My name is Nyssa and I am 24 years old just trying to give my family a clean, restful, and safe home to grow in. I am a Christian and in this video I offer a quick prayer for my viewers that they would feel encouraged and the Lord would meet you where you are at in life.
I just had a baby and am learning how to balance life with 3 under 3! I hope you can find this video motivating and relatable in the journey of motherhood. Please like and subscribe for more homemaking, motherhood, and DIY content! ✨
Granola Recipe:
3 Cups Rolled Oats
1/4 Cup Chia Seeds
1 Cup Raisins
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1/2 Cup Coconut Oil
2 Teaspoons Cinnamon
1 Cup Honey
Baked on 350 degrees for 25 minutes
Store in freezer for up to 3 months
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Hey guys welcome back to my channel my name is Nissa and today I am doing a kitchen clean and cook with me video it has been some time since I last posted we have been getting sick very often over here I don’t I know about you guys
And your family but I feel like my toddlers seem to catch a new cold every other week so we go like one week where we’re really sick and then the next week we’re fine and then the week after that we’re sick again and I feel like that’s been a repetitive cycle probably since
November and I’m just really getting tired of it I’m over the winter months and I’m ready for everyone to be healthy again but anyway we got a new air fryer and and toaster oven and the air fryer was sitting in front of this outlet and giving off some type of Mucky steam I
Guess I don’t know that was getting on the wall and around the outlet so I am scrubbing that off right now um I’m I did not set up the new Air fryer toaster oven in this video but you probably will see it in some of my
Coming videos it is um a ninja and we really like it it’s a lot bigger than the toast deven that we currently have and it is not coated in Teflon it’s a stainless steel one which I think is just so much better for you and your
Health um but anyway I wanted to talk more about myself not to sound narcissistic at all but I mean that in the sense like so you guys understand who I am and what my purpose is for doing YouTube and it is is not just to like
Gain clout or like I don’t know not to have like a narcissistic mindset which I feel like can come very easily with being on social media but I recently decided to do YouTube because it is something that had been on my heart for years and I had always been very anxious
About doing it and just putting myself out there on the internet I had actually deleted all my social media um probably like 5 years ago now I got rid of my Instagram my Twitter Snapchat um Facebook I had deleted it all and I felt like the reason I deleted
It was mainly because I knew I had an addiction um and it was just consuming so much time and then it was also really affecting my mental health as well I was just really constantly comparing myself to other people feeling influenced by what other people were doing and it got
To the point where I realized that was just not me I was making decisions based of based off of because I was seeing other people make those decisions as well and deep down like I just I felt convicted over it I knew it was not honoring to the Lord and that
Was part of the reason like I got off of it I just knew I needed to separate myself and not be a part of that anymore um that being said with me talking about the Lord yes I am a Christian and I do not feel like I talk
About it enough on this YouTube channel as I should I do want this channel to be focused around Godly homemaking and I believe that in my past few videos I have not fully been representing that and that is part of the other reason why I have not been
Posting as much so I had taken some time to really pray about it and going forward I do want to talk more about the Lord and just what he’s doing in my life so I hope that doesn’t offend anyone and if that deters you from not
Wanting to be a part of my YouTube channel then that is your choice and I respect your choice but I also hope that this can be a place where you can just find encouragement joy and hope and if that’s not what you’re getting here then please tell me like put a comment down
Below or if you feel the need to like unsubscribe or just not watch my videos then I completely respect that and that is your choice so just to talk a little bit about what I am doing right now is in this video is I am making chicken noodle
Soup in the crock poot I normally just put carrots onion celery garlic um and if I have like the energy or patience to do a whole chicken I will because it is so good for you getting the bone broth in there but today I just doing um three or two frozen chicken
Breasts so you saw me dump that in already and you saw me put the celery and onion in and then now I’m putting the carrots in and I’m just going to do chicken broth and some seasonings I am keeping it simple for this evening because again like I have
Been sick this week so this is honestly the first day I think that I even made dinner in probably like 3 or 4 days and I was like okay I finally have the energy to make some chicken noodle soup I’m going to do it um but I don’t know
