SR 863: Back to School 2024: Homeschool Curriculum Picks – Aby Rinella, Part 3

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It’s interesting. I’m more in the little, little days of, like, all the gathering and

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circle, and we’ll still do some of that. But it’s also so cool to see

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kids be able, like you said, lacy picked it out. Like, to see my kids,

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you know, start to gravitate towards things that, after all these years, this is what

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I love. This is what I want to learn. Hey, everyone, this is

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Yvette Hampton. Welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. I’m back with

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Aby and we are doing our back to school 2024

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episode. This is part three. If you missed Monday and

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yesterday’s episode, go back and listen to those.

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What did you say that’s the most important. That’s the foundation. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. That’s the. Yes. Yeah. We talked about just thinking again through your why.

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Like, why are you doing this? Why are you homeschooling? What’s your

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why? What are you focused on? What do you actually care about this year, you

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guys? Um. And everything we do should be

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pointing our kids to Jesus as we’ve talked about over and over. And I’m not

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going to stop saying that because here’s the thing. I have to be reminded about

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that all the time because sometimes I can get caught up in, like, ooh,

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this shiny new curriculum. Oh, yes. But, oh, wait, it does

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not have a biblical worldview, right? So I’m not going to do this particular one.

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So. Or anyway, I’m like, this is what God has for that family, and it

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looks so amazing, and I want to do it. And then all of a sudden,

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you get hit and you’re like, this isn’t what God has for my family. Like,

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you had mentioned in the last episode, you were all on board for this

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awesome thing. But guess what? That’s not what God had for Lacy. Yeah,

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yeah. Yep. Totally different plans. So I’m excited to talk about

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curriculum today. Again, Aby and I get asked about curriculum all the time.

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Yep. So we are here to tell you what we are doing, what the Lord

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has led our families to do. It does not mean that this is what you

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guys should do for your curriculum. So do not feel, please,

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for the love of all things, do not feel like, oh, no, I chose the

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wrong history, or, oh, no, I chose the wrong science because

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Aby and Yvette are doing something different. Well, and the truth is, this is what

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we’re doing this year. But if you go back and listen to past years, we’ve

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done other things. And that’s why when people go, what do you use? I hate

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to answer that, because I’m like, I have different kids than you. We’re a different

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family. And just cause I’m using it this year doesn’t mean I’m gonna be using

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it next year, right? This is just what we’re doing. And maybe you

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could ask me how and ask both of us, halfway through the year, we might

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not still be doing this in January. Yes. True.

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Right? Yeah. This is where we’re going for the year. Yeah, it

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is. So before we get into it, though, I want to say thank you again

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textbooks and do it, that’s great. They have that option. Or

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they will teach them on video. They’ve got videos for

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Well, Aby, how about if you go first this week? I feel like

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I usually go first. Okay, but you’re, like, pinging. I literally can, like,

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see. You are like. I know. I’m dying. So excited. I’m so excited.

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Tell us what you’re doing this year. Oh, my gosh. I am so excited. But

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I’m also. I’m sad. Okay, I’m gonna dive in. You’re sad?

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Well, there’s. We’ll get to it. We’ll get to it. Okay. We’ll get to it.

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Okay. Okay. We always start our day off with Bible, but I always tell. I’m

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gonna try to rush through so you have time, but I always tell parents,

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okay, Bible is not school because you don’t take weekends off. You

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don’t take summer break off, you don’t graduate from Bible. But we do

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start our day in God’s word every day. All of

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us at the table. Okay. So I won’t even tell you what I do,

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what I’m doing for that, because. Well, do you think I have time real quick?

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Sure. Yeah. Okay. So very quickly, we are going through the

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Bible, starting with the Old Testament, and how I do it. I’ve kind of made

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my own thing. We read the opening notes in, like,

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a study Bible. Like, this is who wrote it. This was the year. This is

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who it was written to. You know, that kind of opening page. Then. Because I

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have a range of ages, right. So I’m trying to hit each age. Then we

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go into a children’s Bible. Pick your choice, make sure it’s a good one.

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But then we read through, like, the major stories in that book. So in

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Genesis, right. We aren’t necessarily going to read through the.

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We’re not going to necessarily read through the lineages at that time. You know, we

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do a lot of Bible as a family. We do a lot of Bible at

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other times, but just in the morning, we hit the major stories, and that’s for

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the young, the little one that hits, you know, the major. Then when we’re

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done with that book of the Bible for that, then we go to

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I love you guys know that I’m obsessed with not consumed. I

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love not consumed ministry. And she has a God

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story, and I’m not an influencer,

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but don’t you have to do something like this for. Those

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watching on video? Aby’s trying to. Aby doesn’t know, like, a price is

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right. I, you know. Yes. Is right. That just aged you. So they have the

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God story, and this will. Then you’ll do a little study on that book of

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the Bible. So we’re just gonna pretend Genesis, you have, like, a two page study.

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So we do that together and not consume. Does them in ages. So my

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oldest two do one, and then my youngest does a different one, but it’s all

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the same. We can do it together. It’s just written for different ages. Then when

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we’re done with that, we watch the Bible project. Little over cap of

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that book of the Bible. They just do a video over cap of that

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book, and then we’re done. And then we move on to, like, exodus.

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Right? So we’ve done, like, a thorough, thorough

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go through of that book of the Bible using multiple resources,

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because you’re hitting every angle with the kids. So that’s what we do for that.

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And I. We’ve really enjoyed that. Okay, next, pick a subject.

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Ready? Pick a subject. History. Okay.

