What We've Got Planned For Summer - S4, E35
Finding Joy in Your Home
Jami Balmet
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Summer is here—and whether your days are relaxed or full of activities, it’s never too late to think intentionally about how you’ll spend the season. In this episode, I share what our summer looks like as a homeschooling family of ten: from low-budget camping trips and local state park adventures to reading challenges and kid-led passion projects.
You’ll hear how we’re managing screen time, why we’re embracing a slower pace this year, and what kinds of creative learning (and fun!) our kids are diving into—like gardening, cookbook creation, and even a homemade audio drama! This episode is packed with ideas and encouragement to help you craft a summer rhythm that works for your unique family and season.
Whether your summer is bustling or quiet, I hope this gives you inspiration and freedom to make the most of it without pressure.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:12.5 | Hey, friends, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. Very excited to talk about this topic today. It's one that I have had requested a bunch |
| 0:21.4 | in the last few weeks, and I'm finally just now having the time to sit down and do this episode. |
| 0:26.3 | So for some of you, you're well into your summer plans. That's okay. There's still plenty of |
| 0:30.3 | summer left to chat about this. Some of you are noticing that we are back having our podcast |
| 0:36.7 | here on video. We have taken a very extended |
| 0:39.7 | break from having it on video because, as you can imagine, moving into the RV and all of the, |
| 0:45.8 | well, having a baby and then all of the different moving that we have done this year has just |
| 0:50.1 | made it really hard to figure out the consistent way to get the video done because the video is |
| 0:54.6 | so much harder than just being able to be in my pajamas and record a quick podcast episode. |
| 0:59.8 | So we are back here trying to make the video consistent again. You'll notice this is not like |
| 1:05.5 | the most professional setup we have here. We're going to, Jason's going to play with it for next week to kind of get us a better |
| 1:12.9 | setup. But today he was starting to try to get it set up and he promised that he was going to |
| 1:17.0 | take the kids down swimming and everybody was in their swimsuits ready to go waiting. And I was like, |
| 1:21.3 | you know what? We'll just video like this. Next week we'll try to kind of get a better setup so I don't have to sit here and hold the microphone. |
| 1:31.9 | So we are back, though. I know a lot of you have been missing being able to have the podcast over on YouTube. And so we're back to getting that done, which a very huge thank you to Jason |
| 1:37.4 | because I was like, I think we need to figure out getting the video back. And he's like, |
| 1:42.3 | oh, I know. It just is so much more work. |
| 1:44.8 | Like, on the back end, it is a lot. It's more than double the amount of time for Jason to also |
| 1:50.0 | do the video portion. So thank you, Jason. Any of you who are, who like to watch the video |
| 1:55.4 | portion, let's give a huge thank you to Jason. I mean, really for the whole podcast too, |
| 1:59.5 | because he does it all. I take half an hour to record and then he does the rest. Okay, so today's episode is coming |
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