Its all in the timing...

The story of how I unexpectedly became a homeschooling mom.

When I was planning my children's schooling lives, home school never crossed my mind. I knew families who home schooled back in 80's and 90's. It was not a life I envisioned for myself or my children. We were full-time entrepreneurs, running two businesses, managing our three business suites, and spending our days working, while our kids attended private schools in town near our office. I was not designed to be at home with my children. In my head, God created me to be a successful, hard working business owner so I could pay for a good education for my children. Or so I thought, for years, until He decided on a vastly different plan for our lives.

Flash forward to my son's sixth and daughter's fourth grade year of school. We had ongoing hurtles with the school and fourth grade was a final straw. We encountered our third new teacher in four years, just in my daughter's class. No experience, no schooling, and no guidance from others at the school, resulted in my daughter's class being two months into the school year and still on the second week of her math curriculum. We were running two businesses and lived in a different town. Public schools were not an option on such short notice since we lived 30 minutes from our office. In pure desperation, I reached out to a private homeschooling program, signed her up and gave the private school a one week notice.

Then, the panic set in. What was I thinking!? I was not wired to be a home school mom. I had one week to get things settled and I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Luckily the program I signed my daughter up for provided a decent amount of guidance and a "boxed" curriculum, whatever that was. I didn't care. It was an answer for a confused new home school mom who didn't have time to figure it all out.

Then, the weekend before she was to begin homeschooling, the craziest turn of events took place. Our thriving business of three years (the one that was sucking most of our daily resources) was put in a tough position, and in order to avoid possible disaster, we made the heart-wrenching decision to immediately close our doors. Suddenly, I found the hours of my days completely free, literally the weekend before I became a homeschooling mom. It was a very bitter sweet moment for me. The sadness that accompanied the "loss" of a baby (anyone who is a business owner, I'm sure, can understand this feeling), yet the lightness of responsibilities lifted from my shoulders, just when I needed it.

This is only the beginning of the story, but I will leave you here. When all else fails, and you feel like you are drowning, hopeless, or cornered, just remember that it's all in His timing. Don't overthink it. Many times none of it makes sense, but give Him the wheel and go along for the ride. Trust and follow and it will all fall into place.

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