SR 905: Thanksgiving Week Highlights and Exciting New Endeavors – Aby Rinella, Part 2

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I feel like we’ve been enjoying school more. I feel like the longer you do

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it, the more you realize what you don’t need to do and what really

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matters. Every year, I learned that a little bit more. Hey,

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everyone, this is Yvette Hampton. Welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast.

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I am back with Abinela, and we are here to

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celebrate Thanksgiving week with you. So it’s now Wednesday. It’s the day before

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Thanksgiving. It is Garritt’s 50th birthday

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today, so. So if you guys are on his social media,

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just bombard him with happy birthday messa ges. I know. I’m so grateful for him.

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And also, your turkey needs to be thawed by. I mean, this is a public

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service announcement. Isn’t today, like, if it’s not thawed, people?

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I think. I don’t know. I’ll be honest. My mom does the turkey, so maybe

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you have time to thaw it. I don’t. I have never made a turkey my

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whole life, I don’t think. Yeah. So actually, don’t take your turkey cooking

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advice from us. But I do know the stores will be closed tomorrow, so make

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sure you at least have your stuff today. Right. See, this is one of those

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things. Yes, probably. This is one of those things where I felt like I would

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feel much more mature at the age of 50 because my mom’s made like a

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million turkeys. My mother in law’s made a million turkeys. How in the world I

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have gotten away with never making a turkey, I don’t know, but I am grateful

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for it. I’m bummed out that we’re not going to be at my brother and

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sister in law’s house this year because my sister in law, Jen, does the turkey

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of. She is the most amazing cook. Oh,

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man. She can pull together a Thanksgiving dinner. I’m

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literally not exaggerating. She can pull it together where she has everything

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perfectly cooked and on the table warm

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at the same time. Why do you not have her on for. I know. Next

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year let’s have her on for Thanksgiving maybe. And she can do, like, how to

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do it. Yeah. When she first got married, I remember she actually had

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like a. Okay, well, my sister in law is super smart and she

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is a West Point graduate and she’s an engineer. And

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so she was stay at home mom, but she has her degree in

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engineering from West Point, and so she’s crazy smart and very organized and

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she has the brain of an engineer. So she had like, her

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list of foods and how long it was going to take to cook each one

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and she literally had her whole schedule worked out for the

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day of what needed to go in the oven when.

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And, I mean, it was amazing. And she’s just a good cook. Like, everything tastes

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good. It’s not that. It’s just hot. Anyway, Jen, I

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digress. Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Jen, for showing us all

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up. Maybe next year we’ll be back in her house for Thanksgiving.

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She lives all the way in Georgia. Oh. Anyway, we’ll get back into our conversation,

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but before we do, I want to say thank you to our sponsor, BJU Press

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Homeschool. I’m sure they probably have something to talk about Thanksgiving, but if

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you’re just now listening to this, it’s probably too late. So maybe for next year,

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they have a Thanksgiving or a Christmas something. I don’t know. I don’t know. I

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should have looked that up before we got on to record today. But they have

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and you can be confident that everything they have will

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help you homeschool and point your kids to Jesus. All right,

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Aby. We were talking on Monday about

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the craziness of the launch of the Thinking

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dad podcast, the new studio and the

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network, the Biblical Family Network. And so the Thinking Dad Podcast, for

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those who haven’t listened. It’s really funny, actually. We have heard from so many moms

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that they have been listening to the Thinking Dad. And what I think. I was

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really surprised about that. But what I think has happened

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is that they wanted to listen to it first to see if it was, yeah,

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totally, you know, something that they would want to recommend to their husbands.

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And. And so many have. And it. Huh? And then they got

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hooked. Oh, yeah. And then they got hooked. And, I mean, I love listening to

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it. And so a lot of those women have said, like, we’ve got

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messages from people saying, you know, oh, my husband and I are in the car,

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and we’re listening to Thinking dad. And it’s so much fun to hear those reports

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back from moms. And, you know, we live in a time where

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men, I think, are very hungry for truth

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and guidance and, you know, just somebody

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to help disciple them. And so just like with the Schoolhouse Rocked

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Podcast, we bring people on who are experts

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in certain fields. That’s what the Thinking Dad is for dads and

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husbands is. Garritt has had just an incredible

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list of guests who have come on and talked

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about, you know, various things. I think off the top of my

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head. My favorites have been Dr. George Barna and Alex

