This is The Homemaking Foundations podcast with Jamie Valmay, episode number 49.

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 the next episode.

I have to apologize quickly because we missed getting an episode out last week.

And so I totally apologize if you were waiting on that.

All week long, I kept trying to sit down and get an episode recorded. We had pre-recorded several

and we ran out of our pre-recorded episodes. And so I was scrambling all week to try to get

sit down and record an episode. But one day we ended up at the hospital and the doctor

all day long with one of my three-year-olds with what we thought was a broken arm.

And it was just, it has been a crazy week.

We also had a huge tree fall in our backyard.

The roots were like dead, even though the tree is completely alive.

And it missed all three of our bedrooms. Our bedrooms are all in a line.

It missed our house and our bedrooms by five or six inches. It is now laying along the backside

of our house and was so, so close. It did some roof damage. It tore down our play set,

our kids trampoline, the fence out back. It did some heavy damage to the backyard and to our roof. But we are praising the Lord because it did not fall on our house. And it was really, really close. When I look at the fallen tree and where it was planted, I am just so surprised that it did not fall right down the center of all three

of our bedrooms. And so I'm just so thankful for that. You know, God is so good. But it's also been a lot

of work this week with insurance and just trying to figure this all out. So that's been what's going on.

And our Homemaking Ministries online conference, our third annual

conference kicks off next week. So we've also been in the thick of that. So needless to say,

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