Our Homeschool Life

We started our homeschool journey in the fall of 2025. My husband and I had been talking about it and praying on it for about a year. I had previously worked for our local school district for 14 years and had left the district very hurt and disheartened by our local district and educational system. Another story for another time. We had twins in second grade at the time and we struggled on if we trusted the same system and people, that we could not no longer trust as employers and coworkers, with our children. I want to be clear, there are some wonderful people that I do trust completely withing the district. Unfortunately, at the time they were not working with me or my children. The district was struggling with budget and staffing issues, that was projecting class sizes for the next year to increase from 24/25 students per class to up to 35 students per class. In my heart I knew that my children were not going to be successful in a class of 35 in third grade. My beautiful, sweet, follow the rules daughter would get lost in chaos while my tender hearted, wild, anxious, worry filled son who could not sit still would be in trouble all day. These were my fears. These fears did not include the state of the world right now and those just compounded everything. For my husband, safety and the state of the world was a huge.

By the time August came, we were confident that we wanted to homeschool our kids and keep them home. August 1st my husband got laid off, we were devastated. We felt that the decision was made and we really felt that God was leading us down this path, but the unknown was so scary. We prayed and prayed. I cried. My husband came to me and said that no matter how scary this was he was super calm and confident that this was still the right path for our family. He felt that for me and the kids this was what we needed and the job would come. With his steadfast confidence I trusted him and we began our homeschool journey.