I think morning time just was able to give me a mental shift.

Those good, beautiful, and true things that we cover in morning time are just as important

and maybe even more important than all the academic seat work that we tend to put our focus on

at the front of our day or just we put our focus on in our homeschool

because we're worried about the kids being behind or we need to make sure that we're caught up.

And morning time has really been able, it's one of the things that has shifted my focus

to that broader perspective of just being able to sit and enjoy those good, beautiful,

and true things.

This is your morning basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 108 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill,

your host, and I'm so happy that you are joining me here today.

We are doing something just a little bit new starting this podcast season.

We are going to begin sharing the morning time stories of other homeschool moms.

And the reason we're doing this is to give you just a glimpse of what morning time looks like for different homeschool families. Maybe families who have

been doing morning time for a long time, a little bit of time, who started it at the beginning

of their homeschool journey, or maybe who came to it a little bit later in their homeschool journey

and certainly discussing what a difference it has made in their homeschool day and in their lives even.

So we're starting that off this episode with our very first guest, Lainey Homan.

And now Lainey has been homeschooling for quite a long time, about 16 years now.

She has eight kids.

Her youngest is six.

Her oldest is 22. But she has not been doing

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