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Restoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRaising Children Who are Best Friends with Emelie PepitoDo you want to know how to raise children who are best friends? Do you wonder if it's possible to over protect your child? Do you wonder if you are raising an ill-equipped child by over-protecting them? Are you curious about morning time? Are you wanting to improve your morning time?  These are the question that Jennifer and Emelie answer in episode 144 of the Restoration Home Podcast.  This great conversation is made possible by the Peaceful Press! The Peaceful Press supports healthy habits and responsibility by incorporating practical life skills into each day.  ...2025-07-2930 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoVulnerable and Growth Oriented Families with Dr. Nicole WilkeDr. Nicole Wilke joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about raising healthy, whole families with an emphasis on the unique needs and calling of adoption and being the parent an adopted child needs.  It is an incredibly honest, and challenging conversation about the importance of healing, sacrifice, and vulnerability required when we become parents. Enjoy!  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is here!! Purchase your beautiful copy of the brand-new Peaceful Preschool for a year of delightful, hands-on learning.  Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason-styled education? Check out...2025-07-0824 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHabits For a Restored Home With Jennifer PepitoJennifer Pepito is a homeschool mom of 7 with 30 years of homeschool experience, the author of Mothering by the Book, Habits for a Sacred Home, and the founder of the Peaceful Press. At the core of her homeschool ethos is a desire to learn language arts through living literature that inspires the dreamer, the warrior, and the creator in each of our children.  In this episode, Jennifer will be diving into the importance of creating healthy habits which lead to a restored home, as well as sharing some of her own journey in working towards creating a connected f...2025-07-0324 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoGrace and Addictions with Ian Morgan CronIan Morgan Cron, author of Chasing Francis and Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me, joins Jennifer Pepito to discuss his newest book The Fix. It is a beautiful book about healing addictions and the spiritual growth that can be found through the 12 step program.  So often in Christian culture, we are quick to categorise addictions as the painfully obvious like alcohol, porn, food addictions, anger, but co-dependency on our spouses or our children, addiction to control, addiction to negative thinking, to complaining are also addictions. All of these can shroud our lives in a grey weightiness, d...2025-06-1733 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoLive Not by Lies with Emily Wilson HussemEmily Wilson Hussem, author of Sincerely, Stoneheart, joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about the lies plaguing women, why it matters that we carve out quiet time, protect our mothering time from distractions, and learn to walk in the truth of what God says about you.  As women, we have beautiful, fertile imaginations, and it is what allows us to see our children as future doctors, creators, homesteaders, and lovers of God. The downside of the imagination is that it makes us more susceptible to believing lies and meditating on fearful things. Emily and Jennifer both share their st...2025-06-1025 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHomeschooling and AI with Emelie PepitoWe live in a new world of technology with AI or LLMs radically changing the way we access and learn from the web. It is an incredible tool for researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, parents, and your highschooler. However, what are we losing by using it? Are there better or worse ways to interact with it? How is it changing our brains, our childrent's future career opportunities, and what about the environmental impact?  In episode 134, Jennifer and Emelie Pepito dig deep into AI. They talk about how to use AI to enhance your highschoolers education, raising children for a d...2025-05-2026 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoReintroducing: Stability Through Faithfulness with Cindy RollinsThis episode was so good and we are delighted to reintroduce it to our community for those who missed it the first time or are ready to hear it again.  Welcome to episode 90 with Jennifer Pepito and Cindy Rollins.  Cindy Rollins homeschooled her nine children for over 30 years using Charlotte Mason’s timeless ideas. She is the author of Mere Motherhood: Morning Time, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey Toward Sanctification, The Mere Motherhood Newsletters, Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah and Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love. In this episode Jennifer and Ci...2025-05-1323 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCreated to Create with Alexandria SmithSometimes I listen to an episode, and I feel like the entire transcript should be a quote on my fridge. Alexandria Smith, wife, author of The Way Home, homeschooling mother of 5, entrepreneur, and homesteader, joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 133 to talk about why we work, why we create, and why some things aren't that important. And yes, I would like this entire transcript as a quote.  Enjoy!  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Spring is too magical to miss a moment of it! Enjoy the Peaceful Press Spring Guide and Garden Guide for a b...2025-05-0629 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHeartfelt Obedience with Emelie PepitoHeartfelt obedience to God and those in authority over us, is one of the powerful sanctifiers of a believer and joyful obedience is a powerful outcome of our love for Christ. (John 14:15).  But it is scary; the connotation is negative, and many of us are scarred by it, or are so protective of our happiness, dreams, ideal world that obedience at the cost of any of these is an untenable prospect. Even though some broken people have ruined "obedience", this does not give us the right to reject the practice or virtue of obedience in our personal lives. 2025-04-2929 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoSustained Joy with Emelie PepitoThe majority of our life is lived not on the mountain tops or in the harvest, but in the sustained and steadfast toil that tends to the gardens and climbs the mountains. It is in the plodding toil that we are most likely to lose joy, focus, or find our purpose eroded across the grind of every-day reality, decision making, squabbling children, disappointment and loneliness. However, as Christians' steadfast joy is part of our inheritance, if we are willing to lay hold of it.  "Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."2025-04-0824 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoUniquely You with Sally ClarksonWe are delighted to welcome Sally Clarkson back to the Restoration Home Podcast! She is a beloved friend and is joining Jennifer for the third time to share what is near and dear to her heart in this season.  