You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 55.

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 Venter. 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-host today is Misty Winkler.

Misty is a second-generation homeschooler with five kids and too many projects.

She writes about practical classical homeschooling and organizing attitudes at Simply Convial.

In today's episode, Misty and I are talking all things Scalae Sisters fall retreat planning with Jen Disher and

Danielle Cyrus. Jen and Danielle both hosted large retreats last year and have lots of great tips

for you. As you probably noticed, early bird registration is open for the Scalae Sisters Fall online

local retreats. To register, just go to scalae sisters.com slash laugh. This year's

theme is laugh. Please don't think that that means we're doing stand-up comedy. This is about joy and

levity and faith and the heart of what it means to be at peace while you homeschool. It's true, you can register and do the retreat all by yourself.

A fair amount of people do that, but the retreat was designed to give local groups the opportunity

to have a nice local retreat for themselves, a real all-day getaway without lots of planning and logistics.

Whether you've wanted to put together a local retreat but doubted durability,

or you've done one before but are looking for fresh ideas,

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