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So we like. We

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like up until a certain age than we haven’t loved. But I like for

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the. This is just what we’ve chosen for the younger

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is sunlight, because it’s literature based.

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And my kids, we just love to do the literature based. So this year,

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my littlest is going to. She’s working through american history with sunlight and loves

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it, but then, wait for it. I did this with my oldest, too. Do we

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need a drum roll here, my girls? We take a little break during that

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sunlight. And when we hit, like, the little house on the prairie season

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of history, we use the prairie primer. Have you seen this? Oh, I’ve

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seen it before, but I’ve never used it. I did this with Tatum. I’m doing

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it. I’m doing it with Winnie. I haven’t told her I have to whisper because

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she’s obsessed with little house on the prairie, so she’s gonna be so excited.

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So this goes through the books, like, four. It only goes through, like, four

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or five of the books, but it teaches history, science. It’s kind

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of an all inclusive unit study. So fun. So that will be like, in the

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middle. We’ll pause everything when we hit that period in history. Everything,

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like herself. Science, her. Okay. Everything will get. And you’ll just do that? Yeah, and

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then we’ll just do that. Right? And then when we’re done with that, we’ll pick

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back up and then move on in all the other subjects. Yeah, that’s what I

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was. Winnie, just. Just for perspective from. She’s fifth grade, but I think you could

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use this third through. I mean, this really. This is one of those books that

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says, do this for the older kids, do this for the middle kids, do this

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for the younger kids. So you can use this for any age.

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But that’s what’s fun about homeschool, guys, is you can pause your

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curriculum and throw something in. And I finally figured

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that out where in the younger years, I’m like, how are. Are we going to

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do it all at once? And then it was stressful, but now I’m like, nobody

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is going to say, you can’t do that. Right? Okay, so for my older

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kids, they are not doing history. They are doing.

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Okay. This is the part I’m sad. Are you ready? I’m ready. We’ve always done,

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like, science and history together as a family, and that’s what

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we always suggest. Right, Yvette? That parents do, because it. It takes

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it off your plate where you’re all doing it together. Yeah, but I now have

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older, older kids that are kind of going down. Different tell their ages

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and grades. Okay. I have a junior this year in high school, and

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then my son’s 8th grade, but he’s doing high school level courses. So they’re kind

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of at the age where they have their interests and they’re going down that

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road. So this is my first year where we’re not all doing the

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same history direction. Like, the same period of time in history.

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Yeah. And this is the first year we’re not doing all science together,

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and I’ll explain what we’re all doing. That’s sad for me, but I think it’s

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going to be good for them this year. Yeah. So my older two kids are

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doing. I don’t know a lot about this, but I’m really excited. I’m going to

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hold it up. Ready? It’s the Michael

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Ferris. It’s his american civics

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curriculum. It’s brand new. Like, what, this year or last year? It’s

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his revised one. I mean, he’s. Okay. I was gonna say I don’t think it’s

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brand new. This is like a revised new. Okay. We’re not doing the whole

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curriculum. You can either do the whole curriculum, or you can just watch the videos.

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I I’m just gonna have them watch the videos. They’re not gonna do all the

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papers and the studies and the whatever. We’re just gonna do that. I’m really excited

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about it. They’re gonna do that together, the older two. Okay. Okay.

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Pick a new subject. Science.

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Okay. I’m sad we’re not all doing science together this year, but

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last year, we did anatomy and physiology all together. But again, the kids were at

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different levels, obviously. And Tatum

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really added on to her anatomy and physiology. I shared with everyone. She did, like,

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a natural medicine class. I’ve never had

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so many people reach out and go, what was that? Oh, wow. And

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she loved that. And so this year, like I told you, I’m kind of

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sad. Cause we’re all splitting off for science because they’re older

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and they have different. You know, so. And the goal is to teach them at

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that age, right. What they love and what they’re gearing for. So she is

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gonna stay on the course of kind of her natural. I mean, that’s

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how we are as a family anyway. But she really wants to learn more and

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love it, and so we’re doing this. This is really interesting. I found

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this. This is not a homeschool curriculum. This is not even anything I’ve

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ever heard of in any homeschool world. But it’s

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called. It’s called nutrition 101. Choose

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life. And it’s a family nutrition and health program. So it’s

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basically food as medicine, which we already do as a family. Yeah,

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food as feeding your body. I mean, you know us. We’re those weird. Those people.

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Weird, crunchy people. Yes. But here’s what I love about it. It’s all

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from a biblical worldview. The book is full of verses. It’s

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full of how God designed our body. It’s full of how God

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made food to work with our body. And

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I’m so excited. And this is also where I’m sad, is,

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as. As they’re kind of splitting off this year, I’m not going to be able

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to do everything with each of them. And I’m like, wait,

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don’t do that without me. Right. But I have enough time to do

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all the. Cause there’s only one of you and three of them. So I

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think late at night, I’m going to be doing all their curriculum that they did

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during the day so I can catch up, because I’m so excited about that. And

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then Colson this year for science, I’m really,

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really excited about this. It’s master books, applied engineering.

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Oh, wow. Yeah. The study of God’s design in nature. And so

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it’s all about. I love master. I have really fallen in love with master books

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the last couple of years. I do. I didn’t know about it in the early

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years. I’m so bummed. But in the last few years, I’ve really loved it.

