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Monday Motivation #13 | The Homemaker's Second Brain: Chore Charts that Work for You Jan 13, 2025

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It’s January 13, how are your new year’s homemaking resolutions going? Many of us use the new year, post holiday season as an opportunity to overhaul our systems and try out new schedules in an effort to streamline and improve our homemaking. Have you considered creating chore charts for yourself? Chore charts can serve as a second homemaking brain for us.
In today's Monday Motivation, I'll share the benefits of chore charts or regular maintenance schedules and 4 practical steps to organizing all of your household to-do's into a manageable schedule.
This content originally appeared in AoH newsletter, Homemaker Happy Mail, October 6, 2023.

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Homemaking Deep Dive | Bible Study Jan 08, 2025

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Many of you are considering, perhaps even have begun a read through the Bible challenge for the year and that is awesome. But maybe you are feeling a little hesitant, dare I say resistant to the idea of committing to regular Bible reading and study. Whether it’s because you’re feeling overwhelmed, under equipped or because Bible study seems unrealistic or irrelevant to your current season, this episode is for you.
I hope that through this conversation you will see the unending riches that are waiting for you in the Word of God and that it is accessible and applicable to your experience as a woman, a wife, a mom, and a homemaker.

Episode Links & Notes
Connect with Belinda & Amber
Confident Weakness Ministries Website
Habakuk Study Begins February 11, 2025, register on their website
New Podcast, Conversations in the Psalms on Apple, on Spotify
Recommended Resources

Enduring Word, David Guzik
Charles Spurgeon
Warren Wiersbe, great for beginners
Bible Hub, for original language meaning
Blue Letter Bible App, has study aids and commentary
Bible Ref App, gives context and commentary for books and individual verses

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Monday Motivation #12 | Ready, Set, REST Jan 06, 2025

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Happy Monday and Happy New Year, Homemakers! Welcome to Season 23 and the kickoff of another year on the Art of Home Podcast.
As we all launch in to a new year with new dreams and ideas for our homemaking, let me encourage you to begin from a place of rest. Today’s Monday Motivation originally appeared in our newsletter, Homemaker Happy Mail, February 3, 2023.
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS
Strangely Bright; Can You Love God and Enjoy This World? by Joe Rigney
Scripture:
John 15:4-5
Mary & Martha, Luke 10:38-42
Think About It Questions:

How do you practice regular weekly, daily and seasonal times of rest?
If this is a challenging area for you, take some time to think and pray about why. What changes can you make to your mindset, your expectations and your schedule to incorporate consistent rest into your rhythm of life?

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Holiday Homemaking 2024 | Week 5 Dec 11, 2024

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Merry Christmas, Homemakers! In this episode newbie homemaker, Jillian Johnson, tells us what it’s like celebrating not just with a new husband, but in a new country. This year, she’ll be having her 3rd Christmas in Scotland after growing up in Canada. Elizabeth Ours, mom of 10, has some great ideas to share for a large family Christmas. We also touch on what can be a sensitive or even contentious subject, Santa Claus. Elizabeth shares how and why she and her husband recently chose to take Santa out of their celebrations, while I give my thoughts on the place St. Nick holds in our family traditions.
In Holiday Homemaker Hints, I’m talking about gifting subscriptions and experiences as well as my top gift wrap tips, then Jan Roueche and Jenna Punke-Bendt round out the episode with their Christmas memories. It’s going to be another great hour full of Christmas ideas, inspiration, recipes, memories and encouragement.

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Recipes & Resources Companion Blog Post (coming soon)

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Holiday Homemaking 2024 | Week 4 Dec 04, 2024

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In today's episode you will hear Christmas memories, tips and recipes from Bethany Kimsey, Jen Thayer, Maryela Soto-Portillo, Jenny Crozier, and Christa Sterken. In Holiday Homemaking Hints I'm sharing gift ideas for book lovers, sports lovers, bird lovers, music lovers, and sewing enthusiasts on your list.
I also check the mailbag and answer a text sent by a listener who lost her love of cooking and baking after being diagnosed with celiac disease. I share my favorite resources and a few tips for gluten free baking.
We've got a full 90 minutes of holiday cheer coming your way! Enjoy!!
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS:

Recipes & Resources Companion Blog Post (coming soon!)

Mail Bag

Holiday Stories of Home

Maryela, cookies around the world book: A World of Cookies for Santa

Poem:
Weems, Ann.“Lord, You Were Born.” Kneeling in Bethlehem, The Westminster Press, 1980, pp. 28-29.

