Thursday House

The real show! A lively farm discussion about living the trad life

Chalee and Chelsea finally discuss that social media bonanza "Trad wives" from the farm.  We also talk about what we think will be the next big lifestyle trend to hit social media.  You won't want to miss!!

Technical issues

Chalee and Chelsea start the podcast and experience technical issues within the first two minutes. So come back for part two. haha

5 Things that you can do to change your life in 5 years

Chalee and Chelsea respond to a twitter prompt about 5 things you can do to become the person you want to be in 5 years.  Also, we discuss the ugly truth of Spring Training Baseball. 

Starbucks, pickles and other things that can get you in trouble

Chalee and Chelsea give an update on the sourdough starter who remains unnamed.  We discuss our new weight loss challenge and finally we discuss a "am I in the wrong" story between a married couple and an air travel fiasco.  We also sample a A'Capella cookies and cream truffle cone.  Please join us. 

Begin the boule beguine!

Chalee teaches Chelsea how to do a sourdough starter and we discuss all things bread. 

No more ladders!!

Chalee and Chelsea are back after a hiatus of ladder injury.  In the episode we discuss ervything we missed during Chelsea's cuncussion from Russel Brand to how to flirt. Join us. 

Mentoring Moms

Chalee and Chelsea bring in the New Year with a rant and a great idea for mentoring moms.  We also try out a New Year's trend: healthy sodas and non-alcoholic beer. Join us.

Advance, Advance, Advance

Chalee and Chelsea review trends for 2024 and the most common resolutions.  We also reveal our shows 2024 theme...

Is Taylor Swift a future DINK?

Chalee and Chelsea start off today's discussion with a really good discussion of Chapter 7 The Essential Church by Steve Swartz.  And after a completely adult conversation about our duty to worship God when we are afraid. Then, we like our cizilation descend into a vapid discussion about Time's Person of the Year and DINKs.  Join us for the hilarity.

Romans 13, or It is what it is???

Chalee and Chelsea discuss the church's cop out with Romans 13 during Covid and then segue to the boomerfication of society. Specifically, the horrific new Dolly Parton album.  Then, we discuss a current viral social media list about first date activities. and wind up with a new fall food discovery that is yummy!

Ekklesia, the gathering

Chalee and Chelsea pick up with a discussion about what it means to be a Church as we continue our discussion about The Essential Church by Steve Swartz.  Then we discuss a reading curriculum that we have been trying out and give a big double thumbs up.  And after that thoroughly intellectual discussion, we descend into all things candy corn meringue and Disney's personification of animals and forks.  Join us today at the Thursday House. 

Thou shalt sing!! and Chris Evans waxes on about trees and it is just as cringy as you thought

Chalee and Chelsea discuss chapter 3 of The Essential Church by Steve Swartz. And fall, books from our childhoods, and then we just fall head first down the rabbit hole over GQs cover of Chris Evans departure from Hollywood. Join us today on the Thursday House.

Submission to authority and chaffles???

Chalee and Chelsea continue discussing the book "The Essential Church" by Steve Swartz and the current news surrounding Covid 19 3.0.  Then for fun, we try out a keto staple...the chaffle. Join us in our Thursday House. 

Is Church "essential"?

Chalee and Chelsea are back with more updates from the resurging Covid narrative.  We are also going to review a book and upcoming movie, "The Essential Church" by Steve Swartz.  We also come back to our Fall foods segment with salted caramel cream cheese and probiotic macadamia butter. Join us at the Thursday House.

Mask mandates, kefir, and Frank

Chalee and Chelsea discuss things to come this fall.  We also start a kefir experiment and discuss the funniest tweet on the interwebs where we will introduce you to Frank. Join us at our Thursday House.

Tasting Kefir

This is our minipod. We are just tasting our kefir today. Please join to see if I throw up. 

Home on the Range with Camp Early Bird

Chalee is heading up the annual Camp Early Bird week. We went to the farm for camp this year. We also go through our fall preview of upcoming topics.

We're Back!!!!!

Chalee and Chelsea return after computer woes to finish the summer reading series and to forecast things to come. Also, they discuss twitter trends like pre-workout honey and Himalayan salt  and ways to deliver a classy dig.  

Are you Saul or Paul? The answer is yes.

Chalee and Chelsea continue their summer book series study of Body of Proof: the 7 Best Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus-And Why it Matters Today.  We explore reason #6 and talk about Paul's Transformation and subsequently the world's. Then to descend into some pop culture we discuss a hypothetical fight between Elon Musk and mark Zuckerberg.  Finally, we propose some other celebrity fights we would like to see.  We clicked the explicit material because Chalee loses her head ...

