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Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely.

I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. You can find out more about the podcast at cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.

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Ladies, I'm so excited to be offering an episode this week that's a little bit of a change of pace

and something that a lot of you have been asking for for the last three years. And that's an

interview with a mom who has kids with special needs.

In today's episode, I'm chatting with Nicole Puckett. And she has adopted 10 kids, in addition to

the two that she already had. Her oldest kids are in their 20s. She's been homeschooling forever.

And she's got so much wisdom and hard-earned knowledge that she has to offer that I'm

really excited for you guys to be able to hear the things that she has to say, how Charlotte

Mason has really impacted her mothering even more than her homeschooling. I think it's a really

interesting episode and I hope that a lot of you benefit a lot from it. On that note also,

she really talks about the power

of being able to connect with our kids over story and reading aloud to them and that sort of thing,

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