This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your

homeschool day.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 19 of the Your Morning Basket podcast.

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

Well, today is a special show in that I'm not really doing an interview.

I am having on my good friend Don Garrett, who is the community manager for the

Your Morning Basket community. And as such, Don spends her time answering a lot of questions from

homeschooling moms and encouraging them all about morning time. And so she's on here today with me

and we're chatting about how to get your year off to a good start, how to get your morning time off to a good start in the new school year.

And so we kind of give you what we think are some of our better tips and we talk about some of the places where you might get hung up in starting a new year and a new morning

time. So sit back, enjoy the program.

My friend Don Garrett is a mom of three who has been writing for over 15 years at her blog Lady Dusk,

and she's also the author of the free e-book, I am, I can, I ought, I will,

Charlotte Mason's motto explained for upper elementary students.

Don is also the coordinator for the Your Morning Basket and Plan Your Year communities, where she provides

customer care, encouragement, and helpful answers to any number of homeschooling questions.

On her blog, Dawn shares book reviews, curriculum choices, morning time plans, and so much more.

She joins us on the podcast today to discuss planning and preparing for a new year of

morning time. Dawn, welcome to the show. Hi, Pam. So today we're kind of having like a conversation.

So it's not so much that you're the expert and I'm interviewing you unless you want to be.

No, no. I'm going to learn as much as everybody else today, I think.

So we're just like conversing together and sharing ideas and helping everybody get their

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