EP 87 - We Found a House… But It’s Not What We Expected

Summary

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More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle Busby

Episode 87: We Found a House… But It’s Not What We Expected
Date: June 18, 2026

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Overview

In Episode 87, Adam and Danielle Busby—best known as parents to America’s only all-girl quintuplets and stars of OutDaughtered—offer an unfiltered window into their current season of life. This episode centers around the search for a new family home, the challenges and quirks of life in a temporary space, the realities of raising six girls, and updates on their family projects. With their signature humor, candor, and tangents, the Busbys tackle everything from high-tech productivity hacks and parenting philosophies to hurricanes, YouTube relaunches, and, of course, rogue snakes on the porch.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Adam’s Distraction & Productivity Tools

(Timestamps: 01:00–09:31)

• Adam admits being distracted by the World Cup and general life stress:
  • “I’m so distracted… There’s like games all day, every day… I try to have it up on a screen” (Adam, 03:03).
• Danielle jokes about Adam’s focus and how his interest in Apple Vision Pro goggles is for blocking out distractions at work:
  • “So all I care about right now is that you want to buy some goggles that are $4,000.” (Danielle, 07:01)
• Adam explains how VR goggles help manage his attention deficit and create a focused workspace:
  • “I can literally black out the world… and so those work, like, so well… all I see is the screen and everything around me… is just black.” (Adam, 05:54–06:18)
• Humorous back-and-forth as Danielle teases Adam for what she thought was “playing golf” with the VR, but learns it’s actually work.
• Memorable quote: “I just learned a lot. I thought he was always up here playing golf… when I see you walk up here—he needs a computer break.” (Danielle, 07:58)

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2. Life Updates: Weather, Travel, and Allergen Woes

(Timestamps: 09:31–13:47)

• The Busbys adjust to a tropical storm and reminisce about being unfazed by Gulf Coast weather.
• Traveling between Louisiana and South Carolina has highlighted the importance of clean air for both:
  • “Clean air has become a big deal for our family, especially after everything we’ve learned over the years about indoor air quality.” (Adam, 10:32)
• Family allergies and sleeping in unfamiliar places were a challenge during travels.

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3. Danielle’s Women’s Ministry & The Family YouTube Channel

(Timestamps: 13:47–19:14)

• Danielle updates listeners on her women’s ministry event (Heart of Her) and future devotional writings.
• They discuss potential revamping of their YouTube channel, It’s a Buzz World, feeling torn about how to approach filming and editing with their busy schedules.
  • “Do we want to do this this summer? With everything else that’s going on…” (Danielle, 16:30)
  • Adam has multiple unedited videos but feels the creative burnout.
• The girls’ interest in YouTube content is plentiful, but Adam and Danielle don’t want to post just “goofy little videos.”
• Key question for listeners: “What y’alls opinions on what you would like to see? It’s a Buzz World YouTube become next?” (Danielle, 18:22)

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4. The Realities of Temporary Living & Finding a New House

(Timestamps: 19:14–35:45)

• The struggle of raising six girls in a home that was meant as a temporary solution:
  • “This, like, isn’t a house for us to, like, make our own… it works for right now while we’re trying to find another place…” (Adam, 20:37)
• Constant clutter, lack of storage, and major driveway/parking issues are pain points:
  • “We’re busting at the seams… not really set up the way… every time you walk in a room somewhere, you’re like, down the hall, step over all these blankets.” (Danielle, 19:14)
  • “Half the days of the week because of what our schedule is… I have to leave my truck, constantly shuffle cars… here in the next year, Blake’s gonna have a car… It’s already a huge frustration.” (Adam, 27:51–28:17)
• The unique challenges in house-hunting as a family of eight:
  • Looking for homes with enough bathrooms, storage, safe outdoor space, and in the right area (Friendswood).
  • “I might find a home that has five bathrooms, but that’s the only thing that that house had… don’t want the neighborhood, don’t want where it’s at… stipulations around everything.” (Danielle, 24:15)
  • “Or it has the best of both worlds and the house is like over $2 million…” (Adam, 25:32)
• Acceptance that the “perfect” house may not exist, and compromise will be needed.
• Their current favorite on the market is quirky, but offers many functional perks if they’re willing to make modifications (add a bedroom, bathroom, and flex space).
  • “It has at least one fewer bathroom than we need… but, like, the driveway’s huge, the yard’s big… huge shop for studio and office, air-conditioned…” (Adam & Danielle, 30:08–30:23)
• Memorable moment: Danielle relates their fondness for unusual houses to when they would always pick the “weird” pets that others didn’t want:
  • “Remember when you fell in love with me? Because I was different. I’m still different.” (Danielle, 32:02)

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5. Family Banter & Parenting Moments

(Timestamps: 33:25–41:52)

• Playful thoughts about the hypothetical of adopting a boy or fostering pets (“He’d be so spoiled… he would drive all the girls crazy!” – Adam, 33:34).
• The ongoing wish for chickens (and jokes about “weird chickens” producing weird eggs).
• Recounting the drama of a large rat snake found on their porch.
  • “You said it was under the cushion of the seat if I was down right there, and that’s… oh, my God, I killed him.” (Danielle & Adam, 41:08)

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6. Retreats & Summer Adventures

(Timestamps: 36:07–41:04)

• Adam prepares for an upcoming “daddy-daughter adventure” at a ranch with some of the girls.
• Danielle discusses planning a mother-daughter trip as well.
• The girls love exploring the outdoors—a passion the parents support (with mild snake-related anxiety).

