July 17, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode of More Than Reality, Adam and Danielle share the emotional rollercoaster of a house they thought was the one—until it all fell apart. With their kids’ school start looming and time running out, they had to pivot fast and trust God through the unknown. From Riley’s tearful reaction to the move, to the powerful reminder that “rejection is protection,” this episode is full of raw moments, faith, and family-first decision-making.
Whether you’re facing change, disappointment, or just trying to make the right decision for your family—this one’s for you.
💬 “Sometimes what feels like a setback is really God’s setup.”
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👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review. Your support helps us continue sharing our journey—faith, family, and the real stuff in between.
Whether you’re facing change, disappointment, or just trying to make the right decision for your family—this one’s for you.
💬 “Sometimes what feels like a setback is really God’s setup.”
🛏️ This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth
If you’re tired of waking up sweaty (hello, Texas heat and hormones!), Cozy Earth’s temperature-regulating bamboo sheets are a game-changer. Danielle swears by them—no more night sweats, just better sleep and better moods.💸 Get 40% off with code MORETHAN at cozyearth.com
🥩 Sponsored by Good Ranchers
Stock your freezer with 100% American meat—no additives, no shady sourcing. We love the Busby Box, especially for summer grilling and clean chicken nuggets for the girls!🔥 Get $40 off + FREE meat for life with code BUSBY at goodranchers.co
👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review. Your support helps us continue sharing our journey—faith, family, and the real stuff in between.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We walked into the house and get in the keys,
and the girls have been with us. The Quinn's like
looking at multiple homes over the past couple of weeks,
and we're moving.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We're gonna move. Do we like this house? Do you
like this house? Does this work? Does this work?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You know? And at this time, like Riley walks in
and all of a sudden, they're like Riley's crying and.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's not happening. I'm upset, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And some one of my friends told me that rejection
is always protection.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Wow, that is so good. I've never heard that before.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And I think a lot of us when we get
rejection in multiple ways, we don't see it as a
form of how could this be God's provision for us?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
This is More than Reality podcast where we dive into
all things faith, family, and marriage and share that there
is so much more than the reality that you see
on the surface. Welcome to More than Reality with Adam
and Danielle Busby.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Hello, Hello, what's up guys. So we took a break
yes last week from episode forty one, So this is
now episode forty one More than Reality Podcast. I am
Adam Busby and I'm Danielle Busby and we're back. Yeah,
this week has been pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, a lot is a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We're actually thinking about all the podcasts because we are
literally packing up the house and Adam's like, we got
to take the lights and the studio stuff down, so.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You won't have that built up.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, probably next week if you're if you're watching on YouTube,
it's probably not gonna look like this. It'll probably be
very plain. Next week. I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's very plain as is. I'm kind of a lot
more plane.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Look, it'll be a lot more plaining because it'll probably
be we'll be in front of a white different, different background, white,
I would imagine, because I doubt we're doing any paint
this week. But we're in the process of I mean,
from looking in this office, we haven't done one thing, but.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
This office is yours. I ain't touching a thing in here.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So in the process of moving, so we have. It
was a debacle. We thought we were going to be
moving into a different house that we absolutely love, I mean,
for whatever reason. I mean, obviously it wasn't meant to be.
But we thought we were right there. I mean, we
we signed papers, DOCU signed everything over and then literally.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The next day, it was like, why is it the
owner signed papers? Well, they've decided that they don't want
to sell it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, and then they delisted the house.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You had already agreed on everything and sent over paperwork and.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We have been going back and forth for a couple
of weeks and it was just so heartbreaking to be
dropped like that.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It was. It was also a little a little odd
because then like a few days later, it went next
week because Daniel obviously was following the listing on her
phone and then got a notification from the listing and
it was relisted first thing the next week, relisted with
the same realtor, and then listed under contract, which is
(03:26):
super shady in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But it's like, just give us a reason and what not.
But I'm going to share something that one of my
friends told me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
But now, oh but now, so we we're like, look,
what's the fastest way possible that we can make this move?
I mean, really our heart, like what we really wanted
to do. I just realized I'm not wearing my watch.
But what we wanted to do is just get the
kids settled, Like we knew we're going to be making
this move in the next few months, and we did
(04:01):
not want to get the kids in a new school,
I mean, get the kids registered and put in school
and then turn around in like a month or so
and pull them out of the school to day the
time and then bring them and have to get acclimated
to a whole new school. You know. It's just one
of those things like whenever you start the school year,
(04:21):
there's always those like new year jitters, you got a
new teacher, but like whenever you're starting, like all the
kids are kind of going through that. And then especially Blake,
I mean Blake is really the one that we're most
like sensitive about because she's starting ninth grade, which is
a completely different school. The school that she would be
(04:43):
going to is massive, and so for her to start
a new school and then turn around and pull her
up back out and go back to another big school,
not quite as big, but another big school, that's a
tough adjustment. And so that's what we were worried about most,
and so like we're just, hey, what can we possibly
(05:04):
do to get in a house quick so that we
can get moved before school starts. And then we'll worry
about this house, get it listed and everything. And so
we decided just to go ahead and rent a house
for the next year, obviously making some compromises on just
the rental. Like we both just feel like this is
(05:24):
the best move, just for the way that everything's going
housing market, economy, interest rates. I just feel like, Okay,
let's hold tight before buying something. I think everything will
look a lot better in a year from now, and so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, plus we're a family of eight, so it's very
hard to find. Was very heartbroken about that house because
we both felt like walk into that house that it
was it was a house we could see ourselves in
and we loved We really did like it. And I
was just so heartbroken by the fact that it was
(06:02):
like a like why did why did we go through
all this to then not have a reason of why
we're not moving forward, you know, and then to see
it honest and I was just like so confused. However,
I was sharing this with my friend, like this women's
group just like prayer group and looking for a house
(06:25):
and all those things, and I felt like we wasted
all of June, you know, looking at different houses. But
like work continuously working on to you know, get into
that house and buy that house and whatnot. And so
I was just kind of sharing with my prayer group,
like it's not happening, I'm upset, blah blah. And some
one of my friends told me that rejection is always
(06:46):
protections is always protection, and I was like, wow, that
is so.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Good, Like I've never heard that before.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I think a lot of us, when we get
rejection in multiple ways, we don't see it as a
form of how could this be, you know, God's provision
for us. We look at it like we failed or
