In this engaging interview with second-generation homeschooler Julie from Mama to Five, she opens up about the transformative journey of homeschooling while emphasizing the importance of family health and fitness. Julie reflects on how her approach to home education has evolved over the years, discusses the daily rewards and struggles of homeschooling, and shares practical strategies for busy moms to improve their family’s nutrition, incorporate movement, and spend more time outdoors. She also tackles common misconceptions about fitness and healthy eating, offering realistic, budget-friendly tips for homeschooling families. Whether you’re navigating homeschooling or looking to improve your family’s well-being, this conversation is filled with practical insights and encouragement.
- Homeschool Learning Beyond the Bookwork
- Homeschooling with connection and flexibility
- Prioritizing Health and Fitness as Homeschool Families
- Small, manageable changes for busy homeschool moms
- Misconceptions about health and fitness
- Key takeaways
- Listen to the full podcast episode “Health and Wellness for Busy Homeschoolers with Julie from Mama to Five” on Homeschool Conversations with Humility and Doxology
- Find Julie online
- You may also enjoy:
- Check out all the other interviews in my Homeschool Conversations series!
{This post contains paid links. Please see disclaimer.}
Homeschool Learning Beyond the Bookwork
Julie from “Mama to 5” is a second-generation homeschooler living in Canada. She was homeschooled from kindergarten through grade 12 and now homeschools her own five children, ranging from grade 9 to grade 1. Julie is passionate about health, fitness, and making sure her family stays active with daily movement and healthy eating. She emphasizes that raising children is a mother’s most important ministry, and her family’s foundation is their faith in Jesus. Julie and her husband Andrew, married since 2008, are deeply immersed in the homeschool lifestyle, navigating the journey with kids in high school, middle school, and elementary school.
Julie shares how her homeschooling approach has evolved over the years, especially as her children have grown older. Initially, she focused on having the right curriculum and ticking all the boxes, but over time, she has become more relaxed, especially in the early years of education, realizing that learning goes beyond bookwork. Her confidence as a second-generation homeschooler helps her trust that her children are learning even without the “perfect” resources. Julie emphasizes the importance of fostering a love of learning, recognizing that homeschooling is not an experiment but a proven approach. Her own experience provides her with a deep-rooted confidence, even though she still faces challenges and continues to adapt to the unique needs of her children.
Homeschooling with connection and flexibility
Julie highlights several of her favorite aspects of homeschooling, starting with the deep connection it fosters between her and her children. She treasures the opportunity to spend time with them daily, getting to know their unique personalities and learning styles. Being present for their learning milestones—like reading or grasping math concepts—is incredibly rewarding. The flexibility of homeschooling also plays a significant role in her family’s life, allowing them to schedule vacations around her husband’s shift work, like their annual September road trip. This adaptability and the closeness with her children are what make homeschooling especially meaningful for her.
Julie acknowledges that while homeschooling offers many blessings, it also comes with its challenges. One of the biggest is the constant togetherness with her children, which can sometimes lead to clashes and requires patience and grace. Despite being a second-generation homeschooler, Julie still experiences doubts about whether she’s doing enough, from choosing the right curriculum to ensuring her kids develop essential life skills. As her children get older, particularly with her oldest entering high school, she faces the challenge of balancing multiple educational levels and dividing her time between all her kids. Julie relies on schedules and time management to navigate these demands, though she admits homeschooling with older children is easier than when they were toddlers. Overcoming these challenges involves trusting that homeschooling is what God has called her to do, even when doubts arise.
Prioritizing Health and Fitness as Homeschool Families
Julie emphasizes the importance of prioritizing health and fitness within homeschool families, highlighting that parents need to model healthy habits for their children. She believes that children learn by observing their parents’ choices, whether it’s exercising, spending time outdoors, or making healthier food decisions. Physical activity is also essential for children’s mental function and overall well-being. Julie sees maintaining health as a key to longevity and believes that caring for our bodies, as God’s creation, is part of a holistic approach to life, complementing the spiritual and educational aspects of homeschooling.
Small, manageable changes for busy homeschool moms
Julie suggests that busy homeschool moms can improve their family’s nutrition, movement, and outdoor time by focusing on small, manageable changes rather than attempting an all-or-nothing approach. She recommends “habit stacking,” where moms can build new habits onto existing ones, like going outside for 20 minutes after breakfast or setting an alarm 15 minutes earlier for a light workout. For nutrition, Julie suggests simple improvements, such as adding vegetables to meals. Amy adds that it’s important to avoid the pressure of perfection and to do what is feasible, trusting that small efforts can still have a positive impact over time. Both emphasize the importance of making gradual changes that are sustainable and realistic.
