When we had to start over... | VLOG
We started this blog and this site because I was already putting in the work to pull together our family's homeschool plans- why not post them all online in hopes that maybe someone else may find them useful.
I added the blog section, to share a little more and discuss topics that I at least wanted to discuss, again thinking maybe one person out in the great wide world might find it helpful in some way.
Then with some stuff going on in our life, and going into my slow season for our family business (more on this later) we thought doing some sort of vlog would be fun.
One thing that drives me kind of crazy with... well, everything we see pretty much, is how fake "real" seems. Everyone has an all white/Joanna Gaines house, kids that never track in mud, attitudes that never go sour, perfect 'messy' buns, and endless happy days. I have a hard time relating when it never seems 'real'. When REAL life never kicks in and makes the final editing cut.
I didn't want to do that. I didn't want an unrealistic homeschool plan-- I want what we really do with the areas we skip as needed noted. I want to talk about real struggles and issues that we muddle through and hear from others that they do too. And while thinking we'd do some type of "schedule" with the vlog where we film Monday, Wednesday and Friday to release Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday... I wanted to be upfront when the set day wasn't going well and the only footage I got was messy, a family trying to get it together, and start over when we realized the day was a wash.
That was our Monday. We had spent all day Sunday laying around being bums, binging on Star Wars movies since it was dark and cozy out, which meant by bed time the kids were all going bananas. Monday everyone woke up a little on edge, we're currently caring for my elderly mother-in-law again which is trying to say the least, and I had the grand idea that we'd get ahead on our Bible study series and film back to back chapters.
These were all bad ideas.
No one was enjoying much of anything, attitudes were not loving, and it was just a bad mix. So that's what I got. I got a family muddling through a day, realizing it wasn't where we should be, and then heading outside to try and reset our hearts. So, maybe not the most exciting footage- nothing super cool or fun, but truthful.
Do you ever have those days where you just know it's time to call it quits and try again?
I hope you all are having a beautiful day, enjoy the gift of the present. And if you're not, if you're struggling today, stressed out, spread too thin and just sour-- it's ok. You can reset your day too. 🤗🤗🤗