we're not good enough or whatever those you know, negative
thoughts might be. But just to have someone you know
(07:19):
in my circle just be able to remind me of that, man,
it's this is okay, Like God is protecting you.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
This rejection is protection.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
There's something that is better or that he wants y'all
in and not this one.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's what's best.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So I don't know, I've literally been thinking about that
like little phrase, rejection is protection, And so I feel
like it can be applicable to so many different aspects
of like challenges people go through. And then this situation
with dealing with like a house thing, and I was like,
you know what, I'm going to receive that and I'm
going to believe that because as much as I wanted
(07:59):
that house else, it wasn't perfect, but I just felt
like it was the right house. I'm going to receive
that God's gonna is protecting us from something, something within,
so we.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Want to understand.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We don't know why, and that's kind of annoying in
our human self that we don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But I'm going to continue to move on.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And so the next day, like this house came up
on the market, and these like lease houses, I mean,
they're they're they're going so fast because people aren't wanting
to necessarily buy.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Really right now.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So we like went and saw it the next day,
and I think we saw like two or three after
church or something, and decided, hey, let's put applications in
for them and kind of go from there, but decide
on this one. It's you know, it's a great it's
a great size house, but we're definitely uh a little tighter,
(08:56):
a lot more compressed, you know, giving out the lot
of pool, giving up a lot of which I wasn't
really much of a concern, Like even the house that
we were looking at, like it didn't have a pool,
and we were perfectly fine with that. Yeah, yeah, I
mean that's always something you could put in later. But
it's definitely more confined space. I mean, it doesn't have
an office. So Adam's taking one of the bedrooms, which
(09:19):
is fine because the girls share rooms anyways, and Blakeel
still have her own room. But I actually was trying
to get them to all just do like one bunk
bedroom and then the other room. The rooms are great size,
complete bunk bedroom like your own vacation, like on a
beach house.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
They have like a bunk room and then like a
and like they're getting like yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Get ready close and like in the whole other room
because there's you know, it's five girls, and I think
one or two of them was like that's cool, but.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No, I don't want to share a room with everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, Okay, So yeah, this week is packing and you know,
I it's a lot, which I'm I'm I'm glad add
because it's giving, you know, in this situation versus now
we are going to be you know, moving to a
(10:09):
lease house, which is you know, hopefully within a year
we'll find something to purchase that fits us and that
you know, that's better for us. When we're packing, I'm
kind of like, Okay, this is going to go to
the house because we need this, or this is donations
because we haven't used this, this keeps getting closer and
(10:31):
closer to me, And then the other one is go
to storage because we're not going to get rid of it,
but I don't necessarily need it this next year.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But I've like taken lots of drives to the donation
center and dropped off a lot of stuff. The van's
full in the back two in my car, So I
like the declutter and I'm really looking forward to a
little bit smaller space to kind of maintain and just
for a season. You know, I'm sure by the end
(11:04):
of it, I'll be ready for like more space. But yeah,
I'm content and we'll satisfy with where we're going.
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Speaker 4 (12:42):
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all the house stuff and like our thought process and
stuff we want to do. Connect card today. Sure, let's
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Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
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it be?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh, depends on the season two it does. Hmmm, something
like like a Lake Tahoe. Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I was thinking that too, because you get worlds.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, you can have like the lake and a little
bit of the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Esh.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I know that there's like this one resort on the
north side that they have like I think it's a
height or something, but they have like beaches that's on
the north side. But you also have like the mountains.
So like, I want the view, but I also want
to be able to go on the water if I want.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
To, So I think something like that. Yeah, it's summer,
you can still do all the water stuff. Beautiful lake
clear water.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, definitely winter, it wouldn't be through winter, you would definitely.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean, so you got you got everything right there,
you got awesome scenery.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So something like that. Yeah, that's a fun one.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
That's it. That's a good pi. I think if I
was picking it would be there would be a mountain
in the view.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, by the way, you picked that card for me,
so I'm picking yours for you.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
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you also see in yourself?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Just the way I feel like we're just so much
on the same team as like parenting, and like how
we how we want to parent, how we feel about
kids and technology, and you know, how we want to
raise kids. Nowadays, there's just so many distractions and and
things in this world that you know, can cause so
(14:32):
much chaos and in homes and a kid's life, you know,
So I like, I definitely see that like anything, whenever
it comes to that, we're we're always like on the
same page and like, yes, you know, I agree with that,
And just like how we want to raise our kids,
we want to raise our kids more more like how
old fashioned in a sense per today's standards. I would say,
(14:56):
focus on family and close knit like community, you know,
just block out world's distractions. Yeah, I would say, good, Yeah,
it was. It was interesting. Like yesterday I was at
the new house, and obviously before we start moving and stuff,
(15:17):
you got to get different types of utilities and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's funny how men and women think differently when it
comes to like what all needs to get done. When
you hear your top three things that you have to
do for moving.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean in order, Like I can't move into a
house if there's no internet, because then I can't work.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yes, internet had to get that has.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
To be done first, and so like thinking about stuff
like that, Well, what's funny like last week now this
past weekend. You know, Danielle starts. Danielle starts like packing
and organizing and purging and stuff, and she starts in
the kitchen and then and so we had like the
(16:00):
people that do like house cleaning and stuff here at
this house. We had them go to the other house
to just like clean it so that we can start
moving stuff over. And she was like, well, let's just
bring these boxes that I have done over to the house.
Since we're driving over there, let's at least.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Bring bringing something. I'm packing the cardiff.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
It's like a few less things you have to bring later.
And so we bring all over all this stuff. It
was like all of our dishes and cups and pots
and pans that I would cook with and like my
cutting boards, and and so like the next morning I
wake up, it was Sunday morning, wake up, go to
the gym, and I just like ran to stop and
get it like donuts before church and bring them home.
(16:42):
And the girls like open up the counter and the
cabinet to get their cups, and the cabinets are empty.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
They're like, where's the cups? Like, oh crap, I didn't
take all that. There is still I mean open the dishwasher.
It's like, oh, thank god, there is still some the dishwasher.
