HOMESCHOOLING + WORK FROM HOME MOM? SUMMER PLANS, SPENDING, MARRIAGE & KIDS | HUSBAND & WIFE Q&A 

We have been homeschooling for 4 years now. One of the best decisions we’ve made. We use Masterbooks. My 10 and 7 year old are done school by lunch. My 16 year old is finished within 4 hours. It’s made our Christian faith even stronger. ❤️

The biggest thing that makes homeschooling hard is if you try to replicate the “school” at home. It makes it so much harder. You have to tweak things to work for your family

Yes, please share your simple dinner recipes! I’m looking for some as well!

We started off sending our children to Christian school but now we have 7 children, homeschooling has become a more affordable option. I was really unsure how homeschooling would work for our family but it has become a blessing. Wonder if I should be vlogging our journey? 😅

Oh we defiantly need more of these type of videos!! Just you and Ethan talking and teasing each other!! ❤

Big fan of homeschooling over here. The good and the beautiful is a great curriculum, is very through but less teacher intensive than Abeka, and look into a local homeschool co-op. 🥰

Salt on watermelon here! That budget question cracked me up 😂

I’ve been homeschooling for 8 years, going into our 9th. Best decision ever. A must is finding a great co-op to get involved with. We love masterbooks. Most days we finish school within 4 hours.

Homeschooling 100%, you will look back and never regret that extra time you had with your kiddos! I think you would make an excellent homeschooling mom ❤ Also, no salt! Haha. Great video! Thanks for sharing 😊

I'm right there with you with spending/eating out so much....I would love to see "what's for dinner" especially since summer is here and the grills are out☀️🩵

We have always homeschooled and have a 1st, 7th and 11th grader. We are part of an academic co op that meets every week where they take academic classes as well as the fun things such as christmas party, valentines exchange, science fair ect. We have about 65 families. One thing I would encourage you is dont feel like you have to duplicate public school at home. Make it your own. Praying for clarity ❤

I just love when you do a Q&A like this. Thank you for all you do for us to provide so much inspiration. Your videos are so good and the content s excellent. You truly are one of the most beautiful families on You Tube and so authentic and genuine. Your children are the sweetest and I love the peeks we get of them with all they're doing. I am glad you are looking to grow your channel. Sending love and blessings your way! 😊❤ Never tried salt on watermelon. Hmmmmm!

I have been homeschooling for 4 years now, I absolutely love it, wouldn’t have it any other way, but I’m not going to sugarcoat it, it’s also very hard sometimes, especially if you have multiple children. But the best part is I can teach my children to help with so much chores, we’re always working together, cooking, baking, cleaning, laundry ets, it’s so much fun. Definitely a huge blessing for our family.

It’s every one choice about schooling their children. You do whats best for your family. Love yr channel. Hope to see more videos when you have time.

You and Ethan are such a great couple and great role models for other young newly marrydes or young parents. You would do great at making relationship videos with Ethan.

I feel like homeschooling is where your heart is! Which means you would be amazing at it. Homeschooling is a lot of work but also has a huge opportunity for success! If Eithen is hesitant just make sure you exceed his expectations - which I'm sure you will! You got this!

We homeschool and use ACE Curriculum it’s comparable to Abeka. My husband is a ACE graduate and he is incredibly smart and we are loving it for our kids.

I love these kind of videos. I feel like our families are a lot alike lol yes salt goes on water melon 🍉 happy memorial day

We have been homeschooling for 10 years and don’t regret it at all! It’s the best thing for our family. We used Abeka for years and still use it for some subjects. Love it! I pray you find peace with your decision for school next year ❤

We are believers… as Baptist as you can get 😂 and we love us some Halloween around here. You won’t catch us participating in witchcraft and all that nonsense but we are trick or treating and making jackolanterns all October long! As a 90s baby Halloween is SO nostalgic bc it felt like something us kids waited for ALL year long back in those days 😂

We have decided to homeschool next year! It’s a decision we have been talking about for a while and some stuff happened at my oldest school that pushed us to make that decision sooner than we thought but now we are very excited for it!

