Tonight, "Beach and Kitchen Reveal" on Jon & Kate Plus 8. At our house: a raging thunderstorm.

The ktichen renovation isn't finished, and Kate is still at the beach, making bacon and eggs for her kids in a garguantuan ... kitchen. She claims she feeds her kids bacon or sausage only about twice a year.

Kate S.: "Uh-oh; they're saying they miss Daddy."

Our cable goes out. Yikes! Comes back on to show Kate snuggling one of the little girls; we're not sure which one.

Kate S.: "That's really cute. It's the most affectionate I've ever seen her with one of the kids."

Kate talks about how this was her first vacation as a soon-to-be-separated mom, and how she made "all of the decisions."

John: "She was the sole one making the decisions before!'

As they go to commercial, Kate announces the kids are going to "paint themselves with pudding."

John: "She's giving up control!"

Cara and Mady, the older twins, are into performing lately, Kate G. says. They are also kind of bossing around the little ones.

Back at the homestead...

John: "Apparently their design team can't measure."

One of the contractors seems to be describing the renovation as "total disaster" on the phone to someone. But then he says they'll be out of there in a few days.

At the beach and lacking paintbrushes, Kate hatches the plan for the kids to paint themselves with pudding. Chocolate pudding. Hilarity ensues.

John: "You can lick your kids!"

Kate S.: "Disgusting. But this actually does look fun."

John: "There goes your security deposit on the place."

Jon is shown wearing a T-shirt with the words blocked out -- "A non-sponsor?" asks our John -- and discusses his earring wearing. It is not a mid-life crisis, he says.

Meanwhile, Kate says she is amazed at how "adjustable" her children have become.

Kate S.: "Do you think Jon is having a midlife crisis?"

John: "Midlife, no. Crisis, yes."

The kids and Kate visit a snake museum, freaking Kate out.

John: "She's doing things she's never done before."

Kate: "What do you think of that?"

John: "Well, I think there are lots of things she needs to try, and to work on. Holding a snake is not one of them."

Kate says she is trying not to feel sorry for herself. Jon says it was good that they were away -- "especially Kate."

Kate S.: "Ouch."

The kids and Kate pull up in a bus and the kitchen is....beautiful. So much for the disaster. "Holy cow, it's like a different room."

Kate S.: "I want that kitchen."

John: "You can have it in heaven."