Son hand clean them. I mean that's one of your things.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I mean, first of all, like before we do anything,
I mean, we need to like purge stuff, like because
we don't want to just take pack up a bunch
of stuff and take a bunch of stuff that's unnecessary.
So Internet was very important to me because so that
I can move over and immediately be able to work,
because I can't just like have dead air or I
would have to like go remote and that wouldn't be fun.
(17:29):
Next step for me is like start the process of
like purging and organizing and stuff and like what am
I taking? What is not necessary and stuff like that,
like this office. I mean it's probably gonna take me
a full day of just going through stuff and like
transferring stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Like those skittles over there, there's like two in there.
You hate all the skill.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I mean, that's been there for probably three weeks.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It's a huge skittles.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
That's what I do. I'm editing, and then like today,
I start it on like clothes. I started in one
section of my closet and to start pulling out like
a handful of like hangers, and I've probably discarded probably
half of the shirts out of that one section.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You need to discard half of your closet.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
So well, so far I have.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, I mean that definitely.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
That definitely scares me a little bit because like the closet,
like here at this house, we have two closets, one
for me, one for her, and then this new house
it's one big, bigger combined closet, but still pretty small
for and then our closet now has like built ins
and and and drawers and stuff, and this new one
just has a few shelves and that's really it. So
(18:44):
that's gonna be Adam, it's gonna be tough figuring that out.
You have to go buy some furniture or something. Oh,
your shoes are going upstairs. I mean, they're not gonna
fit in the closet because, like I mean, you gotta
think a lot of this stuff that's in here is
going to go in that closet.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I know.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
So if you're wanting to put that big cabinet somewhere
in the house.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But like your shoes, like your racks of shoes and stuff,
put it on the wall. It's not gonna look I mean,
just imagine if this was a shoe wall, Like we
actually talked about that a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I looked into that until I realized it'll be it
is fourteen dollars for those cases.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
No, but I'm saying, like you will keep those things
in there, there's not enough room, Like this closet is small,
Like that closet would be just for you for real,
Like you've got.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Way more stuff than I do.
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I mean I think going through the to me since
I've had six kids, whenever we're over a phase or
done with something or we're not using it, I'm like,
get it out of my house, like I don't want
(22:05):
to see it. It takes over all this room blah blah blah.
And that's how I feel like yesterday, from nine thirty
to what six, it's like all I did was kitchen
pantry and like some of the mudroom. It's like declutter,
get rid of. This is going to storage and this
(22:25):
is going to the house. But I don't really need
all this corning. Were so like let's just keep this,
you know. It's just like trying to like process, like
what do we really need. I feel like I didn't
do anything because all those boxes are just sitting there
and I'm like a person and it's like I'm done
with it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I want it out, like I wanted. I want to
bring it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I wanted to bring it to the house yesterday because
I don't want it sitting right there in the kitchen
because it makes it look like I didn't do anything.
But like when I got a bag full of like
donation stuff, I immediately I like put it in the car.
I'm like, I don't want to see it sitting out here.
It's just gonna declutter the clutter. So it's like I
put in the car and then when the car's full,
then I'm gonna go take it, you know. But it
(23:05):
feels good to get rid of a lot of a
lot of stuff, and you know, we bring it to
a lot of like Christian facilities here around that like
take a lot of donations and stuff. But anyway, yeah,
packing is exhausting, and you know, I feel like I
ran a marathon and I didn't, but it felt like it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
My body felt like it, and it's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I feel like I'm mentally like trying to process multiple things,
like I don't know. But then I also feel really
bad because the kids are home and I'm like, this
summer sucks, like I don't like we usually have such
a fun summer and this summer, I just feel like
it's been like warped around, like trying to transition. And
(23:50):
I feel bad for the kids. But then I'm thinking,
you know, they've been having fun. They're with their friends,
like every day they're they're over here, they're over there,
and we're trying to keep it fun and like here
and there. That's why their styles, Like, man, they helped
pack it a little bit. I'm like, all right, let's
give everybody a little responsibility. I mean, you get ten
(24:11):
minutes in there and they're arguing, and I'm like, all right,
all right, you three go upstairs. Y'all are done with you.
When you're done with this, You're done for helping for
the dead. I can do it better by myself, but
they do. I mean they've We've packed a lot of
things upstairs and gone through all the toys and stuffed
animals and all the things. So I feel good about upstairs.
(24:33):
It's just there's just a lot of stuff. But I
all say, man, I'm not an emotional person. I don't
get tied to like things. I'm not like a sensitive
sentimental towards things like this table was from blah blah blah.
(24:56):
Now as I get older, I'm like, oh my god,
I love that style. I wish I would have had
that from my grandma or like whatever. You know. From
the day last Friday when I went and got the
keys for the house and you were doing a photo shoot.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It was me and the girls, and I was like,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Blake had never even seen the house, and I think
Ava and Hazel were at your mom and dad, so
they had never seen the house. So it's kind of weird.
So I had all the girls Adam's had a photo shoot.
I went to go get the keys and like walked
them all through the house, all of them, and like
I snapped a picture because I was like the first
time they're seeing it, and I was like, this is weird.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I can't post this because Adam's notting the photo. I
was like, it looks weird, felt weird.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
But you know, it's been the girls have been knowing
like for you know, at least since May, that this
is what we feel God's calling for us to do,
and to sell the house and to like move away
in an aspect. And so it's been warming up to
them right that different school, and I think Blake's been
(25:59):
having the hardest time with like accepting, you know, the
different school, but she's warmed up to it, and she
still wants to go to her where she was supposed
to go to.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But I think it's getting easier for all them.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
However, we walked into the house and get in the keys,
and the girls have been with us. The Quinn's like
looking at multiple homes over the past couple of weeks
and we're moving.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We're gonna move. Do we like this house? Do we
like this house? Does this work? Does this work?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You know? And at this time, like Riley walks in
and all of a sudden, they're.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Like Riley's crying, and I'm like, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Riley?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And she's she doesn't like change.
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And she just started crying, which then made me like, okay,
I got it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know, it's like it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Like she doesn't want to leave her friends, and she
doesn't want a new room, and like she thinks about
she's now thinking about the things that are going to
be different.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So that was hard. I was like, man, it's it's hard.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's hard being a mom where we feel, you know,
it's hard making these decisions. What's right you know, as
you and your husband, is what's right for your family.
