Now That We're A Family

Homeschool Course: The First Three Years Laying a foundation of joy, confidence, and a love of learning from the start.https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschoolFor 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL - Snack ideas for traveling: - Veggie bag - carrots spears, celery spears, bell pepper spears, chop up cucumber - put in bag with a little bit of water at the bottom - Mandarin oranges - Apples - Cheese sticks - Crackers - Chomp beef sticks - Chewable vitamins - Bagel and cream cheese sandwiches - Gum Screen free activities for traveling: - Books on tape:    - Focus on the Family - https://www.focusonthefamily.com/resources-audio-books/   - Lamplighter - https://lamplighter.net   - Your Story Hour - https://www.yourstoryhour.org   - "Carry On Mr. Bowditch" read aloud book   - E.B White read aloud books    - "Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle    - "Black Beauty"    - Little House books    - "Story of the World" by Susan Wise Bauer - Music CD’s:    - Now That I’m A Father children’s album - https://music.apple.com/us/album/now-that-im-a-father/1514495049   - Classical conversations    - Timeline    - Classical music - Drawing:    - Boogie boards/erasable sketch pads - https://amzn.to/49KVFHH   - Sketchbooks with a pencil - Sticker books:    - Trucks - https://amzn.to/3xBZfa3   - America's Top Gun Fighter Planes - https://amzn.to/441SqKU   - Smile Every Day - https://amzn.to/49DzKSX   - Vehicles - https://amzn.to/4aWmIkn - Melissa & Doug Lace and Trace Activity Set - https://amzn.to/3U03cNg - Knitting - Reading    - Our kid's favorites are the Great Illustrated Classics

OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-  Send us your questions for future Q&A podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission-Mentioned during podcast:  - Sleep Training Method (no crying it out) Mom of 5 // Scheduling, Naps, Breastfeeding - https://youtu.be/qkDdnkSEX5I?si=DXOx7NiE4zF9hrVJ

Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass - Mentioned during the podcast: - "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" by Laura Schlessinger - https://amzn.to/4cPaD2l

Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit. It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024. Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/ - Music & Art Camps - June 17-19, 2024 - Centralia, WA Fiddle | Guitar | Piano | Watercolorhttps://www.musicandartscamp.comThis three-day event is an opportunity for students ages 6 and older to learn, and develop their skills in music and art. - Mentioned during podcast: - "Dirty Genes" by Dr. Ben Lynch- https://amzn.to/4aIZAG0 - "Deep Nutrition" by Catherine Shanahan - https://amzn.to/3J7nmQm- "Glucose Revolution" by Jessie Inchauspe - https://amzn.to/3TScydD- "That Sugar Film" - https://amzn.to/3TNXhe1 - I only watched the first 30 minutes. It is PG-13, so watch at your own risk 😊

Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving!https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass - Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit. It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024. Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/ - Mentioned during podcast: - "The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are" by Dr. Kevin Leman - https://amzn.to/3POEa2p - "Things Parents Of Multiple Children Overlook" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147859632

Good Ranchers - Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S.   Avoid unknown vaccines in store-bought meat. Subscribe during their mRNA-Free Sale and enjoy free, jumbo wings for a year! Subscribe today and use the code VOETBERG to get $20 off and claim your 24lbs of free chicken wings.https://go.goodranchers.com/family-Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Her earlier books include Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners: How Now Shall We Live (coauthored with Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) and Total Truth. Her books have been translated into 19 languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."Check out Nancy's website here - https://www.nancypearcey.comNancy's most recent book - "The Toxic War on Masculinity": https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-War-Masculinity-Christianity-Reconciles/dp/0801075734

Good Ranchers - Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. Good Ranchers is taking March Meatness way beyond March with free, jumbo chicken wings for a year! Subscribe today and use the code VOETBERG to get $20 off and claim your 24lbs of free chicken wings. https://go.goodranchers.com/family   Voetberg Music Academy:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. Easter Sale: use coupon code EASTER to get 50% off your first month!https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com/-Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit. It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024. Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/

Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit. It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024. Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/ - Mentioned during podcast:  - "Would We Be Happy If Our Child Was Gay?" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148489362- Shop our Library - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/shop-my-library

Good Ranchers - Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. https://go.goodranchers.com/family Use the discount code VOETBERG at check out. -   Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit. It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024. Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/-Send us your questions for future Q&A podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission

