Our Journey Part 3-Saying Yes to Homeschool

I’ve been sharing about our journey to decide to homeschool our three youngest children. Last time I went over some of the things I learned while doing my research. After I assessed the facts and stats and really thought about our situation, I felt in my heart that it was something I wanted to pursue for our family. But first some things had to happen:

First, my heart had to change. Meaning I needed to believe that I could do it, which led to prayer. Lots of prayer. I had to get confirmation that this was something God wanted for our family. And I thought about Lysa TerKeurst’s book “What Happens When Women Say Yes to God”. In it there’s a part where she goes over five questions to help her determine if what she’s hearing is from God or not. So I asked myself the five questions:

1. Does what I’m hearing line up with Scripture?  
Yes, I totally believed God wanted me to “teach them diligently”.

2. Is it consistent with God’s Character?
Yes, God is love and I needed to be available to love on my children as well.
3. Is it being confirmed through messages I’m hearing at church or in my quiet times?
Oh, this was a huge one! I was getting random email devotions like this one from A Holy Experience just as I was thinking about making the decision. I also would just meet people who also homeschooled and were open to talking to me about it. Once I was just at my MOPS meeting and the woman speaking was a homeschooling mom. So Yes, I was getting confirming messages. 
4. Is it beyond me? 
Um, yeah. Totally and absolutely beyond me. Only through God’s help would this be possible.
 
5. Would it please God?
Well, I think so. I mean, I would get at least one year to love on my kiddos and shepherd their little hearts. So yeah, I think it would please Him.
 

So once I prayed about it and got on board, I needed God to work on my husband’s heart. Not that he was completely against it. He was open to it but needed some convincing. But I knew this was something we both had to agree about, I was not willing to having this come between us or be a source of conflict in our marriage so I prayed that if this was God’s will for our family for this season then we would both have to agree about this decision.

Finally, once we both got on board, (yes, after presenting some facts and figures and more praying about it Hunny agreed to give it a try) we had to work out the logistics. I was already planning on not returning to my part-time job because they wanted to change my role and I didn’t think it was going to work out so I would be able to be home with the kids. As for curriculum, well because I’m a bit of a “slacker” mom and this would be our first time trying it, I needed a bit of hand holding. So we went with the K-12 California Virtual Academy program (CAVA). It’s an online Charter School program so they sent us all of the material and even a computer for my 8th grade son to use.

And so began our journey into this great adventure! Definitely a God thing. As this was something I never thought I could do and honestly I really could not without His guidance and grace every day.

How about you? Are there things you thought you could never do but have been proven different?

Next time, I’ll tell ya a bit more about our curriculum as well as what I’m doing with the little ones and maybe even share a peek into our “school room”. 

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  1. I’m enjoying these posts, Zohary. We homeschool as well. This is the second year with my oldest, who’s now in Gr 1. I’m starting to teach some basics to my almost 4 yr old, only because she knows her letters and numbers and has shown an interest in writing and sounds.

    Blessings to you & your family. I’ll be looking into that Lysa TerKeurst book you mentioned too.

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