S5 Ep178: Back to School Challenges with MacKenzie and Katie
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie talks with her good friend Katie Duckett about the challenges and changes of heading into the school year amidst the pandemic. They talk about being honest with what the school year is going to look like and how to make the best of difficult situations while valuing relationship with your children.
- How Katie’s school year is changing this year from what her family was expecting
- Check out MacKenzie’s Lovely Homeschool Course for help scheduling in the way that Katie talks about
- Katie’s struggle with burnout and changing seasons in her homeschooling journey
- MacKenzie talks about making the adjustment to public school with her kids
- Learning to trust God with your children when everything feels out of control
Even now, with all of this being out of our control, we know that God is in control.
Katie Duckett- Watching your children rise up and learn resilience, fortitude, and perseverance
- Katie talks about watching her boys deal with the disappointment of team sports being delayed
- The challenge of setting a tone of love and joy at home when you don’t really feel it
- Taking care of yourself and using some shortcuts to save your sanity
- Katie shares the verses that centered her homeschool in the past and that she wants to be the focus going forward:
- Philippians 2:12-13
- 2 Timothy 1:14
You can find Katie Duckett on Instagram @may_these_arrows_fly.
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| 0:00.0 | I just think it's a child by child thing and that even now, like with all of this being out of our control, we know ultimately God is in control. |
| 0:09.9 | He's not going to lose one of these little kids'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, |
| 0:30.1 | we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more |
| 0:34.7 | lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite |
| 0:54.3 | places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me |
| 0:59.4 | today. Ladies, I have one of my best gal friends back again today on the show with me, Katie |
| 1:05.8 | Duckett, and we are talking all about the craziness of this year. But not only the crazy, how we are trying to shift our perspective and overcome the challenges that this year is so packing on top of us. |
| 1:18.1 | Brainstorming solutions with Katie always does my heart good. |
| 1:21.5 | And I know that this episode is going to do your guys' hearts good as well. |
| 1:25.8 | And I'm really excited because Katie and I are cooking up |
| 1:29.0 | some serious loveliness for this fall. While right now through the month of August, we're doing |
| 1:34.7 | a whole bunch in Patreon to be getting us ready for September. Katie and I are going to bring |
| 1:40.2 | the overdose of lovely in September so that we can all thrive and not just completely |
| 1:46.2 | burn out in the craziness that is coming. She has so many beautiful, wonderful ideas that I can't |
| 1:52.7 | wait to help bring to all of you guys. In fact, the very first episode of season six, which will be |
| 1:57.8 | the first week of September, is going to be packed with all the loveliness. |
| 2:01.7 | And if you want to go even deeper with that, then we would love to have you come join us in |
| 2:06.3 | Patreon. You guys, we're going to need the lifelines right now to get through this school season. |
| 2:11.8 | So come and join us. Let us help you get organized and then infuse your life with loveliness |
| 2:17.0 | to not only help you, |
| 2:18.6 | but your family as well, as this is going to be a challenging season, but we can make it so much |
| 2:23.9 | better. We can change our perspective. We can come together and encourage one another, and we want |
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