Aug. 18, 2026

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Back to school we are the hansons_mixdown

Back-to-school looks a little different in the Hanson house! With three girls doing K12 online school, the new year begins when those big boxes of books and supplies arrive at the door. Myia shares the realities, challenges, and unexpected joys of learning from home—and why these ordinary school days are worth slowing down to appreciate.

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Back to school season looks a little different in our house.

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We're not standing in the middle of a store with

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three different school supply lists trying to figure out which

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notebook is the right notebook. We're not searching six different

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stores for a particular folder. We're not filling a shopping

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cart with pencils, binders, paper, workbooks and everything else on

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a traditional school supply list. Because our three girls do

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K twelve online public virtual school, and one of the

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coolest parts, everything we need for the school year starts

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showing up right at our house. Boxes, big boxes, boxes

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filled with books, workbooks, supplies, and materials for the year ahead.

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There's something about seeing those boxes arrive that makes it real.

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Summer isn't quite over yet, but a new school year

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is coming, and in our house, back to school doesn't

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necessarily mean walking through the front doors of a school building.

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Sometimes it means opening a box at the kitchen table. Hey, everybody,

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welcome back to We are the Hansens. I'm Maya, and

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today we're talking about something that's happening in our house

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right now, back to school. Except our version of back

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to school might look a little different from yours. We

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have three girls doing K twelve online public virtual school.

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So when August rolls around, we don't have exactly the

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same routine that a lot of families have. Our school

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year starts arriving in the mail, and I have to

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tell you, there's something exciting about seeing those boxes show up.

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You know what's inside, a fresh year, new subjects, new lessons,

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new books, new challenges, and another year of watching our

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girls learn and grow. It's almost like Christmas for school. Well,

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maybe Christmas is pushing it. I'm not sure the girls

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would choose a math work book over an actual Christmas present,

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but there's still something exciting about opening everything up and

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seeing what they've been sent. And doing school online has

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become part of the rhythm of our family. Our girls

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are learning from home, but they're still learning responsibility. They're

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still working through difficult subjects, they're still discovering things they're

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good at. They're still having those moments when something finally clicks,

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and they're still occasionally looking at a lesson like why

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do I need to know this? So don't worry? Some

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parts of school are universal. I think one of my

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favorite parts about preparing for the school year is when

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everything starts arriving you see the delivery, then another package,

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then another bus, and suddenly you're thinking, okay, here we go.

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We start opening everything, books, work books, materials, supplies, all

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the things they need to work through their school year.

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And because there are three girls doing it, organization matters.

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You can't just open everything and throw it into a

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giant pile and hope for the best. Well, technically you can.

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I just wouldn't recommend it because two weeks later somebody

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is going to say, Mom, where's my And that's when

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the fun begins. So we go through everything. Whose materials are,

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who's which? Most of the time they have a name,

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What needs to stay together, Where are we putting all

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these books, What do we need to keep accessible, what

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won't be needed until later. It's our version of preparing

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the class, except the classroom is home. And I really

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like that because their education becomes woven into our everyday

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family life. Sometimes when people hear that children do school

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online from home, I think they imagine kids sitting around

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in pajamas watching videos whenever they feel like it, and yes,

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there might occasionally be pajamas. One of the benefits of

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doing school at home is that nobody is issuing citations

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for fuzzy pajama pants. But there's still work, there's still

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a schedule, there's still live lessons, there's still assignments, there

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are still expectations. And one of the things I like

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about it is that our girls have to learn something

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that's going to matter for the rest of their lives.

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How to manage themselves. When you're working from home, learning

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from home, or building a business from home, nobody is

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necessarily standing over your shoulder every second. You have to

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learn I have responsibilities, I have things that need to

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get done, and I need to do them. That's a

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life skill. Another thing we've learned over the years is

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that no two children learn exactly the same way, and

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when you have a big family, that becomes very obvious.

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We have raised thirteen children. If raising that many kids

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has taught Jeremy and me anything, it's this children are individuals.

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One child might understand something immediately, another needs to see it,

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another needs somebody to explain it, another needs to walk

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away for ten minutes, come back and suddenly it makes sense.

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One child loves a certain subject, another would happily vote

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to remove that subject from education forever. And having our

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three girls doing school from home gives us an opportunity

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to see more of that process. You get to see

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when they're struggling. You also get to see the moment

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they get it. And I love those moments. There's something

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really special about watching your child go from I can't

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do this too. Oh, you can almost see the light bulb.

