Would you believe it if we told you our family has grown since the last episode?
We now have 8 kids in our home. You heard right... EIGHT!
In this episode, we take a trip down memory lane, filled with funny stories, including the surprising moment we found out we were expecting our first child.
Ever wondered how this family handles bedtime, meetings, unexpected sickness, and the arrival of four additional kids in under 90 days? We'll bring you along on this wild ride – and what an adventure it's been!
We're also discussing the invaluable support we've received from our friends, family, church, and community. Laugh along with (or AT) us while we play a game of lip-reading, and listen in as we reflect on the importance of quality time and setting healthy bedtimes for kids.
We wrap up the episode by discussing the concept of living an unhurried life, pruning the things that hold us back, and being obedient to God's calling. Oh, and we couldn't resist adding a dose of laughter and fun with a game of 'Bible character guessing.'
So come along with us on this journey. We promise there's never a dull moment!
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This show has been produced by Adkins Media Co.
Would you believe it if we told you our family has grown since the last episode?
We now have 8 kids in our home. You heard right... EIGHT!
In this episode, we take a trip down memory lane, filled with funny stories, including the surprising moment we found out we were expecting our first child.
Ever wondered how this family handles bedtime, meetings, unexpected sickness, and the arrival of four additional kids in under 90 days? We'll bring you along on this wild ride – and what an adventure it's been!
We're also discussing the invaluable support we've received from our friends, family, church, and community. Laugh along with (or AT) us while we play a game of lip-reading, and listen in as we reflect on the importance of quality time and setting healthy bedtimes for kids.
We wrap up the episode by discussing the concept of living an unhurried life, pruning the things that hold us back, and being obedient to God's calling. Oh, and we couldn't resist adding a dose of laughter and fun with a game of 'Bible character guessing.'
So come along with us on this journey. We promise there's never a dull moment!
Episode Highlights:
Links Mentioned in Episode/Find More on A Force to Be Reckoned With:
This show has been produced by Adkins Media Co.
We are at war and it's not against our neighbors, spouses, children, politicians or whatever else we feel like we're battling against.
Speaker 2:So the questions are who's the fight against, and are we winning or losing? We're the Adkins, and we are a force to be reckoned with.
Speaker 3:Are you ready?
Speaker 2:to join the force.
Speaker 3:Can you get your words out there? I can't.
Speaker 2:Here we are 9 30 pm on a Sunday and we're ready for it. More where that came from.
Speaker 1:It doesn't sound anything like that.
Speaker 2:So we have just a fun episode planned, tiny little life update, then we have a whole thing lined up.
Speaker 1:So for all your grumps out there. This isn't for you.
Speaker 2:If you don't like laughing and you don't like having fun and you don't like enjoying life then you can just move along to the next podcast there. Just close out the app right now. But if you do like those things, buckle in.
Speaker 3:Don't set the expectations do I?
Speaker 2:Okay, so I don't know exactly what this episode's gonna be titled, but it's gonna be something like it should be titled why are they laughing?
Speaker 1:They should be crying.
Speaker 2:And that's why we're laughing. No, I was gonna say it should be titled. You're not gonna believe that.
Speaker 1:What was that show? We watched that when you were dating.
Speaker 2:So yes, it was when we were dating, when we worked night shift.
Speaker 1:That's what it was, the assisted living place.
Speaker 2:Core Night Work Night Shift had an assisted living place together when we first started dating. We didn't meet there, but we started working there together on the weekends, like, wasn't it like Friday night, saturday night? Nobody else wanted to do those shifts, so we were poor college students. So I would get done with school on Fridays and then I would drive down to Corey's house, like an hour away, and then we would work night shift Friday, night, night shift Saturday night and this was back when like $10 and hour meant something.
Speaker 2:Right, weren't we making $10 an hour.
Speaker 1:I gotta wipe old ladies butts.
Speaker 2:That was when minimum wage was like $7 an hour $10 an hour.
Speaker 1:Sure, I'll wipe as many old lady butts as that sounds so inappropriate.
Speaker 2:You were those old ladies loved you Like they loved you remember yeah, I do. Oh, they loved you so much and you were so good with them. It was so. I think that was one of the reasons that I fell in love with you Was seeing how sweet you were with those old ladies.
