Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement. And I am just so glad

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hello my friends, how are you today? This is Sally Clarkson with Add Home with Sally and friends,

and I am so happy to be spending this time with you. I am in the UK in England and I am

staying with my wonderful precious Sarah, my first born daughter, who just had her baby almost a

month ago, Samuel, and I am spending so much time with her having fun, being with her husband,

and enjoying life as a grandma. And I, of course, have been changing diapers, rocking babies,

playing little legos and reading books, and making food and getting no sleep. And so I had a

lot of you all in mind during the past few weeks thinking, wow, how did I ever do this? And oh my

goodness, I really need to pray for my friends. But anyway, I just want to say hello and how glad I

am to be back. And of course, I don't even know if I'll be able to finish this podcast today because

like you, my life lately has been a time of constant interruptions. And we are looking forward to

taking an outing this afternoon. The hardest thing about being a mom in England in the winter time

is that there are lots of storms and it's too cold to go out and it rains a lot and there's cloudy days.

So we have tried to make outings, something that happens every single day, whether it's gathering

treasures out in the grassy fields or whether it's picking a flower for mom collecting berries,

going for a walk to a cafe that's about 25 minutes away from here by walking, whatever we need to do

to help the day pass at a good pace. So I'm sure that many of you understand that sort of life

in your own life. Of course, now one of the things that I'm experiencing most fully is that I

am more patient than I was when I first started out. When I first started out in this incredible

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