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Newman. And maybe I shouldn’t play favorites because they’ve all been really good. But the

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one, like, if there was one I could pick, if I could only pick one

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episode, it would probably be Dr. George Barna. That one was so. So if you

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haven’t listened, that’s the first one to go listen to. Yes. Okay. Yes. It

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was excellent. That one was. And so is this like every other week? Every. Yes,

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every other week. Okay. Yep, that’s what I thought. So he just finished his first

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season and this is so exciting,

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the thinking. I don’t know. Probably not many people know this

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unless you’ve watched it. So Answers.TV, You know Answers.TV? Yes. Yeah. Is

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Answers In Genesis, they have their own kind of TV

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network channel. The Schoolhouse Rocked. It’s not

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the. Well, Homeschool Insights, which is a

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sister podcast to the Schoolhouse Rock Podcast. They’ve got a bunch of Homeschool

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Insights, really podcasts on clips on there. I didn’t know that.

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But now they just picked up the Thinking Dad. And so they’re gonna have

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the entire first season of the

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Thinking Dad. And they’ll all be video, so it’ll be on the tv, so you

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can watch the videos of. And those ones are the full episodes. They’re like an

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hour long episode of the Thinking Dad. And so they’re gonna have the entire

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first season of Thinking Dad on Answers.TV, which is so exciting. That’s a big

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deal. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. They’re amazing. We love Answers in

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Genesis. They have been so supportive of the Schoolhouse Rocked ministry, and

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we’re super grateful for them. And so, you

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know, they’re. They’re not charging us to have it on there. We’re not, you know,

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charging them to put it on. Like, this is just, you know, they said, you

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know, it’s the body of Christ. We have this platform. It’s the body of Christ,

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totally. They just said, we’ve got this platform. And Garritt sent them a video and

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they said, we love it. We would love to put this on our. That’s awesome.

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Answers.TV network. So. Yeah. Isn’t that exciting? Oh, man, that’s so cool. I’m going

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to go find. I’m going to go. I’m going to go look. Yeah, yeah, do

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it. Yeah. If you guys don’t have Answers.TV, it’s way better than Netflix.

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So get that instead. For sure. You can chalk up like an

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hour of watching Answers.TV as, like, school also,

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I feel like. Exactly, exactly. And then

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let’s Talk about the network for just a minute because we haven’t. Talked much about

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it. No, tell us, because I don’t think you’ve talked about it much at

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all. No, no, I think we did an episode a while back and talked

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about that. We were doing it. Share. Yeah, right. But, yeah, so

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like I said, talk. To us in lay. Like we’re laymen that don’t understand

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the. Whole thing, that don’t know anything about it. What is a network? So

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a network is literally a group of podcasts that come

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together and they’re all kind of in line

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with one another as far as what their audience is, what their reach is, what

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they’re trying to do through their podcast ministries. And

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so right now we have the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast,

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of course, and Thinking Dad, and then we have our two sister and

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brother, I guess children podcasts maybe would be a better

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way to say that. But we have Homeschool Insights for those who don’t listen to

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Homeschool Insights. Homeschool Insights is five days a week

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and that are. That’s just like power clips from the Schoolhouse Rocked

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podcast. And so they’re anywhere from typically like

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4 to 7 minute clips of

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Schoolhouse Rocked. And so they’re like, I mean,

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Garritt has a system to it, but, you know, they’re just from all kinds

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of different interviews that we’ve done on Schoolhouse Rocked. And so they’re just short,

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like power clips. Right. And then Rapid Response

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is the same thing from Thinking Dad. So Rapid

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Response, again is just short power clips from the Thinking

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Dad podcast. And a lot of those you’ll see actually on

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like Instagram or X, things like that. And so

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those, that’s how those get a lot of views. But you can listen to those

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as podcasts as well. So if every day of the week you just want just

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kind of a burst of encouragement for just a few minutes, you can get

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that through Homeschool Insights and Schoolhouse Rocked. And it’s funny because

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a lot of times I’ll listen to Homeschool Insights and I’ll hear some, you

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know, wise insight from

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one of the guests that I’ve had, and I’m like, I don’t even remember them

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saying that. And that was so encouraging. Oh, it’s so

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funny how that happens. Yeah, well, because when there’s an hour, you, you know, you

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have a hard time filtering through it. But when he just has those clips, they’re

