SR 862: Back to School 2024: Starting the Homeschool Year Right – Aby Rinella, Part 2

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Even in our homeschool journey, like, now that we’re farther along, I’m

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realizing all the things that I thought were so important when I

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first was in kindergarten isn’t important. I remember how much time

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I spent on certain units, and now I ask them, and they’re like, I

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don’t even remember that. Hey, everyone, this is Yvette

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Hampton. Welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. I back with Aby,

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and we are doing our school year kickoff. We talked on Monday a

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little bit about kind of our summers and what went on, and they were kind

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of crazy. We both just. It wasn’t exactly what either of us

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had planned, but God had different plans for us. And it’s been neat just

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to watch that unfold, and it’s been hard in a lot of ways for both

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of us. But the Lord got us through it. And now here we are at

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the beginning of a new school year and ready to jump in with both

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feet and. And, you know, just like the summer time

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doesn’t always unfold the way that we think it’s going to. The school year

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is not going to either. No, it’s not. News flash. News flash.

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Here’s a little dose of reality, right? Yeah. You

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know, you talked about, you know, we can plan our steps,

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but God has a way of sometimes changing

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things up for us. And so our plans that we make need to

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be held loosely, and we need to trust him day by day.

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I mean, I find literally, day by day, that we’ve got to trust him. Right

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to moment by moment. I feel like, yes. Because even as a homeschool mom,

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you start one way in the morning, and by the afternoon, oh, yeah,

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everything can fall apart. And so it’s literally. It is a moment by

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momentous. Yes. Yeah. But God is so faithful, and I’m so thankful that

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we don’t have to do this on our own without him. Um, he is good,

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and he will guide us step by step through the way. Uh, so anyway, we’re

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going to get back into talking about this upcoming school year and what we’ve got

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going on with that. But before we do, I want to say thank you to

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Well, again, if you missed Monday’s episode, go back and listen

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to that, and you will know why. My voice is a little bit raspy today.

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I’m getting over a nasty head cold, but I made it through,

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and I’m thankful you survived. I survived

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it. Yeah. I discovered that Benadryl, severe

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allergy, was the magic potion. It was the magic

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potion. That’s what got me to finally be able to sleep without my

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head being stuffed up and feeling like I was full of helium. So,

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yeah, it was great. I’m glad you’re here. I’m glad you lived through it.

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I am, too. Apparently, the Lord had plans for me to be

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here. Yes. So, you know, as we’re

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thinking through the next school year, I kind of want to

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go back to the why. And we’ve talked a lot about this. We’ve done a

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whole episode on the why of homeschooling, and really, like, what is

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the heart of our homeschool? And so I want to bring you and

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I kind of back into focus and our listeners, as well

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as to, like, why? Think. Think about that. Because

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I feel like we sometimes just get back into the mode of. Okay.

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Curriculum planning and schedule planning, and what are we doing with sports? What

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are we doing with all the things? And we plan it all out,

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but we forget to think again about our why. Why are we doing this?

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And more and more, we see the homeschool world changing so very

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drastically. And I see more and more people running

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away from traditional school, especially public

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schools, but they don’t know what they’re running to.

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Right, right. And I feel like people are almost

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running like it’s. They’re in chaos. They’re not sure what

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direction to go. Right. They know they don’t want to be

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there, but they don’t know what I mean.

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They, oh, let’s do the homeschool thing. But they don’t know what that is.

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Right. Right. And, of course, you

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know, most homeschool moms, most new homeschool moms think, okay,

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we’re just gonna bring our kids home, and we’re gonna do. We’re gonna just replicate

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school at home, which we’ve talked about a million times like that. Does nothing

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work? You know, in some senses, it does, but it’s

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not just bringing the classroom into your home, because then you get discouraged, and then

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you put it back in school and all the things. So we really have to

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think about our why. And that’s kind of what we talked about on Monday is

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like, what are we trying to do with our kids? And we talked about

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Ecclesiastes 12:13 and how, you know, the end of the matter is to

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love God and to keep his commandments. Like, that’s the whole duty of man,

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is to just focus our hearts on the Lord. So if you are a

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christian parent who is homeschooling, your

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focus should be to point your kids to Jesus

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every day in every way. And you can do that in math,

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and you can do that in language. But if you are doing the, okay, this

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is math, this is language, this is history. And then we sprinkle Jesus into each

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subject. I’m telling you, it’s going to fail. It’s going to fall

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apart. It has to be first. And again, we went, we did this on Monday,

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but psalm 127. Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders

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label in labor in vain, it will fall apart. You will get discouraged. I mean,

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the Bible says that the storms are going to come. They’re going to

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come. The question is, are you going to stand or are you going

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to cave? And the only way you’re going to stand is if what Yvette

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said, the foundation of what you’re doing is pointing our kids to

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Christ. And then you build math upon that, and you build language upon

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that. And then when language doesn’t turn out to like, you’re falling apart

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because it’s a. It’s not working. You haven’t lost the foundation of Christ. You can

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just regear on language, but not on Jesus, right?

