This is a stairway like none other.
Here we go. Up the stairway that doesn't seem to end.
Oh dude!
It's easier if you jog. Is it? Yeah.
Then we have to go down.
It will be so fun.
Holy cow.
This is really high. So many stairs.
It's not getting any easier.
If we fall we die. We are dead.
We are not going to fall.
Look who made it. Wave.
They made it.
Now just us.
We might have to have you just drive around and pick us up.
Ahh, we are almost there!
We made it girls. We made it. Awe man!
Here comes Mama
Thats pretty awesome! Huh?
You can see really far!
I see Tokyo Sky Tree. Is that Tokyo Sky Tree? Yeah, that's Tokyo Sky Tree.
Look at our car down there.
Oh its so far away.
And there is Aunt Debbie's. Is that Aunt Debbie's?
Lets walk down that way.
Yeah, we are not going to run downhill.
Imagine if you had your razor ripsticks here.
Ohhhhhh!
Wouldn't that be so cool?
Dangerous! If you go too far, too fast and we can't get off, we are just going to jump and then ow.
That's a cool hat there Becca.
Advertising for the coffee shop, huh?
All these fun little paths here. It was good to get out today a little bit, huh.
Exercise the legs.
Ok stop!
Good job! Ok lets go.
Stop.
Stop. I said stop. I didn't stay go. Stop.
Joshua, obey. Joshua!
Joshua. Daddy did not say go.
Stop, stop. Ok go.
Ok? Ok.
(Laughing)
Woa! Man down! Link fell off his horse! Oh no! Oh no.
Now he is getting on me!
No, no, noooo. Please don't kick me! (Laughing)
I'm a, I'm a good horse.
Try to get me.
Neigh!
Daddy's in the shower.
Not yet. Woah! That scared me!
Becca is wiping down the table.
What are we about to do?
Make a card for Mommy. For Mother's Day, right?
We can't mail anything for Grandma. Anything.
Because we can't mail right now while the virus.
Everybody is working hard on their Mother's Day cards.
Lets see yours Anna Cakes.
Ok, Awe, that's beautiful Anna.
What about you Sarah?
Awe, very nice.
Beckster Booster still working on yours? Yes, but right now it's like this.
Awe, very nice, I like it!
Do you guys know what day it is? Mother's Day. That's right!
Here's some flowers we got for her.
Lets be quiet. We have to have our sneaky clothes on, ok? Ok.
Ok, sneaky clothes.
Ok, and we'll go wake up Big J first.
We've got Mommy's breakfast here.
Hey, its Mother's Day. Do you want to go in and give your card to Mommy?
There he is. Here's your card to give to Mommy.
Ok, ok.
Happy Mother's Day. Awe, thank you!
Oh, my goodness, how beautiful!
Awe!
Its so cute! Thanks girls! Can I have a hug, and Joshua.
Awe. Awe.
Breakfast. We have breakfast in bed. Yay.
Have you guys had breakfast? With some yummy pastries.
Do you guys want to go get your donuts and come sit in here with me?
What! Donuts? I got donuts for you guys too.
Go, go, go... Ok?
It's a chocolate donut. Yes!
Did you guys find it? That's it right there.
How's the donuts? Good. Good?
There is one for Daddy too. Are you comfortable now?
There's the cards from the kids. Awe, we love you mommy.
On Mother's Day, we took the kids out so the moms could relax a bit.
Can we play freeze tag? You guys can play freeze tag, yes.
Awe... Awe, what? We want you to be it.
You want me to be it?
If you tag us, we freeze and the other people that are not it need to save us.
Pretend Sarah got tagged.
Sarah got tagged, she's frozen. Now I tag her, she unfreeze.
Oh, is that how it works? I have the fire and you have the freeze machine.
Hey guys, should Daddy make us some grilled cheese?
Anybody want some grilled cheese?
Yeah! Party! I'm helping Joshua today.
Copying Joshua.
So, I'm going to make my specialty which is grilled cheese and give Ruth a rare break here in the kitchen.
Do you like it? Do you?
