Hey everyone. This is Dorinda Wilson. Welcome to this week's podcast. If you don't know me already, I'm married to Daryl. We have eight kids, ages 13 to 27. We have four grandkids, and we've been homeschooling for over 28 years. No, 23 years. I've been married for 28 years.

So today's podcast is brought to you by my simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling, the Unhurried homeschooler. You can check that out on

Amazon. It's also brought to you by teaching textbooks, a math curriculum that our family has used

for years. So today, I have got my green tea, and I am beyond excited to have Sarah McKenzie from Read

A Loud Revival joining us today. Welcome.

Dorinda, I am so happy to be here. Thank you for having me. I am thrilled that you're here.

And in a few minutes, I'm going to tell how we met because that's a really funny story.

If you don't know Sarah already, which I'm sure a lot of you already do, she is the author

of both the Read Aloud family, make meaningful connections with your kids, and teaching from

rest, a homeschooler's guide to unshakable peace. On the immensely popular Read Aloud Revival

podcast, she helps families all over the world make meaningful and lasting connections with their kids through books.

She lives in the Northwest with her husband Andrew and their six kids where she loves to make sure they are well stocked and the best books she can find.

I love that. That is awesome. You know, that teaching from rest, oh, I, that guy,

a guide to unshakable piece. I love that. And I love so many of the things you have to say in there.

And I'm going to actually talk about that again in a little bit. But your oldest daughter,

Audrey, and my daughter, Johanna, were attending some homeschool classes together.

It was like five or six years ago. And our daughter told me that she wanted to get together with Audrey.

She kept telling you about this Audrey girl. She's like, I love her. She's so much fun. We're just really connecting and all these things.

She just enjoyed her so much. But the timing never worked out because I was planning our two oldest

daughter's weddings, which were five months apart. And you were pregnant with twins.

Right? We had a little bit on our plate, I think.

So we never actually saw each other face to face. Okay, fast forward a couple of years later,

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