We always love having Sally on as she brings so much intentionality and thoughtfulness as she shares with our community the thoughts and meditations that are near and dear to her heart in this season. We hope that you are blessed and encouraged by the intentionality that Sally Clarkson unfaillingly brings to the mothering journey. Episode s...2025-03-2629 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoProductive and Peaceful with Chelsi JoChelsi Jo Moore, creator of the Systemize Your Life podcast, joins Jennifer Pepito for episode 125! As I have gotten older, I have realised more and more that the best parts of my life come from some automated back process and that having systems gives me time for what I love. But sometimes, knowing what system to create or how to start can be overwhelming! Chelsi Jo has made it her business to help moms maximise productivity through improved efficiency so that more of our mental space is free to connect with our children, build our dream business, or pursue...2025-03-1126 min4:13 Podcast with Jennifer Rothschild4:13 Podcast with Jennifer RothschildCan I Foster a Family Culture of Simplicity? With Jennifer PepitoOur culture has come unhinged from so many timeless values that what was once considered normal and healthy for your home is now countercultural. Habits like eating a meal together, praying as a family, and living a slower-paced life are no longer the norm. So, in this demanding and chaotic world, how do we foster peace, simplicity, and stability for our families? Well, today's guest, Jennifer Pepito, is going to help you establish nine restorative habits and practices in your home that uphold and encourage your family’s values. She’ll give you ways to beco...2025-03-0635 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoLearning Language Arts with Jennifer PepitoJennifer Pepito is a homeschool mom of 7 with 30 years of homeschool experience, the author of Mothering by the Book, Habits for a Sacred Home, and the founder of the Peaceful Press. At the core of her homeschool ethos is a desire to learn language arts through living literature that inspires the dreamer, the warrior, and the creator in each of our children.  Episode 124 dives deeper into Jennifer's principles for learning language arts. She walks you through what she did and how it benefited her children, the science behind learning language arts through a more Charlotte Mason-oriented approach, a...2025-03-0431 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWork, Dreams, and the Goodness of God with Cassandra SpeerCassandra Speer co-author of Ready as You Are, co-creator of Her True Worth, wife, mother, author, homemaker, and student joins Jennifer Pepito for an incredible conversation on pursuing dreams as a mother, letting go of false limitations, and the rest that comes to us when we prioritise the presence of God.  The conversation with Cassandra inspired and encouraged us to dig a little deeper into the Word of God, pursue our dreams, take a phone break, and enjoy our kids. We hope it fills you with hope and provides you with many practical ideas to implement in you...2025-02-2529 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoREPLAY-Raising Children Who Love Work with Emelie PepitoWork is a necessary part of life, and it's not always going to be fun, but we can still raise children who appreciate work and find meaning in it.  Welcome to episode 71! Join Jennifer and Emelie for a practical conversation about what inspires us to work, tips on raising children who enjoy work, turning new skill acquisition into play, healing from lies that you're only enough if you're working, and so much more!   Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! With Spring around the corner check out the Peaceful Press four week Ga...2025-02-1828 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoPeaceful Homes are Possible with KyAnn MolinaKyAnn Molina, the creator of the Simple Rhythms for Busy Moms Podcast joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 122 for a very real conversation about mothering toddlers, bowls of spaghetti flying everywhere, and the pursuit of planning. It's easy to feel like you're the only one going through chaos or incapable of getting a little more order into your life. But you are not alone, and this episode is full of simple, practical steps to increase the peace in your home and reclaim your mind from the freneticness of competing interests. Enjoy!  This podcast is made possible by the P...2025-02-1123 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHigh School Isn't Hard with Emelie PepitoSo often, we feel quite competent homeschooling through elementary school, but when we get to high school, the pressure to produce "adults" and the knowledge bank we think we need to give our children before they graduate is daunting.  It doesn't have to be that way, though. High school is not an impossible hurdle for homeschool families, and there are some easy ways to give your children life skills and confidence that will complement their learning. Join Jennifer and Emelie as they talk about preparation for high school, and what went well.  This great conversation is...2025-02-0425 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Great High School Plan With Jennifer PepitoAt the Peaceful Press, we receive so many questions on how to homeschool your child through high school. High school is the last step before how we taught our children and what we taught them is really tested. Increased requirements and laws governing high school can also make it seem like too bit an endeavour to undertake at home or like our children are going to miss out on an essential part of a high school education. With these additional internal and external pressures, it is easy to abandon a living education and dump our teens into the grind...2025-01-2125 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHappy Moms with Hannah KeeleyYou may not be able to have vision when you're at rock bottom, but you can be grateful. And Grateful will take you far.  Hannah Keeley the relationship coach, author, and speaker joins Jennifer Pepito for a spectacular episode on mom brain, picking up the pieces of the new brain we have post kids, gratefulness, and understanding life from our child's perspective. Our children remember what we create, and as mom's we are powerful curators of our children's experiences. And sometimes that negative or distressing situation you're in is just a blip that you are more than e...2025-01-1428 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoSpecial Episode: Planning Habits of VirtueWe have such a special episode for you here! Jennifer takes you through an hour of step by step habits workshop. It is full of beautiful resources and advice for planning a year of habits that build virtue and order in your home for a more peaceful day to day. So, grab your notebook, take a seat, and enjoy this practical episode. To watch it with the slides, check it out on the Peaceful Press YouTube.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Check out the Homeschool Planner for a great way to stay o...2025-01-0848 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Restorative Year with Jennifer PepitoWelcome to Episode 116. The Restoration Home Community is about to open for a brand new year of habit-building, connection, and virtue development, all within an incredible community of mothers. Weekly activities will be like speaking something lovely over yourself each day and accountability for time tracking to see where we spend most of our time.  Jennifer Pepito is the author of Mothering by the Book, Habits for a Sacred Home, and the founder of the Peaceful Press. Flowing through her work is a deep desire to see mothers live with more margin and peace in their lives, d...2024-12-3122 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWhole Families and Healthy Homes with Shawna HolmanWelcome to episode 115 with Jennifer Pepito and Shawna Holman of a Little Less Toxic. We love talking about our health and well-being, and Shawna brings so much passion and wisdom to the Restoration Home Community with her insight on sustainable changes.  She and Jennifer covered how to make simple food choices, buying less with a focus on quality, detoxifying our homes, and so much more! Without being overwhelmed we can begin to steward our families' health with simple choices that can have such a huge effect on our children's well-being.    This podcast is mad...2024-12-2422 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Family on a Mission with Keith PhillipsWelcome to episode 114! Keith Phillips of Heartland Bunkies joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about family vision and work!  