SR 821: Affordable Homeschooling: Thriving on a Budget, Part 3

1
00:00:00,240 –> 00:00:03,806
This is kind of the easy part. People think that’s the thing, right? That’s the

2
00:00:03,830 –> 00:00:07,622
expensive thing. And it’s like, actually, when I look at, like, everything that

3
00:00:07,638 –> 00:00:11,446
we do, like, that’s the cheapest thing. Hey, everyone, this

4
00:00:11,470 –> 00:00:15,190
is Yvette Hampton. Welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. I am back with

5
00:00:15,222 –> 00:00:18,694
Aby, and we’re talking about affordable homeschooling. If you missed

6
00:00:18,734 –> 00:00:22,566
Monday’s episode and yesterday’s episode, go back and listen. And we’re

7
00:00:22,590 –> 00:00:26,436
just having a great time here trying to help you to

8
00:00:26,460 –> 00:00:30,236
be able to afford homeschooling and homeschool with excellence.

9
00:00:30,340 –> 00:00:34,100
So we don’t want you to just homeschool. No. Like, you know,

10
00:00:34,252 –> 00:00:37,704
I don’t know. Without excellence getting by, what would be the opposite of that?

11
00:00:38,244 –> 00:00:41,180
Getting by. Yeah. Getting by. Getting by. We don’t want you to just get by.

12
00:00:41,212 –> 00:00:44,772
We don’t want you just. We want you to thrive. Ooh, that’s a good way

13
00:00:44,788 –> 00:00:47,156
to say. I know. I like that word. I’ve been using that word a lot

14
00:00:47,180 –> 00:00:51,004
lately. Really? Thrive. Yeah. Isn’t it funny how we find

15
00:00:51,044 –> 00:00:54,864
these words, especially our kids? Oh, dear. All these, like,

16
00:00:54,904 –> 00:00:58,712
funny slang words. And so Garrett and I purposely use them all

17
00:00:58,728 –> 00:01:01,944
the time just to make our girls crazy. And I still use the word bougie

18
00:01:01,984 –> 00:01:05,248
because it’s not cool anymore, and. But I love it, and I think it’s a

19
00:01:05,256 –> 00:01:07,552
great word. And so I just. Do you guys have in your part of the

20
00:01:07,568 –> 00:01:11,416
country where the kids saying sus? Oh, yeah, that’s

21
00:01:11,480 –> 00:01:15,272
sus. That’s so sus. Yeah. Okay. I feel like if I

22
00:01:15,288 –> 00:01:18,104
use it five times, they’ll stop saying it, because when you hear your parents say

23
00:01:18,144 –> 00:01:21,088
it, then all of a sudden you’re like, that just became uncomfortable. Wait a minute.

24
00:01:21,136 –> 00:01:24,792
That’s been around, though, for quite some time. Just make it

25
00:01:24,848 –> 00:01:28,432
way into your town? No, it was last

26
00:01:28,488 –> 00:01:31,888
year. They’re a little slow up there. Oh, see, it’s been around here for, I

27
00:01:31,896 –> 00:01:35,280
don’t know, I would say three or four years. Oh, no, we’re probably two years

28
00:01:35,312 –> 00:01:38,744
behind you. Oh, wow. Okay. That’s. We’re just now starting to wear

29
00:01:38,784 –> 00:01:40,924
masks. Just kidding.

30
00:01:42,664 –> 00:01:46,400
Just kidding. My goodness. Yeah. So these trendy

31
00:01:46,432 –> 00:01:49,096
words cracking me up. So what was the trendy word that made us think of

32
00:01:49,120 –> 00:01:52,916
that? Oh, we survived. Thrive is my word

33
00:01:52,980 –> 00:01:56,436
right now. And it’s not trendy. Thrive. We’re going to make it friendly.

34
00:01:56,540 –> 00:02:00,304
Yeah, we’re going to make it friendly. I love thriving.

35
00:02:01,004 –> 00:02:04,144
That’s what we want to do. We want to thrive and be friendy.

36
00:02:05,484 –> 00:02:09,148
Oh, good golly. Okay. We’re just going to move along and thrifty.

37
00:02:09,236 –> 00:02:12,956
And thrifty. So that leads us in to talking about how to be

38
00:02:12,980 –> 00:02:16,796
thrifty. Yes. But before we get into talking about thriving

39
00:02:16,900 –> 00:02:20,558
and thriftiness and friendliness, to tell you about

40
00:02:20,606 –> 00:02:22,990
our sponsor, BJU Press Homeschool?

41
00:02:23,062 –> 00:02:26,670
BJUPressHomeschool.com? They are amazing. If you’re looking for

42
00:02:26,742 –> 00:02:30,502
homeschool curriculum for your kids, obviously, probably not for

43
00:02:30,518 –> 00:02:33,854
your husband, he probably doesn’t need homeschool curriculum. Though they do have

44
00:02:33,894 –> 00:02:37,582
books that he would probably enjoy reading to your kids. They’ve got tons and tons

45
00:02:37,598 –> 00:02:41,350
of books. Check them out. BJUPressHomeschool.com. They will equip

46
00:02:41,382 –> 00:02:45,022
you for a successful homeschool journey. And they do

47
00:02:45,078 –> 00:02:48,862
everything from a solid biblical worldview. We love them. We’ve used them for lots

48
00:02:48,878 –> 00:02:52,430
of our different, um, things. And you know what we have

49
00:02:52,462 –> 00:02:56,110
used, used BJU Press Homeschool curriculum

50
00:02:56,222 –> 00:02:59,830
from other friends. Or, and, you know, we’ve, like, borrowed curriculum from other

51
00:02:59,862 –> 00:03:03,390
friends and we’ve lent out curriculum to other friends. And so we will talk about

52
00:03:03,422 –> 00:03:07,006
that today. But if you want new curriculum from them, or if you don’t know

53
00:03:07,030 –> 00:03:10,670
what you need for your homeschool, call them up, talk to one of their consultants,

54
00:03:10,702 –> 00:03:13,874
and they will help walk you through it. BJUPressHomeschool.com.

55
00:03:14,634 –> 00:03:17,374
All right, Aby, let’s talk about

56
00:03:18,194 –> 00:03:22,042
curriculum. Like, curriculum, that’s, you know, kind of the main thing. When everybody’s

57
00:03:22,058 –> 00:03:25,178
thinking about, like, how do we afford to homeschool? We talked about how we can

58
00:03:25,306 –> 00:03:28,498
cut back on some of our home expenses. And I think that’s really important because

59
00:03:28,546 –> 00:03:31,994
sometimes we don’t encompass everything under the umbrella

60
00:03:32,034 –> 00:03:35,834
of home and family. We just think, oh, I can’t afford to homeschool

61
00:03:35,874 –> 00:03:39,690
because I can’t afford the curriculum that I think I need. Right,

62
00:03:39,762 –> 00:03:42,970
totally. So for those maybe who are struggling to find

63
00:03:43,042 –> 00:03:46,530
curriculum, what are some resources that they have?

