- Faster!

(screaming)

- Is that a baby bump?

I think it's a baby bump.

- Good morning, friends.

We are cleaning out the garage today.

So the difficulty with cleaning out the garage

is that everything in here is here

because I think there might be a time

or Kendra thinks we might need it some time in the future.

And that's like the hard part with hoarding

is you don't wanna get rid of something you might use.

But I need to just throw a lot of this stuff out.

Cubby, you gonna do some roller skating?

- No, I'm doing it with my bike.

So then whenever I have to move, I can just roll.

- [Father] So you're gonna do that while riding your bike?

- Yup.

- [Father] That sounds safe.

- [Toddler Girl] These are nice babies.

If I knew that we--

(laughter)

- [Father] How are you gonna stop?

That's kind of a problem.

Do you wanna go down the big hill?

- While Jeremy is cleaning the garage

with the kids this morning, I am tackling

the kids' bathroom closet.

Basically we just stuff stuff in there

and it's the closet that like when you open the door

you hope nothing falls down.

I think we could fit a lot more stuff in here

if we were just more careful and deliberate

about where we put stuff.

We'll see if I can get it cleaned up.

- [Jeremy] All right, now you're just trying roller skating.

(laughter)

Whoo!

- I need a glasses.

- Go and run some errands.

All right, so poll question for today:

Do you have a garage and do you actually use it

for your car or vehicle?

Let us know in the poll.

- So I'm so excited.

I've been ordering tons of home school curriculum

and this package I actually ordered yesterday morning

and the estimated shipping time was like

three to five business days.

So I assumed I'd see it like next week

and it's here this morning.

That's amazing.

I love that feeling when something arrives

sooner than you expect it in the mail.

Like, it's like a Christmas excitement.

- Dad, it's getting dirtier in here.

- [Jeremy] Oh my goodness.

Laura, did you find the winter box?

- Uh huh.

- [Jeremy] Girl, it's like 95 degrees out here.

- I'm good here.

I have a jacket.

- [Child] You're gonna get hot in here.

- Hey, his jacket on.

- [Jeremy] Is he gettin' his jacket on too?

- Yeah!

Just like me!

He is.

- [Cubby] Are we donating those?

- We are, we're donating everything over here.

Guys, I'm so excited, we got a big pile upstairs

and this pile downstairs.

Like just get it out of my house.

Like I'm just wanting to clean house

and this is our donate pile.

- If you want any of it, let us know.

Just kidding.

- We're gonna donate it.

It's hard, Jeremy and I are both people

that we like to pull everything out and like deep clean,

like really dig in, spend as much time as needed.

But our life isn't like that.

Like often we only have like certain chunks of time.

So we only had two hours to work on the garage today.

So we did our best knowing that another day soon

we're gonna pull it out and do another two hours.

So we're just kind of trying to tackle

our organizational things in chunks.

And be patient, like it's not gonna be perfect in one time.

We're just gonna do our best and make a dent

and the next time we'll make a bigger dent

and the next time we'll make a bigger dent

and we just have to keep at it.

(car engine purring)

So I totally think I'm starting to show

which makes me feel a little crazy.

Like, I'm not even 10 weeks.

How can I possibly be showing yet?

But this is my fifth baby and I've heard

you show earlier with every baby.

I just, whoa, anyway.

Look at this!

I don't know if you guys can even see.

I'll have to get Jeremy to come hold the camera for me.

Look!

Is that a baby bump?

I think it's a baby bump.

I thought I was going crazy the last couple nights,

but this morning, I'm like, nope, that's real.

Somebody just woke up from her nap.

Can you say good morning?

- Good morning, Mom.

- The kids have been playing over at a friend's house

so we're gonna go pick 'em up.

Should we go get the kids?

- Uh huh.

- Where's my keys?

Do you know where my keys are?

- Right there is key.

- [Kendra] Right there they are.

Can you get 'em for me?

You're such a helper. - I get 'em.

Pick this up.

- Oh you're gonna pick 'em up?

You're still waking up, you goose.

Well, our home school curriculum has been

slowly arriving and I've been opening up boxes

and going through stuff and it's really exciting for me

as a teacher to be able to get things

set up for the school year.