This is challenging but excellent conversation right before Christmas about the role of the patriarchy in modern families, clear leadership, and family mission. There is so much to meditate on and discuss in this episode and we hope it sparks great conversation, thoughtful self-reflection, and leads to greater family mission in the New Year.  This podcast is made possible by the Peaceful Press! With Winter and Winter Holidays around the corner, check out th...2024-12-1835 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoAn Intentional Life with Cleere Cherry ReevesWelcome to episode 113 with Jennifer Pepito and special guest Cleere Cherry Reeves of Cleerely Stated. Cleere and Jennifer talk about declarations, intentional living, creating order, and stewarding the internal atmosphere of our home. This is all about living with margin, ignoring pressures, or could haves or should haves, and prioritising connection over perfection.  Our minds and emotions depend on our words and the stories we allow ourselves to meditate on. We must change our words and our world to better represent the truth of who God says we are and His goodness in our present s...2024-12-1025 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Creative Christmas with Emelie PepitoGrowing up, we would transition from the regular homeschool schedule during December and move towards crafting, Christmas Cookie exchanges, nature walks, and time reading together as a family. We made clay decorations, popcorn balls, and cranberry garlands.  The wonderful thing about creativity and a creative Christmas is it isn't age or time-dependent. You can make orange garlands with your adult children, bath salts with your grandkids, and clay ornaments with your children.  Episode 112 with Emelie and Jennifer is an excellent expose on Pepito's family Christmas, the joys of creativity, and how economical and accessible it ca...2024-12-0324 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRaising Connected Kids with Amy Nyvall"Children are born persons." Charlotte Mason Jennifer has been parenting since the 90s, and she and Scott's research and parenting styles have run the gamut over their 7 children and three decades. The one thing consistent from the early days of strict parenting to more permissive parenting is to focus on building character and connection. One thing that was consistent across all those years and styles of parenting. It was their intense love for their children and their enjoyment of each one as a person. The one thing they learned over all those years is that...2024-11-2647 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoQuiet, Quests, and Christmas with Sarah ClarksonAs we continue to move into the holiday season, Sarah Clarkson joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 110 of the Restoration Home Podcast. We're excited to bring another episode rich with the magic and mores of a peaceful Christmas.  Sarah offers a unique perspective on celebrating Christmas, holiday traditions from the Clarkson home, and bringing different cultures and customs into her family's celebration. Beyond the holidays, she also brings her love and passion for technological boundaries, creating purposeful space in her day, and finding ways to differentiate days for the sake of becoming more aware of ourselves, o...2024-11-1928 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Minimalist's Christmas with Diane BodenMany of my adult friends have an ambivalent relationship with the Christmas season. Why is that? It's often because their mothers were stressed and anxious about achieving a "perfect Christmas."  In a recent discussion, Diane Boden, the creator of the Minimalist Mom's Podcast, joined Jennifer Pepito to talk about how to create a minimalist Christmas. The focus is on planning, creating meaningful moments for your family, and choosing what brings you joy and connection. During the holiday season, there are numerous external pressures—from the vast selection of Christmas decorations at stores like Target to exp...2024-11-1233 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHealthy Holidays with Emelie PepitoThe holiday season is just around the corner, and it's easy to feel overwhelmed, but it doesn't have to be that way! We want to help you create joyful memories for you and your children. Join Jennifer and Emelie for an exciting discussion on how to stay healthy and make the most of this beautiful time of year. Plus, don't miss our insightful chat with Megan Ziegenfus about empowering our daughters to understand hormones! Let's embrace the season with positivity and joy! This great conversation is made possible by the Peaceful Press! With Winter and...2024-11-0542 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoOvercoming Stress with Barb RooseThe wonderful Barb Roose, author of Stronger than Stress: 10 Spiritual Practices to Win the Battle of Overwhelm, joins Jennifer Pepito for episode 107. This hard-hitting episode is all about stress! It is so timely to transition into the holiday season. Barb is full of profound wisdom and helpful insight on stress, what it is, what it isn't, and how to deal with it. As mothers, we can be conduits of Christ-centred peace or agents of chaos. This episode is for you if you are struggling with the latter or want to be more of the former.  T...2024-10-2928 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoMothers Who Never Stop with Sally ClarksonWe are delighted to welcome Sally Clarkson back to the Restoration Home Podcast! She is a dear friend and our first repeat guest on the podcast. She has recently published a new book, Well Lived: Shaping a Legacy of Gratitude and Grace.  Her newest book is a memoir and an inspiration to mothers young and old, new and veteran. She joins Jennifer to talk about living a life of generosity and faithfulness. We often live our lives going from goal post to goal post, waiting until we've "arrived" or we're "done". However, as wives and mothers of fa...2024-10-0832 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoChoosing Joy with Chris and Jennifer CourseyHave you ever wondered what fear was doing to your brain? Are there times when you have felt like you were on a perpetual rollercoaster of hard days? Does it sometimes feel like your days, weeks, months blend together in a cacophony of disappointment, failure, fear, and stress?  Chris and Jennifer Coursey creators of Thrive Today and the 28 Day Joy Challenge join Jennifer Pepito for an incredible and practical conversation about how to create more joy-filled lives.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Are you starting to plan for next year's schooling and lo...2024-10-0132 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWhen Doing it All is Undoing You with Alyssa BethkeAlyssa Bethke, author of When Doing it All is Undoing You, joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about how to avoid burning out in the pursuit of being a great parent. Sometimes we forget that offering our best to our children can only come when we have first taken care of ourselves emotionally, spiritually, and physically. This can feel challenging in the early days of motherhood, but it is so essential to carve out this time for the sake of our children and our family.  This is a beautiful and practical conversation for moms at every stage of p...2024-09-2429 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWhen Homeschooling Feels Hard with Emelie PepitoWhat if homeschooling was hard simply because there were still some areas where past pain continued to steal the joy and whimsy from our present life? And what if taking our precocious, intelligent 4-year-old from preschool to 12th grade, without turning them into "barely interested test takers", was possible? What if everything we thought about education was a myth? What if a little more balance and less stress could have a whole lot of impact?  