Starting My Homemaking Journey in Thailand | Expat Family Life Abroad

Name: Starting My Homemaking Journey in Thailand | Expat Family Life Abroad
Uploaded: 2026-09-15T12:07:06+00:00
Duration: 28 min 48 s
Channel: Lloyd & Mandy

00:26Hi guys, welcome back to our channel.

00:28I am so sorry that I have been missing from the past few videos that we've put out.

00:33In the past couple weeks, pregnancy has gotten pretty real, I'll be completely honest.

00:39I started my third trimester a few weeks ago and pretty much since then I've been in

00:45bed or on the couch, it's been a little bit uncomfortable, I had to visit the doctor

00:50a few times so I've had to just take a step back from work and make sure that myself and

00:57baby are healthy but I'm feeling pretty good today so I'm going to take advantage.

01:02I've gotten pretty behind on like housework and just home keeping in general so I thought

01:08I would use this day of not feeling completely horrible to fix up the house and also just

01:18sort of just show you guys what my beginner home making looks like.

01:22Home making is not something that comes entirely easy to me, it's not first nature and I'm

01:29definitely by no means good at it but that's also why I wanted to make some videos about

01:33it because I think it's good to show the beginning and that you can progress and get better at

01:39something no matter what it is.

01:41So I have a lot to do, I'm going to prepare some food, I have some baking to do.

01:46Lloyd's just at jujitsu at the moment but he might join in a little bit later.

01:50I've gotten really behind on housework, the house is pretty messy at the moment so I'm

01:55also going to do some cleaning.

01:56Just while I've been unwell and in bed things have just sort of piled up just and Lloyd's

02:03been absolutely amazing and helpful but he's also juggling taking care of our work and also

02:09his new YouTube channel.

02:10If you haven't subscribed to our channel or his new channel, definitely go do that.

02:15Really helps us up to keep making videos for you guys.

02:18But yeah, this is sort of just a regular day in the life.

02:21You guys have been asking for more just relaxed day in the life videos so we can show you a

02:27little bit more of our place and later I might show you guys our studio and Lloyd's new office.

02:34He's been working like crazy in there and it's actually looking really nice so I want to show

02:40you guys that a little later too.

02:41So I think I'll get started on just tidying up the kitchen because it is a mess.

03:22One of the reasons I wanted to make a video like this today is because I found myself

03:27watching other people's videos and often comparing myself to other women, other moms

03:34that are usually a lot more experienced than me like that have been doing like homemaking and

03:40you have had multiple, you know, four or five children and I find myself comparing myself to them.

03:47I don't know, I think it's important to show that you can just start with what you have,

03:53what you have is enough and just do your best and try to build on what you already have.

04:00There's so many things that I wish I could change or wish I could progress quicker but it just takes

04:08time. Everything seems to take time and to get better at it. Everything is overwhelming when you

04:16first started even just being at home. But one part of my job with our channel has been basically

04:24just the art of noticing. When we've been traveling I've been doing my best to you know notice what

04:31it is that makes places beautiful and try and document that about our travels and now I feel like

04:37the challenge for me is to try and do that from our home while we're here and doesn't mean we're

04:44not

04:45going to travel in the future. But just while we're here it's been really nice just trying to see

04:51the beauty in everyday life rather than feeling like I need to go to a different place or see

04:57another city or something. There's so much in the mundane that's actually really beautiful.

05:03I'm really enjoying just like the hard work that it takes to run a household and I feel like

05:09entrepreneurship and our business has even prepared me a little bit for this. There are a lot of things

05:16that I learned from running a business that translate over to running a household and it gives me

05:24encouragement like I feel excited that I'm going to keep getting better at this and we're going to enjoy

05:29being at home even more and then we already do. This is the first time I've ever loved a home

05:35like I

05:35feel like this is my space. I just want to take as good care of it as possible and I

05:41feel like the

05:41greatest gift that I can give my children and my husband is me being happy and us all having a

05:49loving,

05:49clean, clean, well-functioning home.

05:59Yep. It's okay, I won.

06:04Okay.

06:09Okay, I'm going to finish tidying up this kitchen and then I'm going to order some groceries. I'm going

06:13to show you guys where we get them from. We have a few different options. I'm trying to show you

06:17guys

06:17more behind the scenes type things like this because so I used to think that it wasn't important but

06:23you guys keep asking for weird things which I like seeing weird behind the scenes stuff too so

06:28I'll try and share more things like that. Okay, I'm doing our grocery order from Lotuses.