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So it looks like this is the teacher guide, and those are the three books

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if you’re watching on video that it comes with. But it’s basically saying,

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this is how God made things. And then this is how man has used

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God’s design to, you know, make other things. Like God

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made the bird. So when studying the bird, we come up with the airplane, that

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sort of thing, you know? And Coulson is really engineer minded, and he’s

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also, if you guys know, our family, like, nature minded. Right? Like,

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he knows so much about God’s creation. So I’m so excited

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about that. Cause again, he’s doing it on his own. And I’m so,

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so sad. Yeah. That I’m gonna have to be doing it late at night with

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him. But I think Jesse will probably do a lot of this with him, too.

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master books. They have a master books academy, so you can

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actually watch videos with some of these things.

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their teachers kind of gives a little overview, and then he does the reading and

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that and the assignments and stuff. So that’s what he’s doing. So our first year

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of dividing up science, but I’m thinking they’re so excited about it. That’s

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awesome. And then the other thing the kids, the older kids are doing together

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is master books. Again, like, you get on their website and you’re like

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this. They have great stuff, their logic. Introduction to

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logic. Have you done that? We’re doing it this year. You are not.

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Yes, we are. We did a logic. I’ll say

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it, and you can act surprised. Okay, I will. Totally. I’ll act surprised.

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Winnie. It was just, I’m like, you know what? I’m going to have that. I’m

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going to have the big kids do the introduction to logic from master books. So

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they’re doing that. Um, and then, oh, my word,

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math. I, you guys, I’m not kidding. I’m not like this master books person,

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but I’ve really fallen in love. And so my kids are doing master books math

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because I love math. I’m a math nerd.

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there’s things like amazing CTC math that does it for you. I love

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that. But I happen to be one of those people, like, in my free time,

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if you give me a math problem to solve, like, it fuels my

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spirit, you know? So

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my upper level high school. Oh, my goodness, I love it. So I buy the

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master books math, and then I don’t even have them. I

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mean, they. I do buy them the academy for it in case I don’t have

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time, because it is a lot of time to teach all three kids math.

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I have never said those words ever in my entire life. Well, maybe when

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they were in, like, kindergarten, first grade. Yeah, I love math. I mean, like,

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algebra one. I’m like, yes. I cannot wait to solve algebraic equations.

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my life. Is that weird? Oh, my gosh. Okay. And then

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have not done before. I e. Wooden, um, which is

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Andrew Pudois. But I have heard nothing but good things. I mean, I

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have heard incredible, incredible things about it.

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which I know you have done, and I’m really excited about that.

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and it just helps them with grammar. I think that iew, as I was

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looking at their curriculum, is it’s very intensive.

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and I’m like, you probably were an iew kid because it’s so good and

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thorough. Yeah, I think it’s an excellent curriculum if you want to do, like, a

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language heavy year for me, it’s a

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lot to add into all this other stuff. So I’m going to piecemeal

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it and pick and choose from it, and I’m going to have Andrew do some

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of the teaching because he’s got great, great videos. Yeah. Um,

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but that’s another thing I love about homeschool is

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that you don’t have to go from COVID to cover. You don’t have to do

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exactly what they say. You can grab it and say, okay, what’s going to work

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for us? An hour a day of writing is not going to work for us.

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that’s going to be our first year to play around with Iew and I’m excited

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about it. Yeah. Um, and I think that’s pretty

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much. I mean, we’re going to add lots of other random, yeah, you know, stuff,

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but those, that’s kind of our core for the year and I’m super

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excited. Yeah, that’s awesome. You have a good lineup. I think

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it’s going to be a great year for you guys. Let’s take a break and

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Here’s what I’m doing. I’m so excited, and I’m going to start out. This is

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so funny because you know me. You’ve known me for years, and, Aby,

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I don’t ever use a homeschool planner. I know you. Did

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you have a planner? Aby, let me tell you why I have a

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planner. Because I have a lacy who wants

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to be super structured. And so we

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were looking at these planners, and it’s a company. It’s called a

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plan in place. And they have these beautiful planners. You can choose the covers.

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Wow. So we were looking at these online, and we got these. They

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have the teacher planner, and then they have a student planner. Oh, man. So you

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guys are trying to match. I know. And she was like,

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I. I want a planner this year. She was like, I want it to have

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a calendar in it. And I want it to have pages where I can plan

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out what my assignments are and stuff. And I’m like, wait a minute. Who’s kidding?

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She speaks me. I love language. It’s so funny. And so we got

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these planners. I’ll put a link in the show notes to these, and you can

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actually even, like, customize these planners. They have kind of like the, you

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know, I don’t know what they call it, but the regular one that, like, everybody

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can get, or you can actually, like, customize it to what you like. They’re super

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cool. So I’ll put a link to that in the show notes. But her

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student planner came, and, like, literally as soon as it came in the mail, she

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started filling it out. And not her assignments, but, like, you know, there’s kind of

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an intro page with your name and stuff. And I was like, okay. All

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right, Lacey. Here we go. That’s so hilarious. So I’m starting out

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with a planner. Awesome. I love it. And I’m gonna see. And I’m also

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likely going to do Pam Barnhill. She has a,

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like, homeschool boot camp because I’m just telling you, and you know me, I’m

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cracking up this year. Then you’re like, I need to learn how to homeschool

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because I have a kid that wants to be. I know. It’s so

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bizarre. And, I mean, she’s been schooled all. This time, but it’s like,

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yeah. And she’s old enough to take the lead. Totally. Yes.

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her homeschool, but she really wants to be structured. So I

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am actually going to do, um, Pam Barnhill’s homeschool boot

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camp. And it’s, I think it starts in October. Um, is when

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it starts. Um, and so I’m planning to go through that. And I

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haven’t been through it yet. I’ve just heard a lot of good things about it.

