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The Worst Vlog Ever and Some Sound Parenting Advice

April 9, 2014 By momcafe 47 Comments

What's In My CarI promised Rabia at The Liebers and Lisa at The Golden Spoons that I would share a vlog about the things that you would find in my car, and I am going to come through on that promise, no matter how messy my madness seems to be in this vlog!  You see, I decided to vlog it because my blogger’s butt has been stuck here in front of the computer all week trying to do this AMAZING social media bootcamp from the world famous Julie DeNeen over at Fabulous Blogging.  Although I find myself staring paralyzed at the screen for hours at a time, I am attempting to expand my reach through all these networks such as Pinterest, Twitter and Google Plus… God help me.

 

So after school, I had my dear daughter’s friend Emily have the honor of filming me going through my car.  It’s TEN MINUTES long ya’ll.  Ten minutes of total mayhem and I ain’t kiddin’ ya.  If you don’t have ten minutes of delicious free time in your day to watch this, surely I understand.  It was about as messy and chaotic as my car…  just warning you.  Here’s a quick summary of what you would find:

1.  Antibacterial wipes/gel.

2.  Carmex.

3.  Stuff.

 

*A few notes:  I am quite aware of going above and beyond my TEN things in my car, and my purse…  Apparently I don’t play by the rules.  Lord knows, I rarely play by the rules!  And yes, you may have seen MORE antibacterial wipe containers in the very back of my car underneath the sweatshirts, that I seemed to miss.  And more importantly, I did NOT shower or obviously make my appearance a priority for this vlog.  This?  This is how I look every day.   So there ya have it!

Now, if you’re not into THAT… there’s more.

I wrote an article over at Mothering From Scratch about helping our children through their hardships.  Parenting our children through their difficult circumstances, is no easy feat.   I have found that I will most often guide my kids through a simple equation that may prove helpful to you in your motherhood journey.  If you are interested in learning about leading your child through the process, prayer and purpose of whatever their struggle… I encourage you to go here.

How’s that for a two-parter?

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  1. Considerer says

    April 9, 2014 at 6:02 am

    *grinning* Oh my life! Your car is awesome. And CLEAN! I think the only way I could show my car is if I took everyone on a tour of all the dirt (which I won’t). And yeah this was long but cool.

    Observations:

    1) You should get sponsored by carmex
    2) Your car is the same colour as mine
    3) Yours is bigger though
    4) Still laughing that you showed off your nuts…

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 6:06 am

      I had taken it to the car wash about a month ago… I was thinking the SAME THING!!! The floors look fairly clean- that’s why!! You are such a LOVE to watch that darn thing… good LORD what madness!!!

      Good morning sunshine!!!! 😀

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      • Considerer says

        April 9, 2014 at 6:32 am

        My car is the auto equivalent of the Peanuts character ‘Pigpen’…it’s seriously SO grubby! I have to make sure I clean it soon, ready for visitors. Can’t BEAR that they might see my car looking so awful!

        Good MORNING 😀 (Or, rather, good NIGHT precious one…don’t wreck yourself by being up too late)

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        • momcafe says

          April 9, 2014 at 4:22 pm

          What visitors are coming?? *JEALOUS*

          (A bit wrecked, but worth it!)

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          • Considerer says

            April 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm

            June. Top secret, hush-hush not telling *zips lips*

            And maybe someflyingothervisit in Summer. But not at my house that time.

            How soon does Cass graduate? 😉

            Wrecked is worth it? I came home and fell into bed for an hour and a half. Finished my book (it killed me – The Fault in Our Stars – don’t read it. You’re a crier – it’ll do you in) and it was amazing. And then slept…was meant to be for a half hour and then kept setting the alarm forward and too hungry/tired to do anything else. Blech!

            Now I feel like a wreck, too. It’s not worth it.