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Yes, absolutely. I told you on Monday that we went to

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the culture proof conference in Tennessee this summer,

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and one of the speakers there was Doctor Kathy Cook, and I had never heard

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her speak. It’s so funny because I’ve heard a lot about her,

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and I had never actually heard her speak. I’ve never heard an

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interview with her or anything like that. And she was a really powerful speaker. One

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of the things that she talked about in her session was

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that our prayer should be to walk rightly with

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Jesus like we. Because when we pray, we often ask, you know, lord,

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protect us, which, yes, that’s an important thing to ask. You know, please provide

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for us. Yes, that’s an important thing to ask. Right. You know, we

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ask for all these things, but what our focus really should be

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is that we would walk rightly with Jesus and grow in our faith.

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And I was so just struck by that, and I thought that’s, that’s really it.

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Like, that’s the most important thing is that we would have a right relationship with

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the Lord and grow in our faith and pass that on

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to our kids. And so trying to keep those two things in perspective, that’s

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so good, really, for our why, of what we’re doing. Why

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are we doing this? Right. So that our kids will walk rightly with Jesus

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and grow in their own faith. And, you know, you can. That means when everything’s

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falling apart around you, can you still walk rightly with Jesus through that and grow

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in your faith? Yes. Right. When everything is falling apart,

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when. When you get the most horrible news or school isn’t working,

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those. If that’s what you’re building it on, those two things, that doesn’t

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change. You can do those two things through the darkest moments. Yes.

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I love that. Yeah. And. And let me just say in that, um,

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when we go through really hard times, it doesn’t mean that our walk is always

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going to be upright and straight and solid and strong.

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Right. Sometimes, I mean, our family has been through some

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really difficult times. Right. Where. Yes, exactly. We feel like

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we’re crawling. Right? We’re like. We’re skipping crawling,

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right. You know, where the Lord is having to literally hold us up.

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And again, you think about a baby learning to walk, you know, as their parents,

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you’re holding their hands and they’re taking a couple of steps at a time. And

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sometimes I feel that way. I feel like, man, lord,

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I can’t walk on my own. I just. I am

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falling down. But God is so faithful, and he holds onto

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us. Yeah. And he does help us to walk. He is our

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strength. And so, man,

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it’s the older I get. I’m going to be 50 this

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year. Aby. What? I know. In November. November

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21, you guys, just so you all know, my birthday, my 50th

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birthday is November 21. Okay, so I don’t want to tattoo.

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That on your hand. I don’t want to permanent tattoo, like a tennis

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tattoo. Um, yeah. I don’t want to derail us, but do you

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color your hair because you have no gray? No, I do

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not color my hair. I have not. I. I use color, at least usually.

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People with dark hair, like, I. With blondes, you don’t

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really see the gray behind. That’s impressive. I have

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maybe, like, ten gray hairs. This is so

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funny. I refuse to pull them because, you know, the old wives tale that if

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you pull it, more will grow, more will come. I refuse to test that out.

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Yeah. So I have, like, these little scissors, and so, like, when they grow

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a little piece, I literally just cut it. Like, at. But why don’t you just

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embrace them? Because they’re the most beautiful women.

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Well, here, if you have, like, a whole natural hydraulic head of gray hair. Yes.

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But when I have, like, ten, like, random, like, sticking up. Okay.

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Because my hair’s so dark, it just looks weird. Weird. So I just cut them

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and they’re on. I only have, like, ten that I have to. Well, when you

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get, like, 40, you just embrace it. Cause it would skip. It would give a

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pretty dimension. We’ll see. Yeah, I know. I make

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note 55. Okay. November 21. Everybody make notes. It’s so

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funny, though. I know. We were way derailed here. Wait, go back

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when I was at the hospital with my. My mom.

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One of the nurses thought I was in my thirties. Like,

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thirties. Did you hug her? I was like, thank you.

