– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(gentle guitar music)

(Jackson yelling)

- [Jared] Penny, what good is a pillow

if you don't even lay on it?

- Well after laying in bed all morning

and Jackson's like please, I want to eat,

I'm like fine, I'll get up,

I'll make breakfast.

I made some eggs

and Jackson wanted to eat outside.

I said it's a little cold, I think.

He goes that's okay.

And so he is eating outside.

Is that what you're doing?

- Yeah.

- [Ellie] And you can see my pan the other day,

I totally smoked the house out,

so I threw it out here to cool off.

Why are you cute to want to eat out there Spiderman?

Okay do you want me to close the door

or do you want to come in?

You want to come in now?

- Yeah.

(Ellie laughs)

- Bye.

- [Jared] Hi, you're on the phone with someone?

Who are you talking to?

Oh the graham cracker.

What did the graham cracker have to say?

- Says it's talk.

- [Jared] Are you talking?

It's ringing, answer it.

He's gotta update his app first.

- Hey!

- [Jared] Hey that's his phone, where's your phone?

He's gotta update his apps first, before he can use it okay?

- Hey!

- [Jared] The new operating system just came out.

He's gotta update, so he has the latest firmware.

- Where's the letter E?

E!

- Like what kid uses a graham cracker

as a cell phone.

That is the time that we're living in right now,

where phones are this thin

and they look like candy bars

and graham crackers.

What's the deal guys?

We get home from church

and the first thing you can do is just

take off your clothes

and you're in your diaper and undies?

What's the deal, huh?

Huh, what's the deal?

What's he?

He gave this knife and just patted me on the leg

and was like, here you go Dad.

Hey are you comfy now?

Are you comfy now? - Yeah.

- [Jared] Close your eyes, go to sleep.

(laughing)

(Jackson yelling)

- That's his reaction from when Mom and Dad just kissed.

Where is he?

- Hey Jackson, I want to kiss her.

- Jared just kissed me and Jackson went

(yelling)

(yelling)

Wait wait Jackson wait stop stop stop stop,

wait wait, hold on one second.

(yelling)

(laughing)

- You're a goofball.

(yelling)

- Hey Jackson.

(yelling)

Follow me this way here real quick.

Let's take a closer look.

Oh, some more evidence here.

Ah-ha.

Excuse me, Calvin,

- [Ellie] Go tell Dad what you did.

- Come over here young man.

Calvin Scott Mecham,

I need you to come over with me please.

Calvin come on!

Excuse me young man,

do you know anything about this right here?

Is that yours?

- It's mine.

- [Jared] Well where's the rest of it?

- Gone.

- [Jared] It's gone?

- Yeah.

- [Jared] Where did it go?

- Show.

- [Jared] Where'd it go, you're gonna show me where it went?

- Yeah.

- [Jared] Okay let's see, show me the way.

(laughing)

- No.

- No not here okay.

- [Ellie] Did he look in the toilet?

- [Jared] Well he went in there and said no.

Where did it go, show me.

No, not down the stairs.

- No.

- This is the great chocolate detective.

Show me where it went.

- No.

- [Jared] No?

Where did it go?

(laughing)

- No.

(laughing)

No.

- [Jared] No?

Okay, is it in your tummy?

- Yeah.

- Yes, it's in your tummy.

It's in your tummy?

- Yes.

- [Jared] You took me on this wild goose chase

and it's in your tummy this whole time?

(laughing)

- Dad, he took one and it was in his tummy.

- Yeah, oh my goodness.

Okay well here's the deal,

you are your mother's son, that's for sure,

that's point number one.

Yeah, I'm looking at you.

- He's silly.

- Point number two,

you can't just leave garbage lying around the house.

Let's go throw it in the garbage, okay?

No?

- You know what, that made my dad always always the maddest,

he'd be like I don't care that you ate

the last licorice,

I don't care that you ate it,

don't leave the empty bag in the pantry,

because then that makes me mad

when I go to eat the licorice

and there's none there. - There's nothing there.

- That's the worse thing.

But guess what,

I'm guilty of that more than anyone else.

in the world. - Oh yeah.

- Calvin, that was hilarious.