In this delightful episode 101, Emelie and Jennifer talk about balance, baking bread, homeschooling, how life can steal our joy, why traditional w...2024-09-1725 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Homeschool Mission Statement with Jennifer PepitoWelcome to Episode 99. Join Jennifer Pepito on a solo episode about crafting a homeschool mission statement. There is so much pulling at our attention and every "yes" is a "no" to something else, and every "no" opens up new opportunities to say "yes" to something better for your family down the road. But until we have a clear idea of our values for why we are homeschooling and what we want our family to look like, we can end up saying "yes" and "no" to the wrong things because we get caught up in the emotion or pressure of...2024-09-0323 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoGiving God Our Anxiety for His Peace with Natalie AbbottWelcome to Episode 98. This week's guest, Natalie Abbott, is the co-creator of Dwell Differently. This business has developed an innovative method for memorizing scripture. This episode delves into the founding of Dwell Differently and the importance and power of scripture memorization. Natalie's story is a beautiful reminder of the power of the Word of God. Join Jennifer and Natalie in this beautiful and inspiring conversation about righteousness, living in holiness without judgement, practical living from scripture, and the greatness of God's Word.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Order Jennifer's new book, Habits f...2024-08-2327 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCommunity and Co-ops with Emelie PepitoCommunity is such an important part of our well being and flourishing. In fact the health of your relationships is the number one indicator of your health and happiness. It has also been a lifeline for the Pepito family through their time in Mexico and a mainstay of their approach to parenting. Community doesn't end with our peers, it includes our family, our extended family, and is part of our walk as Christians. Join Jennifer and Emelie as they talk about community, what works and what doesn't, how they built it and why family is so important.  E...2024-08-1624 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Enneagram and Parenting with Beth McCordIn episode 96 of Restoration Home, Jennifer is joined by author of Enneagram for Moms Beth McCord. This episode is all about the joys of raising individuals, how the Enneagram can become a useful tool for understanding your children's unique personalities, and how we can use this personality test to understand ourselves more as well. Jennifer and Beth also dive into the history of the Enneagram, and the facts and fiction that surround it. Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Order Jennifer's new book, Habits for a Sacred Home, and get access to exclusive bonuses.  2024-08-0930 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoGrowing Up Hospitable with Emelie PepitoWelcome to episode 95 of the Restoration Home Podcast.  Join our hosts, Jennifer and Emelie, as they share relatable stories about developing practical skills for hospitality, living overseas, and developing hobbies from the adventures and life skills presented through the Peaceful Press Bundles. Whether you are homeschooling, homesteading, or building your family's sacred home in the suburbs and the precious after-school hours, this episode is excellent for its practical advice and step-by-step guides. It's all about empowering our children with the skills to be great hosts.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Or...2024-08-0224 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoBoys are People Too with Durenda WilsonDurenda Wilson author of Raising Boys to Men and creator of Simply Unhurried and the Durenda Wilson Podcast joins Jennifer Pepito for an incredibly podcast all about boys. This episode is about creating a space and mindset that is hospitable towards our sons. Their mindsets and energy levels, the way in which they are wired, are different from our daughters, different from ourselves and in a society that prioritises soft, social skills the energy and aggression that little boys carry is often misunderstood and punished instead of being channelled and regulated to help our sons thrive in life.  E...2024-07-2623 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHome is the Heart of Learning with Emelie Pepito“Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life” ~ Charlotte Mason Creating a home that is hospitable is closely connected to creating a home that is conducive to learning for our children.  Episode 93 is a conversation between Jennifer and Emelie about the hospitality they have experienced over the years, the way in which hospitality shaped their lives and how we can be hospitable. The home is a powerful place, and how we treat our space, the boundaries we set, and the atmosphere we curate are a significant part of "Peaceful Families and Restored Commu...2024-07-1926 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWhy We Need Boundaries with Tsh OxenreiderTsh Oxenreider creator of the Rule of Life Course joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 92 to talk about how we create a Rule of Life for our families and our children's longing for the fences and borders of Godly structure even when they push against us.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Order Jennifer's new book, Habits for a Sacred Home, and get access to exclusive bonuses.  Are you starting to plan for next year's schooling and looking for homeschooling tips?? Check out the Peaceful Press's free How to Start Homeschooling Booklet.   In th...2024-07-1327 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHow We Learn with Emelie PepitoWhile this episode is focused on homeschooling, it is for anyone who wants to better engage with their children's education, improve the learning atmosphere in their home, and offer their children opportunities to become strong independent thinkers and doers.  Join Jennifer and Emelie Pepito in episode 91 as they discuss everything from the way we set up our home to practical maths. There is so much to education, and whatever curriculum you choose or method you prefer, there are simple steps we can take to make the most of the elementary years.   Episode sponsored by the Pea...2024-07-0524 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoStability Through Faithfulness with Cindy RollinsWelcome to episode 90 with Jennifer Pepito and Cindy Rollins.  Cindy Rollins homeschooled her nine children for over 30 years using Charlotte Mason’s timeless ideas. She is the author of Mere Motherhood: Morning Time, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey Toward Sanctification, The Mere Motherhood Newsletters, Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah and Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love. In this episode Jennifer and Cindy talk about the power of stability for nurturing a connected family. The Restoration Home Community is open for the last time this year! Learn more...2024-06-2923 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWhat Happens at the Dinner Table with Joy ClarksonWelcome to episode 89 with Jennifer Pepito and Joy Clarkson.  Joy is a professor, author, and the daughter of Sally Clarkson. This episode is a wonderful listen as we get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Clarksons lived family life, encouraged critical thinking, enjoyed family time, curated atmosphere, and launched children who were capable of making a difference in the world.  If you're looking for an inspiring summer read, check out Joy's new book, You Are a Tree. Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Order Jennifer's new book, Habits for a Sacred Ho...2024-06-2128 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoDo You Need Social Media for Community with Erin LoechnerA few years ago, Erin Loechner, author of Other Goose and The Opt Out Family, and her family decided to remove social media and opt out of a technologically driven lifestyle. This means having a smartphone that is no more used than a dumb phone, an iPad that can only play scales, and saying no to the digital community in favour of building community amongst your neighbours.  