I searched high and low for how to pull this off for the Yoast plugin specifically for my homepage.  And wa-la, here was the answer in the community forum.  Thanks guys!  The advanced area in the yoast plugin for the homepage did the track.   Just the homepage is set now to mywebsite.com  instead of mewebsite.com/    Too me this is cleaner for SEO and local search SEO since all citations and inbound links are pointing to mywebsite.com  NOT  mywebsite.com/   Maybe Google will shine a bit more SERP love on me.    We shall see - better make an annotation not in Google analytics so I can reference if positive impact occurred.