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  2. Marcia @ Blogitudes says

    April 9, 2014 at 7:14 am

    Loved your vlog! 😀 Excellent way to do this Tuesday Ten … especially when short on time (like so many of us are this month). I’m also part of Julie DeNeen’s excellent boot camp. It’s been amazing so far, hasn’t it? Learning SO much! It’s definitely a boot camp, but totally worth it! Doesn’t leave a lot of time for actual blogging (so I think you and I both deserve extra credit in the course for actually getting a post out this week). Don’t you? Great job, Chris! 😀

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:19 pm

      We TOTALLY need a prize or something Marcia!!! But wait- I am absolutely losing major medals in the bootcamp. I haven’t even gotten through the first five assignments! Good Lord… off I go now!

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  3. Lisa @ The Golden Spoons says

    April 9, 2014 at 10:32 am

    I love you! This was awesome! You are a great & very prepared mom. (Unlike me whose entire family spent half the day Saturday freezing because I forgot our jackets and didn’t have a backup!) I love the way your personality comes through in the vlogs you do. 🙂 So glad you linked up!

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:18 pm

      I love you RIGHT back Lisa!!!! Thanks for the ‘inspiration’ to do a vlog yet again!!! It’s so much fun to ‘test these waters’ over here… even though they are a messy madness!!

      Go now- and throw some old sweatshirts in the back of your car. NOW. 😉

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  4. Janine Huldie says

    April 9, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Love the way you look everyday and seriously just so happy to get to see you on this Vlog and the contents in your car re just a bonus. Love you, Chris!! 🙂

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:16 pm

      Oh you are SOOOOOOOOO SWEET Janine!! You are a DEAR to watch it!! I kept looking at my bun falling out and thought, ‘Really? I couldn’t even do my hair better?’ LOL

      ps: I have lots of stuff to share, if we ever would dream of a road trip together!! 😉

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  5. Stephanie says

    April 9, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Ha! I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one who uses their car for storage and junk and could live out of it. My car is such a pit! My husband wonders how I can even stand it.

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:14 pm

      I am lucky, because I took it to those interior/exterior car washed about a month ago (Local coupon!), so it actually looks SO much better than it did! Now, it’s just our ‘usual’ stuff. The kids used to have their own bin in the back seat! Yes- more snacks and drinks and probably more antibacterial wipes too! LOL

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  6. My Inner Chick says

    April 9, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    –All I can say, girlfriend, is YOU ARE PREPARED & so ready for the Apocalypse!!

    You thrill. xx

    Send me your address, please.

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:12 pm

      I honestly have scaled down- YES! I know… a bit sick/neurotic/laughable. 🙂 You’re a LOVE for watching that mess!!!

      I will message you with my address!!! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Rabia @TheLiebers says

    April 9, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    You crack me up!! You could definitely live in your car for at least a week if you ever needed to!

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:11 pm

      Believe it or not, I used to have many more snacks available in the back. I had a similar bin for the kids as well as mine!! LOL #OCDMOM

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  8. another jennifer says

    April 9, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    You are hilarious, Chris. Vlogging is all about being yourself and letting your readers see a glimpse of the real you. Love it! Next time, flip the camera horizontally so we can see more!

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:10 pm

      You are SO sweet to encourage me after that mess!! HA! It was definitely the REAL me, THAT’S for sure Jen!!! I don’t know why Emily held the phone that way… once it was downloaded (per Derek of course) I saw that it was that way. BUMMER. 🙁

      A work in progress…. always always always! lol

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  9. Dana says

    April 9, 2014 at 3:56 pm

    The second Carter vlog in a week – how awesome! I agree that you could live out of your car if you had to – you’re such a mom:)

    My favorite parts? When you made Emily giggle. A kid laughing is the best sound ever.

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 4:09 pm

      I loved that too Dana!!! I am all about vlogging apparently! Actually there are two reasons… 1. I have a new phone and I am having so much fun with it! And 2. I seriously don’t have the time to get into my ‘writing mode’. 🙂

      You are a DOLL for watching that marathon vlog! Thanks so much, friend!!

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  10. Jennifer | The Deliberate Mom says

    April 9, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    First off, you are just the cutest and this made me love you all the more.

