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.

Hi everyone, this is Sally Clarkson and I am so happy that you are with me today and I just can't wait to tell you about a friend I have with me today.

Her name is Jamie Martin. Hi Jamie. Hi Sally, thanks for having me.

Oh my goodness, I am so excited about this book and I really meant it a minute ago when we were talking and I told you that I wish I had written this book.

I just think this is going to be such an amazing podcast and so interesting to all my friends.

But Jamie, tell us a little bit about yourself. Sure, well I began blogging about 10 years ago.

I had a blog called Steady Mom and then about a year after that I began a blog in partnership with Tish Oxen Rider of the Art of Simple, called Simple Homeschool.

And I've been running that blog now for almost 10 years which is so hard to believe because when I started it my kids were super tiny and I just can't believe that I really had anything to say to other Homeschooling moms since I was really figuring it out from my life.

But yes, but now they are 15 my kids are 15 14 and 13 so it's just a completely different life season and we have three children.

My husband Steve and I have been married for 20 years. My oldest and youngest we adopted internationally my daughter from India and my son from Liberia West Africa.

And then we have a biological son as well. Wow, so you are there they're so close in age. I'm sure that's interesting too.

Interesting and probably good and has it some difficulties as well.

Yes, it hit we hit each phase like really hard and really all in and then as quickly as one arrives it seems like one leaves and then it's like, whoa what happened.

So we are definitely in the early the early teenage phase which has been really fun so far.

Oh, I'm so glad. Well, tell us the name of your new book and I just can't wait to talk to you about this because I wish I'd had it my whole life actually.

Thank you for saying that I wish I'd had it to I think it would have made such a difference for me.

It's called Introverted Mom Your Guide to More Calm Less Guilt and Quiet Joy.

And what I'm trying to do with the book is just to make moms aware of their personalities so that if they are introverts they'll begin to understand how that factors into the way that they mother and also the way that things

do in motherhood because I think without that understanding we wrestle with a lot of guilt and frustration and even anger and things that you know episodes that we look back at and we're like, wait, who was that that wasn't me that person shouting or screaming or

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