DAY IN THE LIFE // RESTOCKING THE KITCHEN // GARDENING 2024 // GETTING READY FOR SUMMER

Thank you Helix Sleep for sponsoring! Click here https://helixsleep.com/laurennicholsen to get 30% off an Elite or Luxe mattress (plus two FREE pillows!)– or take 25% off sitewide– during their Memorial Day Early Access Sale, which ends May 12th. If you miss this limited time offer, you can still get 20% off using my link! Offers subject to change. #helixsleep

Daily Routine:

AG1: Every morning after coffee http://drinkag1.com/laurennicholsen
Magic Mind Daily: https://www.magicmind.com/laurennicholsen 
* LAURENNICHOLSEN20 
Electrolytes ( 1 scoop per 1L, drink 2L a day): https://amzn.to/42N3KK5
Skin Care: Start and end your day with products you love. ( I love Typology, Dime Beauty, Dermaclara Patches
Rocket Money: Make sure you stay on top of your finances, savings and spending. https://RocketMoney.com/laurennicholsen 
Sleep: I sleep on a Helix Midnight Lux Mattress https://helixsleep.com/laurennicholsen 
And I only use Brooklinen sheets, currently loving their Lux Satin sheets –  https://bit.ly/laurennicholsen
Magic Mind: Helps stay focused and tastes great! https://www.magicmind.com/laurennicholsen 
Half Day (Prebiotic Tea I love ) https://drinkhalfday.com/pages/free-can-social-1?utm_source=Youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=laurennapril2024&utm_id=IndustryNews

Links:

Comfort Set ( I have the signature set) – https://comfrt.com/products/signature-fit-unisex-hoodie

My Favorite Electrolytes – https://amzn.to/42N3KK5

🛁 New BathTub: https://ibathtub.com/?ref=WjmlVt8MGMrPng
use code LAURENNICHOLSEN for 8% off!

💃My Outfits – https://ambassador.vicicollection.com/mrslaurennicholsen

🧘‍♀️My Favorite Cleanse https://www.owlvenice.com?sca_ref=4400521.qqD4MHTXt5
Use Code LAUREN for 10% off!

🔪 My Knives: LINK: www.nakano-knives.com/laurennicholsen Use Discount code: LAURENNICHOLSEN

💪 My Fit Tracker -https://myhumehealth.com?bg_ref=MFW2MJJixK
– Use code MRSLAUREN for 10% off!

THIS PAINT IS AMAZING – If you are going to do a DIY project in your home use this!!! 🛍️ Beyond Paint – https://beyondpaint.com/?ref=LaurenNicholsen

💅 Link to my Nails and $5 off! https://i.refs.cc/UvjefFte?smile_ref=eyJzbWlsZV9zb3VyY2UiOiJzbWlsZV91aSIsInNtaWxlX21lZGl1bSI6IiIsInNtaWxlX2NhbXBhaWduIjoicmVmZXJyYWxfcHJvZ3JhbSIsInNtaWxlX2N1c3RvbWVyX2lkIjo0Njc0MDAxNTZ9