I'm a single mom of 4 kids ages 8yrs down to 1yr and it is hard but I love homeschooling my kids and you will be amazed at how much learning you’ll be able to do by jist doing life and how many different curriculums are out there that will allow you to personalize your kids' education

When you have more than 2 kids, having a 1 kid day is definitely a break 😂 we have 3 and rarely get alone time. We have been homeschooling for going in 5 years, I've used Abeka math, but we use other curriculum as well. It's worth looking into other curriculum if you think Abeka is too much. (I'm currently in love with BJU which is Christian based as well). I can typically get thru with school in about 2 hrs with both my 9yo & 7yo. And older kiddos can start working on their independent things as well which saves time. Do what works for your family! I agree there's no right or wrong, everyone has their own way and I've worked beside people for a long time and never knew they were homeschooled vs public school vs private school. Something to keep in mind. 🙂 praying for clarity for you guys!

Definitely love salt on watermelon 🍉! Our children went to public school and they did great. My niece went to a private school and did great also. Just pray about it and I believe God will lead you both on what to do. Our children was in baseball and one in cheerleading we just had to make the time because they loved it. But travel ball is a very time consuming thing and gets very expensive in my opinion. My son made all stars every year and that was the only time we had to travel which was mainly local towns near us. I would definitely do that again. I loved watching him play and our daughter was cheerleading and we loved that also. So glad to see Ethan again!

Hi, Hailey! So I homeschooled our twins for kindergarten, first and most of the second grade. We used Abeka and had a good experience with it. Our plan was to homeschool as long as we could, and then put our kids into a Christian school. But then we learned that one of our twins had severe dyslexia, and he needed the services of the local public school. Fortunately for us, we live in a small town, and the public school here is the best of the best! Most of the teachers and administrators are Christian, and we feel good about them attending there. They are now going into the eighth grade this Fall, and will likely finish high school there if nothing changes. All that being said, it is true that you have so much more control over your children’s education if you homeschool. I really think it just depends on whether it works for your family, what the Christian schools are like there and if they are affordable to you. As a Christian, my last choice would be Public school unless you have a stellar one like we do. I feel like if you guys pray about it over the summer, you will make the right decision.🙏

Smaller trips are so much fun, and the ones you have in mind sound great!

Best decision our family ever made was pulling our kids from public school!! We have 4 kids as well and the best piece of advice I could give you is homeschool isn’t supposed to look like “regular” school. When we started I thought we had to do everything every day and it was so stressful! Relax, enjoy the moments and it will all work out! My kids are thriving and we are very relaxed. Good luck!

Absolutely loved this video! You two are such a sweet couple and have a precious family. I doubt I would ever try to film with my husband and myself because we would not get a long so well. But I love seeing you two together in a video. We also homeschooled our children. All 4 I have now graduated 3 of the 4. It’s not for everyone and it takes a lot of dedication from the main one that is doing the teaching. Good luck! And great video!!!

My two older boys went all the way through public school. My younger two are homeschooled. We are ending our 4 the year and I never ever want to do it any other way again! You won't regret it! And I'd say ESPECIALLY if you would use Abeka like they already use in private school then why not! You'd save so much money and get that time with your babies. But you guys are such wonderful parents,whatever you do, I know it'll be best for your sweet kids.❤

So in our State (Indiana) we have a voucher program at our Christian private school. Not all private schools have it but with the voucher program school was only going to be $80/ month for my son. But we always chose homeschool as best for our family ❤ we loved Abeka but couldn't afford it so we do free curriculums such as The Good and the Beautiful and Easy Peasy Homeschool, both are christian based!

Try sheetpan chicken and veggies. Mccormicks seasoning packets at Walmart. Really easy and good! I use chicken thighs.

You should do a Q&A with Delaney and Wren

We have loved homeschool ❤❤ my boys enjoy time for learning and we have done good and the beautiful

This was a great video with you and Ethan. I loved the budget part. I laughed out loud at that!! 😂😂

Hey Friend, Happy Friday. Awww I love how Ethan talked to one of your friends to get your number so cute. 😊 I think saving more spending less is a goal that all of us have. 😊 There’s nothing wrong with wanting something different for your kids. When I was growing up my parents wanted me and my sister to do something different than they did. They wanted us to go to college and get our dream job. My mom never got to finish high school because she got pregnant at 16. 😊❤

Loved this video. Ethan is so funny! I don’t think I’ve ever watched a q&a with you guys. Loved it!! You are so cute together. And Ethan I loved the budget comment and the burger fight!!