Misconceptions about health and fitness
Julie believes that a common misconception about health and fitness is that you need energy to work out, but in reality, exercise gives you energy. She emphasizes that it’s not easy to get up and start exercising, but the energy boost and revitalization that follow make it worthwhile. Another misconception is that healthy eating is expensive. Julie explains that while prepackaged, organic foods can be costly, it’s possible to eat healthily on a budget by cooking from scratch, buying seasonal produce, and making simple switches, like choosing whole wheat bread over white. Amy adds that kids can get involved in cooking or baking, which can help save time and improve family nutrition.
Key takeaways
- Evolving Homeschool Philosophy: Julie’s approach to homeschooling has become more relaxed over the years, recognizing that learning goes beyond traditional bookwork and that children thrive in diverse learning environments.
- Confidence from Experience: As a second-generation homeschooler, Julie benefits from the confidence gained through her own successful homeschooling experience, which helps her navigate uncertainties in her current homeschooling journey.
- Value of Connection: Homeschooling allows for deeper connections with children, giving parents the opportunity to understand their children’s unique personalities and learning styles intimately.
- Embracing Flexibility: One of the significant advantages of homeschooling is flexibility, which enables families to schedule vacations and activities that fit their unique rhythms and lifestyles.
- Challenges of Constant Togetherness: While being with children all day is rewarding, it can also lead to challenges, such as personality clashes and the need for patience and self-reflection.
- Balancing Multiple Ages: Homeschooling multiple children at different educational levels presents challenges in time management, requiring structured schedules and prioritization of subjects to support each child’s needs.
- Importance of Health and Fitness: Prioritizing health and fitness is crucial for homeschool families, as parents serve as role models for their children, showing them the importance of physical activity and healthy eating.
- Small Steps Toward Wellness: Busy homeschool moms can improve their family’s nutrition and activity levels by making small, manageable changes, such as habit stacking daily activities or introducing healthy snacks gradually.
- Misconceptions about Energy and Health: Many believe that one needs to have energy to work out, but in reality, exercising can provide the energy needed to tackle daily tasks.
- Affordable Healthy Eating: Healthy eating doesn’t have to be expensive; it can be achieved by making simple changes, buying in-season produce, and preparing meals at home rather than relying on costly prepackaged options.
Listen to the full podcast episode “Health and Wellness for Busy Homeschoolers with Julie from Mama to Five” on Homeschool Conversations with Humility and Doxology
Julie is a second generation homeschool mom of five, living in Canada. They love and serve Jesus in their home, and He is the foundation for their family. Julie is passionate about health and fitness, and places a priority on healthy foods, getting outside, and moving their bodies each day. She believes that raising children is the most important ministry that God has given to mothers, and she wants to encourage you in motherhood and homeschooling.
Find Julie online
You may also enjoy:
- Made for This: with special guests from the Made2Homeschool Contributor Team
- Start the Homeschool Year Strong: 9 Strategies for Successful Homeschooling
- Budgeting for Homeschool Families with Matt Miner
- Healthy Eating on a Budget with Steph Jenkins
- Made2Homeschool
Check out all the other interviews in my Homeschool Conversations series!
Amy: Hello friends. Today I am joined by Julie from Mama to Five, who is a second generation homeschooler and she lives in Canada. Julie’s family loves and serves Jesus in their home and he is the foundation for their family. Julie is passionate about health and fitness and places a priority on healthy foods, getting outside, making sure her family is moving their bodies every day. Julie believes that raising children is the most important ministry that God has given to mothers and she wants to encourage you in your motherhood and homeschooling. I know that today’s conversation will do just that. I’m really excited to chat with you, Julie, because I haven’t gotten to know you very much, but we’re both part of the team of Maine to Homeschool. This is an excuse. This is really the reason I podcast. It’s an excuse to just talk to cool people. That was like your official bio, but can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your family?
