This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 167.

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.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to a whole new round of podcasts coming up for the rest of October.

Thanks for hanging in there with us while we've had kind of a funky schedule.

As we've been recovering, Jason and I have both been recovering from our annual online

homemaking conference.

I know a lot of you guys attended with us.

And we had so much

fun, but it's literally our biggest, craziest time of the year. All the entire months of August and

September are just completely wiped out and devoted to the conference, which is totally worth

it. But we have been in recover mode. Plus, the first week of October, Jason and I traveled for eight days to Pennsylvania

to go to my cousin's wedding.

It was a really fun time and now we are back trying to get into the swing of things.

So what we're talking about today is absolutely perfect timing for me because I am really

needing to double down, buckle down, get back into

regular routines as we head into November. And here's the thing. Christmas, Thanksgiving,

it's all coming up. Our family has five birthdays. Five of us have birthdays between December 10th and January 20th. So within that month,

we have five birthdays spread in there with Christmas. And so I know the craziness is about to

descend again. So I've been working really hard in this last week since we've been home.

I've been trying to jump back hardcore into my meal planning, and especially my Bible reading has like completely

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