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High five, high freaking five!
Boom!
A couple days ago, Ellie and Jackson sat down
and they did a little ring,
what do you call those,
a ring chart, or something like that,
where Jackson will do jobs and save money for a what?
Um, a dirt bike.
- [Jared] A dirt bike.
And I love this.
I think it's the greatest thing,
showing kids that they can earn something by doing work,
and Jackson came up to me yesterday,
and it was the cutest thing,
he said, Dad, what can I do to earn a dollar today?
And I thought, oh my goodness,
I have anything at my disposal
that you can do for me.
So what did he do yesterday?
Jackson, tell me what you did
last night before you went to bed?
- Watched TV.
(laughs)
- [Jared] What chore did you do
before you went to bed last night?
- I picked up the basement.
- [Jared] Yes you did.
And, I have to say, it looks absolutely incredible!
It looks so good!
Now, mind you, it was a huge disaster yesterday.
They had all of these tracks running everywhere,
the balls were everywhere,
all of these drawers were emptied out,
and you picked it up by yourself,
and you earned yourself a dollar.
Boom baby!
That's my boy.
I am so proud of you.
I think it's very important to instill
the value of work to kids as they grow up.
Obviously, it goes to certain degrees
when they're at certain ages,
but, teaching them that is very important,
that there's a dollar at the end of it,
there's a reward at the end of the work.
And, sometimes, just because this is
what we do in our house,
sometimes there's not,
sometimes you just have to do chores
because this is our house.
So, we've got our list here,
and what's the next one?
- I think this one.
- [Jared] Okay, let's see.
Oh, dog poop.
Do you want to pick up dog poop today?
You do?
Let's see what's on this side.
Make breakfast, well we already had breakfast huh,
so maybe we can do that another day.
I wonder if there's one that's
like help Dad in the garage,
do you think there's one?
That says help Dad in the garage?
Let's see.
Work with Dad!
Work with Dad.
We've got some work to do in the garage.
Do you want to help me out today?
Okay.
I think that's a great idea,
are you gonna take that one off?
Why don't you wait until we're all the way,
okay, yup that works too.
(laughs)
And, when we're all done with it,
we can - Oh no!
Uh oh, we'll just put that one back on.
When we're all done with that,
I'll give ya a dollar or something like that.
We'll see what you do
and what value is associated with it.
We'll put it back on.
Are you going to be my helper today too?
Okay, we gotta back this up
right over to where the trailer is,
right where Jackson is.
Thumbs up!
Yeah!
Look, we've got our helper.
He's backing us up.
Oh, good job Jackson, you're doing great.
Am I looking okay?
(car beeps)
- [Jackson] Yes.
- Good job!
Thanks, bud.
Now that we're backed up,
we have to hook up the trailer
so we can pull the trailer out,
and then clean the garage.
You up for the task, buddy boy?
That's an affirmative from you!
High five!
Bam, baby!
The last time that we had
the garage empty like this is
when we had a giant trampoline park in the garage.
Do you remember that?
That was so much fun, and I'll have those videos
in a playlist somewhere in the description
in the i card so you guys can check out.
That was the best,
having a trampoline park in our garage, huh.
But, I've got the trailer out,
and here's my job for you Jackson.
In order to get a dollar or something like that,
- For a motorcycle.
- Yup.
We need to sweep out the garage.
So, I've got a big broom right here.
And your job today is to sweep out the garage.
So look right over here.
We've got lots of dirt
and bark. - My job?
- Yup, your job.
- That's a big one. - Mhm.
You've got to sweep - Okay.
that stuff and get it into one big pile
and then we'll throw it in the garbage.
I want you to try to get as much as you can.
All the way around here, okay?
Do you think you can do that for me?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- All the way over here and turn?
- Yup, and see all of that dirt from the four wheeler?
- Yeah.
- We want to try and get that too.
Got it?
You can do it, bud!
You're a big boy and a big helper.
And in the meantime, I think we have someone
who just woke up from their nap!
(gasps)
(child cries)
Do I hear you?
Here comes the light!
Ah!
Hi!
Hi, buddy.
Good morning.
How are ya?
Is it so bright?
I'm sorry it's so bright.
Yeah yeah yeah?
You want some food?
(gasps)
I said food!
Do you want some food?
(laughs)
Okay, let's go.
- Da da da da.
- Da da?
Are you talking to me?
- Da da da.
- So we're gonna be working on the garage.
Drastic times call for drastic measures!
We've got to get Tommy buckled up here,
so I've got my hands free to do what I need to do.
These things are so convenient
but sometimes they can be a pain to get on!
(buckles)
Watch your fingers.
Okay, all right.
You got your working gloves on?
- Yeah. Let's get back to work!
Ellie can do this without help.
I can do this without help!
(grunts)
(silly music)
Where's that strap?
(grunts)
Hm.
We need some help.
All right, Jackson.
You see the buckle? - Huh?
You see this buckle right here?
- Yeah.
- And then this strap, - Yeah.
- can you strap these together?
- Yeah.
(buckle clicks)
- Now, pull it really tight.
Pull it a little bit.
Here, can you put it in my hand?
Now, let's see if I can do this.
- Hello, I'm working on the garage,
I'm so big.
Hey baby Tommy!
Hey!
(baby cries)
- Baby I got it!
I think I got it!
All right buddy boy,
Dad mode is initiated,
I think we are all set and ready to rock and roll.
You ready?
Let's get some work done in this garage.
Agh
(burps)
No throwing up on me,
please do not throw up on me.