64
00:03:46,642 –> 00:03:50,274
Okay, well, I would say, I mean, this is kind of the easy part. Like,

65
00:03:50,314 –> 00:03:54,146
curriculum is kind of when in light of all the other things we just

66
00:03:54,170 –> 00:03:57,642
talked about, like food and all that, curriculum is not.

67
00:03:57,778 –> 00:04:01,322
People think that’s the thing, right? That’s the expensive thing. And it’s like, actually,

68
00:04:01,458 –> 00:04:05,074
when I look at, like, everything that we do, like, that’s the cheapest thing,

69
00:04:05,154 –> 00:04:08,890
right? Yeah, but here’s the thing. Used, I would say there’s so many

70
00:04:08,922 –> 00:04:12,650
used options. Thrift books is a website. Yeah. Book finder,

71
00:04:12,802 –> 00:04:16,642
eBay, Amazon. You can get used box on. Did you know that you

72
00:04:16,658 –> 00:04:20,226
can get used stuff on Amazon. Yes. You don’t have to buy

73
00:04:20,410 –> 00:04:23,946
that. Well, no, but I also discovered that you can buy things cheaper on

74
00:04:23,970 –> 00:04:27,762
Amazon. Like if someone returns something so it’s not in its original packaging and

75
00:04:27,778 –> 00:04:30,906
it’s still new, you can actually get it cheaper, too.

76
00:04:31,050 –> 00:04:34,770
So all of these are ways to get the same thing.

77
00:04:34,842 –> 00:04:37,898
We’re not saying you have to go get something different. You can get the same

78
00:04:37,946 –> 00:04:41,566
thing cheaper. Or, I mean, there might be others. Those are four. I know

79
00:04:41,590 –> 00:04:45,382
of used places. I use oftentimes. Abe

80
00:04:45,478 –> 00:04:49,310
books, I’ve heard of that one. They have such good prices

81
00:04:49,462 –> 00:04:52,902
on their. So I think they’re in partnership with another website. I can’t remember what

82
00:04:52,918 –> 00:04:56,430
the other one is, but I would say I’ve bought most. And I don’t know

83
00:04:56,502 –> 00:05:00,150
about curriculum, but I buy a lot of books from them. Just books? Yeah. That’s

84
00:05:00,302 –> 00:05:03,894
literature. Yeah. Yeah. And I almost find the best deals. There

85
00:05:03,934 –> 00:05:07,530
almost always is a books. Yeah. EBay does have

86
00:05:07,562 –> 00:05:11,370
actual straight up curriculum. And then honestly, you can get a lot of used curriculum.

87
00:05:11,402 –> 00:05:15,250
You probably have local Facebook pages or local everywhere

88
00:05:15,282 –> 00:05:18,226
has local stuff that you could put out there and say, hey, who has this?

89
00:05:18,250 –> 00:05:21,666
I’ll buy it off you. Right? Yep. Yep. Yard sales. Yard sales.

90
00:05:21,690 –> 00:05:25,522
Oftentimes people sell their stuff at yard sales. You have to totally be

91
00:05:25,578 –> 00:05:28,490
picky and choosy, but you can find lots of fun stuff at yard sales. It’s

92
00:05:28,522 –> 00:05:32,330
amazing. Okay, how about the library? I know that we aren’t part promoting the library

93
00:05:32,362 –> 00:05:35,874
like maybe we did 2030 years ago, but the truth is they still have great

94
00:05:35,914 –> 00:05:39,026
books. They still have things that you can use. They have a lot of. Even

95
00:05:39,050 –> 00:05:42,610
if you don’t want to step foot in the library, there’s a lot of audiobooks

96
00:05:42,682 –> 00:05:46,338
that you can get for free. You don’t have to get audible. Audible is

97
00:05:46,386 –> 00:05:49,706
expensive. Holy cow. It is. Why there are so many

98
00:05:49,770 –> 00:05:53,454
free audiobook apps through libraries. Yeah. What do ours,

99
00:05:53,794 –> 00:05:57,034
our library system uses hoopla. Oh, we use

100
00:05:57,074 –> 00:06:00,642
Libby. And then there’s actually a couple, but Libby is kind of our primary

101
00:06:00,698 –> 00:06:04,186
one. Yeah. So you can go to your library and ask them and then you

102
00:06:04,210 –> 00:06:07,954
connect it to your library card. Yeah. And. Yes. And there’s movies.

103
00:06:08,034 –> 00:06:11,874
There’s everything. Audiobooks, there’s all sorts of fun things.

104
00:06:11,954 –> 00:06:14,802
What are those things where you read the book on your screen? What’s that called?

105
00:06:14,898 –> 00:06:18,738
Like Kindle. Oh, yeah, Kindle. Like you can get a Kindle book.

106
00:06:18,906 –> 00:06:22,586
I don’t do those. I like kinda either. Garrett, read a book on a

107
00:06:22,610 –> 00:06:26,332
screen through your library. For free. Yes. I like to

108
00:06:26,348 –> 00:06:29,468
flip the pages. I like. I do. And I like to have a pen or

109
00:06:29,476 –> 00:06:33,084
a pencil in my hand because I like to underline things when I’m reading. Yeah.

110
00:06:33,124 –> 00:06:36,812
And a lot of libraries, I know the one that, um, where we live here

111
00:06:36,868 –> 00:06:40,500
and the one that was back home in California, I think twice a year, they’ll

112
00:06:40,532 –> 00:06:44,212
do a book sale. And, yes, I haven’t been to the one in

113
00:06:44,228 –> 00:06:47,932
Tulsa, but the one in California, they actually used to have an entire, like,

114
00:06:47,988 –> 00:06:51,636
homeschool curriculum section because there were so many

115
00:06:51,660 –> 00:06:55,478
homeschool families there, and they would donate books. And so you could often find

116
00:06:55,526 –> 00:06:58,854
good homeschool curriculum there. And I mean cheap for, like, a few

117
00:06:58,894 –> 00:07:02,550
bucks. Wow. Okay. People need to have a pen and pencil, pen

118
00:07:02,582 –> 00:07:06,414
and pencil. Pen or pencil and paper, and write this down. So, step one, find

119
00:07:06,454 –> 00:07:10,022
out when your library does their used books. Also, did you know that

120
00:07:10,038 –> 00:07:13,486
libraries have cookbooks? Because my ten year old daughter, all she does is read cookbooks.

