Tough DITL of a Work from Home Mom
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The realness in this vlog is giving me all the feels. Motherhood is so hard. I promise you were NOT all hanging-we’re just like you. Thanks for making us feel seen.
Thank you megan for helping me feel not so alone in motherhood today ❤
SAME! 😭❤️
Right back atcha 💛
Yes! Thank you Megan! 🤍
Thank you for sharing these very emotions. Not only are your struggles relatable, but feeling like you are the ONLY mom feeling this way is also relatable.
Your vlogs are never boring! I love just seeing an average day and realistic! You’re doing an amazing job
I so appreciate the realness and honesty in this vlog! I have a 1 year old and often feel like I'm barely keeping my head above water. I just want my house to be clean all the time! lol! But seriously, I appreciate you sharing some of the hard days. That's not something I see often from creators and makes me feel less alone. Love you and your content, no matter what it looks like. ❤️
Loving this real life stuff. Thank you for helping me as a mama not feel alone in my daily struggles ❤️
This is such a true depiction of how I handle hard days vs. how my husband handles them. I want to talk about the hard day and analyze it or try to figure out solutions (typical, eh?) as well as feel solidarity and my husband is very much like yours - "It's hard, but that's just how it is!"
Literally told my husband right before watching this that I felt like the only one who can't handle motherhood well! It's so hard. You aren't the only one ❤️
Megan, I don’t have kids yet but watching your channel honestly makes me feel so much more calm and prepared for the journey of parenthood when that day comes. Your honesty on this video is so good and refreshing and real and necessary so thank you!
I think this is my favorite DITL of yours so far. Honestly, the most relatable Megan I’ve seen.
I feel EXACTLY the way you do. I have a 29 month old (non verbal) and a 5 month old. Seeing you sitting on the floor with them in the living room just playing with them really was eye-opening that every mom does that every day. I do that every single day. It’s so reassuring. You expressed my thoughts perfectly.
We love mornings menus too! I felt the same way about my 3 year old she usually doesn’t like a lot of the activities I set up but she ask to do the morning menus every day it’s been such a sweet time
Regarding the cleaning person, I think I’ve found the key for me. I recognized the areas of the house I don’t get around to (bathroom cabinet, shower stall, tub, etc.) and have the cleaning lady “only” tackle those areas once a month.
I also have just one person, not a company, so she became used to my house.
I empty out everything of the areas I want her to clean and also am very specific everytime she comes.
Comes to about 100-150 a month.
Aw mama again! That’s so sweet I remember when that shift happened to mom with my oldest it was kind of a sad day, but my youngest still calls me mama hopefully for a long time!
Megan, this was the best vlog I have seen during a tough time throughout my day it has shown me that I am not alone I will as well thank you for your honesty and truly venting is ok. You’re an awesome mother and you inspire me. I am a stay at home mom and sometimes it seems like the struggle is real but you show me that I can hang in there every day.💕
Just commenting to boost engagement. I truly enjoy the content. I’m due with our first baby, a girl, this month and you two have been such a joy to follow along for parenthood and lifestyle. I remember when it was just baby Rowan.
You are not alone. Thank you for sharing when riding that struggle bus.
100% I think this all the time. It’s so much better when you have family and friends in the neighborhood to call over. Being separated from them it makes it so hard! This is not how we were meant to live
Personally this is my favorite kind of vlog -- I really appreciate when you show the hard parts and how you get through them! You and Matt are amazingly patient, loving parents and it's inspiring to watch. I don't have kids yet but watching videos like this just feels so much more real and honest. Sometimes life is hard but you guys are doing your best and you're doing an amazing job at it. Anyway all this to say THANK YOU for your vlogs and for showing your family living a real life.
We have someone that come and clean our house once a week for the last like two years. She does everything though. Moves everything to dust. Does the dueling fans, and base hoards. Changes all the trash cans. Clean the bathrooms toilets and showers. Vacuums and mood. We love her!
I can't tell you how much I needed this to be the video you posted today! I had a horrendous day with my 2 year old boy who finds me being firm hilarious, which makes me want to pull my hair out. It's so hard, no matter how much you love them, no matter how grateful you are to have them, it is SO hard. Gentle parenting is so hard, and I feel rubbish at it, some days I simply don't have the patience. It's so overwhelming, coming from a mum with anxiety, I feel you and thank you for showing these days!! I appreciate it more than you know xx
Never boring!! You’re a lot of people’s retreat and relaxation ❤ keep being yourself
Thank you for showing the real side of motherhood… I have a 3 year old and 7 month old and some days feel like this. But so many ppl try to make it look perfect, that you don’t see other ppl experiencing the same! It makes you feel like why is this so much harder for me than it is other ppl?! Thank you again
I feel like you’re always worried that your videos aren’t fun. But I would still enjoy them if all you did was stay at home and read a book ❤ sending love!!! You’re perfect the way you are!
