Sunday Faith, Weekday Chaos

Talk about a week of fast-moving transitions! 🎢 In this episode, we are coming to you live while Ashley multi-tasks by crafting Cecilia's pageant People's Choice donation can right at the desk. ✂️ We are diving headfirst into a massive week of family milestones: from celebrating Creed's official 1st birthday party at the church (featuring a homemade cake treat saga that resulted in a...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week, the weekday chaos brought some incredibly heavy weather to central Illinois. With our state hitting a staggering stat of over 190 tornadoes this year, we share our raw experience of praying through the latest storm system. We dive into a vulnerable, honest conversation about the hard questions of prayer—what it feels like to be spared with only a few d...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week, the weekday chaos came for us in full force, starting right out in the poultry yard. We finally tackled our big chicken butchering day, but it didn't start without a fight. After our turkey fryer burner rebelled, a chaotic emergency trip to town for parts failed, and we had to swallow our pride to borrow a friend's burner—setting us back hours....

From deserted country road rescue missions to a literal mountain of upcoming vegetables, the chaos is real this week on the homestead! In this episode, we officially debut our new weekly recap segment, Critter & Chaos Chronicles , sharing the story of the tiny kitten we found in the middle of the road and how Matt accidentally tracked 27 total rows of corn and beans to harvest at the exact sam...

Welcome to Sunday Faith, Weekday Chaos—where Faith meets Family, and spinning in circles meets Sunday School! The waters are rising, the grass is growing, and the chaos is at an all-time high this week on the homestead. Join Ashley and Matthew as they recap a wild week packed with intense local flash floods, graduation season madness, and a laundry list of personal "firsts." In this epis...

“Where faith meets family… and the chicken coop learns how to fly.” This week, the Brooks homestead officially took flight—literally. We’re opening up the kitchen table to talk about the morning our chicken coop decided to become a kite, right as we were fully ready to head out the door for the day. Cue the sudden, chaotic rescue mission to round up a very confused flock. (Don’t worry, no chickens...

“Where faith meets family… and chaos meets the calendar.” Ever feel like the week is winning? You aren’t alone. In Episode 4, we’re recapping a week that was moving at a breakneck pace—from the kids' non-stop schedules to the general homestead hustle. Matthew and Ashley sit down at the kitchen table to share the funniest (and most stressful) highlights of the recent whirlwind. But more importa...

Four days of turkey hunting, a lot of waiting, and a conversation about patience, perspective, and slowing down.

This week, we learned something important about our daughter—and about ourselves. While signing her up for a pageant, we realized her hesitation wasn’t just nerves… it was fear she didn’t know how to put into words. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to create space for honesty, how fear can show up quietly, and how we’re learning to walk through it together as a family. It’s a simp...

A quick reflection from Ashley on Proverbs 27:1–2 and a moment that shifted her perspective this week. Just a short, honest thought that stuck.

This week, we brought home 50 chicks… and suddenly our garage looks very different. In our first episode, we’re talking about why we chose to raise meat birds again, what it means to live more intentionally, and how even something as simple as raising chickens can teach us about stewardship, responsibility, and paying attention to what we’ve been given. It’s a little chaotic, a little meaningful—a...

A husband-and-wife podcast about faith, family, and the everyday chaos in between. Join Matthew and Ashley Brooks as they share real-life stories, marriage moments, and the ups and downs of raising a family—keeping it honest, lighthearted, and rooted in faith.