Hey everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of the Dorinda Wilson podcast. I'm Dorenda Wilson,

wife to one, mom to eight, nana to nine, and 26-year veteran homeschooling mom. I'm also the author of The Unhurried Homeschooler,

a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling, unhurried grace for a mom's heart, a 31-day

devotional for homeschooling moms, and the four-hour school day, how you and your kids can thrive

in the homeschool life. You can find all these books on Amazon.

You can also find them at my website and the four-hour school day can be found at pretty much any

of your favorite booksellers in addition to Amazon. And my website, my website is gerinda Wilson.com.

I am so grateful that you're here today. You guys aren't going to believe this.

I was shocked. The other day I went to just upload a podcast, get it published, and I look over,

and it's telling me that we have had one million downloads. Can you believe that? I was like, what? Oh, I'm telling you, God is so good.

Here I am, out in my sheeshad, just sitting here watching my chickens, talking into the microphone,

sharing my heart, thinking about all of you on the other end, and just what is it that you need to hear?

How can you be encouraged?

Asking the Lord for wisdom.

Lord, what do I talk to them about this week?

And just trusting God to use me somehow.

And he is just so faithful and has just poured such a blessing out on this

podcast, and I'm so thankful for it. I just want to make sure that all of you also know about

the new platform that we are creating. My family and I are putting together a community platform

that is going to be not only an encouragement to homeschooling moms,

but to your families as well. My family is involved in the process of creating content

for this platform. So there'll be a place for boys to go and listen to some of our boys'

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