    Secondly, I would love to drive around in your car: nuts, pop, water, and jellybeans! You are one well stocked lady!

    What’s with all the Carmex? I am totally not equipped like you. My car has no essentials and if we were stranded we would be scavenging for berries.

    Loved this.

    Wishing you a lovely day.
    xoxo

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 9:01 pm

      I’ve got a serious Carmex addiction… it’s bad. Really bad. LOL

      I have always had a stocked car- I’m sure it may be somehow traced back to my tumultuous past… but hey- I know I will have what I love anytime I need! I often grab a handful of jelly beans and shove them in my pocket on the way into a store… perfect sugar sweetness while I shop! 😉

      I’ll scavenge for berries with you any day! (Hoping you know the poisonous ones from the others.) 🙂

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  11. Robin Kramer says

    April 9, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    You are sunshine wrapped in awesomeness. I nodded along at several moments, smiling at your “neuroses” line and appreciating that you also call carbonated beverages “pop.” That’s true class.

    My van is nowhere near as well-stocked, but I am sure that there is (at least) one dried-out, rogue French fry under the driver’s seat that had been dropped and long forgotten.

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    • momcafe says

      April 9, 2014 at 8:58 pm

      Anytime we hang, you are welcome to my POP and SNACKS girl!!! LOL You are SO good to me… Sunshine? Awesomeness? SO sweet!! XOXO

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  12. Kim says

    April 9, 2014 at 11:41 pm

    You Vlogs make me laugh!!!
    If I ever get stranded I’m going to just have to run to the next town because I don’t carry any thing in my car – I’m the opposite of prepared. I like my car to be clean and empty most of the time!

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    • momcafe says

      April 10, 2014 at 4:26 am

      HA! I will make sure I pack all my stuff and bring it with me, if ever I catch a ‘ride’ from ya Kim!! You would seriously cringe if you had to get into my car!!

      You’re a LOVE to watch all this nonsense! 🙂 XOXOXO

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  13. Tamara says

    April 10, 2014 at 12:45 am

    Pop! My mom calls it pop. In NJ, we called it soda but she used to always correct us.
    I think Scarlet would most love us to keep jellybeans in the car. We don’t! (should we?)
    Love the Beverly Clearly! Need more of your husband! The man married to you must be quite a gem!
    Can you send us that 11-year-old diaper rash cream?

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    • momcafe says

      April 10, 2014 at 4:24 am

      POP!!!! YES! LOL

      And my husband drives up, gets out of this car and starts sweeping the broken glass that the trash people left behind all over the street and our driveway… WHILE I’m taping… and then has the kids drag all the trash bins back to the garage WHILE I’m taping… nice.

      I will send you the diaper rash, the changing pad, AND the baby washcloth… but I’m keeping the diaper bag.

      I will also throw in some jelly beans for that precious Scarlet!!! 😀

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  14. Susannah says

    April 10, 2014 at 2:08 am

    My sweet Chris! It’s so nice to finally see you “in the flesh” and hear that beautiful northern accent! You are just adorable, and kindness and goodness just flows from you- even when you’re giving the world a tour of your Carmexy and GermExy car! This was so so so fun and I’m so tickled that I finally got to kind of/sort of meet you!!! MWUAHHHH!!!! Loved it!

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    • momcafe says

      April 10, 2014 at 4:22 am

      It was MADNESS! Talk about improvisation! Oh my… whew! I thought you would love to see so much antibacterial wipes/gel all over my car, Susannah!! I know how much you love that! lol

      Thanks sweet friend- you are so good to me. I seriously considered NOT publishing this mess, but precious Emily was so excited, I didn’t want to disappoint her- or Rabia and Lisa. Good LORD, I hope I can get the next one right! 😉 (If there IS a next one!)

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  15. Michelle says

    April 10, 2014 at 11:01 am

    My car is a disaster…I don’t think anyone wants to see it! You are very brave!

