Your Assumptions About Me | Homeschool Myths vs. Reality | What People Assume About Homeschooling

hey guys welcome back to home-school on my youtube channel today I am gonna be addressing some of your homeschool assumptions home school maybe not home school some things are really personal assumptions about me this is gonna hopefully help you get to know me better I saw this in somebody else's YouTube channel I can't take credit for this but it just looked like so much fun that I decided that I was gonna try it so I asked on my Instagram what you guys assumed about me and I'm gonna be addressing as much of these as I possibly can I got so many answers and I think it's gonna be a lot of fun and just to preface this I have not gone through and really prepped my answers some of them I laughed at and swiped on by I literally don't know what I'm gonna say so this is gonna be on the fly it's gonna be honest it's gonna be real and authentic and in the moment as if you were having coffee and just threw this out of me my response to your assumptions about me so if you are not familiar with Who I am what this channel is all about if you just stumbled upon it for the very first time my name is Rebecca I have five young children that I homeschool and I grew up being homeschooled until about great an at which point I went to school so I have been immersed in homeschooling I feel like my whole life I always knew this is what I wanted to do and I have been blogging about it for about four years now so I love homeschooling and I am passionate about encouraging other people and helping them along the way and just being real and so you're gonna see a whole lot of real in today's video because you guys asked some questions that you're you may be shocked by the answer I don't know maybe you won't follow me after this we're gonna see okay so assumptions about me that growing up you did rigorous curriculum like Bob Jones or AC II you know me I feel like I look back and I'm like yeah I did but I kind of did and I kind of didn't my mom used a Becca for us and so I grew up using a Becca for a lot of my kind of core subjects I definitely did that for math I remember doing that for our history and for a lot of our different Sciences I did the Abeka health I did the Abeka Language Arts up to a certain point but she also brought in unis studies I remember doing Kono's we did actually a lot of units so she was definitely eclectic in the way that she home-schooled us and we got a little bit of everything in there so did I grow up using rigorous curriculum kind of I think that I'm different than how my mom was when she homeschooled me but I think that she gave me that flexibility in the fact that she wasn't bound to those books and feeling like you had to and she kind of took it to the next level so yes and no does that answer that I don't know another assumption about me you are unorganized you switch your kids curriculum often yeah that's true yeah I am unorganized now I don't know if you just saw but I posted my home school room makeover video which you should go and check out as well as my scrapbook so parts of my life are organized you guys parts of my life and I really work at it I like did the special folding thing in my bedroom and it was really organized until I did an Instagram video where it was a mess I mean I live I live my life and I I cannot do everything there's no way that I am blogging the amount that I am doing all of these videos engaging with you guys homeschooling my kids managing cooking meals being a good wife to my husband still having friends and relationships outside of all of that and you know organizing my house like something is gonna go most likely two or three things are gonna go and if something has to go let it be the house that's just the last priority for me it is an important priority I actually go crazy if I'm disorganized so every once in a while I kind of lose my mind and we clean our house like crazy people and then I feel good again so I do need it I I don't just live in filth I can't stand that I do go crazy but I I can let it get pretty bad before I get to that point guys we're kind of that we float and then mommy freaks out and then we clean and and then we try again try again one day it's gonna happen really you have trouble finishing things like getting distracted by other things yes that's a tough one I would actually be super curious to see my mom's response to that because in some ways yes in other ways no I am very very very focused and can be focus and very driven I mean I have written books I have done things that I started and I finished and I really just like through everything that I am into it I'm an all-or-nothing person and so I do that I throw everything that I am into something and and I have a tendency to just let everything fall to the wayside and be like I'm gonna do this and then I do so there is an aspect of Who I am that I finish what I start in some things when it comes to our curriculum it depends on my level of enthusiasm and ambition and passion about it greatly but if it's curriculum then I am like loosey goosey like no you don't have to finish that curriculum when's the last time we finished a book actually I look back I found a math book that we almost finished there was only like a few weeks left you guys that's that's