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It was just such a compliment. Okay, but here’s the reality. It’s because the

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Bible tells us that. That it’s internal.

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Our beauty is coming from within. So when you were in the hospital,

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you were just. You’re just floating. You’ll always be 30 because you are

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putting. You are thinking about walking rightly with Jesus.

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Right. And growing in your faith. So that’s what I’m hoping. As I age, I’m

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like, man, I really better get pretty inside because the outside is going

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fast. Oh, my goodness. So funny. Yeah. So

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anyway, yeah. Everyone, mark that on your calendars. November 21, Yvette’s 50th

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birthday. I expect a gigantic surprise party with all of

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our podcasts. Podcast listeners to come to Tulsa. But I think what you were saying

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is, as you’re getting ready to turn 50, you’re learning these things, right? You’re starting.

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Oh, yeah, we’re talking about that. Yeah. We’re talking about walking rightly with Jesus and

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growing in our. See, now I’m totally fixated on my birthday. No. And

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not only. Okay, I’m just gonna keep going with this. Not only is it gonna

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be my 50th birthday, but Garrett and I got married just a couple weeks after

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we both turned 20. And so it’s gonna be our 30th anniversary.

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Anniversary. Yeah. Anyway, okay, moving on. Okay,

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so, yes, the older I get,

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that’s where I was going with all of this. The older I get, the more

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I just realize how important my walk is with the Lord

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and that we are going to face trials sometimes that seem

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unbearable. Right. And if we’re not

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walking in truth, I mean, I even think about, like, three John, verse four.

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That’s another one of my favorite verses. It says, I have no greater joy than

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to hear that my children are walking in truth. Right. And

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we need to walk in truth so that our children can walk in truth. And

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I truly have no greater joy. I mean, I’ve told my girls, like, there’s nothing

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that matters to me more than the. Than. Than you walking with the Lord.

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Right, right. Walking rightly with the Lord and growing in your faith with him. Like,

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that’s. That’s all I really care about. Do you also notice, though, as we get

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older, so we’re realizing what’s truly important? But are you also realizing that all

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the things you thought were important, all the things you held high mass over, like,

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even in our homeschool journey, like, now that we’re farther along, you know,

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and we have high schoolers and we’re getting in graduates like that, I’m realizing all

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the things that I thought were so important when I first was in

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kindergarten isn’t important. I remember how much time I spent

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on certain units, and now I ask them, and they’re like, I don’t even remember

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that. Right. And I’m like, wow, that was a lot of work and

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money, and. And it just helped me go, you know what? Those aren’t the things.

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I mean, yes, they matter. We’re called to give our kids an excellent education because

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we want to do everything in excellence, but we hold such high mass over the

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things. But you know what they do remember? Sitting and reading with me, waking

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up and having breakfast, just being together and making memories and.

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And. And pointing them. Like, I just think about this summer.

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Yeah. Every plan we had was derailed because Jesse’s dad was,

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you know, going downhill fast and died. And I thought they had the most impactful,

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educational, incredible summer ever this

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summer because it was God’s plan, not mine. And they learned the

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things that really, really do matter. Yeah.

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And then taking that and us taking that

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to impact God’s kingdom. Yes, for sure. I

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mean, because then you follow that with, you know, our goal is

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to live for Jesus, is to walk rightly with him, to grow in our faith.

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Right. But also to know him and to

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impact his kingdom. Right. And we can’t do that if we

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don’t know him. I’ve talked before about Coram Deo.

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This is our latin lesson for the day. Okay. Coram Deo. I

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sign every newsletter, every email. It’s. It is

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another, like, on the forefront of my mind often. And

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quorum Deo means to live one. To live one’s entire life

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in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of

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God. That incredible. It’s incredible. Like, when you think

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about that, it’s so. It sounds easy, but it’s not easy. It’s intense. That would

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take our entire life to focus on. Just if we could just. If that’s all

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we focus on, that’s enough. Yep. Living in the presence of God under the authority

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of God, to the glory of God, that’s what matters

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the most. Yeah, for sure. And so as we’re looking to

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this new school year and we’re looking at curriculum and we’re getting all

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anxious and worked up over, are we going to do it right? How are my

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kids are going to respond? You know, what character qualities do we need to work

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on with our kids? How is my schedule gonna look? Am I gonna be able

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to get it all done right? Seek first the kingdom of God and his

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righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Like, that is what

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matters the most. Seek first the kingdom of goddess. Yep. Live for

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him. Live for his glory. And it’s all gonna be

