Girlfriends, episode number 85, keeping the Lord's Day holy.

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. This week we're talking about taking time off when you need to,

starting school and how to keep the Lord's Day holy. It's time to get started. Here we go.

Hey, girlfriends, how are you? I'm back and I missed you guys. Thank you for being patient with me when I took some time off last week. I really had every intention of recording episode

85 last week on Monday, and it just did not happen. I have had, as I'm sure you have, so many different

things pulling me in so many different directions these days, and I had an extra project with my

work for the magazines that I publish, and it just, I mean, it just piled and piled, and all of a sudden

I realized I'm feeling super stressed about getting this podcast done. And I realized how ironic that is because I'm always here preaching to you guys about how to prioritize, how to balance, how to take time off when you need to making time for yourself all of that how to say no right so i was like

okay i'm going to just um preach with my example right now and i'm going to not record an episode this

week which is hard for me because it's actually the first time i've done that like without it being

planned like i took time off, a week off over the

holidays last year and whatnot. But I really, it's important to me to be consistent with the podcast.

So it's important to me to connect with you on a regular basis. So anyway, I appreciate your

understanding. And some of you sent me little notes, which was sweet saying, I'm so proud of you

for doing that. So I felt affirmed. And it really was the right thing to proud of you for doing that so I felt affirmed and it really was the

right thing to do because even with doing that I just had a crazy start of the week last week and

that's okay some weeks are like that and especially this time of year I bet you're feeling it

whatever's going on in your life this is a time of year that just things change and school starts and big kids come and go and all of that's going on.

So, yeah, the previous episode I had talked to you about, so this was two weeks ago, giving yourself some emotional space to kind of process things if you know you're going through something.

And I felt like I was with my boys leaving

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