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just powerful and. Right. Yes. That’s awesome. So what is the

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name of the network again? It’s the Biblical Family

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Network, so you can go to any. You could go to

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the website, Biblical Family Network, but I think you can also look it up on

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any, like, podcast app and just look at Biblical Family Network, and it’ll pull

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up those. So we’ve got. Schoolhouse Rocked. Homeschool

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Insights, Thinking Dad and Rapid Response. And then. And then we have

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Culture Proof. Okay. Which if you guys. The Addisons,

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they’re amazing. Wil and Meeke Addison, they are incredible. Meeke’s been on our

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podcast several times. And Wil Addison has been on

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Garritt’s podcast, and they are just a

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powerhouse couple. I mean, they’re amazing. They are so biblically sound,

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so wise in the way that they just talk about truth

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and culture and everything that’s going on in the world today, and they always

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bring it back to the word of God. And they talk about family, they talk

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about education, they talk about the church, they talk about politics, they talk

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about everything, and it is always from a really strong,

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solid biblical worldview. And. And they’re fun to listen to. They’re hilarious. They’re,

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you know, husband and wife, of course, and they’re super funny to listen

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to. And their. Their whole family is involved. I

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mean, their kids help edit their podcast. They used to be

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on AFR, which is American Family Radio, for, like, 15 years.

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They hosted. Airing the Addisons. Right. Which was

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their radio show that they had

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on American Family Radio. And then last year, they launched

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into doing their own, which became Culture Proof. So they’re no longer on

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the other. They’re no longer on AFR. They’re just doing Culture Proof. Yep. They’re just

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doing Culture Proof. So they have their own ministry that the Lord has

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granted them. And we might hear about Meeke a little bit more later,

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but after all that, to say what else is on

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the network. Yes. Yeah. Stay tuned. To hear more about. Stay tuned, stay

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tuned. And then the last one that we have

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for right now, and we’re always looking for more podcasts just as the

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Lord brings them to us. But the Made2Homeschool podcast with

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Brandon Beckley. And I interviewed Brandon earlier in the year.

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I don’t know exactly when it was. I think it was in the springtime. And

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he’s a homeschool dad and just has such a heart for

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Christian discipleship and education. And so he

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and his wife Brigitte, they have created the

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Made2Homeschool ministry and podcast. And so they have just

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a really neat ministry. And so he’s got this podcast, and so he’s. The

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MadeeHomeschool podcast is also on the

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Biblical Family Network. Very cool. Yeah. Wow. That’s a

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lot that you guys bit off this last year. I

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know. And I’ll tell you, too, with Made2Homeschool, I got to be a

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guest on that podcast. So he brings guests on, and that’s how.

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Yeah, yeah, yep. He has guests on. And the Addisons do not bring

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guests? They do. Oh, yeah, no, oftentimes, sometimes

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it’s just them, and then sometimes they have guests. So we’ve actually been guests on

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their podcast. They’ve been guests. Oh, yeah. Actually, you and Garritt were together, weren’t you?

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Were you? Yes. Yeah. Okay. We were together. I do remember that. Yes, yes, yes.

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Yep. Okay. So if you ever. For those who maybe if you’re kind of new

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to Schoolhouse Rocked and you want to hear our story

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of our family and how God has just miraculously

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created the Schoolhouse Rocked ministry, I’ll put a link in the

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show notes to this interview that

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Brandon Beckley from Made to Homeschool interviewed me, and I got

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to share our testimony and our story on there. So I will put a link

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to that so you guys could go listen to that on Made to Homeschool,

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and you can know all about our story if you don’t know yet. Awesome. But

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We are back with Aby. All right, so we talked about

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just kind of what this year has looked like. We talked about some of our

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podcasts. We talked about the launch of the Thinking Dad and the new studio

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and the Biblical Family Network, and that’s kind of been our family. I mean, that’s

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awesome. It’s a lot and exciting a lot and just big changes.

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Oh, wait, another thing. Oh, what? That you failed to mention. This was

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your first year of having just one student. Yes. This was

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your first year of having Brooklyn not homeschooling. Yes.

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That’s a big deal. Yes. And it’s gone really

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well. It has been such a good year. I was a little bit nervous.