Join Jennifer and Erin in Episode 88 as they dig into what it looks like to walk away from social media, the unexpected benefits, what you might miss, and all you ga...2024-06-1426 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoPlanning a Great Summer with Jennifer PepitoIn this special episode, Jennifer Pepito brings her 26 years of expertise to the table to help you plan, organise, and enjoy your summer months.  From decluttering to planning the perfect summer activities that protect rhythms you built up in the school year, this episode is full of thoughtful insights, advice on how to wrap up the school year, enjoy the summer, and stay on track with your goals. Finally, we are so excited to announce that the Restoration Home Community is opening one more time in June. Join Jennifer for a year of habit building t...2024-06-0722 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoPractical Step to Homeschooling High School with Carrie De FranciscoHome education through elementary is fairly undaunting and highly enjoyable. When high school rolls around, the pressure to socialise children and prepare them for careers, college, and life begins to amp up, and uncertainty about how equipped we are to tackle the job at hand or even if it's a good idea in the first place can weigh us down.  Whether you're considering homeschooling through high school, in the midst of it, or looking for fresh ideas after homeschooling your third child, this episode is a goldmine of practical advice. Carrie De Francisco, a fellow h...2024-05-3124 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoA Good God and a Simple Life with Emelie PepitoSilent to do lists, Pinterest meal pressure, self-care standards, religious pressures, we are surrounded by so many voices putting external pressures on us. The unfinished baseboards, the 400 recipes in your Pinterests food boards, the weights in the corner of your room, the unused gym membership. What if part of a restored life was learning to identify and reduce these clamouring gremlins that are trying to steal our joy and reduce the simplicity of what Christ has called you to in whatever stage of parenting or life you are in?  Join Jennifer and Emelie Pepito in episode 85 as t...2024-05-2426 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoPractical Steps for a Happy Marriage with Emelie PepitoSubmission has become a polarising word. For those of us who were raised under hyper-religious structures in the 80s and 90s, submission was framed in medieval terms. For some, it's one of those things in the Bible, that we simply lay aside as archaic, along with the commandment for women to go outside of the city whilst on their period. For others, it conveys a whole world of hurt and manipulation.  But what is submission, really? Is it necessary? And does it have anything to do with building an orderly, fulfilling, and joy filled marriage? W...2024-05-1027 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoAny House Can Be a Home with Myquillyn SmithInstagram has filled us with images of beautiful homes, and it's such a joy to look at these to be inspired, but at the end of the day, "what do you want children to remember about life in your home"? Is a perfect Instagram house going to build the memories you wnat your children to remember about their youth?  Myquillyn Smith author of The Nesting Place joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 82 to talk about how we build a home. Myquillyn spent many years living in rentals, often waiting for the home of her dreams until she realised th...2024-05-0326 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Fairytale of Perfect Parenting with Angie TolpinAngie Tolpin founder of Courageous Parenting, alongside her husband Isaac, joins Jennifer for an incredible conversation between veteran parents about their learning process, the joy of parenting, the sanctification process, the illusion of perfection, and what our real mission is as parents.  For parents at any stage of their parenting journey, this conversation has something to inspire and instruct.    Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Pre-order Jennifer's new book Habits for a Sacred Home and get access to exclusive bonuses.  Starting to plan for next year's schooling and looking for...2024-04-2632 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Theology of Prayer with Phylicia MasonheimerDo you ever wish you could dig deep into theology while also folding laundry, doing dishes, running errands and living generally?  Phylicia Masonheimer, author of Every Woman a Theologian, does a beautiful job breaking down the theology of prayer for busy moms.  Jennifer and Phylicia cover the different types of prayer, the role of the Psalms in how we pray, and so much more. Phylicia is a wealth of information, and a good friend, and it was wonderful to have her join for Episode 80.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Pre-order Jenni...2024-04-1925 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHow to do Morning Time Prayer for All Ages with Emelie PepitoMorning time is a huge part of the rhythm of the Peaceful Press. It's a daily time set aside each morning to connect as a family, read great literature, but most importantly it's the time where we pray and connect with God as a community and the body of Christ.  But how do we do that, what does it look like?  Jennifer has been doing morning time with her family for 25 years, and she is joined in episode 79 with Emelie Pepito as they talk about their family morning time, what they've learned, and how it's af...2024-04-1222 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoWhat Gardening Teaches Us About Parenting with Christie PurifoyChristie Purifoy author of the Seedtime and Harvest joins Jennifer Pepito for an inspiring conversation on what gardening can teach us about parenting and our prayer life. What does parenting and gardening have in common? So much!    Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Pre-order Jennifer's new book Habits for a Sacred Home and get access to exclusive bonuses.  Starting to plan for next year's schooling and looking for tips on how to homeschool?? Check out the Peaceful Press's free How to Start Homeschooling Booklet.   In this episode– The p...2024-04-0525 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoStories of Prayer with Emelie Pepito“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.” – Teresa of Ávila Welcome to episode 77. Jennifer and Emelie come together to talk about prayer. Prayer is a habit essential to our walk as mothers. We are entrusted with the care of souls, and how can we do that without constant communion with God?  Not only that, but our Christian faith gives us open access to a loving God who speaks to us as individuals and the body of Christ, encourages, exhorts, guides us in our daily decisions, comforts us in our stress a...2024-03-2926 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCommunity, Connection, and Doing Busy with Lyndsey MimnaghLyndsey Mimnagh, founder of the Treehouse Schoolhouse, joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 76 for an in-depth look into doing busy well, the cost of community, as well as the benefit and so much more.    Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Pre-order Jennifer's new book Habits for a Sacred Home and get access to exclusive bonuses.  Starting to plan for next year's schooling and looking for tips on how to homeschool?? Check out the Peaceful Press's free How to Start Homeschooling Booklet.   In this episode– Articulating the vision for connection in educa...2024-03-2325 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Beauty of the Now with Ruth Chou SimonsRuth Chou Simons the creator of Gracelaced and author of books such as GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart and Pilgrim joins Jennifer Pepito for Episode 75.  