But then it's also when you get the reality of
like we're in this right now, and yes, we've been
preparing our kids and like having conversations with them, but
like now we're at this new phase where like now
(30:19):
we have this house, we're now actually going to be
moving into this house. It's like then you carry the
weight of I guess I will say that I'm starting
to like feel these feelings of like carrying the weight
of like what do they feel about situations as they
get older? They have opinions, they have emotions, and they're
(30:40):
all very different.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And so to be able to as.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
A mom, be able to be on alert for how
your six kids are going to respond in every situation,
in every scenario that you bring on to them on
the daily, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Just that is a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And I think this is one of those things where
I look back at like what God's been saying, like hey,
twenty twenty five, like your life's going to change drastically,
and you know, for a while, I'm like, okay, okay,
And so like if we look at what's been happening
in the last like six seven months, it has changed
drastically for me and for me as a mom is
(31:18):
me as a worker all the things as non emotional
becoming an emotional person. But it's a lot in him
telling me like I just.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Need you to be.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I need you to be mom, I need you to
be present, I need you to be you know, as
the girls are getting older, you need to be more there.
And I saw that moment, at that moment walking in
the house and like Riley getting emotional and just thinking
of like how they're all different, Like how do you
I mean, it's a struggle to struggle for every parent.
How do you make sure your kids love you enough?
(31:53):
How do you make sure your kids feel like you
love them enough? All in their different ways? And you
know with how we have six of them, everything in
six different opinions and six different emotions across everything, you know,
from from a house move to money for dinner, to
(32:13):
emotions to manage where do we want to you know,
go eat tonight?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
To who's going to feed the dogs? Like you know,
it's just it's a it's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So oh it's a lot, but I see, I see
God working through through it, and so I trust in
the rejection we have had as protection and I believe
that He's going to abundantly provide and abundantly be more
(32:44):
than we could ever have imagined. And I believe that
because we've walked through seasons of that. And though it's
challenging to be in the season of a transition or
a change, you know, I'm very thankful for my faith
and I'm thankful for our community of when and who
can you know, be there and like pray for you
and encourage you in to say, like, dude, this is
(33:06):
a lot, It's okay, like you know, because sometimes I
think we have to be too too tough for it,
and that's been my character my whole life, you know,
And so yeah, it's good to be filled with that
amount of love and support in proximity, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
So yeah, I mean you never really know, like truly.
I mean, obviously we've understood it and we've accepted like
we're going to go through this change or whatever, but
don't fully know like how the kids are going to
respond and react and stuff like that. And so with them,
I feel like it's going to be a little bit
delayed and it's not really going to sink in until
(33:44):
like we actually move. Riley is very sensitive and she
picks it up on it, probably earlier than the other
girls will.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
But yeah, well it's just personalities. I mean, they just
their personalities are just so different, you know. And honestly,
I'd forgot like she's always has always been like that
with change. When it's something she doesn't know and it's
a brand new first or something, she always has a
hard time right then and there. But I guarantee you
after the first night there, she's gonna be like, I
(34:11):
didn't cry about moving, Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
She puts her tough mama roll on, and it was
very comforting. The day that we went and brought that
stuff to the new house, we were pulling into the
neighborhood and there was like probably six six little girls
that are all around all their ages, all around their age,
and they were having like a little bake sell and
(34:36):
selling bracelets like right at the you know, right at
the street. And I'm like, oh, the girls are gonna
love it. Yeah, I mean there's a bunch of little
girls their age that you know, they'll be able to
play with and stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And yeah, above all, above all the change, above all
the struggles, I still trust in that God is still
guiding us down this path and trusting that this is
what he once for us, and I believe that and
I feel that, and I'm already seeing like fruits of.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
This struggle, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
So yeah, good, it was. It was interesting. So I
was at the house the other day, yesterday actually, and
I did an Instagram story and you just realize that,
I mean, obviously, we have a ton of followers on Instagram.
You know, probably our most loyal followers are that actually
listen to our podcast regularly. You guys hear everything first,
(35:31):
and you guys know like our thought process and and
how things have been going, and like how how we've
been like looking for and wrestling with this change and
all this stuff. But you know, we haven't really shared
much on social media other than just like small clips
here and there. But and then so like I, you know,
did an Instagram story where I'm like, yeah, I'm in
(35:52):
the living room in the new or in the kitchen
in the new house, and kind of talked about that.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
You just stand like all day because there was nothing
to sit on.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
I was trying to work. I was at the bar
with my bar the top, and I was like, well,
at LEAs I'll edit some videos, some photos and stuff
like that while I'm here, and I was there a
little bit longer than I wanted to, but and then
I got I mean, I probably had four hundred messages back,
why are y'all moving? Yeah, okay, we I feel like
we've talked about this a nauseum on the podcast, but
(36:23):
I mean, yeah, I mean, anybody that doesn't listen to
the podcast regularly, they're probably out of the loop. And
so I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
But and I'm like, I'm gonna do better at Sharon,
And I'm like.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I responded back, like, well, listen to the podcast. You
know about this.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But I get overwhelmed with just the amount of things
that I have to do to much less like be
like I have how do I post about this?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
How do I share this?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Because it's like a lot to do in the moment,
and it's hard to be like phone phone, So like,
I don't know, it's I'm a multitasker. That stresses me out, yeah,
that part, But anyways, I don't know. Adam's got to
jump on a call and meeting. It's got some meetings
this afternoon, so I kind of want to wrap this
up and I'm going to go do something.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
With the kids today.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I just wanted to I'm glad we have this platform
to kind of process and share with you guys, because
I know that, like Adams saying, like the followers who
you know really do listen to this podcast and support
you know, the bus Bees, like, we're so appreciateive for that.
We thank you it. It is helping us in a
lot of in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
And so I liking subscribing, leaving positive reviews, supporting our sponsors,
I mean that helps us tremendously. So yeah, those of
you that have done any of those things, like, we're
very grateful for all that you've done to just support
our family, our podcast, our mission, and so thank you,
(37:50):
thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And so just to kind of close out this podcast,
I'm just gonna leave it with that phrase I said today.
