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.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. Very glad that you're joining me this week because we're talking about a topic that I think

is one that's useful to return to again and again and is one that is going to be an important

topic for all of us, no matter what season or stage of life we find ourselves in. And that is how

we can glorify God with our time and with our use of time. And we'll jump into all of that in just a second. But first, I have just a couple quick announcements. First thing is we were in the middle, in December, we were in the middle of our family and culture series. And we took a little bit of a break because we had a bunch of end of year and new year

episodes like goal planning, things like that, my word for the year, reading goals, all of that.

We took a little break to discuss those because that's the beginning of the year. Great time to do

that. And I had planned to get back to the series in mid-January. But we ended up having some

other episodes in there. And so now we're finally

getting back to the Family and Culture series next week. It is going to actually now look a

little bit different. I had been planning back in December to have a whole bunch of guests

on the show. And we had a bunch of interviews lined up.

And I then at the end of December found out that I am pregnant and expecting baby number seven,

which is a great joy.

But being in the first trimester is also really difficult.

So we ended up canceling a lot of those interviews throughout January because I've

just been so sick and tired and really just been trying to keep up on stuff. And interviews for me

are something that are very difficult, which is why I actually don't do a lot of them on here,

getting them on the schedule, finding that time at a specific time to do them,

and just the energy involved is actually quite a bit. And so we decided when I was heading

into January feeling so awful, Jason was like, let's just, we're going to take those off

the table for now. And it was the right call. So we will get back to that there are some people that

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