About you we cook our noodles on the side and then we add them in um like after the soup is done cooking so we add the soup in on top of our noodles I am not sure if some people like cook their noodles in the soup um
But I feel like whenever like I let the soup and the noodles sit together for too long like the noodles get really soggy so that’s why I’ve always cooked them separate so this garlic press is one of my favorite things ever I got it
At TJ maxxx a couple years ago and I am in love with it if it ever breaks that’ll probably be one of the saddest days ever because I get so much use out of this and it saves so much time putting the garlic in here instead of
Like hand chopping a bunch of tiny garlic if you know what I mean um but anyway so moving on with the spices I am adding in one booon Cube I kind of feel like guilty adding this in because I feel like they’re not the healthiest for you but it adds so much
Flavor and then I’m going to do a bunch of pepper pepper is so good for you um especially when you’re sick and then you can see all my spices on the side right now I’m adding salt but I will normally add in two bay leaves garlic powder
Onion powder Rosemary and Thyme and then I’m also going to add in some essential oils so the essential oils that I’m putting in are turmeric and oregano and those essential oils are really good for you when you’re congested and struggling with a cold they’re immune boosting um but one thing I will say
About using essential oils is that you do want to make sure that they are high quality they’re made purely and that they are food grade they’re not not all essential oils are food grade so I use Dutra I think I just showed you the oregano um and then I’m going to show
You the tamaric but I am just using two drops literally they are pretty strong they go long way and this is just to help get some more um good immunity support in the soup um to help my family So I’m just cooking it on high for 4 hours that typically is enough time and I bought a cantaloupe at Aldi this week so I’m going to cut that up here but just moving on to what I was talking about earlier with talking more about my
Faith and just like how the Lord Works in my life I do feel like I um should pray more for the audience that I have on YouTube I actually feel like very very blessed to have like the audience that I receive already for being like such a new
YouTuber I don’t get like hundreds of thousands of views but most of my videos have been getting like over a thousand close to like 2,000 and that’s such a large like group of people and it’s like if all these people are watching me like I should be authentic with who I am and
Like be straight up with you guys and not just like put on a front about like um seeking attention or just like creating like these YouTube videos just for my own Joy like I do want to actually like bring motivation and bring peace to you and that’s why I feel like
I should pray for you guys more and I hope that this isn’t anything that will be trigger ing for some of you guys but I did want to pray in my video so I’m going to just ask the Lord right now um in prayer for peace over
Your home and in your hearts cuz I know that is something that I struggle a lot with in mother motherhood and it can be really chaotic sometimes especially with toddlers to just even focus on what it is that needs to get done whether that’s the laundry whether that’s the
Dishes um just keeping them entertained and safe like it is so hard I feel like just be focused on that when there’s like screaming and chaos and toys being thrown and just a mess everywhere so um I’m going to pray for you guys now Lord I just lift up the audience that is
Watching this video right now Lord I pray that you just give them encouragement and hope that everything is just in a season and I pray that you help them to find joy in the season that they’re in and father I just pray for the work
Of their hands that it would just be a blessing unto them and unto their family and unto you Lord I know it can be so challenging to serve the people that are in our household sometimes and even to serve ourselves so I pray that you would just remind everyone that’s watching
That that is struggling in this area that they would serve you that their mind would be focused on serving you in the task that you have blessed them with and that it wouldn’t be about themselves it would just be about you and that the season of life that you have placed them
In you know what’s going on in every single one of our Lives Lord You’re so unique in that way of knowing each and every one of our individual circumstances and though I may not be able to physically be there for someone on the other side of the screen Lord you
Are and I pray that you would just remind that person and that you would just lift them up in the way that they’re struggling right now Lord and meet them where they’re at and I just pray for their family and for their homes I pray that you just put
Your hand of protection around them and on them Father and for any type of healing that needs to be done in that household Lord I pray that you just put your your healing hands on that person on that room on that place you know what’s going on and I pray that the
