Gamechanging Habits in the Thick of Raising Littles
As For Me And My House
As For Me And My House
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Starting and ending our day like this has been a total gamechanger during this busy season with so many littles.
It's taken tweaking and refining, and we're still open to feedback on it, but it's blessed us so much that we just had to share it with you guys.
This routine gives us time to focus on what's most important, it allows us to shepherd our children in the way we desire to do so, and it keeps our home running smoothly while staying well-kept.
We'd love to hear if this inspired you to try something similar! Also let us know what your routine looks like, we're always looking for ways to improve ours in order to be closer to the Lord.
In This Episode:
0:00 Intro
5:09 The Surprise Blessings of These Habits
7:40 Why 4:00 AM
12:42 Before You Say It's Too Early...
19:01 The Morning Habits
24:14 Scripture reading
29:14 Movement
39:04 Getting ready
41:21 The Evening Habits
48:20 Cleanup Dance Party!
51:21 Bedtime for Littles
Resources:
A Brief Theology of Sleep by John Piper: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/a-brief-theology-of-sleep
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| 0:00.0 | 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. are the most crucial hours for a mother and father. |
| 0:08.7 | On today's episode, we're going to unpack what that looks like for us in our season right now. |
| 0:13.1 | We pray that it blesses you. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to As for Me in My House. |
| 0:29.3 | We exist to share biblical truth and encouragement from our house to yours. |
| 0:33.5 | Honey, bring us into today's topic. |
| 0:53.3 | And so... And now. Well, we have noticed that our days look very different when they are directed and started with the Lord versus started by a screaming baby. |
| 0:56.6 | And I think anyone can agree that when you start your day with the Lord, |
| 1:01.6 | the fruit that comes from it abides and flows into the rest of the day, |
| 1:08.7 | whereas you wake up with immediate need to be giving and to |
| 1:15.3 | command after command, feed one child, change the diaper, do this. |
| 1:19.4 | When you start your day with the Lord versus that it looks so different. |
| 1:26.1 | And it is a lot easier to walk with the spirit when we are reading |
| 1:31.8 | his word and when we are with him first. And it's a lot easier to walk with the flesh when you're |
| 1:37.7 | just mumble, jumbled out of bed. And a huge verse that Jordan and I are clinging on to this season comes from |
| 1:43.6 | Luke 12 at the very end of |
| 1:45.8 | 48. |
| 1:46.3 | It says, everyone to whom much was given of him, much will be required. |
| 1:52.0 | And we are so blessed with our children and the things we have been entrusted with. |
| 1:57.1 | But again, to whom much is given, much of him will be required and so in our season a lot is |
| 2:04.3 | required of us and a lot of diligence is required a lot of wisdom from the lord is required and we have walked |
| 2:13.0 | what it looks like to pull from our own strength and our own wisdom and our own knowledge and our own |
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