Jonah (1st Born) DRIVERS ED!

Wake up, sleepyhead. Driver's ed today.

I have to do reviews.

You're driving on the road today. He's already put our turkeys up. Were you able to get the turkeys back up? Yep. Sweet. Good morning, sleepyhead. Hopefully he's had enough practice on these things. He don't make a fool of himself. Think he will? No. See what the temperature is this morning. It's probably 65, 70 outside. What's it up there?

130.

Whoa. All right, killing weed seeds at that temp. Gonna be good compost.

Back from the dead.

Where you been?

I've been crawling around out in Laurel Park putting floor in. All right, so I'll come back today, but I got to be off Monday for an anniversary.

All right, congratulations. How long you been married?

31.

Nice. It's hard pounding in here because it's such shallow soil. I think he's hit a rock already. Putting a tree guard over our little maple tree there. We're growing up these little tree guards for maples and locusts, just foresting our pastures. Okay, Leah, we got a surprise for you. We got your favorite meal for your going away party. Mashed potatoes.

So nice.

Looks amazing.

Thank you, guys.

Leah's going away. Oklahoma. She's gonna come back a cowgirl. How's that steak, everyone? Good. Good. And Jonah, you're gonna drive on the big bad road today.

Yeah.

Can you believe it?

I'm nervous.

Our firstborn is driving on the road today. Are you nervous?

A little bit.

What are you afraid of?

Hitting another car.

Are you nervous for him?

Are you sure they have insurance?

No.

Yeah, but I want to live. I don't want to have to have another hip replacement.

I've never really heard of a student driver getting in an accident. I mean, it seems like it's very possible, but—

Man, you cuttin' us off, Jack! This penny had your name on it, man! I was about to throw this penny at you! He was about to throw a penny at you!

You see Diana driving?

Just do the driving, man!

I think it's because you're gonna be so careful.

Are you nervous while we're texting?

No.

Just saying, nervous about nothing.

No, he's only nervous when I'm driving with him. No, when he's driving with me.

Are you nervous about anything ever? Yes. What?

Him.

Well, he never gives me a chance. He'll yell at me 10 feet from where I'm supposed to look.

Sounds like my dad, but—

He's like— Stop, stop it!

Why you sound like this?

I can't even see up the road.

That's why I quit driving, because you're so much better driver than me. As long as I keep the camera rolling, I'm safe. Turn this off.

It is, isn't it?

Turn it off. I'm afraid to turn the camera off.

No, don't.

Turn it off.

All right, I'll let you know how it goes.

Well, the fly bit me.

There's a sticker.

I can just stick it afterwards.

That's so pretty, Lily. Once again, you've outdone yourself.

Look at Henry. Dead serious. Brownies, ice cream, and cake. Good job, Lily. We're at the thing. Good luck.

All right.

He's driving. We're gonna be those parents stalking for a few minutes. You driving?

Yeah, look, he's gonna pass somebody.

Oh, it's his first pass. Go faster, pass him.

I'm trying.

Now yell out the window. Now we're gonna be those dorks. I wonder if that guy has a brake on his side. My driver as a teacher did. That's me. So that's my brake, right?

Yes.

Isn't that cool?

Uh-huh.

I have my own brake. Really fun.

Yeah, it's fun.

This is his first stop sign.

He's losing me.

He lost me.

He says, "See you later, Mom." He must think we're helicopter parents.

'Cause he doesn't know. There he is.

Oh, he's turning around. Okay, honey, we got an hour and 25— hour and 20 minutes for a date. What shall we do?

You got a daughter that can bake.

Well, I know about the None of these are going to be anything we can eat.

Well, you wish you could eat glue. Just found a classic. The Foxfire book. This is good old-fashioned country living right here. We just snuck in a date, didn't we? We did. Somebody had to take Jonah to driver's ed. Why not us both go and sneak in a date? Well, we haven't got any calls. That must mean it's good. Yeah, well, he must be doing good. He said the only way he can't pass is if he crashes or gets a speeding ticket. He's not gonna get a speeding ticket.

He might crash.

He's gonna do fine. He can drive.

Hey, what's going on?

They're already back. How'd you do, bud?

It's every student's reaction. It's easier than I thought.

Is it?

But don't get overconfident.

Yeah, don't get overconfident.

He done good. Okay, so how was it really?

It was good, actually.

It was good. How was it really?

Did you go on this 4-way highway right Here? Any scary moments?

No.

Learn anything that surprised you? No. I think Randolph might be making a mistake. Hey, hold on, Randolph. He got you framing in a, uh, double door here.

He wants me to put the old doors.

Okay, okay, just seal it up just temporarily. Okay, you got Becky freaking out out there.

How'd you put this door back?

Look at this door. Yeah, we gotta tell her this. That's what the inspector said. That's what he said to do. The inspector came by And he said we have to use the old door.

Though I did say, what's he doing?

Why is that door in?

She thought you were putting in a window.

Are you putting in a window? Yeah, but we're just doing this just temporary.

Yeah, well, I don't know.

He's just being a punk.

Hey, look, they floored it.

You need the ladder so I can get up there?

Yeah, you want to be the first to get up in the attic? Jonah's butting in line back. He won't even let you go up there. You could put toe weight on that. I don't know how many times I'm gonna tell him that. Whatever you can put on your toe, bro.

Look, my head goes past the rafter right here.

Do you need to stand up there if we're sleeping here?

Yes.

Why do you need to stand if you're sleeping?

I want a box that goes like this.

Why?

So when we go up the ladder, we can walk in. Oh, these won't be taken out, but it'll go to here.

You guys will just have beds down here.

This is plenty of room to crawl up here.

I mean, you stand down here and twirl around.

Do you want to do twirling? Go down there.

I was wondering.

Okay, okay.

This is just laying down. Now it's going to have a railing or something, right?

We—

yes, it'll have a railing. And I was going to do like stairs. I want high ceilings.

I want—

this is the priority down here.

All the way up.

Yes, that's the bonus. That's 100% bonus.

Totally.

That wasn't even in the plans. Let's go up to my library. Excited about this. To my library, Becky. I won't be able to stand up, but this is going to be cool. You just crawl up here, lay down, sit on bean bag, read a book, right? That could be a guest room. What a cool guest room.

Our bedroom door opens this way and then walk in.

Yeah, that was smart.

Shelving.

You can literally do like— look how tall the ceilings are.

You could lower it.

No.

What's your thing with ceilings? We're gonna put a window in here too. No, because you want shelving.

What happens if we did a skylight?

What if the skylight was where we could walk under?

Like, because the skylight would have to go to the ceiling.

Yeah. How was your little man?

Are you good?

Jonah passed his first day.

If we would just do a little skinny staircase.

Yeah, I like it.

This could be so nice.

I didn't, I didn't realize this back porch was gonna be so nice. Look at the views from here still.

I mean, I didn't know that.