The Story Behind Sacred Ordinary

After a lot of time spent scrolling on social media, the same reality hits me. The reality that most of Instagram accounts feel unrelatable especially in the homemaking, crunchy, stay-at-home wife/mom, and Christian spaces. You see the same posts, I'm sure, with the mom living in this big house, she's a stay-at-home mom, and somehow seems to have every, new gagdet. I know that most of this isn't the full picture at all, but the reality hits the same.

What does this communicate to the wife or mom who has to work some to be able to stay home with her kids? What about the wife without kids who can't seem to find her place in the career world and would rather live simply in order to stay at home more often? Is she unworthy because she doesn't work 40 hours? (Obviously not, but you get the picture.) What about the young college student who sees these accounts and thinks this is reality for when she gets married?

These internal questions sparked the roots for Sacred Ordinary.

We wanted a place for women to feel like they had someone to relate to online. A place that is not upperclass living or has all the new gagdets that influencers post on their Instagram stories. There is nothing wrong with the upperclass way of living, but we have felt that often people just cannot relate to it.

Along with all of that, something that has greatly been valuable to us is sharing our faith in Jesus. We both grew up in Christian homes and have always valued a relationship with Jesus. He is the center of what we strive to do here with this Sacred Ordinary community. We also deeply value sharing the truth in love beause the truth never changes even as culture changes every few weeks. Our faith is a central part of why we started the podcast so we could share what we learn with each season of life.

Our heart's desire to start a community like this where women (and we are thankful for our male listeners to!) can have a corner of the internet that they feel like they can relate to and hear biblical wisdom while culture is screaming loudly online.

Abby and I value the simple, sacred moments of the ordinary life. Abby is into romanticizing the everyday moments whether it's lighting a wood-wicked candle while doing the dishes or reading a new book on her sage green kindle after her baby girl goes to sleep. I find myself setting the tone of the room with music and oftentimes staring out the window as the tall, southern pine trees stand boldly against the deep, blue sky. We both love spending our free time with various crafts as those are major ways we value the ordinary days.

The ordinary days are often where we meet Jesus in the simplicity of the everyday. He is with us while making the bed, folding the laundry, driving to Bible study, getting groceries, feeding our family, and every moment.

Every moment can be sacred if we allow it to be.

How we met

I am pretty sure I was standing on the mini stage of my rehearsal for my wedding when Quintin (our friend) mentioned he was dating someone. I am pretty sure that this the first time I heard about Abby. Quintin is who set me up with my husband!

I met Quintin at a internship at a church in Pennsylvania which is where I am from. Quintin went to college with my husband in Indiana. I was going to college in Virginia at Liberty University. (That was a lot of states that I just mentioned, but I did not even mention the fact that my husband is from Ohio. We had a lot of distance to figure out as you can see.)

After the summer ended with the internship we were doing, we headed back to our colleges. That is when Quintin later reached out to me about Tim! Tim and I hit it off fairly quickly and after barely two months of messaging each other we got to meet. He drove 11 hours to see me in Virginia and the rest is history! As of writing this, we have been married for five years. Thanks Quintin and also thanks to the Lord especially!

After we got married, I moved in with Tim where he was already living in Indiana. That was the last place I had expected myself to live in, but it is where Tim got his first job after college. At the end of that year, we bought a house in a small town right where Tim went to college. Quintin was working at their college since he graduated. He and Abby got married the same year we did, both winter weddings, just opposite ends of the year! They were also living in the same town we had just moved to. That is where our friendship began.

We would have deep talks, go to Trader Joe's for the fall foods, Chick-Fil-A dinners and had many things in common. I hadn't met someone before (who didn't go to the same college) who also majored in Psychology and minored in Women's Ministry! Although, our friendship really took off when I (we) moved away to South Carolina. There are times I wished I would have prioritized seeing Abby more, but as some may say...distance does make the heart grow fonder!

In July of 2025, Abby and I were messaging about something probably deep or theologically based and it struck me, "We should do a podcast together!" I immediately asked Abby if she was interested and she said, "Yes!" I had no idea she had dreamed of doing a podcast someday as well. That is how Sacred Ordinary began.

So on a simple, ordinary, Tuesday you can find us on Spotify or Apple podcasts to listen to topics like homemaking, counter-cultural living, holistic health, psychology-based topics, marriage, motherhood, and much more. You can join us on Instagram as well @sacredordinarypod.

We will also be publishing blogs on here from time-time to take our heart's message to writing. I have always been a writer and it is usually my primary way to speak. Abby is also very gifted in writing. (You should see her captions!!) We hope that you find this as just another place to embrace the ordinary, seek Jesus, and find truth in the in-between.