A Very Honest Q&A | simple living tips, birth plan, marriage conflict & more!
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Answering all your questions in a cozy and honest Q&A. Some of these were hard to talk about, but I told you I'd be real and honest only to support you on the journey you're on. I always say: we learn from failure and others! So here are lots of my failures and experiences, haha.
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Just wanted to share 4 little boys, 3 big dogs, a cat, and myself and my husband in 850sqft 3 bedroom 1 bath house and it is so doable and peaceful and wonderful and was an intention chosen space :)
I love that so much. Thanks for sharing!
We are three boys, my husband and I in the same space. I love it to and we have lot of intentional places for the kids. The best is a jujitsu mat in the playarea for them to wrestle and play on.
Your honesty and wisdom are such a breath of fresh air in this space, Marge. Forever thankful for your videos, friend! 💛
Thanks Molls.🥺 So kind of you
I love your content so much, this is one of very few channels I watch every new video from ❤️ My husband and I live in a two bedroom home with 3 little boys and despite people’s opinions we are very happy. Your last answer reminded me of a quote I read this morning:
“The more we take refuge in distraction, the more habituated we become to mere stimulation and the more desensitized to delight.” -Tony Reike
I loved reading this so much, Vanessa. Thanks for sharing your home experience and that quote. Gave me chills! Thanks for your support too. Truly means so much!
I notice such a huge change in you since you started RUclips … you seem so much more chill and laid-back AND you seem wiser, but also more humble at the same time… There is more joy in you. Whatever you have been doing keep it up because it is making you shine.
I am 1000% with you on the concept of de-cluttering. It helps me stay focused and even identify my priorities in life. I am a minimalist at heart and videos like these make me feel less odd.
Very open and honest Margaret! Wishing you all the best. 🙏🏽💕
I need a video on minimalism and babies! I was the crazy over the top mom. I want to be the minimalist grandma and teach the soon to be new parents to do it minimally. I wasted all my time, energy, and money buying and having all the stuff!! Even night vision cameras in the nursery!! Way over the top!!
More of these please! This video was a lovely breath of fresh air. You are such an encouragement! 💛
Health should always be number 1 priority at every season in life.
🌷 I adore you! Your coaching &/or course would be a blessing!! 🤍 I thank God for your encouragement in my life! I know it must be so hard all the demands on you as a wife, mother, and adding yt into the mix, so I appreciate you showing up as you can & hope it doesn’t overburden you! You’re a gem!!!!
Thank you so so much! I've started working on it!!!
This channel is so relatable :) speaking of closet declutters, I’d love to see an updated one
soon!!!!!
I really enjoyed your video today! It felt like a sweet friend chat! We lived in a 3 bedroom house for 8 years while we were having our kids. Our oldest was 2 months old when we moved in and when we moved to our current home our 6th kid was a year old. It was crowded but doable because I was the decluttering queen! I love your advice about being minimalist with a baby. There's so much stuff, probably incredibly more than 20 years ago when my first was born (Can't believe he's almost 20!). Really they need YOU, a few blankets, more onsies than you can imagine, and a lot of diapers. Thanks for a great video!
Yes, yes, yes!! Love this from an experienced momma! So affirming and hopefully encouraging to other moms reading this
I loved this video so much! you're so honest, yet gentle and unapologetically yourself. It's so admirable! Please do more of these Q&A videos!
Ah thanks, Paulina. These words are so kind and encouraging.
Margaret, your being so humble and your restful videos have been such an inspiration for me, as a stay at home mom of 6....
Loved knowing you better in this Q&A
Woah! Sooo much respect for you as a mama of 6??!
@@rubypamelagrace thank you so much, sweet lady!🙏🌸
So incredibly touched reading this. I'm one of 6
My husband got a vasectomy knowing we were finished. Well…now I’m not entirely sure that I’m not pregnant again. And if so, this will be baby number 5! We’re definitely in a smaller home for six people by today’s standards but I’m determined to make it work for now should we be blessed with another baby.