Loved the vlog Megan. I have a 2 year old and a 2 month old. Right there with you. Thanks for being real. We appreciate you.
I appreciate YOU 💛
I love this channel and this family so much! Y’all have no idea how much you’ve helped me and my husband survive 2 under 2. Thank you for the realness and for being so open and honest. ❤
Remember, it’s okay to have these days and off days. No vlog is boring! You are showing what you do and a lot of the times it helps us momma’s out! Every video is awesome and special! You are doing a great job! Prayers 🙏❤️
1000% yes to, "I can't be the only person who struggles to manage mothering young kids" sentiment. I also feel like how has everyone managed to raise young kids from the beginning of time and I can't handle it in this moment. I have 2 kids 21 months apart who are now 2.5 and almost 1 and I felt this so much. Some days are just really really hard, especially with illness. My daughter has been struggling with night terrors and night wakings for the first time in ages- she was such a good sleeper. And my 1 year old has been waking frequently too so not only am I tired from the day to day but I'm also not getting quality sleep. You think about how people train for something like a marathon, they try to eat well and be as rested as possible but when raising small children you often don't get to do either of those things. Some days are totally fine and some are so hard. I feel you
I’m a first time mom and your videos before I had my four month old helped me prepare for mother hood and now I’m here still learning and relating. Hugs on the hard days.
Btw I started using a helping hand with house stuff a couple months ago, we tried a couple of different people before we found someone that was a good fit for us in price and the work she was able to do for us/quality..it’s helped me a lot to feel more in control with things, so maybe try a different cleaning service to see if that helps ❤
Aww Megan... Thank you so, so much for sharing. I've had a really tough mo th with my 13 month old. I only have one kid, and I'm not coping. I truly appreciate you being real!
You are not alone!! Your vlogs are always so great no matter what you are doing! ❤️
Thanks Megan for sharing , I only have 1 kid close to 2 yrs old, and its struggle already !! thanks for letting me feel that Im not alone too!
It's all SO challenging!! The amount of love we feel for our children gives us the strength to get through the days that feel so overwhelming. You know this... but, I wanted to express how much I relate. I've been following you for years now as I started my parenthood journey. I have always been impressed with how genuine and caring you are! I also don't know how other people do it!!
Gosh do I relate to your comment about struggle days and contemplating how other humans have parented for centuries and why am I finding it so hard some days.
Omg Rowan’s little voice. I can’t! Reminds me so much of my almost 3 year old.
Megan, I think the position you're in (posting videos) is hard because many of the other mom influencers are making it look like their lives are perfect. That isn't reality for most of us. We do the best we can but our best varies from day to day. I think some people don't talk about how hard parenting is because they don't want to seem ungrateful.
This is really true and a great perspective. Thank you 💛
I needed this vlog today! Also excited for your gardening content! I want to start planning mine soon ☺️
Matt's waging a war against a gopher, and here in Florida we have gopher turtles!
Another reason to avoid Florida! Haha I have a turtle too does that mean I also have gopher turtles
@Matt Acuña it could be a gopher turtle lol.
It's fun watching them wonder, but they go crazy with the digging.
Sorry the house cleaner didnt work out! I just splurged for the first time and got a recommendation from a friend (rather than a groupon gamble), it did NOT disappoint so maybe don't take outsourcing totally off the table!
Thank you for this vlog ❤️
Can you do a break down in f the cleaning checklist and just tools that help you stay organized as far as housework during motherhood. I feel like that’s my biggest struggled and something like that checklist might help me but I’m curious how you structure it
I am a mom of four. That doesn’t make me an expert. I see other mothers of four and I think they are doing it way better that me. I think we just level up as get get older and have more kids. There was so much we could take in high school and thought, how we going to handle being in college and having a job? There was so much to handle as an adult with bills to pay and how am I going to handle a baby? (For me 0 to 1 was the hardest) and you think the same each time you have a baby and you just level up and figure it out, and there is a moment of adjustment and then it’s your new normal. We are all just trying our best!
