Expect the Mess
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Welcoming others into our lives and our homes can get messy. Food spills, a glass breaks, dinner burns. Even when it all goes according to plan, there are still dishes to wash and tables to clear. But today, we're talking with C+C writer, Sarah Hauser, about how we can expect, and even embrace, the messes. Be warned, though. This episode may end up inspiring you to throw literal confetti in your house. Make sure to have the vacuum cleaner ready.
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Sarah inspires us to splurge on planned messes for the sake of hospitality; listen to this bonus episode to find out When We Splurge and When We Save.
For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.
Show notes:
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Pre-order You're In Good Company
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All Who Are Weary by Sarah Hauser
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A Meal With Jesus by Tim Chester
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:07.2 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:12.7 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:16.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Hey, friends. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm here with my dear friend Ashley Gad. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, Ash. |
| 0:36.7 | Hello, friends. And we have another very special, |
| 0:43.1 | highly acclaimed, wonderful, what other adjectives can I come up with right now to describe |
| 0:47.9 | our girl Sarah Hauser? Hi, Sarah. Hi, Sarah. Hi, Katie. What an introduction. I should have prepped more adjectives |
| 0:57.9 | to adequately capture. Oh, we are so delighted to talk to Sarah, who has been writing for the |
| 1:04.5 | Coffee and Crum's team since 2016, 2017, around then. And let me tell you a little bit more about her before we jump into our |
| 1:13.6 | conversation. But Sarah grew up in New Jersey, spent her adult life in the Chicago area, |
| 1:19.8 | and now enjoys living without those terrible sub-zero temperatures in the great state of North Carolina. She started out in the heyday |
| 1:30.1 | of blogging, writing about food, and now she shares theology and stories to nourish the soul, |
| 1:35.6 | but still the occasional recipe to nourish the body. She works as an editor for kaleidoscope |
| 1:41.2 | kids and is the author of all who are weary, finding true rest by letting |
| 1:45.5 | go of the burdens you were never meant to carry. Sarah is currently working on book number two |
| 1:50.5 | with B&H publishing, which will be out in 2027, and we are all anxiously awaiting for that. |
| 1:57.9 | Sarah, thank you for joining us on the podcast today. |
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