hey guys and welcome back to my Channel today is another beautiful day in the life I have lots of little things I want to get done around the house and I thought I would take you along with me if you’re new here my name is Lauren Nicholson I love to do all things hom making and if you’re returning it is so great to see you so today I wanted to get some fresh sheets on the bed I have some gardening I need to do I also wanted to kind of get the backyard situated I really want to get it all decorated for summertime and I also had to restock the refrigerator cuz we are super low on food so let’s jump into this beautiful [Music] day so to get started I wanted to change out the sheets on my bed and I thought it’d be a great time to introduce my Helix mattress if you’re new here otherwise you guys know we’ve had this mattress for I want to say 2 and a half maybe 3 years now I absolutely love it Helix sleep makes premium mattresses and bedding that are customized to fit your needs and they are conveniently shipped right to your front door Helix offers 20 unique mattresses including their award-winning Lux which is what I have and they also have an Ultra Premium Elite collection they have a helix plus a mattress designed for Big and Tall sleepers which I happen to be married one of those they also have kids mattresses which we just upgraded one of our kids to the Helix kids mattress which is endorsed by medical professionals it’s great for growing bodies and you can actually pick which side depending on your kids’s age it’s great supp support and your kids can grow with the mattress Helix recognizes that everybody’s different so you can actually go on to their website and take their sleep quiz which matches your unique body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you I am a side sleeper and I prefer a soft mattress and my husband is a sid sleeper and prefers a medium mattress so we were matched with a midnight Lux which is so perfect for both of us we both get good night sleeps and we both recommend it the best part about Helix is it’s delivered straight to your door free shipping in the US it comes rolled up in a box all you have to do is pop it open they offer 100 night sleep trials so you get more than 3 months to make sure you’re going to love it which you will and they also have a 10-year warranty they offer financing options and flexible payments so a great night’s sleep is never far away if you want to join me and have the best sleep of your life head over to Helix sleep they are having their Memorial Day Early Access sale they’re offering our viewers 30% off Lux and Elite mattresses plus two free pillows and 25% off sitewide I absolutely love my Helix mattress and I think you would love it too if you’re looking for a new bed check out Helix sleep and I will link it down below thank you to Helix for sponsoring today’s video and giving me the best sleep of my life okay guys let’s continue on this beautiful [Music] day to thought from with [Music] [Applause] [Music] we’ve started to experience really beautiful days here in Napa Valley we had one last rainstorm I want to say like a week or so ago and now it is going to be in the 80s and ’90s for the rest of the next 10 days or as far as I can see on the um weather app on my phone so I decided I am going to get all of my spring decorating out and start decorating outside I want to pressure wash everything I want to get everything clean and ready for a beautiful summer our kids have four more weeks of school I have to tell you I am so excited for summer we’re creating a nice little routine for the kids they will be doing something called Summer Solutions with um their new nanny so they’ll be doing a little bit of summer school to really combat that summer slide last year was awful and because work has been so intense I just don’t foresee a possibility for me to be able to do that with them so we already have those systems in place so I think it’s going to be a great summer tell us in the comments down below how’s the weather where you are have you guys started decorating outside for summer nights uh under the moon or are you still combating that nasty winter [Music] weather’s no time Farrow today is a good now that I had my bedroom all tidy I wanted to come out and spend a little time in the garden just getting everything watered I noticed that that tomao plant was not doing well I think you guys remember I planted it and it got smashed so um I’m going to run to the store and grab uh another one and hopefully that one will do a little bit better I also wanted to add um some Teragon to the garden and some other things so we’re going to tackle that today um if you’re new here this is my second year gardening I am learning as I go last year we were pretty we had beginners luck um this year I’m doing two different Gardens I well three technically I’ve got an herb garden okay I guess four so I have an herb garden I have this bed right here is my Ratatouille Garden so it has things like zucchini bell pepper um eggplant then I have my tomatoes which is ranging from everything from heirlooms to Romas um I love heirlooms for salad I love Romas for pasta sauce and then I also have my salsa bed which has all my peppers and some um tomatoes so hopefully this year will be great you’ll have to follow along to see how it turns out two for a penny but they’ on out the window of this car I intended on posting what my Hope was for May was to post almost every single day just very simple Day in the Life videos but as life would have it things were just really complicated but this particular day I was able to get a video edited and posted and now it’s been like a week since I’ve posted so I’m very sorry I am just not as organized as I’d like to be but I’m going to tidy everything up here and then I’m I’m going to run to my local um Garden Center van Winden I live here in Napa so if you’re looking for a great Garden Center I highly recommend family-owned so van Winden is our spot here in Napa um but I’m going to ride over there and grab a couple things and I’ll show you what I [Music] get oh that is all right [Music] and not tomor so the first thing I found finally they got the green beans that I was really wanting I’m going to add those to the ends of my Ratatouille bed and they also had the dino kale I don’t know if you guys have been here long enough you know I tried to plant that early in the season and like the next day the chickens ate it all so we are going to plant it again and not let the chickens come in here and see if they don’t propagate but Dino kale is my favorite thing I eat it pretty much every single day it’s my favorite