We had someone clean our house and it was a great experience. It was actually a team of two women and they spent all day cleaning and seriously deep cleaned the whole house and it was like 160-180. Maybe that’s not the norm, but maybe it’s worth shopping around or finding a good recommendation, because our experience was that it was well worth the money for how much work they did.
i'm so proud of you
Thank you for your realness
It can be overwhelming but you two are doing great 👍!
I was taught to do the first part of a bow type knot twice over each other with cotton thread if that makes sense?
Juniper is looking more like u as she gets older!
I remember when my kids were little and feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Feels like so long ago and it passes. Now I have teen/tween stresses!
Lovely vlog 🫶🏻
I worked in a garden center and nursery. The gopher is eating grubs in the lawn. If you treat for grubs and get rid of them the gophers will leave and look elsewhere for food 😊
REALLY? 👀
@@Matt_Acuna Good luck with the gophers! We've dealt with them on and off for a long time! They love the roots of certain plants, I've heard. They really seemed to enjoy my daffodil bulbs! My husband put an underground barrier between the lawn and the plants to repel them and it seemed to work. We live next to an orchard and they love the cherry tree roots! My brother-in-law replanted the orchard and while the trees were young, there were no gophers (no food source, no gophers.) Now the trees have matured and guess what? Yep, those rascals are back! Keep us updated and if you find something that works well, I love to know. My dog used to scare them off but now he's 16 and retired from gopher hunting 😄
@@francesmalzahn9994 I’ve got some of those solar powered sonic stakes in the ground and that seems to be helping. No new mounds since. I’ve also got a “makes the dirt taste yucky” repellant I need to put down.
@@Matt_Acuna yes. I worked there for 15 years. Do you happen to remember Franks Nursery and Crafts? I think you would have been pretty young, they went out of business in 2000.
@@Matt_Acuna they were a nationwide company. Megan would have loved that store, craft supplies and indoor outdoor plants 🪴
Oh my goodness you guys have spring already! 😍👌 it was literally snowing today in Manitoba 😅
Don’t be fooled, it was 43 and pouring rain here yesterday 😂
@@MeganAcuna but you’ve got green grass and things are growing 😍 cant wait to see little buds on my lilacs😂
Thank you for making my husband and I feel like we aren’t alone on days like this! ❤
Not alone at all! I think every parent has days like this
You're doing great, mama! Thanks for showing the monotonous and mundane parts of motherhood and making it beautiful!
So random but can you share how you made that laundry line with the pvc pipe! Im looking to do something similar !
You are doing great .. we all feel that way haha ❤️❤️🤗🤗
You mentioned some sort of eyelash cream in the video that has helped your length? What is it called again?
such a relatable post! our kids are around the same age as urs and we go through the EXACT same kind of issues
really refreshing seeing someone show this side to parenting
Greetings Megan! I would like to make the same Morning Menu as you. Which Etsy store did you purchase that one from?
To be fair the atomized family is fairly modern. In the past work was much integrated into the home structure (like not working for some distant company or client), was often more accommodating to multi tasking (women would often tend to kids while sitting behind a sewing machine or loom and manual jobs did not suffer so much from constant context switches, and boys would join as helpers to their dads at a young age) and households were multi generational and a part of a larger community. Even further in the past before jobs really were a thing children would be brought along while foraging and learned to help with domestic duties young. So rather than trying to catch a break to work, parents would mostly go about their normal schedules, just with kids. Plus they we’re basically always surrounded by the rest of the tribe so if the parent is tied up more than likely the kid would be looked after. In the past it would be odd for 2 parents to live alone in a house and be solely responsible for raising kids, so ya it’s been done forever but not always like this, you’re not crazy!
Honestly if you ever feel insecure about this I encourage you to learn more about anthropology and human history, I’m not a mother but learning about these topics helped me give myself more grace with a lot of things because I can recognize that technology and economic systems evolved way faster than our monkey brains so feeling overwhelmed is expected when I’m living in a manner so contradictory to the way my brain was made to function
You're beautiful and strong. One day at a time. You'll get through it!
I'm sitting here watching this staring at my ATROCIOUS house around me. My husband has been in Switzerland for work for 2 weeks and I've been living a single mom of a 2 year old, 14 weeks pregnant life. I have SO much respect for any single parent. You are a lot stronger than I am. Definitely feeling like I can't do this either. Then we get through and look from the other side and often don't even remember how hard it was. Maybe I'll be motivated to get started cleaning after this video. You're doing amazing!
Oh my gosh I can’t even IMAGINE doing that for two weeks while pregnant! I hope the rest of the time goes as smoothly as possible for you.
Wait who else is dying to know what version of the beans song Megan learned growing up???
