Everyday Educator - Celebrating Milestones the Classical Way
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00:00:02.580 | - Welcome friends to this episode
00:00:06.360 | of the "Everyday Educator" podcast.
00:00:08.940 | I'm your host, Lisa Bailey,
00:00:10.500 | and I'm excited to spend some time with you today
00:00:13.800 | as we encourage one another, learn together,
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00:00:54.840 | Well, friends, as we kind of draw near
00:00:57.800 | to the end of another academic year,
00:01:01.200 | I know that lots of you are thinking about the milestones
00:01:06.200 | that you have passed
00:01:10.000 | and the milestones that are coming up on your journey.
00:01:14.400 | And lots of us are thinking about celebrations
00:01:17.680 | that are ahead at the end of our homeschooling year.
00:01:22.380 | Things that we are joyously celebrating,
00:01:24.940 | some things that we are maybe reluctantly celebrating,
00:01:28.760 | some things that might be joyful
00:01:30.300 | and reluctantly celebrated by your family.
00:01:33.340 | Today, I have one of my favorite podcast friends with me,
00:01:37.860 | Kelly Wilt, and Kelly and I are going to talk about
00:01:42.180 | how we celebrate milestones the classical way.
00:01:47.000 | So Kelly, thank you so much for being with me
00:01:49.980 | and tackling this topic.
00:01:51.900 | - Absolutely, Lisa.
00:01:53.060 | This is one of my favorite things to discuss
00:01:56.660 | because I think as homeschoolers,
00:01:58.340 | we should always be in a spirit of celebration
00:02:01.700 | for the good things that God is doing
00:02:03.580 | in and through our homeschools.
00:02:05.060 | So I am so excited to talk about this.
00:02:07.620 | - That is so neat.
00:02:08.500 | You know, when I started thinking about this,
00:02:11.940 | your face jumped to mind immediately
00:02:15.300 | because I know that you are a natural celebrator.
00:02:21.460 | Have you always been that way?
00:02:23.700 | - I think so.
00:02:24.780 | I think so.
00:02:25.820 | Part of that might be because my birthday
00:02:27.720 | comes right before Christmas.
00:02:29.660 | And so I have always, always been one for a party
00:02:34.220 | and for celebrating.
00:02:36.220 | And there is just a spirit of joyfulness
00:02:40.980 | that typically accompanies times of celebration.
00:02:44.820 | And I just am so drawn to that.
00:02:48.380 | And just that feeling of remembrance
00:02:51.080 | for, like I said, those good things,
00:02:53.900 | to me is so heartwarming.
00:02:55.260 | So yes, I think I would answer that question.
00:02:57.820 | I have always been a natural celebrator.
00:03:00.540 | - Yeah, and I love what you just said,
00:03:05.100 | that part of celebrating is the sheer joy of accomplishment,
00:03:10.100 | but part of celebrating is remembering
00:03:14.660 | what brought you to this point of celebration.
00:03:17.260 | And let's be real, you and I have homeschooled a long time.
00:03:20.500 | What brings us to the point of celebration,
00:03:23.420 | every little piece is not always joyful.
00:03:26.140 | - Oh, amen, amen.
00:03:27.900 | - I mean, I said that, and as I heard myself say that,
00:03:32.580 | I thought, "Oh, maybe I shouldn't say that."
00:03:33.900 | What I really mean is that all of the things
00:03:36.880 | that brought us to these points of celebration
00:03:40.060 | are not always happy.
00:03:41.620 | - Right.
00:03:42.540 | - They're not always easy.
00:03:44.140 | It's not always a jolly old time
00:03:47.200 | in the homeschool house today.
00:03:50.140 | But there is deep joy in knowing
00:03:54.300 | that you are following the path
00:03:55.560 | that the Lord called you to,
00:03:57.380 | even when it's a little bit hard.
00:04:01.300 | - Absolutely, absolutely.
00:04:03.500 | - I do love that.
00:04:06.260 | Okay, you are a natural celebrator,
00:04:08.620 | and you have now told us
00:04:09.820 | that probably that has always been true.
00:04:13.580 | What kinds of things do you celebrate in your family?
00:04:18.380 | Your family where you, maybe the family that you grew up in,
00:04:21.060 | but certainly the family where you live now.
00:04:23.420 | - Oh, for sure.
00:04:24.380 | Well, I think that we've already locked into the fact
00:04:28.680 | that celebrations are times of remembrance,
00:04:32.100 | as well as times of jubilation, I guess.
00:04:36.140 | And in our family,
00:04:38.100 | we tend to celebrate both big things and small things.
00:04:42.380 | So for instance, when my children were little,
00:04:46.780 | we would celebrate the end of reading books together.
00:04:50.900 | And something as simple as that,
00:04:53.540 | which is, you're definitely not going to the store
00:04:57.220 | and purchasing lots of supplies for something like that.
00:05:00.980 | We would celebrate small things like that,
00:05:04.340 | but we would also celebrate big things like birthdays,
00:05:08.780 | or just life events.
00:05:12.780 | Each of our children, when they were baptized,
00:05:15.540 | we would invite family, and we would purchase a cake,
00:05:18.660 | and we would have a meal together,
00:05:20.740 | and we would celebrate that commitment at that time.
00:05:25.100 | So we celebrate small things on a daily basis,
00:05:29.660 | and we celebrate big things too.
00:05:31.620 | And it weaves together our family culture,
00:05:35.100 | so that hopefully my children
00:05:37.820 | will be cultivated celebrators too.
00:05:41.660 | - My kids, I've had friends of my children come home
00:05:45.420 | and look at us oddly, at some of the things that we do.
00:05:50.020 | And I ever heard one kid tell my daughter one time,
00:05:53.380 | "Your family celebrates a lot of odd things."
00:05:55.860 | (both laughing)
00:05:57.340 | And I never realized that we celebrated,
00:05:59.700 | and that made me think, okay, what is it that we're doing?
00:06:03.100 | And we did develop a lot of strange little customs.
00:06:06.340 | Like we celebrated,
00:06:07.500 | I remember when Stephanie was really little,
00:06:09.940 | we got a book from the library that talked about spring,
00:06:13.860 | and in there, her favorite page
00:06:16.260 | talked about my spring robin.
00:06:19.540 | And so for years,
00:06:21.540 | we celebrated the day that we saw
00:06:25.020 | my first spring robin every year.
00:06:27.260 | - I love that.