Speaker 1:Did not know that and also.
Speaker 2:the other part of it was shortly after we started working there, Actually, oh my gosh man, we gotta keep this episode short. I found out that I was pregnant with Carter while we were working there. Yeah, it was like October, it was like this time we were drinking monster energy drinks. Yes, it was like this time 12 years ago Remember it was October.
Speaker 1:I think it was.
Speaker 2:October 31st.
Speaker 1:It was Halloween.
Speaker 2:We went to the Halloween party. We had to work that night and I was like no way no, I don't think we've ever. Why are we telling this?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:We were like no way, there's no possible way. And so we're like, oh, we'll just buy some monster energy drinks, like we always do, and we'll pick up a pregnancy test. This is like borderline. Probably shouldn't be sharing this on the way into work. So we get the and they weren't the can monster, I mean, they were the cans that you screw the lid off like the big ones.
Speaker 2:We would get those for every shift. So, anyway, we're just drinking that away. We get some downtime in our shift and, what do you know? We found out that I was pregnant.
Speaker 1:Pregnant and you didn't finish that energy drink.
Speaker 2:That's why I remember so this, yeah, which is like you know.
Speaker 1:you know me and Cassie and yeah, us and those energy drinks back in the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you do what you gotta do for your kids.
Speaker 1:Tracy, if you're listening, it's all starting to make sense. These guys are staying up all night eating trash and energy drinks.
Speaker 2:No, okay. So that was the whole reason. That even got brought up is because that was the second reason I fell in love with you, because shortly after so we're gonna go pregnant. Shortly after I mean found out I was pregnant. Shortly after I found out I was pregnant, I was so, so sick. So we would both work. We were the only two people in the whole facility. We were like in charge of the place for the night. We would have to do laundry, make beds. I think a nurse came at like 11 pm to give medicine it was when I was still in nursing school, so I wasn't a nurse yet, anyway and I was so sick that we would go sit in this movie theater room and I would sleep for the whole shift.
Speaker 1:Sorry, vicki.
Speaker 2:Because I was like ill, like so sick, and Corey would do the work for both of us. You did everything because it was like two very set roles, two very set lists that you kind of divide and conquer. So, like one night one person would go do the dishes or whatever and the other person would go do the laundry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Corey did all of it so that I could sleep.
Speaker 2:You're such a good guy. You're such a good guy, Alright let's move on. Okay, yeah, so okay. But so we're in the movie theater room and at night we would have the TV on, and it was this show called so Random.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even know what that was on.
Speaker 2:On Disney because we would watch the Disney Channel every night. This is like dysfunction at its finest Energy drinks, pregnancy, college work and night shift watching Disney Channel. What is happening?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But anyway it was called so Random. And then it was this like segment and it was called You're Not Gonna Believe this. So I'm gonna link the one. There's a bunch of different episodes of it, but it was this You're Not Gonna Believe this guy. So it would be a scenario and the kid would be like, oh, you're not gonna believe this, but, and then he would have an excuse.
Speaker 1:And his excuse would be like ridiculous.
Speaker 2:And they would be like this guy is lying. So then they'd be like that is not true. And he'd be like, oh, you're not gonna believe this. And it just kept going and going, like he would build lie after lie. But the one that I just watched, which this will get to this. Later in the episode I realized at the end that the crazy things like they were all true. They're true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a bit funny yeah.
Speaker 2:So that goes into another part of the episode that we'll get to later. Anyway, you're not gonna believe this, but we have eight kids. So, by the way, Wait a minute, what?
Speaker 1:how did that happen? Yeah?
Speaker 2:I don't really know. I'm still trying to catch my breath, but yeah, we really have eight kids in our house right now and it's crazy. Is there anything? I mean, do you want to give the?
Speaker 1:like rundown.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean quick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean like we talked about Baby J. Yeah, come in back like medium baby J now Coming back and we had also Taken in another boy for what we called him M and, and Then we were having the baby, two baby J's older siblings over for a visit and basically found out that it wasn't really working out, yeah, where they just never went back where they were at.
