I find it inspirational when people are honest about their ups and downs, and don't just pretend that everything is perfect in their lives all the time. So thank you for that 😊

@gloriamedina6908

2 жыл бұрын

i agree

@bonnieweber9254

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@amandagomez4660

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, agree!

Meghan, I laughed when I saw this title because you are SO together already compared to the average bear. You are probably exhausted and still dealing with hormones, but you are putting out videos, eating healthy, making foods for gatherings, losing inches each video, and raising three HAPPY, smiling, beautiful children. You are even working on self improvement despite all that. I am charging you to write a note every night in a journal: What did Meghan do right today? Think it will be a lot more than you think. In this video, you got the kids out of the house for a ride and trip to McDonald's which is a real treat for them even if you think it is a break for you. This means at some point you got three kids dressed and clean and yourself as well. Your house looks clean so at some point you or your elves picked up. You made healthy meals. You played with your kids and took them for a bike ride/walk. You set up a system for your youtube and you read to the kids before they went to bed or nap time. You made sure Miller got some sun during his nap and you potted some plants. There are so many people who would like to do half of what you did.

@dnai2337

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is so 😍 lovely.

@amandagomez4660

2 жыл бұрын

So very true!

From a mom whose children are grown , trust me when I say the season you are in now is so important. Your children will consume so much of your day but when you look back you will realize all the things you felt were being neglected didn’t matter. The projects can wait. Your little ones will be grown in a blink of the eye. Give yourself grace. If you get 20 minutes to focus on a project that is a win not a missed opportunity. We had 7 kids and trust me I know that overwhelmed feeling but focus on what’s most important. You can’t get those moments back from the babies being small. Projects can wait.

@dnai2337

2 жыл бұрын

💖💖💖

I’m so glad you posted this!!!! I wish when I was your age I had the encouragement of knowing that the stage of life is tough! My kids are in all now in between the ages of nine and 15 and life gets so much easier! It’s amazing how organized your home is and that your caring for plants! You’re doing so many great things! And filming & editing for KZread on top of this! You go girl!!! Be kind to yourself! I’m sure the Lord is so proud of you! I see Him radiate through your life! That’s why I watch you!!!

I'm impressed with all you get done. Truly, when we added baby #2 I was so overwhelmed. I got rid of all my plants and hobbies. I had no extra energy to take care of one more thing. I gave myself permission to not be on top of everything.

From a numbers/accounting nerd, staple the receipts for the write off to the page with your notes. That way when you go to do taxes the receipt is easy to find!

I appreciated the way you explained to the baby that cactus grow in warm climates.It helps with their brain development to have you talk to them even this young.

I love that you were open about having a rough day - it’s so easy to pretend like everything’s fine. Good job mama!

Thanks so much for being so real and honest with us, it’s so encouraging!!

You’re so cute! Thank you for not throwing this footage in the garbage 🥰 it means a lot that you’re willing to show it and we’re just here to encourage and love you too

I look forward to Thursday and seeing you and your family!

@gloriamedina6908

2 жыл бұрын

i agree

sorry you are struggling with stress. You are totally right, what matters is ensuring your families needs are met and time spent, all other is gravy :) Your doing great with all you do.

I found this refreshing, been going through a rough season myself. It's always nice to know your not alone. Many prayers and love from my family to yours.

Oh Megan, thank you for sharing! As always you are full of inspiration and sitting down to your videos is like having coffee with a good friend. It's encouraging to see authenticity and I so much appreciate the raw emotions; it helps some of us moms know we aren't alone in not having it all together. XO from Ohio

I am a grandma of two and soon to be 3. Have two daughters. Life does honestly settle down. In the moment it doesn’t seem as though much me time is ever going to happen - it will! Honestly then you actually miss the crazy days. You are doing wonderful and are a great mama. Kids are well and behaved and healthy. All we can ask for. Blessings to you and family in the Nee Year!

The best thing I love from your videos, is the family time. Love how much you and Josh spend time with your kids, and include them in your daily routines. You all are such awesome parents.

