It's been an amazing year of really seeing the Lord bring things full circle and God has just been so good and so faithful through it all.

When your heart is ministry and your heart is homeschooling, that doesn't change when you graduate your last child.

It's one thing to say that we trust the Lord.

The only way to put it in practice is to have it tested.

What I praise the Lord for is that I had all those years of homeschooling and I can release them into the hands of the Savior that they walk with.

Hey everyone, this is Yvette Hampton.

Welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rock podcast.

I am so excited that you were with us.

It is December 2025.

I almost said 2026.

It is not 2026 yet, but we are almost there.

We're just a few weeks away from 2026 and man, what a year it has been.

I have been looking forward to this episode since before the beginning of the year because we all all of the hosts talked about this when we met about a year ago.

We were talking through what this year was going to look like with having five different hosts and someone said, oh, at the end of the year we should all do an episode together to tie up the year.

And I was like, that is such a great idea.

And I have looked forward to this, you guys, these ladies, these hosts that are with me, man, I, I have no words.

They have been an incredible blessing to our family and to the Schoolhouse Rock to ministry.

And I know to you because we have heard from you and we know that you've been so encouraged.

And, and I know you guys know this story, but I'm going to just tell it again one more time because I want you to just know the impact that they've had on this ministry.

So over a year ago, about a year and a half ago, I told Garrett, I said, I just, I need to take a break.

We've been doing this podcast for, you know, eight seasons.

And I just, I need a breather.

And I was doing an episode every week.

So we once in a while we would replay an episode, but I was essentially doing, you know, 50 ish episodes a year and home schooling and taking care of my family and doing all those things.

And so we prayed about it and the Lord just said it's not the Yvette Hampton podcast, it's the Schoolhouse Rock podcast.

And so we prayed over who the Lord would bring to help host this podcast.

And these are the, the first ladies that God put on our hearts and we went out to all of them and they all enthusiastically said, yes, we would love to be part of this ministry.

And here we are a whole year later.

And man, I just cannot tell you just how it has blessed our family.

And so it's been so great to hear their voices.

It's fun for me to listen to their podcast interviews.

And because it's always new to me.

I, I never hear them until you guys hear them.

And so they've had some great guests on this year.

And we're going to talk a little bit about that.

Just kind of look at the year, the past year and what God has done in our lives and through the podcast and all all the amazing things, the ways that he's working in all of our families.

I just want to say thank you to Abby and Christy and Cindy and Mickey.

You guys are my sisters in Christ and you are my sisters in this ministry.

And you have your ministries as well.

And God is just using all of you to impact lives.

And I'm so grateful that we get to be a team on this.

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Anyway, so I was thinking through this podcast and what, what should it look like, you know?

And I was like, I'm not exactly sure.

Like how do we get 5 women who all like to talk?

Because that's what we do, right?

And we all love to encourage.

And I really was thinking through what would be the most encouraging thing for our listeners to hear.

And so I want to just kind of go through this past year and I really wanted to talk through what God has done this past year in each of our lives.

Maybe through the podcast, you can kind of share whatever you want, ladies, maybe it's a a favorite guest that you've had on the podcast.

Maybe it's a favorite Scripture the Lord has put on your heart or just something like what has God done this past year and your life?

So I just want to jump in and, and talk through this.

Let's let's start with Cindy.

Cindy, jump off into this and just tell us what God is doing in your life, what He's done this past year.

OK, well I am the mom who graduated all of her home school students throughout this last year.

So it has been a transition year for me and I will tell you that I am so thankful for this podcast because it helps me to stay connected.

No sweat.

Nature study does too, but this to the moms, I get to be able to speak to the moms about homeschooling.

And that matters so much to me because you know, when your heart is ministry and your heart is homeschooling, that doesn't change when you graduate your last child.

So yeah, I'm in a transition year, like I said, and I am so looking forward to continuing this in 2026 with you guys.

I have so much yet to try to help homeschoolers just feel like they are on this journey with the Lord and with their children and with their families.