Speaker 1:So they didn't go back and they are with us and they, so it was big J that we Previously had talked about living in our home and their older brother s.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So like when we signed up to do this, we Never like. We said we will take one, maybe two. Right it's max, and also like cuz we didn't know are we gonna have more kids, like we didn't know what our life was gonna look like or how long we were gonna do this. So we never would have been in this situation. Like we never would have said, oh yeah, we'll take five kids at once right, that was not our plan but but our first placements had both left.
Speaker 2:We took a place in of little boy and then things, just one by one, the at this sibling set that we had been connected with previously. They just started coming back and trickling in and then the baby was born and so now we have four out of five of them together in our home, which has been really cool so many. I mean very sad, very hard, a lot of hard things with it, but Also so cool to see the little God wink through it, the way that God just continues to show up and remind us that, even when we feel like he was being silent Through this so many times, through this process, he is so good and he's shown up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in big ways, in huge ways. So just to so, to just put this into an easy, more easily digestible way we have our 11 year old Carter, we have our 8 year old Liberty, we have another 8 year old boy.
Speaker 2:I don't have to name him, I'm just gonna give you an address.
Speaker 1:And then we have a 6 year old girl, a 5 year old boy, we have our 2 year old Maya, and then we have a 1 year old and a 1 month old.
Speaker 2:Did you is that? Was that all eight of them?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2:I feel like we might have skipped some, but that's kind of like.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think. I think we got them all that's like our every day.
Speaker 2:Anyway, it's like okay, look around check, check out wait a minute. We only have seven.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's someone in the house, no, no wait, we have eight, but you're not my kid. Yeah where's the other one?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, that's right. That one's been a grandma's for three days now. It's been really cool and yeah. So that's why we say, hey, you're not gonna believe this, because, yeah, there are people in our lives that listen to the podcast and also talked to us in real life and they're like so I'm not even caught up, but in this episode you're just talking about how you have five kids and now you have eight, yeah, so yeah, I remember somebody at work was saying like wait a minute eight, I thought you had five.
Speaker 2:We're like we did too buddy. Yeah, we did too.
Speaker 1:But and hey, on a serious note though, we've had so much help and love and support from our family, from our church, north Canton Chapel, from Hope Bridge, and foster our community and our friends and just and people that are like that we've coached with or come new friends with, like we've just had so much help and support and we couldn't do it without them. So thank you all of you, all of the things that may seem little, they add up and they are big things to us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you, so, so thankful. Okay, so that's our little life update. I mean, with all of that the last two weeks, I mean I was writing this email out and then I was like Trying to explain to the county someone at the county like why I Was a little bit emotionally unstable for a minute in a conversation that I had and I was just, like you know, recapping all the numbers in my head. I was like holy cow in 90 days, we have welcomed five kids into our home.
Speaker 2:Yeah actually it was less than 90 days, like that's not normal, a normal person, you know it's pregnant for nine months and you welcome one, maybe two kids and so, anyway, I don't know why I was saying that. Oh, I was saying that because it's been a lot, but we've had a lot of support and one thing I feel like we've done differently this time, through like this chaos, is we still have found ways to laugh and have fun too, and I feel like that's been really good. And so I'm like well, on the podcast, you know, we talk about all hard stuff in life and blah, blah, blah, blah blah, but in real life, we're also that, yeah, we're going through hard things just like everybody else, but we're also having fun too. So why don't we do an episode where we're like talking about life but then we're also having fun, yeah, and then just remind you guys, it's okay to be walking through tough things and stressed out and Still laugh and have fun. Honestly, I think it's the only way you really can survive sometimes.
Speaker 1:I don't know why when you were talking, you just had that this. I remember this skit. I think it was with will ferrell in it and they're like all hanging out outside and their Kids are like climbing up on the shed. They're like get down from the shed, honey. It was like the difference between mom and dad and the mom's like get down from the shed, honey. All right, honey, you need to get down off the shed. Okay, get off the shed, and dad's like.
Speaker 2:What made you think of that?
Speaker 1:I don't know. There's just laughing like all these kids.
Speaker 2:It's just so random Because that's like what happens. Actually it was gonna write this down and I didn't, so we can talk about it here. The way this episode is gonna go, we have like six really quick segments that we're gonna do. We're gonna do Like a short fun game. That's funny and hopefully it makes you guys laugh and encourages you to sit down and do this with a friend or a spouse. So short fun game question. Short fun game question. Short fun game question. And the questions are gonna tie into like life stuff too. So we'll be talking about some serious things too, but it's just gonna be a fun episode. So, before the short fun game, what is something you look most forward to in your day right now?
