I don’t know about your home but Sundays in our home don’t look like the picture-perfect reels or the “slow living” posts. They look like real life — loud, quiet, messy, funny, frustrating, and full of people who come and go like we’re running a 24‑hour diner.
David is at work. Gerald is camped out on the couch waiting to see if my sister is coming after church. The boys — and depending on the week, “boys” could mean Bradley and Charlie, or William, Bradley, Tim, and Charlie, or just Tim — sleep in and wander home sometime today like stray cats who know where the food is.
B may or may not be back because they work tomorrow. C is leaving Wednesday, so emotions are high and patience is low. Walking, water, and diet resume today — without supplements — because the budget didn’t stretch and I couldn’t find what I had.
Charlie’s room, bathroom, and my room are a revolving door of boys coming in and out while I try to work. The printer still isn’t installed. The virus scan still isn’t done. Instagram still won’t let me in. And C and I are butting heads because he’s leaving and his room isn’t clean.
LORD help me and the creek don’t rise.
We do Church at home online with Mikalya before she leaves for work. We do family dinner, not lunch because David isn’t home until after 3pm. And as much as I want everyone to sit together, more times than not… we don’t. Because life doesn’t always line up neatly — especially in what used to be a homeschool family, a blended family, a working family, a “boys wander in and out” family with pets who think they are adults.
But even in the middle of all that, something good is happening:
C has been sharing the new series with his friends — and they said they may want to join us.
That’s the part that gets me.
Because even on a Sunday like this — with chaos, coffee, boys wandering in and out, dogs pacing, and David working — we’re still building something.
Tomorrow, we launch C’s Gaming & Streaming Learning Series.
A series built from the way we’ve always learned together:
- Video games
- Movies
- Board games
- ADHD
- Real life
- Family chaos
- Porch‑truth
- Learning the way we learn
Every day, there will be:
🎮 A Teen Track — written by C, for teens ☕ A Parent & Family Track — written by me or David, for the adults living this life with them
Two posts a day. Two perspectives. One family. One mission.
So today, even in the middle of the mess, we pause long enough to say:
Tomorrow, we begin.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
