You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 16.

Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama,

who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalais Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches

of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting

it all done.

I'm your host, Brandy Vensel.

You can find me at Afterthoughts, that's my main blog.

And also teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my line of printable phonics

lessons. I'm here today with both of the other Scalae sisters, Pam Barnhill and Misty Winkler.

Pam is an author, speaker, blogger at Pam Barnhill.com, and you'll probably recognize her

from her two popular podcasts, homeschool snapshots, and your morning basket. Misty is a second

generation homeschooler with five kids and a love for projects. She writes about feeding a family

at simplified pantry, about homeschooling

and homemaking at simply convivial, and about organizing attitudes at simplified organization.

This episode is sponsored by the art of homeschooling. It's the truth. The perfect plan will never be perfectly executed.

Home school days will go horribly wrong. Our energy will fizzle out and our attention will wane.

Our kids, dawdle, complain, and bicker. It happens. To work our plan isn't to fix ourselves,

our home, or our children so that such things never happen. No, to work our plan isn't to fix ourselves, our home, or our children so that such things never happen.

No, to work our plan is to have strategies for handling life even when it goes off the rails.

Because that's actually when important lessons are learned by all.

Visit simplifiedorganization.com slash homeschool to download the free motivation prep sheet that will

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