She is standing at her kitchen sink at 7:43 in the morning, still in the oversized sweatshirt she slept in, already mentally writing and rewriting the school day before her feet are fully on the ground. There are three kids in that house. Maybe four. A five-year-old who asks a thousand questions before breakfast and a seven-year-old who will negotiate literally anything to avoid sitting down for math. A toddler somewhere in the background who is either playing quietly or about to do something catastrophic. She made the choice to homeschool because she believed it could be something beautiful, and on the good days it is. On the hard days it looks nothing like what she imagined when she said yes to this. **She is not a quitter and she is not uninformed.** She has done the research. She has bought the curriculum, joined the Facebook groups, downloaded the freebies, and rebuilt her whole approach at least twice. She is somewhere between late twenties and early forties, her household runs on one income, and she weighs every single purchase before she makes it. She is not looking for something that promises to transform her life overnight. She has been burned by that before. What she is looking for is something that will actually work on a normal Tuesday, with her actual kids, in her actual kitchen, without requiring her to become a different person first. She wants to watch her kids learn together around the same table, all three of them leaning in at once, nobody waiting on the sidelines. She wants to close her laptop on Sunday night without the knot in her stomach that comes from having nothing ready for Monday. **She wants to be their mom again, not just their exhausted, stretched-too-thin teacher.** That feeling, the one she had when she first imagined what homeschooling could be, is still there. She has not given up on it. She is just really, really ready for something that helps her get there.

Congratulations!!!

☝️THIS!!!! I totally agree! I joined the champagne room the first time I did the challenge on a whim and it was the best part of the challenge by a mile... Which is saying something because the challenge itself is awesome too. But the conversations that happened in the champagne room were SO helpful in understanding and implementing what we were learning every day. I definitely recommend it!!!