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7. Reflective Ending: Faith & Perspective

(Timestamps: 42:09–43:15)

• Danielle concludes with a message about trusting in God’s plan, regardless of uncertainty:
  • “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding… as long as you keep God center of your focus and trusting in his path, then all will end well. So if the house is meant to be, it will be.” (Danielle, 42:09)
• Adam echoes the importance of patience and faith.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Danielle on Adam’s ‘focus gear’:
  “You want to buy some goggles that are $4,000. It’s a tax write-off.” (07:01)
• Adam on home hunting:
  "We’re busting at the seams… this house doesn’t really have… all those extra spaces for storage… it gets like, I mean, we can clean the house and then, literally three hours later… the girls have already… build a fort upstairs.” (19:14–19:31)
• Danielle on letting go of perfection:
  “It’s not going to be exactly what you wanted. I kind of just am trying to trust in that… we can’t always have it all, right?” (25:40)
• Adam on quirky choices:
  “We would always get pets that were, like, really weird... This one’s cross eyed, great, we want it.” (32:11)
• Danielle, closing with faith:
  “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding… as long as you keep God center of your focus…” (42:09)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:00 Adam’s distraction and discussion of VR productivity tools
• 09:31 Life updates: weather, allergies, returning home
• 13:47 Danielle’s ministry update & YouTube channel debate
• 19:14 Life in a temporary home, household chaos
• 21:03 Story of their move to Friendswood and adapting to a new community
• 23:49 The unique challenge of buying a house for a family of eight
• 30:08 Details of their top housing contender (the quirks & compromises)
• 32:02 Memorable metaphor: quirky homes and quirky pets
• 33:25 Humorous family banter around imaginary “baby boy” and fostering pets
• 36:07 Daddy-daughter and mommy-daughter trip planning
• 39:17 Outdoor adventures & love for nature
• 41:08 The rat snake porch incident
• 42:09 Reflections on faith and trusting God's plan

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Tone and Takeaway

Adam and Danielle’s easy rapport, playful teasing, and willingness to be honest about stress and uncertainty make this episode both entertaining and relatable for families facing transition or feeling overwhelmed. The Busbys highlight the importance of keeping faith at the center, letting go of perfection, and cherishing the chaotic, joyful moments amid transition.

Episode Title Alternative (per Danielle):
“This was kind of like an ADD episode… you should call it that one.” (42:09)

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For fans and new listeners alike, this episode offers insight into the real lives of the Busbys—unfiltered, messy, but firmly grounded in love, laughter, and trust in God’s bigger plan.

Transcript

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[Danielle Busby]

I feel like Adam's a little off today. I feel like you're a little stressed.

[Adam Busby]

I know. I'm so distracted.

[Danielle Busby]

What are you distracted by?

[Adam Busby]

World Cup.

[Danielle Busby]

That makes sense. Okay. Makes sense.

[Adam Busby]

Whenever we were dating, we would always get pets that were, like, really weird.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. We always got. If that's what people wanted, we wanted the one that people didn't want. You always got the animal or the. The whatever it was that had some kind of weird one that had the.

[Adam Busby]

This one's cross eyed. Great. We want it.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. There was a snake on our front porch. Yes. Two days ago.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

You said it was under the cushion of the seat if I was down right there. And that's. Oh, my God.

[Adam Busby]

Killed him.

[Commercial Narrator]

Rude.

[Danielle Busby]

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. Hello. Hello.

[Adam Busby]

What's up? Up.

[Danielle Busby]

You don't know the number? I do. I'm going to say 88.

[Adam Busby]

No, I'm thinking 87.

[Danielle Busby]

87. He's trying to look it up. But we are. Adam and Daniel with manage.

[Adam Busby]

I manage like three other podcasts and so like I'm going through. I have to select the right one.

[Danielle Busby]

87.

[Adam Busby]

Yep. This is 80. This is episode 87, a more than reality podcast without him and definitely wasn't prepared.

[Danielle Busby]

I feel like Adam's a little off today. I feel like you're a little stressed.

[Adam Busby]

I know. I'm so distracted.

[Danielle Busby]

What are you distracted by?

[Adam Busby]

World Cup.

[Danielle Busby]

That makes sense. Okay. Makes sense.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, so, like, I am so distracted by the World cup because there's, like, games all day, every day, and it's just exciting. It's fun. Like, I've been keeping up with pretty much every game. I try to. At least if I'm working, I'll like, have it up on a screen just so I can, like, stay in the know of what's going on. But all this stuff on social media has been so cool. Like, all the. All the people from other countries that are coming and visiting North America, and it's just like all those misconceptions and the crazy stuff that you see on the news and stuff, they're realizing, oh, it's not as bad as the news portrays in our country about America.