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fine. So we need to just calm down. Calm the heck down,

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people, is what you’re saying. Aby just said heck

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on the school house. Frog talk down

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in case. Calm down, everyone. Calm

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down, everyone. Yeah, I mean, that’s. That’s

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really what I love with that. I love what you said. That is. That is

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the verse is seek for the kingdom of God. Yeah. You know, and then math

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will be handed to you, and then language will be handed to you. I mean,

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those aren’t the first things, but. But they are things that we still

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need to be doing. Absolutely. And it doesn’t mean that we just aren’t doing

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anything. Right. You know, obviously we still have to do what the Lord’s called us

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to do. Well, even the Bible tells us that, like, as we’re waiting for Jesus,

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we’re not supposed to twiddle our situ. Sit around and twiddle our thumbs. I mean,

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we do have work to do. God does have a calling for our kids. God

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does have a future. We are raising boys that are going to be providers. So

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they do need an education. We are raising women

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who are going to be heads of home. Who takes a boatload of education.

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let the Lord build the house. Like, it has to be founded on the most

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important things and then. And then build the other things up from there. Yeah.

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Okay, I don’t want to park here too long. Okay. But just as I’ve been

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thinking about, like, what we’re doing with the school year and about, you know, the

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fear that so many of us have going into this new school year, and we

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have talked so many times in our Christmas episodes, you and I,

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Aby, about Esther and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and how

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God has called, you know, Daniel, he’s called all these people his disciples,

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and they were just ordinary people that God called to do

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extraordinary things. Right? And I think keeping that in perspective

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is another important thing because we tend to think sometimes that, like,

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I’m not going to do it right, I’m going to mess this up because I’m

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not an expert in this field of education and how am I going to teach

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my kids all the things that they need to learn? God has given you guys

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everything that you need to be able to do what he’s called you to do.

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I’m just going to keep saying that we’ve said that so many times, but I

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need that reminder for myself for sure as well. Right?

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And you’re not going to know all the things to teach your kids. You’re not.

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And I tell you what, I have a college degree and a teaching degree, and

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I still don’t know all the things to teach my kids. But, you know, what

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I do know what to do is I know how to teach them how to

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learn, and I know how to learn with them, and I know where to find

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out how to learn these things. Yes. You’re not going to

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know all the things nobody does, right?

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It’s not possible. No, it’s not. The beginning of this

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summer, maybe it was the end of the school year.

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I became friends through

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email and maybe Facebook. I can’t remember.

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We’ve been Facebook friends with Karen andreola.

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She’s a Charlotte Mason guru, so she’s written

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a bunch of books on Charlotte Masonde, and we’ll talk about curriculum

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tomorrow. But I kind of want to kick it off with this

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because this was really kind of a funny and interesting thing. I

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thought at the end of the school year, like, all last school year, I was

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thinking actually for many years, like, I really love the

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Charlotte Mason method of education. And so I thought, this is what

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we’re going to do. You know, Brooklyn’s now graduated. It’s just Lacey and I.

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And we’re going to, like, we’re going to go deep into Charlotte mason, which

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I love. Charlotte Mason. I think I love her philosophy. Um, and

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so Karen kind of helped walk me through that. Um, Sonia

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Schaefer helped walk me through that. I got on a phone call with Sonia, and

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she. We talked for a long time, and she kind of walked me through. Okay,

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Lacy’s got five more years left. Here’s the direction that

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maybe would be good to go, you know, with that. This is what you can

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cover in the next five years. And I was so excited. And, um. And then

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Karen sent me a couple of books. She sent me her mother culture book. Have

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you seen this book or read it? It’s so good.

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It’s not. It’s called mother culture for a happy

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homeschool. And so I’m still reading through it, and it is one of the

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best books I have ever read on mothering, on parenting.

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Wow. Okay. It is fantastic. It just.

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I’m not going to say it makes mothering easy, but it takes so much pressure

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off. I don’t know. I feel like a lot of parenting books are a little

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bit rigorous, and I read them and I’m like, man, I’m not doing it right.

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And I don’t feel that way with this book. She just gives some really

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gentle and practical ways on how to mother, and it’s a

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fantastic book. So I’ve been reading through this, and then I read her other book.

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I haven’t read the whole thing, but. But read partly through the Charlotte Mason

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companion because she sent this to me, too. Yeah. And I was like, this is

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so great. We’re going to do Charlotte Mason. It’s going to be amazing.