um so we’re going to see if that will work in this spot and then maybe later I might add something else because you have to do a succession planning and things like lettuce and arugula and and um kale so I’m not sure what I’m going to do there but over here you know I bought at Causeway I bought those two really pretty trellises um I finally got the green beans that I like they’re two different types and we are going to um plant them here and and then put them on the trellis I grew them last year completely failed at it I think I got three beans off of the entire thing so um we’re going to try this again I hope this works um if you guys want to check out all the new stuff I got for my outdoor um kind of the sitting area and I also got a new three-piece set for over by the pool and my trellises all from Causeway super affordable it was shipped here in 2 days so if you want to check those out I will link them down below well something’s got here today it’s a good oh and the other most exciting thing they finally got in was Teragon it is my favorite thing I love making Green Goddess dressing as soon as this grows a little bit bigger I will make um some green goddess dressing with you guys is like it’s like the greatest Ranch of all time you guys are going to absolutely love it so I ended up doing them in pot so I could move them around um I did I think four plants in both um and then here is my little tomao it’s so cute and happy it also has a really um kind of uh very weak root system so or excuse me trunk so we’re going to just fortify that and hopefully she grows nice and strong and brings us lots of different uh Tomatoes The other thing I wanted to mention is I have to plant two of them cuz they only had purple um but I also thought that’d be kind of fun too so I’m going to get everything watered and then we’re going to go hang out with the chickens for a little bit I also want to go check on the other side of the property and see if I can’t start getting it ready for [Music] summer today it’s a good day to [Music] [Music] all right so I’m all done out here today the girls free ranged all morning so here’s where we are with the garden I put two different types of string beans here with the pieces I got from Causeway I planted about 6 12 like 18ish some of these weren’t um good enough to plant but the dino or Tusc and kale that I love we’ve got our zucchinis over here two things of Teragon which are my favorite um I put them in pots so I could if they needed to be out of sun or in Sun I can move them around I still I’m not going to plant those shidos I’m giving them to our neighbor and then I got one more toaa these are purple tomaas I couldn’t find um the regular ones so um tomao sorry tomatillos anyway um I’m hoping this guy comes back but they were so out so we’ll get it um eventually everything looks great our Peppers everything is growing which is good good sign all of our herbs are looking [Applause] great andato those are looking good let’s go and start prepping for the week ahead I was thinking maybe doing a couple Arrangements later with these but I always find that right after I cut them they just kind of Wilt and they’re just so happy here that think I might just leave them these just popped so beautiful then while I was grocery shopping my husband put all of the furniture together I got these two aelas I thought they were so beautiful this is our new outdoor set from cway I had to cut out the rest of this but over here we have all of our um outdoor furniture I just need a pressure wash we were listening to to um ree music outside and I didn’t know if um sometimes YouTube doesn’t like that so I cut that out but anyway I’m going to move over the these rocking chairs I just there’s too much stuff over in this corner and I really like sitting in the shade at the end of the day over here so we are going to move those and then I also want to just tidy up the outdoor then all of my um groceries arried so we are going to go into the kitchen and do a nice little weekend restock because we are really low on a lot of things in the refrigerator tell us in the comments down below what are your favorite things to cook during the summer I know for us like anything that is barbecu is a massive go-to otherwise um tell us in the comments what do you love to cook in the [Music] summer today you’re not so I wanted to get some chicken thighs ready to go for my husband to make a marinade for in the meantime I’m going to bleach out the sink and then we are going to get started on cleaning all of our fruits and vegetables I will say I think I’ve mentioned this over the last month or two I have not been food prepping as much as I’d like to and I am fully back on track food prepping just makes life so easy I have filmed quite a few um day in the lives that I’m editing and will get up as soon as possible um things have just been been really hectic I don’t know why I feel like it goes through waves in life but um but for the most part uh I do meal I don’t do meal prepping excuse me I do ingredient prepping um it really does help C catch it really does help me stay on track during the week and when I go to make dinner every single night everything is already prepped and ready to go often times I will do kind of a meal plan so I know exactly what proteins I’m going to be cooking and then I like to make nice sides with them that are uh nice and healthy for both myself and our family so I am going to prep everything and I’ll show you how I do [Music] that well something’s got to get today is a good day today and not tomorrow there’s no time to borrow today well something’s got to C today it’s a good day today it’s a good day today it’s a good this week some of the dishes I’m going to be making is a Ricotta and asparagus pasta I also have plenty of kale cuz I love to have my kale salads a lot of lot of times I will make a protein and a vegetable for my children and then I will put it into a salad form for myself I don’t really like things like mashed potatoes and rice um I don’t know why I just never have if I could have um all my food on the bed of vegetables or greens I’d be a happy girl um and then I’m going to cut up some strawberries and fruit for the kids so this week I did grapes I did um some cantaloupe I do have a solo day my husband is out of town so I was going to um do Bento boxes since this day has has already passed I will tell you my kids are not Bento Box kids anymore they um they loved it but still uh just not they’re just too I think getting too old for it especially my teenager I’m officially the mom of a teenager so we will go back to letting the kids make their own lunches