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Hey you guys, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast. Today is Friday. It is the fourth of January and today we're going to be talking a little bit about priorities and I'm going to take a bit of a homeschool slant.

So if you're a homeschool mom who's weary or just a mom who's surrounded with a lot of kids and you're weary and you need a little heart reset, stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Well I hope you guys had a wonderful holiday season. I am a routine girl. So I like to get back into routine. I'm looking forward to getting into routine.

I actually think my kids are looking forward to it also. And in an effort to do that, I thought, you know, I'm going to take several of the letters that I've received over the past couple of months that have to do with homeschooling and burnout and how to get all things done.

You know, all the things that you want to get done done in a day. And I'm going to take a little bit of encouragement from a book I wrote several years ago called the busy homeschool moms guide today light.

So even if you're not homeschooling, I think this will encourage you because what works for a homeschool mom also works for a mom who's not homeschooling because guess what.

God's priorities are still they still apply they apply whether you're homeschooling or whether you're not, but I want to just give a little bit of extra love to the homeschool moms out there who listening because I know after 27 years of experience with this that January can be a very frustrating time.

And I can remember very clearly coming into January and trying to get back into routine and trying to get the kids back on the homeschool train and get myself and my and my, you know, my head and my heart, my mind back into it only to feel like I was already behind and already tired from the get go.

So if that's you and you're kind of nodding your head or maybe you're quietly crying into your pillow right now. I've been there. I understand. So this episode really is all about that and I might go ahead and carry it over to mailbox Monday.

Depending on whether or not I feel like I get those questions answered before I get started today a couple things that are coming up that I want you to know about.

First of all, the team and I are heading to Abilene, Texas for the Heidi St. John conference. We are very excited about that. We will be there on January 19th. So if you're anywhere near Abilene, come on out. I'm telling you what it's a day that will encourage and bless you.

We're going to be walking very closely with each other that day through the word of God talking about God's heart for you as it applies to your parenting and your mothering.

But we're going to go even deeper than that and say what is our role in the culture right now. What does God define it to be? And so I think you're going to be encouraged. You can bring your mom, your sister, your cousins, your Bible study group. You don't have to be a mom to enjoy this. I think that you'll be blessed by it.

So that's the 19th of January in Abilene. You can find out more information at the show notes today or at Heidi St. John dot com forward slash events tickets are still on sale and they're only $40 a piece and they include lunch for a whole day. So it's absolutely worth it.

Come on down and join me and my family and the staff of Mom Stronger International. We're looking forward to seeing you the weekend after that. I'll be in Kusbe, Oregon for Miracle worker, the life changing power of following Jesus cannot wait to see you there.

I love Kusbe because one of my favorite people in the whole world lives there. So we are very excited about that event also. And one more thing I thought I would just go ahead and give you a little bit of a preview. You guys have heard me talk about essential oils here on the podcast. Well, I'm getting ready to do another class.

We're calling it I can be well and it's a class about spiritual and emotional and physical wellness. So for an entire week, January 15 through the 21st me and several of the leaders from a young living team as well as my friend, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, who's been on the show with me before I know a lot of you guys really appreciated her.

She's coming back and she's going to be helping me teach some classes with with our staff about how to use essential oils, but we're going to go beyond that and I will be teaching particularly about intimacy and marriage and we're going to be talking about anxiety and weight loss and all kinds of things.

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