[Danielle Busby]

Or like, that one piece of news is all the country. The whole.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. That's interesting. I did not know. I am surprised to hear this is your answer because I thought you were, like, been stressed out or nothing. You know, you just don't want to

[Adam Busby]

work well because you want to watch the world. I'm stressed too. It's just like all, like, the travel and stuff going on, and then you get back and you're trying to catch up and then, I don't know, just like little things here and there. Just. I'll be trying to finish one thing and then two other things pop up and I need to work on that.

[Danielle Busby]

Have a little bit of attention deficit. And then if you say you have the World cup up here.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

I can tell that time management's where that's going.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, for sure. That's why I honest, Adam, like, I really. And I've been trying to figure out a way. How. How I. I know I. I can buy it and write it off in taxes because it's like a business expense, but it's just so expensive. Like, I want to get those.

[Danielle Busby]

What is it that you want to buy now?

[Adam Busby]

The. The Apple Vision goggles.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, Lord.

[Adam Busby]

Like, I have. I have, like, the Meta Quest, which you can mirror your. My Mac, like, whenever I'm editing videos or editing stuff or doing work, I can put these goggles on and I can literally black out the world. Put headphones in and I can, like, focus. And. And so those work, like, so well. But when it comes to like, editing photos and color grading video and stuff like that, like, the resolution on those is terrible. And I can't really use that for. To be, like, color accurate. And so that's why I like, man. Okay.

[Danielle Busby]

Like, what are these glasses supposed to do?

[Adam Busby]

Proven that this can Work. And it can, like, help aid my ADD and just being distracted all the time. But it's just, they're not cheap. Like, I've, I've been looking on.

[Danielle Busby]

So you would just put these glasses on and what?

[Adam Busby]

And work.

[Danielle Busby]

How is it different than looking at the computer screen?

[Adam Busby]

Because literally whenever you put them on,

[Danielle Busby]

all your notifications off.

[Adam Busby]

No, whenever you put them on, literally all I see is the screen and everything around me in my office, my phone that's sitting on, you know, everything is just black. And it's just literally like tunnel vision on what I'm working on. And it helps so much.

[Commercial Narrator]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

So I've even looked at I, I Facebook marketplace because I can get like last. The last generation one for like $2,000 less than what, the new $2,000 less? Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

How much is the goggles?

[Adam Busby]

I mean, a brand new one. If I'd go to Apple right now and buy the new ones, it's like $4,200. It's like the, it's like buying. So basically it's like buying the glasses just make you not distracted, but also, like, very productive. I mean, it's like, it's having a 5K monitor that's like color accurate and everything. I don't know. I get. I guarantee you most people that are listening to this podcast have no interest in what I'm talking about.

[Danielle Busby]

So all I care about right now is that you want to buy some goggles that are $4,000. It's a tax.

[Adam Busby]

It's a write off. It literally is a write off. It's like a okay equipment, but it's just the fact of buying them.

[Danielle Busby]

I feel like.

[Adam Busby]

But can I write that off if I, If I buy it from someone else?

[Danielle Busby]

I feel like you wouldn't use it. I feel like. I don't know. I don't feel like it would be worth it.

[Adam Busby]

Why?

[Danielle Busby]

It's my opinion because I know you and you're like, you're not gonna sit there and be tunnel vision for four hours.

[Adam Busby]

I do it with those.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, I thought you were coming up here playing simulator golf.

[Adam Busby]

The controller's not even.

[Danielle Busby]

I'm just learning so much.

[Adam Busby]

The controller's not even in the little handle. Like, I literally just use those as my monitor and I'm like, lock in. Like, that's the only way I can, like, block everything out.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah, I just learned a lot. I thought he was always up here playing golf. When I see you walk up here, He needs a computer break.

[Adam Busby]

All he does is up here playing video games.

[Danielle Busby]

No, for real? How many times I see you walk up and I'm like, that's all he does.

[Adam Busby]

He's just up here gaming.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

Now

[Danielle Busby]

I feel like I. I have a little bit different mindset for you now.

[Adam Busby]

All he does is play in his office stuff.

[Danielle Busby]

He talks about, I gotta do this guy. I'm like, well, get the golf simulator out of your office.

[Adam Busby]

And besides, I'm not playing golf if I don't have the controller in my

[Danielle Busby]

hand and I see you.

[Adam Busby]

I can't play golf in my office. I can't, like, swing that club in here.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh.

[Adam Busby]

With the lights and stuff.

[Danielle Busby]

Well, anyway, so there's an update of our life. I just learned about Adam's work style and how he's not really playing golf all day upstairs. He's actually tunnel vision working.

[Adam Busby]

Wow, man. All he does is play games in his office.

[Danielle Busby]

Hey, it's good. High five, babe. You're doing great work. Speaking of, we're just, we're. We're just gonna, like. Now that I've just learned so much about work, let's just continue talking about what else is happening.

[Adam Busby]

I just learned. Right. Well, that's what distracted me. I was looking up the see distraction. I was gonna look up the episode. The episode number game just started though. I was going to look up the episode number, and then I got this notification about this, like, tropical storm apparently going to hit us in the next day or so. Like, oh, crap, we got that bad of weather coming.