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    • momcafe says

      April 10, 2014 at 3:58 pm

      Yeah- I am ashamed and quite embarrassed to have exposed my ‘neuroses’- but hey. I am what I am- Feels good to just ‘show it all’!!! In the end- I am never going to die in my car…

      From starvation, dehydration, germ born illnesses, lack of music and carmex and reading materials. Heck I could even cook a meal of figs and take good care of my skin too.

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  16. Ginny Marie says

    April 10, 2014 at 11:58 am

    Oh, I love your vlogs! I have a confession, however…my kids are on Netflix right now and we don’t have enough bandwidth for me to watch your car vlog right now. I’ll be back! 😉

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    • momcafe says

      April 10, 2014 at 3:56 pm

      Yeah- I’m sure THIS vlog take a HUGE surge of bandwidth!! ACK! You’re so sweet to even THINK about coming back for it. Good luck with that. LOL

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      • Ginny Marie says

        April 24, 2014 at 8:00 pm

        I’m baaaack, and I finally watched your vlog! My husband has a 1999 CRV, so the inside of your car looked very familiar! He mostly has tools and machine parts in his car though. Emily was an awesome camera woman! 🙂

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  17. Kate Hall says

    April 10, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    You look beautiful even when you haven’t showered. Jealous. That’s a GIANT container of peanuts. Flipping the Health magazine made me laugh out loud. Did you ever say why you have a pot in your car? Did I miss that? Wow, you are the most prepared person EVER! Fun!

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    • momcafe says

      April 10, 2014 at 3:54 pm

      In the beginning, I shared that the pot and skin care stuff were my friends. I was ‘supposed’ to give them to her at church on Sunday… and there they sit. LOL
      You’re a LOVE to watch this whole stinkin’ mess!!! Good grief I’ve got ISSUES!!! 😉

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  18. Sarah says

    April 10, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    My Goodness Gracious, you are Prepared! Like a Boy Scout! I cannot boast similar treasures though I do follow the policy of putting things I need to deliver in my car. It’s part of the way there! The line about giving your friend some old face cream you found in your flooded basement is hilarious.

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    • momcafe says

      April 11, 2014 at 3:11 am

      I’m telling ya- it’s my neuroses! You should see what’s in my pantry, or my closet or well everywhere!! I am a bit of a hoarder/over achieving wealth of stockpile! 😉

      I texted my friend about that face wash, and she was all “YEAH! I’ll take it!” LOL

      Reply
  19. Sue Theimer says

    April 12, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    Oh God, how I miss you, Chrissy! This is so adorable!!!! But ‘they’ should see you drive it, never missing a class, a game, a swim, etc. I just care that you are SAFE, not clean. . .so God BLESS this vehicle, the driver and dare-devil-riders!

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    • momcafe says

      April 13, 2014 at 8:51 pm

      OH MOM!!!! You really liked it?? AW…. you are so sweet!! I promise I will drive safely!!! (Unless I’m in a hurry, or in a ‘mood’)

      I miss you- I will call you SOOOOOOOOON.

      Reply
  20. yvonne says

    April 13, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    Oh the inside of your car looks quite a bit like the inside of mine. Loved the garbage not quite making it to the garbage bag!

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  21. Sandy Ramsey says

    April 14, 2014 at 1:38 am

    Love it! I don’t feel so bad now….I have so much stuff in my car, too. It’s a must when you spend so much time in it, right? It’s so much fun watching your vlogs 🙂

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    • momcafe says

      April 14, 2014 at 2:38 am

      I swear I should send a trophy or an award of some kind to all who actually watched this vlog!!! LOL

      I consider my car my second home… and perhaps, I could live out of it for some time!!

      Reply
  22. Alison says

    April 16, 2014 at 5:56 am

    Omigosh, you are absolutely adorable!
    Your car’s pretty clean 🙂

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    • momcafe says

      April 16, 2014 at 3:06 pm

      AW!! Thanks SO much Alison! And THANK YOU for all your invaluable information and input! 🙂 Now, I must GET to WORK!

      Reply

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