that's big for us we float we do what we do so yes and no it depends on how you're asking that but hopefully that helps you are easygoing I need a friend I need a friend to come in on this video with me because I feel like I all want to Trista Leigh answer these but some of them I don't know am i easygoing no I don't think I'm easygoing I don't think I'm easygoing in any capacity but I'm super curious to know what my my one of my best friends would save that because I'm gonna ask her now and maybe I'm gonna come back and edit this or maybe I'm gonna put her on video and she's gonna respond to that because of that I'm not sure but I would say that I am NOT easygoing I am the most intense passionate person you have ever met I am I'm crazy I feel like I'm insane like I'm the mom that's sitting at home like either getting frustrated at my kids or being goofy and silliness singing a silly song or I am totally ignoring them and I'm working like I am I'm everywhere all the time I am NOT the mom you know it's like you watch you watch shows I won't name the shows but there's some shows with people that have lots of kids and they're just like uh-huh yeah okay honey we don't do that no that's not me guys I'm not that way I'm they Stewart that's me okay real life so no I would not say I'm easygoing with pretty much anything you don't get sleep and you're very organized okay again we've tackled the organized things more on the disorganized than the organized but I see the value of organizations so let's just call that what it is but don't get sleep yeah I think last night was four hours guys now I will get sick and I will deteriorate and then I'll start crying so I'm working on that but I don't live on four hours of sleep I kind of need seven is my like base minimum if I want to be a good person then eight hours of sleep is kind of what I aim for but um but I don't know how to answer that because definitely I have like I know I got to get up I've got to do this I don't get very much I stay up really late that's what I do do I stay up very very very late way too late because I just don't want it go to bed and do the things in the morning so that's what I'm working on I'm a work in progress but then I sleep in like my alarm goes off and I'm like I should get up but I'm not going to so I kind of do get the sleep I need because I'm lazy ah you're so thin and you eat whatever you want okay well I'm not like super thin if I were brave enough I'd show you my belly right now okay it looks like because I'm thin or ish then I think that you know the fact that I have no stomach muscles just makes me look 3-4 months pregnant all the time actually not all the time in the morning when I first wake up I'm like yeah looking good I look in the mirror I'm like this is this is great I like what I see okay just don't eat anything because as soon as I eat something then it's like pop food baby and it's just like that it's just like that so I feel like I always look pretty pregnant I'm really good at wearing flowy shirts but I definitely I definitely am on the thinner side and that's just genetics I'm so sorry because I eat like crap and I don't take their good care of myself so God is going to going to give me a little more grace until I can really tackle that but I am going to start working out guys so stay tuned for some workout videos it's gonna happen in all my spare time okay what else ah you wake up way before me to have such a successful day again I'd be super curious to see what my family would say about this but I would say my track record is to wake up around and eight is average what I should wake up at is six but eight is average I kind of like this morning I set the alarm for 6 and then I reset it for 7 and then I reset it for 8 and then I reset it for 9 but then I decided that that was pushing it so 8 o'clock is probably normal and and I don't okay so now my successful day is I'm getting some work done today do you think homeschooling is happening think again okay you've always wanted a large family that is true I have always wanted a large family I started off wanting for I always knew I wanted to be a mom it's what I wanted to be when I grew up and my mom was kind of like you should go to college you should do this you should do that and I was like what's the point I'm gonna meet someone get married and have kids like what's the point this is my passion this is what I want for my life and so I always wanted to be a mom I wanted at least four kids so did Jonathan my husband and then I remember the moment we had Caleb and he's just this little ah and it was hard like pregnancy was very hard for me I'm very short bodied I had so much pain I had so much trouble breastfeeding like I had major challenges but I was so in love I was still in love and I remember looking down at him and I looked at my husband and I said seven he's like seven so seven was the number and we were gonna go for it look we love we love babies and we love kids and we would have had more unfortunately I cannot and I might address that later because I think somebody asked something after that okay oh look next question I hate assumptions but may I just ask would you like to have more children okay so look there it's right there you guys it's just so perfect okay so yes I would love to have more children after