Well hello you guys, welcome back to our channel.

Welcome back to the channel everyone.

We just wanted to bring you guys along.

We're going to have a little family coffee date afternoon at one of our favorite places here.

I was going to say in Franklin, but this is Moore Thompson Station if you know the area.

We are legit at this coffee shop, what would you say, four times a week?

Yeah, yeah.

Obviously Mike and I are here four times a week and you're there two or three.

Yeah, it has the cutest little area right outside.

We'll show you all around.

Noah is about to start crying and so hoping that he falls asleep in the car, he's like hit or miss.

And right now I'm thinking it's a miss, and so I think we'll meet you guys over at the coffee shop.

We'll take you guys along for a little family adventure.

We're going to do a large iced matcha latte with vanilla.

I'll do an iced.

Are you serious?

So you're Noah Samuel.

I'm Noah Samuel.

He's Noah Samuel.

Yeah.

Okay, if y'all remember the meeting behind Noah's name video, not only is this Noah, but he is Noah Samuel and your brother's name is Micah.

What a wild time.

Are we family?

You know what?

We might as well just like be family, right?

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, you can see this place is a huge house.

They have all these different rooms, which I felt a little awkward filming because there's people in every single room, but then they also have this beautiful like garden area over here, blueberry muffin, peanut butter cookie.

And then like right across the street, it's also like, it's a huge plot of land that Micah loves to run around in.

And then obviously the coffee shop's like a separate building, which is more of like a greenhouse feel.

Definitely fits the vibe check.

Oh, here's my boys coming along the trail.

This huge tree had that branch fall off, which is like so sad and scary.

Micah and I both have rain boots on today.

Should I get napkins for right here?

Yeah.

Do I look like the ultra dad right now with the vacuum?

Gosh.

I want to be a cool dad.

Sorry if it's loud.

It's off of a street, but it's so far back, but for some reason I feel like on film, it just feels really loud.

Plus these cicadas, if you're in middle Tennessee, you know, it's become like white noise.

They're so loud.

They're so intense.

And honestly, they have no fear.

They'll just literally come fly at you.

They're these massive, big bug fly situations that apparently also love to pee on you from the trees.

And so, considering that we live outside now, because this nugget is just much happier outside, he loves to play with them.

Loves to literally pick up the cicadas and play with them.

Right, Bubba?

Who's that cute boy?

Where's Dada?

His little shirt says, cool big bro club.

Okay, y'all, we just got all set up and dried off the table and now it's raining.

It's very sad.

I guess you can say it's raining on our parade.

It literally just rained on our parade.

So, should we see if there's a table inside?

Yeah, I can go look around if you want me to.

Okay.

Okay.

So, we think we're going to pivot because every time we get comfortable here, it starts raining.

But I did just want to tell you guys my drink.

Wait.

It says your name on it.

Maybe your favorite drink.

I get an iced Cuban coffee.

I get an iced vanilla matcha latte.

I was about to cheers you.

Cheers.

Love you.

We're trying to get out and about more frequently because, honestly, we get really stir crazy at the house where Micah is just ready to party and we want to, no sir, you can't have that jet fuel.

Have this jet fuel.

It's my fault because I was here the other day, he got a hold of my matcha and he loved it.

Okay.

I feel like that was your mom's bail.

I don't know.

A lot of you moms message me that a lot of your kids love your matcha.

It's starting to rain, babe.

Alright.

One, two.

Okay.

So, we made it to the factory.

There's a super cute spot in Franklin.

Cory is feeding Noah.

I just stopped at this restaurant called Daddy's Dogs.

And let me just tell you, you can hate on me all you want, but I'm a massive hot dog fan.

I love hot dogs.

And, oh, do you want it?

You want it?

Maybe.

And I'm going to tell Tori on camera that I got her one because she's the opposite of me.

She does not like hot dogs.

And so, I'm excited to see her reaction when I tell her, like, babe, I got you one.

Like, you like it, right?

And she's...

Anyways, it's the simple things in life, right?

Right, babe?

Anyways, we'll see her reaction when she's back.

We made it here.

There's Micah.

I got you some food if you want food.

Oh.

Ouch.

I wish ramen.

That'd be a dream.

What'd you get?

It's a surprise.

What'd you get?

Babe, it's a surprise.

It's open.

What are you doing?

Micah.

Micah.

Why are you laughing?

Come on.

A few moments later.

You hear the construction?

Well, I think I'm on the other side.

As you can see, we're not at a coffee shop at all.

Did you show them we tried to go to the factory?

You hear the construction?

We were doing construction at the factory, and so we couldn't record there.

Yeah, we tried a whole nother situation, and that situation also did not work.

So, it is the next day.

I actually just had my leftover ramen, and it was fantastic.

But yeah, plans just didn't quite work out the way we had hoped.