And I think that's what I love most about this podcast is we encourage people to do that, do homeschooling well and do family well.

Love that.

Yeah, yeah, you, you are.

I think you're the first one who's graduated all of yours.

Cause Christy, you've graduated 2, right?

And I've got one more this year.

Yeah, and then send two at home and then sell 2 at home.

Miki, you've graduated 1.

Correct, right?

Yes, one and then five more.

55 more.

Five more.

You have 6 kids, Vicky.

I forgot one.

It's been.

That way since 2020, Yvette.

Like.

It's been that way for five years that I've had 6.

Track of all of them.

So I'm not mad at SO.

Many of them.

We're doing.

Our oh man.

And then Abby, you've got one that you she's in her senior year this year and so you're getting ready to and ours flew the coop last year.

So yeah, it's it's wild moving into this season of life.

But Cindy, I'm glad you're still at it and that God is using you still to minister to homeschool families.

That's so great.

Honestly, I was going to say that.

I actually have more space in my life now to do that.

So it's kind of a.

Unique thing where you think.

Oh, I'm I can't.

Wait to go and do XY and Z.

Well, that time is here for me.

So yeah, I'm not quite sure what it all looks like yet, but there is a little more time on my plate.

Yeah, I wish that more veteran homeschool moms who who I should say retired homeschool moms, understood the need for their voices and their encouragement to younger homeschool moms.

And so I love that you're continuing to do that and not just throwing in the towel and going to work at Walmart.

I mean, that maybe be fun too, but not as fun as this, right?

Right.

So, Christy, how about you?

What?

What's God doing in your life and what's He done this past year?

This past year, it's been such a beautiful journey because I know I've shared, I think you interviewed me at some point about just my journey with depression and burnout.

And so this has really been my first big step of coming back from taking a big hiatus from all things online.

So it's been really beautiful to see.

And I was actually, because I know that you had mentioned before, like is there a scripture and that kind of pops to mind.

And as much as I love my Isaiah 61 one through 4 and just cause verse 4 talks about how the Lord just restores and renews.

I was realizing today that I really think that verse that we all, you know, like there's a song that goes along with it.

But the Lamentations 322 through 23 that really just talks about how the steadfast love of the Lord never changes and his mercies never come to an end.

They're new every morning and great is his faithfulness.

And I think that's what I'm experiencing now more than ever, is just seeing the healing and the restoration that's coming to me and my family, but also just experiencing his faithfulness.

Like I can truly say that I feel the love of the Lord in my life.

And I can truly say that I trust him more and more, 'cause, you know, especially when you're going through burnout and just through depression, just as like I don't trust anything anymore.

I just feel like I'm, I was just falling.

That's not fun.

So it's been an amazing year of really seeing the Lord bring things this full circle, and it's been such a blessing to be part of this and to get to kind of step out into the the world of podcasting once again.

But yeah, God has just been so good and so faithful through it all.

I love that so much and I love that scripture man.

His, his mercies certainly are new every morning.

And, and that's what gives us hope.

I mean, how on earth could we live without having that hope of knowing that?

OK, tomorrow's a new day.

And and great is his faithfulness, even in the hardest times.

So, so good.

Thank you, Christy.

Yeah.

All right, Abby.

Well, I it's funny to come on the cusp of these ladies because I'm like just a little Miki.

You just graduated your first last year.

OK, so I'm like just a step behind you, but I'm, I've watched, you know, I've been friends with Yvette forever and Christy and I haven't.

So I've watched this and I'm, I'm always looking ahead, going well, Jesus is for sure going to return before I'm there because I don't think I can handle it.

But I think in this last year, the big word for me has been change.

Because man, this is a season of change.

Like, even just as a woman and like the, the, the season that you're in as a woman is so there's just so much change.

And I think what's really hit me this last year is for so many years, like I'm, I'm a mover, I'm a shaker, I make things happen.

And so it was like the we do, we teach, we speak, we say, we, we discipline, we disciple, we play on and we execute and we manage and we instill.

And I'm talking to all these young moms who feel so overwhelmed by all these things, right?

