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okay all right well okay here we go many
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of you know that this is my wife of 12
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Years Yvette Henry
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this is her after meal prepping for the
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week
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what you may not know about her is that
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she was an educator for seven years
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and one of the best she is now
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homeschool teacher for our four kids but
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she doesn’t only do that
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she does it all let me just show you
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what it takes for her to meal prep she’s
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not only cooking Stables she’s adding
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new recipes and seasoning the hell out
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of everything
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chopping and dicing healthy meals for us
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to consume is no easy task because while
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she’s doing all that she’s cleaning and
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prepping the food too
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along with taking care of our children
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teaching them new activities and being
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involved in every aspect of their lives
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[Music]
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when events stop working as a mad
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teacher she came home to homeschool our
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kids and there was really no place for
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her to do that
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we had an extra room that I used as an
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office for a while and she needed that
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space to turn into a classroom for our
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kids I moved out because I could focus
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more in a separate office she and the
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kids needed a place to thrive
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all right y’all welcome black Glenn has
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me giving y’all a classroom tour when
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it’s not even ready for a classroom tour
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but he wants me to expose y’all to the
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process so here we are today in process
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in process
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in process of what in process
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I’ve been walking with my savior yes I’m
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trying to do my best guess I’m just a
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bag of Boss trying to shake a lot of
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flood when you see me never stressed
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when you see me see me see me you say
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hello hello
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you guys have seen us in this room
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before I don’t know if you recognize it
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because it’s drastically different than
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what it was this used to be the room
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where we would record our podcast how
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married are you and Yvette unplugged
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that has been on a long height but this
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wall right here we had the pull down
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screen with the pink backdrop and we had
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this big old white desk and then on this
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side it was like a pallet wall with
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Yvette unplugged Shenanigans we have
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been in the process of
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re-modeling it when we took all the
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palettes down and everything off the
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walls there was holes my husband used
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glue what what kind of look super glue
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some kind of glue it’s a glue styrofoam
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to the walls it was all-purpose adhesive
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all-purpose adhesive it was a mess y’all
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it was a mess but now it looks glorious
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and we got new floors which happened
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across the whole house but like this
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place has been transformed into a nice
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little space that we’re calling the
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school room
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um I am not done
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so I don’t know I mean maybe we could
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come back and do a part two of this
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video when I am done
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one of the first purchases I made when I
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found out that this was going to be our
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room was this white board I had
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um so we used to do school out there and
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we didn’t have a lot of wall space
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we just have like the windows there was
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just no wall space so I was really
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excited about being able to have a
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whiteboard that I could give
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instructions on and like do example
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whatever or just white right stuff like
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you have this calendar situation that is
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just now more like
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solid and solidified you know I had to
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get myself a solo desk this year because
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sometimes the kids are working
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independently and I need somewhere to
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sit and whatever
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um so we got this desk from Ikea these
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desks we’ve had
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um for since last year these are also
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from Ikea I was actually inspired by my
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sister-in-law because she had these desk
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in a different color but I just like
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them because they have this like whole
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little lip situation
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where you can like store books and stuff
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these are from Ikea but last year I had
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the spacing each other and we kind of
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like it was more this type of vibe but I
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kind of wanted more space in here this
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year so I put them against the wall
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we’re gonna test out this situation and
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see how it works out
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um they had these last year but I had to
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get them fresh ones because you know how
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children like to Doodle and do all the
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things this year we added the pegboard
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situations these are from Ikea
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[Music]
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each of the kids has their own little
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desk area and I try to be strategic in
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the way that I sat them I have feel here
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because we have this curtain right here
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and I trust him the most not to be like
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pulling on it and hanging and twisting
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in it doing all the things so with that
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in mind I put Uriah all the way over
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here so he has space to get up because
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he’s one of my more active Learners he
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doesn’t know how to really sit still so
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he will get up and just be all around he
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has that space I put Uzi here because
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Uzi doesn’t really stay seated at his
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desk and again Uriah likes his space he
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likes to be able to yeah and whatever so
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I put Lucy here and then I put Anaya
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here she probably won’t necessarily be
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sitting here all the time either so then
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this these two seats when Anaya and Uzi
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aren’t here give me and Lexi room to
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like have a seat next to Theo have a
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seat next to life and help him help them
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out individually one of the biggest
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questions I get asked about
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homeschooling is like what’s the most
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challenging part and for me the most
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challenging part has been being
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intentional about creating Community for
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the kids as well as pacing and
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scheduling and doing all that stuff now
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I am a math teacher by trade so I do
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have some experience in pacing and
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creating Like You Know lesson plans etc
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etc however last year I made the
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decision that I wanted to partner with
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someone in a different way so we chose
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to enroll in a charter that the kids
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will go to on campus two days a week and
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then they are home with me three days a
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week at the beginning of each month we
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get all the lesson plans for the month
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and so when we get those lesson plans we
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take those and we transfer them over
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into this planner if you are a
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homeschooling parent or if you are
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someone who is looking into
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homeschooling I feel like this is one of