[Danielle Busby]

It's just supposed to like, be raining like the rest of this week, but it is supposed to, like, intense a

[Adam Busby]

bit, but to a tropical storm. Last few weeks, we've been traveling all over the place, from Louisiana to South Carolina. And if you've ever, ever travel during any allergy season, you know the struggle is real.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, my goodness, yes. Between different pollens, being outside all day and sleeping in different places, the congestion and the allergies have been pretty rough for both of us. Honestly, one of the things I was looking forward to the most about getting home was getting back to our own bed with our Air Doctor.

[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

It's not a hurricane.

[Adam Busby]

You know, we're like whatever. Yeah, it's just a Category 1.

[Danielle Busby]

People listening that around the world like or outside the Gulf coast are like they're crazy. Just like how we the alligators in the backyard in Louisiana.

[Adam Busby]

We're so jaded to like hurricanes and like all that kind of stuff just because like yeah we've seen bad ones and so we know look through them

[Danielle Busby]

and we know what they can do and they are usually a winner and they can be horrible. But when we see tropical storm we're not really that. Yeah, I'm not that alarmed by the tropical storm. Do you remember when Brad producer Brad.

[Adam Busby]

Oh yeah. I mean whenever you have people on our TV crew from California and stuff that aren't used to hurricane.

[Danielle Busby]

First hurricane, I forget what hurricane it was. And they were at one of the hotels and he was so worried. Hurricane, hurricane.

[Adam Busby]

And then we found through Harvey and. But they all went home.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. But do you.

[Adam Busby]

This was I self shot all those episodes.

[Danielle Busby]

It wasn't Harvey. It was like not even. We're like a big major hurricane. But it was like a hurricane and it didn't come anywhere near here. But then he walked outside the next day and he was like this is what a hurricane is? Is this puddle outside or like you just never know.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

It can either be horrible or it doesn't touch you at all.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. I mean it could be like a horrific rain event that just sits above you and just dumps water on you and then that can get really bad. But I mean, unless it's like a category three or four, you know that you have like a major storm surge coming up. That's whenever you really, we really have to worry and then significant, like wind.

[Danielle Busby]

Okay, let's, let's talk a little bit more. Like work update. So two things I have. One, my women's ministry, Heart of Her has a live event. I don't think I've ever talked about it yet on the podcast, but it will be in Michigan and like Horton, Michigan. So you can go to heartofher.org and get tickets for that. It's like 40 bucks. Get two. Get one for you and your friend. Be coming up there. We're gonna come up there as a fam and do some vacationing up there while we're there, visiting some friends and stuff. But I'm super excited about, um, so that is working in progress. Still doing the devotional. Got some other writing things in the work and working with some other agencies and trying to get some things set up. So that's exciting. The other thing that you're not going to like them. Bring this, bring this up. But we said this summer that we would, like, revamp. It's a buzz world like YouTube. And now we're here and I don't think either one of us want to do it. But I feel like the challenge with it is you don't have time. And I don't like holding cameras. And so I'm trying. Like, I did schedule a meeting that just got, it got rescheduled. And so, like, I feel like, are we wanting to still do that? Like, let's talk about, like, what does that look like? What do we want to do with that? Because so many people ask, are you ever going to come out with more videos? And so I feel like almost every day I feel like we could do it, but I'm trying to, like, try to understand, like, how to do it without giving you work to do. But I don't want the work either because I, I, I, I have zero.

[Adam Busby]

That's why I haven't, like, forced anything.

[Danielle Busby]

I know I have zero patience for editing. Like, even something on Instagram. I, I have zero patience for. I don't know how you do this all day. I don't know how people do it. Like, I am not meant to be doing that. Like, I can't do it and it makes me frustrated. But obviously I know how to get there and what to do. But let's just chat about, do we want to do this this summer? With everything else that's going on,

[Adam Busby]

I mean, I have, like, probably three, maybe four videos filmed that are just like, sitting on a hard drive that I just haven't had time to even edit because I have to put myself in, like, a headspace.

[Danielle Busby]

You gotta. You gotta lock in, baby. You put those golf simulator goggles on and you lock in.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, I'm gonna start telling you that.

[Danielle Busby]

Go get your goggles, babe. Lock in.

[Adam Busby]

But I have, like, other.

[Danielle Busby]

I know.

[Adam Busby]

And other.

[Danielle Busby]

That's what I'm saying.

[Adam Busby]

And stuff with those other jobs. And so it's like by the time I finish those, like.

[Danielle Busby]

Okay, so. But yeah, I think, like, even if I look at today, this morning, yesterday, the girls are constantly making stupid videos. I say stupid videos because they mean, like, they literally are like, let's play this food challenge. Let's play, like, eat this candy. Let's. Let's swap and do the.

[Adam Busby]

I just feel like you YouTube.

[Danielle Busby]

Like, do people want to see that? Like, no.

[Adam Busby]

Like.

[Danielle Busby]

Like, I don't want our videos to be like that, and I don't want

[Adam Busby]

our channel being like that. Like, I. I don't want.