Holy spirit is just filled there father I lift these up to you in your name amen so moving back on to just part of my life I was a student um I went to college and I got a degree in accounting and while I was in school is actually
When I got pregnant with my first son I was a sophomore and going into my junior year so it was over the summer and I struggled with that a lot because I never thought that I would get pregnant in college I was so focused on just being a good college student and then
Starting my career and you know just kind of being like a hardworking woman and not really understanding like the beauty of being a mother um or a homemaker in that sense so I ended up having my first child Cooper and then I ended up getting pregnant with my son Maverick 7 months
Later and again that was very shocking I was not expecting to get pregnant again um and I had him just after I graduated um after my senior year and I went to work for about 8 months and while I was working uh at an accounting firm I got pregnant with my third
Child and that was kind of when it like hit me and my husband like we just keep having babies and we’re trying to like live out this dream or this goal of mine to you know be a diligent student and a diligent like employee and it just was too much
Like and what kind of led us to decide to have me quit my job and come and be a state home mom was the fact that I chose to be a college student and I chose to be an employee but like being a wife and being
A mother were things that the Lord chose for me and I needed to embrace that and so I did and once I quit my job I I’m going to be honest with you guys it was the best decision I had ever made I felt so free and just
So like fulfilled like I felt like I had so much purpose serving my children and my family and I know that’s not like everyone doesn’t feel that way but I know for me like that was a really hard decision at that time and I was so focused on myself
In my own goals that I kind of had lost sight of what the Lord had for me and that was to be a mother and to be a wife and work will always be there there’s I mean everyone knows what the economy is like right now like we need more people
In the workforce so it that will always be there but my kids will only be this young for a short amount of time and they’ll only need their mother for a short amount of time so like I can always go back to work in like five or 6
Years if the opportunity is there but for right now I’m really thankful to just be home with my children anyway getting back into the video um you saw my silverware drawer was filled with a ton of crumbs and that’s because I think like right at
That spot of the counter is where I do most of my cutting and that’s like the most used spot of the counter so crumbs fall into those drawers a lot we also have really cheap drawers um a lot of like wood and like splinters fall off of
The drawers and go onto like the silverware and like everything that I keep underneath the sink it really is not the healthiest thing um so I I have a dream that one day we will get a new kitchen and be able to remodel it’s just we’re not there right now with our kids
Being so young neither one of us my husband or I feel like it’s a wise decision to completely like dismantle our kitchen while we have like little people constantly running around that need attention it probably could be a possibility when one of them maybe goes
To school or I don’t know if we were able to stay at our in-laws for a season but it just is a lot and we’re just not there at the moment so I’m trying to be thankful for what I have right now in our kitchen and keep up with it so that
It is clean for all of us but it definitely is frustrating Sometimes [Applause] I’m not going to play hard to get through I’m not going to stay I’m loving you too I’m not going to stay G be alone let’s talk meet me at the Avenue I don’t need nobody else with me hey it doesn’t matter what you’re going
To say hey I just time right now I’m going alone tonight I don’t need nobody else for me but I’m thinking about the way you the way you make me ground just thinking about the way you the way you used to hold me like it’s told the water singing down down
Down I’m still falling for you forget what I said come on over forget what I said come on over I know you want to try give me that space I know you want to find another reason oh you want to Li making me say but let’s talk are you at the
Avenon I don’t need nobody else with me it doesn’t matter what you’re going to say I just need time right now I’m going alone tonight I don’t need nobody else for me but I’m thinking about the way you so as you can see like these drawers also don’t line up properly and they
Just don’t really close that well which is why Things fall into them so easily I don’t know like if something broke underneath or if they were just like made improperly but I mean it it is what it is at this point I guess like it’s
Kind of a shame now moving on I am making homemade granola um normally we buy our granola from Aldi but I’ve been like doing a lot of reading about seed oils and even things that are organic still have seed oils in them and Seed oils are really
Bad for your body they can cause inflammation and heart disease and even cancer so I have felt like it’s time to try and cut out seed oils and the Granola that we were buying had seed oils in it so I decided to make our own and it seems
