Enjoying seasons of motherhood - an interview with Lindsey Stomberg

Or, working with what you’ve got –

It’s hard to keep track of how fast life, seasons, and stages pass when you’re managing a large family, homeschooling, and ministry.

Lindsey runs the Reformed Faith and Family website and podcast alongside her husband Caleb. Together they have seven children ranging in ages from three to fifteen years old.

Caleb is a bi-vocational pastor, and Lindsey is a long-time homeschooling mom who enjoys reading to her children, dabbling in homestead hobbies, and being a doula for friends when she gets the chance.

Their work on Reformed Faith and Family was born out of a deep desire to provide a solid resource for Christians trying to understand the Reformed perspective and help Christian families disciple their children from a Reformed Christian worldview.

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Lindsey has a helpful family devotional titled “Filling Hearts While Cleaning Homes: 5 Minute Devotionals for Families” — teach your kids to do their chores diligently for the glory of God! Use coupon code “MYSTIE” to get it for FREE now through April (a $9 value). Find it here.

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Homeschooling as a laid-back mom

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When we are mothers, we need to adapt not only to our own personalities, but also to those of our children. Particularly as they get older, we have to learn how to incorporate their gifts and needs into our own plans. Our work as mothers is not just about the housework and meals. Our work as mothers is discipling our children and bringing them up into responsible adulthood as their own individuals, not as copycats of ourselves or servants for our needs.

Then while homeschooling, Lindsey has also had to learn and adapt based on her kids’ dyslexia and particular challenges. Homeschooling is about so much more than choosing a fun curriculum and spending time together. We troubleshoot our children’s needs and bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord – which is a highly individualized process.

We can be tempted to see the changing seasons of motherhood and changing needs of our children as obstacles to a smoothly running household. However, the reality is that the struggle and effort produces growth, sanctification, and dependence on God – all the things we truly want and need.

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Building local mentoring communities

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Lindsey also shared how, as a pastor’s wife, she’s worked to build local community between women through sharing homemaking skills.

Today we need the lost arts of homemaking to be revived and restored through women passing their experience and knowledge along through local connections and community. In her groups, women have taught other women canning, sourdough, baking, sewing, and many other practical homemaking skills in a personal, homey setting.