Count it all joy except for Jewel's rendition of the anthem!

Chalee and Chelsea continue their series on "Body of Proof: The 7 Best Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus- and Why it Matters Today." Then we also come back to a discussion about our 2023 motto: God is still in control! Finally, we lighten the mood by assaulting your hearing and your national conscience with what might be the worst rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner ever recorded.  

Lite beer, dark chocolate and other things that taste bad.

Chalee and Chelsea continue their book series "Body of Proof: The 7 Reasons to Believe in the Resuurection of Jesus- and Why it Matters Today."  We discuss Reason 4: No Motivation to Invent Jesus' Resurrection Narrative is evident. 

Are you afraid of failure?

Chalee and Chelsea continue our book series "Body of Proof: The 7 Best Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus-and Why it Matters Today".  We discuss Reason 3: Jesus demonstrated Resurrection Power.   We also discuss how to teach your children to appreciate the opportunity for failure.  Also, do you and your husband have spending limits? Finally, we try some potato lentil curls and ask the question: a good vehicle for condiments or just yuck?

The "too much caffeine" episode

In this episode, Chalee and Chelsea discuss Chapter two of Body of Proof and we have a fiery conversation about a band teacher who went to social media to discuss her 12 yo students and their difficulties with self-regulation.  We start the episode with a little champagne and the best strawberry tea cakes and end it with nudge, chocolate-covered coffee candies. 

Reason # 1 and "you are what you read"

Chalee and Chelsea start discussing the first reason in 'Body of Proof' by Jeremiah J Johnston, PhD.  Also, we discuss how to parent a child who receives a book from a friend that you think is too "old" for them.  We also try keto muffins.  Hilarity ensures.

Me thinks you doth protest too much!!

Chalee and Chelsea discuss four stories in the news where people took very odd stances leading us to question their sincerity: 1) a young mother who has an unusual reaction to a man attempting to politely address her in a parking lot, 2) Christian parents who object to classical art in the name of modesty, 3) a very upset wife who publicly outed her husband for his questionable conduct, and 4) celebrities who virtue signal their parenting styles. Please be advised we did play the video and ...

Current Events from the Twitterverse!

Chalee and Chelsea go through current stories and articles on twitter while also preparing to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with green beer and Killarney jewel cake AND World Down Syndrome Day.  come join us at the Thursday House.

Chelsea vs Chelsea

Chalee and Chelsea finish their discussion on how to bring Christian, family values back to the mainstream by taking on the institution of healthcare.  Chelsea gets a little heated. Then, they "calm" things down with a discussion of Chelsea handler's video on lining a child-free existence.  Finally, we discuss a woman from Iran who shows up what actual bravery looks like. 

12 things your husbands should tell your sons

Chalee and Chelsea discuss a twitter thread from Foundation Father about the 12 things every father must say to his son, over and over.  Also, we discuss the young woman who has become a social media sensation and  is desperately trying to speak out against current dating culture on whatever.com despite a speech impediment that inserts like into her sentences over and over again.  Programming note: We play this short clip.  It has adult language.  We apologize in advance. 

Valentine's day otherwise known as The Marriage Holiday

Chalee and Chelsea set out to convince the audience that Valentine's Day is for married people only.  When Valentine's Day is appropriated by non-married people cockroaches get involved. It's ugly. Also are you and your spouse a "team"???

Bringing the Church back to school

In this episode, we continue our discussion about bringing Christian, family-centered values back to our institutions.  This week we discuss schools.  We also talk about how much to let go of your college-preparing student. And Chalee shares how to make a low-cost, natural cleaner for everything in your home.  

What is keeping you up at night?

In this episode Chalee and Chelsea discuss bringing Christian values back to government, whether or not you should go to sleep angry and then we tried some delicious caffeinated chocolate.  Join us for some fun discussion. 

A new year! A new theme!

Chalee and Chelsea describe the shows mission statement and purpose for the show this year.  And in the name of trying new, healthy foods, we sample something meaty. Please join us at the Thursday House.  

Christmas is here again!

On today's episode Chalee and Chelsea discuss an interesting twitter thread that makes the case that we our overly involving our children in politics and current events, and thus, negatively affecting their happiness.  We also play a game of two lies and a truth.  Finally, we kick of the holiday season with new snacks we eat and review.  Pease join us. 