We love The Good and The Beautiful and Easy Peasy for homeschool. I have heard great things about Abeka and I may incorporate that when my younger kiddos are kindergarten age. Mayo only on my burger, but my hubby and my kids like mustard. Yes to salt on the watermelon. Our kids are divided on that one. Sometimes they like salt, other times they do not. Hubby is 100% NO to salt on watermelon. 😂 We recently saw a TikTok about putting lemon juice on watermelon. We tried it and hubby LOVES it. I was not a fan and will stick to salt. 😂

We are homeschooling family, we use abeka dvds and love it. But you also have to pick and choose sometimes bc abeka is made for a school environment and sometimes it’s just to much. You just have to be scheduled, especially the more kids you have. I’ve found that’s the personally the best way to manage it all. Some kids just need the school atmosphere, you just have to pray about what’s best for your family. Homeschooling is very expensive as well and it keeps rising, I think school in general you have to budget out and decided what you want to spend money on, smaller vacations, not as many to budget schooling out. We’ve had to go on one “big” family vacation a year but then several smaller zoo trips and smaller cheaper things in order to budget for schooling and it’s worth it. My son is entering his senior year and it’s flown by, and I don’t regret giving up things to stay home and homeschool, and God blesses you for doing what he wants for your family. Just keep praying.

Definitely find a good co op! We love the flexibility and experiences that homeschool has given us! Abeka is very time intensive, we are done with homeschool around noon every day 😊. Best of luck!

I homeschool/unschool my 10 year old, it’s our first year and I absolutely love it. Unschooling is easy in California, not sure what your requirements are in your state but something to look into.

I loved this post so funny when you both laughed when someone asked “does Ethen have you on a budget!! Too funny! You have a beautiful family! Love ur posts. ❤

This is so awesome. I have been homeschooling for 16 years and love it. My oldest two kids are homeschool graduates, and they are thriving in their studies/jobs. This upcoming school year, I will have five homeschool students. It is so exciting to learn beside your children.

Yes please I would love to see your dinner ideas also I love how Ethan and you joke around together he needs to be on this more like before.love your channel Fun fact my daughter says we look alike

Such a sweet couple & family! ❤ Yay for cutting down on eating out. 🎉That's my biggest money saving tip I tell everyone. We only do it for birthdays and it literally saves us thousands 💰 each year. 😅No salt on watermelon! 🍉 I love mustard too especially honey mustard 💛🤎and spicy brown. mustard. 📚 I homeschooled both my thru high school while working part-time at a church. We used Abeka. We loved it. Such great memories. Miss those days. 😊

Our lifestyles are very similar. We homeschooled our 2 oldest at the same time you did with Delaney, then sent them back to in person, then pulled our oldest back out for middle school last year and that's been amazing for her. My second oldest does not want to be homeschooled and loves being in person. I do have to say I couldn't imagine homeschooling my older 3 with my youngest at home and working from home. I don't work and my oldest and I have to be very regimented to make sure we're still not working on school when my husband gets home. It takes a lot of effort on my part to stick to a schedule even though homeschooling is suppose to be more freeing. I'd suggest having a plan B if you do homeschool if one of your kids comes up to you and says they'd rather be at school. Some people are willing to take them out, but not put them back in if they ask. Hopefully the answer for your family comes in crystal clear for you soon!😊

The library always has fun reading programs, vacation bible school, Groupon always has discounts on great wolf lodge and the movies and lots of other things. Over the years we did day trips, we couldnt ever afford vacation.

We are a homeschooling family. I have 7 kiddos ranging from 6-19. We use Abeka for elementary and a mix of things for middle school and high school. We love the flexibility that homeschooling allows but most of all we love that we are in control of what they learn. We do attend a Christian co-op. A couple of our girls play on a homeschool softball league and another plays travel softball. It’s not easy but it has been the best decision for our family. Praying for you as you seek The Lords guidance. I know it isn’t an easy decision to make.

This video was so cute! Love your channel and thank you for sharing all that you do! You’re such an inspiration!! Also, I’m with you Hailey no salt on watermelon 🍉 lol! What does taste delicious on watermelon or making a fruit salad is squeezing one lemon juiced - a couple tablespoons of honey and some chopped fresh basil over the fruit salad! It is divine!

Camping is sooo fun! But you get the hang of it after a few trips! And once you stock it, all the stuff stays.

We love our camper and camping. The kids enjoy it so much. A lot of our family has campers so we all go together. It’s allowed us to travel a lot more. Campgrounds are so much cheaper and we were able to get a used camper and pay it off quickly 😊❤ we are also a homeschool family so we are able to camp all year when it’s less crowded since we make our own schedule 😀

We are going to be homeschooling next year, and used abeka for 2 years the amount of seat work was overwhelming. I'll have 5 to homeschool next year and looking for something with less paper.