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Come on, those little victories matter now. I don't want

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to make online school sound like every day is peaceful

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and everybody is sitting quietly with a book while beautiful

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music plays in the background, because come on, this is

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the Hansen House. Some mornings go great. Everybody knows what

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they're supposed to be doing. Things get accomplished. The girls

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are moving through their lessons, and you think, look at us,

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we have this figured out. Then there's another day. Somebody

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doesn't understand something, somebody is frustrated, somebody needs help. Something

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isn't where we thought it was. The Internet decides today

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would be a wonderful day to test everyone's patience. The

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dog decides the middle of a lesson is the perfect

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time to need attention. The phone rings, somebody walks through

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the room, life happens. That's one of the biggest realities

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of online school school is happening inside real family life,

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and sometimes you have to be flexible. That's not necessarily

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a bad thing, because life isn't perfectly scheduled either. There's

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one thing I've really appreciated about having the girls doing

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school from home time. When you've raised older children, you

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start understanding just how valuable time really is. When your

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children are little, it feels like they're going to be

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little forever. They're not. One day they're sitting beside you

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doing school work. Then someday their adults building their own lives.

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Jeremy and I know that because we've already watched it happen.

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We have all their children, We've watched them move through

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all these stages, and now having younger children still at

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home gives us a completely different perspective. We know what's

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coming growing up, independence, jobs, relationships, their own home, their

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own families, their own lives, and that's exactly what we

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want for them. But knowing that makes the ordinary days

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more meaningful, even the school days, especially the school days,

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because we get more everyday moments together. When your first

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children are young, it's easy to get caught up worrying

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about everything. Are we doing enough? Are they doing enough?

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Are we making the right decisions? What is everybody else doing?

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Should our family be doing that? After thirteen kids, your

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perspective changes. You realize that there isn't one perfect way

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to raise a family. There isn't one educational path that's

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automatically right for every child. There isn't one family schedule

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everybody needs to follow. What matters is figuring out what

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works for your children and your family. That's one of

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the reasons we talk so openly about our lives on

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the show. We're not saying do everything exactly like the Hansens,

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Please don't. You might need a bigger refrigerator. What we're

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saying is build a family life that works for your family.

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Your family might look completely different from ours, that's okay.

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There's another reason I appreciate having the girls home. Home

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has always been important to us, not because our home

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is perfect. It isn't. It's loud, it's busy. There are

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people coming and going. There's food being made, there conversations happening,

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there are animals, there are messes, there's laughter. There's occasionally

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somebody asking where something is that is sitting approximately two

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feet from them. But home is where our family reconnects.

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And now it's also where our girls learn. I want

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them to remember these years. I want them to remember

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opening their school boxes. I want them to remember spreading

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their materials out and looking through everything. I want them

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to remember sitting down and tackling something difficult. I want

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them to remember laughing in the middle of a school day.

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I want them to remember that learning didn't only happen

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in a classroom. It happened everywhere, at the table, in conversations,

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while cooking, while going places, while watching the world, while

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making mistakes, while asking questions. That's education, too Online. School

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doesn't only teach the kids. Sometimes it teaches the parents' patience,

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a lot of patience, because there's a big difference between

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understanding something yourself and trying to explain it to somebody else.

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Have you ever looked at something and thought, I know

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how to do this, and then your child asks why?

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And suddenly you're questioning everything you've known for forty years,

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especially math. Sometimes you look at how they're teaching something

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now and think, what happened to the way we did this?

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But those moments can be good. They remind you what

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learning feels like. Learning can be frustrating. Kids aren't machines.

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Sometimes they need a break, Sometimes they need encouragement. Sometimes

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they need you to say you're not giving up, let's

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try it again. And sometimes they need you to recognize

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they've hit their limit for the moment. That's part of

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parenting too, knowing when to push and knowing when to

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give them a minute. The biggest thing that helps us

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is routine, not a military operation. We're not blowing a

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whistle at seven am. But kids need to understand their expectations.

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School needs to get done, responsibilities need to get done,

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and then there's time for everything else. The great thing

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about being at home is flexibility. But flexibility can't become

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I'll do it later, because later has a funny way

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of becoming tomorrow, and tomorrow becomes mom, I have twelve

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things to finish, no thank you. So we try to

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teach the girls that freedom and responsibility go together. That's

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actually a lesson that goes far beyond school. You want independence,

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great independence requires responsibility. You want flexibility, great flexibility requires discipline.

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Those are lessons they're going to use as adults. This

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is the part that hits me. Another school year, another grade,

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another year older, another year closer to adulthood. When your

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kids are little, people tell you enjoy it. It goes fast,

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and you're standing there exhausted, thinking does it because Tuesday

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felt about nine days long? But then you look back

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and you're right, it went fast. Our older children are proof.

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There are moments I can remember like they happened yesterday.

