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

Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 50 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 on the podcast, we have Andrea Asif, and Andrea is a homeschooling mom who splits her time between living in Michigan and living in Rome and even making a few extended visits each year

to Lebanon. Andrea also has a very unique take on morning time. She calls it calendar time,

and she matches up her morning time with the seasons of the church year. So we're going to be talking to Andrea today

all about her morning time variation and how she makes that fit with her family. We'll get on with

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