Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 28.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and today we're finally back after a little break.

I'm excited to share a beautiful story by Elsie Ayuticello and a heartfelt interview with Jennifer Naraki,

plus some fun announcements.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started.

Let's get started. This past September, we held our national conference in Franklin, Tennessee, with over 850 mamas from all over the country

to celebrate the all-important endeavor of educating our children at home.

It was truly heart-filling to be in a room with so many like-minded mamas,

each on our own homeschool path, but all of us following our hearts and celebrating the beautiful journey that connects us all.

It was an incredible

time of friendship, food, music, and fun. If you're a monthly subscriber, we've posted all of the

conference talks on the member site, so be sure to check those out. You can listen to all our

amazing presenters, Leah Bowden, Sally Clarkson, Jody Mockaby, Jennifer Pepito, and Terry Woods, just to name a few.

And if you're not a subscriber, you can easily join and get all of the conference audio plus access to our monthly content bundles, a monthly magazine, and so much more.

To sign up, visit bewildenfree.org slash bundles.

Well, friends, the American Thanksgiving is this coming week, and I've spent the past few days

thinking a lot about what I want the holidays to look like in the memories of my children.

I've thought about my dad making his annual springerly cookies and the scent of anise drifting

through the house, and and I thought a lot

about my mother who passed away five years ago when I was a little girl my mother was a home nurse

she visited shut-ins young people with AIDS and HIV and elderly people with no one to care for

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