it just makes things a lot easier plus it cuts down about 25 minutes of my morning so I have a bunch of fruit in here I’m going to clean up all my vegetables I like to get them prepped and put in here so things like cilantro carrot celery um green onions uh things like that I like to prep all ahead of time I like to chop up our um strawberries and it just makes it a lot easier when I go to make this asparagus all I have to do is pull this tray out and I can get cooking right away I’d love to know some of your favorite cooking hacks down below do you do meal prep are you a freezer meal prepper are you an ingredient prepper do you use things like factor or um kind of a food delivery service what is your hacks to make dinner smooth as silk at home [Music] if you struggle making healthy things for yourself or leaving healthy uh choices for food for your kids this is where having a kind of a meal prep or an ingredient prep routine really helps you so for me I will always probably eat something healthy or to what I would consider healthy just because those are the things that I crave the most um I don’t really like processed foods I don’t I’ve kind of always been that way um but my children on the other hand if I don’t put out healthy things at the end of their day um they will go grab things like chips and crackers and cereal I feel like my oldest son could eat an entire box of cereal if uh I would allow him to at the end of the day um so I always I have things like celery carrots strawberries fresh fruit grapes um I love to do cucumbers wrapped in um like uh seaweed things like that that I know my kids will love I also love those things so if you do kind of like if you get hungry and you know you always pull things like chips or junk food um or processed foods if you preep little things of healthy food I think you will find that it’s much easier and less intimidating to um make those types of things for us I always think that um doing like little lunch boxes like Bento boxes for my husband and I are always great I love things like cottage cheese um I always have my electrolytes uh I will link down below they also help me drink about 2 liters of water a day I seriously I feel like if they don’t have the electrolytes in them I won’t drink as much water um I have the kind I have are a um they’re a candy sour candy watermelon they’re so good anyway they’re link down below highly recommend trying them um the gal who makes them also did just come up with a uh single serving packet so you can have them on the run which is really great so now that that’s all prepped we’re going to tuck all of this yummy food into to the refrigerator I am going to get our dinner prepped and ready we’re going to be doing some barbecued corn and some barbecued chicken and I am so excited for tonight’s dinner [Music] oh [Music] now that that’s all done my husband’s going to get barbecuing and I am going to reset the coffee maker for tomorrow I also got all of our groceries that are all of our pantry items delivered and they came a little bit later than our vegetables and fruits so I am going to get all of that tucked away into the pantry I am going to actually be decluttering the pantry I have so many things in there that are either expired or just need to be cleaned out I also um want to get uh rid of things like Bento boxes things that we just don’t use anymore so we’ll be giving those away if you guys like that kind of organizing and decluttering uh motivational videos I’ll definitely have lots more of those this summer and then the other thing I have coming up is a lot of Summer decorating I want to get the porch done I don’t think I’ve done it since Easter which is just so unlike me but um I also wanted to add some sweet little summer things to our bookshelf and just get the house ready for summer I cannot I’m kind of embarrassed to admit this but um I was thinking the other day about we have the two 15t Christmas trees that go in the front room and I just realized that now that I have the dining room table in there I’m wondering if the Christmas tree is going to fit there so I’m trying to wonder if maybe I should take the table out for Christmas I don’t know let me know in the comments down below what should I do with those two trees [Music] [Music] 1 [Music] I have some things for you I do I have some things for you indeed you want to try you think salty girl you can sleep in my bed strawberry yeah yeah you love stop it so you can’t stand on the food can you stand with me try the salun what’s your favorite I know you love that come on you’re so cute want some okay I don’t understand why you guys aren’t eating is it cuz I here with your egg I’m not going to let them bite you my baby girl come here you’re so tiny and [Music] cute such a sweet chicken chicken okay guys so I was just sitting here feeding the chicka booms and like I could see down where like salty likes to hang out and I saw all of these eggs over here and I’m like oh that’s weird like chickens have never laid eggs on the ground before this is so bizarre so I was over here as you can see collecting eggs hi Selter he excuse me oh hi Blanka and then like I looked over here and I was like is that an egg in the middle of the tree you guys like they have been sitting in this Rosemary do you see the egg over there all of these pump is it you they have been sitting in here and laying eggs let me see if I can show you some more look these are obviously not edible but hilarious nonetheless look at all these eggs are these yours look at all these you guys you’re supposed to go on your roosting Bay now I’m curious if there are any more of these it makes sense why all these bushes Yep this is why the bushes are the way they are cuz they’re laying eggs in them oh my God this is hysterical oh my God okay well let’s go egg hunting it’s like a real Easter egg hunt [Music] [Music] cop is so clean okay girls so good okay we’re going to break them up I’ll do like a couple at a time shells and the dream come true for my kids I [Music] [Music] right so we’re going to try those but not these middle ones see if it makes a difference or [Music] not here okay let’s make a little bit more [Music] [Music] [Music] I can officially smell Barbecue Cooking so it is time for me to go and enjoy the rest of my evening with my family thank you so much for joining me on this lovely day at the house we got so much accomplished today in the garden got the refrigerator restocked and I’m ready for a great week ahead thank you again the Helix for sponsoring today’s video definitely check them out the links are down below and I will see you in the next video real soon bye [Music]