00:06:28.100 | - And just all kinds of things.
00:06:29.660 | I love what you said about celebrating the big things
00:06:32.660 | that we all think of as celebrations,
00:06:35.500 | baptisms, and birthdays, and anniversaries, and Christmas,
00:06:41.300 | but also the little things like finishing a good book.
00:06:46.300 | Although I will tell you, Sarah cried one time.
00:06:49.780 | We finished reading "Cricket" in Times Square.
00:06:52.020 | She loved that book so much.
00:06:54.100 | And I thought we would celebrate the end of it
00:06:56.500 | and make like a little,
00:06:57.740 | we were gonna use a little box
00:06:59.860 | and make a cricket home and everything.
00:07:01.340 | And I looked at her and tears were rolling down her face.
00:07:04.300 | And I thought, oh no,
00:07:05.140 | this is not the celebration I had envisioned.
00:07:07.860 | But I realized then that sometimes
00:07:11.220 | that was quite an accolade.
00:07:13.740 | She was not, she loved stories,
00:07:16.580 | but didn't love books the same way
00:07:18.260 | that my older daughter had.
00:07:20.060 | And so for her, that was a celebration of a story
00:07:23.820 | that had touched her heart.
00:07:25.300 | So celebrations look different for different families
00:07:29.620 | and for different occasions.
00:07:32.340 | I know that you have tutored and directed lots of levels
00:07:37.380 | within your community
00:07:38.820 | and that this year you are a Challenge 4 director.
00:07:43.660 | How have you celebrated this milestone year
00:07:48.660 | with your community this year?
00:07:51.940 | - Oh, this has been a wonderful year.
00:07:54.180 | And I am just so grateful for God's gift
00:07:57.780 | in giving me this group of young people
00:08:00.260 | to shepherd through this season.
00:08:02.740 | And at the beginning of the year,
00:08:05.260 | well, let me preclude this by saying,
00:08:07.380 | I had the blessing of directing this class
00:08:09.740 | also in Challenge 3.
00:08:11.260 | So before this year began,
00:08:13.580 | all the moms and I got together
00:08:15.780 | and we really brainstormed together,
00:08:18.300 | how can we make this just a celebratory year
00:08:22.580 | for these exceptional young people?
00:08:25.020 | And one of the ways that we chose to celebrate
00:08:28.820 | was that we actually decided to have a senior thesis retreat
00:08:33.420 | for this class.
00:08:34.580 | And this was no small undertaking.
00:08:36.460 | So there was lots of parent power behind this event,
00:08:40.420 | but we got together and we pulled our resources
00:08:43.740 | and found a lovely place at the beach.
00:08:45.740 | Now, this is not something that is expected
00:08:48.500 | or should be expected.
00:08:49.580 | It was just something as families,
00:08:51.540 | we got together and wanted to give this class as a gift.
00:08:55.140 | We got together,
00:08:56.380 | we found a place where we could stay for a few days.
00:08:59.260 | Every mom signed up to cook a different meal.
00:09:04.020 | We kind of took that upon ourselves
00:09:06.060 | and we went away with this class
00:09:09.140 | so that we could focus on senior thesis.
00:09:12.020 | And I will say this,
00:09:13.300 | we had the best time and we made the best memories,
00:09:17.100 | playing board games together late at night,
00:09:19.860 | going for walks on the beach,
00:09:21.700 | singing together, praying together.
00:09:23.660 | It just was an exceptional celebratory time for them
00:09:28.420 | as we're thinking about the ending of one time
00:09:32.260 | and the commencement of something wonderful for them
00:09:34.860 | as they move forward.
00:09:36.020 | So that is one way.
00:09:37.460 | And you know, Lisa, with graduation coming up,
00:09:39.900 | my friends, these moms, we've gotten together
00:09:44.500 | and we've actually met every month or so.
00:09:46.900 | I think part of it is a reason
00:09:48.300 | just for us to get together and fellowship.
00:09:50.180 | - Yes, yes, and support each other.
00:09:52.540 | That's one of those milestones that is both a joy
00:09:56.020 | and a little bit of a heart tug
00:09:59.380 | because it's the, like you said,
00:10:01.180 | it's the beginning of something for those kids,
00:10:04.780 | but it's the end of something for those students
00:10:07.740 | and for their parents.
00:10:09.220 | - It's true, it's true.
00:10:10.980 | We have been thinking and planning through ideas
00:10:14.260 | for graduation just to make it personal
00:10:17.980 | and personally celebratory for each of them.
00:10:21.620 | So we are overjoyed with,
00:10:23.940 | we've had conversations with our children
00:10:25.980 | and been thinking through what are the ways
00:10:28.460 | that we can honor God and glorify God
00:10:31.740 | for what He's done for us in this event.
00:10:35.860 | And I think that spirit will, you know,
00:10:39.900 | I think bring that event
00:10:42.620 | to a different celebratory level for all of us.
00:10:45.780 | We're not just celebrating what we've accomplished,
00:10:48.780 | but really we're giving honor to Him
00:10:51.260 | for what He's done through us.
00:10:54.020 | And that to me makes me so excited
00:10:56.860 | to see these young people walk down the aisle
00:10:59.700 | at graduation in just a few short weeks.
00:11:02.780 | - That is, that's awesome.
00:11:04.220 | That is a beautiful presentation
00:11:07.180 | of how we might celebrate a graduation.
00:11:10.220 | And it really brings me right to this next question
00:11:12.580 | I wanted to ask you.
00:11:14.060 | Why is celebrating important?
00:11:17.700 | Why, 'cause you started,
00:11:19.060 | you alluded to that a little bit in your last comment.
00:11:21.860 | Why is it so important for us to celebrate?
00:11:25.300 | - Oh, yeah.
00:11:26.620 | You know, I think when I was younger,
00:11:28.460 | I would have had a completely different answer.
00:11:30.740 | I would have said because it's fun.
00:11:32.700 | - Right, right. - It's fun.
00:11:34.140 | But I think the farther I get along
00:11:37.740 | in our homeschooling journey,
00:11:39.300 | my answer has changed.
00:11:41.300 | And I think my answer now would be
00:11:44.020 | that we need to give honor to whom it is due.
00:11:48.380 | And that's whom with a capital W
00:11:51.260 | because it rightly aligns our children's hearts
00:11:55.900 | to have a soul and a spirit of gratitude to Him.