06:35Lotuses? Lotuses. This is probably the most affordable option for delivery groceries and I think just like

06:43for big supermarkets in general it sort of seems to be the main one. We also shop at Villa Market

06:51which is

06:52like sort of more international stuff so you can access that stuff here like we were able to find

06:58like shapes, those little crackers from Australia, we found like dark chocolate Tim Tams so they have

07:04like more international stuff but you do have to pay more premium price there so even like veggies and

07:09things are quite expensive from there and I find that the local produce at Lotuses is pretty good

07:16like the veggies and things. When we can we buy fruit from a local fruit vendor just down the street.

07:22I've

07:23shown that a few times on the channel. We love getting fruit from there it's so fresh. So you can

07:28do

07:28delivery within three hours from one of the bigger supermarkets at Lotuses or you can do like one hour

07:33just like quick like little things from a small market. So I'm doing the three hour one and the prices

07:41are pretty good like definitely more affordable than when we were in Canada. One problem that I have

07:48found with ordering groceries online here is sometimes they don't have things in stock and they just don't

07:55bring anything so like if I have a recipe planned for something and then they don't bring something from

08:01and I'm kind of screwed a little bit and have to like if it's like a main ingredient but that's

08:08so

08:08that's happened a couple times which can be a bit annoying. I wish like they actually just removed

08:13whatever the item was off of the website but it might just happen too quickly that they um they can't

08:19keep up with it so that's something to keep in mind. There's also like you can get fresh produce

08:24obviously from the markets and stuff here but just right now with me being pregnant and my energy being

08:30quite low going to the supermarket and going and searching for these things is not really high on

08:35my priority list so this has been a godsend having uh these groceries delivered and it just turns up

08:44right at our door someone on a scooter usually delivers it and um it's usually here pretty quick.

08:50Okay groceries are all ordered so I'm going to finish tidying the house before they get here

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10:54So as someone who used to hate cleaning I used to absolutely hate it. We actually got a lot of

10:59comments

11:00on one of our last videos when I was cleaning. A lot of people mentioning like obviously I can hire

11:05somebody here for quite affordable here in Thailand to clean the house for me. Why am I cleaning my house?

11:11And totally understand. Probably will be hiring someone in the near future when baby comes. But

11:19since being pregnant and moving into our home I've found that my mental health is so much better when

11:25I haven't done my cleaning routine. For the day just a little tidy of the house I feel a hundred

11:31percent

11:31better about everything. But I did have to do a couple things to be able to enjoy cleaning.

11:38One thing I feel so productive when I have an apron on and a dress. I never thought I would

11:45be one of

11:46these women who do this but I saw another girl on YouTube who inspired me to try it and I

11:52feel

11:52a lot more productive and just like better about myself than I do if I'm just like cleaning with no

11:57makeup and sort of like raggedy. I don't feel clean so then the house doesn't feel as clean if that

12:04makes

12:04sense. So getting a nice apron is a hack but also getting a cute cleaning caddy as well has helped

12:13me to actually get excited about cleaning instead of dreading it just to make it a little bit more

12:18fun. So that's a way that I've sort of incorporated a bit more beauty into our everyday life and it

12:23has

12:24made a big difference.

13:01I don't know if I mentioned this before but one thing I didn't expect moving to Thailand was

13:08how much I would be battling with gecko poo. Seems to be the hardest thing about keeping this house

13:15clean. There are so many geckos and I really like them. They're actually really good for the house

13:19and take care of like the spiders and the bugs and stuff. They poop on the walls a lot and

13:25it's

13:25really hard to get off and it's always on the windowsills. Is that one of those geckos? Yeah!

13:31I thought it was mice or something. No it's um yeah it's geckos. I really like them in the house.

13:37They're really good. They're actually meant to protect the house as well. So I'm not complaining about

13:43them but yeah if you have any advice for what takes out gecko poo stains off of like window sills

13:50um

13:52let me know in the comments.

13:59He's so calm. All he wants to do is float.

14:04Oh bear. You like it?

14:08He's so sweet. So happy.

14:24I didn't realize how much I would actually miss just regular tasks like this just because of the last

14:31few weeks not being able to do much you don't really realize how much you like value just being

14:37able to move and do chores and do regular things until it gets taken away from you. So I feel

14:45like

14:45that's given me sort of a new perspective um feeling more grateful for things like housework.

14:54things that are sometimes looked at as irritating um feel like a gift at the at the moment.

15:13Okay so while I'm waiting on the groceries to arrive I'm actually going to make some bagels.