[Danielle Busby]

Do people want to see that stuff,

[Adam Busby]

like, probably five to 10 years ago? Like, yeah, those channels and that. Those kind of stuff, like, did well. But, like, I feel like that's not really what I really want on our channel. And, like, I just don't want a bunch of goofy little videos of whatever. I mean, it's. It's okay to throw one of those in every now and then, but, like, the stuff that the girls are kind of joke around with and set their phones up and film, like, I'm not putting that on YouTube,

[Danielle Busby]

but it's so. It's so silly because people watch that stuff, you know?

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. I don't doubt that some people will watch that, but I just don't want the things that they want to clutter up our YouTube channel with.

[Danielle Busby]

I mean, there's nothing new on it in the past year, but. So we're. We're. We're working through that. Like, what are y'? All, like, what yalls opinions on what you would like to see? It's a buzzworld. YouTube become next. Because it definitely needs, like, I've been saying, like, we need to revamp it. Like, just. But I don't know what that means.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, we do get asked all the time.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. For new videos, and I think the girl. The girls miss it in a way.

[Adam Busby]

They want to watch it there, but it's just. Okay, well, what do we want to Put out there. What do we want to do? Everybody's been asking ever since we moved in this house, like a year ago. Like, let's. Let's see the new h. Let's see the house we are in. Let's get. Do a tour. And like, no, I don't really want to do a tour of this house because it's like, we're busting at the seams and, like, it's not really set

[Danielle Busby]

up the way every time you walk in a room somewhere, you're like, down the hall. Step over all these blankets.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, yeah, this house doesn't really have, like, all those extra spaces for storage and stuff. And so, like, it gets like. I mean, we can clean the house and then, like, literally three hours later,

[Danielle Busby]

while it's getting clean, it's just getting.

[Adam Busby]

The girls have already just, like, decided,

[Danielle Busby]

and now it's summer, so they're constantly

[Adam Busby]

here build a fort upstairs. And it's just like, did anything even just get clean today?

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. And. And. Or we have challenging because we have,

[Adam Busby]

like, 10 girls on this street, and they all come over here and then they pull out they want.

[Danielle Busby]

Which I don't mind at all. I want. I want them to come here and play.

[Adam Busby]

But then, like. But then they don't pick up one 10 minutes later. It's just like, the kitchen's cluttered, the sink's full. Like, like, goodness gracious. Like this. It drives me up the wall.

[Danielle Busby]

I love to hear that. Mess. Drives you up the wall. Or is it the mess?

[Adam Busby]

Huh?

[Danielle Busby]

I love the fact that the. The kids are home, but it is a lot to keep up in a small space. And so, you know, we're. We're at this phase of, like, constantly been looking for more another home, and we just keep getting passed over or screwed or, like, in the process, because this.

[Adam Busby]

This, like, isn't a house for us to, like, make our own.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

Like, I'm not gonna. We're not gonna like, decorate this house and, like, go off and like, paint all kind of stuff and, like, buy stuff specifically for this house to like, make it worth, like, showing to other people because it's like a temporary work

[Danielle Busby]

so that we can live in it.

[Adam Busby]

And it's just, like, it works for right now while we're trying to find another place and, you know, move.

[Danielle Busby]

So we. We kind of found a place that we're processing and thinking and trying. Here's. Here's. Let's. Let's get to the reality of what it is to find a house for us when we Moved this whole, like, let's just back the story up a little bit. Nowhere in our plan of life did we ever think we would be moving out of League City, out of the home that we were in. And then time goes by. God's got different plans for us, different stories. And so we were just trying to be obedient. Things lined up, things were working out. We found this house. Kids start at school, they love it. We're loving being over here in Friendswood. And so we. We love all that has grown within the dynamics of us putting our feet in Friendswood. Right.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

And I don't.

[Adam Busby]

The community we have here, I don't miss, like, everything. Like, I don't miss.

[Danielle Busby]

When we go.

[Adam Busby]

There's friends and people that we do miss there.

[Commercial Narrator]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

And my sisters and stuff. But I feel like over here, we're just so much. Like there's just so much. There's a different piece of joy, a different piece of, like, settled. Even though we're not settled and we feel, like, unsettled, like, it just feels right in a sense. Even though there's chaos and we're like, where are we going to live? This house is too small, blah, blah, blah, blah, we still feel like it's right for the family. And so that. That sets the tone right there. Like, we still feel like we're called to. To be in this town. Yeah, we still feel that. However, we have not found a house that wants us to be here. And I think some of that too, is.

[Adam Busby]

Housing market's weird. I mean, it's just, you know, like, we almost. We were expectation. Not expectations, but we have, like, requirements. Requirements that we would. Okay, if we're gonna buy a house, we want it to have this so that it just makes it work for our family and. Or we want to be like, remotely in this area because that's where we spend the majority of our time. That's what. What's. Would just relieve a lot of stress points if we're like, in this part of town and because, like, we've looked at other houses, like, all the way on the other side of town. And I was like, yeah, they're great houses, but I can't see myself living all the way over there. It doesn't even really feel like we're in Friendswood when you're over there. And everybody that we know is all the way on this side. My work is all the way on this side. And. And so, yeah, so we've.