Thank you for being so real! Life is about ups and downs and I know that I personally don't want to see someone that has it all together all of the time...I appreciate the honesty!! :)

To know someone else has “ moments” is so helpful as we then know we’re not alone! You make perfect, honest videos . This is authentic!

As long as the kids are fed and clean everything else can wait! It took me forever to feel normal after my second kid. Can't imagine the post partum after a third. 😍

I always look forward to your videos, mainly because you are just honest about your day to day. It’s ok to have bad days, we all go through ups and downs. God bless you and your little family ❤️

Love it that your husband picked up when you were struggling, so sweet!! Really enjoy your channel, though I have teenagers now!

Embrace all the moments, this season will pass too soon !! Thank you for being real! You are very good at encouraging!

Thank you for sharing your puffy face and vulnerable side! The internet has enough "perfect always happy moms"! Life has ups and downs! And being a mom is hard work! You are doing a great job!

My husband and I do our finances together. We have a calendar in Excel, in which each expense is noted on its due date. We print the calendar in booklet form so each month is a 2-page spread. We deposit our checks into a savings account, then once weekly, have a budget meeting. The first part of the meeting is simply going over our checking account online to verify the items paid the week before have cleared. Then we determine which expenses need to be paid in the next week and transfer that amount into our checking account. Lastly, we make payments for those items. The weekly budget meeting typically lasts 15-30 minutes. We have tried several things over the 38+ years of our marriage, but this has been the best method for us. Having that calendar with the expenses listed, has made budgeting so easy.

Remember don’t push yourself too hard to get your life back!! Wonderful to see how honest you are!

I really appreciate your posts and how conscientious you are about the brands you choose to support. I handle all the finances for our household and everything else since my husband is a disabled veteran (retired marine) and he isn't able to even consult about things. Grateful every time you put up a video.

I am always so excited when I see your videos go up! Miller is getting big and Evonnie and Fetcher are such great helpers! Happy New Year, Megan, to you and your family! ❤️

Thank you for being honest about the trials you face. I’m a homeschooling mama who struggles to get it all done and your last two videos have touched my heart. Thank you for your encouragement and inspiration. I’m praying for you and your lovely family. ❤️

Megan, it is a HUGE adjustment from two to three kids, and then again from three to four (for me). You are doing great! It’s been a very difficult shift for me and something that I still struggle with my need to check things off of a box or follow a schedule, when simply, there isn’t enough time if your priorities are in the right place. Devotions/prayer, food, laundry, dishes, and time spent with children and husband… if you are doing those things, count yourself successful!

I am so glad I found you a few months ago. You are so uplifting and I love your strong faith. My children are grown and I now live alone. You have kept me company many evenings, thank you for that!!

Miller is growing so rapidly, and what a cute baby! Looks like his daddy. Thanks for the inspiration. Hope you get to Sarasota; it's been absolutely beautiful down here.

Ryan does most of finances but this year I’m trying 😂 I only do it when he’s around so I can ask him all the questions. Soooo many write offs haha I need to keep better track of brands. Thanks for the final push!

I can hardly wait for your posts on Thursdays! (I’m an old grandma with a grandson who will be a senior in high school next year and his brother, a freshman)! I LOVE small children! I love to see yours, although I realize you can’t have them on camera too much. I love hearing about your children and all the MANY things you do! Josh, too!

Didn’t get to watch until Friday afternoon. Although I’m almost 58 and a grandmother of 5, I love your channel! I’m no longer working outside the home but, I pick up 3 grandkids from school. You inspire me and I know you inspire others from the comments I see! Take care of yourself and give yourself some grace. I pray for you and your sweet family! God bless ❤️

Thank you for your videos, your honesty, your faith and you inspiration.

I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability! Your doing a great job ! Hats off to all Mothers with little ones it’s No small job ! Your life looks in order your exactly where your supposed to be !

I really appreciate that you showed a side that was vulnerable! I would appreciate you showing more of that side!

