This is the Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 300.

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. This is episode number 300. I cannot believe what a milestone episode

that is. Last week when we were working on episode number 29, Jason was looking at it and he's like,

is that right? Did you write that number down? Are we seriously almost at 300. And I just can't believe that. That means that's a lot of talking that I have done here with you guys. So thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. And today's episode's going to be really fun. So we're going to just dive right in. And in a little while, we'll hear from our two sponsors for today's episode.

We have Laurel Springs and Kara of, which are both fabulous companies that I'm excited to share with you.

But for now, let's just jump in. So what we're talking about today, which I thought would be kind of fun and is very timely, is I'm going to tell you guys a little story of our online

conferences and our ministry and our business and a little bit of backstory of how we've gotten

here to 300 episodes. And we also have had tickets go on sale this week for our seventh

annual online homemaking conference, which is just

crazy. So I'll tell you a little bit more about that. But I did an Instagram post earlier,

kind of just sharing a little bit of the history of how we got to doing online conferences,

how we got to where we are today. And I thought it would be really fun because some of these stories I've never shared before.

So I thought it would be kind of a fun thing to talk about and kind of go over.

So that's what we're, that's what we're chatting about.

So if you guys are new around here, my husband, Jason and I, we have six kids. We have two sets of twins,

two sets of twin boys. I feel like that's an important detail. So we have seven-year-old twin

boys, five-year-old twin boys, and then our only girl, she's three. And then we have our

baby boy who is five months old. So we've got a very

busy household. And for the past five years, Jason has worked from home helping to run our

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