Now That We're A Family

We love getting your questions on Instagram! We aren’t on Instagram anymore, so hearing from you through our Instagram page is really really fun. We love to hear what you guys are thinking and today you get to hear what we are thinking….about what you’re thinking :) If you follow us on Instagram and have any questions you would like us to answer, put them in the Q&A box that is in our stories on Mondays! Listen along today as we answer these ten questions: 1. What are your thoughts on Christian romance novels? 2. What is your marriage advice when a wife isn’t into sex? 3. Do you have any role models outside of your parents? Who and why? 4. What are you thoughts on The Chosen? 5. Have you ever disagreed with advice given by the people you’ve had on the podcast? 6. What are some practical ways you let your boys get aggression out in a healthy way? 7. Katie, regarding managing the family wardrobe, how does everybody look so nice? 8. Do you have a number of kid’s that you want? 9. Did you guys date other people before you met each other and how did you know they were not the one? 10. “It takes a village “- what does this mean to you in your child-rearing and what does it look like? Mentioned in video: - Podcast Episode - Marriage And Physical Intimacy During Pregnancy - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147567962 - Voetberg Music Academy - Use coupon code: YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life.https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschoolGet it All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

For nearly three decades, Peter van Stralen has succeeded in creating remarkable experiences for his employees and customers through his principles of C.A.R.E. leadership. He is a visionary leader that energizes and inspires audiences with his C.A.R.E Leadership keynote, imparting the tools and ideas curated from his business success. In 2015, he and his family embarked full-time on an Epic Family Road Trip that continues today, setting off across North America to work hard, have fun together, and make a difference in the world through caring for others. They are currently living off grid on an island in Ontario, Canada. It is so fun the way they are doing life! They call themselves a business family. They don’t have a family business; they are a business family. A family business is something that is outside of you, but if you’re a business family, you’re all involved in some way. It’s not such a drain on the family when you feel like you are a business family. It’s a mindset shift. They kept the C.A.R.E model for their travels. They try to leave the people they met and the places they visit a little bit better than they found them. Listen as Peter shares bits and pieces of his story and what he and his family have done on the road these past eight years. It is nothing short of epic! They really inspire me because they are the perfect example of thinking outside the box when it comes to creating systems and a lifestyle that conducive to a healthy family. You can learn more and follow Peter van Stralen and his family through the resources below: Website - https://www.petervanstralen.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@EFRT Peter van Stralen’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/petervanstralen/ Epic Family Roadtrip Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/epicfamilyroadtrip/ Book - “Care Leadership” - https://amzn.to/3GNEbPm Mentioned in video: - SEASON 6 FINALE - EFRT family values - https://youtu.be/RCqUTFnCxr4 - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool For 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com- Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool For 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL Get it All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

Today we are going to be talking about battling discontentment in motherhood, more specifically with stay-at-home motherhood. I think a lot of mothers can struggle with this, but especially stay-at-home moms. We will also be touching on discontentment in parenting in general and some mindsets and thoughts around that. Katie’s natural bent was not one of wanting to rear children and nurture them in the home and be somebody that was pouring into their household. That is now the true desire of her heart. Finding fulfillment in motherhood for Katie started as a conviction that it was worth learning to love and worth learning to do well. That included home management as well as emotional, personal, and time management, hospitality and all the things that go into being a mother. Having the role in our home as a father or mother is unequivocally the most glorious position we can have on earth. There is no other title that we could ever attain, pursue or desire here on earth that is to be more honored than father and mother. If we don’t have incredible godly sister’s in Christ that are building us up and saying that our role and what we are doing is valuable and we have people in our life that are telling us that we are making ourself small choosing to stay home, then we need to bring in outside resources. We need to be reading books and listening to podcasts that affirm what we are doing. First and foremost we need to be in God’s Word. That is the ultimate affirmation that you are not wasting your time and energy. There is nothing out there that is going to fulfill you more than you finding fulfillment right where God has you right now. That is something that is so clear and we don’t need to question. If we have children in our home then we are in the center of God’s will when we are mothering those children! - Top 5 TuesdayJoin our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool Get It All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

Jodi Mockabee is a photographer, writer, blogger, speaker and homeschooling mother of five (ages currently ranging from 11-17) living in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has a passion for health, wellness, parenting, and homemaking, She is super passionate about parenting and raising her children to love the Lord, as well as raising children that are enjoyable to be around. The idea behind her book (“The Whole & Healthy Family”) was wanting to do parenting well and really thrive in it. She knew she wasn’t ready to write it until she had some success stories. She wanted to be able to look back and say “we made it through these early years (that I like to refer back to as the trenches) and this is what worked and this is what didn’t" and just be able to share a bit of that now. She also writes curriculum for creative and artistic learning in a homeschool environment. Listen today as Jodi talks about health in the home, parenting teens, our relationship with technology, building and balancing family culture and navigating smartphones with children in the home. Jodi and her husband, Jason, are being so proactive and intentional in how they are handling their teen relationships and parenting them. They have a lifestyle that is inspiring! It shows the power that can come when you’re intentional in every little aspect of your life. There isn’t a detail that is too small to fixate on when it comes to your family and the operations of the home. You can learn more and follow Jodi Mockabee through the resources below: - "Whole and Healthy Family" - https://amzn.to/3Kj9jIG - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jodimockabee/ - Website - https://jodimockabee.com - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment!www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative Save $150 by purchasing the Get it All Done Club Home Management Course and Growth Initiative for Men together: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/S3GJdvSm/checkout Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Free Growth Initiative Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/growth-initiative-webinar - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life.https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool Get it All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com

