Turning 42 | When is She Gonna Grow up?

This was really sweet. Lily and Gideon snuck up this morning and decorated for Mama's birthday. How old's she gonna be, Birdell?

42!

You excited about Mom's birthday? Mm-hmm. Josiah, what are you excited about the most for Mom's birthday?

I like her birthday.

What do you like about it?

Well, she gets older and she's happy all day.

Ooh, you got a 4 on the door here. 4 balloons, that's nice.

It's actually 7 balloons, but it's supposed to be a 4.

Yeah, looks like a 4. Good job, guys. I guess I should be more quiet because I don't think she knows about this yet. Does she know about this? What do you think it means when you're 42 years old?

It means you're older.

I'm getting old. Getting old, huh? It means you're an adult. I didn't really feel like an adult until I was in my 40s. Welcome to the club. Rebecca. You know what's funny? I find myself saying to Rebecca when we're talking about like when we're grandparents or when the kids are older and gone, I'll say stuff like, when we're grown up, what is— what are we gonna do? How are we gonna deal with the grandkids? So apparently I don't feel grown up yet. Rebecca, you're 1 year older. Do you feel any older? You feeling it? No. You feel grown up? No. When are we gonna feel grown up? We have 5 kids.

I used to always think that I would feel grown up, like I would have this feeling Uh-huh. No feeling.

No feeling.

I still feel like I'm a— like I did when I was a teenager. I feel a little, a little like more tired and all that.

This one, he has made us feel our age.

Yes.

We're gonna be 60 by the time he's 18. Are you gonna be grown up then?

I guess.

I don't know.

It's weird because like I always felt like there would be like a feeling. There'd be like a grown-up feeling.

I know. There's definitely a kid feeling.

I remember when we got married, I remember thinking like, this feels no different.

Yeah.

It's just the same.

Oh, how much are the, um, McLambs up to?

I'm gonna tell you.

The people we helped.

$24,967, so almost $25,000.

Nice. We're almost to the goal.

I'm so excited for them.

Yay! They needed to raise $30,000. I have no doubt we're gonna get there this month. Thank you guys. Thank you guys for contributing to their GoFundMe. I just saw this package. I wonder if it's her birthday gift. I had you order a birthday gift. You think this is it?

You had who?

Did you? Did you order it?

I didn't order my birthday.

Why not?

I can't decide if I want it or not.

Oh, come on. I'm gonna look like a scumbag not getting you anything for your birthday. No. Kind of feels like a bracelet. Oh, is that the ring? That's the ring for the milking thing.

This is the milk ring. Oh my gosh, kind of feels like a bracelet.

Czech Republic. Oh my gosh. Okay, I didn't think this was the ring because I our, uh, we reordered a replacement milk machine just for using for spare parts because it does take so long to get it from the Czech Republic. And I figured the ring would be in that box, but it wasn't. This was in the box, so it came in 3— came in 3 different packages. There was a box for this, a box for this, and a box for that. Ooh, let's play a trick on Grandma. Let's get this out of the package and let's put it somewhere that she'll find it. I put it around the wrong thing and it kind of blends in. How about that? Looks good. Okay, we're gonna put it in there. Hide it back under here. Why is it in there? Because she's coming to cream separate today. She knows this is here. She's gonna take parts out of it. Poor Grandma, she is— she's had dreams about this thing. She's had two dreams about what this thing is. It's tearing her up. All right, well, today's gonna find it. A couple of projects for Mama. It's her birthday. Let's harvest this asparagus. I mean, look at this asparagus. Look, there's a stock, there's a stock. A lot of it's bolted. Whoops. So even that is a little— man, we might be able to get that one. 2 years in the making right there. 2 years you plant asparagus. It's a perennial, so you don't have to ever planted again for decades. Our first harvest. That's kind of neat. Hey, are there any strawberries?

I gave Mom one yesterday.