15:18This is the only bread that we've actually been eating now since I found this recipe. I've just

15:23I love them. Uh Lloyd loves them too. We've been having them for breakfast and also using them to

15:29like dip in soups and stuff like that. They're awesome so I'm just I've just been prepping them

15:34and keeping them in the freezer. Uh they're they're great. So I'm gonna make some of them.

15:55so

16:00so

16:30I'll see you next time.

17:01I'll see you next time.

17:30I'll see you next time.

17:54I'll see you next time.

17:59I'll see you next time.

18:42I'll see you next time.

18:45I'll see you next time.

19:21I'll see you next time.

19:47I'll see you next time.

20:04Okay, while those are baking, I might just quickly take you guys upstairs.

20:39I'll see you next time.

20:49I'll see you next time.

21:05Okay, I didn't know Lloyd is going to be in a meeting with our YouTube partner manager.

21:16So I couldn't give you a proper little tour.

21:20But we are going to do a proper tour of the villa.

21:24I've decided I've kind of been on the fence about it.

21:26So stay tuned for that.

21:28We'll show you that and I also have a bunch of stuff arriving for the nursery this week.

21:34So that should hopefully be done this week which would make me feel much more relaxed.

21:41This is my new rocking chair which I absolutely love that Lloyd got for me.

21:45He's so far been using it more than me and it's in the living room at the moment.

21:49But it will probably migrate to the nursery.

21:52I'm sure everything's going to move around a lot.

21:54I don't know how I'm going to do things, but I'm still waiting on the groceries.

21:59So when they do arrive, we'll hop back in the kitchen and I'm just going to take a little break

22:05and a little nap before then.

22:07Then we'll get started on dinner and dessert.

22:27Let's get started.

22:27Let's flip it over.

22:32Let's get started.

22:34Let's get started on dinner.

22:42You can see the big day.

22:43Let's get started.

22:59okay it is quite a while later um it's time for me to get dinner on i just finished having

23:04a little

23:05nap with bear um the groceries arrived and wouldn't you know just like i said at the beginning of the

23:11video that um it sucks when one of the main ingredients doesn't um show up for a recipe

23:17that you want which was red capsicum or red pepper um so lloyd had to duck out and go grab

23:23me a couple

23:24more of them which is nice i i am starting to fade a little bit now that it's getting a

23:30little bit

23:30lighter so i'm super happy that i decided on this recipe because it is so simple it's one of my

23:37favorite soups if not my favorite soup that i make and it's just so easy to make and it's really

23:43cheap to make as well and it makes a large portion so it kind of takes all the boxes i

23:47also ordered

23:48another tupperware because i'm going to chuck extra in the freezer for postpartum as well and um just

23:55knocking a lot of things off so this recipe pretty much just calls for red capsicum tomatoes and usually

24:03i use a red onion but they had none so i'm just using regular white onion and garlic

24:12so

24:17so

24:24so

24:28so

24:29so

24:53I'm going to put it in a little bit, so I'm going to put it in a little bit, so

24:58I'm going to put it in a little bit.

25:05I don't have an exact time for how long all the veggies go in the oven I kind of do

25:10things

25:10different every time especially the amount that I'm cooking but um yeah if you want to make it

25:16at home just keep an eye on it till things get soft then I chuck it in just to a

25:21big soup pot

25:23and let it cook down with some stock coconut milk and a few more spices and then I chuck it

25:31in the

25:31blender and it's done and it is the best soup I highly recommend it we're going to have it with

25:36one of our fresh made bagels that I had today we're going to dip in there and maybe put a

25:41little

25:41bit of cheese on top as well

26:17so

26:24so

26:25so

26:32Let's go.

27:21Okay, so dinner is finally prepared

27:25and so and dessert is just about finished as well. Thank you guys so much for

27:31spending the day with me today. I know this is sort of a different video than

27:34what would and I normally do. I just was really missing creating and making

27:39content and making videos so I think our content is gonna look a little bit

27:43different while we're going through this massive change. Yeah, let me know what you

27:49thought down in the comments. I'd love to hear from you.

27:51Hi honey. You did? Oh no. With your bare feet? Yeah.

28:03It's not fun. It's not fun today.

28:07Anyways, thank you guys so much for watching. As always, don't forget to like

28:12and subscribe if you did enjoy the video. I hope it provided some inspiration maybe

28:17if you're a beginner like me to homemaking or maybe just if you want to try a new

28:22recipe or do something different at home. I hope I can offer some inspiration. I love

28:28you guys. Thank you for supporting us all this time and as always I'll see you guys

28:32in the next video. Bye!

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