Girlfriends, episode number 323.

Ideas to help you savor Summer.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends.

I'm Danielle Bean.

I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman

so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living.

Summer is on its way, ready or not. I've got some

ideas to share to help you to savor the season. Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you for being here. Always happy to connect with you here. So this

week, we are talking about summertime because here it is. Ready or not? And we moms, I think we have kind of like a love,

hate relationship with the summer season for moms whose kids go to school. This is a switch in routine where your

kids are going to be home all day every day, and that comes with its own blessings and burdens,

as we all too well know. Also, if you homeschool, then this changes your circumstances and

usually your daily schedule as well. But usually there's a switch in routines. And sometimes that's a little bit

challenging for us as moms. But I think that it's really helpful to kind of have a plan

going into the summer season. And in the past, I remember as a homeschooler all these years,

summertime was like, I was just so glad to put books away and kind of be done with that.

And I kind of didn't want much of a schedule or routine or something that was going to

restrict me or the kids in any way.

So I kind of moved away from that.

But there were some years where I did that probably too much.

And the kids had no routine and nobody had chores and that kind of thing.

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