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Holiday Homemaking 2024 | Week 3 Nov 20, 2024

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In today's episode you will hear Christmas memories, tips and recipes from Lydia Goode, Anna Murphy, Amanda Turk, Brittany Duncan and Cathy Bauer. I'm sharing my life-changing Christmas prep for this year as well as lots of ideas for gifts you can make in your kitchen and in your sewing room.
There's a lot of holiday goodness coming your way in the next 80 minutes. Enjoy!
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

Recipes & Resources Companion Blog Post (coming soon!)

Allison's Update Notes

Allison' s Spice Mix Recipes

Poem:
Weems, Ann.“This Year Will Be Different.” Kneeling in Bethlehem, The Westminster Press, 1980, pp. 65-66.

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Holiday Homemaking 2024 | Week 2 Nov 13, 2024

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In this Holiday Homemaking episode, I am featuring the Christmas memories, tips and recipes from Carrie Parker, Kerita Fuller, LeAnne Stadler, Darah Rogers and Alecia Doty.
In Holiday Homemaking Hints, I’m sticking with the 2024 gifting theme and will be sharing lots of stocking stuffer inspiration. After I give a little history on the legendary origin of Christmas stockings, I'll give you stocking stuffer ideas for foodies, kids, babies, teens and adults.
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS
Recipes & Resources Companion Blog Post (coming soon!)
Poem:
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Christmas Carol," from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922.) Public Domain.

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Holiday Homemaking 2024 | Week 1 Nov 06, 2024

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This first installment of Holiday Homemaking 2024 is a little different than past episodes. The first half of the episode is a mini deep dive on Advent with wife, mom, homemaker and author, Donna Amidon. She shares how her family practice of decorating a Jesse Tree throughout Advent transformed their celebration of Christmas and led to her new book, Tracing His Promise.

Then we jump into familiar Holiday Homemaking territory with Amanda Faucett's and Holly Tompkins' holiday stories of home, some holiday poetry and some tips from me on coordinating family or group gift giving.

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS
Connect with Donna Amidon
Website | Instagram
Advent Book:
Tracing His Promise: Understanding the Bigger Story of Jesus and What That Means for Us

Gift Apps

Santa Surveys on Etsy

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Monday Motivation #11 | Stress-Free Party Planning Oct 28, 2024

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As we head into the holiday season, many of you may be considering hosting opportunities that the season brings. Maybe you plan to host your first Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve dinner or perhaps a fun holiday themed party, or maybe, like our family, you have a few birthdays to celebrate this time of year. Whatever type of gathering you are hosting the difference between a happy hostess and a frazzled hostess is planning and prepping ahead.

Join us for some motivating ideas for stress-free party planning and prep. I'm also sharing some of your feedback in today's mailbag segment.
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS
Give your feedback for the Mailbag! Use the One-Way Text Link above ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Halloween Tracts to Hand Out:

Heidi Lee Anderson Ministries , Printable PDF, instant download, print as many as you need, $2.99
Crossway, "A Pumpkin Tale" Halloween Handouts, physical product, pack of 25 for $4.25
Etsy, Printable "Let Jesus Light Your Way" Tag for glow sticks , digital file, $5
Etsy, Pumpkin Prayer Flipping Craft Card, digital file, $3.99

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Homemaker Double Portrait | Jillian Johnson & Anna Murphy Oct 23, 2024

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First, I am chatting with ANOTHER Scottish homemaker, Jillian Johnson. Technically, she was raised in Canada by Scottish parents, she moved to Belfast, Ireland for midwifery school where she met a dashing Scottish medical student who was raised in England. They got married, had a baby, and now make their home in Scotland. We have the most delightful conversation about Jillian’s experience as a newbie homemaker, wife and mom. I adore her sense of humor and found myself smiling and laughing all over again as I did the editing of her segment.
Then I chat with Anna Murphy who stayed home for about 5 years with her daughter then taught school for 12 years before returning home full time in 2020. The Lord really changed Anna’s perspective about the importance of homemaking to draw her back home just in time for those crucial years of helping her teen daughter see the value in homemaking. With both of these ladies, we cover all the usual territory of strengths, weaknesses, expectations, fails, wins, resources and more.
In Allison's Update, I'm sharing my favorite Fall music and news about Holiday Homemaking 2024!
EPISODE LINKS & NOTES
Allison's Update

Connect with Anna Murphy
Instagram @annadesalvomurphy
Rawlings, Marjorie. "It Isn't Work." Songs of a Housewife, edited by Roger L Tarr, University Press of Florida, 1997. p. 106.

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