This Is Me, Starting Again: Returning to the Work of Home, Faith, and Everyday Faithfulness - BLOG
Release Date: 12/29/2025
When You Can't Do It All: Finding Peace in a Busy Season - S6, E3
Finding Joy in Your Home
Life is full of good things, but what happens when there are simply too many good things to juggle? In this honest and practical episode, Jami shares a peek into her family's very full season of life, from homeschooling and extracurricular activities to homemaking, work, and everything in between. After a whirlwind week that left the house in disarray and her feeling completely overwhelmed, Jami is stepping back to reevaluate what matters most. She's sharing three simple but powerful questions that can help us navigate busy seasons: What does my family need most right now? What can become...
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Practical ways I'm preparing for our homeschooling year (non-curriculum discussions) - S6, E2
Finding Joy in Your Home
As we head into a new homeschool year, it’s easy to focus all our attention on curriculum choices, but the truth is, a peaceful and fruitful school year depends on so much more than the books we choose. In this episode, Jami shares the practical, non-curriculum ways she is preparing for their family’s 10th year of homeschooling, including simplifying phone habits, creating stronger household routines, tightening up chores, planning easier meals, training kids to help with cooking, and thinking carefully about what this particular season requires. With four middle school boys, a fifth...
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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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