It’s a common question and one probably considered by every family with multiple children. Should siblings share a room? Do you even have the option to give your kids their own bedrooms? Or maybe your kids actually prefer to have each other’s company all night. Regardless, there are multiple reasons and benefits to room sharing.
Call us crazy, but our five boys all share one bedroom.
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We’ve all seen them: the beautiful Pinterest worthy minimalist toy rooms with just a few Montessori style wooden toys neatly organized on perfectly arranged shelves, cozy book corners, and chalkboard walls.
Spoiler alert: we don’t have that. We don’t even technically have a toy room.
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As a new homeschool mom over 7 years ago, I knew that I had a lot to learn. But I never could have imagined that first I would have to unlearn so many things. Having spent my entire education in the public and private school systems I was used to only one way of learning: being fed information through a qualified adult, memorizing and regurgitating, being tested and graded, then moving on to the next subject.
Naturally it made sense to me that our home education would look similar. Afterall, there was 13 years worth of information I was fed that I would now have to figure out how to feed to my own children. Realizing I had a lot to unlearn was a sobering thought, but its necessity brought about true freedom in our homeschool and family life.
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I’ll never forget where I was and what I was doing the day I got the call that my dad was dying. It was a call I had been mentally preparing myself for for years. I feared it every time the phone rang. But as much as I always knew it would one day come, I never quite expected it to actually come. It’s easy to assume you still have more time.
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Honestly, some days it feels challenging to carve out time for God. There was a season where I was barely reading His Word at all because I never got to sit for more than 5 minutes, and when I did I couldn’t focus or absorb anything I was reading.
It felt useless. Hopeless. And Lonely. I was frustrated that I wanted to grow in knowledge, yet unable to study because motherhood alone was taking everything I had, and more.
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Every homeschool mama needs time to recharge and refresh herself. For some moms that looks like alone time, reading a book just for fun, a girls night out, or maybe a nap. For me? It’s an afternoon pick-me-up cup of joy.
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Five kids?! How are you still so skinny?!
This might be an odd topic to talk about. Then again, it’s odd that people feel the need to comment on perfect strangers’ weight. So let’s put this out in the open and talk about staying healthy and fit.
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They say it takes a village to raise a child, and we mom’s are often left asking, “where’s the village?” I’ll tell you where it is: we drove it away.
Society today is riddled with fear and agitation. We struggle to let it slide when someone cuts us off in traffic, or so much as looks at us sideways. We’re offended when another mom at the playgrounds tells our kid not to eat the granola bar they just dropped or not to run up the slide.
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