I love Daddy's grilled cheese. It's so yummy.
So I'm working hard to get this video done for all of you, but guess what? There is a lightning storm right now. I need to shut everything down and unplug it.
Wow! So cool!
Oh it's thundering, please stay inside.
Wow! I looked back! No!
Are the boys having a special night down here tonight Joshua?
We're going to play some Mario cart down here while the girls watch a movie upstairs, huh.
Are they having a sleepover upstairs? Yeah. Oh, that's really cool, isn't it?
Are you guys having a sleepover up here?
Oh my goodness! How fun!
Night, night girls, I love you all.
Kisses and hugs!
Getting the kitchen all set up and ready for a baking video, huh?
Ok, enjoy. We will.
Ok. Hi everyone. Today, thanks for joining me in my kitchen.
We are going to make some banana oatmeal muffins.
Ok, so I have all my ingredients here.
You can use regular flour, regular sugar. You can use whole wheat flour, different types of sugar.
Its just that I like to make them extremely healthy for my children, because its got a couple bits of chocolate chips, so then they eat it all.
So I add the chocolate chips to help them eat the food but I put a lot of healthy ingredients in it because then they don't know its super healthy.
Ok, so lets start.
So we are going to use one cup whole wheat flour.
Half a cup of oatmeal.
Half a cup of sugar.
One fourth cup of coconut oil and I melted it because coconut oil does not mix well.
One teaspoon of baking soda.
Take all the little lumps out.
Baking soda likes too clump.
One teaspoon of baking powder.
And then I also put in about one fourth a cup of chia seeds.
And our bananas. It's about one cup. When bananas start to turn brown, I peel them, throw them in a bag and put them in the freezer.
So this is about one cup of frozen bananas that have kind of mostly defrosted already.
Now, we will turn on .. Oops! And I forgot we need to put in some eggs!
I like to put in two eggs.
But you can do it with just one egg.
Ok.
Now we will beat it.
Ok.
Once that is all mixed, we are going to put it in our muffin tins.
My kids are asking if they can lick it. Nooo.
Ok, now to this mix, I like to add about one fourth a cup, actually about one half a cup of chocolate chips.
Just hand mix those in.
Ok. Sure come help me.
Heres my little helpers.
Ok, you do it on that and you do it on this.
Meanwhile, I'm going to preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Ok, can you girls back away please? Bye-bye. Thank you.
Then an ice-cream scooper is perfect.
You want to fill them about three fourths full.
Make sure you get a little bit chocolate chips in each one.
We use it all.
My kids like to see that there is chocolate, so I add 3-4 about 3 chocolate chips on top of each one.
I used to put chocolate chips just on the top, but my son, he is four, he would eat just the top part of the muffin because it had the chocolate chips.
So now I add some chocolate chips inside the batter and as he goes eating it he discovers there is chocolate throughout so he eats the whole muffin.
Now, as soon as our oven is preheated, this is going to go in the oven for 20 minutes.
Now we wait.
We do a dance, dance, dance while we wait, wait, wait.
Put this part in the YouTube.
I can't see Anna.
Ok, that's enough now.
Ok, so our oven is preheated so I'm going to stick these in for 20 minutes.
Ok, while those are in the oven, I just want to share a quick little experience about living life in the midst of all these different things that are going on.
With corona virus, and having my kids at home and homeschooling them.
That you know its so important for us as moms to have our kids involved in daily life.
Most of the time when they are in school, they are gone all day but now they are home, so lets teach them how to make some food,
How to bake, how to clean the house...
And, the first couple of days were rough, no one wanted to help, "Ah mom, we don't want to do that!"
But now they are enjoying it, most of the time, they love baking and cooking with me,
They like tasting the things that they made, and we praise them and tell them that they are doing such a great job and that encourages them.
So during this time when you are stuck at home, in tight spaces together, lets take advantage and invest in our children.
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What are we going to do here?
Take cookies to our friends.
We've been baking, well, Mommy's been doing a lot of baking, huh?
I helped with the cinnamon rolls. You did?
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