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Oh, my God. Because I really need accountability. I need people to hold me

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accountable to make sure that I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, because I’m.

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of person. And we still get stuff done, but, you know, but I will

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say it does tend to be more stressful sometimes because then I’m

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like, okay, we didn’t get done what I really wanted or needed to get done.

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weird. I don’t know. I’m not changing everything up. Trust me. But

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we will still be pretty relaxed. We are doing co op again this year

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just for the social aspect of it. So she’s only doing

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some. She’s taking sewing again for the third year. She really is

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enjoying sewing. So she’s taking sewing. She’s taking a

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beauty basics for girls class. One of the

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moms, she’s a cosmetologist, and she teaches the girls how to

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take care of their skin and their hair and apply makeup,

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and she teaches them how to cut hair, like fun stuff.

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self defense for girls class. Oh, sweet. Which is going to be, I

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think, a lot of fun. We’ve heard a lot of good things about this one.

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not a martial arts class class, but just, like, actual self defense class and just

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how to, like, be prepared. And so, you know, for a 14 year old girl,

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this is important stuff. Yeah. And then the only

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academic class she’s taking at co op is world

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geography. Okay, so that will be a fun class for

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her. I got a globe. I haven’t had a globe for years, since we left

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California because we couldn’t take it with us in the trailer. Right. And

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so I got a globe, and I’m very excited about my new globe. It’s so

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funny. I’m like, if we’re doing world geography, we need to have an actual globe.

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Big, huge paper map. But, you know, a

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globe. Because there’s something in the globe to. Be able to see it. Not totally.

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a week. She’s doing those four classes and then playing volleyball. So that’s

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her big thing. So we’re doing all of our

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academics this year at home, which we’ve usually done most of them at home, but

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they’ve taken a couple of, you know, science classes and things like that. As a

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matter of fact, speaking of science, for science, she did

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see where’s my science? But a few, I think

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fifth grade. In one of the co op classes, we did

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apologia’s anatomy and physiology, and she

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loved that class. We love apologia. They’re so fantastic.

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and I was like, well, we already did apologia, so instead, because she wanted

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to do it again, we’re doing it. You’re talking about master books. It’s so funny.

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Yeah, we’re doing master books, too. So she’s doing wonders of the human body,

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which is fantastic. I’ve been having a good time looking through this, and so she’s

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super excited. This is one of the textbooks that she chose. She was like, this

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is what I want to do for science this year. I was like, okay, this

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is what we’re going to do. And I’m thinking we’re going to do nature studies,

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and we’re going to study science. She’s like, we’re doing the textbook. I want to

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do a textbook. I want to do this one specifically. That’s so cool. So that’s

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what we’re doing for science. Are you

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mourning? And I know you’ve already done a lot of

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mourning because Brooklyn graduated, but, like, we did all the

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apologia, which is our favorite elementary, and now we’re done.

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Like, I’m mourning it. Are you mourning that you’re kind of going into this, or

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are you embracing it? No, no, I’m totally embracing it.

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, apology is amazing, Brooklyn. But you’re done with the little

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kids stuff. Yeah, but like, their high school stuff is fantastic, too.

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So Brooklyn did their biology last year, and it’s amazing.

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Yeah. So. Yeah, but because we had already done know

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anyway. Yeah, she’s in 8th grade. Yeah, she’s an 8th grade. Tell everybody. But, like,

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you’re done with all the little stuff. I know. Yeah. So, no, I’m not mourning

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it. I mean, I guess I wish. Yes, there are times I wish I could

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go back. It’s exciting. I love the ages

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that my girls are at right now. Okay, so master books, anatomy and

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physiology. Anatomy and physiology. We’re also doing master books. World

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history. I mean, this is world story one. And they actually have

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three volumes, so it’s one, two, and three. So this year we’re just doing one.

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And my plan is to do one, two, and three for 8th, 9th, and 10th.

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Okay. And then we’ll go circle back to american history and government

403
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and economics for her junior senior year. Gotcha. That’s my plan.

404
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So we’ll see how that plays out. But this one is creation to the roman

405
00:24:06,662 –> 00:24:10,182
empire. And again, so for Bible, because we

406
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do family time, we would do that family Bible

407
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time every day. This is going to be kind of the Bible, kind of a

408
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Bible curriculum because it’s starting with creation. Gotcha.

409
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Right. So I’m kind of doubling up on that. And then I’m

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also doing. Have you ever read the knowledge of the holy? No.

411
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Tozer. No. So. But

412
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I’ve ever read, I read this in high school, and it talks about the attributes

413
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of God. It’s so fantastic. And it’s an old book. I don’t

414
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even know when it was written. I want to say probably in the thirties, forties,

415
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something like that. Long time. Oh, 61. It looks like

416
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1961, but it’s a fantastic book. And I’ve really been wanting

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to study the attributes of God with lacy. And it’s so funny because I was

418
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thinking, like, what curriculum would I use for that? And then I was like, duh,

419
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knowledge of the holy. That’s like one of the best books to talk about that.

420
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So we are going to be doing this together. Not

421
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alongside world history, but just kind of in our morning basket time.

422
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I still love reading to Lacy. That never

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ends. It never ends. I love it so much. So another book I got this

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year is called Christian Reading Companion for 50 classics.

425
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Oh, it’s also by master books. What? I know,

426
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I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but it’s fantastic. So they have 50 different

427
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classics, and then it gives kind of an overview and some,

428
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like, not study notes, but objectives,

429
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discussion questions, things like that for these different classes. So this would be considered your

430
00:25:37,296 –> 00:25:40,704
literature, right? Yes. Yeah. Gotcha. So this will be.