And they're, they're correcting and training and organizing incessantly and molding these little minds and shaping their futures and leading, you know, being the keepers of the home, following their husbands as they lead.

But we manage our homes, we manage our families.

And it just feels like it was a season of like always active on the go, on the move, pushing forward.

And then I just feels like I hit like this space where I'm like, Oh, I have a senior and it's a lot more like I'm, I'm coming into my kids peripheral, right, Like I'm no longer right there in front of their face.

And it's been such a hard, but strangely beautiful, but hard like the, the, the women that I'm talking to right now with on here are all lauding their heads because every woman is going to go through this season where your kids grow up and you kind of become in their peripheral.

And I feel like God is entering me into this new season of where it's now more like rest and, and just be still and, and pray and surrender and release.

And like the bedtime routine is less like non-stop exhausting.

And it's now like you're just sitting there waiting for someone to maybe want to talk to you.

And they do, they come in those high school years at 10:00 at night when you're exhausted.

But it's more of like a, a, a waiting.

And I think what the Lord is really, really teaching me this year as I'm stepping in a little bit to their peripheral because I have like now high schoolers and, and I do still have a middle schooler.

So I'm I'm in that transition season, but it's just the be still and and I'm learning to release and to surrender to to the Lord in a way that I never have.

And it's beautiful.

Like I wish I would have figured it out a lot sooner, but it's like forced upon me now.

But it's interesting.

Like so I was just thinking this morning I had my 2 high schoolers are like inseparable best friends.

But it's one of those relationships that then like in two seconds they could literally murder each other.

But then like 2 seconds later they're making plans for later.

And I was just thinking like when they were little and they would fight, I would sit them down and I would talk for like 20 minutes and we'd maybe read a book about conflict resolution and siblings and, and it was just this always on.

And now they fight and I'm realizing like I don't swoop in and teach them to salt.

Like I have to now step back and release and surrender and go, they are going to have to figure this out.

Of all the things that I've taught them, like they're 17 and 14 now and and they really don't.

It's less chances of them murdering each other because I think they've figured it out.

But it's like when my kids fall now, I'm no longer the one that swoops in and picks them up and saves the day and teaches them the lesson.

I'm now the one that prays to the God they go to in those situations and I'm releasing and surrendering.

And I tell you, it's hard.

Like it's, it's really hard.

But what I praise the Lord for is that I had all those years of homeschooling that nobody else taught my kids how to do it like that, that it was my husband and I in our home from homeschooling.

And now I can like, I can release them knowing that they know and I can release them into the hands of the Savior that they walk with.

But it's a it's a very different season and stepping into the peripheral.

It's just it's wild.

And so when you said about podcasts, I interviewed Aaron Lynam this last year about the nature of rest and I was her book and I was so excited because I'm all about like nature and outdoors.

And I realized her interview hit me so hard because I'm like, God did this one for me.

It's about resting and this season of like surrendering my kids over and resting in whatever God has for them, right?

Because he's the one in charge.

So it's been a big year for my heart and my mind.

And that's why I'm probably going to be calling Christy and Mickey and Cindy every day going, OK, like I had keep breathing.

And I just, I praise God for like Cindy, because when I was young with little kids, I needed those moms with homeschool high schoolers to walk me through like, here's how you, you know, brush one kids teeth, change one kids diaper and pick up a mess when they're little.

But now I'm in this season, like, OK, I, I still need the Cindy's to not check out and go work at Walmart, like you said, because we're entering into a new season.

My my season is.

And we need those that have gone before us to help us do it and do it well.

Yeah, those tightest two women.

Yeah, and they never stop, right, The 80 year old to the 70 year old and the 70 year old to the 60 year old, so.

Yeah, that's right.

Oh, such good stuff.

Well, Mickey, I definitely want to hear from you, but we got to take a quick break.

We'll be right back.

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All right, Mickey, tell us what God's doing.

Yeah.

I think this year has been trust and, and I feel like that's been like the consistent thing that the Lord is ever calling me to trust him.