121
00:07:13,510 –> 00:07:16,366
She goes to the library just to read cookbooks. So you don’t even have to

122
00:07:16,390 –> 00:07:19,850
buy if you’re trying to cook at home more because you want to be affordable.

123
00:07:20,022 –> 00:07:23,866
They have cookbooks. They have everything. Yes, yes. Okay. What else?

124
00:07:23,930 –> 00:07:27,562
Fun stuff. So, yeah. And we talked about trading curriculum. You know,

125
00:07:27,578 –> 00:07:30,906
borrowing curriculum, that’s a great thing. If you have a local,

126
00:07:31,090 –> 00:07:34,706
maybe Facebook page or some kind of support

127
00:07:34,770 –> 00:07:38,530
group or something you can just put out there. Hey, and I’ve mentioned this

128
00:07:38,562 –> 00:07:42,266
before. When we were in Georgia, there was a group, I

129
00:07:42,290 –> 00:07:45,642
think. I don’t know if it was like the whole homeschool community. I think it

130
00:07:45,658 –> 00:07:48,498
was just the local. One of the local CC communities, or maybe it was a

131
00:07:48,506 –> 00:07:51,976
bunch of the CC communities. And one of the ladies just said, hey, let’s meet

132
00:07:52,000 –> 00:07:55,752
up at the park, and everyone bring curriculum and tell us what

133
00:07:55,768 –> 00:07:58,816
you like about it. And then some people have curriculum that they can lend out

134
00:07:58,840 –> 00:08:01,920
to their friends because they weren’t using it. And just, you want to keep track

135
00:08:01,952 –> 00:08:05,560
of who has what you, you know, or what you’re lending out and who’s borrowing

136
00:08:05,592 –> 00:08:09,360
it. And if you borrow someone’s curriculum, please give it back to them. Please give

137
00:08:09,392 –> 00:08:12,808
it back. Please, please, please. The right thing to do. It is.

138
00:08:12,936 –> 00:08:16,592
But it was really cool because I remember just being at the park

139
00:08:16,648 –> 00:08:20,076
and sitting at those tables, and you could look through stuff.

140
00:08:20,220 –> 00:08:23,892
But also, I remember one of the moms was like, hey, I haven’t looked at

141
00:08:23,908 –> 00:08:26,396
this particular bible one. Would you mind if I borrowed it for a few weeks?

142
00:08:26,420 –> 00:08:29,828
And I was like, sure, absolutely. Um, I think she ended up keeping it, actually,

143
00:08:29,876 –> 00:08:32,572
for, like, two years, and I was fine with it. You know, she kept in

144
00:08:32,588 –> 00:08:35,584
contact with me, and I ended up getting it back when I needed it. So

145
00:08:35,964 –> 00:08:39,668
be generous, and people will be generous with you in turn.

146
00:08:39,716 –> 00:08:43,228
So borrowing and swapping curriculum is a

147
00:08:43,276 –> 00:08:46,624
really, really good way. And go to those homeschool moms.

148
00:08:47,144 –> 00:08:50,764
If you’ve met a homeschool mom who has homeschooled more than one kid,

149
00:08:51,184 –> 00:08:54,968
it is very likely that they probably still have a lot of their curriculum,

150
00:08:55,016 –> 00:08:58,528
and they’ll have a whole bookcase full of all of their

151
00:08:58,576 –> 00:09:02,416
stuff and ask them, hey, could I use this? And who cares

152
00:09:02,560 –> 00:09:06,088
if it’s not the most up to date one? It’s still probably going to be

153
00:09:06,136 –> 00:09:09,760
really useful. Totally. For you, for sure. You don’t have to have the latest

154
00:09:09,832 –> 00:09:13,516
version next level. Like, if there’s a group of moms

155
00:09:13,640 –> 00:09:17,140
that, you know, they’re going to be around for the long haul, I mean, don’t.

156
00:09:17,212 –> 00:09:20,076
Not the new person that’s moving out of town, but, like, let’s say you get

157
00:09:20,100 –> 00:09:22,844
three or four moms, and you’re like, we’re. We’re all living here for a long

158
00:09:22,884 –> 00:09:26,644
time. You could even say, okay, like, here’s an example. The apologia. Who is God?

159
00:09:26,684 –> 00:09:30,316
There’s like four book series. It’s a four year deal. Yeah. And we all came

160
00:09:30,340 –> 00:09:33,060
together and we’re like, okay, I’ll buy a year, you buy a year. And everybody

161
00:09:33,092 –> 00:09:36,548
bought a year. And then essentially we got four years

162
00:09:36,596 –> 00:09:39,516
because each of us paid one. And then we just knew, okay. Over the next

163
00:09:39,540 –> 00:09:43,344
four years, we just rotated around, and it was. It was

164
00:09:43,384 –> 00:09:47,112
brilliant. I mean, you’re getting 75% off, you know, right. And

165
00:09:47,128 –> 00:09:50,112
you’re going into it up front, and then if that person moves, then they can

166
00:09:50,128 –> 00:09:53,888
just take their copy with them or whatever. And you still have. So there’s

167
00:09:53,936 –> 00:09:57,104
so many ways. You. You guys, that God has given us

168
00:09:57,144 –> 00:10:00,992
creativity and ingenuity. Like, he made us this way. He did not create us to

169
00:10:01,008 –> 00:10:04,640
be dependent on and entitled on a government

170
00:10:04,712 –> 00:10:08,128
that wants to pay for it or anybody else. Like, there’s ways. This is how

171
00:10:08,176 –> 00:10:11,944
the homeschool community has been doing it all along.

172
00:10:12,024 –> 00:10:15,720
And you know what’s really cool about this is it builds a

173
00:10:15,752 –> 00:10:19,496
tight community. It builds a really tight. Instead of being like,

174
00:10:19,520 –> 00:10:21,776
oh, how are we going to spend all this government money? And now we don’t

175
00:10:21,800 –> 00:10:24,808
even talk to each other. We just have to go spend it. It keeps that

176
00:10:24,856 –> 00:10:28,576
tight community and that, that doing it together. So another

177
00:10:28,640 –> 00:10:31,296
one to make a note, write down. Remember, you’re going to find out when your

178
00:10:31,320 –> 00:10:34,926
library has their book sale. You’re also going to write down and make a note

179
00:10:34,950 –> 00:10:37,966
of when your curriculum goes on sale. Every

180
00:10:38,030 –> 00:10:41,798
curriculum company or whatever you want to say, read whatever they are. Yeah.

181
00:10:41,846 –> 00:10:45,590
Publisher. Publisher. There’s the big word. They usually put their stuff

182
00:10:45,622 –> 00:10:49,462
on sale at least once a year, like a 20% off. Or if you buy

183
00:10:49,478 –> 00:10:53,174
the package deal, you get. And I have notes in my calendar.