00:12:00.140 | And so, you know, as we're celebrating these small things,
00:12:04.500 | you know, one thing that comes to mind
00:12:06.020 | is very similar to you, Lisa.
00:12:08.740 | I remember the first time I read the picture book,
00:12:11.580 | "Bread and Jam for Francis"
00:12:13.620 | by Lillian Hoban to my children.
00:12:16.860 | And they were all just, I mean,
00:12:19.220 | very busy foundations-aged students at that time.
00:12:24.060 | And, oh, we just, they were fascinated by the idea
00:12:27.420 | that this little badger would only eat bread and jam
00:12:30.340 | and she wouldn't eat all these delicious things
00:12:32.940 | that her mother had prepared for her.
00:12:34.580 | So we celebrated the end of that book
00:12:38.020 | by eating what else?
00:12:40.420 | Bread and jam.
00:12:41.940 | And it was such a little thing.
00:12:43.460 | But I remember at that time,
00:12:46.900 | those were the first awakenings in my mama heart
00:12:51.100 | of, Lord, thank you for giving me this opportunity
00:12:55.060 | to share this experience with these three young people.
00:12:58.620 | And, you know, for me, you know, for them,
00:13:00.620 | it was bread and jam and we read a great story.
00:13:02.780 | But for me, it was, thank you, Lord,
00:13:05.580 | for this opportunity that you provided for me as a mom
00:13:09.660 | to experience this with my babies.
00:13:12.060 | So I think, you know, as time has elapsed,
00:13:15.540 | you know, like all good things, you know,
00:13:17.740 | I hopefully have grown in wisdom
00:13:20.660 | and realizing that, you know,
00:13:23.500 | all good gifts are given by him.
00:13:25.940 | And celebrating is giving honor to him
00:13:29.220 | for the good things that he's entrusted us with
00:13:32.180 | and that he's allowed us to experience.
00:13:34.260 | And good, as you said before,
00:13:36.660 | not always super happy, super joyful.
00:13:40.860 | Good sometimes means growing as well.
00:13:44.180 | And so being able to recognize that in our celebrations
00:13:47.260 | I think is also valuable.
00:13:49.260 | - I love that.
00:13:50.180 | There's so much wisdom in that.
00:13:52.060 | Celebration is not just for hurraying the end of the year
00:13:57.060 | or the end of a hard task, or, you know,
00:14:02.740 | I never have to do this again, or this went so well.
00:14:06.780 | But celebrating is also, I love it,
00:14:08.860 | a lovely chance to look back and embrace
00:14:14.700 | recognize and embrace what we've learned
00:14:17.900 | and recognize the guiding hand of a good father
00:14:21.500 | who has led us in this way.
00:14:23.380 | I love that so very much.
00:14:26.100 | Now, I know Kelly, you and I have both graduated some kids
00:14:29.980 | and we have been able to celebrate that,
00:14:32.300 | but we have lots of families at all different points
00:14:37.100 | on their homeschooling journey.
00:14:38.540 | So not everybody's graduated.
00:14:40.820 | I want you to look back.
00:14:42.260 | You've had lots of CC milestones to celebrate.
00:14:47.260 | Name some other ones that you had with your children
00:14:53.340 | and you continue to have with your children
00:14:55.380 | that maybe lead up to graduation
00:14:57.660 | so we can all get in on this celebration conversation.
00:15:01.220 | - Well, and you know, Lisa, just thinking about that
00:15:03.140 | and reflecting on that,
00:15:04.860 | I just, that in itself is worthy of celebration.
00:15:08.500 | Just thinking about all those stones of memory
00:15:11.940 | that we have.
00:15:13.260 | And, you know, I think back to the very earliest days,
00:15:17.740 | I remember our first day of classical conversations.
00:15:21.180 | I had two very wiggly little boys
00:15:23.700 | and a baby and a carrier and a baby carrier
00:15:26.780 | who sat in the corner of the classroom
00:15:28.620 | and slept peacefully and rocked
00:15:30.580 | and was cooed over and loved over.
00:15:33.460 | I remember we were so early in our journey
00:15:37.220 | that we did not stay for essentials.
00:15:39.620 | - Right, right.
00:15:41.060 | - And I remember that first day we even celebrated.
00:15:44.860 | We got in the car and if I'm not mistaken,
00:15:47.020 | we drove through a drive-through
00:15:48.420 | and got a Frosty or something like that
00:15:50.940 | just to celebrate that first day.
00:15:53.660 | And, you know, that has only morphed
00:15:56.100 | into greater celebrations for different things.
00:15:59.900 | You know, I had children who were memory masters
00:16:03.020 | and obviously that is something worthy of celebration.
00:16:06.580 | But I also had children who,
00:16:08.540 | that was just not their priority.
00:16:11.180 | They mastered the material,
00:16:12.860 | but they just were not,
00:16:15.020 | they were not interested in that.
00:16:17.180 | - Like showmen, yes, exactly.
00:16:19.380 | - Right, right.
00:16:20.220 | And so, you know, we found ways to celebrate that at home.
00:16:24.300 | You know, it could have been,
00:16:25.180 | I remember cooking favorite meals
00:16:28.540 | as a time of celebration
00:16:30.580 | and, you know, making desserts and that kind of thing.
00:16:33.180 | You know, food, good food is never a miss
00:16:36.300 | at a celebration. - Never, never.
00:16:38.340 | - But, you know, I also,
00:16:40.900 | some of our celebrations were as simple
00:16:43.340 | as just going around the table and saying,
00:16:46.140 | you know, "I'm proud of you because you did this,"
00:16:48.900 | or telling one another, you know,
00:16:50.900 | "I am grateful for God's gifting of this in you that I see."
00:16:55.900 | You know, simple things like that are also celebratory.
00:17:00.980 | I do know there were some very large celebrations
00:17:05.340 | in our household when capstone events in Challenge
00:17:09.140 | came to pass, like Science Fair.
00:17:11.220 | I think we celebrated the end of a refrigerator
00:17:13.940 | full of pickles. - Oh, my gosh, yes, yes.
00:17:17.100 | - For our middle son who was about to graduate this year
00:17:20.660 | in my Challenge 4 class.
00:17:22.380 | And, you know, I think he really delighted
00:17:24.780 | in emptying all the pickle juice
00:17:26.420 | out of our refrigerator after that.
00:17:28.780 | I know I was glad to have the refrigerator space back.