Jenaya my last I had major complications actually after my fourth I had major complications I had something called in Krita accreta I think what tonight it was accreta and then it turned into in Korea with with geneious so that's where your placenta grows into your uterine wall and so it doesn't come out and you can hemorrhage and diet and point and so all about stuff so I almost died with olya and that is a whole story that maybe we can talk about another time but I almost died with her and so there was a lot of fear based around Jan aya we ended up driving for hours for every appointment went to the best Hospital we could find and they said that you know we will try but most likely we will have to do a hysterectomy and so I am completely unable to have more children and it breaks my heart and we did look into adoption it is very difficult to adopt this the amount of kids we have we were told that even local adoptions most families won't choose us because we have too many kids there is limitations they said we were told there's only three countries we could ever adopt from because of the amount of children that we have so it is kind of in the back of our mind is a possibility and something that we are passionate about I'm also praying for healing guys I mean God can grow back arm so you can grow uterus it can happen you have a stylist I wear sweat pants daily well I used to wear sweat pants pajamas daily now I wear Lululemon tights daily which are basically pajamas let's just be real like they're so comfortable and that's also how I keep my figure cuz it just sucks it all in so I I do dress pretty comfortably if we're being honest I dress warm a lot I have a big housecoat I wear all the time and don't come to my house unannounced because I will scare you with the amount of I don't know what's happening I'm like 32 and all of a sudden I'm a teenager and I have more zits and I have ever had collectively in my life in a monthly basis like it's just crazy not to mention the dark circles under my eyes and I look like I'm dying really palliative care up in here so no it's it's not always amazing you guys it really isn't somebody asked they assume that I am Catholic I'm not Catholic I am evangelical Christian I do I really don't like the denomination thing because I don't even know guys where where there's so much interpretational stuff with that but it drives me a little crazy but but I am I am I'm a Christian but even that drives me crazy because what does that even mean anymore no I don't just go to church on Sunday I have an active living relationship with God I hear his voice and I follow his voice for my parenting for my homeschooling from ministry for this job for everything that I do I ask him before I do videos I pray before I do videos guides and directs everything that I do I believe in miracles I I believe and have a personal active vibrant passionate relationship with God so whatever that is that's me so a little charismatic but I'm not you know what I feel like I'm also grounded I grew up really really really um really conservatively and so I have the grounding of Scripture and Bible and and yet I I believe in it the acts church that that's what we're supposed to have so there now you got my little testimony in one I'm pretty crazy you guys I feel like people you don't really know you don't know me okay you're superhuman I feel like we don't even need to address that anymore do we like haven't we already now laid the foundation that I have anything but superhuman okay anything but you keep things simple love your kids but they drive you crazy and you have homeschool all figured out okay I do keep things simple yes true my kids I love them but they drive me crazy also true I love them so much and sometimes I'm so in awe of them I just sit and like watch them the other night actually two nights ago I started watching a video of my sister it posted it's the most embarrassing horrific thing you'll ever see and we had like just had babies and we were still children pretty much and so if you're acting like children and made this little like Reitmans commercial that was appalling so I was looking at that my kids of course we're like killing themselves laughing and they said we want to see and so we started looking at Facebook videos and then we looked at a few more and a few more and I looked back and saw my kids when they were little and I could not stop weeping I could not stop weeping I just and I don't cry that much I really do not cry that much but I was like literally there's a puddle forming on the floor and I I miss it so much I feel like it's gone so fast I feel like I haven't appreciated every moment like I should and I I just I love my kids so beyond fiercely so yes that is true um but I have homeschool all figured out in some ways I'm very confident I'm very confident that I know what I'm doing I'm very confident with curriculum I'm very confident that I know my kids and that's why I can be confident in telling you guys what I've learned along the way but every day I'm still learning every day I'm coming up against challenges that I don't know how to face because it's new I'm coming up now with preteen attitude stuff and that's new for me and so trying to figure out okay what do I do in this situation and all my kids have different learning styles