Ruth dives deep into the many years that went into building her company, the minutes and hours stolen here and there that led to Gracelaced, and the hours of laundry folding that built the deep reservoirs that have gone into her many books and devotionals. After this episode, laundry has never sounded so holy.  Finally, the dreams that God has placed on your heart are not lo...2024-03-1526 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoStewarding Progesterone with Emelie PepitoEpisode 73 marks the beginning of a four week segment on stewardship. Jennifer and Emelie start with the most basic stewardship, our hormones, specifically progesterone!*  Progesterone is the hormone that prepares your body for pregnancy at the end of your cycle. When you have enough of it, you should feel calm and nurtured in the days running up to your cycle. But stress, crowded schedules, busy school loads, and trying to do everything can derail our progesterone production.  Why does this matter? When we don't steward our hormones properly across our cycle, we start using cortisol an...2024-03-0120 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRaising Children Who Love Work with Emelie PepitoWork is a necessary part of life, and it's not always going to be fun, but we can still raise children who appreciate work and find meaning in it.  Welcome to episode 71! Join Jennifer and Emelie for a practical conversation about what inspires us to work, tips on raising children who enjoy work, turning new skill acquisition into play, healing from lies that you're only enough if you're working, and so much more!   Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! With Spring around the corner check out the Peaceful Press four week Ga...2024-02-1628 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHow Does Work Make You Feel with Emelie PepitoHow do you feel when you're doing the dishes, weeding in the garden, working for a paycheck, folding laundry, paying the bills, making dinner for a close friend you're excited to see, or packing for your dream trip? Do you know what these things have in common? They are work. But we have very different feelings associated with each one. Dishes, laundry, weeding are alternately exhausting, relaxing, or frustrating. Making dinner for our close friend or a loved one, packing for a dream holiday, it's exhilirating, fun, and a joy.  In episode 69, Jennifer and Emelie d...2024-02-0226 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoFaith, Friends, and Finishing Well with Sally ClarksonSally Clarkson is a dear friend and long awaited guest of the podcast. Her long years of mothering, and her pursuit of sacred living for mind, body and spirit, has made her an enduring motherhood figure. In episode 67, she joins Jennifer to talk about planting a flag in the ground of your heart that says: from this point forward, I will no longer listen to lies, I will no longer live according to my fears, but according to the goodness of God, and His truth.  There is more than just symbolism to this gesture though. T...2024-01-1924 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHow We Can Save the World with Emelie PepitoIt's the beginning of 2024, and we are opening The Restoration Home Community. We are so excited for this next year of habit building and community.  "Why" you might ask. Well, habits, community, looking your children in the eye, a few more family dinners is about more than a nicer life or happier children, a cleaner house, more time to exercise. These are all parts of building something beautiful and sustaining that can carry ourselves and our families through whatever lies ahead.  In preparation for the community and podcast line up for 2024, Jennifer and Emelie came to...2024-01-0523 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoJennifer Pepito on a Charlotte Mason EducationHow can the principles of a Charlotte Mason education help you love God and create an elevated wholesome family? Charlotte Mason wrote of education, "We allow no separation to grow up between the intellectual and 'spiritual' life of children...". The unity between a child's spiritual growth and their intellectual development has led Jennifer, over the years, to create the Peaceful Press and with her husband, curate a home environment that focuses on "whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report...2023-12-3017 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCrafting Space to Create with Ashlee GaddOne of the values of restoration is creativity. Architecture is creativity, making a budget go farther than you thought is creativity, cooking a beautiful meal, scheduling your day so you have time for what is important to you, and so much more require creative actions. At the root of creativity is "create", which means "to make or bring into existence something new". Creativity is producing something which is not obvious or already there.  While creativity can range from perfecting organization in a small space to a Degas painting, one thing all creative actions have in common is th...2023-12-1322 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCreating a Nature Based Christmas with Lynn SeddonI was recently in San Francisco, and I drove from the airport to Poplar Beach in Half Moon Bay. The change as I moved closer to the ocean, the expanses of green, the hills, the empty space, I could feel myself starting to breathe again. You might not be fortunate enough to live in an area where you can walk barefoot on the beach in December, but no matter what climate you live in, Episode 59 is full of beautiful ways to enjoy and observe the quiet and rest found in nature across the Holiday season.  Lynn Seddon o...2023-12-0225 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoNurturing Marriage with Audrey RoloffWelcome to Episode 58! Jennifer Pepito talks with Audrey Roloff about nurturing marriage and living with vision. They chat about the power of marriage mentors, a written vision, and letters to encourage your spouse. We loved learning about nurturing a marriage in this episode.    Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Check out the Christmas Guide Vol 1 or Vol 2. Use the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide to set aside time to encounter God this holiday season. Check out our newest holiday resource, The Peaceful Press Book Flood! ...2023-11-2523 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoQuestions from the Community with Emelie and JenniferWelcome to Episode 57! Jennifer Pepito and Emelie Pepito answer questions from our Peaceful Press and Restoration Home Community.  They covers ideas for beginner homemakers, applying the Charlotte Mason Education to a stress free holiday season, and much more. We loved your questions and the conversation they inspired in this episode.    Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Check out the Christmas Guide Vol 1 or Vol 2. Use the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide to set aside time to encounter God this holiday season. Check out our newest holiday res...2023-11-1732 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Parenting with Emelie PepitoIn this episode, Jennifer Pepito and Emelie Pepito have a mother-daughter conversation about parenting. As a family, Scott and Jennifer practiced and researched many parenting approaches across 30 years and 7 children. While the parenting methods may have changed, their love for their children, and their intentionality were steadfast.  