My guest today is my real life friend, the incredible Jennifer Pepito. Jen is a mom to 7 and a grandma to 1.  She is a homeschooler and has been homeschooling for 26 years! Jen is the creator and founder of The Peaceful Press, an author several books, including her newest one, Habits for a Sacred Home -–9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families. I love many things about Jen, but her approach to motherhood has always inspired me so much. She engages in motherhood with so much intentionality and care and that is really the focus of her new book. Jen also highlights the importance and power we are given in our roles as mothers. Her new book is incredibly empowering and inspiring. I loved hearing more about the women Jen highlighted in her book and learning from their stories and I know you will too! 

Some links from today’s episode: 

Find Jennifer’s website The Peaceful Press here 

Follow Jennifer on Instagram here 

Get Jennifer’s book, Habits for a Sacred Home here 

Listen to Jennifer’s podcast here 

Find out about the homeschooling community Wild and Free here 

Find the book The Benedict Option here 

Find the book How the Irish Saved Civilization here 

Find the book For the Children’s Sake here 

Find Tish Oxenreider’s Rule of Life course here 

Some favorite quotes from today’s episode: 

*As mothers, we are teaching our children to value the natural world. We are teaching our children how to read and how to value living books. Appreciation of art, reading real books, picking up after themselves, having dinner around the table and looking at each other in the eye--these are all classical and practical arts, lost arts, that we are saving as mothers.” Jennifer Pepito 

*We as moms are saving our culture with normal, everyday practices we engage in with our families.” Jennifer Pepito 

*“There is power in seemingly simple acts like eating dinner at the table with our family every night.” Greta Eskridge 

*”So much of what we do as mothers can seem hard in the moment, but when we can recognize how powerful it is and what heroes we are for doing it, it can give us a new perspective and make us feel more empowered by what we’re doing.” Jennifer Pepito 

*”The real change starts at home and it starts with moms.” Chris McKenna 

*”We are stepping into the lives of our children and making generational impact.” Greta Eskridge  

*”It’s so important for moms to have a vision of what they could be like.” Jennifer Pepito 

*”The fight to which we have been called is not an easy fight. We are touching the very center of the devil’s power and kingdom, and he hates us intensely and fights hard against us. We have no chance at all of winning in this fight unless we are disciplined soldiers, utterly out-and-out and uncompromising, and men and women of prayer.” Amy Carmichael 

*”If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.” Corrie ten Boom 

“I do not think anything worth having in the spiritual world is easily attained. There is no shortcut to holiness. But there can be a true, humble, loving choice of the soul, and that choice, becoming a habit, will lead it into peace.” Amy Carmichael