We always looked ahead to that as like, hey, when we finally get in our home, that's when we're going to have finally enough space for our family, big enough yard for our family.

We're finally going to be able to just live free and be ourselves.

And then we moved into home and we found that we still were having the same stress and the same stress and the same problems.

And we realized, oh my goodness, getting caught up in the routines remains even though we're in this home.

And we always saw that as the point when things would end.

And so we almost realized, like, we need to make a change to have fun.

It's not a matter of just changing locations.

It's we need to do something different.

Yeah. changing locations. It's we need to do something different. Hi, I'm Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about

progress made practical.

Three years ago at this time, we were almost half a year into seeking some big changes to our family.

You see, it had been a stressful few years and we were all feeling quite burnt out.

From the pandemic to moving out of state, to homeschooling, to helping our special needs kids, and renovating a home, it was a lot.

And I know it wasn't just us.

We kind of had this misconception that once we finally moved into our house, things would get a lot

easier.

And we did, but things did not get easier.

And that's when Brad and I realized that something had to change. And in order for us to

shift away from survival as a family, we had to shift towards something else that at first

glance seemed quite superficial and maybe irresponsible. And that was to prioritize fun.

2022 was sort of our year of fun. We wore where we intentionally sought out to have more fun as a family

and in the process to shift our family culture. Now three years later, I am so proud of how

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