Hey everyone. This is Dorenda Wilson. Welcome to this week's podcast. You might know me already,

but if you don't, I'm married to Daryl and we have eight kids ages 14 to 27.

We've been homeschooling over 23 years.

And this is one of my favorite places to be.

And that is to be encouraging homeschooling families.

And so I'm really grateful to be here today.

I have a very special guest.

I love one of the things I like to do is to

answer questions from moms and do podcasts with topics and content that matter to you. And I

recently received a message from a mom who wondered if I had any experience with international

adoption. Now, I don't personally have that experience.

I have a friend who has gone through it. And my guest today has adopted five children through

an international adoption experience. And we're going to be talking about that here in just a

minute when I introduced her. The reason that I wanted to cover this topic is I wanted, first of all,

to encourage those who are thinking about it, praying about it, feeling led to do it, who are in

the process, who are maybe in that part where you're bringing the children home and trying to adapt to life at

home with these new children.

And the second reason was to help those of us who aren't going through the process,

but maybe we know someone who is so that we can be more knowledgeable about the process and what these families

are experiencing so that we can provide effective prayer support and just be able to not just

prayer support, but practical help as well. But before I dive into that, I want to let you all

know that the mentoring course that I do,

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