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Then I realized how many years have passed. That's why

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this school year, I don't just want to focus on

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what needs to be completed. I want to notice the moments,

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the boxes arriving, the girls opening them, the first lessons,

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the frustration, the accomplishments, the laughter, the random conversation in

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the middle of the day, because these are memories too. Okay, guys,

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we're gonna jump into a recipe for the first day

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of school dinner, easy loaded taco bake, because once the

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school year gets going, I am always looking for meals

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that are easy filling and don't require me to spend

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half of the evening standing in the kitchen. So here's

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a really simple one. You will need two pounds grown beef,

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two packets taco seasoning, one can black beans drained, one

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can corn drink, one can rotel, two cups shredded Mexican

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style cheese, one bag tortilla chips, Sour cream, salsa, lettuce,

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and tomatoes are optional. Start by browning your ground beef

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in a large skillet and drain off the grease. Add

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your taco seasoning according to the package directions. Then stir

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in the black beans, corn, and rotel. Spread some tortilla

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chips across the bottom of a large baking dish. Spoon

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your tacco meat mixture over the chips, and cover everything

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with shredded cheese. Bake it at three hundred and seventy

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five degrees for about ten to fifteen minutes, just until

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everything is hot and the cheese is melted. Then comes

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the fumpart. Put out whatever toppings your family likes, sour cream, salsa, lettuce, tomatoes,

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extra cheese, or even some guacamole. Everybody can make theirs

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the way they want it. And that's exactly the kind

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of dinner I like during a busy school week. It's quick,

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it's easy, it feeds a bunch of people, and you

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don't have to make fourteen different meals because somebody doesn't

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like tomatoes. Just leave the tomatoes off your own plate.

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Around here, sometimes the best family recipes aren't the fancy ones.

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They're the ones that get everybody fed, bring everybody to

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the table, and don't leave mom with every pot and

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pan in the kitchen to wash afterward and on a

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busy school night. That's a win in the hans In house.

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And most importantly, it feeds people without mom having to

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spend three hours in the kitchen. With a big family,

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that's a win at the end of the day. I

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want our girls to learn math, I want them to

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read well. I want them to understand history and science.

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I want them to get a good education. But there

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are things I want them to learn that aren't necessarily

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printed in a workbook. I want them to learn how

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to solve problems, how to ask questions, how to work

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when something isn't fun, how to finish something they started,

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how to admit when they don't know something, how to

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find the answer, how to treat people, how to communicate,

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how to manage their time, how to be responsible, how

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to be kind, how to stand up for themselves, how

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to take care of the people they love, and how

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to build a life they're proud of. Because eventually the

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school books close, the grades stop, the lessons end, and

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life begins asking the questions. That's the test we're really

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preparing them for. So, yes, back to school looks a

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little different at our house. There isn't necessarily a big

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rush out the front door every morning. There aren't three

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girls standing at a bus stop. Instead, school comes to us.

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The boxes arrive, we open them, we organize everything, we

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get the computers ready, we get ourselves back into a routine,

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and another year begins. It's not better because it's different,

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it's simply what works for our family. And I think

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that's one of the biggest messages we want. We are

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the hands ins to represent. Families don't have to look

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the same. Parenting doesn't have to look the same, education

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doesn't have to look the same. Traditions don't have to

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look the same. You figure out what works for the

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people you love, then build your life around them. Because

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someday those school boxes won't arrive anymore. Someday there won't

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be three girls sitting at home working through lessons. They'll

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grow up, they'll find their paths, and Jeremy and I

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will probably look back and say, remember when the school

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boxes used to show up, And we'll remember books spread everywhere.

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We'll remember helping with lessons. We'll remember the good days,

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we'll probably laugh about the difficult days, and we'll wonder

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how did it go so fast. That's why I'm reminding

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myself right now, don't rush it, don't wish the year away,

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don't spend every day waiting for Friday. These ordinary days

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matter because the years really do go faster than you think.

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If you're listening and your family is getting ready for school,

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whether that's public school, private school, online school, homeschool, or

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something completely different, we hope you have an incredible year

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and we'd love to hear about it. Come find us

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on Facebook at we are the Hansens and tell us

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what does back to school look like in your house?

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And if you have children doing online school, we'd especially

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love to hear from you what works, what's challenging, what

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have you learned, because that's what we want this community

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to be about, families helping families. You can also visit

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us at Weirrethehandsendfamily dot com and make sure you're following

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We are the Handsens wherever you listen to podcasts, Share

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this episode with another family, and remember, your family doesn't

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have to look like everybody else's your routines don't have

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to look like everybody else's, and your children's path doesn't

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have to look like everybody else's. Find what works, love

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your people, make the memories, and enjoy the ordinary days

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while they're still ordinary, because one day those will be

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the days you miss the most. From our family to yours,

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we'll talk to you next time this has been We

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are the Hansens