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In this episode, Jami talks about The upcoming holidays & time management. How do we juggle all the good things coming up, while making memories for our family, and doing it with joy? Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami talks about budgeting for groceries and everything that is involved with that. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami chats with Jason about planning and productivity for the end of the year. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami chats with Jason all about how to navigate through changing theological beliefs with your spouse. Listen in!
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As promised, here are a few resources Jason recommends to start with on the topic of covenant theology vs. dispensationalism:
Article: Comparing Covenant Theology and Dispensational Theology
Article: The Covenantal Hermeneutic
Book: Discontinuity to Continuity: A Survey of Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies
Book: Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God
Book: Has the Church Replaced Israel?
Book: The Christ of the Covenants
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In this episode, Jami gives her top tips, tricks, and encouragement for holidays and hospitality. Listen in!
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1) REMEMBER the real reason for extending hospitality this holiday season.
It's easy to get wrapped up in the to-do lists, the decorations, etc. But the real reason we extend hospitality is to love others by serving. Our focus should be on serving our friends, family, and those in our community. When we can have a heart shift towards service, it makes all the difference!
“Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.” ~ Romans 12:13
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” ~ Hebrews 13:2
“Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.” ~ 1 Peter 4:9
“Hospitality from a Biblical perspective is to recognize that God is more interested in caring relationships than the mold behind the shower curtain…It need not matter if we live in a single-room apartment or a split-level ranch, the only real requirement is allowing God to use our lives and our possessions…Our homes and our lives are indeed the most powerful combination of ministry to our world.” ~ Hospitality with Confidence, Pg 9
2) In the hustle and bustle of this season, my primary focus right now, is my own immediate family.
We all have different seasons. I've had seasons where my focus wasn't as much for my own immediate home, but how I could serve others. I once hosted Thanksgiving for my entire extended family and I cooked 100% of everything and took care of all the details. It was the right thing for that season and my heart was one of service.
That would not be the right call for this Thanksgiving. If someone asked me to do a big giant thing of service next week, I would have to graciously decline. and to be okay with that!
3) Some tools that make hospitality a little easier:
REAL sturdy paper plates and bowls. Or start to invest in real bowls and dishes.
Coffee percolator.
Cold drink container - 5-gallon one at Walmart for $14.99!
Crockpot with a locking lid
4) The real key and secret to hospitality: Is that often, the fancier, more expensive, nicer-looking option is less practical.
I don't think hospitality is just about being practical. I think there can be immense beauty in hospitality and I love baking bread from scratch for having people over. But we can also get so hung up on how nice or fancy it is, that we make it less ideal.
when you have a group of 50 people over, function takes precedence because otherwise, it just doesn't work out as well.
5) If you are overwhelmed, work on your food.
I find this to be the #1 place where people get overwhelmed. Yes, the cleaning can feel overwhelming. But it's the food that really makes people get stuck.
Come up with a list of 2-3 different meals that are your go-to hospitality. One of mine is homemade rolls and soup. I can whip this together in no time and is always a crowd pleaser.
Homemade cinnamon rolls and homemade chocolate cake have become a specialty of mine that I've perfected over the years.
If you don't have any menus in mind, start trying some ideas out for your family. Practice these meals a couple of times and suddenly, the food feels like no big deal!
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In this episode, Jami is interviewing Lisa from Organize 365 about how to plan will for the holidays. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami is interviewing Mindy from Advent Prep Club all about preparing for the advent season with joy and peace!
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In this episode, Jami talks about building your own home library for you and your kids to enjoy. Listen in!
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First: WHY do we want to focus on this?
We’ve become very reliant on the internet for our resources which might not always be so accessible. Plus, blogs get taken down, moved, and you can no longer find or access those resources.
Having a library out and accessible gets ALL of us off of screens more. How many times have you reached for your phone to look up a recipe and got side tracked and ended up down the Pinterest rabbit hole or Instagram?
As Charlotte Mason says, we should lay out a feast for our kids with good books and resources and let them nibble on different kinds. We should be doing in this addition to our kids!
