Hey moms. Welcome to this episode of the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I am Dorenda, wife to one,

mom to eight, Nana to nine, and 26-year veteran homeschooling mom.

Well, you can probably tell maybe a little bit in my voice today that I have been sick.

It finally happened.

I finally got the nameless flu.

Yeah, I've been in bed for about, oh, eight days. I'm slowly emerging a little bit at a time, but as most of you know, if you've had this, that it's not necessarily a quick

recovery. And so that came right on the heels of just starting to feel better after,

you know, just dealing with some hormonal stuff. And most of you kind of know my story a little bit

that this season of life has been challenging for me in that way. So yeah, I did not see that coming, but here I am.

And I am thankful that God has graciously given me the energy to come and talk with you today.

I may have to take a little coughing break every now and then, but I'm here. I want to encourage you.

I hope you all are enjoying the podcast and you're sharing it with your friends. If you have

someone that you think might be encouraged by this podcast, please tell them about it.

And if you have time to leave a

one or two sentence review from wherever you listen from, that's also super helpful. Because what

happens is the system, it's just set up this way that when you have, you know, lots of reviews

and things like that and feedback from the listeners that it pushes

the podcast out to more moms in front of them, you know, so that they see it when they might

not have otherwise. And really, that's what we want, right? We just want moms to be encouraged.

That's the point of all of this. But again, welcome. I am so thankful that you decided to join me today. It's

going to be a pretty short podcast. I'm going to be talking about simple ways to sweeten your marriage.

Now, I know that you all are great wives and you get the wife thing, but you know know sometimes it just doesn't hurt to be reminded

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