Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

Welcome to Episode 45! Crystal Paine of the Money Saving Mom joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about creating a peaceful home. Drawing from her most recent book, Crystal walks us through her personal four P's: prayer, priorities, planning and prepping.  It's a beautiful episode that continues our theme of self, home, and life management as we continue to transition into a new season, school starting,...

Welcome to Episode 44, a new series on Managing the many aspects of becoming a restoration family. Jennifer and Emelie talk about the importance of managing our emotions and not burdening our children with big emotions. Many of you felt like you had to parent your parents, but you can stop the cycle.  It’s okay to process out loud, but always leave your children with a hopeful statement like, “mom...

Welcome to Episode 43. Jennifer Pepito and good friend Rachel Kovac have an engaging and light conversation about the joy and ease of experimenting and creating family rhythm. Rachel brings a beautiful perspective on the opportunities provided by homeschooling and the fun of figuring out a family rhythm.  We can experiment, mix it up, find what brings us joy, vary it by seasons, and still have an...

In our family, Emelie's journey with anorexia was the first indicator that having a Family Rule did not create a 1+1=2 journey. In some seasons, your family rules, and the boundaries and stability we put into place to foster godly, joy filled children will look like it's failing. But is the family rule failing, or is God too good to allow "goodness" to replace "holiness".  Goodness is simply good...

Have you ever wondered what makes a great family? We have too. It's easy to wonder who has the secret, or what formula produces a happy, holy family. But maybe it isn't like that, maybe parenting is many paths to creating connected families. Maybe it's simple.  Join Jennifer and Ginny Yurich of the podcast and movement 1000 Hours Outside for an incredible discussion about creating family rule arou...

Do you ever have golden dreams for how your homeschool day will go, but feel like you're constantly ending it weary and disappointed in another day that was overwhelming, chaotic, too full, or simply lacked any sort of order? If you can resonate with any of that, then episode 40 is perfect for you. Jennifer takes you through planning a daily rhythm and highlights resources, systems, ideas, and str...

Building a rule of life is about the practical culmination of the last 10 months into a vision board for how to take what you're learning, and make it your own. A huge part of the ongoing struggle we face in doing so is comparison and becoming sidetracked by other people's "spaces". Or maybe you're building a family vision and you're not being sidetracked by other people, but you are making a plan...

For the last 9 months of the Restoration Home Podcast, we have explored the disciplines of hospitality, order, prayer, stability and much more. We have loved having these conversations and understanding the way embracing them through enjoyment of God rather than religion can encourage restoration in our lives, our families and into our community. But with all this information, where do we go next?...

Whether your child is 3, 5, 9, 13 or 17, you are probably already confronted with, "But Sally gets to stay up late, eat this, do that, go here, fill in the blank." And I'm sure your response has ranged across permissive, mature, and full on authoritarian as you wage the war of parenthood against the world to raise children whose young and growing minds are protected, nurtured, strengthened and pre...

Two episodes ago, Jennifer and Emelie talked about how Order has become something often associated with control . Control often comes from a broken place, as we try to make our world and environment safe, familiar, and unchanging. Or if our parents were orderly, bordering on control, we shy away from order because it felt like manipulation and fear.  But Godly order is worship of an orderly God. ...

Join Jennifer and Mary DeMuth author of Love, Pray Listen , as they talk about how our internal order has more to do with our children's order than our ability to manage well or enforce outward order. This grows with a willingness to pursue our identity in Christ and let him be our all in all, so that when the day comes, and our children leave the nest and begin making their own decisions, we aren...

Have you seen something or experienced the corruption of a godly principle, virtue, or idea that created a lot of pain in your life? Maybe it affected a friend of family member. Is it a pain that is still sitting with you and making it hard to find balance and order in certain areas of your life?  In this episode, Emelie and Jennifer introduce the discipline of order to talk about the ways we hold...

Join Jennifer and Katie Westenberg, author of the book, But Then She Remembered, for Ep. 33. The conversation begins with doom scrolling, what it is and why we are doing it. Doom scrolling, worry, fear for our loved ones, it's so easy to paint these things with a brush of validity. We validate why we allow fear, distraction, and worry to govern so much of our attention. If that sounds familiar to...