[Danielle Busby]

We've been in the lines of. Of almost about to buy A house. And then something happens. We're like, okay, God's blessing through that. Like, we didn't move and didn't move through that. But I think when we first initially moved in here, we're like, oh, we have a year in this place and will look, you know, after the holiday season. So like January comes around, we're constantly like looking and stuff. We've really had to kind of say, this is what we wanted. And over the past six months, we haven't found it. So what does that mean? Do we extend our lease? Do we take our options and what is a. What is out there? Tweak and say, okay, this isn't going to be like a 10, 20 year home or forever home. This might be like a three to five year home. Like getting Blake through high school, you know, adjusting through home school. Like, we don't know. So, you know, finding more bathrooms, finding garage space, finding a driveway, finding, like there's so many things that you have to think about as a family of eight. And so when we go and find a home, I might find a home that has five bathrooms. But that's the only thing that that house had that the others, that there's nothing else there. We don't want the neighborhood, we don't want where it's at. We don't like the location, we don't like that there's no yard. Like, there's stipulations around everything, so. Or we find everything that we might like, but there's only three and a half bathrooms, which seems to be the typical house. Number of bathrooms? Three and a half. Three and a half is the number of limit houses, that of bathrooms that you see in most houses.

[Adam Busby]

Or it has like the best of both worlds and the house is like over $2 million or five and a half million dollars.

[Danielle Busby]

That's a great, great house. But no thanks. I don't want that upkeep on those taxes. So we're just like been in this phase of like, you know, you get in crunch time with what do you want to do about where you're currently living to what's next? And it's not going to be exactly what you wanted. And I kind of, I kind of just am trying to like trust in that and saying, okay, we have to, we can't always have it all, right? And I think that we've been through parts of our life in seasons where we feel like we've had it all, quote unquote. Maybe. I don't know, I feel like you could look at it and say like, oh, you had it all. You know, people would probably could probably say that.

[Adam Busby]

I mean. Yeah, I mean there's.

[Danielle Busby]

But no matter what, that was never all.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. I mean, because just different perspective and people like needs of other people. I mean, they may see like the place that we were in and like, oh, that was perfect. And why would you move from there? Like, I, I would kill to have that or whatever. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you can always put yourself in somebody's situation and think that, you know, they have it better than you or they have it, you know, whatever.

[Danielle Busby]

But I think what's. What ha. What I've learned the most about being over here is that when we felt like it was right and called to move here, it was a lot about what's this going to be for our family. And so I feel like I walk into other people's places and homes and what I want most is I want that family inviting environment. I want it to be like this. Kids always in and out, people coming. I want that. I want it to be that home. Right. I want it to be in a place where we, we feel safety and secure and can let our kids play outside without worry. You know, I want, I don't necessarily. Our kids will always share a room. They're never going to have their own room. That's not realistic for us. We're not going to have a seven, eight bedroom home, you know, and so

[Adam Busby]

like, but also like, there's like annoyances with like where we're at right now. Like I feel like half the days of the week because of what our schedule is. Like, I don't like, like our driveway is so small that I'll have to like go leave my truck constantly shuffle. Cars are like constantly moving cars around and like. But then I imagine, okay, here in the next like year to year and a half, Blake's gonna, Blake's gonna have a car.

[Danielle Busby]

And now that's another one.

[Adam Busby]

It's already a huge frustration right now with just the cars that we have on like shuffling vehicles around and parking them out in the street. And I worry about neighbors like getting annoyed because like our cars in the road and. And then like the kids don't have a place other than going and playing in the street. You know, stuff like that. Like, I just.

[Danielle Busby]

Those are things that are important to us. Even though as our kids are getting older and they will might lose more that no matter what, like, those are the things that keep it family esque. Like it brings you back to like childhood like you used to Just go play out. You used to have, like. I don't know, there's just things. Not a lot of people say, oh, I need driveway space.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

But we don't. Or our van doesn't fit in a garage, so you can't use that. And then the truck doesn't either. And so it's like they're in the driveway. That's all the driveway can fit. You know, so it's just. It's. It's things like that. You know, bathrooms are important, but like I said, every house that we find, three and a half bathrooms. Three and a half bathrooms. So we're at a phase where it's like, where. Where we. Where are we, like, dropping the this is the perfect case scenario house? You know, do you want to give up this or that? This or that? And I don't know, we found a place that we feel like could work. It does take some work to make it work, but just praying that if that's a space, it's an amazing spot and location, like, where would be super ideal and would be, like, a dream to be there, honestly. But once again, it doesn't have everything that we need.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, it's literally, like, on the street with, like, our best friends.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

And, yeah, there's a few compromises with the house, but, like, there's also a

[Danielle Busby]

lot of good things with.

[Adam Busby]

The driveway's huge, the yard's big.

[Danielle Busby]

A huge shop for studio and.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. Office. And it's already air conditioned. You know, and there's, like, all these positives, but yet. Yeah, it has at least one fewer bathroom than we need. And. And then, like, one of the bedrooms is, like, in a weird spot, and I don't know that that was originally a bedroom, and they just, like, converted something to make it a bedroom. And it's just super small because, like, all of our rooms, like, the girls are sharing, and then Blake's got her own room. But so we would have to.

[Danielle Busby]

We'd have to add.

