Living a Beautiful Life
This was written by Bethsaida Hernandez Figueroa as a comment from the above post on Facebook.
I am a mom of 12 children, and we live on my husband’s income. We receive no government intervention whatsoever. These are the things that work for us:
1. Trusting in God
2. Giving to God first
3. Using Proverbs 31 as a manual for myself, and teaching it to my 6 daughters.
4. I homeschool my children so they get quality, loving education full of biblical truth.
5. We surround ourselves with spirituality-like people, so my children don’t crave what others have.
6. Simplicity. This world is not our home, and we are only here temporarily.
7. While my children do have toys and the teens have typical teenage items, we gift with memory making events. This cheaper and far more meaningful.
8. We cook from scratch. This keeps us healthy, and it’s also cheaper.
9. We garden.
10. My girls are taught to sew and enjoy the beauty in their own creations.
11. My six boys are taught extremely early on “trades” so we don’t pay people outside our home unless we absolutely have to do things around our home.
12. Part of my children’s homeschooling is starting their own business with their interest and talent. They are taught to give to the Lord, contribute to our home, save, and bless others.
13. We do not hide finances from our children. Monthly, my girls will meal plan, shop, and prep with me according to our budget. While our boys sit with my husband and visually watch him administer our homes finances, give to the Lord, pay all the bills, save, bless others, and discuss how to make things better. We make them aware of what it costs to live. They are financially mindful.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs 31:27
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Hello I loved this post and it’s somewhat applicable to a current situation we’re pondering. We have a smaller home (1,300 sq ft) and four children that we homeschool. Our middle children are girls and they share a room. Our oldest is an 11.5 year old boy and has always had his own room. Our baby is an 8 month old boy and is sharing a bedroom with us until he can sleep through the night. We originally planned to move him in with our oldest son but now are considering doing a bedroom addition due to us feeling the age gap might be too big for our boys to happily share a room. We got three quotes and it is very expensive (on average $60k) to add a simple bedroom addition plus we were told it would be heavy construction noise all day for three months which doesn’t sound fun with two kids still napping. We’ve looked for new houses but with this market we haven’t found anything. My question is, is it worth doing an addition if we can afford it or is it ok to make the boys share a room if there is a 10 year age gap? Anyone with a similar experience who can share how it worked for them? Thank you!
Hi Heather,
They will be fine sharing a room even with that gap! Most people who have ever existed shared rooms with their siblings until they moved out.