184
00:10:53,214 –> 00:10:57,054
Okay, this curriculum goes on sale at this time of year. And then rather

185
00:10:57,094 –> 00:11:00,910
than buy everything, you know, two months before school starts and blow our

186
00:11:00,942 –> 00:11:04,726
budget, I buy throughout the year when these things go on sale.

187
00:11:04,830 –> 00:11:08,478
Right. So that’s just another way to save a little bit here and there. Yes.

188
00:11:08,566 –> 00:11:12,238
Yeah. Let me say real quick. Yeah. You said, you know, if somebody moves away,

189
00:11:12,366 –> 00:11:15,990
they could take it with them. One of my good friends who I have swapped

190
00:11:16,022 –> 00:11:19,686
curriculum with, she lives in California and mailing stuff through the

191
00:11:19,710 –> 00:11:23,046
post office through media mail. Media mail is very

192
00:11:23,110 –> 00:11:26,726
inexpensive. I forgot about the only postal service dollars.

193
00:11:26,870 –> 00:11:30,038
And so it, you know, takes a week and a half to get there, maybe

194
00:11:30,086 –> 00:11:33,746
instead of three days, but who cares, right? And so we have actually

195
00:11:33,810 –> 00:11:37,538
swapped curriculum from state that way.

196
00:11:37,586 –> 00:11:41,162
And it’s been really, really great because I’ve been able to use her, she’s been

197
00:11:41,178 –> 00:11:43,666
able to use mine, and it’s stuff that we don’t need. Then you have that

198
00:11:43,690 –> 00:11:46,162
mom that you can call and say, hey, what did you do in this chapter?

199
00:11:46,218 –> 00:11:49,410
How did this work? Or did this, like, again, you’re building that. You have that

200
00:11:49,442 –> 00:11:52,882
homeschool community because you’re using it together so you can ask each other questions and

201
00:11:52,898 –> 00:11:56,450
give each other pointers, right? Yeah, absolutely. I love that. Good job. You can

202
00:11:56,482 –> 00:12:00,114
mail the postal service. Remember that. Have you

203
00:12:00,154 –> 00:12:03,978
tried CTC math yet with your child? Here’s a testimonial

204
00:12:04,026 –> 00:12:07,228
from another happy homeschool mom, Amber said, I’m

205
00:12:07,276 –> 00:12:11,020
absolutely thrilled with CTC math. It’s a rare find

206
00:12:11,092 –> 00:12:14,652
that I’ve used with my children for more than five years now. I have six

207
00:12:14,708 –> 00:12:18,276
children using CTC math, and each child has found it easy to

208
00:12:18,300 –> 00:12:22,100
navigate and very applicable. Thank you so much for all that you are doing

209
00:12:22,132 –> 00:12:25,828
in providing quality math lessons for my children. If you’re looking

210
00:12:25,876 –> 00:12:28,076
for a great online math program, visit

211
00:12:28,140 –> 00:12:30,436
ctcmath.com. That’s

212
00:12:30,500 –> 00:12:32,424
ctcmath.com.

213
00:12:34,184 –> 00:12:37,864
Are you looking for a homeschool curriculum that goes beyond textbooks and

214
00:12:37,904 –> 00:12:40,736
truly engages your children in the joy of learning?

215
00:12:40,880 –> 00:12:44,504
Apologia’s award winning curriculum is written by homeschool

216
00:12:44,544 –> 00:12:48,056
parents to specifically meet your needs and captivate your students

217
00:12:48,160 –> 00:12:51,304
with hands on activities and experiments that make learning

218
00:12:51,384 –> 00:12:55,136
unforgettable. With an easy to follow, open and go format,

219
00:12:55,200 –> 00:12:58,568
Apologia takes the stress out of planning and provides a simple

220
00:12:58,616 –> 00:13:01,900
roadmap that can easily be tailored to your family’s needs.

221
00:13:02,052 –> 00:13:05,500
Explore live classes or self paced courses designed to

222
00:13:05,532 –> 00:13:09,204
accommodate every student’s unique learning style, elevate your child’s

223
00:13:09,244 –> 00:13:12,972
education, spark their curiosity, and nurture a lifelong

224
00:13:13,028 –> 00:13:16,548
love for learning with apologia. Discover apologia

225
00:13:16,596 –> 00:13:20,372
today@apologia.com. One of

226
00:13:20,388 –> 00:13:23,492
the things I wanted to say is most

227
00:13:23,668 –> 00:13:27,444
publishers, if you go on their website, you can get a

228
00:13:27,484 –> 00:13:30,524
sample of what their curriculum is. And so I would say before

229
00:13:30,644 –> 00:13:34,468
purchasing, make sure, because this is, I think, where a lot of

230
00:13:34,476 –> 00:13:37,916
people get stuck, is that they spend all this money on

231
00:13:37,940 –> 00:13:41,724
curriculum and then they’re like, oh, I really don’t like it. It’s really not

232
00:13:41,764 –> 00:13:45,436
best for my family. And then they feel like, but I’ve spent all

233
00:13:45,460 –> 00:13:48,908
this money on it, so I need to use it. Right. And it causes

234
00:13:48,956 –> 00:13:52,550
frustration for them and for their kids. And so I would say, and not that

235
00:13:52,582 –> 00:13:56,150
you can use the entire year, but at least try to get a

236
00:13:56,182 –> 00:13:59,926
really good idea of the curriculum. So, yeah, and so most of

237
00:13:59,950 –> 00:14:03,790
the websites, now you can go on there and you can, you know, just download

238
00:14:03,822 –> 00:14:07,454
a sample and even print out a sample and test it out first

239
00:14:07,574 –> 00:14:10,750
because. You’Re going to know pretty quickly if this is not for us, you know,

240
00:14:10,782 –> 00:14:14,326
and then you’re not purchasing it. The same thing with that same thing is, like

241
00:14:14,350 –> 00:14:17,750
you said, we buy all this curriculum and then we don’t use it. When you

242
00:14:17,782 –> 00:14:21,412
find something that works and it works and you know it

243
00:14:21,428 –> 00:14:25,180
works, stop looking. Because here’s the thing, is there’s

244
00:14:25,212 –> 00:14:28,756
all these shiny objects out there, and there’s always going to be something cooler and

245
00:14:28,780 –> 00:14:32,588
more beautiful and neater that you want to do. Now, we also give you

246
00:14:32,596 –> 00:14:36,036
the freedom, if something doesn’t work, pitch it. Well, don’t pitch it. Give it to

247
00:14:36,060 –> 00:14:38,652
someone else to use because it might work for them or. Sell it so you

248
00:14:38,668 –> 00:14:42,404
can purchase something new. Don’t get stuck in using something that doesn’t

249
00:14:42,444 –> 00:14:45,988
work. But if it does work, I’m not kidding. Stop

250
00:14:46,076 –> 00:14:48,764
looking at other things. Because there’s been so many things that I’m like, I love

251
00:14:48,804 –> 00:14:52,532
this. It works. My kids are learning, ooh, but that one is so cool.