Should Christians celebrate Halloween?

Chalee and Chelsea discuss their feelings on the great Halloween debate.  Also, our favorite Halloween movies, candy, costumes. And finished off with some Fall food extravaganza.  Pumpkin bagels. Need I say more?

The season of Flunami

Chalee and Chelsea discuss the coming flunami and also lighten the mood byd iscussing when you can start decorating for a happier time (ie Christmas).  We also get pumkin'd on some nog. 

Piper, Spurgeon and their Godly Moms

We begin our fall Food extravaganza with pretzels, and fancy popcorn. We also continue our summer book series with a discussion about Charles Spurgeon and John Piper and their moms. 

Why are we discussing raw eggs, testosterone and red-light therapy?

Chalee and Chelsea end their summer spiritual journey to learn how to raise spiritually strong men with a funny look at Tucker Carlson's documentary about raising strong men.  We discuss the documentary in detail and how it applies to women as well.  We also slonk a raw egg.  Yep, we really did it.  we also chased it down with some fall food extravaganza.

Fermented Food and Fall

Chalee and Chelsea discuss the benefits of fermented foods.  We also try some new Fall flavored snacks. We end our summer book series.  And get carried away with trends we started. 

Augustine and Autumn

Chalee and Chelsea are finishing up their summer book series on Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms by Tim Challies.  Additionally, they are launching into Fall extravaganza with goodies, cocktials and a preview of things to come.

Augustine and Autumn

Chalee and Chelsea are finishing up their summer book series on Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms by Tim Challies.  Additionally, they are launching into Fall extravaganza with goodies, cocktials and a preview of things to come.

"Mission Control. Houston, we have a problem"

Chalee and Chelsea continue their study of Devoted: Great Men and their Godly Moms.  We discuss Charles Hodge and his mother, their difficult relationship, and how trying to maintain control over your children can irreparably harm your relationship and your witness with your sons. 

Surrender, Sacrifice, and Sauerkraut

Chalee and Chelsea continue their summer series on Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms by Tim Challies. This week we discuss William Borden. It is a sad story, but truly revolutionary. Please join us. Also, Chalee is discovering fermented foods. So, she challenges Chelsea to a taste test in another episode of homemade or store bought.  Challenge: Sauerkraut. 

Parenting with perseverance

Chalee and Chelsea continue their summer book series on 'Devoted' by Tim Challies. This week the chapter concerns Christopher Yuan and his mom Angela. We discuss specifically how to prioritize your child's spiritual life over earthly sucess.  We also had another installment of homemade vs store bought. Today we tried applesauce.  

Kid Spotlight: Henry

We once again have brought one of our kids in to enlighten us on all things 13-year-old boy. From comics to ice cream. Please join us to meet Henry.

Parenting with perseverance

Chalee and Chelsea continue their summer book series on 'Devoted' by Tim Challies. This week the chapter concerns Christopher Yuan and his mom Angela. We discuss specifically how to prioritize your child's spiritual life over earthly sucess.  We also had another installment of homemade vs store bought. Today we tried applesauce.  

Mom's indestructible love

Chalee and Chelsea continue their summer series discussing Tim Challies's book Devoted: great Men and their Godly Moms.  This week we review J Gresham Machen and his mom Minnie.  We also discuss how to show your children unconditional love without affirming all of their beliefs, and also how to patiently wait for God.  We also continued our series; homemade or store bought. This week, Chalee makes tortillas and we compare them to the ones in the baggie.  

Is it homemade?

Chalee and Chelsea continue their summer season #Boymom discussing book Devoted: Great Men and their Godly Moms by Tim Challies.  Also we start a new game: Is it homemade (or store bought)?  Despite needing a better name for the segment, Chalee has made almond milk and we compare it to store bought almond milk.  We wash it all down with Ree Drummond's Ranch water recipe.  Join us for a Mom's happy hour!

Submission is not a dirty word

Homeschool conventions are back!

Chalee and Chelsea go on location at the HEAV homeschool convention. They discuss all of the cool things to do there. Then they have some fun with interesting and unusual interview questions. And we round out the show with two new bug out bag options for summer

All the single ladies!

Chalee and Chelsea discuss what it was about their husbands and relationships that made them want to finally take the plunge into marriage.  Then we play a quick game of "The Bee or Not the Bee" (which one of these is a real headline vs a headline worhty of Babylon Bee). Finally we, well Chalee, tries out a bug out item.