- You guys have seen on our vlogs

and on Ellie's Instagram Stories

that we love Hello Fresh.

It is dinner time, so we are making Hello Fresh.

But what you guys probably don't see

is all of the times outside of the vlog

that we're actually using and making Hello Fresh,

because we love it.

It's easy, its quick and it's delicious.

Hello Fresh is a meal kit delivery service

that delivers food to your door for free

in a recyclable, insulated box

and all of the food is pre-measured, cut,

whatever you need to make it fast and easy.

Today we are making Carolina Barbecue Chicken

and I've just gotta smash this chicken down to size.

(pounding)

(sizzling)

(chill twangy music)

While we're watching this sizzle,

it smells so good already,

every week, Hello Fresh comes out

with new recipes and they come

with step by step instructions.

And each meal takes like 30 minutes to cook.

This one says it takes about 20 minutes.

Each meal comes out to less than 10 bucks,

so it's a great deal for great food.

- So while Jared is finishing making up dinner,

I wanted to tell you guys

that we only have three meals shipped

to us a week.

You can definitely have more,

but we have felt that for our family

that that's perfect, because if there's a day

we want to go out to dinner, we can do that,

and that also gives me the opportunity

to still cook some meals that I want,

but I'm not so overwhelmed with cooking every night.

The meals that we've made that I've absolutely loved,

I've written down, and then I go out

and by those on my own and make those,

in addition to the meals that we get

for the new week.

So I have Beef Ragu Spaghetti

that I have written down that I really liked.

And the Southwest Stuffed Peppers are awesome.

You can see Calvin drew all over it.

But those peppers are my favorite

and I instagramed those the other day,

or I tweeted that the other day.

It was by far my favorite

and then I made it for my sisters the other night.

And then today for lunch,

I actually made the Chicken Pineapple Quesadilla.

So good, like all the meals are hearty,

they're yummy.

I cook a lot more in the kitchen,

but it's just been a nice break for me,

so I don't have to prepare dinner

and lunch every single day all the time.

It really has eliminated a lot of work

on my shoulders, so I'm glad.

We've been doing this for how many months?

- Nine months?

- Yeah, so the first time we did work

with Hello Fresh, we really liked it,

and then we worked with them another time

and then Jared started just having it come

every week, just because we really

just fell in love with it, so.

This would be awesome for the holidays coming up,

sometimes you really don't know what you get

your parents that have pretty much everything

that they want or need

and this is something that I'm writing down,

shhh, I don't want my parents to watch.

Something that I want to get family,

because it's helpful.

- [Jared] So this is what the final plate looks like.

I'm so happy with myself.

I think it looks so delicious.

If you guys want to try Hello Fresh,

check out the link in the description down below

or go to hellofresh.com.

If you enter the code ellieandjared30,

when you subscribe, you'll get $30 dollars

off your first week of delivery.

Seriously Hello Fresh, thank you for being today's sponsor.

Thank you for making my wife happy and love you so much.

Because she really really does.

- Hey I want you guys to come fold my laundry next,

that would be great.

- Full service Hello Fresh.

Goodnight.

Goodnight buddy.

Hi sweet girl, did you have a good potty break.

Yeah?

You're such a good girl.

Penny, what good is a pillow if you don't even lay on it?

There you go, yeah, get in your place, come on.

It's the funniest thing,

lay on the pillow Sillypants McGee.

That is not comfortable.

That is much more comfortable.

In church, you know I teach primary,

so I teach the eight and nine year old kids

and in the big class where all the classes get together,

we sing primary songs,

and one of the songs we were singing about

is families, it's about families

and families can be together forever.

The first words are like I have a family here on earth,

they are so good to me,

and while we were singing that song,

I just got punched in the gut, in the heart

and I just thought of something for a second

and I just

(gentle music)

We have been trying to have

- [Ellie] Yeah.

- a baby and it has been difficult for us.

We've gone through two miscarriages recently

and I just have been thinking about our future family.

And I got hit with the realization

that we may only have two kids of our own

and that's not a bad thing.

This may be our family right now

and I'm so grateful for them.