Those are like her favorite. All right, let's, uh, let's wash these real quick and then we'll present them to her. This is a homesteader's bouquet if I ever saw one. Oh, it's too, it's too short. You might be a homesteader if you get excited about asparagus. A bouquet. Oh wow, homesteader bouquet!

Nice.

2 years in the making.

Yeah, it is.

You like that?

I do.

That's— that'll make that for supper with the pizza. She's been working on this special cake. A little water in the bouquet, keep them fresh. Here you go. Still, if you want to get me some yellow flowers or something at some point, it might be good to mix it in there.

I can go pick some little flowers.

All right, do it, buddy. Gideon! Come on, come on. Yes, yes. Look, we're gonna surprise Mom. We're gonna fill up her green stock. Come on, come on, I need your help. Come on, you can draw later. Come on, come on, come on. Okay, save it. Let's go. I like it. My kids are my number one fan. Look who's here! Yay, the milkman! Been a while.

Good morning.

Yeah, 3 weeks.

How many gallons do you think?

Oh, I don't know. Should we help you get them in? Yeah. Did you count the— count them yet, Grandma?

You know I forgot.

1, 2, 3 pot of beans. No, I'm not going to torture you through that. Let me, let me count and then let's cut to it. There's 26 here, 5 there, 31 gallons.

You're gonna help me today?

Happy birthday! You got the cream separate. Birthday girl!

You guys decorated!

Oh, you see the decorations?

Oh, you guys decorated for me!

Lily and Gideon got up at 5 5:30. No, 5:15. 5:15.

And we took a shower and then we said—

they took a shower and decorated. Those are your kids. And then they went back to bed and listened to audiobooks. Oh, that's so funny.

Oh my word, look at this boy.

Homegrown, homegrown boys. Okay, Grandma, we're 42 years old now, both of us. We still don't feel grown up. That's right.

Yeah.

When, when do we go— when are we gonna feel like we're grown up?

Probably when you're 60.

Is that when you felt grown up?

Yeah. I know, I had Rebecca.

Are you a real adult now?

I was 30 years old when I had Rebecca. So that, if she's 42— Oh my goodness, I guess I've grown up.

Yep. All them grandbabies. Here's the new one. You got the new one?

Yeah, guess where I found the old one?

On the wrong thing.

On the wrong piece.

We won't tell Papa. Was it in your dreams? Was it in your dreams?

Yeah, I've had dreams about it 3 or 4 nights, I'll tell you.

Okay, well, now we have mucho spare parts. We do.

I gotta go show Mama.

Okay, sure.

You'll never guess where I found the seal. This is the one it's supposed to be on, right?

Yeah.

You found it around that?

Yeah, look, it was on the outside like this.

And then Rebecca told her.

And that's a new one. We got two. We got two seals.

Ah! Get out of here!

Not a happy birthday!

Justin Bieber! You creep! I wasn't even gonna let her know until she saw the vlog. Becky gave it away. You guys heading outside?

We are gonna walk outside.

He needs to get some sunshine, little baby Henry. Come on, Link! Let's do this. She'll probably come do this because she loves it, but let's give her an option. We'll water her plants, her beautiful plants. Did you guys ask Amy about that? You didn't ask Amy?

She's sleeping.

Oh no, I hope that's okay. I got this from Amy's yard. Oh, she's sleeping. Are those from the rhododendrons?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Over there.

All right. Or the mountain laurel. But it's a mountain laurel.

That's mountain laurel.

