Katrina’s reading challenge starts today, and while the overachiever in me wants to list twenty books of Staggering Literary Merit, the realist in me knows that, at the beginning of the year, I set some reading goals that were FAR too ambitious.

Because I don’t know if y’all know this, but reading takes time.

So here’s my plan for the challenge: I’m going to pick five books off of my already existing list and commit to those books for the fall.

There you have it.

If you’d like to join the challenge, just click on the picture at the top of this post, and you’ll find all the information you need.

Happy reading, y’all!

This post by JMom at Lots of Scotts is great food for thought.

And this post by Kathryn at Daring Young Mom has pictures of some great food. Though that’s really not the point. Because it’ll make you think, too.

You may notice a theme of TIME MANAGEMENT in these posts.

So they hit me right where I’m living.

I’m just sayin’.

Myrna is organizing a bloggy Bible study (A Woman’s Heart: God’s Dwelling Place by Beth Moore) for this fall. If you’re interested in participating, you can find all the details here.

Myrna’s also giving away five copies of the workbook that will be used in this study, and you can find information about the giveaway here. The drawing for the workbooks closes Thursday, August 30th, so you still have plenty of time to sign up.

Have a great Sunday afternoon, everybody!

SWEET. FANCY. MOSES.

And just know that Big Mama and I deeply apologize for how anti-climactic this is going to be for y’all. I mean, we’re totally prepared for the fact that we may one day refer to this initial podcast attempt as a Terribly Unfortunate Experiment.

But if you’d like to follow along as we talk about fall fashion, you can find the article here.

And we really will get some theme music soon. Along with some better editing skills. Rome wasn’t built in a day, people. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

You can listen on the blog here:

Subscribe to RSS feed here.

You can download the mp3 here.

You should be able to subscribe via iTunes in a day or two – it’s “under review.” I was actually able to download it into my iTunes via the RSS feed page, but I have no idea how I did it.

As always, I am a tremendous resource for technical support information.

And let me just clarify: we love us some capri pants. We DO. I just don’t want to wear them to the event I mentioned because 1) I wore them the last time I went to a conference and 2) it’ll be the beginning of fall. I just want a little wardrobe change, you understand. But capri pants are our friends.

That is all.

– Y’all know that I love me some Nichole Nordeman because, well, she’s been my pretend-BFF for about seven years now. We’ve been through a LOT together, even if she doesn’t know about, well, any of it.

A few weeks ago someone told me about an article Nichole Nordeman wrote, but I only recently got around to reading it. It’s a really insightful look at the role image plays in the Christian music business, and I thought you internets might enjoy it. There’s a neat story from Chris Tomlin in there, too.

– Is anyone else watching “Design Star” on HGTV? And if so, have you been as disappointed in it as I have been? I mean, I know it’s just a reality show, but I feel like they’re eliminating people right and left, speeding up the process to the point where I don’t have a sense of who any of the contestants are.

ATTENTION, HGTV: SOME OF YOUR VIEWERS ARE RELATIONAL.

Like, for instance, me.

And, um, hello? They haven’t done any projects that I’ve thought were terribly attractive (with the exception of what they did with the loft’s dining room on episode one). On the whole, it’s just been a pretty eh television experience.

This saddens me.

– Monk & Neagle are in Nashville tonight with Bebo Norman and Shane & Shane – then in Atlanta this Sunday night (and in South Carolina in between).

Just a friendly reminder because I care about you and your musical well-being.

And by the way, Shane and Shane have the koolest website evir. Unless you’re on dial-up, in which case their website will become your sworn interweb enemy. But it’s all new, and it’s well worth a visit to hear clips of their new songs. Oh-so-good.

I can already tell that my favorite song off their new CD is going to be “Beg.” In case you were wondering.

– All righty. I believe that’s all. I just needed for y’all to know these things. Rightthissecond.

I can only imagine how much your day will be improved by my completely unnecessary sense of information urgency.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

My sweet friend Shannon launched another fab blog a couple of weeks ago. The new blog is called Bloggy Giveaways, and it’s dedicated to sharing great products with the internets. There’s a new giveaway every few days, and all you have to do to win is follow some simple commenting instructions.

What I love the most is that the giveaways come from companies of all sizes. It’s a great concept for everyone involved: readers get a chance to win free stuff, and businesses get a chance to promote their products in a fun environment.

So while I’m working on churning out yay, even more mediocre content for your reading ambivalence, be sure to check out Bloggy Giveaways. There’s all kinds of bloggity goodness over there.