Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin are the only daughters of Geoffrey and Victoria Botkin. They and their five brothers share their family’s vision for cultural reformation, and enjoy working with their father on projects affecting family, church, and state. They delight in discovering new things every day about the beauty and power of the biblical home and family unit, and in investigating the glorious and diverse opportunities open to young women at home. At 21 and 19 years of age respectively, their interests include film making, orchestral harp, history, music theory and composition, theology, studying speech and deportment, the reconstruction of the West, hospitality, classical piano, the persecuted church, and home-making. Anna Sofia and Elizabeth will be joined by their wonderful mother, Victoria, as they share about the biblical vision for daughters at home. Their session from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (CST) will include a lot of Q&A, and participants will have the opportunity both to submit questions ahead of time and during the live event.

From the first days of her marriage, Kim Brenneman has studied to be a better wife, a better homemaker, a better cook, a better gardener, and a better mother. As a young married mom, she spent hours gleaning wisdom from her mother, her mother-in-law, and her grandmother. Kim is the first to say that she is not more qualified than many other mothers are: "I have much to learn. However, I do like to teach others about what I have learned, and I enjoy writing it down for my daughters." She desires to help answer the question, “How do you do it?” From how to vacuum to putting on a tea party, landscaping and vegetable gardening to canning tomatoes, sewing on a button to sewing a skirt or Colonial costume, managing the minutes and days, teaching babies through hormonal high school, she’s ready to tackle it all. Her first advice is always to “Pray for wisdom without ceasing!” Kim is wife to Matt and mother to Brandt, Brock, Bridgette, BriAnne, Brooke, Brian, Bronwyn, and Brielle. She spends her days cooking, cleaning, gardening, sewing, teaching, writing, and tackling the never-ending mountain of laundry. To read some of Kim’s writing, visit Large Family Logistics. Kim will speak from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (CST) on "Homemaking 101," giving help to those new to homemaking and others serving "in the trenches" and in need of some encouragement and practical know-how.

Lydia Sherman is the wife of Stanley Sherman, mother of seven, and grandmother of three. She and her daughter, Lillibeth Humphrey, have spent years encouraging their sisters in Christ through hospitality, ministry through their church, and loving work done at home. Mrs. Sherman is well known to readers of the LAF website as "Lady Lydia," offering the wisdom and encouragement of a Titus 2 mentor through her warmly written articles and beautiful pictures. She also writes regularly for her own blog, The Homeliving Helper. Lillibeth is a stay-at-home mother of three boys whose life demonstrates that young women can be brought up to embrace purity and joyful obedience instead of rebellion and apathy. Mrs. Sherman and her daughter will give a session from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (CST) on why teenage rebellion is not inevitable and how to train children (daughters especially) to love and embrace serving others and achieving excellence in the home and local community.

Brought up in a Christian home and taught by her parents, Jennie Chancey turned away from home and hearth while in college and embraced feminism. After a two-year-long reality check, she repented of her folly and returned wholeheartedly to biblical womanhood. Married to Matthew, Jennie is the mother of seven children and thoroughly enjoys her home calling and all it entails. She edits LAF and enjoys writing in her "spare" time. She has also run a successful home business for ten years, selling patterns through her Sense & Sensibility website. Jennie doesn't "do it all" and is always happy to remind women that Superwoman is a myth and that "having it all" is another way of saying we have our priorities out of wack. Jennie loves to encourage women to pursue excellence at home without sacrificing joy along the way. Mrs. Chancey will open the conference at 10 a.m. (CST) with a talk on the "Visionary Homemaker."

Jennifer McBride is a happy, busy wife and mother. She and her husband, Steve, have been blessed with five children--Catherine, William, Isabelle, Emma and Samuel--ages 5 years to 10 months. As the eldest of eight homeschooled children, Jennifer was very much raised to view the role of a homemaker as an honorable and Scriptural one. Over the last several years, however, she has come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the incredible importance of that role, and of the beauty, power and nobility of a God-honoring home and family life. Having found such delight in learning these things, Jennifer and her husband (in their sparest of spare moments!) maintain two websites where they compile many of the materials that have been an encouragement and help to them as they seek to raise their little ones for the Lord. The first, Old Paths, is dedicated to encouraging a return to the "old paths" of Scripture and the Biblical pattern for raising a godly family. The second, Noble Womanhood, is devoted to reclaiming the nobility of the home and the lost arts of homemaking. In addition to rocking her baby and reading, both to herself and to her little ones, Jennifer loves writing, sewing, studying home management, ever learning how to be a better wife and mother... and a good cup of tea! Mrs. McBride will give an inspiring session from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (CST) on how to run a household with many young children without losing your mind or your vision!

• 10:00 a.m. (CST) ~ Opening Session: "Gaining Vision: Why full-time homemaking isn't about high heels and pearls" (Jennie Chancey)
• 11:00 a.m. ~ Two Breakout Sessions (running concurrently): "Homemaking 101: Help! How did my grandmother know how to do all this stuff?" (Kim Brenneman) and "For Busy Moms of Little Ones: How to avoid growing weary in well-doing" (Jennifer McBride)
• 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ~ Break
• 1:00 p.m. ~ Two Breakout Sessions (running concurrently): "Training daughters to be competent and visionary keepers at home" (The Botkin ladies)and "Why teenage rebellion isn't inevitable and how you can avoid it" (Lydia Sherman and Lillibeth Humphrey)
• All sessions will include Q&A time at the end where participants can submit questions for the speakers to answer audibly, and we've added a BONUS Q&A session at 2 p.m. for those who'd like to stick around and ask any unanswered questions!