431
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Yes, literature. So we’re going to start with Jane Eyre,

432
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and this is real. Have you read Jane Eyre before? Yes, I

433
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have heard and watched, and. No, I have

434
00:25:51,792 –> 00:25:55,448
never read Jane Eyre. I don’t know how I’ve missed reading it all this time,

435
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but several months ago, somebody on Facebook posted that they were listening

436
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to this podcast where the podcast

437
00:26:03,800 –> 00:26:07,632
host was reading Jane Eyre, and every episode is another chapter

438
00:26:07,656 –> 00:26:10,920
of Jane Eyre. Ooh. So she reads it. So it’s an

439
00:26:10,960 –> 00:26:14,688
audiobook, but it’s free because it’s a podcast, because it’s in the

440
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public domain now, of course, so she can read it freely. But she doesn’t just

441
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read it. She reads it. And then she’ll sometimes pause where there’s, like,

442
00:26:22,220 –> 00:26:25,444
maybe a word that’s a word that we don’t use anymore

443
00:26:25,612 –> 00:26:29,300
and. Or maybe a phrase or something that they’ve done that’s just not

444
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common to the way we live today. So she’ll just pause and say

445
00:26:33,028 –> 00:26:36,644
what they actually are talking about here is blah, blah, blah, blah, and she’ll

446
00:26:36,692 –> 00:26:40,124
explain it. No way. So cool. Yeah. Did she do it with

447
00:26:40,172 –> 00:26:43,892
other. Other books, Morgan? She’s done Jane Eyre, and I think she’s

448
00:26:43,956 –> 00:26:46,708
going to do other books. I’m not sure if she has started. Anyway, what’s the

449
00:26:46,724 –> 00:26:49,968
name of the podcast? It’s called story time for grownups, and I’ll put a link

450
00:26:49,984 –> 00:26:53,000
to that in the show notes. Okay, thanks. It is so much fun. And then

451
00:26:53,040 –> 00:26:56,848
when she starts the next chapter, she does a recap of the chapter, just a

452
00:26:56,864 –> 00:27:00,336
really quick recap of the chapter before. So I feel like it’s

453
00:27:00,368 –> 00:27:03,704
helping. So I listened to the first, like, six or seven chapters,

454
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and I listened to it actually when we were driving to California

455
00:27:07,360 –> 00:27:11,016
because I wanted an audiobook to listen to. And I thought, okay, I can’t

456
00:27:11,048 –> 00:27:14,192
listen to this by myself. This is something I’ve got to do with Lacey because

457
00:27:14,216 –> 00:27:17,556
she will really enjoy it. So I stopped listening and I’ll go back and start

458
00:27:17,588 –> 00:27:21,364
over at the beginning. So we’re going to listen to that. And that’s Jane

459
00:27:21,412 –> 00:27:24,132
Eyre in the book. Yeah. Okay. So it’s in the mastermind. So I was so

460
00:27:24,156 –> 00:27:27,948
excited because it’s one of the classics in here, and it’s got the hiding place

461
00:27:28,044 –> 00:27:31,804
and some Shakespeare, a bunch of really good books, and it’s

462
00:27:31,852 –> 00:27:34,480
all from a biblical perspective.

463
00:27:35,780 –> 00:27:39,140
This is the problem of listening now. I’m like, oh, I need to add that.

464
00:27:39,220 –> 00:27:41,452
Well, and this is one of those books that you can kind of just keep

465
00:27:41,476 –> 00:27:44,766
on your shelf for like years and years. This is not a, like, we’re doing

466
00:27:44,798 –> 00:27:48,590
this curriculum this year. Right. It’s called christian reading Companion for 50

467
00:27:48,670 –> 00:27:52,398
classics. And it’s. It’s by master books as well. Okay, cool.

468
00:27:52,574 –> 00:27:56,070
So we’re doing that they,

469
00:27:56,230 –> 00:27:58,930
we’re also doing. And this will just be kind of a fun read.

470
00:28:00,110 –> 00:28:03,534
It’s called what a character. And they’re just some, like, fun. I think these are

471
00:28:03,542 –> 00:28:07,382
like more middle school elementary. This one is famous women in history, and then they’ve

472
00:28:07,406 –> 00:28:10,938
got some others. So we’ll kind of. Oh, fun. Do those throughout. Yeah. This will

473
00:28:10,954 –> 00:28:14,538
be just kind of part of our fun morning time. Um, for

474
00:28:14,634 –> 00:28:18,410
language arts, we’re doing kind of two different things. So lacy, really, she loves

475
00:28:18,450 –> 00:28:22,090
to write. Okay. But we’ve done iew. Right. And

476
00:28:22,130 –> 00:28:25,906
so she doesn’t want to do iew again, this like

477
00:28:25,938 –> 00:28:29,310
their structure and style because we’ve done that.

478
00:28:29,770 –> 00:28:33,482
She’s done it several years, so. But. But she does want to do

479
00:28:33,506 –> 00:28:37,042
fix it grammar. So we’re doing fix it grammar with her this year. And

480
00:28:37,066 –> 00:28:40,894
that’s. She’s excited about that. And that’s either standalone or you can use

481
00:28:40,902 –> 00:28:44,326
it with any other writing curriculum. That’s why we’re doing that.