Catch a vision for the transformative power of a gospel-infused, joy-filled way of life in your family, homeschool, church, and community at the Relational Lifestyle Summit.It’s groundbreaking, exclusively online, and opening April 8-12, 2024.Register here - https://homeschoolsummits.com/lifestyle/-Rachel Jankovic is a wife, homemaker, and mother. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts & Culture from New Saint Andrews College. She and her husband Luke have eight children ranging from ages 19 down to 1. She is also the author of Loving the Little Years, You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal with It and Fit to Burst. She is heavily involved with the Christ Church Ladies Bible Reading Challenge and invites you all to join in that great movement of Christian women becoming women of the word. Rachel and her sister Bekah podcast together about life as active and joyful Christian women on What Have You, plus you can find several great workshops and talks from Rachel on the Canon+ app.You can connect and follow Rachel through the links below:- Bible Reading Challenge - www.totheword.com- Podcast - What Have You - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-have-you/id1287267219- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rachel.jankovic/?hl=enRachel’s Books:- “Loving the Little Years” - https://amzn.to/49Ufm0I- "Fit to Burst” - https://amzn.to/3Vj5WYg- “You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal With It” - https://amzn.to/3IIXrOH

OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month - Send us your questions for future Q&A podcasts! You can submit them here: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission - Podcasts mentioned: - Not Attracted To My Wife After Weight Gain (What Can I Do?) - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148560564 - Prioritizing Our Children's Happiness // Autumn Kern - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148565802

Build a family culture they cannot wait to come home to! Free Webinar: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/familyculture-Autumn Kern is a wife, mother, and keeper of an actual commonplace book. When she was twenty-one, she sat under a tree with a man who told her the woman he married would homeschool his children. Handsome as he was, she didn’t anticipate being that woman, but here she is with three little ones in tow, and, as in all God’s providential ways, it has been the greatest gift. The Commonplace is where new homeschooling moms get their bearings in the Classical Charlotte Mason world through the podcast, Common Mom Youtube, and Common House. You can connect and follow Autumn Kern through the links below:Website: https://www.thecommonplacepodcast.com/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-commonplace/id1568956517YouTube: www.youtube.com/@thecommonplacehomeschoolCommon House: https://commonhouse.mn.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecommonplacehomeschool/

Good Ranchers - Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. https://go.goodranchers.com/family Use the discount code VOETBERG at check out.During this sale, every subscription enjoys $25 off any box, a free $119 heritage ham (10 lbs), and the Good Ranchers lifetime quality commitment—their promise to never compromise on quality.- Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission- Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life.https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter-"How We Maintain, Grow, and Create Friendships As Parents of Young Children" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147978751- "Mom Friends: Finding Them, and Creating Time to Spend with Them" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/blog/mom-friends-finding-them-and-creating-time-to-spend-with-them

Build a family culture they cannot wait to come home to!Free Webinar: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/familyculture -  You might remember Jeremy & Audrey Roloff from “Little People, Big World,” but they’re up to so much more these days. They’re parents, accomplished authors, successful podcast hosts, and entrepreneurs, to name a few. Their book, “Love Letter Life” is a New York Times best seller. They have three children (ages 6, 4 & 2) and one on the way! On their podcast “These Are the Days,” they talk about home, health, & holiness to your family, kids, and marriage. You can connect and follow Jeremy & Audrey Roloff through the links below: Website - https://www.beating50percent.com/ Podcast - These Are The Days - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/these-are-the-days/id1441970779 Audrey’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/audreyroloff/ Jeremy’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeremyroloff/

Good Ranchers - Bringing everyone to the table to share in the best of what makes life good. They source all of their meat from local, independent farms in the U.S. https://go.goodranchers.com/family Use the discount code VOETBERG to get 10% off and free shipping when you order any box. ALSO....subscribe by the end of February and get free bacon for 4 years. Enjoy 1.5 lbs of their Applewood smoked bacon in every order for 4 years! That’s 72lbs of free bacon they will send you just for being a subscriber! That’s over $900 of free bacon value when you subscribe to any box today and use our code VOETBERG. - Bill Rapier is recently retired after twenty years in the Navy, where his duty assignments included several years at SEAL Team 3 and over 14 years at Naval Special Warfare Development Group. Positions held include assaulter, breacher, sniper, team leader, troop chief and military working dog department senior enlisted adviser. He is a blackbelt in bjj, a practitioner of the Sayoc Kali knife fighting system, and trains in both western and Thai boxing. He and his wife live in the mountains of North Idaho where they homeschool their 7 children and are heavily involved in their local church through leading worship as a family, father/son ministry, and all around discipleship. Amtac Shooting Website: https://www.amtacshooting.com/ Amtac Shooting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amtacshooting/ Amtac Blades Website: https://amtacblades.com/ Past Podcast with Bill Rapier: Why Every Christian Family Should Homeschool with Retired Navy Seal - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147736914