And my definition of a good morning is not necessarily starting early, but about my habits and

the rhythm that falls into place. Because I can get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and get started

doing things and still have a rotten morning.

This is your morning. This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Your Morning Basket podcast.

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

Well, today's episode of the podcast is a little bit different than what we normally do.

It is a conversation between homeschool moms, it's myself, and then the community manager here at your morning

basket, Don Garrett.

And we're talking all about New Year's resolutions, making goals, our words for the new year,

and how we turn around habits and create habits for making better mornings in our homeschool.

Now, if you think that these are a couple of supermoms telling you exactly how to do it,

I'm sorry, you're going to be really disappointed.

Actually, we give away quite a few of our deepest, darkest morning secrets in this particular podcast. No, nothing too bad,

but definitely the all too human side of us and our sides of us, because there's two of us.

And then Dawn actually does a much better job with mornings, even though she hates it than I do.

She gets up and gets started earlier

and is a little more disciplined about it. Whereas I have created systems to help me get through

and have a good day even if I don't get up early at all. And so we talk about all of those things

along with how we set goals, how we choose words

for the year. One of us does and one of us doesn't or hasn't up to this point might be changing

her mind. And just in general, how we get our year and our mornings off to a good start. Now,

if you are interested in getting your morning off to a better start,

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