If later on you decide, you know, okay, maybe we don't need fireworks and you know,

search to soleil to show up. I don't know. I don't know what people do for parties.

I'm not a party person. We always have search to soleil. It's not a party.

Until the trapeze comes out.

You're listening to the Read-A-Loud Revival podcast.

I'm your host Sarah McKenzie, homeschooling mama of six, and author of The Read-A-Loud Family

and Teaching from Rest. As parents, we're overwhelmed with a lot to do. It feels like every child

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Hello, it is a march and I am happy about it. March means melting. And the spring is on the way,

and sunshine is here or on the way. At least that's what it means for many of us in the northern

hemisphere. Today I've got Read-A-Loud Revival Community Director Courtney Garrison and

Managing Editor Kara Anderson here with me for another team episode. Last week we talked about the

ALA Youth Media Awards. And we told you about some of the books that won a few we wish had been honored.

Today we're going to shift gears a little bit because we want to talk about what matters most in

each of our homeschools this spring and then what we'll be reading this spring as well. Courtney

and Kara, welcome back to this side of the show. It's episode 200. Wow, congratulations 200.

That's that's the real deal. I think the first huge. I know it's great. I think the first podcast

that I worked on was episode six. Oh, is that right? Wow. Wow. That's amazing. Oh, I was I was all

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