00:17:31.580 | But, you know, I think, you know, we,
00:17:33.860 | as I've seen my children grow,
00:17:36.580 | I see them recognizing things
00:17:38.740 | that are worthy of celebrating.
00:17:40.700 | And, you know, we really are in a season of celebration
00:17:43.860 | as a family because our eldest,
00:17:46.220 | who graduated from Challenge 4 several years ago,
00:17:49.100 | is graduating with his undergraduate degree this year.
00:17:52.700 | So in the month of May,
00:17:53.860 | we literally have back-to-back-to-back
00:17:57.020 | celebrations of graduation. - Oh, my goodness, yeah.
00:17:59.740 | - So, you know, I'm grateful for that family culture
00:18:04.620 | of celebrating, giving honor when it is due
00:18:09.620 | because it knits our hearts together
00:18:12.540 | and it directs our vision to be grateful
00:18:15.860 | to the one that has allowed us
00:18:17.460 | to experience these things together.
00:18:20.460 | And so, you know, I look back over our time
00:18:23.700 | in Classical Conversations, what a gift.
00:18:26.860 | You know, I think if I was gonna have a celebratory party
00:18:29.980 | when we get to the end of our homeschooling journey,
00:18:32.300 | which, interestingly, is only three years away,
00:18:35.820 | when did that happen? - Oh, my goodness.
00:18:37.980 | Don't blink anymore or you'll miss it.
00:18:40.700 | - Exactly, exactly.
00:18:42.100 | You know, I look at that and I think,
00:18:43.580 | if I were having a party
00:18:45.100 | at the end of our homeschool journey,
00:18:47.380 | the best gift would be the collective experience
00:18:51.580 | that we've had together as a family.
00:18:53.100 | Because in years to come,
00:18:54.940 | that is a gift that in my mind's eye,
00:18:57.340 | I can take out and I can enjoy time and time again.
00:19:02.340 | And there's no greater blessing, I think,
00:19:05.340 | for a homeschooling parent
00:19:07.300 | than to have the gift of those memories.
00:19:09.820 | - You are so right.
00:19:10.860 | And I really appreciate what you had to say
00:19:14.420 | about the simple ways to celebrate,
00:19:17.180 | like around the dinner table, taking turns,
00:19:20.300 | telling one another what you're proudest of in someone else
00:19:25.300 | and just sharing those memories.
00:19:27.580 | I love that when we celebrate together, you said it,
00:19:32.340 | we knit our hearts together more closely.
00:19:36.860 | And when we celebrate one another,
00:19:39.620 | it teaches, when we do that within the context
00:19:42.380 | of our family and our homeschool journey,
00:19:44.940 | it teaches us very well how to love others
00:19:50.340 | well.
00:19:51.180 | I can remember my younger daughter
00:19:56.620 | was not much of one for being in the limelight.
00:20:00.620 | She did not.
00:20:01.700 | Now my older daughter, she just, you know,
00:20:04.540 | she thought it was lucky that everybody got to hear
00:20:07.340 | the stories she had to tell.
00:20:09.060 | So she was always happy.
00:20:10.380 | She was very happy to tell what she was excited about.
00:20:13.260 | So presentations were not a burden to her.
00:20:16.580 | My younger daughter did not like
00:20:18.980 | to be the center of attention.
00:20:20.700 | Even when she had something to say,
00:20:23.340 | she didn't really want to say it to a big crowd.
00:20:25.300 | And so I can remember one week when she was,
00:20:27.900 | you know, it seemed to me out of reason,
00:20:30.700 | worked up about her presentation.
00:20:33.140 | And it was important to her big sister
00:20:35.380 | to go and attend her little sister's class
00:20:40.260 | so she could be there for her presentation.
00:20:45.100 | And she celebrated her sister's triumph
00:20:49.580 | by being there and smiling at her
00:20:53.980 | and offering her a hug at the end.
00:20:57.420 | And that, those little pieces,
00:21:01.020 | that's a celebration, y'all.
00:21:03.180 | It's not just a party.
00:21:05.580 | It's not just a big extravagant trip.
00:21:08.740 | That's not the only way to celebrate.
00:21:11.060 | We celebrate one another with a hug and a smile
00:21:14.860 | and an acknowledgement of I'm proud of you
00:21:18.420 | or this doesn't seem like a big thing,
00:21:20.580 | but for you, this was huge.
00:21:22.740 | And I love that.
00:21:23.940 | I love that.
00:21:25.020 | Are your kids natural celebrators too, Kelly?
00:21:30.180 | Your family celebrates lots of things, I know.
00:21:33.380 | Are your kids all natural celebrators?
00:21:36.260 | Do they embrace your celebrations
00:21:38.420 | or do they kind of go along with mama?
00:21:41.580 | Well, there's an element of that, yes.
00:21:46.060 | I would say that one of my three, my youngest,
00:21:49.860 | we jokingly say is a party everywhere she goes.
00:21:52.860 | And her birthday happens to be on Cinco de Mayo.
00:21:56.780 | So she fully embraces that as part of her personality.
00:22:00.860 | And I look at her and the way that God has created her
00:22:05.060 | with that desire for celebration.
00:22:07.940 | And I am hopeful that someday
00:22:10.740 | I will be a grandmother and I will see her as a mom
00:22:14.420 | doing some of these same goofy, kooky things
00:22:17.260 | that we have done together.
00:22:21.340 | I love that.
00:22:23.500 | I love that.
00:22:24.340 | I do think that, so listeners out there
00:22:29.060 | who may be big celebrators and you have kids
00:22:31.940 | that kind of roll their eyes
00:22:33.180 | and go along with your exuberant enthusiasm,
00:22:36.500 | what I want you to know is that you may be making
00:22:39.180 | more of an impression on your children than you think,
00:22:42.340 | that maybe they are closet celebrators
00:22:45.900 | or when they get out and they are responsible
00:22:48.620 | in their own homes for celebrating, they will.
00:22:52.500 | I have become a grandmother in the last year and a half
00:22:57.500 | and I absolutely love seeing my daughter
00:23:01.860 | having small daily celebrations of discovery
00:23:06.860 | with my grandson, Gideon.
00:23:09.100 | It blessed my heart.
00:23:11.140 | My daughter sent me a Snapchat one day of a picture.
