- [Chris] All right, throw it in there.
This is a very fall looking cart.
(mellow music)
(chill music)
(door opens)
Good morning everyone!
(Chris exhales)
The lighting is no good.
I am taking the five boys to Trader Joe's.
We wanna experience
all of the new fall flavors that they have here.
So this isn't sponsored at all.
I'm just going grocery shopping,
but I'm doing it with five boys.
Might be interesting.
Might be really hard.
So can be fun.
We're just gonna have fun with it.
So, why don't you join us?
(chill music)
- Banana. - Do you see some bananas?
What do you think of this store?
- What are these?
- [Chris] Oh wow! What is that?
- It's a pumpkin!
- [Chris] Is it?
- I don't know.
Yes.
Okay.
Goodbye! - The queen is coming.
- Okay!
The queen is coming.
- What does this do? - Roasting sauce.
- [Parker] I don't know.
- [Chris] Doesn't give any ideas.
Just refrigerate after opening.
Ooh! - This is a good one.
- Yeah, this is pretty good. - What is that?
Ooh!
Okay, we get one of these.
We got one of these.
What else do we need from that?
I don't know. What do you, what is the roasting?
Is it for roasting a pumpkin?
- [Parker] We gotta try it.
- [Chris] No, this isn't something you eat.
- What is that?
- [Chris] It's like soap or lotion.
- Ooh!
- [Chris] This looks pretty good.
This looks pretty good. - Are we gonna eat this?
- [Chris] No, we're not gonna eat that.
- Are we gonna eat it?
No, bring it?
- [Chris] No. We'll leave that here.
So we gotta get apples though for our, our caramel apples.
All right. So we had, I wouldn't say an argument,
but a discussion, a strong discussion
about who should push the cart.
All the kids wanted a turn.
So I set a timer.
Every five minutes we rotate.
All right, timer just went off.
It's Parker's turn with the cart.
- Mama! (speaks indistinctly)
- [Chris] Nice!
Should we get that pasta?
- [Duncan] Yeah.
- [Chris] An autumn harvest creamy pasta sauce?
Whoa!
- [Parker] Wait, what's this?
- That's peaches. - Oh.
- [Chris] I know peaches kind of look like pumpkins
but they're not pumpkins.
I'm actually really impressed.
So far we've found pumpkin stuff,
or fall stuff in every section of the store.
I thought it would just be like an end cap,
or here are the specials that are all pumpkiny.
But it's been like everywhere
(chill music)
We found the jackpot!
- Dad. - Yeah?
Throw those in there for sure.
- What about these?
- [Chris] What are those?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Those are good.
- [Jacob] Let's get in there.
- [Chris] Wait, who's, did you grab one too?
I just saw a little hand pop up.
Don't grab stuff.
(Luke speaking gibberish)
- [Chris] Don't grab stuff. I'm getting it.
Don't worry. - This is pumpkin.
- Yes, it is. - All right.
Throw it in there.
This is a very fall looking cart.
Okay. That was actually relatively painless.
I thought it was gonna be harder than it was.
I did drop the camera once
and it took a pretty nasty fall.
But I think everything's okay.
A piece fell off of it and I put the piece back on.
So if you're seeing this footage
that means the camera's still working.
That's good news, right?
Anyway, let's go home and put the things in the freezer
that need to go in the freezer
and put the other things away and continue on with our day.
- I have some really big news.
So I was just at my first rehearsal for Matilda Junior
'cause I just got cast as Mrs. Wormwood.
So that's been really fun to play.
I'm really excited.
This is going to be amazing.
I love this show so much.
And my character is interesting.
She's just fun to play.
I don't know. She's a fun character,
but she's kind of the worst.
(both laugh)
- [Christine] It's nice to have a good character to play,
huh? - Yeah.
So what have you guys been doing?
- [Christine] Well, daddy and the boys went to the store
and look through that bag.
They picked up some pretty exciting things.
- Whoa!
These are shaped like leaves.
- [Christine] Yeah. See if you can figure out "the theme".
- Fall?
- [Christine] Yeah. (chuckles) Nailed it!
So they went and they bought every yummy specialty thing
from Trader Joe's that's fall, or like Halloween,
or pumpkin related.
- What?
Pumpkin spice teeny tiny pretzels!
(both laugh)
- [Christine] Doesn't that sound amazing?
- Yes.
A lot of stuff in here.
- [Christine] Yeah. And that's bag one of three or four.
- Pumpkin spiced coffee.
I'm gonna drink this every single day you guys.
I love coffee so much.
Apple caramels?
Yes!
- [Christine] We're gonna film not a challenge video,
I guess like a taste tasting video tomorrow morning
if you wanna join.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Ooh! Pumpkin bisk.
That's delicious.
(chill music)
- Okay. It is much later at night right now.
The kids had some friends come over.
They played, they had a lot of fun.
And now I'm prepping because tomorrow I wanna shoot
like a tasting video of all of the stuff that we got
from Trader Joe's today
and some of the stuff I have to actually cook.
