was really stressing me out and within a week of that he started
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sleeping in his crib he started like waking up once a night and then going right back to sleep
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and it's crazy to think that i was really stressing about this this sleep training stuff and then one
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week later it all turned around you know i i do think that there are some benefits to a little bit of
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sleep training but i think that we get ourselves so wrapped up and crazy about like get it everything
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that's great and just wanting to get that night of sleep that is more stressful than just accepting
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that you might not sleep well for a really long time like that's okay i can be okay with
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saying okay you're gonna wake up once a night for a year and feed your baby and then go back to sleep
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i can deal with that much better than i can i'm doing everything wrong and that's why my baby's
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not sleeping and that's why i'm a bad mom like sleep training gets in your head so hard makes you feel
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like such a bad mom and it's so stupid like if your baby's thriving if you're surviving during the day
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like who cares do your best do what you can to to make yourselves okay and then and then stop like calm down
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you know for us on jewish holidays let's say sabbath no matter what i do during the week no matter
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what routine we're in and we have a routine it's all going to go out the window on saturdays because
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we go to people's houses for lunch and we're out all day and mr baby won't sleep for his you know
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normal one and a half two hour nap if we're out and about it's just not going to happen and you just
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have to be okay with that if you want to be you you can make yourself crazy and like never leave the
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house because you want to have those perfect naps but why like why would you do that now i'm maybe a
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little crazy in that i believe it's nice for him to go to bed at the same time every night so i don't
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like going out in the evenings because i think uh you know unless we're doing a date night or something
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and someone's babysitting i don't like bringing him out in the evenings because i think it's just not nice
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to him like i wouldn't want to be out past my bedtime if i was baby so i try not to do that but
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i think making yourself insane with the routine it's just not gonna make anybody happy not even your
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baby so this past month was really stressful just because uh we were doing jewish holidays like every
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two seconds and so that routine that we're out of only once a week during the normal part of the year
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it was like most of the week during the holiday season so that was that was great but who cares we
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had a great holiday season we got super we had a super nice time in our community mr baby's thriving
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he's doing well but yeah sleep training tell me don't let it make you crazy i i've started following
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you know a number of different accounts i have ones that are about sleep training and kind of give me an
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idea for wake times and then i've got certain accounts that are like hey if you want to co-sleep
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co-sleep and it just kind of gives me balance like i don't have to look at it and think it all has to
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be one way or one or the other way just let it just be your baby's gonna figure it out and your baby is
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awesome i want you to know that your baby is awesome like there's nothing wrong with your baby if
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your baby isn't sleeping through the night yet my baby is seven months and he still wakes up twice he
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wakes up we put him to sleep at about eight he wakes up usually around 11 30 and then usually
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about three and then he goes back to sleep after your nurses and then he's fine and that is totally
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fine and there are some people's babies who sleep through the night at 12 weeks that's awesome too
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but your baby is awesome doesn't matter whether or not he's sleeping through the night who cares
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so that's my rant on sleep training um so that's fun
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but yeah the holidays were great we had rosh hashanah we had yom kippur we had sukkot and then
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we had the end of sukkot called shemini at seret and simchat torah um we actually have a sukkah that's
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in our backyard that we need to pull down because the holiday is over but it was awesome being invited
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to so many people in our community we loved it um we're doing like i mentioned we're doing some projects
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around the house so we've hung up some curtains i want to do a nursery tour i'm really excited about
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that um and we recently splurged this was like one of our big splurges and we got a frame tv i don't
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know if you've heard about this but there's a kind of tv where when you turn it off instead of it just
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being a big black screen it displays art and it looks like a painting i mean it's backlit so that
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makes it a little bit less looking like a painting but i'm looking at right now that's why i'm pointing
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off screen but it's so cool because i really thought it would be nice because when we host
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people on the holidays or on sabbath it would be nice if the center focal point of our living room
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wasn't a black screen like if it could be a photo of our family or a photo of um or an art piece of art
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like that's so much less invasive than just a black screen on the wall i like it i like it as an idea so
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that was really cool i'm the art that we have up on it right now i'm like really i love it i think
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it's so pretty maybe i'll try and post a picture here it's been a busy busy time and i'm excited to
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get back into the swing of things with with filming um i think that now that the holidays are kind of
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on their way out i can focus back on recording on writing and like having more of a schedule and
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a routine honestly the lack of routine gets to me i love a routine y'all i love i love a routine
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wake up in the morning make myself a cup of coffee do some yoga go for a walk every morning same thing
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super important to me and i love it and that makes me feel so good is that if by like 9 a.m i've already
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done five things on my to-do list they're really only there so i can check them off but to-do list
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i feel like so good and then the rest of the day i'm gonna take my my time and my effort
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to like get things done housework cooking work those are my three things right now that i feel like
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i'm juggling a lot it's housework cooking and work now mr baby he's awesome we just hang out all day
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and i feed him and we play and he's like in and among all of that stuff so that's awesome but uh
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just juggling all that i think is the balance and struggle of life and i'm sure you guys get that i'm
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sure you feel the same way so yeah i'm deciding whether i want to do a little motherhood update in
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here or if i want to do my own video on that but i think i might save that for another video so let me
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know if you guys want a motherhood update i'd love to share where we're at seven months there's been
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some fun exciting developments with mr baby so that's been cool i'd love to know where you guys
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are at like what's going on in your life are you doing anything fun halloween is coming up oh my gosh
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how did i forget to talk about spooktober yes you should be judging me i'm judging me okay
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the reason i forgot to think to talk about spooktober is because we haven't done anything
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for spooktober first of all now that we live in a jewish community we don't really do spooktober
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because uh people don't really do halloween here which fair enough like we have purim we've got a ton
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of other holidays it's just not really our holiday but i still love spooky season i do i think it's
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really fun the fact that i don't have a sweatshirt yet that says spooktober or spooky season on it
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is a travesty i want to i want a sweatshirt that says spooktober or spooky season and i want a
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sweatshirt that says mama why do i want sweatshirts in florida it's a fair question but i think that
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they're cute and i think that wearing a sweatshirt and leggings is cuter than wearing a big t-shirt
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and leggings that's just my feeling but actually i kind of want to hear your thoughts on that one
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what do you think share it in the comments below i want to know if you're doing anything for spooktober
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if you're in the fall season if you're in this fall spirit um we've been watching no scary movies
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not even spooky movies should i be watching hocus pocus should i see hocus pocus too
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i don't know guys drinking lots of tea though that makes me feel folly
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and it's been getting like cold in the mornings here which i didn't think ever happened but it's
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been happening a little bit lately so that's nice and i guess my hair makes me feel a little bit
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folly because it's like darker yeah i'm sorry i got distracted i was supposed to end this video i
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feel like but i just kind of kept talking so thank you guys so much for watching today's video loved
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