00:23:14.460 | She had spread a plastic tablecloth in her living room
00:23:18.900 | and had filled a little basin with water
00:23:22.980 | and given my grandson all kinds of cups and things
00:23:26.820 | to play in this water with.
00:23:28.780 | He's so fascinated with water
00:23:30.740 | and he can't really reach any of their sinks well.
00:23:33.500 | And so she was celebrating his enthusiasm
00:23:39.020 | for discovery and it blessed my heart to think
00:23:42.780 | she knows how to celebrate the small moment
00:23:47.220 | that you were thinking, talking about, Kelly,
00:23:49.500 | the small moment of discovery that we can encourage
00:23:54.500 | in our children and experience with our children
00:23:58.780 | as they grow up.
00:23:59.900 | And I just love that, I just love it.
00:24:02.780 | - Well, and you know, Lisa, I will add,
00:24:04.900 | I have one other child who is not as inclined
00:24:07.780 | to be celebratory.
00:24:09.300 | But now that he is forging his own path in life,
00:24:12.140 | when things do happen, he makes sure to let us know
00:24:16.500 | so that we celebrate with him.
00:24:19.100 | And so, you know, I can't help but think you're right.
00:24:22.540 | You know, at the time you may think,
00:24:24.460 | oh, I am casting seed on very dry ground,
00:24:28.220 | but it may be taking root in ways
00:24:31.300 | that you don't realize quite yet.
00:24:33.980 | Because, you know, it's funny when we all sit
00:24:36.180 | around the table and we say, oh, do you remember the time
00:24:39.260 | that, and fill in the blank here, you know,
00:24:42.140 | it brings to mind all of those great celebratory memories
00:24:46.420 | that we have together as a family.
00:24:48.220 | And that is a wonderful thing.
00:24:50.340 | - And you know what, you just remind me,
00:24:51.940 | another thing that celebration does for us
00:24:54.620 | is cement our relationships.
00:24:57.220 | Because we do harken back, do you remember that?
00:25:00.060 | And times that we have celebrated together.
00:25:02.220 | And every time you celebrate with your family,
00:25:04.980 | you're building another memory,
00:25:07.380 | you're building another shared experience.
00:25:10.660 | And so I really think that celebrating
00:25:14.300 | cements our relationships.
00:25:16.660 | So when we celebrate with our family,
00:25:18.700 | when we celebrate with our friends,
00:25:20.740 | with our challenge class, with our broader CC community,
00:25:25.020 | we are cementing those bonds that hold us together.
00:25:30.180 | And that's another good reason to celebrate,
00:25:33.500 | to build family, to build community.
00:25:37.420 | All right, so I know we wanna talk about,
00:25:41.460 | we wanna think about what it means
00:25:44.060 | to celebrate classically, okay?
00:25:48.220 | How do we celebrate classically?
00:25:49.580 | How might celebrating classically be different
00:25:53.580 | from non-classical celebrations?
00:25:56.900 | What do we even mean by celebrating classically?
00:26:00.340 | - Yeah, it's funny when I think about this,
00:26:04.620 | when my children were young,
00:26:05.900 | I don't think I specifically honed in on the fact
00:26:09.140 | that I was using classical tools to celebrate, but I was.
00:26:14.060 | And that is just further proof that it is a natural way
00:26:18.380 | for us to embrace the world around us that God has created.
00:26:22.220 | So when I think about the celebrations
00:26:25.260 | that we have as families, I think definitely,
00:26:28.860 | we utilize all five of the core habits when we celebrate.
00:26:33.220 | We are naming those things that have been accomplished
00:26:37.220 | or that have been done and that we want to remember,
00:26:40.700 | we are attending to the people
00:26:43.900 | that were involved in those events,
00:26:46.820 | attending to the growth that has happened
00:26:50.420 | or the accomplishment that has been made.
00:26:54.340 | Hopefully we're committing to memory those things,
00:26:57.620 | like we talked about before, that we're memorizing,
00:27:01.820 | we're committing those acts of memory to our hearts
00:27:06.460 | so that we can recall them,
00:27:07.980 | that family fabric is knit in those moments.
00:27:12.380 | And obviously we're expressing,
00:27:14.940 | when we're having our celebrations,
00:27:17.420 | we're proclaiming God's goodness to us,
00:27:20.740 | we're proclaiming what things have been accomplished.
00:27:25.740 | And we're telling a story, whether we realize it or not,
00:27:30.300 | we're telling a story of God's goodness to that individual,
00:27:34.420 | God's goodness to our family.
00:27:37.580 | What happened?
00:27:38.780 | How do we see Him better?
00:27:40.220 | How do we know Him better through this thing
00:27:44.100 | that we're celebrating together?
00:27:46.020 | So I can definitely see in retrospect,
00:27:49.220 | and I'm thankful for God's mercy in that,
00:27:52.620 | utilizing all five of those core habits,
00:27:57.180 | even when my children were small.
00:27:59.300 | And I think moving forward into the future,
00:28:01.540 | now that I have a greater awareness of that,
00:28:04.420 | I hope that I can use those tools more effectively
00:28:07.460 | in our celebrations moving forward.
00:28:11.460 | But when I think about celebrating classically,
00:28:16.580 | I think those tools and utilizing them, wielding them well,
00:28:21.580 | is a way for us to continue to push our children
00:28:26.020 | toward this culture of just joyful remembrance
00:28:31.020 | or those things.
00:28:33.900 | And I really, it's a good question.
00:28:37.900 | Lisa, I wish we'd recorded this podcast
00:28:39.780 | maybe about 10 or 15 years ago.
00:28:42.140 | - I know, I know, but you know what?
00:28:44.900 | Here's the thing, and this I hope is an encouragement
00:28:47.180 | to you guys who are listening.
00:28:49.460 | Here's the thing, 10 or 15 years ago,
00:28:51.740 | we didn't know what we know now
00:28:53.780 | because the beautiful thing, y'all,
00:28:56.380 | is that God is educating us as we educate our children.
00:29:01.380 | He is not done with me.
00:29:04.500 | I am still learning things.
00:29:06.220 | And I look back and think, man,
00:29:08.780 | my children could have benefited
00:29:10.380 | from some of this stuff that I'm learning.
00:29:12.660 | And I'm certain that they wish that they had had as a mama,
00:29:17.060 | this woman that their children have as a lolly,
00:29:20.140 | because she is a lot more intentional
00:29:23.380 | and a lot more delighted by things
00:29:28.060 | that used to irritate her.