Episode 55 is a deep, personal, and tender look at what parenting is and isn't and how to seek restoration rather than perfection for ourselves and our children. Finally, you are who your children need and sometimes it's the less-than-perfect areas in our lives that equip our children in ways we m...2023-11-0336 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoPresence Over Perfect with Joy ProutyCameras clicking, children laughing, turkey roasting, presents yet to be wrapped, quietude of "silent night, holy night". The holidays are a magical moment of our year, where we set aside time and energy to celebrate, remember, enjoy, and connect with family and friends. Yet in all that beauty, it's often a time when stress, past hurt, present pain, the desire to create something magical for our spouse, children, loved ones, and dirty laundry can become a monumental practice exacerbating lies we believe about ourselves, God, and our ability to be connect and be present with those who really matter.2023-10-2723 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHow to Do Hard with Abbie HalberstadtAbbie Halberstadt is the author of M is for Mama and Hard is Not the Same as Bad joins Jennifer Pepito for a timely conversation about "hard": hard family relations, hard pasts, hard parenting days, and doing "hard" in a culture that wants easy.   Often we are looking for ways to minimise or fix our life, so that it's simple, organised, smooth, life giving, wholesome, or brings us joy. But there are many hard things we cannot change, like the people we work with, stressful holiday interactions, days when our children are unsettled, bad news. Ab...2023-10-2024 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCreating a Restorative ChristmasAutumn colours are coming into their full beauty, and we're getting close to the Holiday Season! So, join Jennifer Pepito for a beautiful work along on how to plan and enjoy the Holiday Season in a way that brings restoration, peace, and pure joy. In Ep. 52, Jennifer leads you through her Holiday Planner to create a simple, and enjoyable game plan to take the stress out of the holidays. Finally, in the second part of the episode, Jennifer takes us deep into her own story of seeing God restore experiences from childhood that continued to bring up...2023-10-1320 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCrafting Celebration with Emelie PepitoMeltdowns around the Christmas tree or heart melting home scenes? Christmas carolling, and a long winter evening with your family, or shuttling, and bustling from place to place?  Why do we celebrate, what do we celebrate, how do we celebrate?  When God gave the Israelites feasts, He gave them whys and hows. As a family, Jennifer and Scott Pepito spent time as their family grew and changed to create intentional sacred holidays that fueled family connection, time with God, and life giving rythms.  Join Jennifer and Emelie for another mother-daughter conversation about traditions, rhy...2023-09-2920 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoBe Brave, be Bold, be Humble: Restoring Our Families with Rachel G. ScottFailure can breed in us a deep despondency, disappointment, and become a breeding ground for lies about our identity, the goodness of God, our authority, and the possibility for us to try again to achieve a seemingly impossible dream.  But God. Be brave, be bold, and be humble.  Rachel G. Scott, author and podcaster, joins Jennifer Pepito for a beautiful conversation about dissapointment, heartache, and the beauty of falling into the hands of a good God and Father when we have come to the place where our world is beyond our control and we've "failed".  ...2023-09-2322 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Celebration of the Jewish Feasts with Sarah RuthCelebrations and traditions are ways we connect and remember the goodness of God in our lives. For all of time, cultures have built feasts and parties around significant events. As Christians, many of us find profound enjoyment and beauty in celebrations like Easter and Christmas as we remember Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection. And then we have cultural holidays, like Thanksgiving in America or Guy Fawkes in the UK. Most of us have family traditions we celebrate, and the memories and celebrations of our youth have a profound impact on us. From early on Jennifer and he...2023-09-0822 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Peaceful Teacher: Managing Your HomeschoolWith school starting, we start to see more and more queries at the Peaceful Press about how much is enough. Enthusiastic moms and concerned moms want to be sure they are doing the utmost for their child's future well-being and education.  In Episode 46 we have Durenda Wilson of the Durenda Wilson Podcast join Jennifer Pepito to talk about manage home schooling. What is too much, what is enough, what are the objectives we're looking for? Maybe providing an education is simpler than we think, if we're willing to stop and engage our children's curiosity, questions, exploration, and b...2023-09-0224 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoManaging Our Resources for a Peaceful Home with Crystal PaineWelcome 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, life changes, and all that the rest of 2023 holds.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!! Looking for ways to celebrate and en...2023-08-2628 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoDream BigWelcome 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 adherence to a family rule for the sake of restoration, connection, and wholeness. In all of this, let's dream big about what family, motherhood, and our personal lives might look like. ...2023-08-1121 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoFaithfulness not OutcomesIn 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 behaviour, holiness is when we've allowed ourselves to be sanctified from the inside out, nothing hidden, nothing broken.  Episode 42 is an incredible conversation between Jennifer and Emelie ab...2023-08-0521 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoJennifer’s Guide to Creating a Daily RoutineDo 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 strategies for making sure that we feel less steamrolled at the end of the day. Yet, sometimes no matter how meticulously we planned, a day still takes us. On those...2023-07-2221 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCreating a Family RuleFor 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?  Join Jennifer and Emelie for the beginning of a four part series on the "how to" of creating a family rule. This is one of my favourite conversations as we talked about o...2023-07-0721 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoOrder, Orderly, Ordered: What is it really?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.  In this episode, Emelie and Jennifer hit all sorts of delicious topics like what is patriarchy, matriarchy? How has control of what life should look like,  instead of order...2023-06-2319 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoHealing Order: The Role of Connection and Humility in Building Orderly HomesHave 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 on and react to past perversions of holy virtues. They discuss the role of humility and repentance in bringing restoration to generations s...2023-06-0922 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoCreating Summer RhythmsEpisode 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 garden? Listen for some great tips and resources to bring some rebalance in your summer months.  Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! 2023-05-2720 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Pursuit of BalanceWelcome 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 working on grace but forgetting about righteousness? Balance is usually what happens when we stay in step with Christ, because he is looking to bring us into relationship with himself and not another form of religion...2023-05-1226 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoStewarding the Woman: Health, Hormones, and WholenessIn 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 make us feel like no one is there for us in hard times, it becomes even more difficult to engage our external world in a way that helps balance our hormones. Responsibility isn't a chore its a priviledge but in...2023-04-2823 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoGrace and Grit: Raising Children in a Prayer CommunityWelcome 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 join us in this episode of the Restoration Home.  