You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 56.

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 Benzel.

You can find me at Afterthoughts, and you can hear more from me on my other

podcast, Aftercast. My co-hosts today are Pam Barnhill and Misty Winkler. Pam is a speaker, podcaster,

blogger at Pam Barnhill.com, and author of two fabulous books, Better Together, and the newly released

Plan Your Year.

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

She writes about practical classical homeschooling and organizing attitudes at Simply

Convivial.

We are pleased to have Cindy Rawlins back on the show today. Cindy homeschooled

her nine children for over 30 years. She is co-host with Angelina Stanford of the popular

literary life podcast and curates the Over the Back fence newsletter at Cindy Rawlins.net.

She is the author of some wonderful books. My favorite is Myere Motherhood, Morning Time, Nursery Rhymes,

and My Journey Toward Sanctification. The desire of Cindy's heart is to encourage moms using Charlotte

Mason's timeless principles in the classical tradition. In today's episode, the four of us are

giving you a little peek at the content of the fall retreat.

Our theme is laughing well, and as usual, we each have our own angle on the topic.

You'll find out why we chose the theme and the general ideas we intend to cover.

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