I literally just got you in here,
please don't throw up on me.
I'm exhausted now,
I think I did enough work for the whole day
just trying to get him in here!
(upbeat music)
Before we put everything away,
we might as well go on a little ride,
right Calvin?
This is the best part of the whole thing, huh?
All the cleaned up and we get to play now!
We didn't do a ton,
but what we did do,
we did really well, right?
We actually ran out of time
because it's getting later in the afternoon,
and we've got some other stuff
that we have to do today!
Okay, whoa!
Nice jump!
- Thank you.
- In my hands, I hold a quarter.
A quarter.
Now, this will decide our fate of our Friday night.
- It's 25 cents.
- It is!
That's what a quarter is.
So, last time we flipped a coin,
we said we would either go to
the trampoline park or the fun park.
This time, here's what - We got a jump zone.
- Oh, sorry, the jump zone or the trampoline park.
So today, Friday,
what we're going to do since Mom is out of town,
I have a coin ready to flip.
Heads is we're gonna go to the fun park.
Tails is we're gonna do what Jackson wants to do.
Okay?
That's what we're going to have.
Ready? - I hope it is!
(laughs)
- One, two, three.
(coin lands)
- What is it, what is it?
- Tails!
- Tails, that means we get to do what Jackson wants to do!
Jackson, what do you want to do?
- Go to the fun park!
Let's go to the fun park!
(upbeat music)
Welcome to the fun park.
Look at all this cool stuff that we have.
And look at that cute little baby.
I have one hundred tokens for us
- One hundred? - One hundred!
- Dad!
- I'm gonna put half of them in here
(coins drop)
- One hundred tokens?
- You take that one, you take that one,
and then let's go have some fun!
- I'm gonna do whatever I want.
(upbeat music)
(pushes button)
- [Jared] You got one!
You got another one!
- [Jared] That's awesome, good job!
- Oh my god!
- [Jared] Oh my goodness gracious,
look at all these tickets,
I don't know what we're gonna
do with all of them.
They're all of our tickets!
I think we found a pretty good game.
Seven hundred and seven tickets.
We could probably get a few good prizes with that.
And, Calvin, you even have some more!
Should we go pick our prizes?
Who had the best time ever?
- Me!
- You guys did so good!
Jackson got a fan,
Calvin got a hot dog and some Dum Dums,
we got some goodies down there too.
Calvin, you got a cool fidget spinner, huh?
- Yeah.
- You like that?
Sweet!
We're listening to music and Jackson
will try and read the song that's playing.
We're listening to the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
soundtrack and it's one of Jackson's favorite albums
because he can see the eyes of Spider Man in there.
So, what I want to do,
I want to skip the song,
and I want you to see if you can read it, Jackson, okay?
Oo, this one's a hard one.
I want to see - Mem, mem?
Uh huh!
You're gettin' so close, keep trying!
- Memories. - There you go!
Good work! - What's memories?
Memories! - What's memories?
- It's like something you remember.
I'm about to say a few things,
but let me preface something before I say those thing
because they might paint me in a different picture,
and I need to preface this:
I know I'm not a single parent.
(laughs)
I know that.
But, lately, with Ellie being gone on her Bali trip,
and now this little retreat,
it may not seem like it
because of the weekends and everything,
but she's been gone for about a week and a half
with like one or two days in between
where she's come home.
And, I feel like this week,
I've been a single parent,
and I get it,
I totally understand I am not obviously,
but I want to say that I feel like I felt
a tiny tiny bit of what that is like.
So, my heart goes out to you, single parents,
or parents who are in the military
and your spouse is at home with the kids.
I totally, my heart goes out to you guys.
It's been tough, but it's been so good.
Obviously, Jackson and Calvin and Tommy
are a dream come true,
and they make life easy,
but I'm exhausted!
It is 7:00 p.m.
And my feet are hurting and I haven't gotten near
as done as I wanted to.
So what happens when the kids go to bed?
That's when I'm gonna start the second shift
of Jared being a Dad and a husband and a father
and a sleepy boy.
Oh my gosh I'm tired.
But, in all seriousness,
parenting is a very very difficult thing
to do with two people.
Let alone one person.
And I know I say this just about every time
Ellie goes out of town,
so I might sound like a broken record.
But, I really am thinking of you guys.
I really hope that you're doing well.
Know that you're doing better than you think.
(baby mutters)
- Yes.
Uh huh.
Oh really?
And even your kids understand
and know that you're doing pretty dang good.
So give yourself a pat on the back,
lift your chin up,
I'm saying this to myself too.
And keep going.
Take one more step forward in the right direction
and you're going to be doing great.
Should we get these guys to bed so I can,
so I can get back to what I want to do
before Ellie gets home?
Here we go, buddy.
Oh my goodness gracious.
I really hope it doesn't make me sound
like pathetic or anything,
but I basically wanted to say I understand,
at least for a fraction of what it really is like,
and my heart goes out to you guys.
(dog pants)
(laughs)
You just love to go between the legs,
I don't know what it is!
All right, I gotcha.
It's been a good day, hasn't it?
Woo!
It has been a good day.
Jackson was such a good helper today.
Calvin was so good to just be by me
and be so into what I was doing and cleaning,
he was so good.
And then Tommy is just a dream.
It was a good day, a good week.
Without Mommy, we did good, we survived, huh?
(dog groans)
Didn't we buddy?
So we're going to call it a night.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
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and we will see you guys next time.
Say bye, Penny!
Bye guys.