482
00:28:44,518 –> 00:28:48,222
Perfect. Yeah, it’s a really fun curriculum. They actually go through a

483
00:28:48,246 –> 00:28:51,022
story. They write the story and then they have to fix the grammar in the

484
00:28:51,046 –> 00:28:54,854
story. I think they’ll like it because they get

485
00:28:54,862 –> 00:28:57,398
to be the teacher. I’m even gonna let my kids do it with a red

486
00:28:57,454 –> 00:29:00,930
pen. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Those kids that like that, you know,

487
00:29:01,270 –> 00:29:04,982
probably like that. Yep. So we’re doing that. And then she’s actually that.

488
00:29:05,006 –> 00:29:08,358
This was another textbook. She really wanted to do this. So she’s doing writing and

489
00:29:08,374 –> 00:29:12,046
grammar. This is BJU Press Homeschool. Okay. And she’s doing

490
00:29:12,158 –> 00:29:15,930
ten. So she’s going in 8th grade. This one’s their 10th grade level.

491
00:29:16,270 –> 00:29:20,086
But because she just loves to write and has been writing,

492
00:29:20,238 –> 00:29:23,862
she’s just ready for this. And I think if she’s done iew,

493
00:29:24,006 –> 00:29:27,742
she’ll be. I mean, that. That’s a pretty extensive

494
00:29:27,806 –> 00:29:31,130
curriculum that’ll bump her up to that. Yeah. So it’ll be interesting to see.

495
00:29:31,630 –> 00:29:34,886
Yeah. So she’s doing that. And then we’re also doing

496
00:29:34,958 –> 00:29:38,654
intro to logic, as you said. You are. I’ve heard great news

497
00:29:38,702 –> 00:29:42,294
about that. I know, I know. That’s so fun that we’re both doing them. I

498
00:29:42,302 –> 00:29:44,598
know. I love that. Are you having heard, we could get our kids on the

499
00:29:44,614 –> 00:29:48,094
phone and do logic lessons. Oh, that would be fun. Are you doing any of

500
00:29:48,102 –> 00:29:51,822
the master books academy or. No, you’re doing. Because it’s just

501
00:29:51,846 –> 00:29:54,918
you and her. Yeah. It’s just the two of us. So I have all the

502
00:29:54,934 –> 00:29:58,758
time in the world. Yeah. To teach. So we’re super excited

503
00:29:58,814 –> 00:30:02,648
about this. As a matter of fact, I think Jason Lyle, we

504
00:30:02,664 –> 00:30:06,416
got to hear him speak at the Culture proof podcast. Culture proof podcast.

505
00:30:06,448 –> 00:30:09,832
The culture proof conference. And I’m going to try to get him on the

506
00:30:09,856 –> 00:30:13,656
podcast to come and talk about logic. Ok. Let’s do it midway

507
00:30:13,688 –> 00:30:16,144
through, because I want to do it, too, since we’re both doing the books. Ok.

508
00:30:16,192 –> 00:30:19,144
Yeah, that would be fun. We could do it together and talk about logic. That

509
00:30:19,152 –> 00:30:22,416
would be awesome. Yeah. So that’s basically what we’re doing this year,

510
00:30:22,488 –> 00:30:26,016
and I’m just. I’m excited. It’s a whole new season for

511
00:30:26,048 –> 00:30:29,786
us, and I think it’s gonna be. It’s kind of a whole new

512
00:30:29,818 –> 00:30:33,346
season for both of us. You are down to one and

513
00:30:33,418 –> 00:30:37,202
one older, and I’m kind of in this place where I’m starting to

514
00:30:37,226 –> 00:30:40,770
have a lot more independence. You know, it’s just

515
00:30:40,810 –> 00:30:44,474
different. I miss. I mourn the. It’s interesting. I mourn

516
00:30:44,522 –> 00:30:48,082
the little. Little days of, like, all the gathering and circle, and we’ll still do

517
00:30:48,106 –> 00:30:51,778
some of that, but, you know, but it’s also so cool to see kids be

518
00:30:51,794 –> 00:30:55,086
able, like you said, lacy picked it out. Like, to see my kids, you know,

519
00:30:55,118 –> 00:30:58,790
start to gravitate towards things that, after all these years, this is what I love.

520
00:30:58,830 –> 00:31:02,542
This is what I want to learn. And as I’m watching other kids in the

521
00:31:02,566 –> 00:31:06,150
public schools, I’m like, they don’t get a choice. Like, this is what you

522
00:31:06,190 –> 00:31:08,918
learn your junior year. I don’t care if you like it. I don’t care if

523
00:31:08,934 –> 00:31:10,890
you’ve already done it. I don’t care.

524
00:31:12,550 –> 00:31:16,342
Yeah. And if you’re interested in something different, too bad. And

525
00:31:16,366 –> 00:31:20,190
if you want to know something different, too bad. Right, because you’re on our

526
00:31:20,230 –> 00:31:24,062
timeline, and that’s what I’ve been loving about this. And as, as our kids

527
00:31:24,086 –> 00:31:27,318
have been talking to their public school counterparts, it’s been interesting because my kids are

528
00:31:27,334 –> 00:31:29,854
like, oh, I get to do this. And they’re like, wait, why I want to

529
00:31:29,862 –> 00:31:32,894
do that? How do I, you know? Right. Yeah. High school kids get a pick

530
00:31:32,942 –> 00:31:36,662
some of their classes, but it’s limited. It’s limited, you know,

531
00:31:36,766 –> 00:31:39,990
and they still have to use the curriculum that’s provided for them. That is provided.

532
00:31:40,070 –> 00:31:43,446
So that’s what I’m really. I’m really. And if it doesn’t work, they can’t say,

533
00:31:43,478 –> 00:31:47,166
hey, let’s try something different, you know? Yeah. So I’m excited.