there's so many challenges I have faced that I have been like I'm I'm out I don't know down on my knees God tell me like spirit let on school because honestly there's a lot of times I have no clue what I am doing and I'm just winging it so no I do not have my home school figure it out okay let's move on alright that it is dark and cold in Canada not a fun place to live now this is hard for me to explain because we do Celsius you guys do Fahrenheit so sometimes it's like the the crossover I need to actually look up what our average temperature is but we are actually pretty average we have seasons just like me fits me so perfectly because I am intense so just like me being an intense person who's all or nothing our seasons are all or nothing and actually that's really only where we are because the farther south you go is different so where I am now I'm in BC go show your kids here's your geography for the day we are in northern BC okay so northern BC we're underneath the Yukon so we're not even all the way up in that top half of Canada we're still like mid Canada and for us we get in our winter so you have to go convert this go do it it's a good it's a good lesson for your kids we get as cold as minus 40 but when we do get minus 40 that's like snaps of it okay so maybe we have like a week that's really cool this winter was not that bad it a ver egde minus 10 to 15 that was our average so we had winter and our winter started around November and you know we still kind of have snow you guys saw some of those flurries a little while ago so we have winter but then we have spring and we have summer and it gets up to 40 degrees Celsius in the summer which is hot like really really really really hot so it isn't dark in fact because we're northern you guys sometimes we're gonna come to the longest day of the year where we only have about two hours of darkness in the winter it's dark yeah but in the summer now we're gonna have hardly any darkness and mostly light it's hard to sleep unless you put tinfoil on the windows or have blackout blinds so I love it I love Canada I also love the states I've so loved traveling and speaking at different conventions and getting to see your guys's neck of the woods because there's so many similarities and also differences in in our countries and the different states and provinces and I love it I absolutely love it I assumed we would have a lot to laugh about over a cup of coffee you seem fun let's look there's another one that tent that goes in with this I assume you're very fun to hang out with and be around and another one you are an extrovert okay so true story I can be fun I can be fun I'm really I think I'm really fun for my kids I think I'm really fun with my husband we have so much fun together on and my best friends and close close family I I can be absolutely ridiculous and have so much fun and super extroverted very very very extroverted I love my people so much and I it's like it's my place and I like go in and I'm like hey I've arrived and you know I love it I love people I love my people I feel confident and I'm super extroverted in those situations but in a bigger where I don't know people in a situation where I have to get to know people in a situation where I am meeting people for the first time even where I kind of know people like a church but it's superficial I'm out like I am oh I am NOT fun in any way I sit down if I like that's why I avoid homeschool stuff in my area because I know people expect me to be what they see on here which is me this is real what I what I do is real but but I'm this I'm in my home you guys remember I'm in my home so when I'm out it's very difficult for me to get out of my comfort zone it's very hard I'm very introverted in a big group even if I kind of know people I will sit I will be quiet I will not speak as like hardly at all I want to go I bring my journal so I have something to do I feel very awkward very uncomfortable my kids literally know we they joke now they bug me they take turns and shift sitting with me during church so I don't have to be alone so I don't have to try to feel stupid or try to find someone to talk to I hate small talk I find it exhausting I am all or nothing intense I want to talk about God and relationship and marriage and you know like for me the small talk is just like it's it's a face I have to put on so I am actually introverted I'm an introverted extrovert so only in small groups with my people where I'm really comfortable can I be that extrovert but with bigger groups and that's where I feel like I disappointed you to be this and while I can be this it's got to be the right you guys it's got to be right like all all everything has to come into play for that to happen all right you do your hair and makeup every day I fight for a shower every other day now shower versus makeup those are different I shower like I I try to do it every on the third day so I have a shower and then I don't the next day and then I will the next day now I'm even more going sometimes especially if I curl my hair I can go one extra day so I can have a shower two days in between and then have a shower so I don't shower that often because I don't do my hair like this every day no once it's done you're gonna be like this for at least two days in order for me to feel like I got value at