Speaker 1:Our nights.
Speaker 2:Yes, I knew you're gonna say that that's what I was gonna say too, and that goes into what you're saying. Yeah it's like as soon as 730 hits, they start going down like dominoes.
Speaker 1:All right baby down.
Speaker 2:It's down, two-year-old down, five and six-year-old down, eight year olds down, and then you know, like eight, thirty, nine o'clock, the big kids start going to bed.
Speaker 1:And that's when it's the point, because those three they linger and they think of every question that they never would have asked us and then they come back down the stairs to Ask you those questions and then they say they have the audacity, the audacity To sit on the couch next to us, as if we want them there. Like whoa whoa, whoa and don't get me wrong, we will absolutely love all of our kids and we Our time. Like I don't get to see my wife all day.
Speaker 2:You know, and and, honestly, that's how we explained them. It's not like because I can hear. I can hear the parents out there who are so sweet and tender heart and they're like how could you say you don't love your kids after 9 pm? Well, do you have eight kids? No, like what we say to them isn't we don't love you after 9 pm. What we say to them is we still love each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're lucky that you have two parents that love each other. They aren't like one sitting in other rooms and watching their own TV shows or something right.
Speaker 2:and so they'll come down three and four times and Cory will literally say you're cutting in to our time, you're cutting into my time with my wife right now Don't be selfish, because it's true like we don't go on dates right now and so that's our time. We look forward to it. And the kids, you know we say like right now they're hanging out in the basement, we're being left alone and so shortly they're gonna go upstairs and they're gonna have to go to bed. But they know like we enjoy hanging out together and I Sometimes feel guilty about it, but then for the most part I think we're setting a really good example for them, because they're gonna look back and remember that they had a healthy bedtime that we spent so much time with them during the day.
Speaker 2:We were intentional with them and but they had a healthy bedtime because their parents loved each other and wanted I mean, for the most part.
Speaker 1:But I think that it'll probably sink in when they're married. Oh, oh yeah. Yeah, my parents. Every night they wanted to hang out together. Yeah, maybe I should do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so the name of the game hearing things is called hearing things. So this is gonna be the first one. These are the short games and they're just Hopefully will be entertaining, and if they're not, then Well, it's embarrassing reading first. I will read first so Cory's gonna put on. This is a game like in real life that you guys might own, and and Cory's gonna put on his headphone and we're just gonna do two each. Yeah these are like let's just do noise making headphones.
Speaker 2:We'll just do one each. What I am saying in the microphone is what's on the card? Cory has on a pair of headphones that are like have a bunch of people talking in his ear so he can't hear me and so he has to lip read and guess what I'm saying. So he's reading my lips, I'm reading the card, so off the first question. Here's game time. What is that thing up?
Speaker 1:What is the pew, pew, pew? I don't know it is they have it like games and stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, I can see it's red when you push it.
Speaker 1:Are you ready?
Speaker 2:Yep. The fastest land mammal is the cheetah the fastest lamb race the cheetah. The fastest land mammal is the cheetah the fastest land animal is a cheetah. The fastest land mammal is the cheetah mammal.
Speaker 1:The fastest land mammal is a cheetah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got it All right, so I have.
Speaker 1:You ready, all right, homework isn't? Oh my gosh, your lips don't move hold on whoa. Homework isn't supposed to be fun homework distance Bubbles to be fun. Are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 2:Homework isn't supposed to be homework isn't supposed to be fun.
Speaker 1:Yes, you got it, you got it. We are in a fight.
Speaker 2:Oh, we are Tanfa.
Speaker 3:We are in a fight we are catfish.
Speaker 2:Come on, come on.
Speaker 3:We are in a fight.
Speaker 2:We are a fun.
Speaker 3:We are in a fight.
Speaker 2:We are funny. I'm just doing what your lips are doing.
Speaker 3:We are, you're not. That's not what my lips are doing we are in a fight.
Speaker 2:We aren't funny.
Speaker 3:No, we are in we are funny.
Speaker 2:We are in a we are in a funk. What's it?
Speaker 3:It's a we are in a fight.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we're Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:That was the first game. My goodness, I can't even believe you right now.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:You're so bad at reading lips.
