Many Minds, One Home is a space for parents navigating learning across differences, especially those carrying the weight of many children, many needs, and real-life limits.
I’m a mother of seven, building a flexible learning life shaped by curiosity, one designed to hold an entire family, not just one child or one season. Our home spans public school, special-needs school, and homeschooling. We hold gifted thinkers, struggling readers, curious toddlers, teenagers finding their way, and the daily realities of advocacy, care, and coordination.
My journey into motherhood began early. I was 18 when I had my first child. By 19, he was diagnosed with special needs and epilepsy. I was a single mother learning how to advocate, protect, and make decisions under pressure, often before I fully understood the weight of them.
At 22, I met my husband. Together we welcomed our second child, and I became a stepmother as well. I married him at 23. Today, at 32, we are raising seven children each with their own wiring, needs, questions, and strengths.
For many years, motherhood looked like survival. I learned to build systems because I had to. I learned to think strategically because the margin was thin. But over time, through growth, wisdom, and professional development motherhood stopped being something I had to endure.
It became something I could intentionally shape.
Homeschooling for our family was not an academic experiment. It was a life decision; one rooted in calling, not culture.
In a world where social media and trends are constantly telling children who they need to be, I want to raise kids who can think critically for themselves, lead with confidence, and build their lives on character, faith, and deeply held principles, not comparison or performance.
I let curiosity lead instead of pressure. I believe learning should cultivate discernment, courage, and responsibility, not compliance or constant urgency.
Managing multiple schools, schedules, and expectations left little room for presence, margin, or sustainability. I chose a learning life that allows me to show up for my children, for our home, and especially for moments that require flexibility and care without burning out or outsourcing motherhood just to survive it.
This site is not about perfection, mastery, or selling a system.
It’s about formation.
It’s about discernment.
It’s about building a learning life that holds everyone.
Here, I document what it looks like to walk this out in real time. I share:
- How I think through learning when every child is wired differently
- Why curiosity builds confidence and critical thinking
- What I simplify to reduce overwhelm and distraction
- How I prioritize character and inner confidence over external metrics
- What tools and resources help create margin instead of pressure
I don’t claim to have all the answers. I write as someone in the middle of it; learning, adjusting, asking better questions, and choosing intention over impulse.
You won’t find promises here.
You won’t find shortcuts.
You won’t find a manufactured version of childhood.
You will find honesty, care, and a commitment to raising children who know who they are; and who are learning how to engage the world thoughtfully, not reactively.
Some of the resources shared on this site are affiliate links. I only recommend tools I genuinely consider, use, or believe reduce friction for families navigating multiple needs. These links help support the work of maintaining this space, at no additional cost to you.
If you’re here because you’re moving out of survival mode, or longing to, and you want a learning life shaped by calling, not culture, you’re in the right place.
This is Many Minds, One Home.
Building a learning life that holds everyone.
Many Minds, One Home 