We didn’t find out the gender for our first three babies until they were born. Our 4th was the first one we found out during an ultrasound, which was anticlimactic and lame, to be honest. We weren’t sure what we wanted to do with this pregnancy, so we had them put the gender in an envelope. We decided during today’s episode if we were going to open the envelope with the gender inside or wait again until the baby is born. We also answered questions our followers from Instagram asked us. Listen along as we answer these 13 questions: 1. What are your plans for feeding your family after you give birth? Frozen meals, easy cooked meals, etc? 2. What are your plans for help during the 6-8 weeks postpartum? 3. Does this pregnancy resemble more like your boy or girl pregnancies? 4. Do you get junk food cravings? What do you typically eat during pregnancy? 5. How has your pelvic floor held up through all the pregnancies? Do you have management or help tips? 6. Do you have mood swings because of hormonal imbalance? Do the vitamins you take help with hormonal and moods swings? 7. Homebirth or hospital? 8. How are you making sure you eat enough, but not too much? 9. Are you nervous or have any fear about labor and deliver? How do you overcome that? 10. How far apart will this one be from your youngest? 11. Any advice for first time parents from pregnancy to birth to postpartum? 12. How do you manage motherhood and your career? 13. Do you feel like you have a new perspective on carrying this baby after your loss? Mentioned in video: "Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way" by Susan McCutcheon - https://amzn.to/3LWiErl - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment! www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative Save $150 by purchasing the Get it All Done Club Home Management Course and Growth Initiative for Men together:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/S3GJdvSm/checkout Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club Free Growth Initiative Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/growth-initiative-webinar - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter- Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool Get it All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com

Alisa Childers is an American singer and songwriter. She’s best known right now for being an Apologist. Prior to becoming known as an Apologist, she was known for being a singer in the all-female Christian band ZOEgirl. She experienced a period of profound doubt about her faith in her mid-thirties. She felt uncertainty and didn’t know where to find answers to her questions, or if answers existed at all. She began to investigate her faith intellectually by taking seminary classes and reading everything she could get her hands on. This began her journey from unreasoned doubt into a vibrant, rational, and informed faith. She has written a couple books that have been extremely impactful in mine and my family’s life, as well as thousands of others. The first one she wrote was called “Another Gospel” where describes the journey she took over several years as she wrestled with questions that struck at the core of the Christian faith and found the truth. This book is very powerful! Her most recent book,“Live Your Truth & Other Lies,” goes through things we say as Christians that are not true and how that affects our life. If you want to hear ongoing Bible teaching, if you’re interested in the historicity of the Bible and the doctrines of the Christian faith, listen to her on her podcast “Alisa Childers Podcast.” She’s able to network and interview with many experts in different aspects of the Christian faith. She herself is an expert! I highly recommend following her on any of her platforms. You can learn more and follow Alisa Childers through the resources below: - Website - https://alisachilders.com- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alisachilders/- Alisa Childers Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-alisa-childers-podcast/id1260262855 - Alisa Childers YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@alisachilders - Unshaken Faith Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unshaken-faith/id1657921515 - Unshaken Faith Conference - https://unshakenconference.com - "Another Gospel?" - https://amzn.to/3JJJ3qC - "Live Your Truth and Other Lies" - https://amzn.to/3JLEtbm Mentioned in this video: - "Is the Enneagram a Trojan Horse in the Church? With Marcia Montenegro" - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/81-is-the-enneagram-a-trojan-horse-in-the/id1260262855?i=1000570504204 - "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth" by Gordon D. Fee - https://amzn.to/3Tp14Oj- Voetberg Music Academy - Use coupon code YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - https://www.voetbergacademy.com - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment! www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative Save $150 by purchasing the Get it All Done Club Home Management Course and Growth Initiative for Men together: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/S3GJdvSm/checkout - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool Get It All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

200 podcast episodes! We couldn’t have done it without you guys! Thank you so much for making the podcast worth recording. We really enjoy doing this and hearing from you all so much! It’s one of our favorite parts of the week. Today we are going through and reliving some of the highlights and the lowlights of 200 episodes. It will be fun to see how the podcast will morph and change over the next few years as the Lord continues to lead. Listen along today as we answer these eight questions: 1. Where was the strangest place you remember recording the podcast? 2. What was the most embarrassing thing you said on the podcast? 3. Have you ever thought about quitting the podcast? 4. What’s been the most rewarding part of doing the podcast? 5. What episode did you feel most nervous to record? 6. What are you most looking forward to going forward with the podcast? 7. How do you think the podcast has changed the most? 8. Do you have a biggest regret from the podcast? - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment! www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative Save $150 by purchasing the Get it All Done Club Home Management Course and Growth Initiative for Men together: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/S3GJdvSm/checkout - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschoolFor 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL Get It All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

