You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 30.

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.

Scalae 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.

You can hear more from me on my other podcast, Aftercast.

My co-hosts today are Pam Barnhill and Misty Winkler.

Pam is an author, speaker, blogger at pambaronhill.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 too many projects. She writes about practical classical homeschooling at

Simply Convivial and about organizing attitudes at simplified organization.

This episode is sponsored by Christmas morning time plans.

These plans are free from Pam Barnhill.

This is three weeks of morning time plans, loosely organized around Chikovsky's magical Nutcracker music. This set has it all.

Poetry, fine arts, nature study, good books, and so much more, prepared for you, along with a choice of a grid or loop schedule to follow.

I know Advent has already started, but if you're behind and need some plans, these are perfect.

Download them for free at pambarnhill.com slash Christmas.

In today's episode, the Scalae Sisters get real about Christmas.

Misty says we can be classical not just in our approach to education, but also in our approach to happiness.

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