Building Your Bible Study Toolbox: Practical Routines for Every Season - S5, E4
Release Date: 10/01/2025
Can You Really Raise a Large Family Well? - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
Rediscovering God’s design for family in a world that sees children as a burden I have mostly been off of social media entirely since early January when I got my new "dumb-ish" phone for my birthday. But even so, news reached me that Hannah Neeleman from Ballarina Farms had her 9th baby. And that the internet has imploded over it. I'm honestly not sure what is so shocking about a Mormon mom, who's had 8 previous babies, presumably every 1/5 - 2 years for over a decade, now having one more child. Like, don't you expect it by now? But nevertheless, baby #9 is here, and the interwebs have...
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My 40 Before 40 Reading List - Working on the Western Canon - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
For the first time in a couple of years, I've really been enjoying my reading list! I've set a goal of reading 104 books this year, at a clipped pace of 2 books per week. Here at the end of February, I've managed to stay on track with this goal and hope to see it through this year. Part of my renewed vigor with reading is that it has now been 4+ years since I've gone this long without being pregnant. In fact, 2026 might be the first year that I will not have a nursing baby or be pregnant since 2019 (7 years, wow)! In fact, I've only had two years (2013 and 2018) since 2011 that I have not been...
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How to Grow as a Homemaker (Without Feeling Behind) - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
When I first got married, I was behind. Admittedly, I was only nineteen. That alone explains part of it. But if I am completely honest, I do not think that five more years would have made much difference. Even if I had finished college as a single woman instead of a married one, even if I had waited until twenty-four or twenty-five, I do not believe I would have been significantly more prepared to run a home. Like many women of my generation, I had spent my teenage and young adult years focused on school, grades, college applications, part-time jobs, and preparing for a future career. I...
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My Garden Journal: February 2026 - BLOG
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I am deep in the part of my gardening year where I am SUPER excited… and also starting to wonder if maybe I did too much. If you garden, you know this feeling. January and February are all hope and seed packets and plans. Everything feels possible. And then suddenly your dining room table is covered in milk cartons and seed trays and you’re counting how many varieties of peppers you started and thinking, “Oh dear.” But here’s something I’ve learned in my still-limited gardening experience: I would rather feel like I did too much than look back in July and wish I had done more....
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A Trip to Pennsylvania, A Pause in Blogging, and Some Honest Reflections - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
The kids and I had the opportunity to go visit my family in Pennsylvania this past week, and I’m so incredibly glad we did. We’ve been trying to schedule a trip up there for ages, and it just never seemed to work out. There was always something — a launch, a deadline, a busy season, a reason to push it off. Finally, we picked a time that worked… except Jason was just too busy to take off work. So the kids and I went anyway. And I’m so, so glad we did. With the older boys getting so much older, it was actually such a fun and easy trip. An 8–9 hour drive used to feel monumental, but...
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Homemaking Is Not About Perfection, It’s About Faithfulness - S5, E8
Finding Joy in Your Home
In a world full of Pinterest-perfect homes and constant comparison, it’s easy to feel like our homemaking is never “enough.” In this short and encouraging episode, Jami offers a much-needed reminder: homemaking isn’t about perfection, it’s about faithfulness. She shares why social media can quietly distort our expectations, how God calls us to stewardship instead of performance, and why the quiet, repetitive work of home is deeply meaningful to Him. From folding laundry and stretching a tight budget to caring for sick kids in the middle of the night, faithfulness often looks ordinary...
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When the Work Feels Small: Homemaking as Kingdom Work - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
There are seasons when the world feels too loud. Too heavy. Too much. And often, that weight doesn’t stay “out there.” It follows us home. It shows up in tired bodies, overflowing sinks, loud kitchens, and hearts that feel stretched thin. In moments like that, it’s easy to wonder if the quiet, repetitive work we do every day really matters. This season, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it truly means to be a homemaker. Not just in the way we often picture it, but in the deeper, truer sense. Homemaking isn’t limited to a job title or a particular life stage. If you are a woman,...
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My reading for January 2026, with a goal of 104 books read this year - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
I have finally — and I mean finally — been really diving into my reading goals and actually enjoying them again. For the last few years, my reading has been a little lackluster. I’ve been reading far below my goals (which in and of itself is totally fine), but I was also lacking excitement and joy in my reading. I read a lot of fiction in ’24–’25, but most of it was throwaway fiction that, once I finished it, I never thought about again. It didn’t linger. It didn’t shape me. It didn’t spark anything. When I made my reading goal for 2026 and started pulling out the book stack...
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Welcome to My Garden Journal (and Journey) for 2026 - BLOG
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It’s been two long years since I’ve been able to grow a garden. Life shifted in big ways during that season. We relocated to North Carolina, and for a while I didn’t even have a yard, just a moving target and a lot of transition. Gardening simply wasn’t possible. And while that season held good things, I missed the soil deeply. Now, though, everything has changed. We’re on three-quarters of an acre. It’s flat. It’s usable. And my backyard is absolutely begging for a garden. Every time I look out the window, I can practically see the rows already forming in my imagination. I am...
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Finding Joy in the Ordinary Days of Home - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
Do you ever have one of those days? The kind where you wake up already irritated, before anything has even happened. You’re short on patience, easily overwhelmed, and it feels like joy is nowhere to be found. If I’m honest, when I was a young mom those days came more often than I care to admit, and I usually felt a little ashamed that my attitude could sour so quickly. But motherhood has a way of pressing on every weak spot at once. The needs are constant. The to-do list never truly ends. The house doesn’t stay clean for long, sleep is often interrupted, and a quiet moment to yourself...
info_outlineDo you ever feel like Bible study keeps slipping through the cracks in your busy days? In this episode, I’m sharing the simple Bible study routine that’s been transforming my quiet time over the past nine months. We’ll talk about overcoming guilt in hard seasons, finding rhythms that actually work with little ones underfoot, and practical tools like the ESV Spiral Bible, praying through the Psalms, and journaling Scripture. Whether you’ve got five minutes or thirty, you’ll walk away with fresh encouragement and ideas to help you grow in God’s Word right where you are.
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