This is the Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 54.

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, welcome to the very first episode of 2017.

I am so excited to start this new year.

And you're going to see over the coming weeks,

I have got some really fun stuff planned for the podcast and also for my brand new video

podcast that I've got over on my YouTube channel. You can find links for all of this in the show notes for

today. But today, we're going to be talking about one of my very favorite subjects, which is

picking a word for your year. So we're going to talk about picking a word for 2017. And I'm really excited because

this is a really fun topic that just gets me really excited. So I hope you guys are ready to dive in.

And really quick, before we jump in, I just want to make sure that you know about my 2017

Christian Reading Challenge for women.

We talked about the reading challenge in the last two podcast episodes.

We have a reading challenge for women and then a companion reading challenge for men

that you can go through with your husbands.

And so it's just an awesome, awesome challenge.

We have so many people going through this challenge with us. We're just

getting started. We're just getting kicked off here in January. If you're listening to this

any time during this year or next year, you can always jump in, pick up the challenge any

month you want. But January, obviously, is a great time to get started. And I have already been talking about it a ton this

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