Hopefully y'all can settle in with it. And rejection is protection.
So I want to I want you to believe that,
and I want you to ponder on what that means
to you and.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Really to fill it in the moment. But you know,
you always look back and like, oh yeah, thank goodness
for that, and.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You can start by actually looking back at the times
that you were rejected and to see like where God
brought you through those things.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So anyways, we love you guys, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
All right, thank you guys for listening to episode forty
one More than Reality Podcast. And we'll probably see you
again in a different setting, so we'll see I don't
know what that's going to look like, so we'll see
you next week. Bye, all right, love you guys.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Eight eight
We walked into the house and get in the keys,
and the girls have been with us. The Quinn's like
looking at multiple homes over the past couple of weeks,
and we're moving.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We're gonna move. Do we like this house? Do you
like this house? Does this work? Does this work?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You know? And at this time, like Riley walks in
and all of a sudden, they're like Riley's crying and.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's not happening. I'm upset, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And some one of my friends told me that rejection
is always protection.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Wow, that is so good. I've never heard that before.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And I think a lot of us when we get
rejection in multiple ways, we don't see it as a
form of how could this be God's provision for us?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
This is More than Reality podcast where we dive into
all things faith, family, and marriage and share that there
is so much more than the reality that you see
on the surface. Welcome to More than Reality with Adam
and Danielle Busby.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Hello, Hello, what's up guys. So we took a break
yes last week from episode forty one, So this is
now episode forty one More than Reality Podcast. I am
Adam Busby and I'm Danielle Busby and we're back. Yeah,
this week has been pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, a lot is a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We're actually thinking about all the podcasts because we are
literally packing up the house and Adam's like, we got
to take the lights and the studio stuff down, so.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You won't have that built up.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, probably next week if you're if you're watching on YouTube,
it's probably not gonna look like this. It'll probably be
very plain. Next week. I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's very plain as is. I'm kind of a lot
more plane.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Look, it'll be a lot more plaining because it'll probably
be we'll be in front of a white different, different background, white,
I would imagine, because I doubt we're doing any paint
this week. But we're in the process of I mean,
from looking in this office, we haven't done one thing, but.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
This office is yours. I ain't touching a thing in here.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So in the process of moving, so we have. It
was a debacle. We thought we were going to be
moving into a different house that we absolutely love, I mean,
for whatever reason. I mean, obviously it wasn't meant to be.
But we thought we were right there. I mean, we
we signed papers, DOCU signed everything over and then literally.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The next day, it was like, why is it the
owner signed papers? Well, they've decided that they don't want
to sell it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, and then they delisted the house.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You had already agreed on everything and sent over paperwork and.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We have been going back and forth for a couple
of weeks and it was just so heartbreaking to be
dropped like that.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It was. It was also a little a little odd
because then like a few days later, it went next
week because Daniel obviously was following the listing on her
phone and then got a notification from the listing and
it was relisted first thing the next week, relisted with
the same realtor, and then listed under contract, which is
(03:26):
super shady in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But it's like, just give us a reason and what not.
But I'm going to share something that one of my
friends told me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
But now, oh but now, so we we're like, look,
what's the fastest way possible that we can make this move?
I mean, really our heart, like what we really wanted
to do. I just realized I'm not wearing my watch.
But what we wanted to do is just get the
kids settled, Like we knew we're going to be making
this move in the next few months, and we did
(04:01):
not want to get the kids in a new school,
I mean, get the kids registered and put in school
and then turn around in like a month or so
and pull them out of the school to day the
time and then bring them and have to get acclimated
to a whole new school. You know. It's just one
of those things like whenever you start the school year,
(04:21):
there's always those like new year jitters, you got a
new teacher, but like whenever you're starting, like all the
kids are kind of going through that. And then especially Blake,
I mean Blake is really the one that we're most
like sensitive about because she's starting ninth grade, which is
a completely different school. The school that she would be
(04:43):
going to is massive, and so for her to start
a new school and then turn around and pull her
up back out and go back to another big school,
not quite as big, but another big school, that's a
tough adjustment. And so that's what we were worried about most,
and so like we're just, hey, what can we possibly
(05:04):
do to get in a house quick so that we
can get moved before school starts. And then we'll worry
about this house, get it listed and everything. And so
we decided just to go ahead and rent a house
for the next year, obviously making some compromises on just
the rental. Like we both just feel like this is
(05:24):
the best move, just for the way that everything's going
housing market, economy, interest rates. I just feel like, Okay,
let's hold tight before buying something. I think everything will
look a lot better in a year from now, and so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, plus we're a family of eight, so it's very
hard to find. Was very heartbroken about that house because
we both felt like walk into that house that it
was it was a house we could see ourselves in
and we loved We really did like it. And I
was just so heartbroken by the fact that it was
(06:02):
like a like why did why did we go through
all this to then not have a reason of why
we're not moving forward, you know, and then to see
it honest and I was just like so confused. However,
I was sharing this with my friend, like this women's
group just like prayer group and looking for a house
(06:25):
and all those things, and I felt like we wasted
all of June, you know, looking at different houses. But
like work continuously working on to you know, get into
that house and buy that house and whatnot. And so
I was just kind of sharing with my prayer group,
like it's not happening, I'm upset, blah blah. And some
one of my friends told me that rejection is always
(06:46):
protections is always protection, and I was like, wow, that
is so.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Good, Like I've never heard that before.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I think a lot of us, when we get
rejection in multiple ways, we don't see it as a
form of how could this be, you know, God's provision
for us. We look at it like we failed or
we're not good enough or whatever those you know, negative
thoughts might be. But just to have someone you know
(07:19):
in my circle just be able to remind me of that, man,
it's this is okay, Like God is protecting you.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
This rejection is protection.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
There's something that is better or that he wants y'all
in and not this one.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's what's best.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So I don't know, I've literally been thinking about that
like little phrase, rejection is protection, And so I feel
like it can be applicable to so many different aspects
of like challenges people go through. And then this situation
with dealing with like a house thing, and I was like,
you know what, I'm going to receive that and I'm
going to believe that because as much as I wanted
(07:59):
