When You’re Weary in Doing Well: Trusting God When You’re Worn Out - S5, E6
Release Date: 10/22/2025
Where I’ve Been: Falling in Love with Life Offline - S6, E1
Finding Joy in Your Home
After the longest podcast break I’ve ever taken, I’m finally back! In this episode, I’m sharing where I’ve been, why I disappeared for over six months, and what God has been teaching me through a long season of transition, rebuilding, and learning to love a quieter life offline. I’m talking about our family’s move, settling into a new home and community, healing after a hard year, stepping back from social media, getting a “dumb phone,” rebuilding routines, and rediscovering the joy of creating from a place of life and overflow instead of hurry and burnout. This episode kicks...
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What a Large Family Produces (From Someone Who Lived It): The joys & blessings of a large family - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
In Part 1 of this series, I asked the question: Welcome to part 2. I’m the oldest of four kids, which, in my mind growing up, did not feel like a large family. But apparently… it was and is especially now! People used to ask my mom if we were all from the same dad (which was always baffling because we all look like clones). And now, looking back, I realize: okay, yes, even four kids is considered “a lot” these days. But my husband Jason? He’s the oldest of seven. And now here we are with eight kids of our own…ages 13 down to 1. Our next door neighbors and good friends from church...
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How I'm Rebuilding My Bulk Pantry (step by step) - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
I originally wrote this article in April and I'm finally getting around to publishing it. I'm about to place 5th Azure order and it indeed has already made a huge difference in our budget (see the bottom of the article)! Over the years, I've developed quite a system for storing and cooking out of a bulk pantry. I routinely buy 25-50lb bags of dried goods and cook almost everything from scratch. Now, 10+ years into this journey, I take for granted how easy this system is to maintain. But when I first started out, it was anything but. I remember googling "How to store 25lbs of spelt" and...
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I Quit the Noise—and Found My Mind Again: Learning to Be a Calm Woman in an Anxious Age - BLOG
Finding Joy in Your Home
If you’ve been feeling stressed, weighed down, worried, or just quietly unsettled lately… this is for you. I’ve walked through cycles of this myself over the past few years. Since 2020 especially, it has felt like a constant hum beneath everything, an undercurrent of tension that never quite goes away, especially when one is chronically online. And somewhere along the way, I realized I didn’t want to live like that anymore. So I stepped off the hamster wheel. I’ve been largely off social media since early January. I still check in occasionally as needed, messages, customer...
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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
Finding Joy in Your Home
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...
info_outlineEver find yourself exhausted in the very life you prayed for? In this week’s episode, Jami opens her heart about seasons of weariness and how to trust God when joy seems out of reach. Drawing from a listener’s heartfelt question, she offers both spiritual encouragement and practical wisdom for tired moms—especially those in the thick of little years and endless noise.
You’ll hear Jami’s own stories of fatigue, faith, and God’s sustaining grace through motherhood, plus encouragement to check your physical and spiritual health, invite your husband into your struggles, and find joy in everyday faithfulness.
✨ Topics covered:
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Finding purpose when motherhood feels heavy
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The difference between physical and spiritual exhaustion
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Encouragement for moms with multiple young children
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Training kids in chores (without losing your mind!)
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Why God’s strength meets us right where we’re worn out
Listen in for fresh encouragement and truth: your work in the Lord is never in vain.
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