Loved this video per usual 😊 hoping and praying for a continued healthy pregnancy ❤
OMG!
And thanks
I always enjoy you’re q & a videos! They make me feel like we’re just two friends hanging out, and I get to know you better and also leave with some life advice and encouragement 🙂
I don't know who said this, but I use it all the time. "A perfect marriage is two imperfect people who never give up on one another" - Another one I use that I don't know the author is : "No matter how old you both get, Never stop holding hands; Never stop dancing and Never stop saying, 'I love you'" God bless you and yours!
This is beautiful, amen! ❤
Margaret, I just loved this type of heart to heart video! It feels like we’re having tea together as friends. ☕️🫖❤ I resonate with your heart and personality and so much of your thinking-are you an INFJ personality type? Also, I 100% related to what you said about being in a season where it’s simplest and still sweet to mainly stay connected with your kindred spirits via written & audio messages. I love people yet am an introvert (who looks like an extrovert in public haha) and with four littles I come away completely and totally wiped out on fumes when I’ve had my littles and been trying to connect with a friend at the same time. I tell people it’s like having a tea party with four baby puppies on my lap. 😅They’re absolutely adorable and I wouldn’t give up m friends or my kids but I’d rather almost not have the tea party and keep the peace. In the past I pushed myself to do the meetups but since having hashimotos and hormone crashes and my system needing healing (my reason for going more prometabolic!) I feel like I don’t have the reserve to do the in person meetups when I need the personal emotional reserve and at the same time want to keep my best energies for stewarding my home and loving my family with the best of me. Most of my friends are similarly minded I think although I’m a bit reserved to share “hey, I like msgs more than seeing you.” Lol! Anyway…it was comforting to hear how you understand. I love my friends but I get wiped out and craaaave my moments of quiet introvert time as they’re like gold to my soul! Plus that extra margin time gives me the open space to simplify and minimize my home better. Does this resonate with you? God bless you, Sis. ❤
I would love if you made a course on the topic of minimalism & how to declutter. I’ve slowly started the decluttering process, but it’s so overwhelming. Would love to hear first hand how it impacted you & your life & what helped you through the process 💗💗
I am deeply grateful for your helpful content. So much needed in this noisy space. x
Thanks for these incredibly kind words, Claudia. It lifts me up!
So thankful I found you...your inspiration is next level to me personally! really funny...you mentioned body code and I am just a click away for signing up to become a practitioner. maybe that was my sign aka kick in the ass to finally stop thinking about it and just do it! thank YOU!!
I’ve been on the fence about spending the money on ‘why children matter’. I think I need to just do it. I’ve been struggling for years to connect deeply with my oldest child. It hurts me to see the disconnect and not know how to fix it.
You can buy used on Amazon!!
Do you have a video on what you do with the things you declutter/how you get rid of them? That’s the biggest hurdle for me 😅
Just straight to the second-hand store most of the time. Unless I know a sibling of mine would need/want. Then it goes into a trash bag and into my car ASAP.
I like finding local secondhand shops over goodwill!
I checked out all my pregnancies by myself 1st. I wanted to make the announcements kinda fun, to each his own anyway. Sending love & light ❤
Yes my best friend and I Marco Polo back and forth most days!
As you were talking about adding a baby to your current apartment, I had a random thought....what if, once the baby is older, to move all the kids into the master bedroom and you and Tate use the current boys' bedroom? Just thinking outside the box :)
I love your Q&As!!! Looking forward to watching this♥hehe
Ah thank you!!
This was fantastic! Please more like it 👍🏻
Hi! 35 weeks here so loving your content!
I can't afford powdered collagen so I make tons of bone broth for myself and my family. Cheap and does basically the same thing.