534
00:31:47,318 –> 00:31:50,662
I am, too. I think it’s going to be a great year again. I’m holding

535
00:31:50,686 –> 00:31:54,374
all of our plans loosely and trusting the Lord. Amen. Each day

536
00:31:54,422 –> 00:31:58,018
I do want to do. Lacy and I have talked a lot about field trips.

537
00:31:58,034 –> 00:32:01,506
I want to do a lot more field trips this year. I just. I love,

538
00:32:01,698 –> 00:32:04,610
you know, she even asked. She said, can we just do a four day school

539
00:32:04,650 –> 00:32:07,410
day? And I said, well, you’ve got co op one day, so that really is.

540
00:32:07,490 –> 00:32:10,650
No, no, I mean, like, including co op. So I’m like, three day school. Three

541
00:32:10,690 –> 00:32:14,402
days. Yeah. Yes. But that means, you know, they would be a little

542
00:32:14,426 –> 00:32:17,162
bit more structured. But, you know, since I’m going to do boot camp and have

543
00:32:17,186 –> 00:32:20,390
my planner. You will be structured. We will be structured.

544
00:32:21,450 –> 00:32:25,188
And for those homeschool moms who are thinking that I am going to

545
00:32:25,204 –> 00:32:28,732
get up and be sitting at the table with my daughter at 08:00 a.m.

546
00:32:28,836 –> 00:32:32,516
with breakfast having had and dishes done and the floor is vacuumed,

547
00:32:32,628 –> 00:32:36,316
let me just tell you, that’s not happening. We still

548
00:32:36,428 –> 00:32:39,972
will not start school till probably ten,

549
00:32:40,076 –> 00:32:43,812
maybe 11:00 in the morning, depending on the day, depending on what

550
00:32:43,836 –> 00:32:47,028
time. So, you know, if she’s got a late volleyball game, then we’ll go to

551
00:32:47,044 –> 00:32:50,772
bed late. That’s homeschool freedom. It’s

552
00:32:50,796 –> 00:32:54,468
homeschool freedom. We are a late family. You know, me, I’m the early mom,

553
00:32:54,524 –> 00:32:58,132
and we’re done by. But that’s what. That’s what works. That’s the homeschool

554
00:32:58,156 –> 00:33:01,892
freedom, you know, and it could change from year to year because kids, like you

555
00:33:01,916 –> 00:33:05,652
said, years that she didn’t do volleyball versus years she did. I mean, right? We

556
00:33:05,676 –> 00:33:09,372
are not living in a box. Homeschool mamas. You do what works for your

557
00:33:09,396 –> 00:33:12,388
family. And even these curriculum, even when you pick up a textbook. And you look

558
00:33:12,404 –> 00:33:16,092
at their scope and sequence. That’s their suggestion. That does

559
00:33:16,116 –> 00:33:18,750
not mean you have to do that. Do nothing.

560
00:33:19,520 –> 00:33:22,648
You get to do what works for your family. You can skip

561
00:33:22,704 –> 00:33:26,488
chapters. You can spend more time on other chapters. Like, you

562
00:33:26,504 –> 00:33:30,016
can throw something out halfway through the year. Cause it just didn’t work. And that’s

563
00:33:30,128 –> 00:33:33,912
the freedom. And that’s what we were talking about earlier, is because this

564
00:33:33,936 –> 00:33:36,580
isn’t the heart. This stack of books in front of me,

565
00:33:37,280 –> 00:33:41,016
when our children are old and it’s all said and done

566
00:33:41,048 –> 00:33:44,376
like you said that verse at the end of the day, right. They’re not gonna

567
00:33:44,408 –> 00:33:48,040
remember what they did in 6th, 3rd, 11th grade

568
00:33:48,120 –> 00:33:51,750
for history. They’re nothing. But they’re going to remember the

569
00:33:51,790 –> 00:33:55,326
learning and the pointing to Jesus and the being excited about learning

570
00:33:55,398 –> 00:33:59,110
things. That’s what they’re going to remember. And so don’t let

571
00:33:59,150 –> 00:34:02,750
these books bog you down. And don’t just go buy everything that we just said

572
00:34:02,790 –> 00:34:06,182
because it might not be for you. Right. This is the other thing that

573
00:34:06,366 –> 00:34:10,166
we didn’t say, and we didn’t say it because we say it all

574
00:34:10,238 –> 00:34:13,982
the time and we assumed. But before you do anything, before you click

575
00:34:14,046 –> 00:34:17,796
purchase, before you even look at curriculum, you need to pray.

576
00:34:17,908 –> 00:34:21,588
Amen. Sit down and pray and say, God, what is your plan

577
00:34:21,644 –> 00:34:25,060
for our family? What do you really? Because I want to do logic this year,

578
00:34:25,140 –> 00:34:28,756
but maybe that’s not what the Lord has for you. So you have to

579
00:34:28,788 –> 00:34:32,548
pray through everything and pray boldly. Lord, shut the door on that curriculum. If

580
00:34:32,564 –> 00:34:35,364
that’s not what I’m supposed to have, give me a piece or don’t give me

581
00:34:35,372 –> 00:34:39,156
a piece. If this is what you want or don’t want me to do, and

582
00:34:39,188 –> 00:34:42,513
follow the Lord. And you can only do that through prayer. So pray

583
00:34:42,691 –> 00:34:46,541
first. Amen. That is such a good reminder. And I really did

584
00:34:46,565 –> 00:34:50,237
that this year. I mean, I do that every year. But it is funny