Yeah, mountain laurel. That's beautiful. Put a few of those yellow ones in with the asparagus. Okay guys, let's fill up her green stock. She's gonna plant it on Sunday, but we can go ahead. Sure, we can put the dirt in. Wow, there it is! It's not a problem. All we're gonna do is let's put it right there and just fill it up with our soil. All right, we did it! Now she gets to do the fun part, probably Sunday, just planting those things. We've got Sally loaded for milking time. Big special move today. It's— we got to get them over there into Arun's yard. Come on, guys, come on! Here they come. So easy to move these guys. He's getting a little carried away. Arun's guiding though. They're going right to it. It's like they know. Got a little strand going across the road so they didn't keep going down. And there they go. They'll be happy grazing our yards. You think we can do it? You think it's going to go up this bank pulling this sled? Well, there's only one way to find out. Broke the strap. The— see, it caught right there. So let's get it now hooked up over there. We have to go straight at this. I think we bring some chain or something. Let's go see if we don't have a chain that would work. There's a chain. We also have this chain. I don't know if it's got hooks on it. That'd be more like it. If we get hooks, that could work. Now let's just use this big chain. Arin's found a chain too. I like the thickness of that. Which one? This one? Yeah. Now see if that carabiner will fit on there, it'll be perfect. So close. And we can do that, it'll still slide back and forth. A slightly smaller carabiner would do it. All right, well let's see if that'll work. Now can we get up this hill? It's no doubt Sally can do it. It's these skids that catch in the bank. Did feel a jolt when we were coming up this bank. You can see where we skidded on that first time. Is that where we hit? I don't know, but we made it. Everything seems to be— oh look, it really scraped in right there. Oh well, we made it. Becky, is that caramel?

It's gonna be caramel with our cream.

Oh, which we have plenty of now. How much cream did we get, Grandma?

5 and a half quarts.

We're gonna have to make some butter.

Yeah, you can make ice cream and just freeze it.

That's true, that's true.

It doesn't have to be all—

whip it out whenever, whenever we feel the notion.

That's right.

How'd it turn out? It turned out perfect. How are you going to keep it that consistency until party time? Well, or do you just go ahead and put it on the cake?

I think because, because I, um, did a good job with it, I don't think I put—

Yeah, that's a jab since I did the last one.

No, it tastes terrible.

You know what, I actually followed the directions.

Did you follow the directions?

Yeah, I did.

Where you like melted the butter and then like whisked in the maple syrup like real nice and then added— I've never done it like that before.

Before. Oh, so I know, maybe that's my problem.

It's gonna turn out—

oh, oh, that's why it did turn out so good this time.

And then I made it.

Yeah, that is like perfect.

I made your sauce.

Oh, you made the pizza sauce?

I made it.

I was supposed to make that for you.

Well, you kept asking me where the recipe—

I'll make the crust for you, which is the pain in the mouth.

I will let you do that.

While Rebecca was cooking up an amazing birthday something or another, I was working on our Abundance Plus Submission, our new streaming platform. Basically putting logos. Let's see, where are these logos going? Just check it out. So that's the Android app icon, the transparent one, launch screen. Look what I gotta do, got all kinds of variants of our logo. Android feature graphic, TV branded transparent logo, TV branded solo, solid logo. Uh, TV login background. You like that one? That's nice. Uh, TV launch screen. This is basically our streaming platform for Rooted. And then I got, I got some ideas for some other stuff. Stay tuned. It says we're 100% complete. This took a while, and this isn't the— I think this is like my third run at it, but it's one of those hurry up and waits. They need this to get us in there, and we're wanting to launch this app. Across all the platforms— Roku, Android, iPhone, all the things. Fire Stick. Amazon Fire Stick, is that what it's called? Anyway, let's hurry up and wait. Let's hit the submit button. Boom. Thanks for providing the information. We'll be in touch in the next few weeks. Okay, there you go. Oh, and it says, and breathe. All right, good to have that. On its way. Hoping to launch that, our new app, coming in August. Abundance Plus. See, look, baby Henry's in his happy spot. Mom, you're getting it done. Baby Henry's in his happy spot.

I know.

What is this now?

I'm making, um, some powdered sugar out of maple sugar.

My word. Look how many jars we had though.

That's— that— look up there, that's The first load.

More, more right there, and then some on the counter. I was making Rebecca some pico de gallo for lunch. Uh, don't have any cilantro in the fridge, but she said there's some in the yard. That's what we're talking about. We're into this season now, aren't we?

Do you know where it's at?

