This is the Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 52.

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. Hey ladies, it is Jimmy Belmay, and I am back here with a really fun bonus episode.

So I was going to take these two weeks surrounding Christmas off of the podcast because we are

actually working on recording and getting ahead for January so that we have consistent podcasts coming out every single week through January, February, and March.

And that is what we're currently working on.

But Jason and I started getting this idea this week to do a 2017 Christian Reading Challenge.

And it has turned into this whole big thing. And I'm really,

really excited. So that's what I'm here today to talk about. I really worked my booty off

this week to get this up because I wanted to give you plenty of time. And I wish I'd gotten this up

earlier in January. But I wanted to give you plenty of time to get I wish I'd gotten this up earlier in January, but I wanted to

give you plenty of time to get into this, order your books, figure out what you're going to read

for 2017 before January's here. And I'm going to talk about this in a second, but if you

are listening to this any other time throughout the year, you can just jump right in. So if we're halfway through January

and you're finally listening to this, great. Jump in wherever you are. If it's April, then just jump

into the books listed for April. Jump in whenever. Don't feel like, oh, I'm already two weeks

behind, so I'm not going to be able to keep up on this. Just ignore the couple books we've already

gone through. And you can jump right in. So I want to

encourage you in that to follow along whenever. So I am really excited about this. I don't have any

other announcements other than if you happen to catch this the couple days before Christmas,

then I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas and that you have

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