585
00:34:50,293 –> 00:34:54,077
because I started out with what I thought the plan was going to be, and

586
00:34:54,093 –> 00:34:57,677
I really prayed about it, and I was like, lord, I just. You direct us,

587
00:34:57,733 –> 00:35:01,301
you know, what do you want for us this year? And. And then

588
00:35:01,325 –> 00:35:05,053
Lacey, you know, just came ripping through my plan and was like, yeah, I want

589
00:35:05,061 –> 00:35:08,009
to do this, this, this, and this. And I was like, okay

590
00:35:09,149 –> 00:35:12,357
to say. Okay, because you had already surrendered it to the Lord. You didn’t have

591
00:35:12,373 –> 00:35:15,966
a panic, and you didn’t try to shove her into your box. You’d already

592
00:35:16,038 –> 00:35:19,726
surrendered it to the Lord, and so you’re waiting for his plan. Yeah. So I’m

593
00:35:19,758 –> 00:35:23,302
excited. I’m excited. I am excited. I think it’s going to be a great year,

594
00:35:23,446 –> 00:35:26,462
and I’m just excited to see how she’s going to grow and what the Lord’s

595
00:35:26,486 –> 00:35:28,926
going to do, not just in her heart. Because, you know, one of the greatest

596
00:35:28,958 –> 00:35:32,702
things about homeschooling is that God has grown me leaps and

597
00:35:32,726 –> 00:35:36,470
bounds through homeschooling my kids. I know so much more

598
00:35:36,630 –> 00:35:40,478
about his character and. And his word and my love for

599
00:35:40,494 –> 00:35:44,142
him. Because I have chosen to homeschool. God has used it to

600
00:35:44,166 –> 00:35:47,878
refine. It is using it to refine me totally. And I’m

601
00:35:47,974 –> 00:35:51,262
far from where I want to be, far from perfect, far from knowing all the

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things I want to know. But God’s been so faithful to use

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homeschooling in my life as well, and so it’s just another added

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benefit to homeschooling my kiddos. So, Aby,

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thank you so much for being with me and chatting with me this week. It’s

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been so much fun. Maybe we’ll come back mid year and go through our books

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and say, how’s it going and what worked and

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what didn’t, you know, and talk about how we could tweak things

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and just to make other moms go, hey, it’s okay. It’s okay to put that

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shelf, that book back on the shelf. I am going to go buy a couple

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books he suggested, too do it

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all cost me money. I know. You’re welcome. I will put all

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the links to everything that we mentioned. All of Aby’s curriculum, all of

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our curriculum, and anything else that we have mentioned. I will put links to that.

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One more thing I totally forgot. Oh, my goodness. Because this is huge. It’s so

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funny. It’s sitting right next to me. This also is for master books. Okay. I

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don’t even know that I can pull it up. It’s gigantic. I got a timeline.

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We saw this timeline years ago, years ago at a

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homeschool conference. I’m gonna try to hold this up. Oh, it’s

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a book. It’s, like, a big book that you can then open up. Yeah. It’s

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a big fold out timeline. It is

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beautiful. From creation to yesterday.

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Yes. Like, it’s all the way, literally yesterday, August

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2024. Yeah. It’s this beautifully

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done timeline. And so it folds out. It’s massive. I think it’s, like,

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20 something feet if, like, you fold out the entire thing. But it is so

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well done. And so it goes through, obviously, you know, the timeline of

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God’s word and all the way up to modern history. I need that.

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And so it’s so cool. I’m excited about that because we’re doing world history,

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world geography, all that. So that’s. And that’s so good for visual people because,

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like, I’ll know it in my head, but then I’m like, wait, when was that?

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What came before that? What was, you know? Yes. Yeah. And so you can

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track through the timeline with it. And it’s just beautifully. I like beautiful

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things. I like to write on timelines. Cause we did a timeline, I probably wouldn’t

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write on that one, but maybe post it, like then books that we read and

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then put the post it of, like, when that on that timeline because that

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helps kids. Or even movies like, oh, the little house. That series happened here.

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Yeah, right. Or, you know, that. Or Jane Eyre. Oh, that took place

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here. And I think it helps those kids make that connections because they learn through

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that thing. Yep. Absolutely. Well, again, we’ll put links to all

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these things in the show notes so you guys can find them easily. You guys

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have a great school year. Stay focused on what really matters. Stay

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focused on the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep

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his commandments. For it’s the whole duty of man. It is your whole duty to

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love Jesus, grow in your relationship with him, help your kids to grow in their

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relationship with him as well. Because in the end, that is all that

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matters. Have a great rest of your week. Have a great school

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year, and we will see you guys back here next week with another fantastic

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guest. Stay tuned to the very end to hear what’s coming up. Then we’ll see

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you back here then. Bye.

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This whole time we’ve been focused on parenting and focused on parents and

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equipping parents because we recognize that they have the greatest influence in their

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children’s lives. And the message on the street

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is that parental rights are actually not

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very important to the government. And

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so there’s a lot of lies, there’s a lot of temptation

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for us to step back and to over delegate or to think, oh, that’s not

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my responsibility, that’s somebody else’s. And

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really, as parents, we need to wake up and recognize that

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our children were given to us by God, and we’re going to be held

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accountable by him for what we teach. And it’s not just

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what we teach. It’s when we are pointing to someone else and

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endorsing them and saying, hey, listen to what they say. Take

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good notes. Pay attention. Remember what they teach you. That’s

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endorsing it. And if we aren’t aware of what they’re teaching,

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we’re still going to be held accountable for having endorsed them.