Finding Joy in Your Home

In this episode, Jami shares her average daily routines, battling morning sickness, and how to get everything done. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube We are undergoing a huge website redesign. We will be moving things up a ton and will have a super fun relaunch in January sometime - big giveaways and other fun stuff. Stay tuned! Our Sponsor: Go to https://www.magicmind.co/home and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with my code HOME! Our Sponsor: Head to moshlife.com/HOME to save 20% off plus FREE shipping on your first 6-count Trial Pack.

In this episode, Jami chats with her husband Jason about their plans and goals for their reading for 2024. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Books mentioned in the episode: Headcovering Throughout Christian History A Cover for Glory The Reformation: A History Hand Made The Made-from-Scratch Life The American Puritans The Convivial Homeschool Masculine Christianity Durable Trades The Case for the Christian Family The Grapes of Wrath East of Eden Of Mice and Men A History of the World in 6 Glasses Discontinuity to Continuity Conception Control A Different Shade of Green Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age Band of Brothers The Last Kingdom Horatio Hornblower Ancestors A Mighty Fortress From Bread to Wine Home Comforts Home Management: Plain and Simple What Are People For? Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community Common Sense Christian Living Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson The God of the Garden by Andrew Peterson I Will Build My Church Home Making by J.R. Miller Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer Sourdough Culture The Art of the Commonplace Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War Six Thousand Years of Bread When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe The American Way Third Ways The Modern Pioneer Cookbook Everything Worth Preserving Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube We are undergoing a huge website redesign. We will be moving things up a ton and will have a super fun relaunch in January sometime - big giveaways and other fun stuff. Stay tuned! We will be doing a 1-day workshop for setting goals, establishing routines, and making lasting changes the first week of January. Details are coming in the next few days, sign up to get notified: Findingjoyinyourhome.com/newsletter Our Sponsor: Go to greenchef.com/60homemaking and use code 60homemaking to get 60% off, plus 20% off your next two months! Our Sponsor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code HOME and depending on the model, you'll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Exclusive to podcast customers, you will also receive a free 3-year warranty on any unit, which is an additional $84 value!

In this episode, Jami chats with her husband Jason about their theme for 2024 and their new goals. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube We are undergoing a huge website redesign. We will be moving things up a ton and will have a super fun relaunch in January sometime - big giveaways and other fun stuff. Stay tuned! We will be doing a 1-day workshop for setting goals, establishing routines, and making lasting changes the first week of January. Details are coming in the next few days, sign up to get notified: Findingjoyinyourhome.com/newsletter Our Sponsor: Go to HelloFresh.com/homemakingfree and use code homemakingfree for FREE breakfast for life! Our Sponsor: Go to www.magicmind.co/home and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with my code HOME!

In this episode, Jami talks about how to set goals in your homes as we transition into a new year. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube We are undergoing a huge website redesign. We will be moving things up a ton and will have a super fun relaunch in January sometime - big giveaways and other fun stuff. Stay tuned! We will be doing a 1-day workshop for setting goals, establishing routines, and making lasting changes the first week of January. Details are coming in the next few days, sign up to get notified: Findingjoyinyourhome.com/newsletter Our Sponsor: Go to www.magicmind.co/home and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with my code HOME! Our Sponsor: Today my listeners receive 20% OFF any AquaTru purifier! Just go to AquaTru.com and enter code "HOME" at checkout!

In this episode, Jami talks about how to choose a theme for your year, how it can help, and how it's not the same thing as new year resolutions. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. I find resolutions to be mostly useless. We set these grand resolutions: This year I will draw closer to the Lord, this year I will eat less sugar, this year I will be a better mom. There's nothing wrong with those ideas, but they don't actually help us much in establishing real change. Why? A year is a long time. It's hard to stay focused on 1 thing when the next 12 months could change drastically and we don't really know what the year will hold anyway. These resolutions are not specific. What does it mean to be a better mom? Is this just a vague feeling or are there specific, actionable steps you can take? A single resolution doesn't usually bring us any closer to our goals or things we want to achieve. So what do we do? Jason and I, for many years now, have set themes or words for our year. We think about, pray about, and talk to each other about how our year this year went (listen to the last episode) and then we discuss at length what our hopes and plans are for next year. So we break down: What didn't go well this year that we need to change? What worked well this year that we want to bring into the New Year? What are you currently feeling frustrated with? What has been living giving recently? What big goals do you have? (Write a book, plant a garden, etc). After talking more vaguely about our goals or ideas, we then set a theme for the year. This helps in a few ways: A theme or word for the year allows you to easily keep it in mind all year (even when you have many goals in the woks) It allows you to easily filter new opportunities throughout the year to see if it aligns with your theme for the year. For example, one year my theme was rest. I needed to find more rest and margin in my life and routines. It was a year of scaling back, pulling in, and saying no to a lot of things. After that excellent year, my next year's theme was community. After pulling back in and creating that margin, I was ready to add things back in, expand my community, dive back into hospitality, while keeping those margin lessons at hand. I have a much easier time setting goals in our 4 areas when I've got the theme to guide me. (Personal goals, business goals, family goals, and homeschool goals). Picking a theme: You can pick a word, like rest or community, or you can a theme which is often a sentence or so. The Year of Community, The Year of Rest, The Year of Trying New Things, The Year of Good Routines, The Year of Building Skills, etc. In the next episode, Jason and I will be doing this in real-time with you. For the first time ever, I think we are going to have a joint theme for our year. Our homeschool and family goals are the same and we build those together. Our business goals are usually 2-3 the same and we each then have 2-3 that are our own. And personal goals are our own. We will be breaking this down for you in the next episode. Don't forget to sign up for my email newsletter: Findingjoyinyourhome.com/newsletter Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube We are undergoing a huge website redesign. We will be moving things up a ton and will have a super fun relaunch in January sometime - big giveaways and other fun stuff. Stay tuned! We will be doing a 1-day workshop for setting goals, establishing routines, and making lasting changes the first week of January. Details are coming in the next few days, sign up to get notified: Findingjoyinyourhome.com/newsletter Our Sponsor: Check out homemakersfriend.