Episode 32 is a solo episode with Jennifer Pepito, founder of The Peaceful Press and author of "Mothering by the Book". This episode is Part III of the Discipline of Balance. How can we use summer to help us have a Restored Home? Summer is a great time to rest, repair and grow. Do you want to be a little more organised, learn a new skill, finally clean out a junk drawer, get some rest, dig a garde...

Welcome to Episode 31! Jennifer and Carrie of Take Heart Special Moms talk about the challenges of homeschooling and carrying for special needs children. Whether you have a special needs child or not, this is a beautiful conversation about leaning into God, acknowledging that life is outside of our control, and finding balance, not burdensome rules in what it looks like to homeschool, mother, and...

Welcome to episode 30! Jennifer and Emelie discuss the role of balance in our spiritual, personal, and homeschool walk. Balance is not something we often think about when we're looking at spiritual disciplines. Think about it as understanding the season you're in. Are you in a season where you're really pursuing righteousness? Well, is it tempered by an acknowledgement of God's grace? Are you work...

Join Jennifer and Rebecca of the Momlitics Podcast and The Primrose Patriot as they discuss stewarding a child's innocence and their age appropriate exposure to ideas, concepts, and concerns. Episode 28 is a great dialogue about the challenges we face to live with hope and raise children in a secure but not sterile environment. Young children can sense both our fear and distress, so it's not just...

In this episode, Jennifer and Emelie talk about what it looks like to steward our physical and mental well-being. As women, our hormonal cycles and our ability to be emotionally calm are inter connected. Our hormones are balanced through feeling cared for during estrogen production (follicular phase) and feeling mutual companionship during our progesterone (luteal phase). When past experiences mak...

Episode 27 is a wonderful interview with Leah Boden, author of Modern Miss Mason . Jennifer and Leah talk about the process of stewarding a vision of education that encompasses the whole child. They discuss the role of Charlotte Mason in an education that is story and narrative based. Charlotte Mason education isn't about reading as many books or cramming as much information into our children as p...

Episode 26, Jennifer and Emelie begin the four weeks of stewardship, with a conversation about stewarding the emotions in our home. As always, it starts with us when it comes to restoration, and this is a great conversation about the ways we contribute to stewarding peace or chaos.   In this episode– Identifying where your emotions coming from and thinking before you react Taking care of your need...

Steven Lawson, creator of the Monk Manual and Life Atlas, joins us for the final episode on Prayer. Steven created the Monk Manual as a daily journal to foster being and doing. As Christians on the quest of restoration, the process of being still is part of our prayer life. It also undergirds our parenting, our relationships, and the impact we have on the world. Episode 25 is an incredible look at...

When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, one of the first things He did was set up traditions that they were to observe as a community. These were meant to help them remember what God had done, and give them rest and times of celebration. As we approach Passover, join us for a special episode with Avital Schreiber Levy of HiFam. The following conversation is a challenging and insightful look...

Welcome to episode 23 of Restoration Home. This is the third episode on the Discipline of Prayer. Jennifer and Emelie dive into prayer, but also growing a spiritual life within a community and raising Godly children with grace and discipline. They talk about some of their great failures and successes in the Pepito Home. Finally, prayer lived out requires community, and we're excited to have you jo...

Welcome to episode 22 of Restoration Home. Jennifer and Kris talk about prayer and how to develop a restorative prayer life in the midst of the chaos of day to day life. Life also changes as children grow up, and our illusion of control shifts from fixing a bandaged knee to watching our teenagers drive away for the first time, and truly realising that God alone is in control. Prayer is meditation...

Welcome to episode 21 of Restoration Home. Jennifer and Emelie talk about the pursuit of prayer in our Christian walk. We are mandated to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) but prayer is more than the formulas we pray before eating. Prayer is an ongoing continuous conversation with a loving God who wants to be in communication with us. In this conversation, we talk about how to expan...