252
00:14:52,668 –> 00:14:55,988
And, and that’s just a mom. We just want, we just want more. That’s probably

253
00:14:56,076 –> 00:14:59,492
we want more and more, more, more. It’s like the glutton glut curriculum. Gluttony. Right.

254
00:14:59,628 –> 00:15:02,764
Um, so that will save you money too, is just kind of shut it down

255
00:15:02,804 –> 00:15:06,316
and stop looking because you’re going to want to buy more. Okay, here’s one

256
00:15:06,500 –> 00:15:09,260
save, and this is going to go fast. Just if you have more than one

257
00:15:09,292 –> 00:15:13,036
kid, save your stuff. And if, if what you used for kid

258
00:15:13,100 –> 00:15:16,116
a doesn’t work for kid B, don’t get rid of it because it might work

259
00:15:16,140 –> 00:15:19,782
for kid C. Yeah. So I would suggest just save everything and

260
00:15:19,838 –> 00:15:23,342
maybe let people borrow it while you’re waiting because that’s a blessing to other people.

261
00:15:23,398 –> 00:15:26,886
But I would say don’t get rid of anything till you’re done with all

262
00:15:26,990 –> 00:15:30,478
homeschooling all your kids because it might, you might want to bring it back and

263
00:15:30,486 –> 00:15:34,142
then you’re not paying for it again. Right. Also

264
00:15:34,198 –> 00:15:37,166
along those same lines. So pass it down from kid to kid if you can,

265
00:15:37,230 –> 00:15:40,926
and buy one book or one curriculum and use for

266
00:15:40,950 –> 00:15:44,478
multiple kids. That is a huge, like, for example, for science,

267
00:15:44,646 –> 00:15:48,350
I’m not going to buy, you know, three different sciences. I’m going to

268
00:15:48,382 –> 00:15:51,598
try to buy one science and then we’re all going to do it together and

269
00:15:51,606 –> 00:15:54,830
I’m going to adjust it according to skill level and age because then you’re just

270
00:15:54,862 –> 00:15:58,382
buying it once, using it three times, that sort of thing. Right. And some of

271
00:15:58,398 –> 00:16:02,190
the publishers will actually give you, like, I know the mystery

272
00:16:02,222 –> 00:16:05,662
of history does this. You know, she’ll give you suggestions for

273
00:16:05,798 –> 00:16:09,270
the elementary years and the middle school and high school. So for the more

274
00:16:09,302 –> 00:16:13,014
advanced learners, here’s what you can do with them. For the early

275
00:16:13,174 –> 00:16:16,622
learners, here’s what you can do with them. And you’re all reading the same

276
00:16:16,678 –> 00:16:20,366
lesson, but then the activities are different. Exactly. So those

277
00:16:20,390 –> 00:16:24,070
can saves money because you’re buying one core text and then each kid just

278
00:16:24,102 –> 00:16:27,942
gets their own journal type thing. The other thing with that is a lot of

279
00:16:27,958 –> 00:16:31,798
these publishers, you can either get the books or you can get the PDF’s when

280
00:16:31,806 –> 00:16:35,550
it comes to the consumables. Right. And depending on what printer

281
00:16:35,582 –> 00:16:38,462
I am going to tell you, here’s a tip and a trick. Invest in an

282
00:16:38,518 –> 00:16:42,086
Epson printer. The Epson eco tank, I think it’s

283
00:16:42,110 –> 00:16:45,846
called it. Okay. I used to have a regular printer and we spent so much

284
00:16:45,870 –> 00:16:49,166
money on ink. I bought this thing and I can print literal

285
00:16:49,230 –> 00:16:52,974
books and it never runs out. It’s magic. It never runs out of ink.

286
00:16:53,014 –> 00:16:56,166
I don’t. It’s just magic. Wow. I don’t know. I don’t know how to tell

287
00:16:56,190 –> 00:16:59,686
you how it works, but buy one, and then you can actually print off some

288
00:16:59,710 –> 00:17:03,406
of those consumables, which would probably be cheaper than purchasing. And I mean,

289
00:17:03,430 –> 00:17:06,440
weigh it. It might be more expensive, depending on what your printer is, but just.

290
00:17:06,502 –> 00:17:10,236
Yeah, do a little. A little investigating before you just start clicking and

291
00:17:10,260 –> 00:17:13,420
buying. Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, you’ll have to give me the name of your printer.

292
00:17:13,452 –> 00:17:16,452
We’ll put a link to that in the show notes. But the other thing, I

293
00:17:16,468 –> 00:17:19,692
had a homeschool mom tell me about this many years ago, and this was

294
00:17:19,748 –> 00:17:23,284
brilliant. She said, with workbooks

295
00:17:23,364 –> 00:17:25,900
that you want your kids to do, if it’s going to be passed down to

296
00:17:25,932 –> 00:17:29,580
another kid, you don’t want to have to buy those consumable workbooks over and over

297
00:17:29,612 –> 00:17:32,970
again, especially if you have several kids. And so she

298
00:17:33,132 –> 00:17:36,766
said, get one of those sheet protectors. This the clear sheet protector and a

299
00:17:36,790 –> 00:17:40,582
dry erase marker. Yep. And if you cut two of your ends off, you can

300
00:17:40,598 –> 00:17:43,870
just slide that sheet protector over it and it sticks, because that kind of static

301
00:17:43,902 –> 00:17:47,726
clay makes it stick. And actually use a wet erase marker.

302
00:17:47,790 –> 00:17:51,566
Not accidentally wipe off. That’s a good idea. Okay. Yeah. The wet

303
00:17:51,590 –> 00:17:55,134
erase markers are finer. Tip. Use the fine tip wedding markers,

304
00:17:55,254 –> 00:17:58,886
and then they can fill in all of the blanks. If you like doing worksheets,

305
00:17:58,990 –> 00:18:02,660
they can fill in all of the blanks. And then you just take that sheet

306
00:18:02,692 –> 00:18:06,260
protector off of it, and it’s a perfectly

307
00:18:06,292 –> 00:18:09,744
clean worksheet. Oh, my word. That’s brilliant.