that house else, it wasn't perfect, but I just felt
like it was the right house. I'm going to receive
that God's gonna is protecting us from something, something within,
so we.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Want to understand.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We don't know why, and that's kind of annoying in
our human self that we don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But I'm going to continue to move on.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And so the next day, like this house came up
on the market, and these like lease houses, I mean,
they're they're they're going so fast because people aren't wanting
to necessarily buy.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Really right now.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So we like went and saw it the next day,
and I think we saw like two or three after
church or something, and decided, hey, let's put applications in
for them and kind of go from there, but decide
on this one. It's you know, it's a great it's
a great size house, but we're definitely uh a little tighter,
(08:56):
a lot more compressed, you know, giving out the lot
of pool, giving up a lot of which I wasn't
really much of a concern, Like even the house that
we were looking at, like it didn't have a pool,
and we were perfectly fine with that. Yeah, yeah, I
mean that's always something you could put in later. But
it's definitely more confined space. I mean, it doesn't have
an office. So Adam's taking one of the bedrooms, which
(09:19):
is fine because the girls share rooms anyways, and Blakeel
still have her own room. But I actually was trying
to get them to all just do like one bunk
bedroom and then the other room. The rooms are great size,
complete bunk bedroom like your own vacation, like on a
beach house.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
They have like a bunk room and then like a
and like they're getting like yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Get ready close and like in the whole other room
because there's you know, it's five girls, and I think
one or two of them was like that's cool, but.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No, I don't want to share a room with everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, Okay, So yeah, this week is packing and you know,
I it's a lot, which I'm I'm I'm glad add
because it's giving, you know, in this situation versus now
we are going to be you know, moving to a
(10:09):
lease house, which is you know, hopefully within a year
we'll find something to purchase that fits us and that
you know, that's better for us. When we're packing, I'm
kind of like, Okay, this is going to go to
the house because we need this, or this is donations
because we haven't used this, this keeps getting closer and
(10:31):
closer to me, And then the other one is go
to storage because we're not going to get rid of it,
but I don't necessarily need it this next year.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But I've like taken lots of drives to the donation
center and dropped off a lot of stuff. The van's
full in the back two in my car, So I
like the declutter and I'm really looking forward to a
little bit smaller space to kind of maintain and just
for a season. You know, I'm sure by the end
(11:04):
of it, I'll be ready for like more space. But yeah,
I'm content and we'll satisfy with where we're going.
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Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, we're gonna talk a little bit more about like
all the house stuff and like our thought process and
stuff we want to do. Connect card today. Sure, let's
get that started and your shuffle nieche.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
If you could live anywhere for one month, where would
it be?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh, depends on the season two it does. Hmmm, something
like like a Lake Tahoe. Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I was thinking that too, because you get worlds.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, you can have like the lake and a little
bit of the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Esh.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I know that there's like this one resort on the
north side that they have like I think it's a
height or something, but they have like beaches that's on
the north side. But you also have like the mountains.
So like, I want the view, but I also want
to be able to go on the water if I want.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
To, So I think something like that. Yeah, it's summer,
you can still do all the water stuff. Beautiful lake
clear water.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, definitely winter, it wouldn't be through winter, you would definitely.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean, so you got you got everything right there,
you got awesome scenery.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So something like that. Yeah, that's a fun one.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
That's it. That's a good pi. I think if I
was picking it would be there would be a mountain
in the view.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, by the way, you picked that card for me,
so I'm picking yours for you.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I'm right. Look, what do you see in me that
you also see in yourself?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Just the way I feel like we're just so much
on the same team as like parenting, and like how
we how we want to parent, how we feel about
kids and technology, and you know, how we want to
raise kids. Nowadays, there's just so many distractions and and
things in this world that you know, can cause so
(14:32):
much chaos and in homes and a kid's life, you know,
So I like, I definitely see that like anything, whenever
it comes to that, we're we're always like on the
same page and like, yes, you know, I agree with that,
And just like how we want to raise our kids,
we want to raise our kids more more like how
old fashioned in a sense per today's standards. I would say,
(14:56):
focus on family and close knit like community, you know,
just block out world's distractions. Yeah, I would say, good, Yeah,
it was. It was interesting. Like yesterday I was at
the new house, and obviously before we start moving and stuff,
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you got to get different types of utilities and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's funny how men and women think differently when it
comes to like what all needs to get done. When
you hear your top three things that you have to
do for moving.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean in order, Like I can't move into a
house if there's no internet, because then I can't work.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yes, internet had to get that has.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
To be done first, and so like thinking about stuff
like that, Well, what's funny like last week now this
past weekend. You know, Danielle starts. Danielle starts like packing
and organizing and purging and stuff, and she starts in
the kitchen and then and so we had like the
(16:00):
people that do like house cleaning and stuff here at
this house. We had them go to the other house
to just like clean it so that we can start
moving stuff over. And she was like, well, let's just
bring these boxes that I have done over to the house.
Since we're driving over there, let's at least.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Bring bringing something. I'm packing the cardiff.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
It's like a few less things you have to bring later.
And so we bring all over all this stuff. It
was like all of our dishes and cups and pots
and pans that I would cook with and like my
cutting boards, and and so like the next morning I
wake up, it was Sunday morning, wake up, go to
the gym, and I just like ran to stop and
get it like donuts before church and bring them home.
(16:42):
And the girls like open up the counter and the
cabinet to get their cups, and the cabinets are empty.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
They're like, where's the cups? Like, oh crap, I didn't
take all that. There is still I mean open the dishwasher.
It's like, oh, thank god, there is still some the dishwasher.
Son hand clean them. I mean that's one of your things.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I mean, first of all, like before we do anything,
I mean, we need to like purge stuff, like because
we don't want to just take pack up a bunch
of stuff and take a bunch of stuff that's unnecessary.
So Internet was very important to me because so that
I can move over and immediately be able to work,
because I can't just like have dead air or I
would have to like go remote and that wouldn't be fun.
(17:29):
Next step for me is like start the process of
like purging and organizing and stuff and like what am
I taking? What is not necessary and stuff like that,
like this office. I mean it's probably gonna take me
a full day of just going through stuff and like
transferring stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Like those skittles over there, there's like two in there.