Speaker 2:No, your lips are just really like oh yeah, blame the lips, blame the lips. Okay, so the next section is what is your favorite quote? And don't you dare steal mine. I'm probably not gonna sit here because I have a hard time deciding okay, well, I only know one quote a few quotes. First quote is no I have to pick three no, I can't pick one. All right, there's three, you can give one, and then I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1:Okay, rest at the end, not in the middle.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a good one. I Like it well. That one was short, so you can give one more, just one more mm-hmm, all right wait, I'm scared you're gonna get mine Go ahead. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard okay, that actually wasn't mine, so I'll take it, and that's a really good one too. Do you want to elaborate?
Speaker 3:It's like self-explanatory.
Speaker 2:How you apply that in your life. Yeah, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. I think, that's so good, I love it Okay what do you got? Mine is people of integrity expect to be believed in when they're not the. Let time prove them right.
Speaker 2:Such a good quote classic, I Mean probably pretty popular. No, I don't know. Love it, though, and this is the piece that goes back to that. You're not gonna believe this guy, because our lives have been so crazy and so like, as I'm telling people all of the stuff in our life, like you know, four kids, five kids, ten kids, oh, back to the three. And then it's like, oh, we're at an investigation and this is every time, is it? Oh, you're not gonna believe this. Like I literally have clients that I'm like they have to think that you're making this up making this up and Then I didn't even think about this till I was watching that.
Speaker 2:You're not gonna believe this guy video which I haven't seen in a decade, but at the very end it's all everybody thinks he's a liar Because he's saying all this crazy stuff, but at the end it showed that like it was true and so ties into my favorite quote people have integrity, expect to be believed when they're not, to let time prove them right.
Speaker 1:I love that segment and also like it's just so funny that I would have never tied those two together. What you know like that skit oh yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I just seriously feel like that, like people like, oh yeah, you, you know, oh wow, that happened a lot. And then I'm like, oh well, I have the stomach flu now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh my gosh, this Really happened.
Speaker 2:The Maya thing in the kitchen Like this story happened, and this is the kind of stuff that our whole lives have been For months now and people just have to think we're making it up but we're not. So we're here, it's a Friday, the kids are about to get out of school. I get a call from the school like right as Liberty is loading onto the bus she threw up at school. So they're like you have to come pick her up. And I was like okay, fine, I'll come pick her up. So I had to rush there. She had the stomach flu, brought her home. The case worker was at our house because I forgot that she had an appointment with us. So she came to our house and we were standing in the kitchen and Maya I'm holding Maya talking to the case worker and Wasn't this the day before the older kiddos came for a visit?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah this is how quick all this is the day before the kids came for a visit, which the visit they were just supposed to originally stay for the day, yeah, and then they just come home. But so I'm standing in the kitchen with the case worker, quarries there me and the case worker, and I'm like in your very serious conversation talking about very serious stuff.
Speaker 2:Maya, I guess that I'm holding her. She projectile vomit all over my brand new sweater and the case worker is just like oh, and we're gonna, are just cracking up. And she's like oh, what do you think? She ate? Like three times, massive amounts, three separate times, all over my brand new sweater that I just bought, but brand new, first time I ever wore it first time and I think I had walked.
Speaker 1:I just walked to the other room to grab something and you're like I need a towel.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like for what, like my Puged? And I'm like what? And I walk in and come out, I go grab the towel and I come back in and then she shoots it. I was like.
Speaker 2:So the case where you say I love the fact that you guys are laughing through this, you, you're wonderful, You're wonderful people. So that's not all. Then Then Baby J, who just started walking. I mean, he is so proud to be walking. He heard us laughing and thought it was funny and he just came running up to me for me to pick him up slips.
Speaker 3:In the pew.
Speaker 2:In the pew can falls.
Speaker 3:On kitchen floor. On kitchen floor.
Speaker 2:And the caseworker's like, oh my goodness, like she doesn't know how to do it herself, and you would think, okay, it's a wrap, she's leaving and we're cleaning up. I don't know. We stood there. I had a towel tucked into the neck of my brand new sweater, held Maya for the next 10 to 15 minutes. We had very important things to discuss. We sat there through it and then we showered. All right, great quotes guys.
