This is The Homemaking Foundations podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 126.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Welcome back, ladies. Today we are talking about summer and making

memories and having fun and what do you do when you completely fall out of all normal routines

and kind of how to make the best and the most at a summer this year. This is definitely

a topic that's been on my mind a lot. We traveled a ton last summer and it was like our

summer was gone and it was great. We had a lot of fun. But this summer we're going to be home

for most of the summer. And I really want to make the most of the

summer and the weather and just really making memories as a family. So it's been something that

Jason and I've been talking about a lot. Like, what do we want to do this summer? What do we want to

establish? Because I don't know about you guys, but summer can like disappear. Like before you

know it, it's August 20th. and you're like, what the heck?

Where did the summer go? So that's something that Jason and I just want to be really intentional

with that we head into this year. There's some specific things we'd really like to do this year.

We really want to do swim lessons with the boys. We wanted to do them last year, but we actually

two of the trips last year that we did, we did not know we were going to do until we were basically

doing them. And so it's just our June and July especially disappeared. And so there's just some things

we want to be intentional about and make sure happen. And so we're trying to plan ahead. So it's just been a lot of conversations of what is our summer going to look like this year? I want to have a lot of downtime. I want to have a lot of family fun, just relaxing time. But at the same time, that needs to be planned into it. We got to kind of figure that out. So that's what we're going to be kind of talking about today. That

tension between making plans, making things happen, and then also having a restful, relaxing

summer that is focused on family time. I think that's my biggest thing is I really want to

make memories and I want to slow down. We're coming off a really, really busy spring. So be able to

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