308
00:18:10,244 –> 00:18:14,076
Brilliant. Okay. Writing that one down. Yeah. So I did that with my girls

309
00:18:14,100 –> 00:18:17,756
for a couple of things, and. And it worked beautifully. My girls are five years

310
00:18:17,780 –> 00:18:21,508
apart, so I didn’t. I did it for a

311
00:18:21,516 –> 00:18:24,156
few things. Right, right. You know, especially if you have kids who are close in

312
00:18:24,180 –> 00:18:28,004
age. Yeah, close in. That works really well. So, um. That’s so good.

313
00:18:28,044 –> 00:18:31,012
And also, so when we were talking about doing a little in, like, you kind

314
00:18:31,028 –> 00:18:33,964
of have to do your research. Time is money. I always say, time is money.

315
00:18:34,004 –> 00:18:37,148
If you put in the time, you can save some money. Right. And that’s what

316
00:18:37,156 –> 00:18:40,524
we’re talking about, is saving money. So if you put in the time, you don’t

317
00:18:40,564 –> 00:18:44,172
have to. When you go to a publisher, that’s the word you keep using. I

318
00:18:44,188 –> 00:18:47,820
forget it. When you go to a publisher’s site, you don’t have to buy the

319
00:18:47,852 –> 00:18:51,628
whole package. You can piece. Okay. I’m just going to give an example.

320
00:18:51,676 –> 00:18:55,476
We use sunlight for history because it’s literature based. If you go buy the

321
00:18:55,500 –> 00:18:59,012
whole package. They send you all the books, all the, everything. Like, you even have

322
00:18:59,028 –> 00:19:02,724
to think. If money wasn’t an object, I would do that because it would save

323
00:19:02,764 –> 00:19:06,508
me from having to think. But what time is money? So I put in

324
00:19:06,516 –> 00:19:09,964
the time and I actually look at the book list and then I look right

325
00:19:10,004 –> 00:19:13,772
on the same screen, I open my library and I’m like, oh, the library has,

326
00:19:13,908 –> 00:19:17,476
you know, five out of ten of these books. So you can then piece it

327
00:19:17,500 –> 00:19:21,188
together. Yeah. And I found I can get it way cheaper to know

328
00:19:21,236 –> 00:19:24,092
that, okay, I already own this book, or the library has it. Or I can

329
00:19:24,108 –> 00:19:27,762
get it on, you know, audio. And so don’t just think if you’re a new

330
00:19:27,778 –> 00:19:31,546
homeschool mom that I have to buy this whole thing. You don’t. I mean, it’s

331
00:19:31,570 –> 00:19:35,034
probably cheaper if you don’t have anything else, but, but

332
00:19:35,194 –> 00:19:37,890
do some work and you might even realize we’re only going to read half these

333
00:19:37,922 –> 00:19:41,618
books anyway. So just piece, you can piece

334
00:19:41,666 –> 00:19:45,386
a lot of things together. Sure, sure. And some books, if they’re older books

335
00:19:45,490 –> 00:19:49,274
are in the public domain. So you can do like Librivox and

336
00:19:49,314 –> 00:19:52,602
have people read the book to you for free. I mean, that’s a great way

337
00:19:52,618 –> 00:19:55,766
to do it. And then you don’t even have to purchase the book or check

338
00:19:55,790 –> 00:19:58,958
the book out from a library. You can actually have someone else read it to

339
00:19:58,966 –> 00:20:02,422
your kids. And that’s a great thing to do during, you know, maybe quiet

340
00:20:02,478 –> 00:20:06,238
time or lunch time or breakfast or when you’re. Reading to one kid.

341
00:20:06,326 –> 00:20:10,102
Right. Can read to the other. Yes. Brilliant. Yeah, that’s a really great way to

342
00:20:10,118 –> 00:20:13,870
do it. So there’s a couple websites, too, that I wanted to recommend. So

343
00:20:13,902 –> 00:20:17,630
one of them is easy peasy, all in one

344
00:20:17,662 –> 00:20:20,754
homeschool. This one, this is a free home homeschool

345
00:20:20,834 –> 00:20:24,650
curriculum website. And this is a good one that you would want to have

346
00:20:24,682 –> 00:20:28,530
Aby’s printer for because a lot of stuff you can print out,

347
00:20:28,682 –> 00:20:32,514
but they have curriculum for every single grade level and

348
00:20:32,554 –> 00:20:35,414
every single subject. And it is christian

349
00:20:35,874 –> 00:20:39,458
worldview. And so they are amazing. And the, the

350
00:20:39,506 –> 00:20:42,994
website, I’ll put it in the show notes, but it’s, it’s all in one.

351
00:20:43,034 –> 00:20:46,816
Homeschool.com is the website. And so go, it’s,

352
00:20:46,930 –> 00:20:50,236
you just, you have to just go on there and kind of navigate through and

353
00:20:50,420 –> 00:20:53,756
right click around this money. You’re going to spend the time, but you’re going to

354
00:20:53,780 –> 00:20:57,500
save the money. Yes. But they have put so much work into

355
00:20:57,572 –> 00:21:01,316
this website and they’ve got tons and tons of resources, and

356
00:21:01,340 –> 00:21:04,188
it’s pretty well laid out. You have to kind of get to know it first.

357
00:21:04,276 –> 00:21:07,900
But once you navigate through it and get familiar with

358
00:21:07,932 –> 00:21:11,780
it, it’s pretty easy to use. The other one is ambleside

359
00:21:11,852 –> 00:21:15,260
online, and that’s specifically Charlotte mason. So if you’re a Charlotte

360
00:21:15,292 –> 00:21:18,986
Mason type homeschooler, this is a great website for you. And

361
00:21:19,050 –> 00:21:22,850
you probably already know about ambleside online if you’re doing Charlotte mason. But

362
00:21:22,882 –> 00:21:25,934
they’ve got some great resources on there as well, and

363
00:21:26,594 –> 00:21:30,338
that is free of use. That’s awesome. Yeah, we all like free.

364
00:21:30,426 –> 00:21:34,130
We all like free. We do like free. Yeah. Yes. Okay, so another

365
00:21:34,202 –> 00:21:37,738
one is two different ones. One, get

366
00:21:37,786 –> 00:21:41,370
creative. You don’t need to. Like we talked about

367
00:21:41,402 –> 00:21:45,246
before, you can use dried beans instead of buying the manipulatives. Like,

368
00:21:45,370 –> 00:21:48,902
you. You can get creative, and you don’t have to. I

369
00:21:49,038 –> 00:21:51,070
struggled with that for years. I’m like, well, no, they said I have to have

370
00:21:51,102 –> 00:21:54,830
this, right? But then I’m like, okay, if I couldn’t have that, how could I

371
00:21:54,902 –> 00:21:58,726
create this in my own home, right? And there’s. There’s so many creative ways.