[Adam Busby]

Add a bedroom. At least one bedroom. One bathroom. And then maybe like a flex room. Play space. Flex room. Like TV room for the kids.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

Like, homework room, homeschool room. Like. Like that kind of flex space. And if we could do that, which this house that we've looked at has that capability.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

You know, so we could potentially make it work.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. So we're praying about that and hoping that, you know, if that's where it's going to be there. It's still on the market right now. And so I guess it's been About a week, honestly. And so which sitting there for a week is very.

[Adam Busby]

Is surprising.

[Danielle Busby]

Surprising. Very surprising.

[Adam Busby]

I mean. Yeah, we've already went and looked at it and it's very well kept up house. Like it's an. Which we've both kind of wanted an older house

[Danielle Busby]

all over that.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

A lot of the character in it and it's got. But there are weird things about it.

[Adam Busby]

Very weird house, but. But it's like the. The right kind of weird that it's like, oh, this is kind of cool.

[Danielle Busby]

What I tell you when we're walking, you're like, this house is so different. And I'm like, it's very different. I'm gonna tell you. Remember when you fell in love with me? Because I was different. I'm still different.

[Adam Busby]

So. Yeah. We used to whenever we were dating, we would always get pets that were like, really weird.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. We always got. If that's what people wanted, we wanted the one that people didn't want. We always got the animal or the. The whatever it was that some kind one that had the. The. The quirkier was the run or no one wanted that one.

[Adam Busby]

We're like, this one's cross eyed. Great. We want it.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. Oh, actually just saw a thing on the Facebook page. It said a place to foster. We're looking for foster families for these puppies or whatever. And it's so funny because when we were at Sterling's birthday and I had got him like this, the cutest little boy outfit, which I miss Grayson B. So much, but I was like, oh, Blake, let's just have one little boy. Let's just adopt a little boy. She's like, let's do it. And then later I was like, could you imagine? I couldn't start over with a baby now. Right. I ain't got no energy for that. And so she's like, okay, maybe like he's like 2 years old. And so, so listen. So I was like, what would that life be like? So we were talking about that as we were shopping.

[Adam Busby]

Having a boy would be so complicated.

[Danielle Busby]

So listen, it would be so he'd be spoiled. He'd be so spoiled. Oh, yeah.

[Adam Busby]

He would be neglected and then.

[Danielle Busby]

And then whatever. Baby boy in this house.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, okay. That would be fun for a couple weeks until he starts get. Until he gets comfortable in this house and starts terrorizing all the other girls and then they all can't stand him. No, I just think how I was whenever I was little.

[Danielle Busby]

And you, dude, and you already have five, six of those little terrorizers in the house.

[Adam Busby]

It would be a little mini me you already have. And he would drive all the girls crazy.

[Danielle Busby]

You already have. That times five with girls. It is absurd the amount of terrorizing and tormenting that you have put in their blood, that they do to each other all the time. All the time. I'll tell your dad. I was just like. When he'll see that between the girls and he'll, like, laugh, and I'm like, yeah, y' all said he would have it and he would have a son one day and be like that. I'm like, no, now he's got it in all his girls. Like, all of them do that to each other. They'll just pick and terrorize each other. Torment. And he gets a rise out. He just loves it. He laughs at it. But anyways, going back to that, I was like, look how cute all these clothes are. Blah, blah, blah. And then it changed from, no, mom, let's not do a baby boy. Let's just foster pets. And I was like. I was like, okay, Blake, if you were homeschooled, you could foster some pets. But then I saw the things in there. I was like, oh, maybe if we had a yard.

[Adam Busby]

No.

[Danielle Busby]

What about chickens? Can we still get the chickens?

[Adam Busby]

I wouldn't be opposed to chickens to give you eggs.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah, I know, but you're right. If it's. If we're gonna have them. I don't want them to be weird chickens, though, because then they might produce weird eggs.

[Adam Busby]

What does that even mean?

[Danielle Busby]

Because we like weird animals. Somewhat healthy chickens. Anyway, what else is. So. So. Yeah. So hopefully, fingers crossed. Praying about if this is the place that God wants us to land, that it's going to all line up and that it'll go smooth.

[Adam Busby]

There was one other house that we looked at. I just don't know how much they're. They want for it, but it was, like, another good option.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. And I think we keep comparing everything to that house. So I might actually touch base with

[Adam Busby]

them

[Danielle Busby]

before we, like, move forward.

[Adam Busby]

Involved a little less work, possibly.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. Possibly. Yeah. Anyways, what else is happening this summer? You're going to be going on a daddy daughter adventure, which is kind of exciting to me. What on earth am I gonna do?

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, I'm gonna go first. First I need to say if Blake wants to even go to this, because

[Danielle Busby]

it's like, if you and the quints do that, because it'll be most of the quint's friends, she's not going to want to go.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, she's probably not going to want to go if it's like mostly like

[Danielle Busby]

that means they're gonna go on a mommy daughter trip.

[Adam Busby]

Trip?

[Danielle Busby]

You're going on a trip with your girls? Why can't I take her?

[Adam Busby]

Because I'm going somewhere just to stay somewhere for free.

[Danielle Busby]

Okay, well you're gonna leave one of your six children out so I gotta do something with her. We can do a little staycation somewhere. Something for fun. I'll work on it. I say trip and you get stressed out. You say goggles and I get stressed out.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. Because trip's not a write off. Vlog it for YouTube I guess. Yeah, make it a write off.