Your doing a great job with things! Going from 2 kids to 3 does really change things. More than what people may think! Be kind to yourself! You are a ray of sunshine! Love your channel. Many Blessings and lots of Love 💗

It is hard to navigate this phase of life sometimes but you are doing brilliantly! I think it gets easier as time goes on. Thank you for always being real. I always look forward to your videos every week.

I enjoy all your content when you’re being transparent- I think most of us here do ❤️ my husband is the one who takes over all of our finances and I’m so thankful!

Megan thanks for keeping it real and vulnerable, I find it refreshing an relatable.

Awe. Megan, you're aloud to cry....remember you are fearfully and wonderfully made...He made you because He LOVES YOU!

Thank you for the Daily Harvest sponsorship. I remembered you talking about them in another video, but I could not find it for the life of me! Whew! Have a Blessed New Year!

You did a great job. I pray that your cold is better by now. I think your prayers for snow may have worked. I’m watching this on Thursday night and they are calling for snow. Take care.

Those quesadillas looked delicious! Thanks for sharing your videos and being real! I'm sure it's overwhelming sometimes being a mom of 3 little ones, but just take one day at a time, and remember it's the most important job in the world! ( Being a mom to those sweet little ones). I love your videos. ❤️

You have your priorities right and a plan. Your life is together!

Thanks for being so real with us. Don't be so hard on yourself. Just breathe in and out and enjoy this stage of life. Love watching your channel ❤

I bought some devotionals, I cannot wait to get them. I’m so excited. You are such an inspiration to me. I have 3 little ones as well and I have learned a lot from you. Thank you.

Thank you for showing the raw moments as well as the good moments. We all need to know that everyone is human! ❤️❤️❤️

I absolutely love videos like this because it makes me feel like a normal person thank you for showing the real and the raw you are doing so great!!!! I am excited to see more videos in the future 🥰

Real moments are very inspirational! Thanks for spurring me on to good things!!!

Yep! I had a million plans this week to get back into a routine, then the baby caught a cold. Tomorrow is a new day! You’re doing great ❤️

This great grandma is captivated by your kiddos, especially (right now) that precious beautiful baby bow. You do such a great job mothering❣️ I do so look forward to your posts❣️. God bless you and your family❣️

Girl, you are doing amazing with 3 kiddos and a YT channel in your stage of life. Don't feel the need to perform or tidy up for us, we are your loyal watchers and are happy to see you with a newborn and messy house and are not judging you!

Love that your husband comes in and sees you in distress and helps out. 🥰 Give yourself grace!!

I needed this. I'm post-holiday blues. I find the holidays absolutely exhausting. Our family is huge and spoils my daughter with toys. It's endless. We can't move in my house. I just want to sleep all day. It doesn't help that I lost my job 5 months ago (outsourced overseas) and my husband has been home with the virus all week, my daughter can't go to school because of it school is demanding that she gets a flu shot. I can't get motivated to do anything. My house is so small and we don't even have closets. I'm just so down, not a good way to start the new year.

It's so nice to watch your videos and see someone else going through the same season of life (also a stay at home wife of a contractor and the things that come along with that). God bless you Megan and your heart and may He continue to grant you patience and renew your spirit with joy each day, we can always use more of that! 😂

I enjoyed the start to your video with the sounds and sights of making tea. It feels peaceful to simply enjoy the process of tea making. This was a great video- thanks for your hard work. Also, remember it is a huge adjustment to have three kids under four! I have the same age kids. You did a bunch of things in the video- sorry you felt pressure that day. Thanks for being open. 💕

You accomplish a lot! Right now, with all you do! Kudos to you!

I love that you kept this footage. You are inspiring, and real. Thank you for sharing

Great video Megan! Love that cup and the kiddos are just too cute!