Building our kids libraries:
This is something Jason and I have been focusing a lot on this year. Our kids are really starting to devour books and we want a lot of books laid out for them to choose from. Our favorites are classics and series. I’ve started a master resource list and included my favorite books for kids. You can find it here: https://findingjoyshop.mykajabi.com/jami-s-favorite-resources
I am all for utilizing the library and swapping books with friends! But I also think you can slowly build up a library in a very sustainable way by shopping sales and thrift stores.
Favorite places to buy books:
Thrift Books: Sign up with a free account, sign up for their free Reading Rewards program, and do a $30 order and you'll get a FREE BOOK!!
Half Priced Books
Costco has good book sets
Thrift stores & consignment sales
AbeBooks.com: Another great place for used books. Thrift Books is my go to but I always check Abe as well.
eBay is a terrific source for finding whole series or individual books. There's a book seller on eBay (Second Sale) who offers Buy 3 books under $5 and get 1 free. I've gotten soooo many books from their shop. You can find all their book deals here.
I keep a running list on my phone of ALL the books in our library in order in series. I find books all the time in thrift stores and at consignment stores. Having a running list on my phone allows me to buy random books in series for super cheap without forgetting which books we have and which we need!
Building a resource library:
Practical & hands on books: Books on building, building a natural medicine cabinet, herbs, gardening, etc. This is for us adults but also for the kids to go through.
Cookbooks: Do you have actual cookbooks? Or printed recipes? I love building up my cookbook library. For everyday recipes yes, but also unusual things like: Making kombucha, cheese, I’ve got a book on my wishlist for making my own tea blends, canning, dehydrating, etc. I love checking out these kinds of books from the library whenever I can. It’s a great way to test out if you love the book or if it’s just alright. And I’ve photo copied a page or two out of library books when there’s something so good I want to keep it.
You can do the same thing with Pinterest tutorials, recipes, etc. Print out amazing ones and start to build your own DIY medicine cabinet cookbook or canning recipe book. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to start thinking through building up a good solid library for yourself.
Christian books and theology books: this is a huge part of our library that we’ve been building for years. We want solid, terrific Christian resources that we we can read, our kids can start reading and that we can let others barrow.
For Jason and I, we are thinking through building up our home library, not just for us, today. But also for future generations. With libraries becoming less reliable, with books being cancelled and banned, and with less good literature being produced, and so much more being moved online and digital, -
In this episode, Jami gives some of her top tips for reading as well as her favorite reads so far this year. Listen in!
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Books discussed today:
Conception Control: https://amzn.to/3May9v7
The Time Saving Mom: https://amzn.to/45G9ipQ
The Core: https://amzn.to/45DgjYn
All Creatures Great and Small: https://amzn.to/492Hj6p
Standing on the Promises: https://amzn.to/494mibu
The Hormone Reset Diet: https://amzn.to/46Gn39o
Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age: https://amzn.to/3S632V0
Art for God's Sake: https://amzn.to/3QqdFRl
Teatime Discipleship: https://amzn.to/3Q0U9cV
A History of the World in 6 Glasses: https://amzn.to/3QoY4k3
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: https://amzn.to/3tHx0Vv
The Backyard Homestead Kitchen Know-How: https://amzn.to/3QoP0fV
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In this episode, Jami chats with Felicia from Grains and Grit all about grinding your own grains and making delicious, healthy bread. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami gives her top 5 tricks for upgrading your food and saving money at the same time. Listen in!
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Some things to keep in mind:
The Lord is in control. We do the best we can, with what we have, and trust the Lord with the rest.
Teach your kids how to cook.
Look at the things you already eat and see how you can make them yourself.
My 5 things:
Baking bread - It costs me $7.23 per 1 giant sandwich loaves to make 100% organic, fresh, clean bread. This could be cheaper too!
Stop by processed snacks and start making them. We regularly make some really simple snacks of muffins and granola bars.
Learn how to buy in bulk. Let's look at dried beans. Very little work is involved compared to buying cans of beans, A little effort but you can start to really save. READ pages 10-11.
Figuring out what meats your family likes that stretch further. Our staples are ground beef, whole chicken, and ground sausage because I can do so much with those!