Really simple this is my first time doing it but it is 3 cups of Oats um some chia seeds uh coconut oil any type of like dried fruit or dried nuts that you like um I think it’s a whole cup of honey so I just used the
Rest of this bottle I you saw me put in some cinnamon and some vanilla extract and that’s pretty much it and then you put it in the oven at 350 for 25 minutes or until you feel like it’s like brown or crispy enough for you and I will say
I think this came out really good it’s super crunchy and that’s how I like my granola um it’s not the sweetest but I kind of like it like that and I can always add more honey to it like while it’s on my yogurt so I I feel like it’s
Honestly perfect for us right now and for storing it can last up to 3 months in the freezer and I thought it was going to get like icy or you know like freezer burnt in there and it’s been in the freezer I would say now for about 2
Weeks and it it is still like perfect like there hasn’t been any issues with it so I highly recommend making your own granola it actually was so simple and it made my house smell amazing I also bought this new um glass spray bottle from Target I’m trying to like lean
Towards buying or just like using more natural like cleaning agents in my home so I saw like these Grove Co like refillable capsules or yeah like these capsules um they’re supposed to be pretty good they don’t have like any dyes or like parabens like none of the bad stuff I
Guess I mean they’re not perfect I feel like the only thing that’s like actually like the purest like you know that’s going to be safe for your family it’s just like sticking with the classic like vinegar and essential oils and baking soda but sometimes you just need
Something that has a little bit more to it I will say this does clean very well so so far I do recommend it um and if you have like any like all natural cleaning product Solutions definitely feel free to leave a comment down below because I’m very interested in trying to
Save money and also save my family’s health and their exposure to um the things that are in like cleaning products so yeah as you can see my microwave is very crusty I ended up having to get in here with some dish stove and my Scrub Daddy because the rag
And the spray was just not cutting it it really needed something a little extra heavy Duty speed away from the holy mind Pride that’s where I never I thought it would M if I’m going by now all my weakness keep linger Linger on on repeat like it will be my favorite song oh I know I should be moving moving on but you got me good you got me
Good I keep on trying till it still it feels like I pretend keep on driving and driving along the roads and as my head over feel my SP between the CH and botle dark just me and all the red lights keep on driving and driving all right so now I’m getting out
The granola here is my crusty oven definitely ignore that I need to clean this oven so bad but this came out really good honestly I do highly recommend this now I’m just scraping it off the tray it does stick a little a little but I that’s like the whole point
Of it right to like you know kind of burn a little be crunchy stick together like it it’s granola come On song oh I know I should be moving moving on but you got me good you call me good I keep on trying to and still it feels like I pretend keep on driving and driving along the roads tonight end as my head over feel my SP between the CH
And botle J just me and all the red lights keep on driving and driving now I am just cleaning off my kitchen table and restocking our diaper basket we keep like a diaper basket um downstairs and we have changing station in the boys room and a changing station
In our room but we recently did potty training with Cooper and it went so well we had tried potty training a couple of times with him already and they just weren’t really working out and I was the never one to like try and force it onto
Him so after he rejected it twice I was like okay I’m not going to force it but this third time he took on to it so well and it was so easy because like we had already kind of tried to teach it to him before he had remembered a lot of what to
Do and he has had like barely any accidents and he’s going really well when we go out as well like he will use the potties in public places which is just amazing so now I’m going to boil some water for um the noodles uh for the chicken noodle
Soup and then I’m going to shred the chicken breasts that cooked in the soup and then cut up some bread and serve it to my family for dinner while you are thinking babe your thoughts are only getting louder while you are up space I sit here by Myself I going to Spill the truth the waste your life away sitting on your fingertips so I know what you’ll say baby don’t bother you know it hurts anyway don’t B as long as you don’t say that it’s over and now that it’s over we used to talk
About getting older we said we hold time but now it’s over it can’t be over Over so this soup ended up being so delicious I wish you could just smell it through the screen but I just wanted to say thank you so much for watching it really means a lot if you made it this far and I just wanted to say God
Bless I will forgive you fls if you’re forgiving mine I going to Spill the truth away away S