Have you ever felt the pressure to do it all? I know this is really common among mothers. It's particularly acute among homeschooling moms.

Today I'm going to talk a little bit about why I think it's okay to ask for help and vital that we live in community with one another.

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I think you're going to be encouraged. Well, hey everybody, happy new year, once again, we are

Well, hey everybody, happy New Year, once again, we are moving our way into the month of January I cannot believe it I can't believe it

It seems like the older I get the faster the years go by and I remember a long time ago a mom telling me you know hey hang on slow down because the days feel very very long but the years go by fast and I just wanted to

punch her lights out because I just thought,

you know what, nothing's going by fast for me.

But of course, she was right.

And here I am now with most of our children grown

and out of the nest, and I have had the opportunity to reflect a little bit on what it was that I think God showed me the most of in himself and in my heart and in the lives of my children in the years that I was

homeschooling. And one of the very first things that comes to mind is the importance of living in community.

I think we live in a sort of isolationist culture.

It's very different than it was.

You know, we would read stories about the pioneers and particularly out here in the west where wagon trains would come across the country and these people literally lived and died together and if they weren't in community with each other and they were out on their own trying to traverse the country or make it from the East Coast over to the

the Oregon Territory, they weren't going to make it. You had to survive in community and we really have lost that. I think moms today feel a lot of pressure to do it all. We feel the pressure to have picture perfect houses.

I saw a post the other day on Instagram that I actually really appreciated of just a normal kitchen.

It wasn't a kitchen that had, you know, tons of light in it.

It wasn't a kitchen with big windows or a big farmhouse sink or any of that stuff. It was just a normal

kitchen I think most of us can relate to and the caption said most kitchens are

normal. That was it, just most kitchens are normal and I thought that is a great name for a podcast because we I think have expectations oftentimes of what our lives should look like and we base it on somebody else's a role that they put on

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