Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Belmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

Hey, friends, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. I am your host, Jamie Belmay. And today we are rounding out kind of our three-part series on

homeschooling. I know there's a lot of podcast listeners who don't homeschool. So this will be,

this will be the last of our homeschool chats for now. But last week, I shared our curriculum

picks for next year, which was a really fun discussion. I personally love getting to see

what other people pick for curriculum. It just can create so many great ideas. And sometimes you hit a

point in the year or with a certain child where you're thinking, what I'm using now is not working.

And so I just love getting to see what other people use. I think it can be really helpful, even if you end up using very different things.

So if you didn't listen to that yet, go back and listen to last week's episode.

And on Instagram this last week, I shared those curriculum picks on Instagram as well,

although it was a much fuller discussion on the podcast. So if you miss

that, go listen. And with it, I had so many questions about routines, fitting subjects in.

How do you balance? Because we are entering kind of this middle season now where we do have

little kids. We have a almost four-year-old,

almost two-year-old newborn come in. And then we have the five older kids, the oldest being sixth grade.

The twins are in sixth grade. They're heading into middle school this year, which is crazy.

And so we're in that period right now of transitioning to bigger kids school,

more serious subjects with little's underfoot and juggling the different ages. And every new

season, every new year can bring unique challenges. And so I got a lot of questions around

routines and fitting things in and just my experience with how do you keep little's busy?

How do you get trained kids to work on individual subjects? So I am going to do a Q&A today.

These are all questions I got on Instagram that we're going to chat about. All right. So we will

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