And anyway, one of the books that I opened

is Logic of English Essentials.

And this is what I'm using for Isaac this year

for reading, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling.

So it's kind of all of English stuff put together.

And it's, what's really cool about this program

is that it's multi-level.

So this one book can be used for lots of different levels

so there's a placement test in the beginning

that I need to use with him, to see if I'm gonna be doing

a level A, level B, or level C with him.

So that's what we're sitting down to do today.

Now he's doing the spelling portion of the test.

- Nope, nope.

I know what it looks like, so I just have to get it.

- [Kendra] The next word is costume.

Massive.

Subterranean.

Audience.

All right, good job.

- I didn't know any of--

- [Kendra] Those got tough there at the end, didn't they?

So here is Isaac's spelling test.

- [Isaac] I'm not that good at spelling.

- You're amazing at spelling!

Those were really hard words.

We're really grateful because they gifted us these programs.

They asked if we wanted to use them

and if it would be a good fit for our family

and we said yes, so I'm just like tickled pink about it.

So thank you, Logic of English.

- We're eating dinner and Laura just said

the cutest little prayer.

She pointed to each thing on her plate

and blessed it individually.

She had a lot more tater tots at the time,

but it was really adorable.

So this meal is cool.

It's the meat that we cooked yesterday in the crock pot

and used in the chimichangas that I accidentally burnt.

But then the next day, you can make sliders

out of the meat and so it's a cook once, eat twice meal.

- We could begin to buy milk and cheese and bananas.

- And bananas? - Yeah.

- [Kendra] And what else do you think

we need from the store?

- Pretzels.

- And? - And chips.

- [Kendra] Ooh.

- And food for you.

- Oh food, that's a good idea.

Well, we're out of milk and that is always

a good sign that we need to go to the grocery store.

So I think Jeremy's gonna run with the four kids

and pick up just a few things (Laura yelling)

from the grocery store.

Huh?

(shrieks)

(laughter)

And I am going to go through a bunch

of the back to school supplies

and keep working on getting school ready.

(percussive hip hop music)

♫ Shall we begin?

- We goin' shoppin'?

- Yeah.

I want the biggest cart.

- You want the biggest cart?

- Yeah.

♫ Let's begin now

- I love taking the kids back to school shopping,

I really do.

It's fun to let them pick out a new outfit

and get whatever else they're needing

like Elise needs a new backpack this year,

Isaac needs a new lunchbox.

So I'm gonna be able to go and let them

also pick out some folders, like specialized stuff.

But for the bulk of the school supplies,

it's honestly less stressful if I just go

and get it done myself and that way I can

also have some surprises for them.

So yeah, I'm gonna unpack these bags

and show you guys what I got.

(upbeat guitar music)

- [Store Employee] Okay guys, go.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome! - I want some!

- [Store Employee] You want one?

- Yum!

- So we've said this before, but we love Hyvee

because they give cookies to the kids

when we're here shopping and the kids love it.

- All right, well here's my stash so far.

I was really proud of myself because this year

before I went shopping, I actually went through

all of our craft supplies so that I'd know

what we were out of and needed more of

and what we didn't need more of.

For example, I think we have like a 10 year supply

of staples, but we're completely out of tape.

So I knew to stock up on tape and I knew

I could just walk right by the staples.

So here's what we got.

We got, oh, and I also know that I have

to get four of pretty much anything I get.

Laura's not officially in school,

but she's definitely old enough to know

that if everybody else has a glue stick,

she needs a glue stick too.

- Dad, turn it whichever direction they turn.

- [Jeremy] Ooh, oh, we're running into something.

(laughter)

- Faster!

(shrieking)

- This was my big splurge item.

I got myself a laminator.

I'm really excited.

Last year, I had several laminating projects

that I had to do and I just borrowed

a laminator from my sister in law,

which was so nice of her.

But I've already come across some things

that I'm needing to laminate this year

and I decided it was time to be an official home school mom,

I need my own laminator.

So anyway, thanks for letting me show this to you guys.

It was a good distraction from my sickness

that I'm feeling tonight.

So I gotta put this away, because a lot of it