that time that I invested my makeup I do do at least under the eyes some blush so I don't look dead but for the most part I'd do it now any time I'm going out or gonna see people I do because otherwise people say are you dying and then I have to explain why I don't have cancer and why I'm not dying because I look like I am so embarrassing little fact about me this is a face let's move on okay um you and your hubby get along great we do actually we do get along really really really well we are both really intense and strong leaders and so sometimes we clash you know the iron sharpens iron our first few years of marriage were pretty bad it was pretty bad that whole honeymoon phase people talk about mmm don't know what that is I really don't because we did not experience that our first three more years of marriage we're getting to know each other because we'd only dated a few months he went to training to be an RCMP officer so we were long-distance talking on the phone and then he he was posted somewhere else so we were a long distance planning our wedding and we got married we'd only actually been together dating where we had actually hung out for three months and that's it so we were getting to know each other we were learning how to communicate he is almost eight years older than me and so there was dynamics there he was kind of more set in his ways and I feel like I was already set in my new a is being young I was just I was very strong we're strong strong personalities we knew what we wanted and we we thought we she fought it's actually our marriage I feel like gets better and better and better the longer we've been married and I'm yeah so we do we get along really really really well and tell we nitpick at each other and we sharpen each other a little bit and you know then it's a little Grady but we get past that and we have fun we have so much fun we are kind of one of those couples that is I almost feel like what would embarrass people if they really knew like we're we're ridiculous around each other I'll be like standing there visiting with someone and my husband will come and like pull me over in the snow and like you know tackle me or throw a snowball we're very kiddush with each other we we laugh we tickle we play we really do play we play together and we have so much fun doing it so I love my husband very very very much he makes me laugh and he keeps me from going crazy that you have great patience you never lose your cool somebody else said that to you that you seldom raise your voice or lose your cool huh I wish that were true I'm the least patient person in the world I really am I am not patient in any way when God made me he did not say Rebecca and she shall be patient he said Rebecca and she shall be a wild tornado who doesn't know the meaning of patience but she's kind of learned through painful painful processes she's gonna learn the meaning of the word she'll never actually master it but she'll at least have a a glimpse of what that means and the rest it's gonna be heaven okay I'm gonna learn what that means in heaven because I am not patient I'm working on it I'm like the smallest things you have no idea the smallest things around like I'm working on being patient I'm working on not speaking even though I have everything to say right now I am working on not losing my cool I'm not getting frustrated with my kids when I first started homeschooling my son my my gorgeous amazing sweet loveable sensitive little boy who is turning 12 and is not so little anymore he was my first and so teaching him how to read was just like you guys it was so bad I cry I've done videos before where I cry in the video and I don't cry because it just reminiscing about that that battle and him crying and feeling like such a failure and come on we read this word already why don't you do this and and just the messages I was like it was awful so no I'm not patient but I've come a long way now when I teach my kids and we get to that point I'm just like okay well we've got two choices mommy's gonna scream or we're just gonna take a break and here have some candy and so usually that's what I default to have some candy go away go outside go and play mommy's going to read a book or go to the bathroom or or I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen something make me coffee teach your kids how to do that it really helps with your patience gives you that little break I'm very confident in my curriculum choices well right now if you say that to me I have no idea what I'm using for a 2020 no idea so I'm not super but once we try something I know a lot of curriculum I know curriculum and I love curriculum and I'm confident about what I know about curriculum but we're always changing things up I guess something new in the mail I'm like wow we have to try it clearly so we try it then I managed to make friends easily no this is the first time I have had like a best friend that is not family not related to me since I was a teenager first time in my life 13 years of marriage I had a best friend when I was a teenager that I just she was just my best best friend I've only had three in my life that was not family I'm very close to my family I'm very close to my sister my sister-in-law my mom and so I those have always been my best friends I don't need a lot of people I just need