What a great picture of you and Ethan. Y'all are a beautiful couple with great kids.

Hi Hailey, I know I am a bit biased but I think homeschooling is a great idea. This coming year our last of seven children will be graduating. We began our homeschool in 1998. It hasn’t always been easy but the Lord said, “go” and I went. He said, “finish “ so I will. 😊 Yes, it sounds like you were trying to do everything and I understand that. I did at the beginning as well. You can pick and chose within the curriculum. Have them to learn what matters and then the rest they can learn within those subjects what they are interested in. A Beka is great and thorough but can be very challenging to a fault for a lot of families if tried to be down to the letter. Thanks for sharing your sweet little family!

We did homeschooling and public. My kids say they liked it all. All 3 are successful today. I always enjoy your videos 🎉💛

I just want to say I absolutely adore you and your beautiful family and your content.

Take the kids to Charleston! You could do a day at the beach, visit the SC aquarium and take a boat ride to Ft Sumter.

I love that your content focuses on you and not your kids. I wouldn't be on RU-vid trying to relax or get tips if I just wanted to watch kids play all day lol! I would just watch my own 3 if I wanted to watch kids 😛

Cal being funny lol.iv been loving your family when dalaney was 1 or 2.im raising my 4 grand children by myself ages boy 3,girls 4,7,9.

Your whole family would love the real good breaded chicken strips from Costco. Low carb, chick pea breading but tastes like chick filet.

I'm with Ethan - need a plan. And creating a budget as a family then sticking to it for rest of the year might be a really cool video series for the channel. With the family size you guys have - travel ball is not available....just unrealistic. I agree with you guys. Maybe you can get her softball lessons or softball camps to keep her skills sharp, if she would like that. Sorry Ethan - no salt on watermelon.

Fun video guys!! Yes, i love salt on watermelon but with high pressure now, I just eat it plain. Oh, and the same with cantaloupe. I have been around so long that I remember Ethan love's Sloppy Joe's but Hailey, you haven't mentioned having them on the menu in a long time.

I agree like you on Halloween. I loved it when I was little.

This was fun to watch 😍. No salt on our watermelon in my family 😂😂

Okay when I met my husband he had watermelon with salt body was crazy. Actually pretty good sometimes I will eat it that way it just brings out the sweetness a little more I've even tried The salt on my mango. Yum

i do homeschool but its through a charter school and its awesome and we loved it last year. His charter school was awesome my son had classes from 8am to 11:55 with 10 minute breaks in between classes then had a hour lunch break 11:55 to 12:55 then twice a week after lunch they do art and pe then the rest of the afternoons were his.

I am so grateful I chose to homeschool. My oldest is going to 9th grade and has never been in public school. My youngest has ADHD so its a challenge but I still think worth it. If you do choose to homeschool, my kids hated Abeka because it was so much work (after 2nd grade-it is GREAT for K-1 phonics). Masterbooks was too little work, IMO. If you and your kids like reading, I recommend The Good and the Beautiful. All mentioned are Christian, FYI,

Have you ever heard of Trim Healthy Mama, it might give you some dinner ideas for the whole family.

Here in WV the state had a scholarship called the Hope scholarship for families that want to send their kids to private school. It’s 4,500 per child. You just have to been enrolled at least 45 days in public school Or public virtual. Good thing for families.

😊my daughter(13) my son(8) are named Hailey and Ethan lol Love your channel!

Great video Hailey enjoy your evening with family 💖

We are entering our 5th homeschool year, we did abeka academy this past school year and will be doing parent led this school year.

You two are so adorable!❤. Growing up in AR I always ate salt on my watermelon but not so much anymore! I usually only use ketchup on my fries!

I homeschooled my kids during the middle school years. Our schools were terrible. Bullying, not great education either. Its hard to learn when your being bullied and have other problems. I wish i had never let my kids go to high school. That was a mistake. Anyway it's great to be 100% in charge of your kids education. Unfortunately the colleges arent much better as ive learned. You have to do whats right for your family. You'll make the right decision. You can also involve your kids in picking out their curriculum a little.

Salt on watermelon is amazing!! Some put sugar on it but I haven't tried that but have heard it's good.

