While she talks, the couple’s 3-year-old son, Peyton, pokes her on the arm.

“Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, look, Mommy,” he chants, trying to get her attention. “Daddy made coffee.”

Jameson ducks into the kitchen, a cell phone to his ear, after corralling the kids to change their clothes and fix them breakfast.

But other than grabbing bagels for the film crew and trying to look decent for the cameras, the couple didn’t make any major changes to their home to get ready for their moment of fame. They wanted the house, and their lives, to look as normal as possible for the reality television show, they said.

That meant keeping their small living room just like it is, without any regular furniture in it. Instead, the light-green walls — decorated with large painted pictures of crayons — are a backdrop for a play area used by the couple’s in-home day-care kids. They left the toy shelves, coat hooks and baby gates in place, too.

“People might think it looks crazy in here, but this is how it looks,” Kelly Smith said with a laugh, explaining that she and her husband take care of children during all three work shifts, including late nights and weekends.