You hate all the skill.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I mean, that's been there for probably three weeks.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It's a huge skittles.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
That's what I do. I'm editing, and then like today,
I start it on like clothes. I started in one
section of my closet and to start pulling out like
a handful of like hangers, and I've probably discarded probably
half of the shirts out of that one section.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You need to discard half of your closet.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
So well, so far I have.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, I mean that definitely.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
That definitely scares me a little bit because like the closet,
like here at this house, we have two closets, one
for me, one for her, and then this new house
it's one big, bigger combined closet, but still pretty small
for and then our closet now has like built ins
and and and drawers and stuff, and this new one
just has a few shelves and that's really it. So
(18:44):
that's gonna be Adam, it's gonna be tough figuring that out.
You have to go buy some furniture or something. Oh,
your shoes are going upstairs. I mean, they're not gonna
fit in the closet because, like I mean, you gotta
think a lot of this stuff that's in here is
going to go in that closet.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I know.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
So if you're wanting to put that big cabinet somewhere
in the house.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But like your shoes, like your racks of shoes and stuff,
put it on the wall. It's not gonna look I mean,
just imagine if this was a shoe wall, Like we
actually talked about that a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I looked into that until I realized it'll be it
is fourteen dollars for those cases.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
No, but I'm saying, like you will keep those things
in there, there's not enough room, Like this closet is small,
Like that closet would be just for you for real,
Like you've got.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Way more stuff than I do.
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I mean I think going through the to me since
I've had six kids, whenever we're over a phase or
done with something or we're not using it, I'm like,
get it out of my house, like I don't want
(22:05):
to see it. It takes over all this room blah blah blah.
And that's how I feel like yesterday, from nine thirty
to what six, it's like all I did was kitchen
pantry and like some of the mudroom. It's like declutter,
get rid of. This is going to storage and this
(22:25):
is going to the house. But I don't really need
all this corning. Were so like let's just keep this,
you know. It's just like trying to like process, like
what do we really need. I feel like I didn't
do anything because all those boxes are just sitting there
and I'm like a person and it's like I'm done
with it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I want it out, like I wanted. I want to
bring it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I wanted to bring it to the house yesterday because
I don't want it sitting right there in the kitchen
because it makes it look like I didn't do anything.
But like when I got a bag full of like
donation stuff, I immediately I like put it in the car.
I'm like, I don't want to see it sitting out here.
It's just gonna declutter the clutter. So it's like I
put in the car and then when the car's full,
then I'm gonna go take it, you know. But it
(23:05):
feels good to get rid of a lot of a
lot of stuff, and you know, we bring it to
a lot of like Christian facilities here around that like
take a lot of donations and stuff. But anyway, yeah,
packing is exhausting, and you know, I feel like I
ran a marathon and I didn't, but it felt like it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
My body felt like it, and it's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I feel like I'm mentally like trying to process multiple things,
like I don't know. But then I also feel really
bad because the kids are home and I'm like, this
summer sucks, like I don't like we usually have such
a fun summer and this summer, I just feel like
it's been like warped around, like trying to transition. And
(23:50):
I feel bad for the kids. But then I'm thinking,
you know, they've been having fun. They're with their friends,
like every day they're they're over here, they're over there,
and we're trying to keep it fun and like here
and there. That's why their styles, Like, man, they helped
pack it a little bit. I'm like, all right, let's
give everybody a little responsibility. I mean, you get ten
(24:11):
minutes in there and they're arguing, and I'm like, all right,
all right, you three go upstairs. Y'all are done with you.
When you're done with this, You're done for helping for
the dead. I can do it better by myself, but
they do. I mean they've We've packed a lot of
things upstairs and gone through all the toys and stuffed
animals and all the things. So I feel good about upstairs.
(24:33):
It's just there's just a lot of stuff. But I
all say, man, I'm not an emotional person. I don't
get tied to like things. I'm not like a sensitive
sentimental towards things like this table was from blah blah blah.
(24:56):
Now as I get older, I'm like, oh my god,
I love that style. I wish I would have had
that from my grandma or like whatever. You know. From
the day last Friday when I went and got the
keys for the house and you were doing a photo shoot.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It was me and the girls, and I was like,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Blake had never even seen the house, and I think
Ava and Hazel were at your mom and dad, so
they had never seen the house. So it's kind of weird.
So I had all the girls Adam's had a photo shoot.
I went to go get the keys and like walked
them all through the house, all of them, and like
I snapped a picture because I was like the first
time they're seeing it, and I was like, this is weird.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I can't post this because Adam's notting the photo. I
was like, it looks weird, felt weird.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
But you know, it's been the girls have been knowing
like for you know, at least since May, that this
is what we feel God's calling for us to do,
and to sell the house and to like move away
in an aspect. And so it's been warming up to
them right that different school, and I think Blake's been
(25:59):
having the hardest time with like accepting, you know, the
different school, but she's warmed up to it, and she
still wants to go to her where she was supposed
to go to.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But I think it's getting easier for all them.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
However, we walked into the house and get in the keys,
and the girls have been with us. The Quinn's like
looking at multiple homes over the past couple of weeks
and we're moving.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We're gonna move. Do we like this house? Do we
like this house? Does this work? Does this work?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You know? And at this time, like Riley walks in
and all of a sudden, they're.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Like Riley's crying, and I'm like, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Riley?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And she's she doesn't like change.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
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And she just started crying, which then made me like, okay,
I got it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know, it's like it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Like she doesn't want to leave her friends, and she
doesn't want a new room, and like she thinks about
she's now thinking about the things that are going to
be different.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So that was hard. I was like, man, it's it's hard.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's hard being a mom where we feel, you know,
it's hard making these decisions. What's right you know, as
you and your husband, is what's right for your family.
