Jul 28, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
Do you celebrate the little wins in your homeschool or are you always racing toward the next milestone? In this episode, we're talking about why the smallest celebrations often have the biggest…
And can we start by talking about you love celebrating birthdays.
Love it.
And my birthday was a couple weeks ago, and you did something that I thought was so cool as a birthday celebration, but you could transfer it to any kind of celebration.
So you had people all light their own candle for me.
Instead of me having a birthday wish, they each spoke a wish for me on my birthday.
Yeah.
Spoke over me the wish that they had for the coming year.
It was so sweet.
It was so unexpected.
Um, I really had to hold it together.
But I, but I've been thinking about just that's a great birthday tradition that you could start in your home.
But also, there are other times that you could do that.
You could do that at the beginning of the school year, and make a cake and have people light candles for each other about their wishes for your homeschool for the year.
It's just, it's a really sweet special idea for everyone to share their wishes and come together in celebration of the person or the thing that you're celebrating.
I think it's so cool.
Yeah, and I wish I could take credit for it, but I can't.
I saw it online.
[laughs] And I, I love to celebrate birthdays, and I love to go as big as the guest of honor is comfortable with.
And story for another day, but I found out that you are not keen on surprises.
I don't like surprises.
And, uh, so you know, I wanted to make sure though that you still felt that it was still super special and you still felt super celebrated.
And so yeah, you, the way we did it, and like for birthdays, is you light the candles on the cake or the cupcake or whatever you're using, and then each person takes their candle, lights it from the fire of the birthday candle, and then they share their wish for the birthday person, for the guest of honor, and then they put their candle in the cake, and then the birthday guest of honor gets to blow it out.
So you could totally translate this.
It would be really fun to do with like a homeschool co-op and everybody get together for your back to school bash, and everybody gets to, I mean, so that you don't have like 12,000 people blowing their air on [laughs] the cake that everybody's gonna eat, everybody could just hold their candle.
And, you know, maybe the co-op leader or whoever, or maybe each parent could light their own kid's candle as the kid speaks their wish over the year, as the parent speaks their wish over the year.
And can we start by talking about you love celebrating birthdays.
Love it.
And my birthday was a couple weeks ago, and you did something that I thought was so cool as a birthday celebration, but you could transfer it to any kind of celebration.
So you had people all light their own candle for me.
Instead of me having a birthday wish, they each spoke a wish for me on my birthday.
Yeah.
Spoke over me the wish that they had for the coming year.
It was so sweet.
It was so unexpected.
Um, I really had to hold it together.
But I, but I've been thinking about just that's a great birthday tradition that you could start in your home.
But also, there are other times that you could do that.
You could do that at the beginning of the school year, and make a cake and have people light candles for each other about their wishes for your homeschool for the year.
It's just, it's a really sweet special idea for everyone to share their wishes and come together in celebration of the person or the thing that you're celebrating.
I think it's so cool.
Yeah, and I wish I could take credit for it, but I can't.
I saw it online.
[laughs] And I, I love to celebrate birthdays, and I love to go as big as the guest of honor is comfortable with.
And story for another day, but I found out that you are not keen on surprises.
I don't like surprises.
And, uh, so you know, I wanted to make sure though that you still felt that it was still super special and you still felt super celebrated.
And so yeah, you, the way we did it, and like for birthdays, is you light the candles on the cake or the cupcake or whatever you're using, and then each person takes their candle, lights it from the fire of the birthday candle, and then they share their wish for the birthday person, for the guest of honor, and then they put their candle in the cake, and then the birthday guest of honor gets to blow it out.
So you could totally translate this.
It would be really fun to do with like a homeschool co-op and everybody get together for your back to school bash, and everybody gets to, I mean, so that you don't have like 12,000 people blowing their air on [laughs] the cake that everybody's gonna eat, everybody could just hold their candle.
And, you know, maybe the co-op leader or whoever, or maybe each parent could light their own kid's candle as the kid speaks their wish over the year, as the parent speaks their wish over the year.
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