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And then you know what happened? Aby sat down with Lacey

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and I said, lacey, what are we going to do for school this year?

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Yeah. And you know what she did? She pulled out a bunch of textbooks and

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she went through a catalog and she chose a bunch of textbooks, and she was

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like, I want to do this, this, this, and this. See, because you’re teaching to

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your child, not some sort of. Yeah. And I was like, oh,

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yeah, Lacey, you’re the one who likes textbooks and worksheets and all that

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stuff. Isn’t that funny? Yes. So I now

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have a stack of textbooks next to me, and

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that’s what we’re doing this year. And, you know, I love that because this

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is the thing we, as homeschool moms, get in this thing. Wherever there’s some. Okay.

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My little cousin, I always talk about her because she’s, like, just starting this journey,

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right? She has her first kindergartner and she’s like, okay, I’m trying to get the

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philosophies figured out, to figure out which philosophy I’m. And I’m like, you don’t

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get to decide what your philosophy is. Like, what you gonna do is study

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your kids and decide what works for your family. Like, every family has a unique

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philosophy now. Yes. We’re gonna be like, okay, I love. And she’s

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such. She’s so wise for her age. She’s like, I’m not going to try to

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put myself in a box. I just kind of want to know what people are

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talking about. Like, when someone says Charlotte Mason, I just want to know what that

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means to. Because we were talking about, like, don’t put yourself in a

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homeschool box because your kid might not fit there. But I love

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Lacy. Isn’t that. That’s what our kids will do, though? We’ll have it all figured

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out and planned out, and then they’ll be like, actually. But I think that’s

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important as we pick, is we need to let our kids, this is their

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education. Like, this is their education. And something I learned

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along the way is when I let them pick, they are

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invested. They want to do it. The battle isn’t there

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because they picked it. And this is what else. If it doesn’t work and they

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don’t love it. They can’t be mad at me. It doesn’t fall on me. Like,

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they chose this, right? And we’ll see it through, and then we’ll

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readjust. And we’re not saying the philosophies and the

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ways of homeschooling that are out there, you know, classical Charlotte Mason. They’re

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good and they’re real, but your kid gets to kind of determine that. Not

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what you like, not the pretty things. Yeah. Right, right. And

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it’s a beautiful thing. And she’s another kid that fits into the

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Charlotte Mason. Right.

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Can I have one of yours? But this is what I said. I’m like, I

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want more kids because there’s more stuff coming out. And I’m like, oh, I love

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that. And I love this, and I want to do that. Winnie, can I have

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Winnie? Oh, I love her. You want to keep her?

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I’m going to keep her. Yeah, you can keep her. All right. Okay. I know.

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I need to go find a neighbor kid or something like that. You’re gonna have

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grandkids. That’s right. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I’ll do Charlotte Mason with my

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grandkids. Yeah, totally. You’ll just be like, just birth me a Charlotte Mason erde. Right.

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Because, you know, my girls are going to live next door to me forever, so.

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Yeah, I didn’t even think about that. Put in your order. Lord, I need a

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kid that is going to fit Charlotte Mason. Right. But it’s great. You know, she’s.

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She’s going to be 14 in less than two months, which is crazy.

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And so you’re not going to let a child, you know, a little child. No,

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no. Their education. But I gave her options actually, though.

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Right. But you are going to study your child, and that’s going to direct their

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education because you’re going to go, this kid is, you know, I don’t

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know, kinesthetic, and that’s. You’re not going to let a kindergartner be like, I’m not.

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I don’t do math. Thank you very much. Yeah, exactly. So,

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yes. You know, she knows what she likes. Yeah.

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She’s excited. She’s funny. She’s like, I want to do dual enrollment starting

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next year in 9th grade and get, you know, at least halfway done with college.

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And I’m like, wow, okay, whose kid are you? Wow.

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But it’s. It’s. It’s what she is excited about.

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So I gave her options. I kind of directed, said, okay, you know, if you

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want to do textbooks, but here are some options for you. And,

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oh, that. She was super excited about it, so. Yeah. And that’s going to be

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a totally different year. Are excited. I think when our kids are excited,

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because, I’ll be honest, I’m excited every year because I love.

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But when the kids aren’t excited, then that’s when it’s a bummer.