372
00:21:58,750 –> 00:22:02,006
And that is one good thing about the Internet. You could probably google something like

373
00:22:02,030 –> 00:22:05,686
that. And I guarantee a mom somewhere. Homeschool moms are creative. A

374
00:22:05,710 –> 00:22:09,494
mom somewhere has come up with it, right? She’s come up with something like

375
00:22:09,534 –> 00:22:12,994
that, and she might share, but, like, the beans versus manipulatives.

376
00:22:13,034 –> 00:22:16,770
I’m dying when I see people buy all these. Really, like, $75

377
00:22:16,802 –> 00:22:20,034
for a box of manipulatives. And I’m like, I can get a bag of dried

378
00:22:20,074 –> 00:22:22,546
beans for a lot cheaper than that. My kids can count them just as well.

379
00:22:22,610 –> 00:22:26,170
Yeah. So. So there’s those kind of things also barter

380
00:22:26,242 –> 00:22:29,906
and trade. We talked about barter and trading curriculum, but you

381
00:22:29,930 –> 00:22:33,418
can also do that with extracurriculars. Like,

382
00:22:33,506 –> 00:22:36,610
hey, I can teach your kid to sew if you can teach my kid piano

383
00:22:36,642 –> 00:22:40,346
lessons, you know? And there’s a lot of those kind of

384
00:22:40,370 –> 00:22:44,178
getting creative. And again, it’s just building that community, because every mom

385
00:22:44,226 –> 00:22:47,810
has a gift and a talent that she can share that I don’t have. I

386
00:22:47,842 –> 00:22:51,178
am unapologetically not the

387
00:22:51,306 –> 00:22:55,098
messy science experiment crafting mom. I’m getting better,

388
00:22:55,146 –> 00:22:58,850
but I didn’t used to be. But I am so happy to

389
00:22:59,002 –> 00:23:01,882
come over and teach your kids a lot of kitchen skills if you’ll let my

390
00:23:01,898 –> 00:23:05,642
kids blow things up in your living room. So there’s a

391
00:23:05,658 –> 00:23:09,490
lot of good ways to get creative in that area, too. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

392
00:23:09,522 –> 00:23:12,950
let’s see. I don’t play piano, and I don’t know how to sew, and I

393
00:23:12,982 –> 00:23:16,086
don’t like being in the kitchen. So I would have to say, well, I will

394
00:23:16,110 –> 00:23:19,406
teach you how to podcast if you will teach my kid how to play piano.

395
00:23:19,430 –> 00:23:22,990
There you go. Perfect. I don’t know what other skills I

396
00:23:23,022 –> 00:23:26,742
have. You have skills? I’m sure I do. And you know what? We’re at

397
00:23:26,758 –> 00:23:29,702
the season where I’m like, I will put your toddler on my lap and read

398
00:23:29,718 –> 00:23:33,190
him a book, because I wish I had a toddler to snuggle up. And so

399
00:23:33,222 –> 00:23:37,062
then find that mom, sometimes we get so overwhelmed, and it’s

400
00:23:37,078 –> 00:23:40,686
like, there is a grandma out there that would be so happy to rock your

401
00:23:40,710 –> 00:23:44,094
baby and read your baby a book. You know, while you’re doing these other things,

402
00:23:44,134 –> 00:23:47,194
it’s, we gotta build that community. And so often

403
00:23:47,894 –> 00:23:51,710
what brings people together is that common goal of, we want to steward God’s

404
00:23:51,742 –> 00:23:55,166
money well, we want to raise our families well. We want to do this well.

405
00:23:55,310 –> 00:23:59,006
And that’s another reason not to beat a dead horse, but it’s another

406
00:23:59,070 –> 00:24:02,374
reason that we see the government funding of homeschool just really

407
00:24:02,454 –> 00:24:06,252
breaking down the homeschool community, because we’re

408
00:24:06,268 –> 00:24:10,028
not leaning on each other like we’re made to, right? Yes. Yeah, absolutely.

409
00:24:10,076 –> 00:24:13,344
And speaking of leaning on each other, I want to mention

410
00:24:13,644 –> 00:24:17,436
one more resource that I think is just absolutely amazing. And I

411
00:24:17,460 –> 00:24:20,676
hope they’re okay with me sharing this. I’m sure they probably will, because it’s. It’s

412
00:24:20,700 –> 00:24:23,584
on their website, and it’s. It’s for public, you know,

413
00:24:24,164 –> 00:24:27,876
use. But Rainbow Resource center, they’re a great resource

414
00:24:27,940 –> 00:24:31,684
for curriculum, and they oftentimes have different sales on different

415
00:24:31,724 –> 00:24:35,208
curriculum and books and literature, all that fun stuff. But

416
00:24:35,336 –> 00:24:39,064
Rainbow resource center, they do. I’m going to actually just read off of their

417
00:24:39,104 –> 00:24:42,096
website what it says because I could try to explain or I could just read

418
00:24:42,120 –> 00:24:45,800
it. It says, in 2011, we established our first fruits

419
00:24:45,872 –> 00:24:49,584
scholarship fund to help families that are going through financial hardship

420
00:24:49,704 –> 00:24:53,096
with their homeschooling expenses. They take their June profits,

421
00:24:53,160 –> 00:24:56,880
considered the first fruits of their summer, back to school sales, and allocate

422
00:24:56,912 –> 00:25:00,336
these first fruits scholarship. Allocate those to their first

423
00:25:00,400 –> 00:25:04,114
fruits scholarship fund. And I’m going to put the link to the form

424
00:25:04,154 –> 00:25:07,938
in there. Um, we. We have known people who

425
00:25:07,946 –> 00:25:11,778
have used this, uh, just recently, this past year, um, we had a friend who.

426
00:25:11,826 –> 00:25:15,386
She was just really in need of curriculum, and she was struggling to be able

427
00:25:15,410 –> 00:25:19,250
to afford what she needed. And so they have you put, uh, somebody,

428
00:25:19,322 –> 00:25:23,162
a friend or family member, as a resource. It’s almost like a job. Like,

429
00:25:23,178 –> 00:25:26,250
you have to fill out a form, and it’s not complicated. I don’t even think

430
00:25:26,282 –> 00:25:29,882
that they ask you to put what your income is or anything. It’s not super

431
00:25:29,938 –> 00:25:33,494
invasive, if I remember correctly. But. But

432
00:25:33,794 –> 00:25:37,402
she used us as a reference, and so

433
00:25:37,498 –> 00:25:40,730
they called us up and said, you know, we got a form from so and

434
00:25:40,762 –> 00:25:44,610
so, and they just asked a few questions to just kind of confirm, you know.

