Hey, moms, welcome to this episode of the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I'm Dorenda Wilson, wife to one,

mom to eight, Nana to eight, and 26-year veteran homeschooling mom. I'm also the author of the four-hour school

day, how you and your kids can thrive in the homeschool life, the unhurried homeschooler,

a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling, an unhurried grace for a mom's heart. It's a

devotional written specifically for homeschool moms. You can find those on my

website, Dorinda Wilson.com. You can find them also on Amazon. And you can find the four-hour

school day at any of your favorite booksellers. Today is New Year's Eve, 2021. And as we're looking into the next year, I don't know about you,

but I find myself going into it with a little fear and trepidation. Let's be honest, right?

Our hope was we could kick 2020 to the curb and 2021 would be very different.

And it was different all right in a lot of ways and not so different in other ways.

And so we find ourselves here at the end of 2021 pondering the new year. And, you know,

I feel like a lot of times there's this expectation that we need to come up with

New Year's resolutions. We have to, you know, make new plans for the new year, have a new mindset.

And, you know, that's all very good. Those can be very, very good things. Those can be tools that

God uses in our lives to bring

change. You know, a lot of times when there's a defining moment, it is a good time to make necessary

changes. But as I was thinking about the last 54 years, I guess this would be 55 because my

birthday's in November. So I've seen 55 New Year's. That's hard to

believe. But anyway, having been around for probably a little longer than you have, I began to

sort of ponder, you know, Lord, what are some things that an older mom would want to share

with a younger mom, specifically what is on my heart that I would want you to know as we go

into this new year? And there's so many things that I could talk about. But I feel like the most

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