Today is a little big different. Instead of talking about a homemaking topic, I've got Jason with me today and we are going to share a little update about our family and our ministry. 

About 18 months ago we shared a ministry update in episode #26. This was our announcement that Jason had left his full time job in sales to run our ministry full time. So that was a fun announcement but a LOT has happened in the last 18 months. So we wanted to do a NEW update on what's going on. 

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Family & Ministry Update

We had a busy 2016! We started off the year with a bang and went right into our kickstarter campaign for our online training academy, My Homemaking Mentor. The kickstarter campaign was a giant success and in July of 2016, My Homemaking Mentor was released to the public. 

Psst: My Homemaking Mentor is currently closed down for enrollment, but will open up again in the Fall of 2017. You can sign up here to get notified when enrollment opens. 

Then in August we rolled right into our Homeschooling Conference and got right into preparing for our 2016 Homemaking Ministries Online Conference. This was our third annual online conference and it was amazing! Then this carried us through the end of October and into Christmas. 

We had a great full year of business and running it full time. It was a really exciting and full year. But for our family, we also had some exciting things happening. 

Our Growing Family

In the first week of May 2016, we got a very special surprise blessing. Malachi & Micah were 3 years old and Remington & Ryder were only 9 months old...and we found out we were expecting! 

We later came to find out that we were expecting a single girl due in January 2017. She is now 4 months old and doing so well! 

We were not expecting to be pregnant in our first full year of business but we are so thankful now that God's plans are not our own plans. It made 2016 a little tricky in certain ways, but we are loving our family with five kids four and under. 

By the way - Do you want to keep up on our family happenings every week? Come check out our weekly YouTube videos - A Week in the Life of the Balmet Family! We show a peek into our life with five kids under five and running a growing business from home.

2017 and Beyond

It's June now and I feel like each day is getting easier and easier. Malachi and Micah are almost 4 and a half. Remington & Ryder turn 2 in about 2 weeks. And Magnolia is nearly 5 months old. We are all setting into our new normal and picking our routines back up. 

On the business front, we have some exciting plans for 2017!! Here's a sneak peek of what we have coming up: 

Homemaking Ministries Store

This is kind of my baby project this year that I am pouring a lot of love and time into. We are working on building up our store with physical products!! Right now we have Christian t-shirts and Scripture memory cards. But we are slowly working on building our store up into 15-20 items by the end of 2017. 

In fact, we have a shipment of new products on our way to our house right now! It's been so fun play with mailing out these amazing goodies! Jason and I have some really incredible plans and ideas for this store for this year. 

Homemaking Ministries Online Conference 2017