I guess I have no idea. I figured it'd be out here somewhere. Oh wow, self-seeded mucho cilantro from when it was over there.

Nice, the wind blew the seeds.

That's cool. Ah, that's so strong. Fresh. That's what I'm talking about. Lemon juice, tomatoes, onions, and cilantro. To go with that, some meat and cheese. Are you waking up? Aww. You smiling at me? Are you smiling at me? Is it a good day with a good nap? Mmm. Not too fond of hugs. Okay, it's my turn to cook. Uh, perfect grain-free pizza crust. Mr. Henry, you're gonna— will you sit there while we do the Bernardo Cooking Show? You will? Are you excited about that? Be in the bouncy chair. Well, we got Grandma's pizza coming on, the kids' pizza, my pizza has turned out great. Hibiscus tea. Yep, hibiscus tea coming on. You seeped it, now you're gonna put it on ice. Look who's got Henry. Does he like that? Josiah changed his diaper. Was that the first time?

Yep.

Nice. How was it?

Wow, fine, I guess.

Look at this nice presentation, guys. Yeah, presents. How is it, Josiah? You eat that pizza yet?

Nope.

You like it, Jonah?

Yeah.

Good. Present time. Gideon. Gideon's first. Somebody help him. Help her get in.

Open this. We're not going to use them right away. Oh boy. Yeah, because the baby's asleep.

That's right. Lowers. Ellie, help Mom open yours. Gideon says this is going to be her favorite. Oh yeah, she'll enjoy that.

A puzzle.

That's a 500-piece puzzle.

I thought you would like a puzzle.

These are real small.

I know. Oh, birthday girl ribbon. Jonah, it's your turn. And Jonah got you a bead necklace. Bead necklace.

I didn't pick that out.

Who did?

I didn't pick that out.

I didn't pick it out, Grandma.

Oh, that's right, because you weren't even there. No. You were with us.

Put it on Mama.

Give one to Hendrick. I'm going for it.

Boy, she's from Grandma and Grandpa.

Oh boy. Oh boy. Whatever it is, it doesn't want to come out.

Yeah, as long as it isn't a cat. Oh please, not a cat.

Yeah, here we go. Lotion and a blueberry soup. Blueberry soap. Oh, that smells really good. Wow, it does smell good. Look at how baby Henry's sleeping. Yeah, he's got his little arms crossed.

He's so cute.

What'd you get, Mama? A nice nap right now.

That's what he's giving me.

Happy birthday to you. Wow, that turned out really nice. Yeah, yeah, caramel harden up nice. Yeah, how is it? It's good. Next.

I feel like the cake's a little dry, but it's not terrible. I don't know. I have to look that up.

Time to bless the birthday person. Youngest to oldest. Gideon. Can you say something nice about— She's a good mom. You're a good mom.

I like Mama because she gave birth to me and takes care of me.

Aww. That's good. You like that one?

That's a good one.

I like Mama.

She's a good mom. She gets me things I need. She's nice because she gave birth to us and lets us play, and she's a nice mother.

I've been thinking, uh, oh, I've been thinking, you know, you're smart, you're funny, you're fun to be around, you're the life of the party, you make the broader world a better place, you inspire lots of people with your bravery. Just the other day I was just thinking, looking at you and thinking I'm so glad she chose me because she's awesome. So I should thank you two for giving birth to her, and then I should thank you for keeping alive and staying around.

Thank you.

Choosing me. You're very fortunate.

She was a sweet child, very compliant, cleaned her room just like your kids clean their room.

Oh. That's where they get that cleanliness from.

Yep, it was all under the bed. But no, we're just blessed beyond measure.

I'm glad that she came because she wasn't coming. She wasn't coming with us to North Carolina. Yeah, she was gonna stay in Florida. She wanted to stay in Florida. Yeah. But then she changed her mind. I think she enjoyed all the places that we lived, all the things that we did, and she was always, always ready to go and do something new. We're thankful that she's made it this far. All right, good, and go ahead and blow them out. Oh, really?