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 friends, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Valmay. And today I'm going to be sharing some new baby

tips as a mom of eight. Now, these tips are ones that I really had to think about because honestly,

every time I'm preparing for a new baby, I have to go back through it all and think, yeah,

what do we do? What, what do I need?

What, what are the things? Because you just, there's, there's a way of forgetting it every

single time and people go, what are your favorite new baby items? And I'm like, I don't, I don't know.

Like, I really have to think about it. So I am actually preparing, we are having our new baby in about two weeks from recording.

By the time you guys listen to this, it'll either be right before we have the baby or right after by the time this episode goes out.

And so I have really been in like baby mode of trying to figure out, okay, what do I need?

And this has actually come a little bit later

than normal because we're having our seventh boy. So when I say I already have everything,

I already have everything. I didn't, I have bought literally like one thing for this baby,

although I really did want to go buy some new baby outfits, but I didn't need to. I have all the stuff

from his brother who just turned two. And so I really didn't need anything. And so I've had all

the baby stuff in a bucket, which is, I mean, it's such a blessing. But it also has left me this last

week feeling totally unprepared because I'm like, do I have everything? I think so. What? So I've got all my

buckets out and my project actually later today is to go through it, wash the outfits that

he'll need as a newborn, get diapers ready, do you know, do we have pacifiers, what needs to be

boiled, like those those preparatory things, get my hospital bag packed. I need to finally get through all

of that. So as I was sitting down making my list, I thought, well, this is a perfect time to

share this on the podcast because in a year from now, I won't remember any of this. And people will

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