And so we actually just sat down.

My mom is in town, and so she is holding Noah right now.

He's napping, and Micah's napping.

And so we just had a little moment to ourselves, and we decided, you know, we're just gonna rest and watch one of the videos from Hillsdale that we've been going through.

And honestly, it was so encouraging.

I felt like we both just needed a little moment to actually feel like we're getting poured into.

Yeah, and if you guys remember, at the beginning of this month, we announced that each month we're gonna be working through a different Hillsdale online course.

And this month is all about David, Shepard, Father King.

And the part that we just watched, it was honestly really heavy.

And it kind of spoke to our hearts a bit, which is why we wanted to open up on here.

Because I do think that Tori and I are in a weird place right now, where we feel like we've been struggling, because we've had a lot going on.

And Tori's been sleeping not well at all.

Hashtag newborn life.

A piece of it's to be expected, right?

But then another piece, it doesn't change the fact that it's hard.

But we've also had some amazing wins.

Some really high highs lately, too.

And so, we've been kind of wrestling with how to feel with all the peaks and valleys.

But it feels like we haven't really had a ton of time with the Lord.

And so, as we tuned in to, I think it's like chapter 7 of us working through the David story.

And Tori and I have a link for you guys to sign up for these free online courses from Hillsdale.

If you go to hillsdale.edu slash masters, you can see them.

But every month we'll be working through a different one.

But this specific chapter was, and this is kind of now how we're shifting the topic of this video, was all about the ripple effects of our actions.

It was focusing in on King David.

And as you all know, he had really high highs and really low lows.

And I think that's where Tori and I were just kind of feeling like, oh wow, okay, I see what's happening here.

And after King David did what he did with Bathsheba, and then what he did to Uriah, and then everything that transpires after that,

I don't know how many of you all know about this part of the story, but the prophet Nathan came to David and basically said to him, he gave him almost like a parable, and said, if this guy did this to that guy, and this happened, what do you think should happen to this guy?

And David's like, oh, the consequences should be this bad, and actually times four.

And then that's when the realization sunk in that, oh wait,

David's saying, that's me.

I deserve fourfold the punishment.

And then you see the ripple effect of what started when he went to the rooftop.

Something as innocent as going to a rooftop, looking out, calling for her to come to his palace, whatever, and then everything that transpires all the way into his kids' lives, and what his kids do, and I don't want to take it away, but you guys should absolutely go check out this course.

They're so well done, they're so high quality, they're so educational, they're so entertaining.

You feel so captivated by what the teacher's teaching.

I feel like I've heard the story so many times, but yet had so many fresh little realizations where I was like, oh, I didn't even realize that that's actually what happened.

I feel like when I read it, that's not what I pulled from it, and so having someone else go through the text with you and for you is so beneficial because you'll just pull so much more from the same passage of Scripture.

Even to the point where the teacher was pointing out, when David's sons are talking, and at a certain point in Scripture it'll say, King David came.

Not Father David, or David, or Shepherd David, it was King David.

And it shows you this disconnection that he feels in his heart regarding what's happening because of what he first did.

And I know you all feel the exact same way that Tora and I do, that if everything was perfect, you would live a perfect life and everything would be awesome.

Everything is awesome.

That's not always the case.

And life is very far from perfect.

Life can be really hard for a lot of us.

We see it in our Discord.

We see people losing their jobs.

We see people having marriage struggles.

We see people just struggling with purpose, mental health.

We see it.

We're all struggling.

But what I've noticed is that when I struggle,

I tend to start justifying my actions.

I tend to start making excuses.

But I'm not thinking about the ripple effect that will come from justifying those poor actions.

I'm not thinking about the ripple effect of how that'll impact my kids and then their kids.

And even on a micro level, just how it impacts your day.

Your thought life and your thought patterns and how that one seed of a negative thought, if you don't nip it at the bud, how it can totally derail your mood for the day.

I don't know.

I can only speak from my own perspective.

But just as a wife and a mom and how that impacts your home and the way in which you're walking around and you're thinking, that's how you end up talking.

And so it's just like, man, I really need to think three steps down the road.

You know how we always talk about think of the end in mind?

So think of the ripple effect of if you stew on that one thought instead of switching the perspective.

So for me right now, going through newborn life, and we just have not had the babies that are great sleepers, unfortunately.

And I know that we'll get there.

Like now Micah is sleeping great.

But right now, no, it's not.

He's only seven weeks old as of today that we're filming.

And we're not in a routine yet.

We're still learning who he is and what he needs and everything else.

And for me, it's so easy to get on this comparison mind track of, oh, why is her baby sleeping like that?

Or why is her breastfeeding journey easy?

And why is this hard for me or that hard for me?

Instead of the perspective of, wow, we prayed for this baby for so long.

We prayed to have a family.