Speaker 2:Back to fun games. How was this thing? Pew pew, pew, pew pew. You're crazy, crazy, crazy. Again from the beginning. Okay, so this next game is gonna be called questions with Bob. That's what we're gonna call it. All right, so Cory is asking me questions and then it's gonna go like this About me. Yep. And then I'm gonna go like this One, two, three, and on the fourth beat we have to say it at the exact same time.
Speaker 1:Okay, how many questions do you have?
Speaker 2:Three. Okay, do you want me to go first?
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:Okay, ready. How old am I? One, two, three Jeep Wrangler.
Speaker 1:Jeep Wrangler.
Speaker 2:Yes, all right. How old am I? One, two, three 32.
Speaker 1:32. I had to think about that for a second.
Speaker 2:Okay, see it three off a little bit, but I thought it's such a dumb one, but it is. I couldn't think of anything else. Okay, what is my favorite thing to do on the weekends? One, two, three, clean, sleep.
Speaker 3:Okay, I just shot from the hip. I couldn't even think of anything.
Speaker 2:You didn't think cleaning.
Speaker 3:No, that's definitely.
Speaker 2:My favorite hobby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. Okay, it is true.
Speaker 2:Well, now you make me sound like a liar, do you?
Speaker 1:have a bonus question.
Speaker 2:No, I don't.
Speaker 1:Mine are like harder.
Speaker 2:Great.
Speaker 1:I didn't mean for them to be harder.
Speaker 2:Come a little bit slower. All right, I'll count.
Speaker 1:Hold on, I'm gonna throw you a I'm gonna count. Natasha lay up here first.
Speaker 2:Oh great.
Speaker 1:Who is my favorite basketball player of all time? One, two, three.
Speaker 2:Kobe.
Speaker 1:Bryant, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna count.
Speaker 1:You're gonna count, not both of us.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter, I'm counting slow though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you didn't count slow for me. You're like All right. Okay, what is my favorite food? One, two three Rib eye. Yeah, okay, good job, okay, let's do you can just ask me, I have good ones, all right. What is my favorite movie?
Speaker 3:One, two, three, 300. No way you got that?
Speaker 2:What do you mean? I've been married for 12 years.
Speaker 1:I didn't think you would get that one.
Speaker 2:Are you in love with me now? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:Okay, just for that, I'm gonna ask you the last question that I wrote down here.
Speaker 2:I like how you hesitated so much, when you flinched, when you said yeah.
Speaker 3:You were swinging your hand at me. All right, you ready for the last one then?
Speaker 2:Yeah, is this really the last one, or did you skip one?
Speaker 1:No, I have other ones. Okay, I'm going to this one now. What do you do? That most annoys me.
Speaker 3:No One two, three Bossy.
Speaker 2:Go to the bathroom with the door open that too, that too. But, in case you didn't hear I said bossy. I don't even know what to say. Okay, do you want my other?
Speaker 3:questions since I wrote them down.
Speaker 1:All right. Who is my favorite? Kid One, two, three, all of them Nice job.
Speaker 3:That was good.
Speaker 2:Your questions are way better than mine.
Speaker 1:All right, last one. I feel like this might be the hardest one, though. Okay, who played at my first concert?
Speaker 2:One, two three Some rock band. Was it a rock? I can't remember. I thought it was skillet. No.
Speaker 1:I was asked forward.
Speaker 2:Oh Is that the one you went to with your dad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:All right, so real quick. What is God teaching you right now? Do you need a minute to think? Because I wrote this question so I could go first you can go first.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So just really quick, I feel like right now oh, I wish I would have written down how to word this, because you know I'm not super articulate on the fly, but I can feel it inside. What I'm trying to say is that God's really working on my pride. Not like, oh, I think I'm better than everyone. Not like that because I feel like I'm the worst type of person. I feel like myself, confident. I'm just at an all time low right now, so that's no worries there. But pride as in like I feel like maybe I'm more important than I am in a different way. Like, oh, I have to do this work thing, I can't let it go. Or like I committed to this thing and if I don't do it then nobody's going to do it Stuff like that.
Speaker 2:When I went to that conference with that KFO the KFO conference their theme was unhurried and they kept asking how do you live?