a few and so I had my very best friend growing up and I was good and then I had my family and I was good and I just have never had that again and I didn't even really I didn't even really feel super sad about that um I I felt like you know it's seasons and I thought I was okay with just having my family I forgotten what a gift it is because it's been 13 years 14 years however long has been that now to have that again is is such a gift it is such a gift there are very few people that I am truly myself with that I truly feel like I'm safe with that I truly can can be wild and crazy and don't feel like it's any work to have conversation with very few people so I don't make friends easily I think a lot of people feel like they're my friend and I and I their acquaintances and they are but that deep friendship I don't make that easily that is very very rare and I think rare for most people and if you do have that treasure it and if you have that a far go call that friend just reconnect with them because that you can always go back with those friends they're lifers okay I'm only gonna do a few more and I actually have one two three four five pages more oh my goodness my kids took pictures of me at violin practice so cool so I'm just gonna address a few more and then we'll move on guys this is super long right hopefully you've enjoyed getting to know me better okay I assume that you never get a break from home school on I actually feel like I take a lot of breaks there's a lot of times I thought like a ton of stuff to do I've been shooting videos today of my beautiful school room and my dream box and I've been having so much fun doing it but I have avoided this moment and this video for months because I feel like my room is not super organized right we're talking about organization and because I didn't want to get dressed and look nice and because life was busy and I prefer to work like I do work a lot but I kind of work around my life and when it takes over my life then it's a little bit more daunting so I I do I take a break when I want to like I could work all night tonight for sure I could I could work full-time but I say no and I go on going out with my friends tonight and I'm going out with my kids and we're gonna have a nice barbecue outside so I say no to my work a lot and I have very firm boundaries where I live my life where I'm totally disconnected and I forget and that's why you'll see me on Instagram and then I'm gone because I'm living my life so I wish I was more committed I wish that I had people that work for me that could be consistent but I'm not that consistent so I do i do get breaks but it is a lot I have chosen to invest a lot in you guys a couple of people said you have a lot of energy you have tons of energy I do you have energy that is one thing I do have I I have a lot of energy only things that take that away from me is if I'm very very very tired or if I'm sick when I'm sick I have a tendency I last a couple days and then I actually start to get really depressed and like really depressed really depressed and getting back after sickness into anything getting motivated to do work again any of that stuff it hits me very hard and I really struggle so I there's a couple things that steal from that but for the most part I am a very driven passionate motivated person I'm always thinking of something new and when I have it I'm running after it and I I go through my life with great intensity and so I think that I do have quite a bit of energy and I don't know where that comes from it's my personality is what it is somebody else said you've never thought about putting your kids in school think of thought of it yesterday I think of it all the time all the time I think about putting my kids in school and and especially in the beginning I've thought of it a lot more in the beginning I actually don't to be totally honest I don't think about it very much anymore because I am so settled in what we're doing last it was about two years ago that I really actually seriously considered it again and I was actually looking into schools and I was pricing it out and trying to figure out I would not my kids into public school because of what our public schools are like and what they teach kids in public school right now I would have considered some of the private school options but the price point and everything else just didn't make it feasible for our family and it it really came down to my husband when we were really considering it is that I just wanted to put a few of them in and he was just so against it and he said I will pay it's not even about money I will pay for tutors but I will not have my kids they'll they'll be gone they'll be gone and so on so we're really just so committed to it right now in this season that we I don't really think about it for the most part I mean I fail all the time but it's no longer my go-to thought if I'm failing therefore they need to go in school now I've just like own dead I'm like yeah I failed but you know it's okay sure it's your my weakness he is strong I'm gonna cling to that I'm gonna cling that's about that's my motto that's my mantra yeah kids today mommy failed but through my weakness he is strong and when you learn how to read and it isn't me that taught you well see he gets all the glory for that yay God because