Making Everyday Magic: The Podcast
Sep 12, 2026 · 18 min · 13 segments
What did you think homeschooling would look like before you actually started? Because I can tell you... mine did **not** look like this. In this episode, I'm talking about the space between our…
I got them.
How's it gonna go? I do not know, but we will.
We will for sure figure it out.
I know.
that you can relate, right? You see a new thing and it looks awesome, you see 10 things and they all look awesome and you wanna do them and you wanna do them now, we've talked about that recently, and it all looks great and it all looks wonderful and it's so cool and obviously everybody's gonna love it and everybody's gonna do these great jobs and look, oh, here's a new art thing and oh, look at this class, we can do that class too and oh, there's this homeschool event during the day and we should do that too.
and you have planned exactly 14 years worth of homeschool stuff into three days, and that is, that is, that is, that is not possible, okay? That is homeschool idealism, right? You think that you're gonna have a Pinterest-worthy room, and it's gonna be awesome, and it's gonna smell like roses for some reason, and it will be good, and it will be wonderful, and everybody's gonna get up on time, and we're all gonna get started, and your kids are never gonna have a hiccup in their learning journey, Nobody's going to be dyslexic.
Everybody's going to read well.
Nobody's going to need to snack.
Definitely not 15 snacks.
They definitely don't have to pee 47 times.
It's going to be great.
It's all going to go to plan.
And that's how it works, right? Because this is homeschool.
This is homeschool.
This is how homeschool goes.
Except that's idealism.
And realism is not idealism.
Realism is that everybody needs basically 100% the opposite of everything I just said.
And that is where... we actually live.
The problem is, and it's just like a birth plan.
It is just like a birth plan, right? It's gonna be wonderful and the baby's just gonna fly out of there after one push.
But in actuality, you have like placental abruption and people have to have surgeries and everybody almost dies.
So it's just kind of like that, where you wonder what happens and then you have a weird grieving process.
It is hard, hard, especially when you're first starting.
I like to think I'm a little better at it now, but I'm not.
I got them.
How's it gonna go? I do not know, but we will.
We will for sure figure it out.
I know.
that you can relate, right? You see a new thing and it looks awesome, you see 10 things and they all look awesome and you wanna do them and you wanna do them now, we've talked about that recently, and it all looks great and it all looks wonderful and it's so cool and obviously everybody's gonna love it and everybody's gonna do these great jobs and look, oh, here's a new art thing and oh, look at this class, we can do that class too and oh, there's this homeschool event during the day and we should do that too.
and you have planned exactly 14 years worth of homeschool stuff into three days, and that is, that is, that is, that is not possible, okay? That is homeschool idealism, right? You think that you're gonna have a Pinterest-worthy room, and it's gonna be awesome, and it's gonna smell like roses for some reason, and it will be good, and it will be wonderful, and everybody's gonna get up on time, and we're all gonna get started, and your kids are never gonna have a hiccup in their learning journey, Nobody's going to be dyslexic.
Everybody's going to read well.
Nobody's going to need to snack.
Definitely not 15 snacks.
They definitely don't have to pee 47 times.
It's going to be great.
It's all going to go to plan.
And that's how it works, right? Because this is homeschool.
This is homeschool.
This is how homeschool goes.
Except that's idealism.
And realism is not idealism.
Realism is that everybody needs basically 100% the opposite of everything I just said.
And that is where... we actually live.
The problem is, and it's just like a birth plan.
It is just like a birth plan, right? It's gonna be wonderful and the baby's just gonna fly out of there after one push.
But in actuality, you have like placental abruption and people have to have surgeries and everybody almost dies.
So it's just kind of like that, where you wonder what happens and then you have a weird grieving process.
It is hard, hard, especially when you're first starting.
I like to think I'm a little better at it now, but I'm not.
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