And I keep trying to graduate from that test like I, I keep trying to ace it in such a way.

It's almost like Peter being asked three times, do you love me?

You have this feel.

It's like I trust you, Lord, I trust you.

I've, I trust you.

Haven't I proven that I trust you?

And so you don't want the test anymore.

You don't want the question.

But I feel like every, every season, like the way that we walk with the Lord, that question is ever in front of us.

You know, the decisions that we make, the way that we navigate life, that question of do you trust me?

Do you trust me?

You graduate, you know, the first of, of six children.

And the question is, do you trust me?

And, and yes, what I, I trust you.

I trust that I've leaned into what you called me to do, you know, for the last 18 years that I, you, you hope that you've, you know, culture proof them enough.

You hope that you've applied enough of the coding of the word that when they go out into that world that they are able to withstand, you know, what's in it.

Do you trust me in the stages of life that you're in and that you're entering into.

And so I feel like for me, if I look back over the year, that's been the call.

Do you trust me?

Will you trust me?

And, and then also trying, you know, trying to not get out of the test, because it's one thing to say that we trust the Lord and in fact, it, it makes for a really great mug.

Like, you know, trust, you know what I mean?

Like it's it's a great or a.

Fragrance state over fear you.

Know what I mean?

Like it's, it's, those things are all great, but we don't really like to put it in practice.

And, and the only way to put it in practice is to have it tested.

It's to have those moments where you're like, you have to say it again, I will trust you.

I will trust you.

And, and I think in every stage of life as a mom, we will walk through those moments where we have to say to the Lord, I trust you.

And so whether that's starting to home school or that's transitioning to a different way to home school, or moving to a new city, or, you know, starting a new ministry or graduating a child or that child getting married, whatever it is, you have to constantly reinforce the truth about God's character.

And that is that he is trustworthy.

And so because he is trustworthy, I will trust him.

So good Miki that that segues perfectly into.

What God's been teaching me this past year and it's really been that same thing of just trying to trust the Lord in all things, even when nothing seems to make sense.

And you know, Abby, you were talking about Psalm 4610.

Be still and know that I am God.

And that has just been, you know, the theme of my life for so many years.

I feel like it's just be still, just be still trust the Lord be still trust him.

His mercies are new every morning.

Great is his faithfulness.

But then all the voices, you know, come into my head and I, I, I was talking to my family the other day.

I don't remember what we were talking about, but I said I, I, we were talking about music and I said I, I don't.

And I think I've shared this on the podcast.

Music in my world is always background noise.

I, I can almost never tell you the lyrics to any songs ever, except for if it's songs that we sing in church, like worship songs, but that's because I'm reading them on a screen and I'm singing them out loud.

But music, anytime it's on, in the car, at home, anywhere, it's always background noise.

And the reason is because I always have a dialogue going on in my head with myself.

Always, all the time.

I always have a movie going on and I always have dialogue.

It's weird.

I don't know if are you guys like that?

Do you guys do the same thing?

You constantly talk.

To yourself.

I do listen to the music, but I'm constantly talking to myself too, so it's very, it's very.

Crowded.

Yeah, I know.

It really is.

And yeah, I'm like, oh man, I'm going to sound like a psychopath.

Not weird voices, but just my own thoughts.

And and so just that I'm, I know the truths of God's word.

I know that I can trust him.

And then I have, you know, these voices like, oh, but can you really trust him?

Because, oh, it seems like maybe he didn't come through on this thing or, but then he did come through on this thing.

And it's this like inner battle that I have all the time.

And so for me, I mean, Psalm 34 is that has been my pillar for I feel like years.

As a matter of fact, I've talked a lot about Shane and Shane.

I love listening to Shane and Shane.

I just, I love their music.

I love that they sing through the Psalms and, and Psalm 34 is my favorite Shane and Shane song.

Maybe I'll put a link to this.

If I can.

I'll, I'll try to find a link to put in the show notes.

So if you guys haven't heard it, it's so good, but I want to read just a portion of it.

It's Psalm 34 verses 4 through 8.

And it says this, it says I sought the Lord and he answered me.

