Teaching a webinar from our lake house all about winning an all inclusive trip to TULUM.
Your WHAT DID I DO, could turn in to “let me show you how I did it.”
8 years ago this Momma had a vision.
That vision wasn’t a societal norm, and that made it even harder to share.
2014… the year we started homeschooling AND the year we added our fourth baby WHILE my husband traveled full time for work. Go big or go home.
I can remember sitting on the couch that fall… baby in arms, in all it’s post partum hormonal glory. 3rd graders with their workbooks in hand. 3rd graders who sighed such a breath of joy to be home, and handsome little men who started growing out their hair because they didn’t have “friends” in school who would make fun of it anymore. I had a husband who was gone ALL week traveling for work (Monday – Thursday). And a busy dancing pre-teen who was dancing competitively 4 days a week and in tons of extra curricular activities.
I was giving myself 3 month maternity leave from my business (I had no replacement trainer for my business), and my clients were chomping at the bit to get back to training and we needed the income. I sat there thinking WHAT DID I DO?! Can I juggle this?! What was I thinking?!
Mommas,
I had a vision. I had a dream. I knew what I wanted, but I wasn’t sure how to get there. Jump and build the wings on the way down right?! I knew I wanted more time with my children. I knew I wanted them to feel like they too had choices in their life. I wanted them to love learning. I wanted them to feel curious instead of dragged, inspired instead of anxious, and guided instead of forced. I wanted more time, more travel, more life, less schedule. I wanted more smiles about learning, less tears. I wanted more things they were interested in and less that was mandated. I wanted more reading, thinking, discussing and less tests. I knew exactly what I wanted, but HOW. I had many “WHAT DID I DO?!” moments.
My gut and my vision kept pulling at me. I had dreams about learning about countries and then GOING there to see them in person and learn the culture in real time. I had dreams of hands on learning and hands on living. I had dreams of them learning things like coding that I knew nothing about because they just wanted to. I had dreams of them curled up with books asking for five more minutes, instead of asking when the timer was done for their reading log. I had dreams of them falling in love with a sport and not having to rush from school to the sport every night. I had dreams of slow mornings, quality time, traveling. I had so many visions. At this time they were just “dreams”. I didn’t know anyone who lived like this, but man I dreamed.
Those dreams turned into a vision, that vision found a vehicle, that turned into an action plan, and that action plan created our reality. Those dreams I had for our families freedom propelled the life we have today. I knew I was good at what I did, but what if I could do it completely from anywhere, have you ever thought that?
Mommas, DON’T SETTLE. Listen to that gut. It knows a thing or two. Then match it with a funny bone and some grit! You got this.
Fast forward to today! I wake up and remember that I dreamed of where we are now… and in five more years we’ll be where we’re dreaming.
If you keep doing exactly what you are doing right now will you be where you want to be in five years? If not. Why are you afraid to change?
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