[Danielle Busby]

It'll be our first comeback video. Yeah. So tell us about what you're doing for that. Y' all going to the river or. Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

So one of, one of the Quint's like best friends, their dad, their. Well their family has like a ranch house like up near the Frio river in Lakey, Texas. And so over the last year they've been building a house on the ranch. Like we've gone out there actually what two years ago we did the Quint's birthday there and it was.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh when it was the eclipse.

[Adam Busby]

But we just stayed in like a camp, like a travel trailer where they had two travel trailers that are on the ranch and so we just stayed in the trailers and I mean it's like a high fence ranch. It's got like a lot of really cool animals on it. So in the evenings would go like sit in the blinds and just like get binoculars and stuff and just watch the animals. Super peaceful. It's way out in the middle of nowhere. Sky is beautiful at night. But they're just wrapping up the build of the house that's going to be at the ranch. And so now they're like okay, well before school the kids go back to school. They want to have like a little girls like daddy daughter vacation out there at the ranch and so we're gonna do it like the tail end of July.

[Danielle Busby]

That'll be fun because I'm gonna do a mom and daughter one and I think me corly Michelle, like there's a couple. We're doing it in September with the girls. It'll be very different than dad's daughter.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. So I don't know what all we're gonna do.

[Danielle Busby]

Exciting though.

[Adam Busby]

I've been hanging.

[Danielle Busby]

I mean we've talked about that for a long, for years now.

[Adam Busby]

Our girls love being outside. They love going to the ranch and just like.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

Exploring rocks, finding rocks and Dirts and sticks and whatever animals they see. I mean, they just love that kind of stuff. And so it's easy because you're just there and they just. You can just.

[Danielle Busby]

Adventure.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. Just watch out for snakes. Just worry about that.

[Danielle Busby]

Speaking of snake, there was a snake on our front porch. Yes. Two days ago.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

That scared the crap out of me. I thought they were joking because we were talking because.

[Adam Busby]

Was that video harmless Rat snake.

[Danielle Busby]

I don't care. You said it was under the cushion of the seat if I was down right there, and that's.

[Adam Busby]

Oh, my God, I killed him.

[Commercial Narrator]

Rude.

[Adam Busby]

My little snake.

[Danielle Busby]

And you freaking sit on a little snake. It was not a little, like, worm snake. It was a snake. It was a snake. That thing was, like, at least 2 inches round. That was a big snake for. Yeah, I like this. That snake was big. It wasn't a rattlesnake or nothing. But I thought Olivia was joking, because, one, she always is joking, and two, we were just talking about a snake that, like, Ben had caught, and I showed her a picture, and then she gets. We were on a walk and stuff, and then she gets back. She's like, there's a snake on the front porch. I'm like, okay.

[Adam Busby]

It's crazy how good their camouflage is because the girl said, oh, I think it crawled up into the chair. So I just took the chair and I. And I leaned it over to see if it would fall out because it, like, it slithered its way, like, up into the chair, like, underneath the cushion of the chair on this, like, Adirondack chair that we have on our patio. And. And then he, like, fell down, and I saw it for two seconds, and I never saw his full body. Like, I saw his markings and stuff. And what. I was able to, like, identify what kind of snake it was, but then he made it to the front column of the house by the flower bed, and he just disappeared like that quick. And I was like, I have no clue where he went.

[Danielle Busby]

I just.

[Adam Busby]

I completely lost him. I'm sure he's somewhere in these bushes, but I'm not gonna just start shoving my hand in there. Like, I think I know what snake it is, but not enough to start, like, pushing my hand through the bush.

[Danielle Busby]

Gosh, I'm terrified. Go sit on the front porch now.

[Adam Busby]

It's just a rat snake.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, why is there a rat snake? That means there's rats.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, they're. It's outside. Yeah, I'm sure there is rats or mice outside.

[Commercial Narrator]

That.

[Danielle Busby]

That is what grosses me.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, not even a block away, there's a big track of woods in a pond. Of course, there's snakes and rats and birds and whatever out there. Of course.

[Danielle Busby]

Well, guys, this has been a episode update of just life lately and what the summer holds. What are we where. Where we're sitting in stresses and work. And, you know, I think one thing

[Adam Busby]

that this was kind of like an ADD episode.

[Danielle Busby]

Like, my mind, you should call it that one. So the ADD episode, we were just jumping all over the place. But one thing that I will leave you with is just remember, continue to trust in God in the path forward and the plans that you have. Not that they are your own plans, but the plans and the path forward under God's alignment. And so Proverbs 3, 5 says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding in all the ways. Submit to him and he will make your path straight. So all the stresses, all the worry, all the plans that we have, as long as you keep God center of your focus and trusting in his path, then all will end well. So if the house is meant to be, it will be.

[Adam Busby]

Yep, that's true.

[Danielle Busby]

Let it be. Please, Lord. So, all right, thanks for listening, guys, to the ADD episode.

[Adam Busby]

All right, we love you guys.

[Danielle Busby]

Bye. Peace out,

[Adam Busby]

Sam.