This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 217.

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 podcast. It is the very beginning of

June as I'm recording this. You might be listening to this later. And one thing has been on my

heart a lot leading up till summer. So beginning in kind of the end of April and May as we're heading into summer,

I've had this feeling that I really want to make the most of this summer with my kids and as a family.

This is like the summer of our family, of being close-knit, of doing things together.

And it's been something that's been on my heart mind mind a ton and this is

something that we talked about in a mini conference that we had this last week called refresh your

routines the very last session was on making the most out of summer and we covered a bunch of

different topics but one of the topics I kind of covered at the beginning was making more memories this summer. And it's been something that has been kind of just playing

in the back of my mind. It's been kind of a half-baked thought that I've been toying with and

kind of going there. So then when we did this, when I did this session and started talking about it,

I started realizing how much passion I really have for this topic this summer and why it's such a good summer for this for us.

And so as I was thinking about making the most of summertime, making memories with my kids, and not just for summer, but all year long and really being intentional with this. I, I just thought

it would be really fun to get on here and talk about it, what our plans are, making bucket lists for

the summer, um, creating, we're going to talk about creating a Christ-centered bucket list as well.

It's going to be a really fun episode, very practical. Um, so I'm excited that you guys are here

listening. Uh, in a little while, we're going to hear from the sponsor for today's episode, very practical. So I'm excited that you guys are here listening. In a little while,

we're going to hear from the sponsor for today's episode, which is Highlands. But I just want to

jump straight into this because it's summer and your time is short. So let's keep this episode

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