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I will say it’s been really hard. It’s been much harder on Lacey than

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I thought it would be, because she really misses her sister. And

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Brooklyn still lives at home. We’re so grateful for that. But she works

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full time and she has friends and she has a car, and so she’s. She’s

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just gone a lot. And even when she’s home, she has. Her own thing

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going on. Yeah. I mean, you know, if she’s home. Lacey and I are

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doing school, and Brooklyn is doing her own thing. And so it’s

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just different. It’s hard on siblings. Yeah, it’s hard when. When

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siblings launch. And I think especially if they’re home, because it’s like

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their presence is there, but they’re not there in the way that they used to

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be there. And so you feel left behind. I don’t know. I can imagine

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that it would be really hard. It’s. It’s been an adjustment for all of us,

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but it’s been a good adjustment. And having an adult child has just

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been harder than I thought it would be. And

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not in like, you know, she’s not off, you know. Right, right, right,

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right. Making a disaster of her life or anything. No, it’s just. It’s weird, like

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letting go of those drinks. And we talked about that in our Homeschooling through the

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Years series. Right. With Rachael Carman, of just what that looks

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like to just kind of let go of those

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controlling mechanisms that we’ve always had. Totally. Yeah. Well, It’s the thing that you’ve done

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for 18 years and now all of a sudden you’re not. But they’re still there.

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But you think it takes a lot of self control on the parents

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end. Close your mouth. Yeah, it’s hard.

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I mean, I don’t know. We’re not there yet, but I have a junior, so

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I’m mentally preparing for it, knowing that it’s coming.

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And even as a junior in high school, you’re still. You’re slowly releasing those

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things, you know? You really are. Yes. Yeah. So. But

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I were very proud of both of our girls and just the things

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that the Lord is doing in their hearts. And it’s. It’s exciting and it’s weird

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and it’s hard and it’s all the feels, it’s all the things. But. Yeah, so

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it’s been a really good year so far. And Lacey is doing

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great. And she played volleyball, you know, I’ve talked about that. Her volleyball season is

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over and she’s eighth grade. She’s in eighth grade. Yeah. Okay, so how about you

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tell us, just really give us just a quick overview of

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the Rinella family and what the past year has

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looked like for you and maybe the Called Beyond Ministry. Yeah, it’s been.

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It’s been a. It’s been a year. I mean, every year the kids are

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growing more. And so like I said, we have a junior and an eighth grader

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and a fifth grader. And it’s just. It’s been. It

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is hard. Like you said, it’s Hard to have an adult child. It’s hard to

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have a 16 year old. Not hard in the fact that it’s challenging.

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It’s, it’s heart pulling. Like it’s hard knowing I only

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have a year and a half left with her or I, you know, and every

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day is like a countdown. Like this is like there’s only one more time we’re

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gonna do this, you know, so it’s just, it’s hard to watch them

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grow up, even though that’s the end goal. So we’ve just been

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enjoy. I feel like we’ve been enjoying school more. I feel like the longer you

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do it, the more you realize what you don’t need to do and what really

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matters. Every year I, I learned that a little bit more. So, yeah,

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and then, you know, we’ve talked about this a whole bunch, but we lost Jesse’s

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dad this summer, so that was a huge part of our year. Just saying goodbye

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to him over about two month period. And so that was a huge part.

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And then we’ve also talked about, you know, Jesse and I and the kids

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have a ministry, Called Beyond Adventures where we take families

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impacted by disability or loss or, you know, other

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circumstances, other challenges on hunting and fishing and outdoor adventures.

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And so this year has been a really fun year. We had our biggest

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yet annual fishing day where we take kids

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with disabilities and their siblings and parents on. We do a big fishing

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clinic. That was a blast. We did a pheasant hunt with a little boy that

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happened to be a homeschooler, which was so fun. That was just really fun

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for my kids to connect with him. Yeah. And then we just finished an elk

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hunt that we had started with a father daughter. He’s a,

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he’s a young man with a young daughter who was diagnosed with

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Alzheimer’s. And so he just had a dream of taking her hunting

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like he had with his older kids when he did not have Alzheimer’s and thought

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he would never ever be able to do that. And so we, we made it

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happen for them and it was, it was amazing. And it just. Homeschooling

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has allowed us to do this ministry as a family. The kids

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are involved every step of the way. Tatum did a lot of the filming, she

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does a lot of the admin. Winnie’s just, you know, the hype girl. She’s like

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there for morale. And Colson is like the guide in the field along

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with Jesse. So we’re just really blessed that because of our homeschool

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freedoms in and amongst doing school, we can also do

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this. So it’s been a good year. It’s. Yeah. And also,

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I don’t know if you guys heard, but the elections went really well

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this year. Did they? They did. So

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that’s. I mean, it was touch and go there for a minute.