Speaker 2:I think we talked about this how do you live an unhurried life in the midst of an urgent calling? And that like really stuck out to me because what we do is parents and as foster parents and everything. It's like it is really urgent, but like you do need to be unhurried in the midst of it, and so part of the one of the challenges during one of the sermons there was like to cut things that are holding you back, Like, basically, what's the word I'm thinking of? Pruning, like cutting things that maybe you're holding on to for pride or for whatever the reason is. And I'm realizing that I sometimes commit because I need to show my worth and I just and God's like reminding me that I don't need to do that and it's okay to fail, and it's okay to let go of things, and it's okay to say no to things and it's okay to say, oh, this worked for me in this season, but it actually isn't working now. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I feel like I would have wish I would have written it out more and I could give real life examples, but not respectful. So I can't. I just can't give like real life scenarios of issues. But yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say that I feel like what God is teaching me right now is that he will show up that, and what I mean by that is that if you are obedient and what he has asked you to do, he will honor that and show up in ways that only he can. And you know, I feel like this season of our life has been really just being obedient, without knowing where it was going to go or how things were going to turn out, and we're not perfect at it. You know, there's times where we question it, there's times where we are like did we, are we doing the right thing here? But then God shows up and reminds us that we are doing what he asked us to do and we'll just take care of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like you can't take care of everything. I didn't even ask you to take care of this, I asked you to do this. I will take care of the rest Kind of a thing and it's really cool. It's cool season of life, it's hard, but it's also a cool season of life to see that and get to get to be a part of it. So yeah, so, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that was really good and I agree. Good job, especially doing yours on the fly. It was still better than mine. All right, you don't have to do, let's get ready to rumble, but you got to do a part of the song.
Speaker 3:What.
Speaker 2:It's the game time, so for this last game, what are we calling it, corey? Yes, Come on down. Yes that.
Speaker 3:Bible character.
Speaker 2:I'm going to do so bad at this.
Speaker 1:Do you want to like alternate?
Speaker 2:But mine are like so dumb we definitely didn't, definitely didn't, okay.
Speaker 1:You're setting this up and then watch. I'm going to bomb it Okay.
Speaker 3:Okay, do you want to go first?
Speaker 1:and then I'll go.
Speaker 2:Hold on, let me think about a way to be discreet, so you got to give me clues. Thank you for watching. Seeya is a woman.
Speaker 1:Really, that's the only clue I get.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ruth.
Speaker 2:No, nope, sorry, lost. Oh, you get more than one clue. It's the most terrible clue them all. She was believed to be possessed by demons.
Speaker 1:Oh, Mary Magdalene.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, I can't. It's either nothing or everything Like.
Speaker 3:She's a woman.
Speaker 2:Oh, let me think of Her first name started with M and her last name rhymed with Fragdeline. All right, my turn.
Speaker 3:All right, you should get this though.
Speaker 1:All right, he wrote 13 books of the Bible.
Speaker 2:Paul.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm glad you got that.
Speaker 2:I've paid attention to the church, church today, at least 13 books of the Bible.
Speaker 1:Would you have known these other ones? He used to be named Saul.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And killed Christians. Yes, okay, those are my three clues.
Speaker 2:And that was one of my caricatures? No, it wasn't. Thanks a lot, was it?
Speaker 3:really yeah, you're lying.
Speaker 2:I swear because I was going to say that he used to kill people a lot. Oh, my gosh, my next guess was going to be like then he turned.
Speaker 3:good, that's how it was.
Speaker 2:And then my next guess was going to be his new name rhymed with his old name.
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 2:See A little bit more creative than me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can't you think of another Bible character on the fly that you could give? Me hints about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Can we just do it like I give the guess and then we do one, two, three and then we both guess it, because that's like where we're at.
Speaker 1:No, because the last time you said she's a woman, it's like okay, you just only cut out like half the people in the Bible.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, I mean sure, okay you got one.
Speaker 1:All right, give me my hint.
Speaker 2:Well, everybody thought he was crazy.
Speaker 1:John the Baptist.
Speaker 2:Nope that. And he was very obedient even when people thought he was crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh Noah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what else did you have given? You built an ark. Yeah, Like what else did you have given Two by two? What else did you have given for Noah?
Speaker 1:For Noah. He liked, he liked the sauce.