So I'm gonna like cook the pasta and some of the muffins
and things like that and get them prepped for tomorrow.
So we're not all sitting around waiting for stuff to cook
before we taste test them.
So now that all the kids are in bed,
that's what I'm gonna do.
(chill music)
(water running)
(stove turns on)
I'm not sure if I showed this close up
when we were buying stuff
but these are like the coolest little pumpkin pastas.
I love these!
(chill music)
Set timer for 12 minutes.
- [Siri] 12 minutes starting now.
(water draining)
(chill music continues)
- All right.
Pasta is done.
I'm gonna put this in the fridge.
We'll warm it up tomorrow when we film the challenge.
And then we also have these pumpkin rolls.
I gotta bake these up
and get them all ready for tomorrow
and then we'll warm them up
when we're actually doing the challenge.
So let's do it.
(package tearing)
(package pops)
(tray clangs)
Those smell very good.
(chill music)
I think that's all I'm gonna be able to prep for tonight.
Keep a lookout for that video where we taste all this stuff.
And if you want to be notified when that happens
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And I've got a fourth way actually
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and then we'll email you when we post that video.
So that's four ways, that's a lot of ways.
Okay.
It is the next day and I'm setting up right now
for us to taste all this stuff.
And we'll give you a little sneak behind the scenes,
first sneak peek.
Let's do it.
- [Jacob] The pumpkin's still there.
It's not, it's not as much as the other one,
but it's still good.
- Yeah, they're really fun to look at.
But the pumpkin ones are really delicious.
They taste like pumpkins a little bit.
- Yeah. - Only a little bit.
- If you're throwing a fall party
I would go with the, these pumpkin tortilla chips.
- So we just finished filming the Trader Joe's Fall Foods.
It was so fun.
I ended up mostly with Rue.
I was behind the scenes, doling out food.
I wasn't in the video
because I thought Teddy was gonna wake up
and he was at nap and he slept the whole time.
So he was just chilling a nap.
And by the way,
I think you probably have mostly seen
if not only seen Christopher in this vlog.
He was shopping and I was getting things done.
So I've been very much hard at work at home
and I'm so grateful to have had the time
while he was off doing that.
It's wild how much I feel like as a mom
I can accomplish
now that I'm, am a mom and a mom of six.
When I get an hour,
I'm like, "All right! let's do this, let's do this hour."
And it's like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
I'm doing so many things.
So I'm so grateful for time when the house is clear
and I have the space to just think.
I personally really like that.
That's the kind of mom that I am
where I don't feel like I'm as productive.
And then when I get that time alone at my house, it's great.
And I think that there are other moms
and parents who work better the other way around
where they want to get out of the house.
So I feel like there's this really interesting phenomenon
in humans where some people do really well
outside of the house.
They'll go to Starbucks,
they'll go find a little mobile office where they're like,
"I'm gonna get some work done
"and I'm just gonna really focus 'cause I'm not home."
And then there are other people who are like me
where I like the house cleared and I like home.
I feel like I can do the most when I'm here.
But I think, depending on what kind of brain you have,
one thing can be more distracting,
or difficult for you to concentrate in.
So for me, if I leave the house, it's like game over.
I can't do anything.
I think I'm just too interested
in the world around me, or something,
or I'm just not as at home.
I just don't feel as cozy or comfortable.
And when I'm home, I'm like,
"Yeah! I've got so much I can do. I'm so excited!"
Even though I'm home all the time.
And I think, I don't know
it's just something I know that when I started as a mom
I had other moms who were like,
"My rule was I had to get out of the house
"at least once a day."
And they really needed that.
It was a part of what they needed to support
their mental health.
And especially as a stay-at-home mom,
because this was from a group of stay-at-home moms
that I was in.
And I was like,
"I definitely don't do that and I don't want that at all."
I don't want that.
And I think that that's fine.
Especially if you know who you are and what your needs are.
For me, that was what was best.
I don't think that there's a rule
of what you have to be, or do.
It's just good to know what you need and to listen to that.
So anyway, my whole point is I'm so grateful
that I have a husband who listens to me
and understands me.
He will readily take all the boys out of the house
and give me this time.
And I hope that if you are somebody who's looking
for how to support a partner in parenting,
that you're trying to find those moments and switching off
and, you know. (laughs)
So anyway, that works really well for us.
And I'm grateful.
So, yay!
Love him!
(guitar strumming) - Hi!
Let's talk about what we learned today.
We learned that pumpkin body butter is not for eating.
It's for smearing on your head.
We learned that Bailey's excited to be in a play,
even if her character is actually the worst.
And finally, and most importantly,
we learned that Jessica really loves me.
That last one wasn't a joke.
That was, I just, I like hearing it and I love her too.
And I just wanna, I wanna say it.
I wanna tell everybody that I love her.
I love Jessica.
She's the best.
That's all.
All right, thanks for watching everybody.
We'll see you next time.
(guitar strums)
(Teddy giggles)
(funky music)