Same on the roast! That would be one of my favorite meals and my husband won’t eat it. He doesn’t like meat that is fall apart tender. Crazy!

I homeschool. Second generation homeschooler here. We LOVE IT! But i don’t recommend abekas video curriculum. I reccoemend using your own curriculum or the abeka grade kit without the videos. The videos are sooooo long!

Always enjoy these chatty vlogs. Have enjoyed seeing your channel grow over the years. Both my boys went to our local primary school where I worked until age 11 then one son went to our local senior comprehensive school till 18 and did well & went to university after for 3 years. Other son went to All boys Grammer school till 18 after passing the entrance exams and also did well and went to university for 3 years. So I think a child will do well if they have the ambition and work ethic and hopefully good teachers. Both public schools. I think home schooling would be a lot with 4 children at different education levels and with your house being the place of school it may be hard to do you housework and also film for RU-vid etc. I think Ethan has more apprehension about it than you but I suppose you would be doing the education so I agree it’s a hard decision. If you tried and it didn’t work you could just review the situation? Hard decisions for you. Xx

Always love your videos and your Q&As. I love to go to a all inclusive island someday and go back to Disney again. We do public school here mostly bc I work and my husband both work full time and it's too expensive for both to go to private but my dad was a public school teacher so just always felt more comfortable there. I'm sure you'll figure out what will end up being best as well. 😊

I love your workout shoes! What style are they? 🫶

Does your private school offer scholarships? I know the one I went to growing up did that for some families!

Yes to salted watermelon! And, I would encourage you to explore other curriculums. The beauty of homeschooling is the opportunity to tailor it specifically to your family and each kid (especially in math and language arts). I've seen lots of people give up because they tried to make it look like "school". It was a real hurdle for my husband when our kids days weren't PACKED from 8 to 2, but after 4 plus years he's seen them blow their classroom retention rates out of the water.

Not sure if your private school is attached to your church which could be tricky but my aunt homeschooled with church friends. Each mom taught certain things to a small group/all the kids and then switched off so they didn't teach all day every day. They'd pull in people with special skills- science person taught chem (high school) someone taught Latin...doesn't have to be every day. For younger children could match up age levels so you aren't teaching 3 kids at different levels all day every subject.

I agree 100% with Ethan: salt on watermelon and ketchup and mayo on burgers!😂

I agree with the no travel ball and love salt on watermelon!

I love watching yall, hailey your hair has gotten so long

Im in same boat. I have been praying for the Lord to direct me in the right path for my daughters schooling. I feel like i jsut ened to make the jimp to homeschool and have faith God will take care of all of it but stkll makes me nervous.

No salt on watermelon for me 😂 I didn’t even know people did that until I met my friend at my last job, she did it and was like whatttttt 😅 I went to a private catholic school until 5th grade and then my parents switched me over to public school. I honestly liked both and have no regrets. Hope you get some clarity on it soon ❤

Salt on any melon! lol it just brings out the flavor to me. Not too much just a little.

You’re so close to 75k!!! Long time viewer here.

Why not just scale back RU-vid if you can’t do that and homeschool? Just skip the extra trips and Disney etc? It’s totally doable. We live on just my husbands income. Can we do vacations and trips all the time? No. Do we eat out often? No. Do I get my hair down etc? No. But for us it’s worth it :) you can make it work if you want. The first year would be a learning process, but give yourself grace.

hahahhaa Ethan is hilarious love you guys together 💜

I homeschool. My daughter is in 8th grade. I used abeka for many years never did all of it ..cut a lot out and she has excelled just fine . Also if I could go back I'd just concentrate on reading and math and then read a lot of "whole" books for the other subjects....until 4th or 5th grade ...that will cut back on your time involvement some till you get through the younger ones being a little older. Wish I was closer to help you get it all started and with some encouragement! I'm in Ohio ..you definitely sound like you are a southern girl!

I've been trying to figure out when education became such a controversial topic. Your video has given me insight about how the pandemic gave families more choices about schooling their children.

Such a sweet couple!!!

I don't care for ketchup on a burger either Hailey, no salt on watermelon, but I also eat my corn on the cob plain, no butter

Love country music. However, NOT todays country. Im classic country all the way. It was so nice to hear Ethan talk a little bit.

Livermush is the best!! Livermush, egg,tomato and mayo 😋!!!

Loved this Q&A!

Loved your video!! Please tell Ethan that salt on watermelon is delicious!! 😊😂

My favorite family to watch.