Loved this honest q&a. Your videos are always refreshing yet restful and make me wishing I could sit and chat and have a matcha with you 🤍
Ah, cheers Dani! I wish I could do that with you guys too. No joke
Awesome video ❤sis
Fun fact: the beach puts you in your feminine essence and the mountains puts you in your masculine essence. 😊 curious what you use the days you don’t use coconut milk because I’ve been doing it everyday for weeks now out of a can..😢
Ohhhh I love facts like that!!
Thanks for sharing! And we use raw milk when we can get our hands on it!
We live with our 2 teenagers in a 2 bedroom house. They each have their own bedroom and my husband and I live in the upstairs ”hallway” or what I’m supposed to call it 😝 we’ll only have our kids at home a few more years, no need for more bedrooms. They always shared a room until they were about 7 and 9 years old.
Love your channel! I’m from kc and went to MSU too! Bear Up!❤
Thank you so much for this video. Do you have recommendations for meals to make and freeze for postpartum?
Thank you for the book recs! Please could you tell me the author of Why Children Matter?
I only have 12 things on my baby registry .. but this is my 6th baby so I know what I need and want.
no seriously. not to listen to everyone else's opinions/negativity as a pregnant/new mama is the actual BEST advice. oh. my. soul.
Man I wish I could get some quiet time! 😅
The nice thing about good matcha is that, even cooled, it still tastes amazing 😅😅
Enjoyed this Q&A. Been way dialing back social media usage and other obligations in life as I can to enjoy the slower life with my kids and husband (we have four 7yo and under). Your videos are appreciated and I greatly enjoyed this while sipping my own matcha 🍵 (didn’t even know you’d have one until I had already sat down with mug in hand 😅)
Wishing you the best of the 3rd trimester!! 🙏🏻
Hey Margaret! I loved this video ❤️ do you take beef liver while breastfeeding too? And any other favorites for milk supply? I can’t have any grains so oats are out for me 😢
Honestly the best book for marriage is by Laura Doyle- The empowered wife. IM NOT EVEN KIDDING this book changed everything. If you want to stop fighting It's this book.
Oh sounds like a great read!
I love the idea of you doing a course! I would be interested in taking it. Also, my husband and I recently launched our own course and it has been wildly more successful than we anticipated. We took a course on making our course with mentoring and it is one of the biggest reasons why our course has had the type of success we’ve seen in such a short period of time. If you’re interested in learning more about it, please let me know and I can get you more information on it. With their help and the topic you’re speaking about, I think you could have massive success and potentially be able to quit RUclips (but please don’t bc I love your content 😂)!
I also wanted to add this since you just mentioned that you’re in a position that you will need to keep working postpartum: if you do make your own course, you can have it completed before you have your baby and make income to supplement or replace your income so you can have a proper maternity leave. It is so important to bond with your new baby and to transition as a family when welcoming a new baby. I hope you consider it. The course/ coaches that I recommend are Christians and would be very relatable to you as a RUclipsr.
Wow, so kind of you to offer to send me some information. Honestly, I'd love some!! This is genuinely so encouraging to hear!! My business email is intentionallymargaret@gmail.com - would love to chat more!! Thanks Katrina.
You’re very welcome! I just sent you an email. I hope it helps!! 🤍
What shampoo and conditioner do you use?
Beautycounter! I'm a consultant because I love their shampoo and conditioner so much. I never pressure ppl to buy and RARELY share that I'm a consultant with them...unless they ask :)
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This video was so calming and encouraging 🫶🏼 thank you.
I too am expecting my third baby (July) and we live in a small 2 bedroom. I hope I am a little bit further in my decluttering journey when baby comes so that I can embrace this milestone for our family and enjoy motherhood that much more. It’s tough because it always feels harder to get rid of things when finances are tight. I feel guilty for getting rid of things that we have spent money on even if it was ages ago.
Totally get it. Honestly, we're in a very similar boat. But I came from a chronically stressed state and I knew that our things were weighing heavy on me more than anything. That's where I started! So just know that all of our stories are different and you can exactly what you and your family need!