Julie: Sure. Let me just start off by saying I loved getting to know you too. I know we haven’t like talked one on one, but I’m loving watching your Insta stories and just like keeping up to date on your family. It’s been so nice to get to know you too. On top of the little intro you just gave. Yes, I’m a second generation homeschooler. I was homeschooled all the way from kindergarten to grade 12. I come from a large family. There were 10 kids in my family. Now I have my own I think of it as a little large family, like it’s five. I classify us as a large family. To me, I’m like, this is still pretty small. Our kids range in age from grade nine down to going into grade one this fall. We’re doing all the stages, the high school and middle school and elementary school. We’ve been homeschooling all the way. It’s really all that I know as a student myself and as a parent. We’re right in the homeschool world. My husband and I, Andrew is my husband’s name. Oh, why do I always have to think about this before? We got married in 2008. It’ll be 16 years this fall. Yes, we’re in Canada. I think that’s a pretty good representation of me and my family.
Amy: I love talking to other fellow second generation homeschoolers because it is fun to think about your own homeschool experience. Then getting to do things your own unique way with your own family. I think it’s funny that you say like you think of family of five is like a small, large family. It really is such a matter of perspective, right? Because I came from it was just me and my brother. I’m like, wow, look at all these children I have. Wonderful. I was wondering how your personal approach to homeschooling and education has grown or changed over the years. If your experience as a second generation homeschooler has played a role in that at all.
Julie: Yes, I would say every year that goes by, I become I want to say I become a little bit more relaxed. Now, as my oldest entering high school, I’m like, Okay, this is full throttle, like this is serious here. I guess I’ve gotten to just gradually realize, especially in the younger years, like kindergarten, grade one and grade two, just how simple the bookwork needs to be going into homeschooling. It’s like, Okay, what do we need to do? I need to have all the right curriculum and be checking off all the boxes. Then as you start and as you go through the years, I think I’m just a little bit more laid back and realizing like, for one, learning is so much more than the bookwork. I just have underestimated how well my kids learn, even if maybe we don’t have the perfect curriculum or the most expensive curriculum they are learning. We’re here just to foster that and come alongside them and help them out. As far as being a second generation homeschooler, again, I love talking to you as I just I love finding people that are second generation homeschoolers, because I’m like, Okay, back when I was being homeschooled, there was nobody like as far as I was concerned, nobody else was homeschooled. A lot of a lot of what affects me homeschooling now being a second generation homeschooler, I think a lot of it, I don’t even realize it’s just second nature to me. I think it’s just confidence in knowing that this works. The number of homeschooling families I talk to who just they as far as they know, they haven’t met anybody who went through the system, went through the homeschooling system and made it, They feel like they’re almost performing an experiment. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Is this going to work? I think there’s just that confidence deep down, hey, I went through this. I’m Okay. Even more specifically, there are things that I’m doing with my kids that I’m like, Okay, this exceeds my education. there’s always gaps in an education. Right. I’m like, Okay, we’re doing fine because I feel like I’m raising the bar a little bit. Yes, I think just confidence, knowing it’ll be fine.
Amy: Yes, I think I’m so thankful for those parents, especially those moms who were willing to do this crazy new thing, practically without the Internet. Just without having that experience of being able to see it work. I’m very thankful because I feel like it does make it so much easier for us now. Of course, there’s a million more resources and things like that. Even as a second generation homeschooler, I’m sure you’ve had that experience. It doesn’t mean that you’re an expert or you feel like you’ve already figured it out with your own children. They’re different. you’re different from your mom and you’re different. Your family is different. It’s still a process of learning and growing, making mistakes, repenting, moving forward. You have that perspective to know, well, my education, my experience wasn’t perfect either. The Lord still used that. It was still good. It’s Okay if it’s not perfect. Yes. Yes. Julie, what are some of your favorite parts of homeschooling?
Julie: Oh, this is such a tricky one because I just feel like I could say everything. I really enjoy it. there are definitely hurdles and, not so pleasant parts, too. For the most part, I love just being with my kids all the time, just getting to know them deep down, getting to know their personality, understanding how they learn, what, makes them tick. I’m not just waiting for them to get home at night and trying to just fit some little one-on-one time in the evening before they go to bed after school. I get to be there all day. I love that. I also just love just seeing them learn, like something clicks. They learn how to read. They’re sounding out words and they start to learn the basic math facts. It’s just it’s just great to be the one that’s there by their side as they’re learning. The flexibility is huge for us, too. My husband works shift work and, there would just be days where he wouldn’t see them if they were at school. We he and my husband always is able to take time off work in September. That’s been our habit lately is we go on family vacations in September. We do a big road trip. We’re gone for three weeks. That just it works because we can fit that into our schedule, which would be, very difficult without homeschooling. Yes, I guess an endless list. There is there are a few things that I really like.