Go easy on yourself! You’re doing good mama! I know firsthand how frustrating it can be when you’re not feeling very accomplished, but you’re absolutely right… making sure your babies are fed and spending time with them and your spouse, are the most important. 💕

@amandagomez4660

2 жыл бұрын

I have to add, you’re a very accomplished young woman! You tackle so much!! 💕

I appreciate all your honesty. Being a mother is the best most wonderful exhausting time of your life. I admire any working mom…wow!

Megan! Thank you so much for sharing this video and being vulnerable! It was a heartwarming video and very encouraging ❤

I know you’ll be fine because you are so positive. We all feel the weight of our commitments; it was nice to hear you say you were trying to be nice to yourself, you just had a baby!

I watch your videos because there uplifting but also honest and real.

Your doing good. . . . your trying is the biggest part. . . . Praise the Lord in the not so good & good days! The days after the holidays are really hard to get back on schedule or a flow! I'm a home school mom & very involved in my church! Sometime it hard to get everything done. . . . but it's ok! You inspiration to me. . . keeping things real doesn't make you any lower in that! "We are all struggling souls!" as my pastor wife says. But the important thing is to keep working to get be on the struggle knowing the Lord will help us!

Thanks Megan for another wonderful video. You’re doing so good as a Mom and you give me a lot of inspiration to be more of a cheerful positive person. It’s sometimes hard when days seem long and overwhelming but in the end Let’s focus on what’s most important in life.

I’m a mom to four grown kids and have six grandkids. You are in a busy season of life. You have your priorities straight. You are and will be blessed. I was always very involved and didn’t slow down until I would fall apart with overwhelming emotion after giving birth. It’s good to have days that are slower. Heal n stay well. Our family got sick during Christmas time as we all were together. We are still coughing and extremely tired.

Oh lovely mama, you are doing awesome. Rest, get well and thank you for being honest about the ups and downs. We all have them x

Really enjoy your honesty. Don't be to hard on yourself! Things will get better and you are doing awesome ❤

Be easy on yourself you have just only had a baby and now you have 3 to look after ,its wonderful that your husband also helps 🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤

Hi Megan. I have never commented before, but I just wanted to say you are doing great! I have 5, and the more I have the longer I find it takes to get everything back to a "normal" routine. And sometimes what was normal routine before changes as you get more or have other responsibilities and as your children grow. After my last one (he is now 19 months) I still don't feel like I have it all together, there are many days when I wish I could keep my house more tidy and get more cleaning done, but I'm trying to accept that all I need to do is my best and that's good enough. My husband keeps telling me that taking care of 5 kids that are high energy and all want there time and attention and making a healthy meal is already accomplishing a lot of that is all the time I have. I really enjoy watching your you tube videos. In so many ways we have very similar values even though I am not Mennonite, in other ways we are even more conservative than you, so I find that I have really enjoyed watching you as you go through the changing seasons in life...makes me wonder what I looked like when I had 3 2 1/2 and under, and then later 4 5 and under...just writing it looks overwhelming :). Between my last 2 I had an almost 3 1/2 year break. After having my other ones so close, it made the 3 1/2 years seem like a long time so who knows, maybe the next one will be closer again!

Miller is adorable! Thank you for your transparency.

You'll get back to being organised, thanks for your honesty much appreciated Megan ❤️

Wow I need your secrets girl! I have 4 kids they all woke in the night until 18 months and my 9 month old is still waking 4 times a night to nurse.🤦‍♀️ I really needed this video. I truly feel like I have been running in circles lately. Life is hard no matter what we can either keep trying with a good attitude and happy heart or throw in the towel and just be a grump. Life is what you make it most the time! Thank you for your positive attitude.😊♥️

Great time for a reset! You do so much! Happy New year 🎉

You’ve got it girl. Love your videos, keep up the good work

Gosh look at your little man with his big smiles

I think you are doing well Megan. You are upright , dressed and getting out ! Things can only get better 🤓💞🇬🇧

@MeganFoxUnlocked

2 жыл бұрын

That's true!!

Don't beat yourself up, Megan! You are doing great and already taking on a lot with three young kids. Give yourself more grace

You are so blessed to have Josh helping you out. Yes, he's a parent, too, but the way he helps without saying anything and pitching in as you both adjust to your new reality of THREE kiddos really speaks to his character and his mentality as a partner.