Pick one "larger' thing you'd like to learn how to make that can save you big! We do homemade pizza night every Saturday night and it's become no big deal. I've gotten it down to a science and while it costs more than takeout pizza, it also saves us SO much money and we are making very healthy, delicious pizza. My kids are disappointed when we get take-out pizza versus homemade!
Fall Collection Shop Opening!!
This week only, we've got our bookstore open for orders. You can order through 10/9 with many items shipping out this week! We've got my cookbooks, our ice cream cookbook, Jason's Sterling Spectacles children's book series, TWO NEW fall dresses and so much more!
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In this episode, Jami chats with Lyndsey Mimnagh of Treehouse Schoolhouse all about finding and managing the balance between homeschooling and homemaking. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami chats about her list of top 10 books that have impacted her as a homemaker. Listen in!
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Say Goodbye to Survival Mode
Interview with Crystal Paine here
The Read Aloud Family
Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home
The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith Through Feasting, One Meal at a Time
My interview with Sally: Cultivating a lifegiving family https://findingjoyinyourhome.com/cultivating-lifegiving-family-sally-clarkson/
Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
Refresh: Embracing a Grace-Paced Life in a World of Endless Demands
Embracing a Grace Paced life interview with Shonna Murray
The Time Saving Mom by Crystal Paine
Adorned: Living out the Beauty of the Gospel Together
Biblical Discipleship and mentoring interview with Many Demoss Wolgemuth
Finding a Mentor, Being a Mentor by Donna Otto
Comparison Girl: Lessons from Jesus on Me-Free Living in a Measure-Up World
✨Announcements in this episode ✨
1️⃣ Our fall shop opening will be October 2nd-8th, one week only! It will feature TWO new fall dresses and all our books in print.
2️⃣ Our next round of the 14 Day Meal Planning Bootcamp will kick off Oct 2nd. Grab your spot here: https://findingjoyshop.mykajabi.com/2023-14-day-meal-plan-bootcamp
3️⃣ We are kicking off a Get Dresses challenge over on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamibalmet/ and in my community: http://findingjoycommunity.com/
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In this episode, Jami interviews the lovely Phylicia Masonheimer about anxiety and how to battle it biblically. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami shares her own battle with anxiety and her journey through it. Listen in!
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I am so thankful to be able to sit here today and share that: anxiety does not dominate my life. I no longer struggle with panic attacks and while I absolutely can become anxious and have to battle against it often, anxiety is no longer the dominating force it once was.
Anxiety is something that we need to be talking about today because it’s something that so many of us struggle with and we have come to think is normal.
I had panic attacks as a teen and struggled greatly with anxiety, even though I didn’t know was it was. As a newly married 20-year-old, I ended up at the doctor with shooting pain in my chest, thinking I was having a heart attack. I went through rounds of tests and wearing heart monitors and stress tests, all to find out that I was having anxiety issues.
God taught me so much through that season. And I know he was bringing me through those trials at the time he did because he was equipping me for what was right around the corner: Having twins and then losing my mom suddenly when they were 10 months old, only to have a second set of twins 1 year later (so 4 babies, 2 and under), and so much physical stress and strain on my body.
Anxiety is a whole-bodied issue that goes far beyond “don’t stress as much”. Anxiety can be caused by so many issues and made worse by others. And so when we approach this topic of anxiety, we need to approach it from a holistic standpoint, meaning we need to look at our whole bodies and our whole lives.
Christians can tend to fall into one of two ditches: Either they ignore anxiety completely and don’t give good resources OR they go to the ultra-therapy side and leave God completely out of the discussion of dealing with anxiety. Thankfully, I see that trend changing and there are so many good holistic approaches to anxiety and our health today.
We well and truly can trust God
This is honestly where so much of my stress came from. I was not trusting the Lord with my life, not really.
It wasn’t that I didn’t trust he was sovereign, I did. But I trusted it so much that I was afraid it meant that Jason would be taken from me tomorrow. I had a warped view of God’s sovereignty and I didn’t realize it.
Until I read Jerry Bridge's book, Trusting God. In it, he so beautifully laid out what it means to trust God and that as our Heavenly Father, God does want our good. He will act according to his will, but he will also do this with our good in mind. We don’t need to fear what his sovereign hand will do. He does allow things to happen that are hard and painful, but we can trust Him in the process.