00:29:29.980 | And I think, so listeners, here's the thing.
00:29:34.980 | Keep growing in who you are and don't despair
00:29:39.500 | that you never used to celebrate this way
00:29:42.620 | or you didn't think celebration was important.
00:29:45.780 | And, oh, look at all the years I've missed.
00:29:48.020 | No, look at all that the Lord is gonna open up to you
00:29:52.940 | and your family now that you are perhaps
00:29:56.820 | more committed to celebrating
00:29:59.540 | and more aware of how to do it well and joyfully.
00:30:04.540 | - I love that, Lisa.
00:30:06.980 | And, you know, when we were initially talking
00:30:10.780 | about this topic, a part of one of my favorite books
00:30:14.380 | came to mind and I had to look online for a quote
00:30:17.100 | and it deals with that very thing.
00:30:19.940 | It's from "The Last Battle,"
00:30:22.620 | the last book in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series.
00:30:25.700 | And I just, when I was thinking about celebrating
00:30:28.580 | and, you know, thinking about how God has been so good
00:30:32.220 | to our family over our years in classical conversations,
00:30:34.860 | this quote came to mind.
00:30:36.620 | All their life in this world
00:30:38.260 | and all their adventures in Narnia
00:30:40.420 | had only been the cover and the title page.
00:30:43.420 | Now at last they were beginning chapter one
00:30:46.740 | of the great story which no one on earth has read,
00:30:50.500 | which goes on forever,
00:30:52.500 | in which every chapter is better than the one before.
00:30:56.940 | And I just, that quote, I just revel in that
00:31:00.460 | as a homeschool mom because, you know,
00:31:03.220 | we can't get caught up in this comparison or OFI only.
00:31:06.900 | And the truth is every chapter
00:31:10.900 | will be better than the one before.
00:31:12.540 | This is just the beginning
00:31:14.860 | and there will always be something to celebrate
00:31:18.780 | if you look closely enough.
00:31:22.220 | And, you know, thinking about our homeschooling is just,
00:31:26.180 | you know, this is just the warmup party
00:31:28.180 | for a great celebration in heaven.
00:31:30.980 | I kind of think about that on community days
00:31:33.900 | when we get together and we're all in the lunchroom
00:31:36.260 | and we're all talking together and, you know, fellowshipping.
00:31:39.460 | Like what a great warmup party
00:31:42.020 | for the celebration that is to come.
00:31:44.620 | And I think C.S. Lewis just captures that idea so well.
00:31:49.380 | And as a homeschool mom,
00:31:50.860 | I latch onto that so tightly as words of wisdom.
00:31:55.140 | This is just the cover and the title page.
00:31:57.700 | This is just the warmup party for what is to come.
00:32:02.420 | - Oh my gosh, it gave me chills
00:32:04.180 | when you were reading that quote.
00:32:05.460 | I thought, yes, yes, that is it.
00:32:08.540 | That is what we need to do because here's the thing.
00:32:11.780 | Some of you listening may be thinking,
00:32:15.100 | yes, we have some celebrations coming up,
00:32:17.500 | but they're sort of sad.
00:32:19.020 | You know, my last child is finishing foundations
00:32:23.460 | or, oh wow, I don't have a baby anymore
00:32:27.660 | or man, I'll never do Challenge Egg.
00:32:31.180 | I'll never do the science fair again.
00:32:33.260 | Okay, so I admit there's some sad
00:32:35.540 | and happy in that remembrance.
00:32:38.100 | But lots of us are looking at last times
00:32:42.900 | and feeling that it's a little bit bittersweet.
00:32:45.660 | And some days that bitter feels more than the sweet does.
00:32:49.900 | So that quote is awesome in reminding us
00:32:53.540 | that the best is yet to be that,
00:32:57.060 | and I love that, that it's a prelude
00:32:59.300 | for the party we'll have in heaven.
00:33:01.220 | That is going to take me through a lot of dark days, friend.
00:33:04.460 | So I appreciate that picture that you've put in my mind.
00:33:09.020 | But for all of us, it behooves us
00:33:13.340 | to remember that there are good things ahead.
00:33:19.620 | And as much as we have loved all of the seasons
00:33:23.140 | that our children have been in, we
00:33:26.180 | are going to love them as they grow also.
00:33:30.700 | And we are so blessed that the Lord lets
00:33:33.580 | us see so much of what there is to celebrate
00:33:37.900 | in their growth and their development
00:33:39.900 | as we spend all those hours with them homeschooling.
00:33:45.620 | All right, I want us to spend a few minutes thinking
00:33:48.940 | about some of the milestones that our families might
00:33:53.820 | be celebrating now and brainstorming some ways.
00:33:58.860 | I have to tell y'all, Kelly has inventing in her blood,
00:34:04.340 | and so she can come up with-- if you came up
00:34:07.620 | with a situation that needed to be celebrated,
00:34:11.460 | she could probably, inside of a minute,
00:34:13.140 | give you six really fun ideas.
00:34:15.700 | So Kelly, we are going to think about together
00:34:19.540 | some of the milestones that families might
00:34:21.740 | be getting ready to celebrate and then brainstorm some ways
00:34:25.860 | that maybe we could celebrate this spring.
00:34:29.140 | So what have you got, girl?
00:34:30.460 | Oh, so good.
00:34:31.180 | Well, there are so many things.
00:34:32.420 | There's always something to celebrate, right?
00:34:34.700 | I mean, if we look closely enough,
00:34:36.100 | we can always find something.
00:34:37.540 | Maybe you are a new CC family.
00:34:40.980 | Maybe this is your very first year or maybe
00:34:45.580 | your first semester in Classical Conversations.
00:34:49.660 | I would strongly encourage you to celebrate that as a family.
00:34:56.300 | It can be something as simple as taking out your foundations
00:35:00.020 | curriculum and having everyone sign a page inside
00:35:03.980 | and stating it and thinking about, OK,
00:35:07.260 | let's sit around the table.
00:35:08.860 | Let's order some pizza or have our favorite meal,
00:35:11.420 | and let's just talk about our memories from this year.
00:35:14.420 | What was the funniest thing that happened this year?
00:35:17.060 | What is the most unexpected thing
00:35:20.500 | that you learned about this year?
00:35:21.940 | Because there's a lot of unexpected in our curriculum
00:35:25.660 | and a lot of fun and discovery.