it's clearly not my consistency that is teaching you somebody else said they assumed on the 5 on the intagram I don't know I am never taken that the thought of sitting down and taking a test right now is exhausting to me but I'm kind of curious I mean I know it's really really popular so I think that I will try to take it and you guys can all guess what you think I would be and I will find out because I have no clue I don't even know I just know it's a personality thing that's all I know and I'll do one more and then I'm gonna wrap it up and the last one is you have a lot more money than I do um probably probably and honestly that isn't my husband's career I know people then make way less money than us but actually take home way more money than us because we get taxed a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot welcome to Canada half of your paycheck is going to the government so we get taxed a lot because of the fact that I work I know a lot of people are on single income families the husband's working the wife is at home raising her kids and so people look at me and they're like how can you afford to redo your basement how can for it to get the dream box how can you afford to get all this curriculum because companies send it to me for free now this basement I did pay for but I pay for it out of what I make from my business I work we are a dual income family so I probably do have more financial freedom than what you have I also get a ton of stuff for free before I ever buy anything I pitch a company first because you never know so I get a lot of stuff for free so when you see stuff coming to my door and all this curriculum and you're thinking how do you afford that well I don't just join my start a blog course and do what I do because companies will send it to you but I also you guys like where I am today I have I mean this has been years of my life I've invested into this and I was actually paying money when I first started all of this so it's been a journey but I do we do have more financial freedom and that is such a gift and I am not I do not take it for granted the fact that I work and the fact that this fits so well with our life and allows me to home-school I mean everything I do is about homeschooling so it actually inspires me to home-school so I can take that picture and create a new post for you guys so I am so blessed by the life that I have and it's all God it really is all God so I I encourage you when you come to my site when you come to my blog when you come to my Instagram or my social media when you see my life if you see it looks organized if you see I've got lots of energy if you see wow she looks put together and I'm not if you see she gets all of the stuff this scrap box these things I could never afford and I don't I encourage you right now to just hit the pause button and remember not to compare yourself to my life I could show you pictures and I did in some of my sessions of where I started I did not start here nobody starts here nobody starts with the answer is nobody starts with the money nobody starts with the nice stuff nobody so don't compare yourself to me choose thankfulness in the space that you are in right now if you have a kitchen table you're doing school and choose thankfulness and not find things to be thankful aim for better find things that you can do that that are unique that are creative and dream and pray because God has brought so many opportunities into our lives that I never would have imagined for us so I really hope that in in this you've seen first of all I am a real person with many many many faults and that if you're comparing yourself to me that I am not perfect and that I have a starting point too and so do you honor the starting point be thankful where you're at I am thankful for where I am today I have goals and visions and dreams for the future of our family but I am thankful I am so thankful for today and and everything that I have it's it's come at a cost and it's come at a price and it's not for everybody so I just encourage you we look at other people's life so often and we compare and and we're different but different our journeys are different our walk is different so don't look to me look to what God has put in front of you look to your own kids and encourage each other encourage somebody else with that so that's it I'm gonna wrap it up I hope you guys have an amazing homeschool week day if you're taking a break for the summer do that too okay we may we may not I don't know what's gonna happen we are gonna school through the summer so I'll update you guys in September on how that went but anyways I encourage you no matter what you're doing to have an amazing day to seize the moments today to be who you are and who God created you to be today and if you want to see something specific on my youtube channel post it below I would love to hear your ideas and yeah you may see it show up on my podcast or here on YouTube and otherwise subscribe so you don't miss stuff like my school room makeover or the dream box tour which is coming up so talk to you guys later

Channel: Homeschool On

Views: 16,839

Rating: 4.8726115 out of 5

Keywords: homeschool, homeschooling, homeschool mom, homeschool on

Id: RZEgRYYovR4

Length: 37min 1sec (2221 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2019