Always excited when your videos pop up

@MeganFoxUnlocked

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you're hear!

Times have been hard for everyone the past few years . Keeping kids healthy is stressful . I think you accomplish so much!

Your videos are always so inspirational. Thanks for posting:)

Megan, you are doing a wonderful job. The children are so content in their young lives. You and Josh appear to be in a good place. Let God bless your socks off!

Love watching your videos...you’re so bubbly and inspirational...even when you’re having an off day. I love your content...You have some neat ideas...a couple I have tried and love. Thank you for sharing. Be blessed!

Your last video inspired me so much. I made plans for health, crafts, prayer and entertaining for the year. I love your channel. I hope 2022 gets better for you, for all of us. I pray for the end of c0v1d madness this year

@MeganFoxUnlocked

2 жыл бұрын

I pray for that too!

Great video Megan!!!

I bought the vitamin organizers. Thanks Megan!

Our household is also all recovering from colds right now. It was so stressful after the holidays and feeling like my to dos are piling on. I totally get it. I'm pregnant and have a toddler still nursing. Soo exhausted and tired. But it's all for the glory of God! I tell ya. It's what gets us sisters through the hard times 🙌

I have dyscalculia, a learning disability that is similar to dyslexia, but it's centered around numbers. At the age of 56 I cannot add or subtract easily, and I'm never confident in my answers -- so, my amazing sister handles all of my finances. There are times when recognizing your weaknesses is okay, and for me this causes so much less stress than messing up my checkbook monthly!

You are doing amazing. My children are grown, but love your videos. Your life is together. Be kind to yourself.

Your doing a great job! Motherhood and hormones can definitely have you overwhelmed. Hang in there.

Thanks for showing us the real you! Life can be hard and crazy at times, but it's all worth it in the end. I do our bookkeeping for our auto repair shop and it is definitely something that needs strict attention or else you will miss all of the tax deductions. I don't love the task, but I'm glad that I can do it to keep our employment costs down.

I love when you upload! A day in the life is even better! I love your little family and I love seeing how other families do things. Id love to know though, how you manage to keep the two older kiddos busy while you're doing things that need to get done? I think that's my biggest struggle, definitely time management and keeping children busy so I can go off and get things done. ❤❤

@MeganFoxUnlocked

2 жыл бұрын

My kids would play by themselves all day! They are close in age and come up with all kinds of crazy things to do. I am super blessed in this way! Between dressing up, audio books, magnatiles, puzzles, and their imaginations, they stay busy! Plus I do give them chores here and there too.

@roses625

2 жыл бұрын

@@MeganFoxUnlocked mine are 18 months apart as well and it can be a struggle sometimes! Haha maybe its a boy thing. They both always want what the other has 😅

Great video once again! I always look forward to your videos! Fun fact: did you know that not all cacti grow in warm dry conditions as you explained to the kids when reading? There are some cacti that grow in cold desert climates not just hot desert climates. It's just something I learned in grade 2 and in high school horticulture class here in Canada and has stuck with me. I just wanted to also encourage you that it's ok to have times where we're a bit more emotional and just let it out during those times then we can pick ourselves back up and refresh after that. We understand that hormones are still trying to balance out yet, you're only 2 months out and it can take approx 6 months for that to happen.

I really relate to this video. I just had a baby at the end of Nov and also live in Pa. The weather is horrible and you feel stuck inside a lot. With everything going on with covid I don't really like taking newborns and 5 yr out. I give you props for getting everyone into the car and going places. It's a circus when we go places and I have my husbands help. I really enjoy your videos.

"My nose is puffy ...I was crying...I'll be fine!.." my favorite part of the video! Bahahaha! Thank God for good husbands! I'm at the same stage with a newborn and my husband is a wonderful help too! You do have your life together! Keep up the great work! Hugs!

One of your best videos, I glad you didn't trash it.