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Well This Wasn't The Plan!
We never expected to homeschool...but here we are! Life is funny that way, ya know?
After 4 years in public school, we've made the unexpected leap into homeschooling our 3 kids--while still working full-time! On this podcast, we're documenting the journey in real time: the good, the hard, the hilarious, and everything in between.
Whether you're a curious parent, a fellow homeschooler, or just here for the chaos, welcome!
Let's figure it out together--because sometimes the best things start with, "Well, that wasn't the plan..."
Well This Wasn't The Plan!
TRAILER: We're Homeschooling After Years in Public Education -- & this was NOT the plan!
Ever feel like you're just managing your kids instead of actually parenting them? That's exactly where we found ourselves—rushing through mornings and evenings, always telling our children to hurry up while strangers shaped their days. We're Carson and Teran, accountants who run a business together and parents to three amazing kids. After 4 years in public education, we are homeschooling! And this was NOT the plan!
Two years ago, we would have sworn homeschooling was only for stay-at-home parents with endless time for educational crafts and gourmet lunches. Now we're learning it can look entirely different—and that's okay.
This podcast captures our real-time journey into the unknown. We're equal parts terrified and excited, committed to transparency about both our successes and inevitable failures. Each week, we'll share what's working, what's definitely not working, and how we're managing to balance it all without losing our minds.
No experts here—just a family trying something different because what we were doing wasn't working anymore.
Subscribe now to join us on this adventure and see where unexpected paths can lead when you're brave enough to follow them.
Hey there, welcome to. Well, that Wasn't the Plan. I'm Carson.
Speaker 2:And I'm Taryn, and we've been married for 12 years now. We have three kids and we run a CPA firm together.
Speaker 1:We also live on a family compound in Texas with Taryn's mom, her two sisters and a ton of crazy kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's definitely constant chaos over here.
Speaker 1:Right. And now we're adding another wild twist to our life we are homeschooling.
Speaker 2:We're homeschooling, which we never thought we would do. We weren't homeschooled when we were kids, and we actually moved here to be close to a public school that we absolutely loved, but, as it happens, life has other plans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our kids really needed something different, and that led us to rethinking everything.
Speaker 2:We were tired of only spending a few hours a day with the kids, and really those hours we were just instructing them to hurry, hurry to get ready, hurry to get to practice, hurry to get showered and hurry to get to practice, hurry to get showered and hurry to get to bed, only to do it all over again the next day.
Speaker 1:We realized that we weren't parenting. We were only managing managing our kids in the mornings and evenings and letting strangers take the reins the rest of the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and two years ago, if you would have asked us about homeschooling, I would have said it was really only for stay at home parents who had the entire day to devote to homeschooling and garden and maybe cook some like really fabulous meals. But we've learned recently that it can look a lot different than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, we know this is going to be hard.
Speaker 2:So hard.
Speaker 1:So much harder than we can probably even imagine right now, until we do it, but it's going to be worth it. What we're currently doing is not working, so we're going to do something different. We miss our kids. We miss the time as a family and the connection.
Speaker 2:And the school system may work for some, but for us, we feel defeated and lost in the constant chaos and shuffle, and so do our kids. They are asking us to take this leap, so we feel like we have to do this for them.
Speaker 1:Right, and the crazy part, this podcast was actually our daughter's idea. She was like, hey, we should do a podcast about homeschool. So here we are. Here we are we're committing to one year of sharing what it's really like to homeschool while running a business and raising three kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we are obviously not experts at all. We're just going to figure it out as we go and we'll be honest about all of the good stuff and all of the bad stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we will. I mean, we're doing this because we want to slow down, cut out the chaos and drown out the noise that's been overwhelming our lives for the past few years.
Speaker 2:And, honestly, we're terrified, absolutely terrified, yeah, and we're also really really excited for this new change. It's been much, much needed and a long time coming, but we're excited and we're scared all at once.
Speaker 1:So if you're a parent or a homeschooler or you're just trying to survive the unexpected, you're in good company.
Speaker 2:We'll be checking in every single week with real talk, real life and likely a lot of homeschool fails.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're glad you're here.
Speaker 2:So let's see where this goes.