435
00:25:44,642 –> 00:25:48,306
Right. Which is good. They’re being accountable. Right. She’s not trying to take advantage of

436
00:25:48,330 –> 00:25:52,058
them. Right. And they want to be good stewards of this scholarship

437
00:25:52,106 –> 00:25:55,926
fund, but it is there for people to use. And so I think

438
00:25:55,950 –> 00:25:59,406
it’s amazing what they do. I love. And this is their ministry. Like, they do

439
00:25:59,430 –> 00:26:03,078
this as a ministry specifically to the homeschooling community. So it’s called their

440
00:26:03,126 –> 00:26:06,670
first fruits scholarship fund, and it to the Rainbow

441
00:26:06,702 –> 00:26:10,446
Resource center website. And again, I will put the link to the form

442
00:26:10,590 –> 00:26:13,502
in the show notes. So for those of you who really are struggling and you

443
00:26:13,518 –> 00:26:16,814
just feel like, I really need this particular curriculum, and they’ve

444
00:26:16,854 –> 00:26:20,574
got just about everything you can imagine, um, right on their

445
00:26:20,614 –> 00:26:24,050
website. Uh, so lots and lots of different publishers on there.

446
00:26:24,182 –> 00:26:27,826
So if you are feeling like, I just really need this particular thing, and it’s

447
00:26:27,850 –> 00:26:31,626
just not in our budget, maybe pray about this and consider filling out

448
00:26:31,650 –> 00:26:34,866
this form. And it’s very private, you know, nobody needs to know that you’re doing

449
00:26:34,890 –> 00:26:37,442
it. The only person who’s going to know is the person that you put as

450
00:26:37,458 –> 00:26:41,146
your reference. And. And so, anyway, that’s a great option, and I

451
00:26:41,170 –> 00:26:45,018
appreciate that they do that. I also know that HSLDA has a scholarship fund.

452
00:26:45,066 –> 00:26:48,522
I don’t know how theirs works. I’m assuming you probably have to be a member

453
00:26:48,578 –> 00:26:51,908
of HSLDA. But I don’t know. I don’t know the details. I do know that

454
00:26:51,916 –> 00:26:55,756
you do have to be a member. Okay. But I know. I know that

455
00:26:55,780 –> 00:26:59,588
it means an application process, you know? Yeah. So that they can be stewards of

456
00:26:59,596 –> 00:27:02,276
that money as well, but it’s worth looking into. Yeah, yeah. You know, and of

457
00:27:02,300 –> 00:27:05,572
course, this is after you have sacrificed. You know, you don’t get to go get

458
00:27:05,588 –> 00:27:09,428
your nails done and then call first fruits. This is truly for

459
00:27:09,476 –> 00:27:13,316
families that you aren’t really in need. Yeah, they’re in need, and they’re seeking the

460
00:27:13,340 –> 00:27:17,052
Lord, and they’ve done what they can, and that’s awesome. That’s really

461
00:27:17,108 –> 00:27:20,580
neat. Yeah, it’s really cool. And they have, on Rainbow resource

462
00:27:20,612 –> 00:27:24,028
Center, they actually have all. It’s not just

463
00:27:24,076 –> 00:27:27,916
curriculum. They’ve got toys. They have manipulatives. They have all

464
00:27:27,940 –> 00:27:31,780
the things that you would need. Right. And so you can even purchase Christmas

465
00:27:31,812 –> 00:27:35,364
gifts for your kids. You know, get certain fun learning toys for them. And those

466
00:27:35,404 –> 00:27:38,236
can be their Christmas gifts. I mean, just. It really is a blessing that they

467
00:27:38,260 –> 00:27:41,996
do this, that they have this ministry. So, yeah. So check them

468
00:27:42,020 –> 00:27:45,196
out. We’ll put that link in the show notes. Aby, do you have any last

469
00:27:45,260 –> 00:27:49,038
words of encouragement? I think, honestly, I just want to. I want

470
00:27:49,046 –> 00:27:52,486
to come full circle and say when we answer God’s call, he’s going to give

471
00:27:52,510 –> 00:27:54,942
us what we need. It might not be what we think we want or what

472
00:27:54,958 –> 00:27:58,710
the world tells us that we should have, but the Lord is going

473
00:27:58,742 –> 00:28:02,550
to provide you what you need to raise up your kids. And when

474
00:28:02,582 –> 00:28:05,822
we trust in him, you know, it gives us that peace. We don’t need to

475
00:28:05,838 –> 00:28:08,646
be anxious. We don’t need to be stressed. We don’t need to really even try

476
00:28:08,670 –> 00:28:11,446
to figure it out. We don’t have to. We just need to go to the

477
00:28:11,470 –> 00:28:15,146
one that holds it. And so God is going to

478
00:28:15,170 –> 00:28:19,002
provide. He’s going to. I mean, he provides all of our needs and he’s going

479
00:28:19,018 –> 00:28:22,754
to provide this need as well. So. But in that, you know, we are called

480
00:28:22,794 –> 00:28:25,850
to be stewards. We’re called to be wise. We’re called to, you know, not take

481
00:28:25,882 –> 00:28:29,666
advantage of. Of that. So. So here’s some tips and tricks. But.

482
00:28:29,770 –> 00:28:33,610
But God has this, you know, he’s got this because the greatest thing we’re doing

483
00:28:33,642 –> 00:28:36,890
is we’re not trying to, to fill our home with school

484
00:28:37,002 –> 00:28:40,756
stuff, right, and curriculum and. And things. We’re. We’re

485
00:28:40,780 –> 00:28:44,220
trying to fill the hearts of our children with Jesus, right? That’s right.

486
00:28:44,292 –> 00:28:48,076
Amen. Well, thank you, Aby, for being with me this week. It’s been so much

487
00:28:48,100 –> 00:28:51,636
fun chatting with you about this. And thank you guys for listening. You are such

488
00:28:51,660 –> 00:28:55,500
a blessing to us. We love you. Remember, you can find everything at our website,

489
00:28:55,572 –> 00:28:59,420
schoolhouserocked.com, where you can watch the movie for free. See,

490
00:28:59,452 –> 00:29:02,260
it doesn’t even cost you anything. You can watch that with your kids. Family movie

491
00:29:02,292 –> 00:29:06,142
night. Family movie night. Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution – Stream it for free

492
00:29:06,158 –> 00:29:09,478
through our website and you can find everything else there as well. If you would

493
00:29:09,486 –> 00:29:11,790
like to make a donation to the ministry, you can do that through our website

494
00:29:11,822 –> 00:29:15,462
as well. Have a great rest of your day and stay

495
00:29:15,558 –> 00:29:18,102
tuned to the very end to hear what’s coming up next week on the podcast.

496
00:29:18,118 –> 00:29:19,542
We’ll see you back here then. Bye.