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So it’s. I love that when they’re excited and you’re excited,

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it’s exciting. Yeah. And we always. I know you guys have

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your first day of school tradition, too. Ours is always,

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we get donuts. You guys still do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I

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asked her. I asked Lacey. I was like, so do you want to start, like,

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a new tradition since this is going to be the first year with this? And

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she was like, no. She was, like, deeply offended that I would ask her

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to change their tradition. That’s so funny. She was like, no. Why would I

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want to change it? We’ve always done donuts. Oh, that’s cute. That’s how

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Winnie is. She is so set in her, like, do not change anything. Yeah, we’re

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gonna. I can’t say it cause I’m in my. I’m in my room slash

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recording studio, which is really just my bedroom, and the kids are right

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on the other side. But we’re gonna do it a little different this year. Okay.

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I’ll whisper. Can you hear me? Oh, yeah, I can hear you. Okay, so instead

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of having donuts at the counter, I’m gonna wake up and have

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them all ready for school, and then we’re gonna go out, which you guys do

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that, right? Yeah, you go out. We usually would never make a donut at home.

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What are you talking about? No, no. We just usually have them at home, and

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then we start our day, like. You won’t buy them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we’re

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gonna go out, and then we’re gonna come home and rather than, like, start school,

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because usually I let them see all the stuff that we’re doing ahead of time.

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Yeah. But then I’ve realized by the first day, they’re like, eh, right. We’ve already

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been looking at this like, mom’s been excited since July, and it makes them nuts.

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So I’ve tried to, like, not talk school, not let them, you know? So

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then on the first day, they’ll just get to see all the exciting things that

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they’ve essentially picked out. They just didn’t know that I actually got it.

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I don’t know. I’m trying to mix it up a little because I don’t know.

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And I might have chaos. Cause they’re like, this isn’t how we’ve always done it.

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What are you doing? Yeah. But because we’re starting on a Wednesday, so

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I decided we’re gonna do that and then get our routines figured out Thursday and

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Friday, and then we can actually, like, on Monday, be

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in the groove. I mean, that’s my plan, but you know how that works. Yep.

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And it’s all gonna go smoothly. Perfect. It’s gonna go perfect

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at all. Every kid will have their script written ahead of time.

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Yeah. Right. That’s how my family rolls, too. We’re out of time.

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Let’s come back tomorrow. Well, I talk about actual stuff,

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curriculum and what we’re doing, but you guys just stay

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focused on what matters the most. Stay focused on Jesus

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and building relationships. Yeah. With your kids. Oh, I

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know. So much fun. It’s the best part of homeschooling you guys.

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Yes. Pointing them to Jesus and building relationships with your kids. Yes.

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Do not let curriculum get in the way of that. No, don’t do it. Don’t

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do it. Don’t do it. You will regret that. So. All right, we’re out of

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time. We will be back tomorrow. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you

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have not seen the movie, if it is the school year, I still am amazed

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at how many people listen to this podcast and have not seen the movie, which

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isn’t free. So there’s no free. There’s

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no excuse. No excuse at all.

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None at all. You can even watch it on your

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phone, you guys. What? Yes, you can. If you’re on, like, a

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drive somewhere, you can watch it on your phone because you can stream it for

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free. SchoolhouseRocked.com. Do it. Watch it for

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free. Watch at the beginning of school year. It’ll encourage you. Actually. It will.

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And watch it with your kids. I mean, maybe not young, but check. But it

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actually put a fire under my kids as to why we’re doing what we’re doing.

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Like, it really got them excited. Yeah. Or watch it with your friends. Have

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a watch party. Oh, my goodness. School year kickoff. Watch party.

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And watch Schoolhouse Rocked with your friends. Pop some popcorn. Throw some M&Ms or Hot

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Tamales in there. Not at the same time. M&Ms or

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Hot Tamales. And enjoy.

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Enjoy. All right, we love you guys. Stay tuned to the very end to hear

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what’s coming up tomorrow, and we will see you back then. Bye.

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It’s kind of a whole new season for both of us. You are down to

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one, and I’m kind of in this place where I’m starting to have a

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lot more independence. But it’s interesting. I’m more in the little, little days of,

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like, all the gathering and circle, and we’ll still do some of that, but, you

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know, but it’s also so cool to see kids be able, like you said,

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lacy picked it out. Like, to see my kids, you know, start to gravitate

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towards things that after all these years, this is what I love. This is what

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I want to learn. And as I’m watching other kids in the public

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schools, I’m like, they don’t get a choice. Like, this is what you learn

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your junior year. I don’t care if I like it. I don’t care if you’ve

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already done it. I don’t care. Right? Like, this is struggling.

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Yeah. And if you’re interested in something different, too bad.