He delivered me from all my fears.

Those who look to him are radiant.

Their faces are never covered with shame like I want to be, that I want to be radiant for Jesus.

I want people to be able to look at me and see Jesus, not see me, but see Jesus in me.

And then it says, this poor man called, and the Lord heard him.

He saved him out of all his troubles.

The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and he delivers them taste and see that the Lord is good.

Blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

And I just read that over and over again.

And I do sing this song over and over again because I it's so pertinent to my life right now.

And Mickey, as you were saying, just trust over and over and over again, like Lord, I trust you.

I know that you are my Savior.

I know that you are a good father.

I know that you see everything.

You see my joys, you see my pain, you see all the things that we're going through.

And for homeschool moms too, you know, even in just the midst of our difficult days, sometimes the Lord sees that and we need to continue to just hold tight to him because it's, it's not our only option.

I mean, our other option is to try to hold on to worldly things.

But as we know, the world has nothing to offer us, right?

Only God is our he.

He is our only pillar.

He is the only thing that is steadfast and strong, and he will never, ever leave us.

He will never forsake us.

He is a good father.

And so I love, I just love that passage of Psalm 34.

It's so good.

And so it's so interesting.

Like seems like all of us are just kind of on that same page and different seasons of life and just trusting him.

Like, Lord, what are you doing?

You know, here we're not so sure, but.

Right, I think too, Yvette, like I like this trust and then the next step like this word of my last year is the surrender like and and it's every season of parenting.

Like do you remember when we had babies and like there was the whole fear of what was, is it SIDS?

Were they in their sleep?

Right.

And like you bring home this baby and then that fear.

And so it's the trust.

Lord, I trust that this babies are numbered.

Days are numbered.

I trust that you have this baby, but then can I surrender the need to get up 47 times in the middle of the night to check, right?

Like I can say I do trust God because like Miki said, like I filled, I filled my mind with his word as to who he is.

He is trustworthy.

But then it's that next step of the OK, Then I need to surrender that that need I have to still control.

Like I trust you God, but I got it.

And then when I fail, I'll call you.

Like it's that it's that next step of surrender.

And it's every season of motherhood.

And I kind of thought I had it like, oh, we finally made it to high school.

And then I'm like, oh goodness.

There's a lot that goes with this too.

Like a whole lot of surrender that comes with launching them almost more, you know?

Yeah, it's a crazy season because I feel like we've just.

We keep going through that over and over.

So launching 2 of the kids, my oldest being married and Oh my goodness it's like there is no.

Does it get easier?

Yeah.

It's the Lord's like, you need to trust me because you really, truly have no control.

And I'm like, yeah, I wanted to.

Have you guys seen it?

And I've seen these around lately and I I'm not even sure where they came from, but they're like little figuring Jesuses.

Have you seen those?

I don't like them around town.

Yes.

You don't like them?

I do not like them.

Do you know why?

I'm going to tell you why?

Because I feel like it makes Jesus small, it makes it like, well, I'm just going to tuck him in my pocket.

And, and like Abby, as you were saying, like I'm just going to tuck him in my pocket and I'll just pull him out when I need him.

And when I look at it, I see little Jesus and it's, it's weirdly offensive to me.

I, I'm not saying it should offend everybody.

I'm just saying this is my own personal thing.

When I look at that, I just think you cannot put Jesus into a little figurine.

He is so much bigger than a little plastic figurine.

And so we saw that it was at a home school conference that we went to back in I think June or July, and they were handing him out and I, Lacey got one.

I was like, where did you get that from?

And she's like, oh, this booth.

And I was like, yeah.

But then I don't want to throw it away because.

And that just doesn't feel right, does it?

So.

What do you do with this little thing?

I don't know.

I mean, I don't know.

Maybe if I put it in water it'll blow.

Up always there because like we've been studying Exodus in our woman's Bible study and like one of the questions they had was, you know, like we were looking at the burning Bush and Moses, you know, standing there and just it made me realize because it was I forget how they worded the question, but it made me realize if I am truly trying to practice the presence of God, then like where I am always is holy ground.

