Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend to deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to my podcast. I am very glad that you were joining me here. As we are heading into the month of December. December has not gone quite the way

that we had anticipated yet, which is actually what I was going to talk about on the podcast

tonight. We're going to talk about Christmas traditions. I had a great thing to chat about

when things don't really go the way you want, especially with Christmas and just wanting

to make special memories for your family. However, we're not doing that episode tonight. I will do

that next week because we have had a bit of a rough week around here. And so we are, I'm just

changing up the schedule a little bit to let you know. So this last week,

my two-year-old smashed his toe and needed several stitches. And it was actually a really,

really deep cut. And he's doing great. Praise the Lord that it wasn't worse. But he has,

as you can understand, he's had a rough go of it this week. It's been tough on him. It's been a week now since he hurt his toe. And only today did he start walking on it and putting weight on it. So it's been a rough week for him. And then midway through the week, he came down with a fever. And our family's been dealing with

this weird sickness, which hasn't really been a super hard sickness. Praise the Lord. But the fevers

and throwing up have just been kind of cycling through. And I have felt the worst for the two-year-old

because he has his poor toe and has a fever. And then my three-month-old got the fever, which, you know,

was always scary when they're little. Thankfully, his fever broke. He's fine. I'm very glad it wasn't

like a coughing sickness or anything like that for him. He just had a fever for about 24 hours,

and he's doing good now. But we also had been wrapping up our cookbook launch and doing

final details on that. And so it has been an absolute ringer of a week for us around here.

And so I am taking the night off and I'm not going to do the episode that I was planning. So all of that to say,

plans just don't always go the way that we want. And we actually, because of that, we didn't

get to do this really fun Christmas thing that we had wanted to, this really cool light

ceremony thing that they do here. And it's just, it's not been like the week that I envisioned. And that's okay. And tomorrow's

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