Speaker 2:Grilled cheese sandwiches, like he liked the sauce. Oh yeah, okay, next.
Speaker 1:All right, my turn. Okay, had a speech impediment.
Speaker 2:Wait a minute, it's coming to me, peter.
Speaker 1:No, talked to a burning bush. All right Was given the 10 commandments.
Speaker 3:Now you're embarrassing me, I don't know who you are, was given the 10 commandments.
Speaker 2:We can't possibly hear this.
Speaker 1:His mom put him in a basket and put him in a river.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't think of it. Moses, oh my gosh, I couldn't think of his name. I think somebody just jumped out of their seat when you shouted Moses it wasn't that, it wasn't that I didn't know who it was, I couldn't think of the name, one of the most popular names in the whole Bible. So many people probably think that you were like behind here the living, oh his.
Speaker 3:Moses Right down.
Speaker 2:Writing in on a piece of paper. I saw the brightness You're so happy and having fun. And then, by the fourth guess, you just look so disappointed.
Speaker 1:I had ran out of the questions that I wrote down, had to think of them off the top of my head.
Speaker 2:I just couldn't remember his name. Okay, so last section. That's it for the fun games for this week. But what is your favorite current album, or just a song that you're like current, yeah, current, not of all time just like favorite, honestly all time.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't even be able to answer.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1:Okay, current favorite album Sorry, I'm probably going to steal yours, but it's NF's Hope album.
Speaker 2:You copied me? No, honestly, our worship music playlist has been.
Speaker 1:That's an album.
Speaker 2:Has been. It's a playlist. Yeah, it's been wait, yeah, but like so many of those songs are like my favorites right now.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, take it all back as mine.
Speaker 2:I just put them in the kitchen, I play them, I blast them on the way to school for the kids or making breakfast. It's been really my go to yeah worship music, loving it, and we'll link the playlist in our show notes. But yeah, I mean I would agree the Hope album is really good. It's an unpopular opinion, especially probably amongst we're probably the only 30 year olds or 40 year olds in our area group that NF or enjoys. Nf because he's a rapper. It's not typically the genre of music I go for.
Speaker 1:It's just good.
Speaker 2:But NF is a really good artist. He is like a very good storyteller. He's super, super creative and his Hope album is different than anything Like he he's like. It's like softer and it has a lot more pop music in it too.
Speaker 1:Singing.
Speaker 2:And also his album has a lot of meaning behind it, which I love. Like if I had a different, if I didn't have a family or kids, I would be writing songs right now and I just love dissecting songs. So, yes, the NF Hope album is really good. Running is a good one, gone is a good one. But my favorite thing about the whole album is like each of his albums have a theme and they all kind of tell a story. So like you kind of have to know NF to really fully appreciate this album, because one of his previous albums was called the Search. It's like him searching and then Hope. The very first song is like him fighting with himself because he wants to have a hopeful album. And yeah, anyway, I'm going off on a tangent, but it's really good. So I wouldn't encourage you to listen to it because you're probably going to turn it on and be like this is awful If you don't like that kind of music, but you have to like understand the meaning of it.
Speaker 1:I would encourage you to listen to it.
Speaker 2:I would encourage you to listen to it, but it also it's not Christian.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he is a Christian. But it's also like I mean it's borderline.
Speaker 2:I mean he talks about like mental health stuff.
Speaker 1:But it's clean, it's clean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I really enjoy it, but yeah, so anyway, that's our episode this week. We just want to remind you guys that, like if you took a peek into our lives right now, we don't want to believe you would just be like OK, there's a lot, I'm going to take a few steps back and I'll check in on them in about like six to nine months or something like that, because this is overwhelming and this is too much.
Speaker 2:But we just want to remind you guys that, no matter what you're dealing with and we're not saying that we have the worst, the shorter, like we don't want to say that we have the worst snare, because there's so many people out there that have way worse off than us and we're it's not even bad, it's just, we're just busy.
Speaker 1:We're busy, it's hard and there's a lot of adjustments.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but no matter what you're going through, always make time to laugh and to live life and to soak it in.
Speaker 1:Live, love.
Speaker 2:So take a pause sometime this week, sometime today, and make some time for fun, and that's it. That's it All, right, that's all she wrote We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1:Stay classy, San Diego.