Amy: Those are all really wonderful parts of homeschooling. I agree. Okay, well, so you said there’s this amazing long list and you just love homeschooling. It’s hard to pick just one thing you love. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe your homeschool is different from mine, but there’s not always good days. Sometimes there are challenging parts of homeschooling, too. What would as a challenge of homeschooling and how do you seek to overcome those challenges?
Julie: Yes, I think some of the parts that are the biggest blessings and advantages of homeschooling can also be the opposite. I am with my kids all the time. That’s a positive. That can be a negative. Right. You’re not getting those breaks and you’re just you’re always together. Sometimes personalities clash and you have to definitely seek the Lord and repent of losing your patience or losing your temper. Again, I stated that I was a second generation homeschooler and there is confidence in that. There is always still a doubt. That’s one thing, a misconception. People will be like, oh, so you’ve got this, you just got it. You just it’s easy for you. It’s like, no, I still doubt at times, wait, did we have do we have all the curriculum we need? Am I spending enough time on this subject? Am I spending enough time just on life skills and teaching manners and all of the things that kids need to learn that are not in their school books? It’s just part of life they need to learn. It’s like, wait, are there gaps that I’m missing here? Again, it’s just coming back to like, no, this is what God’s called us to do here. We’re powering through. It’ll all be fine. Then again, just this year going into going into high school, I think just every year my oldest gets older. obviously every year, but every new grade we reach, there’s just something else like, oh, great. Am I actually equipped to teach this level? Am I actually equipped to teach high school? Am I going to be missing things? What’s the best curriculum for him? Then I would say probably the biggest challenge. You’re in the same boat with your multiple kids in their different ages is just dividing your time amongst all the kids and all their different levels. Your high schooler needs a lot of assistance, but then your little kindergartner also really needs you just to sit there and read to him or help him form his letters. Definitely I am a big. What’s the word I’m looking for? No. Proponent? Proponent? Is that the word? I think so. I have schedules and being organized, so I definitely have a schedule and I’m not crazy strict like we need to follow this. I do have this is what time of day we’re doing this subject so that I can help this child while everybody else does their subject. Then the next, just making sure that the time is time management for myself that I can help the kids who need it most on what subjects they need it most on. definitely multiple kids. I don’t know. I would say it’s a little bit simpler now. I like babies and toddlers. I feel like that is hard school and babies and toddlers. Now that they’re all in school, I’m like new level here. It’s not easy, but it’s, they can all sit and listen and be obedient.
Amy: Yes, it’s a whole new world once they can like go to the bathroom themselves, buckle themselves. Oh, my goodness. Make their own lunch. Yes. Yes. One of the things I was noticing as I have looked at your YouTube channel and even in the bio you sent is that you put an emphasis on health and fitness. I was wondering if you could explore that a little bit. Why do you think that is important to prioritize as homeschool families?
Julie: For me, health and fitness has always been important to me. I’ve always enjoyed exercise and just eating healthy, trying to make good choices. As parents, we need to be models for that for our kids. I think as the saying goes, more is caught than taught. If your kids are seeing that you’re just making a making an effort, making a priority to move your body, maybe spend some time outdoors, go for a walk, just make better choices. In the kitchen, like what you’re buying groceries and all that your kids are learning from you to write and moving your body. Kids need that. Kids need to exercise, too. It helps their brains to be at their best. Obviously, we just all want to make the best effort we can to have health and longevity of life, which is priceless. Right.
Amy: Yes, it’s easy to just focus on the mind and think about education or just pouring in information or even like thinking about our children’s spiritual nourishment. We forget that we’re whole people. Right. God gave us bodies. We’re image bearers. That way, Christ is incarnate in the flesh. Right. That gives value to the actual like physical human body as well. It’s an important thing that it can be easy to overlook. It can be easy to have it as an idol, of course, but it can also be easy to ignore it like it’s not important.
Julie: Yes, exactly. Yes. The spiritual is important, but then the body is not. Right. It’s like, no, the spiritual is more important. God’s given us bodies to care for on this earth. Right.
Amy: I think it can be difficult, though, sometimes as busy homeschool moms to try to figure out how to actually prioritize that. There’s so many things right that are all important, all these things we want to be including in our day. What are some ways that a busy homeschool mom can begin to improve their own or their family’s nutrition, movement, time outdoors, all of those things?
