This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 160.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Welcome, ladies, to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast. This is Jamie Belmay. Welcome, ladies, to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast.

This is Jamie Belmay, your host, and I am ready and excited to dig in to the topic we're

talking about today.

I am going to be doing kind of a mid-year update, although it's September.

So we're just going to pretend this is like July, and I'm doing a mid-year update. But I wanted to. So we're just can't pretend this is like July and I'm

doing a mid-year update. But I wanted to kind of hop in and do an update on my word of the year

for 2018 and where I'm at and what I'm looking at as I head into the rest of this year into

2019. I've kind of been reflecting back this year on my word on this year. And I've also been

trying to think of my word for 2019, which I'll talk about also in this episode. And so I thought

this would be a really, really good time because we're kind of in a time of transition with

several things going on that I'll share about as well. And this is a good

time to reflect back on that. And I want to give you guys some motivation to start thinking about

your word or your theme or just things you want to work on in 2019. And this is something I've been

doing every year for several years now is picking a word for my year, which kind of

translates into my theme for the year, and I always have a few things under that that I'm working on.

And it helps me be so focused. And my word for this year was refresh, and I think it's definitely

helped to have that focus on refreshment. And I've got five different

areas I've been working on. And we're just going to go through those today. And some of these

five points I've done really good on in a couple of them, I have not at all. So you're going to get a

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