00:35:29.140 | So thinking about a celebration like that
00:35:31.660 | is wonderful for a new to CC family.
00:35:35.900 | And I think if you have little ones,
00:35:38.540 | celebrate the, quote unquote, "last day of homeschool"
00:35:43.940 | by getting outside, if the weather allows,
00:35:46.740 | and thinking of things that you can do together.
00:35:49.540 | Take your little ones and a big bucket of sidewalk chalk,
00:35:52.660 | go out and let them write their favorite piece
00:35:54.900 | or draw a picture of their favorite memory
00:35:56.580 | work from this year.
00:35:58.980 | We decorated the driveway so many times
00:36:01.940 | at the end of community years.
00:36:03.780 | And it was so much fun and cheap.
00:36:06.220 | And after, when we were done, I would have them come inside
00:36:10.300 | and we would eat freezer pops, and we
00:36:11.740 | would laugh and talk together.
00:36:13.260 | It was not-- celebrations do not have
00:36:16.180 | to come at great monetary expense to you
00:36:20.220 | and your family.
00:36:21.700 | Quite often, it is the spirit with which things are done
00:36:25.740 | that makes them celebratory.
00:36:27.620 | Oh, that is so true.
00:36:28.700 | I know that my kids, they, at church--
00:36:33.060 | we had a couple of homeschool families in our church,
00:36:35.180 | but most of my girls' friends at church
00:36:38.860 | were public school kids.
00:36:40.060 | And at the end of the year, you know what happens?
00:36:42.100 | They have award ceremonies, and they have field trips,
00:36:48.940 | but they have field day.
00:36:50.500 | And my girls were like, field day?
00:36:53.180 | What is field-- why do we not have field day?
00:36:55.700 | And so we had funny field day.
00:36:58.380 | And so we didn't do the shot put and the 50-yard dash
00:37:01.420 | because there was just two of them,
00:37:02.740 | and I didn't want to run around my house.
00:37:04.420 | But we did silly field days, like throw a ball,
00:37:07.940 | throw a football through this hula hoop suspended in the tree.
00:37:11.740 | And can you jump over this big pan of water
00:37:15.340 | without getting your feet wet?
00:37:16.900 | Those kind of things.
00:37:18.140 | So you can make up silly end-of-the-year rituals.
00:37:23.940 | Well, and I say rituals because you, as the parent,
00:37:27.180 | might intend that this was going to happen once.
00:37:29.940 | But if it's a success, your children
00:37:32.020 | are going to think they're going to take that as a tradition.
00:37:35.340 | And you will have committed to it for life
00:37:37.620 | or till they get too old to admit to liking it.
00:37:40.780 | Yes, for sure, for sure.
00:37:43.140 | Be aware of what you might be committing yourself to.
00:37:45.420 | Exactly, friend, exactly.
00:37:48.060 | Well, and I would say this, too.
00:37:49.580 | Thinking about our younger families,
00:37:51.060 | if you do have a student who has been heavily invested
00:37:55.700 | in preparing for Memory Master, whether or not
00:37:58.420 | your child is successful in that final proof
00:38:01.380 | or not, celebrate the accomplishment.
00:38:05.380 | You know your child better than anyone.
00:38:07.700 | So if ice cream is their love language,
00:38:10.220 | regardless of the outcome, take them for a scoop of ice cream
00:38:13.900 | or get a container of their favorite.
00:38:16.140 | Find their currency and their love language
00:38:20.300 | and love on them in a way that says, I'm proud of you.
00:38:24.220 | I see what you did.
00:38:25.700 | I appreciate your commitment and how you are growing.
00:38:28.980 | And that will mean the world to them.
00:38:31.620 | And thinking about our Challenge students,
00:38:34.340 | there are so many things to celebrate
00:38:37.100 | when your child is in Challenge.
00:38:40.420 | Jokingly, the Challenge 4 moms, who
00:38:43.260 | are my friends, who are also graduating children this year,
00:38:46.340 | we have called them the last of the first
00:38:49.060 | and the first of the last this year.
00:38:52.220 | And we are planning a celebration
00:38:55.340 | for the very last day of Challenge 4,
00:38:59.340 | which ironically will also happen
00:39:00.940 | to be their senior thesis defense day.
00:39:04.260 | But I mentioned earlier the senior thesis retreat
00:39:09.300 | that we took the class on at the beginning of the year.
00:39:12.300 | They had such a good time that one of the moms
00:39:14.420 | actually took it upon herself to organize a trip
00:39:17.100 | to bookend the end of the year for all of these Challenge 4
00:39:21.860 | students as well.
00:39:22.820 | So I'm grateful.
00:39:24.500 | Celebrating definitely should not be done always in isolation.
00:39:28.180 | Sometimes there are family celebrations.
00:39:30.620 | But it's also wonderful to celebrate with others around
00:39:33.900 | you in your community.
00:39:35.980 | So if you are involved in a CC community
00:39:39.540 | and you are looking for ways to celebrate,
00:39:42.180 | quite often if you just open your mouth and say,
00:39:45.820 | hey, I was thinking we should have--
00:39:47.980 | I guarantee you, you'll have a mom who will look at you who
00:39:51.420 | may also be a natural celebrator who will say,
00:39:54.260 | I have some ideas.
00:39:55.620 | So definitely harness that community brainpower
00:39:59.300 | so that at the end of the year, our students can look back
00:40:02.660 | and say, yeah, look what God did.
00:40:05.420 | I'm so grateful for Him.
00:40:06.860 | And I'm grateful for the people and for the experiences.
00:40:10.540 | Isn't He good?
00:40:11.740 | Because really, truly, when you boil down
00:40:14.140 | to the heart of celebration, that
00:40:16.380 | is what it's all about, recognizing God's goodness
00:40:19.020 | to us.
00:40:20.060 | And like I said before, it's all a big warm-up party
00:40:23.260 | for that celebration that we'll have in heaven together
00:40:26.180 | as one big community, which is also a beautiful thing
00:40:30.620 | to think about.
00:40:31.820 | But yeah, thinking about celebrations
00:40:33.620 | with your community and just brainstorming together also,
00:40:38.300 | like we mentioned before, builds that-- it
00:40:40.740 | weaves that relationship fabric not only with your family,
00:40:44.860 | but weaves your family's fabric together
00:40:47.500 | with others in your community.
00:40:49.700 | And I guarantee you, Lisa, like you warned us,
00:40:52.460 | it won't be the first time that you celebrate together.