Julie: Hmm. I would say just one small one small change at a time. You’re not going to switch one day from being having an unhealthy lifestyle to having a healthy lifestyle and being really active. Small changes each day. I definitely I heard the term recently of habit stacking. I hadn’t heard that term before, although that is very much what we do. I hadn’t heard that term. That is you have habits in your day. You’re getting up in the morning. You’re having breakfast. You’re having lunch. Those are all habits. If you can stack a habit to that one, layering it or blocking it, I guess, like building blocks, that is a good way for that habit to stick. Okay, we get up in the morning. We have breakfast right after breakfast. We’re going to go outside for 20 minutes and play. Put a timer on or just that will become your habit. After breakfast, we go outside or whatever works for you for your day. That’s just an example. Maybe as a mom, maybe you can set your alarm 15 minutes earlier and just get up in the morning and do a light workout. Find like there are endless videos on YouTube where you can just do you can do some cardio if you really want to get into it. You can do some Pilates if you just want some light movement for your body or go for a walk. Then same with same with health and nutrition, if you can just maybe, Okay, every day we’re going to have some vegetables for lunch or with lunch, not for lunch. Serve, some cucumbers on the side with your sandwich or put lettuce on your sandwich or just making smart choices. Yes, I would say just little changes right each week or every couple of weeks. Just make a make a small switch for your family and that will become a habit.
Amy: I think that’s encouraging to focus on those sort of small changes that you can make over time, because so often it’s easy to fall into like this all or nothing mentality, right? Either I go and run for an hour or I just don’t do anything because like a five minute walk around the block doesn’t count or something like that. Sometimes all you have is the five minutes, the 10 minutes. Just to use the time that you do have. Same thing. I’ve actually told this story. I remember many years while my oldest was probably a toddler at the time. I was doing all this research and like wanting to be healthy, and I was like, we should be eating all organic all the time. The reality was that was just not in our budget. We just couldn’t do that. I had this distinct memory one time of going to the store and like in this sort of miffed mood, oh, if only we could have this food that was going to be so much better for us. I would always go first to the meat where it was like the about to expire meat, and that’s on discount or whatever. I remember going in that time with this horrible rotten attitude in my heart. All of the meat that was marked down was all the organic grass fed, fancy pants. It was like the Lord was reminding me like, I love you. If that is what is your best, if that’s what’s best for you, and I think you need that, I can make sure you can get the nice fancy organic meat or whatever. In the meantime, you need to trust me and do what you can do what’s best. I think sometimes that can that just is a good way of thinking about a lot of these issues. Because we can get all wrapped up in them and just throw it all out. I can’t be perfect at it. I guess I’m just not going to do anything. I like your reminder to just do those small things. What can you fit in? What can you stack?
Julie: Yes, even 10 minutes, right? That’s something. Yes.
Amy: Yes. Do you think there are any misconceptions around this idea of health and wellness? What do you wish other homeschooling moms knew?
Julie: One thing that people will say to me is, I don’t know how you have the energy to work out. I feel like people just don’t understand that you have to push yourself to work out and then you’ll have the energy afterwards. I get up in the mornings. That’s just what works for my schedule is to get up and work out first thing. You better believe I have to drag my butt out of bed every single time because it’s just like, do I want to get up? First thing I do is start lifting weights. No, I would rather just sit on my rear on the couch for sure. You work out and it’s just that it makes you feel so good. It gives you energy to face all the tasks you have for the day as a result of doing that exercise and getting fresh air. It revitalizes you. I can’t talk today. Going outside, go for a walk, get some fresh air, That energy will come after as a result. As far as healthy eating goes, I think one of the misconceptions is that healthy eating is expensive. It can be. if you’re going like you were years ago and trying to find everything organic, it can be expensive. Your prepackaged meals are expensive. A lot of the snacky items like chips and treats and stuff, those are expensive. I think healthy, here’s what I think, healthy eating, if it’s not expensive, it is time consuming. You’re choosing one or the other. You could get all the prepared organic foods and healthy foods that are prepared for you. That’s expensive. You just have to make things yourself. It can be time consuming. You can simplify it. Have some extra fruits and vegetables. If you have time to make your own bread or just make it switch from white bread to whole wheat bread. Just those little things that maybe don’t affect your budget a lot. buying in season fruits and always stocking up when meat is on sale or your dairy products are on sale. It doesn’t have to be expensive. You can make healthier choices within the budget that you already have set.
Amy: The really great thing is if you have a kid who really gets into baking. My daughter a few months ago was like, mom, do you mind if I make all our bread now? Because I used to make bread. This has not been a season of time where that has been a place I’ve been able to invest my time. I was like, oh, sure, Emma, feel free. Feel free. It’s been delicious and nutritious and cost effective too.