“Beans, beans, the magical fruit! The more you eat the more you toot. The more you toot the more you stink. Beans, beans, whaddaya think?” 😂
@@MeganAcuna ICONIC
@@LaurenAbdill Truly 😂
I had a nephew that wouldn’t go poop he would hold it and do a poopy dance we had to take him to the bathroom to go!
My six almost 7 month old son has FOMO soooo bad lately! We have beeb saying he demands to see his kingdom 😆
We have to give ourselves more grace and just admit that it can be A LOT sometimes and that’s okay it’s all apart of the process of motherhood, I find some days are so smooth and other days I’m irritable because of lack of sleep and over stimulated & on those days I just want to rest all day but can’t !! It’s hard but we got this❤
We’re in this together!
Hi Megan, I love having a cleaner come, but have had good and bad experiences. I like when it’s two people for 2 hours or 4 hours with one person. I always list out what my priorities of what I need. I use them to deep clean things I don’t like to get to. Finding the right person/team can take time but for me is worth it. Hope to hear if you try a cleaner again or if it’s just not for you.
Firstly, hi Matt!!! 🖐️🖐️ Good to see you 😁
Secondly, Megan, I have literally unfollowed 90% of the parenting and family life channels I watch because they're so unrelatable to me and just make me feel like a bad mum overall. Yours I watch and follow faithfully no matter how "mundane" because yours is one of the few that actually feels real to me. Please keep doing what you're doing - not every day has fun activities and things going on, sometimes you just struggle until that bedtime point and then collapse and play video games and that's okay. That's me MOST nights, lol.
Thirdly, sending prayers for the gopher 😆
Keep it up mama! Where did you get that sweatshirt??
Best top ever btw 😉📖📚
Thank you!!! I made it the first time I read the series
Hi! I so relate to missing being pregnant (I have a 2 year old and 5 month old). I was wondering if you would share your reasonings for your decision to have only 2 children. I am struggling on coming to terms that I might never be pregnant again bc my husband says “2 and through” lol. So yeah.. I guess I’d just like to hear your perspective on knowing when you’re done building your family.
You do take on soo very many projects and activities. Simplifying might help
Doing projects and activities makes things better in my opinion, not worse. 🤷🏼♀️ I think I would go crazy if I didn’t have things to work on for myself and couldn’t add variety to my days with a toddler
Hey Matt! Good to see you in the vlogs! And yeah, parenting can be tough. My husband and I embrace the crazy! You should just all go on a road trip along the coast and just unplug for a while. That helps us. We go from California to Oregon coast and stay off social media and just enjoy the Oregon coast aquarium and all the seaside towns with the kids. Sometimes traveling with your kids makes you appreciate the boring redundancy of your home life! Haha we are always so excited to go back home 🏠 and have a newfound appreciation for our life after a road trip.
Hiiiii!
It can feel lonely when we’re struggling with parenthood. My husband and I have the same parenting debriefs as you and Matt😂😅
I have such a control issue too! I would love help like that but at the same time I want it done my way, this also includes my husband.
If you are finding time to have a makeup, then it is a good day.
I’m glad that’s the case for you! Not so much over here 😅
You don't need to apologize for being a human. Having a bad day, kids are irritating you, not being able to regulate your emotions as well as other days, etc is just life. I think you're a great role model. It feels like you are putting yourself down when you keep apologizing. In truth, being honest in your motherhood struggles is what makes me connect with you more. I love that you and it's clear you are teaching that well to your son. Give yourself some grace. Instead of apologizing I say "I'm having a crappy day, let's change it around by doing x, y, z." But I don't apologize for being human!
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I’m sorry about the cleaner, sounds like a different company might be better for you guys! We have cleaners come every other week and she has a team with her, 3 people total, and they clean the whole house in 2 hours! Hopefully you can find something that will clear some things off your plate!
It's easy to look at others and assume that they are better at handling stress, it's just not true. I feel like they just aren't as open about it. Parenting is hard and you both are doing great!
Huu oh w did you get a job online
Try a different cleaning company. I work for one. I would have accomplished the entire house in that time frame
Do you have any recommendations for a company or what to look for? I’m so lost! I think it would be so helpful though
I am in the south, so I would not be able to recommend a company where you are.I would say look at Google and Yelp reviews. You don't want to hire a company with a rating less than 4.5 stars. Look at what they offer. There's different types of cleans such as general or deep clean. If your looking at a deep clean it's expensive, but the cleaner is supposed to get everything in detail.
We all have these days! And I love “boring” vlog🫢😅🤍