In this episode, Jami reviews her year and gives lots of good advice and encouragement. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. I am in planning mode. Okay, I'm actually in thinking mode. I haven't put anything down to paper yet but my brain has been going. The New Year is the perfect time to jump into new habits and new routines, but not just because it's the start of a brand new year. It's a perfect time because November and December seem to FLY! I am excited about the fall starting, new school routines, pumpkin everything, and BAM! It's January 5th. January has historically still been a very busy month for us with our business and jumping back into good school routines. But it's also a great time for fresh starts, new habits, and more margin. So as I start to think through my goals, which I have not solidified yet, I thought it would be helpful to walk you through my beginning steps in brainstorming these goals. Today you are going to get to do my year-end review with me. Look back over the goals you set last year: I had a lot of household goals. Gardening: Figure out planting onions and potatoes. And do a Fall and real winter garden. 2022 goal: Learn how to grow my garden from seeds. 2024: I need to plan something to add. Preserving more food this year. In 2022 I did a ton of stuff. I had wanted to do more preserving. Making more homemade household use items: Laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, etc. Getting household routines more smooth! Cleaning routines, better chore routines for kids, smoother routines overall. Conquer whole-grain sourdough What went well this year? We have grown tremendously in trusting the Lord. This year largely didn't shape up the way we thought and yet, God is so good and my trust in him has deepened 10-fold this year. Our health: Jason and I have been smashing it when it comes to taking care of our health. We are building REAL exercise routines that are becoming HABIT. Our school routines since August have been the best we've ever had. What didn't go well: our life, household, work, and school routines were so hard and so off the first half of this year. Part of that was me trying to find my rythym again after having a baby and part of it was just living through survival mode the first 6 months of the year. What did I do well in serving and loving my people this year? We had a lot of good, food centered gatherings and get togethers. I did well in making those things happen even when time was short. what can I improve on in serving and loving my people this year? I need to continue working on my patience. When 1000 balls are in the air, I need to continue choosing patience, kindness and love, even when I'm tired, stressed, or having a hard day. Other questions to ask: What changes did you navigate well this year? What limitations or circumstances did you have to work through? What is an ah-ha moment you had? What new skills or knowledge did you aquire this year? What were 3 highlights from this year? What did you accomplish this year that you're most proud of? What (and/or who) are you most thankful for this year? I encourage you to think over these things the next 2 weeks. When you're wrapping presents, stuck in traffic, think through these questions. Just let your mind ruminate over them. You don't need full answers yet. But if you start thinking through these, you'll start to form ideas so that when you sit down to write out your goals, you'll be a step ahead! I also think this an important step, because 12 months is a long time. There are things we forget, things we accomplished, that we are not thinking of so many months later. it's easy to focus on our present hardships that need to change and we forget all the growth we did over the year.

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! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube Our Sponsor: For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter code home50! Our Sponsor: Go to greenchef.com/60homemaking and use code 60homemaking to get 60% off, plus 20% off your next two months!

In this episode, Jami talks about budgeting for groceries and everything that is involved with that. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube Our Christmas shop opening is now through Dec. 8th. Check it out at: https://findingjoybookstore.com/ Our Sponsor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code HOME and depending on the model, you'll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Our Sponsor: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that's over 40% off) with promo code HOME at lumedeodorant.com!

In this episode, Jami chats with Jason about planning and productivity for the end of the year. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube Our Christmas shop opening is now through Dec. 1st. Check it out at: https://findingjoybookstore.com/ Our Sponsor: Get a 2-week free trial at PrepDish.com/homemaking!!! Our Sponsor: Check out all the organizing encouragement you need at Organize365.com!

In this episode, Jami chats with Jason all about how to navigate through changing theological beliefs with your spouse. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. 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 Links and Resources: Join our private community to chat about this podcast episode: FindingJoyCommunity.com Watch the podcast on YouTube if you want! Finding Joy in Your Home on YouTube Get your Homemaker's Friend Daily Planner at: https://homemakersfriend.com/ and use coupon code: PLANNING to get $3 off!! Our Christmas shop opening is now through Dec. 1st. Check it out at: https://findingjoybookstore.com/ Our Sponsor: Today my listeners receive a massive 25% OFF any AquaTru water purifier! Just go to AquaTru.com and enter code "HOME25" at checkout. Our Sponsor: Get Up to 60% OFF @honeylove by going to honeylove.com/HOME!