Julie: Yes, it’s awesome.
Amy: Julie, this has been really wonderful. Before I move to the final questions, I want to ask you, do you have like a playlist on your YouTube channel related to these topics? If so, I’ll make sure to get those links in the show notes.
Julie: Yes, I need to be better about like making playlists. I do have a playlist called homeschool. It should have all of my homeschool content. Then I actually, so here’s one thing I do have. I post full day of food videos every Wednesday on my channel where I just share what our family eats in a day. I do have a playlist called full day of food. It, I don’t even know how many videos it has. I’m going to say it probably has at least 100 videos of just what we eat in a day if you want to get some meal ideas. Yes.
Amy: Okay, that is great. Yes, I’ll make sure to put that link in the show notes. All right. Here at the end, I’m going to ask you the questions that I ask all my guests this season. The first is just what are you personally reading lately?
Julie: I am on this kick of Kristen Hanna books lately. I just discovered her like two months ago. I think I’ve read, I’m on my third book by her. She’s a fiction author. I haven’t read a lot of fiction because I’ve just been reading a lot of nonfiction lately. I enjoy books on just motherhood and homeschooling and stuff. It’s been fun to read some fiction again. I also just finished listening on audiobook to, I think it was called Take Back Your Family by Jefferson Bethke. That was a really good one. I listened to it over a course of two or three days and just talking about the importance of the family unit and being a team. That was a really good title.
Amy: I think I interviewed Durenda Wilson now through the magic of podcasting. I actually don’t know yet whether that episode will have already gone live when people are listening to this one or not. She had just finished reading that same book. It was one she recommended.
Julie: Oh, very cool. Okay.
Amy: All right. Julie, your final question is what would be your best tip for turning around homeschool day or maybe a homeschool season that just seems to be going completely wrong?
Julie: I wouldn’t say we’ve had homeschool seasons that feel off, but absolutely days. Definitely days. Sometimes that’s kids’ attitudes. Probably more often it’s mom’s attitude, these off days. Right? The kids are just, doing this and that and they’re being mean and rude and all these things. I’m like, yes, and I’m doing all those things, too. I would say on those days, one thing is just going back to the basics. Okay, we’re just going to go sit and read aloud. Reading aloud is just a great – for one, it just brings us all together, We’re all just – no one’s working on their individual subjects. We’re just going to sit. We’re going to read aloud. That draws us closer together doing that. Definitely, again, outside time. We’ll go outside or we’ll go for a walk. I think often we just need a little break from what we were doing at that moment. Yes.
Amy: Yes, I think those are great tips. Especially acknowledging that sometimes it’s mom’s attitude that’s the problem. We like to think it’s the kids.
Julie: Sometimes I just need to say, okay, kids, keep going on your work. I’ve got to go to the washroom or I’ve just got to – whatever. I’ll just go away for a minute or two and, okay, look at the time. Here’s some – I can make it through. I can get through this. Yes, sometimes moms need a little time out, right?
Amy: Yes. Drink some water. Do some jumping jacks. Read a book. Ignore the dishes if you need to.
Julie: Yes. Yes. Get outside with the kids, right? I am very guilty of that where I’m like, kids, go outside. You need to go outside. Then I’m like, I just have so much to do in the house, right? They go outside and I’m doing housework or whatever, but I need to make myself go outside. That just – your perspective can just shift when you’re outside and fresh air and sunshine and just a change of scenery, right?
Amy: Definitely. Then you’re also modeling what you want your children to do too, right? It’s not just do what I say. Yes. This actually is a value. This actually is important for real.
Julie: Yes.
Amy: True. Julie, where can people find you all around the internet?
Julie: Mainly I am on Instagram and YouTube. On YouTube I am mamatofive. Five is written out as a word. You can probably find me if you write out the number 52. Then on Instagram it’s mamatofive. Again, the word T-O-F-I-V-E.
Amy: I will have links to those accounts in the show notes for this episode over at humilityanddoxology.com. Julie, it was just a delight to get to chat with you today, to get to know you and your homeschool a little bit more. If you are listening to today’s podcast, please make sure that you’re subscribed in your podcast app, that you leave a rating and review, that you pass on the episode to a friend you think would be encouraged. If you’re watching on YouTube, make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss future homeschool conversations. Julie, I look forward to chatting with you more in the future. To everyone else, happy homeschooling.