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the greatest hacks it’s not really a
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hack but I like this it’s just the same
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I guess of writing a daily to-do list or
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whatever but it’s also a good way to
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keep track of what you’ve been doing
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throughout the year all in one place so
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I got these planners off Amazon and I
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like using them because it’s a cool way
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for the kids to come in and know exactly
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what’s going on for the week or for the
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day or whatever
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um and it helps us to just kind of keep
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track of what we’ve been doing
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throughout the year and each of my kids
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has one Uzi doesn’t have one but um the
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three oldest kids do have them there’s a
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bookshelf over here
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it’s from Ikea this is basically where I
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store our curriculum
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down here is like our library of sorts
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um I really need to go through these and
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kind of get more variety of authors and
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stuff but this is just you know storage
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even think this
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yes I just heard someone say Hospital
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yeah
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on the face on the stairs
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let me see
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where’s the blood
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only thing that’s about to bleed is them
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lips because they’re so chapped go get
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some Vaseline on you’re fine give me a
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kiss though
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oh
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um
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[Music]
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go get your brother some Vaseline oh my
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gosh there’s Vaseline in the drawer baby
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you want to kiss your eye
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I think he’s strong
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because you’re oh gosh whatever his name
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is Hulk smash are you Hulk smash show us
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your muscles show us your muscles show
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us your muscles oh where are those
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muscles
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do a different pose do another pose
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put your hands on your hip
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all right go get some Vaseline buddy oh
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flip sister came to the rescue here
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buddy
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oh thank you buddy let’s go
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that’s it y’all this is not that’s not
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it showing the thing you built oh yeah
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come on guys
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so last year
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[Music]
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yeah your husband should probably fix
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that
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also
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I would really love it if my most
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handsome most beautiful has been with
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update our piano just got us a new piano
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last year the kids are on here the boys
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are on year four a piano Anaya’s on here
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too and Uzi is in sound Beginnings so
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he’s just beginning but
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we needed to like up three and so I got
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us a piano I’m hoping that my husband
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will just put it together
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okay
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all right again Ikea I’ve been on Tick
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Tock and when I’m on Tick Tock I either
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get inspired or encouraged or I’d be
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thinking I can do all the things and so
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I saw
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um I saw this lady who created a
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situation in her home that was like this
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like that is that how Miss Tyler the
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Brown says it like like so like that
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anywho
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um and so basically this is a three by
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three
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Cube from Ikea
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that you basically assemble it but you
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don’t put in this Shelf
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and then you like
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I’ve got a piece of plywood and painted
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it and put it in the back here I just
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used a nail gun to like wait Stick it to
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this put some hooks on it
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and then now the kids have a nice place
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to stop to put their music bags and to
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put their backpacks and it looks neat
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and then in here they put their shoes
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I need to um I’m trying to I need to
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create their name tags but this is Theo
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and then this is Raya
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and Anaya because he doesn’t have one
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maybe I should have gotten a 4×4 but
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this space is not even big enough for
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this thing it kind of overlaps a little
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bit but I’m pretty proud of this
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I the next thing I want to do is get
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some like
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uh wood glue filler or a wood filler or
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something
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and fill up these holes and like maybe
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paint it black I was thinking I could
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put the kids names
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feel Uriah Anaya inside I don’t know I
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might get clever with it but I’m pretty
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proud of this
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for sure make sure you place a melodic
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music
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as I’m saying it though what does
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melodic mean melodic melodic like make
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it look like I’m plain as I’m speaking
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do you understand
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he hates it when I tell him how to edit
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the video yeah it’s a video in there but
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this is what I’m saying she doesn’t know
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what she’s asking me but go ahead thank
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you guys so much for watching protect
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your life and keep your network popping
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if you’re fortunate enough to do life
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with someone else
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let me stop I’m supposed to be sounding
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like I’m being whatever if you’re
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fortunate enough to do
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wait no I want to say it
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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good job
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[Music]
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it’s obvious that we want the best for
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our children and to deliver that
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sometimes it’s going to take sacrifice
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this is only Theory until you count the
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cost of what it’s going to take
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[Music]
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and in this season it looked like moving
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out and my wife making the most out of a
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small room that we had in our house it
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looks like me building a piano while my
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wife is away so the kids can practice
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music it looks like me not forcing my
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children to play support that they don’t
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want to play but this isn’t about me
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this is about the daily execution that
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my wife delivers with excellence
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most of the time with a smile on her
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face but all the time looking amazing
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the reason why I’m sharing this because
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you see a lot of me but you don’t really
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see a lot of her and I want to bring
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more of that on the channel
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Yvette’s passion has always been
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teaching
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and even though now it’s not teaching
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math to 27 kids it’s still a lot
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next time I believe in fatherhood you’ll
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get to see what it really looks like
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when Yvette teaches
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but last name Dave this is the last
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thing
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my starting twitch
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maybe you’re allergic to Me Maybe I am I
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am welcome welcome back this go hard in
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the head like that took my Sabbath I can
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relax like Boomerang I can write back
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just like yo-yos come right black hold
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up
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[Music]
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