It's a new school year and if this is a year that you want to make meaningful and lasting

connections with your kids through books, then RAR Premium is the place for you. I'm Sarah

McKenzie and RAR Premium is my online community where you'll find family book clubs that help

your whole family fall in love with books and circle with Sarah,

my mentoring program for homeschool moms that helps you become the peace-filled, joyful mama

you're called to be. Head to rar premium.com to find out more and to join us.

We can pretend we don't need peace. We can pretend like, well, peace isn't possible because we've got like appointments we're late for, co-op homework, kids can't find books, somebody's crying. A teenager's definitely not getting out of bed and it's really late in the day. A toddler is teething. And we can say like my life isn't going to be peaceful right now, but it kind of like trying to run a car without gas. You actually need it. You need peace,

and it was promised to you. So that's what we're going to talk about.

Hello. Hello, hello, Sarah McKenzie here, and this is the Read Aloud Revival podcast, the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books.

Now, peace sounds lovely, right? But what does it actually look like

in the midst of a real homeschool life? In the midst of a real chaotic homeschool day.

So many of us have this question. So last month in Circle with Sarah, which is my mentoring program

for homeschool moms that lives

inside of RAR Premium, we had a Circle with Sarah retreat.

And the theme was maintaining peace in your homeschool.

Because this is what so many of us want more than anything else.

More than anything else in our homeschools, we want to maintain peace.

Now, the retreat was four sessions, and we walked through practical tips for how to let go

of guilt, how to hold on to peace, what to do when your day doesn't go as planned, which is basically

every hour of every day. Today on the podcast, I wanted to share the first session of that retreat with you,

because we all long for peace, but it often feels unattainable. Well, in this first session of the

retreat, I hope you find encouragement for maintaining peace in the everyday, very ordinary, real-life rhythms of homeschooling.

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