“That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.”
“In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are:
God is completely sovereign.
God is infinite in wisdom.
God is perfect in love.
Someone has expressed these three truths as they relate to us in this way: “God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom, He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty, He has the power to bring it about.”
It’s okay to not understand every little thing ““God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.”
We need to learn to trust that we don’t nor will know everything
“God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once.... -
In this episode, Jami skirts around the controversial topic of parenting, particularly comparing older versus newer ways of doing it. Listen in!
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There’s a reel going around, the 80's parent versus Millennial parent, and I think we need to address a few things.
In the comments, OVER and OVER again it was moms saying “I wish I could be the 80s mom!”
And now, this isn’t really about being an 80s mom versus being a millennial mom. 80s moms did things wrong too. There’s good info we do have access to today, there are times to be aware of what our children are doing.
But, I think this viral reel hits at the core of what a lot of us moms struggle with today.
Access to too much information is not always a blessing.
You google literally anything today and it’s going to eventually tell you to head to the ER because you are dying.
I am so thankful for the internet today, I am so thankful for access to good and useful information, but without a high level of discernment, the level of information we have access to can turn from being a blessing into a curse.
Having SO many opinions and voices all screaming at us can crowd out our God-given discernment.
We need to be careful that we are not letting other people’s opinions take over and crowd out what God is calling us to. When that anxiety and that overwhelm hits, are we off to see what our favorite IG influencer has to say or what Dr. Google recommends before and above praying and asking God for discernment in the situation?
We can come to despise the older generations' advice, and this is a dangerous situation.
Older moms, older generations, are where we should be getting our motherhood advice from. And when we end up in an echo chamber of just our own generation, on the internet, in often harmful chat rooms, we are not learning from older and wiser generations.
NOW, this can be actually quite tricky right now. I am fully acknowledging that. We are a generation right now that is changing things. In many ways, we are the generation that is turning the tide back to how our great-grandmothers lived and raised their children and we are having to figure out what that looks like in our modern world. This is not easy and there is no clear way to do this. It takes a high degree of discernment which comes through prayer and wisdom.
Just because we have access to more answers than our grandmother’s day, doesn’t actually mean we know more.
Our children do not actually belong to us, they belong to the Lord. We need to trust that ultimately HE is the one in control, NOT us
Ladies, we have a very false sense of security and control in our modern world. Thank the Lord, we don’t see high mortality rates in our babies. We don’t have to give birth to 15 children to just have 4 of them survive to adulthood. We have access to clean water, good food, doctors, medicine, and more.
A lot of this can lead us to think WE are in control. Yes, God asks us to be wise and to be self-disciplined. We have to work very hard to care for our children and take care of our households.
But this all needs to be done with the clear idea in mind that God is sovereign over our every breath. That he is the one that knows the exact minutes we will be on this earth and he cares so deeply for our children, that we can trust Him. Even when we don’t understand the big picture, we can trust AND we can recognize that we are not in control anyway. And that having anxiety about every morsel of food our kids eat, is mistrusting the Lord and doesn’t lead to a better outcome ANYWAY or more peace in our homes.
In the next two episodes, we are going to be dealing with the topic of fear and anxiety. So many of us can struggle, just like we talked about today, with anxiety over our kids and our everyday actions and decisions. But we can also have so much fear over the world and what’s happening. -
In this episode, Jami chats with the fantastic Alex from Sweet Siestas all about helping to solve children's sleep issues. Listen in!
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In this episode, Jami continues the planning discussion from episode 1 and digs into all the ways she's planning for the upcoming Fall season. Listen in!
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In episode one of this season, we discussed 5 ways that we waste time as homemakers, and what we can do about it. Today we are taking this lesson one step further and discussing how we can actively plan for the next busy season.
I’m building out new schedules for the fall right now, let’s discuss how I’m doing it!