But then it's also when you get the reality of
like we're in this right now, and yes, we've been
preparing our kids and like having conversations with them, but
like now we're at this new phase where like now
(30:19):
we have this house, we're now actually going to be
moving into this house. It's like then you carry the
weight of I guess I will say that I'm starting
to like feel these feelings of like carrying the weight
of like what do they feel about situations as they
get older? They have opinions, they have emotions, and they're
(30:40):
all very different.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And so to be able to as.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
A mom, be able to be on alert for how
your six kids are going to respond in every situation,
in every scenario that you bring on to them on
the daily, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Just that is a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And I think this is one of those things where
I look back at like what God's been saying, like hey,
twenty twenty five, like your life's going to change drastically,
and you know, for a while, I'm like, okay, okay,
And so like if we look at what's been happening
in the last like six seven months, it has changed
drastically for me and for me as a mom is
(31:18):
me as a worker all the things as non emotional
becoming an emotional person. But it's a lot in him
telling me like I just.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Need you to be.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I need you to be mom, I need you to
be present, I need you to be you know, as
the girls are getting older, you need to be more there.
And I saw that moment, at that moment walking in
the house and like Riley getting emotional and just thinking
of like how they're all different, Like how do you
I mean, it's a struggle to struggle for every parent.
How do you make sure your kids love you enough?
(31:53):
How do you make sure your kids feel like you
love them enough? All in their different ways? And you
know with how we have six of them, everything in
six different opinions and six different emotions across everything, you know,
from from a house move to money for dinner, to
(32:13):
emotions to manage where do we want to you know,
go eat tonight?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
To who's going to feed the dogs? Like you know,
it's just it's a it's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So oh it's a lot, but I see, I see
God working through through it, and so I trust in
the rejection we have had as protection and I believe
that He's going to abundantly provide and abundantly be more
(32:44):
than we could ever have imagined. And I believe that
because we've walked through seasons of that. And though it's
challenging to be in the season of a transition or
a change, you know, I'm very thankful for my faith
and I'm thankful for our community of when and who
can you know, be there and like pray for you
and encourage you in to say, like, dude, this is
(33:06):
a lot, It's okay, like you know, because sometimes I
think we have to be too too tough for it,
and that's been my character my whole life, you know,
And so yeah, it's good to be filled with that
amount of love and support in proximity, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
So yeah, I mean you never really know, like truly.
I mean, obviously we've understood it and we've accepted like
we're going to go through this change or whatever, but
don't fully know like how the kids are going to
respond and react and stuff like that. And so with them,
I feel like it's going to be a little bit
delayed and it's not really going to sink in until
(33:44):
like we actually move. Riley is very sensitive and she
picks it up on it, probably earlier than the other
girls will.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
But yeah, well it's just personalities. I mean, they just
their personalities are just so different, you know. And honestly,
I'd forgot like she's always has always been like that
with change. When it's something she doesn't know and it's
a brand new first or something, she always has a
hard time right then and there. But I guarantee you
after the first night there, she's gonna be like, I
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didn't cry about moving, Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
She puts her tough mama roll on, and it was
very comforting. The day that we went and brought that
stuff to the new house, we were pulling into the
neighborhood and there was like probably six six little girls
that are all around all their ages, all around their age,
and they were having like a little bake sell and
(34:36):
selling bracelets like right at the you know, right at
the street. And I'm like, oh, the girls are gonna
love it. Yeah, I mean there's a bunch of little
girls their age that you know, they'll be able to
play with and stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And yeah, above all, above all the change, above all
the struggles, I still trust in that God is still
guiding us down this path and trusting that this is
what he once for us, and I believe that and
I feel that, and I'm already seeing like fruits of.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
This struggle, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
So yeah, good, it was. It was interesting. So I
was at the house the other day, yesterday actually, and
I did an Instagram story and you just realize that,
I mean, obviously, we have a ton of followers on Instagram.
You know, probably our most loyal followers are that actually
listen to our podcast regularly. You guys hear everything first,
(35:31):
and you guys know like our thought process and and
how things have been going, and like how how we've
been like looking for and wrestling with this change and
all this stuff. But you know, we haven't really shared
much on social media other than just like small clips
here and there. But and then so like I, you know,
did an Instagram story where I'm like, yeah, I'm in
(35:52):
the living room in the new or in the kitchen
in the new house, and kind of talked about that.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
You just stand like all day because there was nothing
to sit on.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
I was trying to work. I was at the bar
with my bar the top, and I was like, well,
at LEAs I'll edit some videos, some photos and stuff
like that while I'm here, and I was there a
little bit longer than I wanted to, but and then
I got I mean, I probably had four hundred messages back,
why are y'all moving? Yeah, okay, we I feel like
we've talked about this a nauseum on the podcast, but
(36:23):
I mean, yeah, I mean, anybody that doesn't listen to
the podcast regularly, they're probably out of the loop. And
so I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
But and I'm like, I'm gonna do better at Sharon,
And I'm like.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I responded back, like, well, listen to the podcast. You
know about this.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But I get overwhelmed with just the amount of things
that I have to do to much less like be
like I have how do I post about this?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
How do I share this?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Because it's like a lot to do in the moment,
and it's hard to be like phone phone, So like,
I don't know, it's I'm a multitasker. That stresses me out, yeah,
that part, But anyways, I don't know. Adam's got to
jump on a call and meeting. It's got some meetings
this afternoon, so I kind of want to wrap this
up and I'm going to go do something.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
With the kids today.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I just wanted to I'm glad we have this platform
to kind of process and share with you guys, because
I know that, like Adams saying, like the followers who
you know really do listen to this podcast and support
you know, the bus Bees, like, we're so appreciateive for that.
We thank you it. It is helping us in a
lot of in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
And so I liking subscribing, leaving positive reviews, supporting our sponsors,
I mean that helps us tremendously. So yeah, those of
you that have done any of those things, like, we're
very grateful for all that you've done to just support
our family, our podcast, our mission, and so thank you,
(37:50):
thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And so just to kind of close out this podcast,
I'm just gonna leave it with that phrase I said today.
Hopefully y'all can settle in with it. And rejection is protection.
So I want to I want you to believe that,
and I want you to ponder on what that means
to you and.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Really to fill it in the moment. But you know,
you always look back and like, oh yeah, thank goodness
for that, and.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You can start by actually looking back at the times
that you were rejected and to see like where God
brought you through those things.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So anyways, we love you guys, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
All right, thank you guys for listening to episode forty
one More than Reality Podcast. And we'll probably see you
again in a different setting, so we'll see I don't
know what that's going to look like, so we'll see
you next week. Bye, all right, love you guys.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Eight eight
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