In this episode– Where is grace, discipline and identity in raising children The importance of corporate prayer and community The grace of God...2023-03-2521 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Discipline of Simplicity in EducationWelcome to the first episode on Simplicity!! This episode is a wonderful insight into Jennifer's homeschooling experience, and the vision that birthed the Peaceful Press. Join Emelie and Jennifer as they discuss their experiences learning and teaching, and how we can simplify our homeschooling for maximum impact and connection. More is not always better, and the Peaceful Press ethos is that a strong foundation built on fundamentals and parental atunement and connection will set your children up to thrive academically and emotionally, in whatever they pursue.  In this episode– The academic essentials from Emelie and Jennifer's exp...2023-02-1022 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoStability and Honour: A Return to BasicsWelcome to episode 14 of Restoration Home! Jennifer and Carole Joy Seid, at Homeschool Made Simple, talk about stability through honouring the covenant we make to our community, and through honouring one another.  This is a great and real conversation about the joy and duty of being a wife and mother, with stories from the life of the amazing Ruth Bell Graham and Jennifer's pursuit of stability through a healthy prioritised marriage. We discuss- How as wives and mothers, when we honour our spouses, it creates stability for our children  Ruth Bell Graham and how her honour of...2023-01-2026 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoThe Path Toward StabilityEpisode 13 is an introduction to 4 weeks on the spiritual discipline of stability. Join Jennifer and Emelie as they talk about how rhythms, grieving, forgiveness, and being rooted in Christ can provide stability for ourselves and our families day to day, and in times of external chaos and instability.  In this episode– How undealt with trauma can cause us to enlarge small stress out of scope of reality Forgiveness and grieving in healing trama so we can be  grounded and at rest despite what's going on around us The role of parents in providing stability  Seeking God by Es...2023-01-1421 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoPlanning the New Year: A SpecialWelcome to episode 11! In this episode, we're taking a break from hospitality to talk about processing and planning for the New Year. Emelie and Jennifer talk about their practice of reflection, prayer, and soaking that goes into creating dreams and goals for every unique, God ordained New Year.  New Years Resources– Free Peaceful Life Workshop for New Year Planning Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito A Peaceful Planner  The Peaceful Loop: A Mom's Mentorship Group Check out the Chore and Routine Cards at the Peaceful Press for more ways to build routine and habits in your...2022-12-3023 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoEpisode 8 Imperfect Community and Growing in GraceWelcome to Episode 8 of Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito and Elizabeth Santelmann of the "Sunshine in My Nest" Podcast. This is a beautiful episode about imperfect community, how we navigate disappointment when our community fails, and God's grace as we continue in the pursuit of growth and righteousness as families, individuals and community. Community is where we see God's grace play out, and where we are refined, it is not a replacement for God.  We discuss- How we need community but what to do when our community is less than perfect How we engage in community a...2022-12-0926 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoEpisode 7 Community and the Ways We’re Building ItIn this episode of Restoration Home, Jennifer and Emelie discuss how community shapes us, and the purposes we share when we're developing it.  We discuss- The motivations behind the community we're forming Crafting a community that is more than just play or downtime Building community that includes a role for children  How our strengths are essential in building the meaningful community we crave Steps towards creating a cohesive community The Peaceful Press Family Vision Sheet Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram Yo...2022-12-0225 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoEpisode 6 Being CommunityWelcome to Episode 6 of Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito and Anna Symonds of "Fill Your House with Books". The episode covers how we learn to heal feeling unwanted when we continually initiate community. As we learn to heal the lies that hold us in isolation, we enjoy the fruits of community, and it allows us the privilege of bringing others into deeper and more meaningful community. As always, you become like the people you abide with.  We discuss- Breaking the lie that I'm not wanted or enough in order to build the  community and belonging we lo...2022-11-2523 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoEpisode 5 The Structure of Community and Christmas GatheringsIn this episode of Restoration Home, Jennifer Pepito talks with Emelie Pepito about how we craft community and steward family time in the holidays. We talk about the values that guide our community, and how working together builds lasting relationships.   "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25 We discuss- The structure and cost of craft...2022-11-1822 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoEpisode 4 Work RedefinedIn this episode of Restoration Home, Jennifer Pepito talks with McKenzy Winkler of the Little Farm Folk Podcast about what motivates us to take on work.  "I believe the world will be saved by beauty.” Fyodor Dostoevsky We discuss- Choosing a lifestyle of work for a greater end goal Giving children the gift of a work ethic and ingenuity  Balancing work and play by redefining rest for the season you are in  Letting go of fear that holds us back from effective work Grit by Angela Duckworth Mary's Nest  MIGardener Priscilla Shirer of Going Beyond M...2022-11-1122 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home Episode 3In this episode of Restoration Home, Jennifer Pepito talks with Emelie Pepito about the role of work in transforming culture with examples taken from Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery. We discuss- The theme of work in Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery and how ownership affects work Work as a holy mandate that goes beyond the result  Defining boundaries and appreciating the value in every job  The Benedictine Rule You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- ...2022-11-0421 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home Episode 2In this episode of Restoration Home, Jennifer Pepito talks with Kristin Dahman about the power of prioritisation in our work for transforming culture. We discuss- Jennifer hauling giant boulders  Work ethic and what inspires us to keep going, Managing work through prioritisation The season you're in and the work for that time You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Kristin here- Kristin's Instagram For way’s to organise your work check out the Peaceful Press Planner or buy the hard cop...2022-10-2821 minRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home with Jennifer PepitoRestoration Home Episode 1In this episode of Restoration Home, Jennifer Pepito talks with Emelie Pepito about the power of work for transforming culture and the examples taken from the Little Britches series by Ralph Moody.  We discuss- The importance of mentors Finding joy in our work Creating rhythms of work and celebration The Benedictine Rule You can learn more about Jennifer here- Jennifer's Instagram You can learn more about Emelie here- Emelie's Instagram   Read the Little Britches series while studying American History with this resource. The Pl...2022-10-1921 min