Brainstorm and dream
On the way home from our recent road trip, Jason and I took some extended time to really talk through our plans and hopes for the fall. We both have some areas we want to work on and incorporate into our schedules. But we are trying to make sure that we are being realistic with these plans and not trying to jam-pack way too much into our schedule! So we started out just really talking about ideas, kind of like a brain dump. We both talked about health goals we both want to work on, things we’d love to add to homeschool, etc.
It helped to have a time where we just kind of brain-dumped all the things!
Go category by category through our plans
After we had that more general brainstorming session, I then took my Kindle Scribe and went category by category into our plans through the rest of the year. Here’s what we discussed:
1. Our health goals
2. Homeschool objectives and we developed a schedule
3. Big work projects and WHEN they will happen.
4. We discussed the Christmas budget and what our ideas are for the kids this year. I now have my Christmas list done and I’m on the hunt!
5. Then personally, I have my own goals and plans to work on: my cleaning routine and meal planning around the house, etc.
Make sure to look back over the last season to see what worked well and what didn’t.
It’s not just about productivity, it’s about designing a schedule that works well for our family
Be really clear on what your priorities truly are.
Remember, these priorities can change every few months.
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In this episode, Jami chats with the wonderful Melissa K. Norris all about food preservation. Listen in!
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In this first episode of Season 3, we're chatting about time wasters, and how to stop it. Listen in!
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Hello friends! Welcome back to my podcast, Finding Joy in Your Home. We are here for season 3 with some fun new changes. I’m going to give you a few announcements and then we will jump into today’s topic of wasting time as a homemaker, and what we can do about it.
Some of you right now are watching me over on YouTube as you listen to this podcast! As of this episode, my podcast is now also a video podcast over on YT. If you listen to the audio and you just want it to stay that way, that’s totally fine!
But as of this week, we are officially relaunching my YT channel in a big way! Each week we will be publishing my video podcast (if you want to watch on video or keep listening to audio). AND I have a brand new weekly show starting on YouTube called Baking School with Jami! Each week we will learn something new about baking and then make a new recipe together!
I’m convinced that the best way to learn to bake is by trying out just one new recipe a week and learning it as you go! And we are going to do this together during Baking School with Jami. For this show, you will need to hop over to YouTube to watch. Just go to BakingSchoolwithJami.com to find the link and to sign up to get the printables and recipes each week!
Now let’s get to today’s episode:
It can so often feel like we are just spinning our wheels when it comes to getting things done. I have felt many times in my motherhood journey that I have been busy, busy, busy without actually getting much done.
How is it that we can feel pulled in so many directions but not actually making traction in the few areas that actually matter? As we kick off season 3, I think this is an important place to start.
I don’t know about you, but Fall always feels like such a busy time. School is kicking off again and with that comes new co-op opportunities, sports and activities, Bible studies, and the looming holidays.
I know that I’m going to blink and it will be January and we will be kicking off a New Year. So as I stare fall in the face and try to get my new schedules and routines together, I think this is a really important topic: How can we stop wasting time?
I think it’s so important, every new season, to reevaluate what’s working well and what isn’t. And a big thing for me, with so many modern distractions, is making sure I’m using my time well and not wasting my days away, which unfortunately is all too easy to do.
Do you need to be getting up earlier? And/or using your evenings better?
This is one I struggle with. I am GOOD at getting work done at night, but I struggle in establishing better morning routines. Some of you definitely don’t struggle with this and that’s awesome!
I’ve found the opposite to be true though too: If you are excellent at getting up early, then often that same person really struggles as they head into dinner time and the evening. So maybe you need to focus on ways to be more intentional with your time as the evening hits.
Take a really honest assessment of your day, what is it that you need to focus on when it comes to wasting time? We thrive so much better when I’m up before the kids, have done my devotional, had my coffee, and can really hit the ground running with our full homeschool day kicking into action at 8 am. It’s better for all of us, I just have to really work at this sometimes!
Get dressed for the day.
This is huge for those of us who are home all day. As a younger stay-at-home mom, I was in my PJs most of the day. It was more comfortable to just stay comfy. But I’ve realized over the years, this greatly hampers my productivity. When I get up and am dressed by 8am, our day just starts. It’s like this terrific signal that it’s time to get busy and be productive. - Mehr anzeigen
