Hf #324: My Quarter 1 Reading Reviews & Updates

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

My reading time has fluxuated greatly in the past year. And after only hitting 50% of my reading goal in 2020, I knew I wanted to really dive back into better reading habits this year. And so far, I'm smashing my reading goals and have formed some new habits. In this episode, I'm going to share some reviews for 10 of the books I've read so far this year (out of 33) and then share what has been helping me this year in reading more. Let's dive in! Listen to the Podcast: And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. What's helping me this year compared to last: Getting excited about reading again! I bought some new books to get excited and its helping me work through old ones Going back to reading 1 chapter of a non fiction book a day: currently working through a beastly systematic theology doing this. Setting an easier goal so I feel excited when I break it instead of just feeling supppper behind. Making it habit to listen through audiobooks again in nooks and crannies. My favorite books read so far this year: You can follow me over on Goodreads to keep up to date on what I'm reading. But here's some of our favs! As a family we are currently reading through the Chronicles of Narnia. This is our first time reading the whole series with all the kids and we are going through it very slowly when we have travel days! We are also on book #1 of the Wingfeather Saga as a family and are really enjoying it. Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley- 4 star Awaking Wonder by Sally Clarkson - 3 starts Why Children Matter by Douglas Wilson - 4 star - I listened to this for free with the Canon Press app free trial. Hooked - 2 star The Common Rule: Habits for Purpose for an Age of Distraction - 3 star The Household and the War for the Cosmos - 4 star - I listened to this for free with the Canon Press app free trial. A Heart Set Free: A Journey to Hope Through the Psalms of Lament - 3.5 stars Eve in Exile: and The Restoration of Femininity - 5 stars - I listened to this for free with the Canon Press app free trial. The Self Sufficient Backyard - 5 stars (I purchased it from their website) Before Jerusalem Fell - 5 stars Comparison Girl - 5 stars Meal Planning Help for Eating Healthy: I am really excited to share with you the sponsor of today’s podcast episode: PrepDish! If you ever feel like you wish you had a little help in your meal planning, then I highly encourage you to check out PrepDish. They offer gluten-free meal plans and paleo meal plans. But you don’t have to eat a gluten-free or paleo diet in order to take advantage of all that PrepDish has to offer! In fact, almost half of their customers don’t eat those diets. The meals are healthy and non-processed and work well for anyone who is trying to eat a healthy diet. And PrepDish is offering a super special TWO week free trail when you sign up through this link (how awesome!!) When you sign up, you’ll receive an email every week with a grocery list and instructions for prepping your meals ahead of time. After only 1-3 hours of prepping on the weekend, you’ll have all of your meals ready for the entire week. I absolutely love how easy they make it. Free TWO week trial of PrepDish

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0:00.0	This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 324.
0:06.4	Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and
0:11.9	encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home. And now your host from youngwifesguide.com,
0:18.0	Jamie Belmay. Hey, ladies, welcome back to my podcast. Today we're going to be talking about reading, which
0:26.5	of course, as many of you know, is one of my favorite topics to talk about. I'm going to be
0:31.1	talking about my quarter one reading for 2021. I have been smashing my reading goal this year, and I have been really, really enjoying it.
0:42.3	So I'm going to be talking about what I'm doing differently this year compared to last year,
0:46.0	where I utterly failed my reading goal, which is okay. Last year was a really busy year for us.
0:52.1	And so I'm going to talk about what has been helping me this
0:54.6	year and my favorite books that I have been reading and as a family that we have been reading
0:59.9	all of this year so far and kind of what's up next for my reading for quarter number two.
1:07.5	So we're going to dive into all of that. But first, I want to give a huge thank you
1:11.4	and shout out to our sponsor for today's episode, PrepDish. I have been working with PrepDish for
1:16.2	years. And if you need help with meal planning, prep dish really is the go-to way to do it because
1:21.9	they make it super simple and super easy. And you guys know that I am all about healthy eating,
1:27.4	taking care of our
1:28.3	families, you know, working on healthy eating is just good for everything, for all areas of life.
1:34.8	But healthy eating can also be really overwhelming, right? Taking out processed foods, getting better
1:39.8	ingredients, learning how to cook, better well-rounded meals when you are already really busy and overwhelmed
1:45.2	can be really tough. And so that's where I feel like prep dish comes to the rescue because you can
1:51.0	make prep dish, you can make meal planning faster than ever and still be making really healthy
1:56.7	meals or learning how to cook healthy for the first time. I remember, I don't know, nine years ago
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