Today we are talking about how we plan to talk to our children about sex and how we’ve already talked to them about it. This is going to include a brief history of how our parents talked to us about it. We feel we have so much to learn about this and don’t want to run away from the scariness or daunting aspect of this conversation. We want to lean into it and embrace the role that we have in our children’s life especially in this area. Hopefully we can encourage you to do the same with your children. As a parent, especially with something as crucial as God’s sexual design, you want to be the first one in line to talk to them about this. When you are the first one to tell your child about something, that shapes their perception of the truth and then they compare everything else they hear to that truth that you shared with them first. As parents, we want to be the first ones to share God’s standard for sex and sexuality. Everything else can then be seen in that light, rather than picking up a bunch of ideas here or there and comparing them. We live in a very sexually confused world, and we don’t want our children to be confused. We want to be the initiators of these types of conversations in our home. We want to put ourselves in the position to be the first people our kids go to for questions, embarrassing thoughts, uncomfortable thoughts or unfortunate situations they find themselves in. We are naive in this area. We’ve never done this before. This area, like any other area, we want to be surrendered and open to the Lord’s leading and open to receiving counsel. We know we do not have it all figured out and will probably have to pivot at different points in time. We need to remain unified together as husband and wife and seek the Lord on this topic, like everything else involving raising our children. Mentioned in this video: - "When your Child is 6 to 12" by John Drescher - https://amzn.to/3mqlpX9 - "The Whole and Healthy Family" by Jodi Mockabee - https://amzn.to/3y9r2eH - 147: Victory Over Pornography // Interview With Chad Johnson - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147691146- Voetberg Music Academy - Use coupon code YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - https://www.voetbergacademy.com - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment! www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative Save $150 by purchasing the Get it All Done Club Home Management Course and Growth Initiative for Men together: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/S3GJdvSm/checkout - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschoolGet it All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com Use coupon code: YOUTUBE for 10% off each month - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

Today we are doing a Q&A with questions our followers asked on Instagram. We love hearing your questions and since we don’t get a chance to answer them on Instagram, we will answer them here on the podcast! If you follow us on Instagram and have any questions you would like us to answer, put them in the Q&A box that is in our stories on Mondays! Listen along today as we answer these eight questions: 1. Tattoos - why or why not? 2. Did you feel isolated when you moved away from your families and their support? 3. Does having an online presence have any negative affects on you and your family? 4. Have you seen children at a young age proclaim Christ as their Savior? 5. Have you heard of Eve in Exile? 6. Does Elisha monitor what Katie wears? 7. I have a 5 year old bed-wetter, what can be done? 8. Do you listen to any secular - non Christian music, if yes, any that you can share? I Corinthians 7:4 - “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.” - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment! www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative Save $150 by purchasing the Get it All Done Club Home Management Course and Growth Initiative for Men together: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/S3GJdvSm/checkout - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life.https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter- Homeschool Course: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/homeschool For 15% off the course, use discount code: YTHOMESCHOOL Get it All Done Club: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club

N. D. Wilson has authored numerous middle grade fiction books, as well as non-fiction, including "Leepike Ridge” (a children’s adventure story) and “100 Cupboards” series. He has written and been the executive producer of a Netflix children’s series called “Hello Ninja.” There are four seasons and it is highly ranked on Netflix. He has a great podcast called “Stories are Soul Food.” It is one of Elisha’s favorite podcasts! What is a middle grade novel? It is a sweet spot for 5th and 6th graders, as well as those heading into middle school. It is all of the intelligence, none of the hormones. N. D. wanted to write stories that had concrete endings, resolve/resolutions, the good guys won, and also be able to avoid content that he didn’t want to get into naturally and realistically. These stories mark the memories of kids and who they want to be in life, who brands them as they move forward. The last summer of your childhood is where a middle grade novel can hang out. You can have that happy ending in kid’s books. A big part of why he targets this demographic is because it’s a good moment of branding the imagination as kids become young adults moving forward with really great stories. If you love Narnia, The Hobbit, and stories that mark your imagination when you are 11, 12, 13, those stories stay with you in a really great permanent way. N.D. said that “when it comes to content, what I want is not to protect my kids from things with which they disagree. I want to equip them to disagree. I want them to have clear eyes and a vision for what is good and bad, dangerous and healthy, and thinking how would I change it and what would I do? I want them to be in the driver seat of authority. I don’t want my kids ever to consume any story of any kind like a baby bird, where they have their head back and mouth wide open. I want all of it to be active, engaged, tearing things apart and finding the good and bad. When it comes to narrative, they need to be really perceptive and picky. Pickiness meaning it takes a lot to impress them. They should develop instincts for truth, goodness and beauty and pulling those things out.” You can learn more and follow N. D. Wilson through the resources below: Books: https://ndwilson.com/words/ Website: https://ndwilson.comPodcast: https://storiesaresoulfood.com Netflix show: "Hello Ninja" - The Growth Initiative: Now open for enrollment! www.nowthatwereafamily.com/thegrowthinitiative - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/site/about - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-club