Hi there, Thank you for coming to my page. My name is Jenifer, I am a mom of 3 crazy boys 9,6, and 5. We are a homeschool family but it didnt start that way.
My oldest started public school Kindergarten in the fall of 2019… I bet you can guess where this is headed! Everything was going normal, he had a wonderful Kindergarten teacher, and his only real problems came from a bully on the bus. His second semester in kindergarten is when the whole world practically shut down. Imagine being 5 years old and trying to navigate everything over a computer. He could see all his friends on a computer screen, but he could not play with them and didn’t understand why. It was a struggle, but we made it through, and summer was here at last!
Next came the long wait to see if he would even be starting a normal 1st grade year. When the school finally made the decision to allow the students to come back but with a mask mandate my son was unhappy. He did not want to wear a mask for hours at a time and I didn’t blame him, so we decided to allow him to stay home and do virtual learning once more.
During his first semester of 1st grade my older sister who had lived in Missouri at the time with her husband and 3 kids had decided they would move back to be closer to family. Second semester of 1st grade came along, and my son decided he wanted to go back to school even though there was still a mask mandate. My sister’s kids started school at the same time, and the same school.
My sister decided to get a part time job as a lunchroom assistant and for the rest of the semester I heard all the awful stories she would tell me about how the other kids were acting and the things they were saying. It was absolutely disgusting and I will probably discuss in detail in a separate post.
Summer of 2021 finally came and after hearing her stories and about the new health curriculum they approved for our schools My sister and I, along with our husbands and children started entertaining the idea of homeschooling.
Fast forward three years and we are both finishing up our 3rd year of homeschooling and our kids are loving it. My oldest is now finishing up 4th grade, my middle is finishing 1st grade, and my youngest will be in kindergarten in the fall. I have taught 2 kids to read and write, and it was easier than it sounds. My kids have a mixture of public school friends and homeschool friends and we are loving learning together every day.
Now on to why I am here writing this, I grew up going to any church I could possibly talk my not so religious parents into allowing me to go to. I loved God and was eager to learn more and become closer to him. I was a freshman in Highschool during 9/11 and it changed my view of God. I didn’t understand how he would just let that happen. The God I thought I knew would never have so my faith started shrinking until it was nearly gone.
When my sister moved back, she decided it was time to find a church and I knew just the one. I ran into our old youth pastor one day and he had told me that he had started his own church. I told my sister about it and decided to try it with her, and that was that. My faith started slowly coming back. I joined a bible study with her and her biological dad’s side of the family and the ladies in that group I now consider my spiritual mothers.
Today I am still a part of that bible study and also a wonderful bible study though our Christian homeschool co-op. I have been feeling led to write, but just not sure how God wants me to start so I figured I would start here and see if this is where I am meant to be.
If you would like to join me in my journey of homeschooling, homesteading, and growing my faith I would love to hear from you. If you have been feeling led to homeschool your own children, if you are feeling down about not keeping up with household chores and just being a mom, I am here to let you know that you are not alone.