And so for me, I'm trying right now to recognize that if God is in me and if I'm practicing, you know, experiencing his presence and being with him and like not just kind of like, oh, quiet time check, but like truly like being with him, then I need to like make that more holy.

I need to give that more space for just how amazing and miraculous that is.

And so I actually like the little.

Jesus, you can't.

Because they remind me.

Are you a, are you a visual learner?

Christy?

I am 100%.

Are you a visual learner?

Oh.

So.

So, so, so is it?

Yeah, a little Jesus like a gnome in your garden, or like a little Jesus like.

I'm talking it's little like.

They tell them everywhere it's.

Like a.

Little teeny tiny.

Yeah, like a little Polly Pocket.

Tinier.

Yeah, they're yeah, I've seen.

Them.

I've seen them at the checkout.

That's where I started seeing them, like in grocery stores.

First time I saw it, we were in Branson and then I started noticing it everywhere.

You know, I'll tell you what I think it is.

I think it's sort of like this generations type of the WWJD bracelet.

Yeah, maybe so.

Yeah, sort of like a reminder that like Jesus is, Yeah, you know, so here.

In Idaho, we're still wearing the WWJD bracelets.

We don't have baby, little baby.

Jesus, you'll get there.

You'll get there.

10 years, you're in 10 years, we'll see him and you have 10.

Years.

Gone to something else?

They're a whole decade.

Behind Jesus, that's where I'm going to get you a vet.

I'm going to get you a full size.

You can tuck him over at your house.

I'll put him in the back seat of my reminder.

Yes, so funny.

Oh man.

Well, we are out of time, but we are going to come back next week.

We are going to talk about Christmas and some of our Christmas traditions and just what we're looking forward to maybe in the new year.

And so we will be back with you guys.

Ladies, thank you for being with me today and you guys thank you for listening.

We love you so much.

You are maybe wrapping Christmas gifts right now, or maybe you're starting to make some Christmas desserts, I don't know.

It's like the week before Christmas right now.

So whatever you're doing, we are grateful that you have allowed us to spend this time with you.

We love you so much.

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You can find everything at our website, schoolhouserock.com, where you can of course, watch the movie for free, Schoolhouse Rock, the Homeschool Revolution, and we've got lots of fun stuff on there.

And then I'll put links in the show notes to all of these ladies.

You know them, you've gotten to know them throughout the past year, but they all have incredible ministries as well.

So we'll put links in the show notes to all all of their ministry so you can check them out as well.

Have a great rest of your week and we will see you back here next Tuesday.

You're listening to the Biblical Family Network.

Hey, I'm Miki and I'm Will and we're the Co host of the Culture Proof podcast.

We want to invite you to join us every week as we discuss what's happening in the world and then filter those happenings through a decidedly biblical lens.

There are many questions, especially when we see what's happening in our culture today, but the answers are found within the Word of God, so that's where we want to look.

Amen.

When we resist those cultural trends that rival the truth.

We remain culture proof.

As moms, as wives, as women, people expect that we're going to have the Pinterest perfect house and the perfect meal laid out and all of our Christmas gifts wrapped perfectly.

But it doesn't have to look like anyone else's Christmas.

You are family.

You are together and praise God for that.

I try to get myself excited, like I want to see what he is going to do it this year.

God is so good.

He is the masterful healer and He really does love you.

He loves you so lavishly.

I want to encourage you guys to make memories with your kids.

You will not turn around one day and be sad that you made memories with your kids.

As you approach a new year, ask the Lord to give you scripture specifically to pray over your children.

Rather than stopping at that and going, oh, that's a great verse.

Let me just share that with her.

I'll turn that verse into prayer to ask the Lord to do that work in that child's life.

Mamas, as you're closing out this year, God knows the plans that he has for your child.

We can surrender all of our stress, all of our anxiety, all of our lesson plans, all of our, our plans.

And we can walk in a freedom and a surrender and A and a stillness and a peace, as we educate our children, and as we raise them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord.