Our Experience At The Teach Them Diligently Convention

We had the opportunity to spend this past weekend at the Teach Them Diligently Convention in Nashville Tennessee. If you have never been at one of the Teach Them Diligently Conventions, you are missing out on a big dose of encouragement!

Unlike some other homeschool conventions that seem to be focused on the vendors, Teach Them Diligently offers some amazing speakers, and have a heart to really encourage the homeschooling family. This convention is put on by a homeschooling family and I’m always so blessed by the gracious and loving spirit of Leslie, the wife and mother. There are some women I meet that I instantly know are good role models, and Leslie is one of those to me, even though I haven’t spent much time around her. She encourages me, just by the brief conversations we have had!

We attended Teach Them Diligently as vendors with Character Badges. It was our first time to be at a convention with that business, and we were not sure what to expect. The response was amazing!

The convention was held at the famous Opryland Hotel, and it was enormous! This picture isn’t even all of the hotel and conference area!

Even the staircases and the registration area was beautiful! It was such a large building that you couldn’t take good pictures of everything.

The keynote speaker was Kirk Cameron! It was pretty amazing to hear him speak. I didn’t realize he had six children, and he has been a homeschooling dad for six years now! There was 4,000 people there present to hear him, and we were in the very back row. So he was kind of like a blur up on stage to me!

Here is the Character Badges booth! We had just a few days to prepare for this booth, and we were a little nervous with how it would set up. We learned some lessons on how to improve for the next time, but overall were pleased with how it turned out. The response was really positive though, and we met so many nice families.

We had the Little Character Badges there as a pre-order, and came home to find all the stickers and charts available to start shipping out! We sold quite a few sets of these, as a lot of families with little children wanted to try something new.

The main set was out on display, and by the time convention was over I had the 2 minute explanation of what Character Badges is totally memorized. 🙂

Here is just a small part of the vendor hall. The whole room was huge!

There was a Lilla Rose Booth at the convention, and I finally was able to meet the top salesperson in Lilla Rose for the past 3 years! She fixed my hair using U-Pins, and it was nice to get a new idea of how to use them.

The lighting isn’t the greatest in this picture, but it’s the only one I have of Sean and I together at the convention. When you work with your spouse 24/7 you have times of stretching in your marriage. This wasn’t terribly stretching for us, we enjoyed visiting with the families we met, it was just exhausting by the end! Sean woke up on Sunday and could barely talk for awhile, his voice was so hoarse!

A total random side note, the shirt I’m wearing is from my latest Stitch Fix box. I received it while I was sick, so I couldn’t take any good pictures to share. I ended up just keeping the shirt, but it’s really soft and comfortable. I know I’ll wear it a lot this summer!

I had the chance to meet some blog readers, which was super fun! We also made some great business connections there. Overall, it was  fantastic experience, and we are glad we went! Now we are just trying to quickly decide if we will attend the other two conventions that are in Alanta, Georgia, and Sandusky, Ohio. Let me know if you are planning on being at one of those! There is still time to register to attend!