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And so I think it’s been a good year, and I’m really looking forward to.

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I’m looking forward to what’s to come. Yeah, it’ll be really

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interesting to see how things unfold, even when

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it comes to school choice. And that’s gonna be

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a bigger fight now, actually. Yeah. Which actually, you’re still on

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the board of Homeschool, Idaho. Oh, yes. So I am on the board of home

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school. You mentioned that you’ve got your conference coming up. Yeah, so we

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have a conference coming up. Oh, that’s another thing I was able to do this

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year is I traveled and spoke at a couple conferences. Yes, you did more than

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you usually do. Yes. And it was really fun. And then I actually have quite

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a few coming up this next. Not a few. I’m very balanced because family

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first. Right. I don’t do a lot, but Tatum traveled with me this last year

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on one of the away. Where I flew away, and it was. It.

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Because that’s kind of something I’ve said is I’m not. I mean, I’m not doing

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that and leaving the family at family first. So she came, and it was.

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It was like, more than I’d hoped for. She was like my little schedule

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keeper. Made sure we were on time, that we hit the flights. She sang,

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actually, in one of my sessions that I spoke in. It was amazing.

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And then she just made instant friends with the homeschool crowd at the

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state. At that. The state I took her to. So that was really fun. So

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I’m actually hoping that she will be able to do more of that as my

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little companion. Yeah. Yeah. So fun. It’s

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so fun taking our kids to these things. Lacey got to go to

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Memphis with us this year. We. We got to be part of the Culture

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Proof family conference this year with Wil and Meeke and Lacey.

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Same thing. She went with us and she was kind of like, oh, another homeschool

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conference. And we were like, well, this one’s a little different. It’s a family conference,

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and she’s just. She’s been to a lot of homeschool conferences. She hit it hard

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for that couple years. Yeah. Yes. So we went to this one,

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and she was like, well, I have to go back next year because I told

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all my friends that I’d be back. Oh, don’t you love that? You know, she.

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Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I mean, it’s like as soon as we

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walked in the door, I mean, she knows the Addison kids anyway. Right. And so,

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you know, as soon as she walked in the door, she already had friends and

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then she made more friends and it was, it was a lot of fun. But

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I mean, they had some. It was really neat because it was more of a

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discipleship conference for the teenagers. It wasn’t to just play. I mean, they. They

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played some games and did some activities, but it was more

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like actual discipleship. And so they had speakers come in and talk with

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the kids. Her favorite one, Kathy Koch

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was one of the speakers for the kids and she was Lacey’s favorite of.

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Wow, that’s so cool. All of the speakers, which was really awesome. It’s fun to

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get our kids perspective. Yeah, it really is. So anyway, it was

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awesome. Very cool. We are out of time. People are probably wondering why are we

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talking year end like this year, school year is over. If the school year is

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not over, it’s the. It’s going to be a new season of Schoolhouse Rocked. That’s

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why we’re doing a year in review. Right? Right. So we do have really exciting,

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weird. I know the year’s not over. I mean. No, it’s not. But it’s

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only. I mean, we only have a few weeks left in the year, but even.

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The school year is not over, right? No, no, no, no. Oh, no.

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Yeah. But we’re just excited about what’s coming. Yes. So

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we will be back tomorrow and we’ll tell you guys of the exciting things that

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are coming up for the Schoolhouse Red ministry. And I can’t

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wait to share these things with you guys. Thank you so much for being with

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us, Aby. Thank you for being with me this week. And if you’re listening to

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this again on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving,

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you guys. This is so cool. We have so much to be thankful for. We

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have so much to be thankful for. We will be back. But many of you

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are probably listening to this after Thanksgiving and that’s okay too, because our exciting

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announcement is still relevant after Thanksgiving because it has

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to do with the new year. So we want a turkey recipe. Don’t worry, you

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don’t have to mess. Which you will never get from me. Anyway. My turkey

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recipe is go to my mother in law’s house or my sister in law’s house.

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Yeah, yeah, that’s my sister in law. And let them make the turkey. And

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it will be amazing. So that’s a good plan. Have a great rest of your

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day. We will see you guys back here tomorrow. Bye.