I'm not sure what the future has in store for us,

but I just got hit with the fact that

this might be it and that's not a bad thing at all,

but it was hard for me to hear that voice

say that to me, because of what we've gone

through and everything

and I'm not trying to set any standards or plans

or anything like that,

but it just came into my head,

- [Ellie] You need to always be grateful for what you have.

- Yeah exactly, I want to be grateful for what I have,

but I also want to be prepared

for the events that may or may not happen in the future.

Whether or not that is true,

if we do or don't have more kids,

it just hit me that that's a possibility

that Jackson and Calvin may be it.

And I feel like I have to preface that,

I am grateful for our kids,

but it's just hard to have that come to my realization.

Do you know what I mean by that?

That's what I wanted to tell you a little bit.

It's not too often that I just get hit

with these moments, these sudden clarity things,

and I never wanted to come across

that I'm not grateful for what I have,

because the amount of gratitude

that I have is unimaginable.

And it was just weird for me to have that feeling

and to have it so close to me right now

and I feel like that's the feeling that I wanted

to have come across,

and I don't know what's going to happen,

but I want to be prepared for any situation

that may come.

You may have heard that this video is filmed on Sunday

but it's uploaded later.

We're currently a day ahead of schedule right now

and that's on purpose.

After Halloween, Ellie and I are going to be out of town

and we're not going to be able to upload

while we are out of town,

so we have some videos that we're filming

in the meantime to go up while we're gone

and we'll resume normal schedule

as soon as we get back.

I wanted to let you guys know ahead of time,

so you're not shocked when it does happen,

but it's gonna be a lot of fun.

I'm excited for you to see the videos

that we have planned,

but for now, we're gonna end the vlog.

Thank you so much for watching.

I hope you had a wonderful evening

and we will see you next time.

Bye.

Go get Mama.

Go get Mom, go get Mom.

- [Ellie] Penny (growls).

- Go get Mom, go get Mom. - Penny.

- Hey that's my towel.

- [Jared] She wants to wash her face too.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
lay /leɪ/ A2	verb - to place something down in a resting position
breakfast /ˈbrek.fəst/ A1	noun - the first meal of the day
outside /ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/ A1	adverb - in or into a position not inside
cold /koʊld/ A1	adjective - low in temperature
update /ˈʌpˌdeɪt/ B1	verb - to make something more modern or suitable for use now
operating /ˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ/ B1	adjective - functioning or being in effect
firmware /ˈfɜːrmˌwɛər/ C1	noun - software programmed into a device's hardware
evidence /ˈɛvɪdəns/ B1	noun - something that proves a fact or truth
garbage /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ/ A2	noun - waste material or unwanted things
delicious /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ A2	adjective - highly pleasing to the taste
recipe /ˈrɛsəpi/ A2	noun - a set of instructions for preparing a dish
hearty /ˈhɑːrti/ B1	adjective - substantial and filling
gratitude /ˈɡrætɪtud/ B1	noun - the quality of being thankful
prepared /prɪˈpɛərd/ B1	adjective - ready or organized for use
grateful /ˈɡreɪtfəl/ A2	adjective - feeling or showing thanks

Key Grammar Structures

• Penny, what good is a pillow if you don't even lay on it?

  ➔ Conditional Sentence (Type 2 - hypothetical)

  ➔ The sentence uses 'if' to present a hypothetical situation. The structure is 'if + past simple, would + base form'. It implies that Penny *doesn't* lay on the pillow, and asks about the point of having it. The phrase 'what good is...' is an idiomatic way of questioning the usefulness of something. The verb 'lay' is used correctly (to place something down).

• What did the graham cracker have to say?

  ➔ Indirect Question

  ➔ This is an indirect question, starting with 'What did...' instead of a direct question like 'What does...?' Indirect questions have a different word order than direct questions (subject-verb inversion is not used). The use of 'have to say' is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to express an opinion'.

• He's gotta update his apps first, before he can use it okay?

  ➔ Contraction & Modal Verb + Infinitive

  ➔ The sentence uses the contraction 'He's' for 'He is'. 'Gotta' is a colloquial contraction of 'got to'. 'Update' is followed by 'his apps' (possessive pronoun). The phrase 'before he can use it' is a subordinate clause indicating time. 'Okay?' is a tag question seeking confirmation.