At the Hearth Episode 5: The Pitfalls of Big Families – S4, E29
Finding Joy in Your Home
Jami Balmet
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of At The Hearth: Family Chats, Jami is joined by her husband, Jason, to dive into the challenges that come with raising a big family. From managing the constant demands of parenting eight kids to keeping up with household chaos, finances, and making time for marriage, they share an honest look at the struggles—along with practical ways to navigate them. Whether you’re in the trenches of a large household or just curious about what it’s like, this episode offers real talk, laughter, and encouragement for the journey!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory. |
| 0:12.9 | Hey friends, welcome back to our next episode here in our series at the hearth family chats with Jason and I. |
| 0:20.9 | Today we are talking about the pitfalls of having a big family, |
| 0:24.2 | some red flags that you want to look for, |
| 0:25.7 | some things that we are trying to be very cognizant of as we raise our large family. |
| 0:30.4 | So Jason, welcome back to the next at the hearth episode. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm looking forward to this one. |
| 0:34.4 | We talked a lot about the joys of a big family in the last episode. |
| 0:39.6 | And so now I guess we're going to be looking at the flip side of that. |
| 0:41.9 | Yes. I'm really excited, actually, to dig into this episode and kind of talk about the things that we're aware of, the things we want to work on from your experience being the oldest of seven kids. |
| 0:51.6 | And then also now our experience of raising our own crew. |
| 0:55.8 | So before we dive into this, I do want to give you guys a heads up that we have something |
| 0:59.6 | really, really, really fun kicking off this week in the Joyful Home app. |
| 1:04.0 | We are kicking off what is called the homemade year. |
| 1:07.7 | And every single month for the next 12 months, we are going to be tackling a different |
| 1:11.8 | homemade item within our kitchens. And this month, we're starting with homemade donuts. I have a |
| 1:16.9 | whole bunch of recipes for you. And what we're going to be doing is we're going to, we're going to |
| 1:20.8 | learn step by step how to make homemade donuts. We're going to tackle this year bagels and |
| 1:26.2 | tortillas and cheese and I mean 12 |
| 1:29.8 | fabulous items that are really, really fun. I've got recipes for you. I have got step-by-step |
| 1:35.4 | tutorial videos, tips and tricks, so much more as we tackle each of these. And it's designed in a |
| 1:40.8 | really fun way because we're just doing one thing a month. So if you want to go |
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