00:40:55.260 | That's right.
00:40:56.220 | That happens.
00:40:57.260 | That's exactly right.
00:40:58.540 | I love that.
00:40:59.420 | There are so many ways to celebrate, both personally
00:41:04.540 | and in your family and in your community.
00:41:08.500 | But you've given us a lot of good things
00:41:10.140 | to think about, Kelly, a lot of good reasons to celebrate.
00:41:14.420 | It's not just a frivolous end to a serious endeavor.
00:41:22.300 | There are real reasons why we should celebrate.
00:41:27.540 | And how we can celebrate classically
00:41:30.940 | is a big part of that.
00:41:31.980 | I loved that you brought out the five core habits so naturally.
00:41:36.460 | And as we thought--
00:41:37.620 | I kept filtering everything you said after that.
00:41:41.460 | I filtered through.
00:41:42.420 | Well, that is how we would do that classically.
00:41:44.780 | We would name what it is we were celebrating
00:41:49.260 | so that we could all talk about it,
00:41:51.700 | so that it would resonate with all of us,
00:41:53.460 | so that we would all recognize this thing.
00:41:56.340 | And when we attend to the individual successes
00:42:02.260 | and individual victories, big or small,
00:42:05.580 | that our students have, I think what it builds is honor.
00:42:12.140 | We honor one another.
00:42:13.660 | Because child number one may not have any trouble reading,
00:42:19.140 | but child number two may have had a lot more struggle
00:42:22.700 | and effort to read well.
00:42:24.700 | So celebrating you read your first chapter book
00:42:29.460 | might mean nothing to child one.
00:42:31.940 | But to child two, because you attended
00:42:34.940 | to the effort that was needed, that was really important.
00:42:39.300 | And making those memories together,
00:42:42.500 | that is a classical way to celebrate.
00:42:45.620 | Both remembering what brought us here
00:42:48.220 | and making the memory that is going
00:42:50.500 | to cement that in all of our minds is really good.
00:42:54.380 | And of course, there are so many ways to express celebration.
00:43:00.500 | We are expressing joy and relief and pride when we celebrate,
00:43:06.340 | sometimes by singing or by decorating.
00:43:10.140 | There are lots of ways to express celebration.
00:43:15.060 | And then I especially loved that it was the story that God
00:43:21.860 | is telling through our lives.
00:43:24.900 | And our lives are the continuation of God's story.
00:43:31.060 | And we are just so blessed to be part of that.
00:43:35.700 | This makes me eager to go find something to celebrate today.
00:43:39.780 | Something little, something big, something
00:43:42.460 | I haven't even discovered yet.
00:43:44.420 | And maybe that is the key.
00:43:47.900 | Maybe we should look for something
00:43:49.740 | to celebrate every day.
00:43:53.140 | I love that.
00:43:54.180 | I love that, too.
00:43:55.500 | Maybe we will become everyday educators
00:43:58.100 | who celebrate every day.
00:44:00.340 | Oh, that's a nice little tagline.
00:44:02.180 | I like that.
00:44:02.900 | I like that.
00:44:03.500 | I like that.
00:44:04.100 | Thank you.
00:44:04.900 | Thank you for being with me today.
00:44:06.700 | Thank you for offering these great suggestions.
00:44:10.340 | Kelly, I really appreciate your spirit of celebration.
00:44:13.580 | I always feel like I've been to a party
00:44:15.380 | when I've been with you.
00:44:18.380 | I love that.
00:44:19.020 | And Lisa, today I celebrate my friendship with you
00:44:21.860 | because that is a great thing to celebrate.
00:44:24.820 | Thanks so much for letting me talk about these things
00:44:26.940 | with you.
00:44:27.460 | Thank you, Kelly.
00:44:29.500 | Listeners, I hope that you will find much
00:44:32.260 | to celebrate with your family.
00:44:34.100 | I have something that I think you might want to celebrate.
00:44:38.380 | Have you heard of the Copper Lodge Library?
00:44:40.820 | I know a lot of you may have one of our Echoes storybooks,
00:44:46.060 | Ancient World Echoes and Old World Echoes and New World
00:44:49.860 | Echoes, these stories.
00:44:51.260 | Well, the Copper Lodge Library has a lot more volumes
00:44:54.900 | than just those three.
00:44:56.740 | And one that I want to make you aware of,
00:44:59.980 | a brand new volume that we've just come out with,
00:45:03.260 | is the Copper Lodge Library edition
00:45:06.500 | of Pride and Prejudice.
00:45:08.260 | Now, you're probably not reading it to your eight-year-olds,
00:45:11.660 | but let me tell you this, it is a required resource
00:45:15.860 | for your challenge student.
00:45:18.300 | And so CCMM has produced this Copper Lodge Library edition
00:45:25.340 | to be a beautiful resource for you and your challenge student.
00:45:30.300 | It's a classic novel, but our edition
00:45:33.340 | includes footnotes that give you word definitions
00:45:36.940 | and pronunciations and some historical context that
00:45:41.660 | will really support your lifelong learning
00:45:43.700 | and the conversations that you can have with your student.
00:45:47.260 | It will also enable your student to get a little bit more out
00:45:51.260 | of the story when they don't constantly
00:45:53.740 | have to run to the dictionary to find out the meaning of a word
00:45:57.860 | or what in the world this means in the context of the times
00:46:01.700 | in which the story takes place.
00:46:05.940 | Your students are going to be discussing
00:46:07.780 | the themes of Pride and Prejudice
00:46:11.260 | together in community, and they're
00:46:13.340 | going to use it as a basis of a writing assignment.
00:46:16.220 | But hopefully, they're also going
00:46:18.140 | to find a deep love for this classic piece of literature.
00:46:21.420 | And I think you would be glad to have an edition that you
00:46:24.220 | can keep forever on your shelf as a family heirloom.
00:46:27.740 | So check it out, the Copper Lodge Library.
00:46:30.700 | If you want to find out about this Pride and Prejudice
00:46:33.820 | edition or any of the other Copper Lodge Library titles,
00:46:37.980 | you can learn more at copperlodgelibrary.com.
00:46:43.180 | All right, go find something to celebrate,
00:46:45.620 | whether that be a child, a book, or a frog somebody
00:46:48.940 | caught outside today.
00:46:50.340 | And I'll see you next time.
00:46:51.980 | Bye bye.
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