Launching June 15, 2026

Home of the Brave

Raising Patriots One Holiday at a Time

by Jana Spruce

A practical, holiday-by-holiday family handbook for teaching your children real history, real values, and real faith. Just in time for America's 250th birthday.

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Every holiday is an opportunity

From Thanksgiving dinner to the Fourth of July, from Memorial Day flags to the Easter table. Every American holiday carries a story worth telling your children. Home of the Brave walks you through them all, one holiday at a time, with the history behind each day, the values it teaches, and specific traditions your family can start this year.

This isn't a history textbook or a devotional. It's a handbook packed with age-appropriate activities, discussion starters for the dinner table, family recipes, and prayers. Written by a mother of five who believes America is worth celebrating and faith is worth passing on.

Holiday by Holiday

Every major American holiday covered with real history, not the sanitized version.

Age-Appropriate

Activities and discussions for young children (3–7), older kids (8–12), and teens (13–18).

Faith & Freedom

Each holiday connects to both American civic values and Christian faith.

Practical & Actionable

Specific traditions, recipes, discussion questions, and family activities you can use today.

From the moon to the dinner table

Jana Spruce spent 30 years in aerospace and defense. She led the Collins Aerospace prototyping team that won NASA's $3.7 billion next-generation spacesuit contract. As VP of Spacecraft at Firefly Aerospace, she led Blue Ghost Mission 1, the first fully successful commercial lunar lander.

She is also a happily married Catholic mother of five. Home of the Brave was born at her own dinner table, where she and her husband have been using American holidays to teach their children about the country they love and the God they serve.

Jana holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. She currently runs Spruce Consulting Group, advising space and defense companies, and serves as Board President of the Central Texas Spaceport Development Corporation.

Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering UCLA Anderson MBA NASA Spacesuit Program Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Mother of Five