In America, a large single mother built a house for instructions on YouTube

Passed love, wilted tomatoes. When to live with a disgusted spouse it becomes unbearable, you just slam the door and go to nowhere. So in 2007, a resident of the city of Bryant Arkansas Kara Brukins arrived. This was her second husband, and she again stepped on the same rake of family violence. "My wife and I were constantly scandalous," the woman recalls. He raised his hand to me. When you encounter violence, you only think about how to survive. I was afraid to leave the children with him in the house, I was afraid that after that I would never see them again. I was ashamed, and I was worried that my children would not have a sense of self-worth and self-confidence. And one day I took my four children and left.Photo:@ cmbrookins Only mother of many children had nowhere to live. But one day she saw a house destroyed by a tornado. “What if we buy a plot, materials and build something ourselves? - the thought flashed. “What should be our dream home?” On YouTube, she once came across a series of videos on how to build a house with your own hands. For the sake of curiosity, I looked one, two, three, and then went to the bank and took out a loan for 150 thousand dollars to buy the necessary materials. When the construction began, Kara's eldest son was 17 years old, daughters - 15 and 11 years old. It was they who became the main mother's assistants. We had time to study, and to participate in construction, and to look after our younger brother, who had just turned two years old. “We had no idea what it was like to build a house,” Kara admits to her subscribers in social networks and Western media journalists. - But we watched thousands of videos, they helped us a lot. We were extremely naive, but reckless. As a result, a large family, led by a very fragile, but such a strong mother, built a two-story house with five bedrooms, three garages and even a separate library with a total area of 325 squares! At the same time, no one canceled Kara's main work. They worked on weekends and evenings, and do you know how long it took them? Nine month! For eight years now they have lived in their own house, where they know every beam, every carnation. As Kara says, housing is, of course, great. But this is not the main thing that her family learned from this process. “While we were learning to build a house, we learned to understand each other well. Now my children are not afraid of anything. They will definitely cope with any business. The woman described her experience in the book: "The House That Built a Family", which will be released at the end of January. So it turns out that the family drama helped her become famous, find herself and build an incredibly close-knit family.1 / 12Photo: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @ cmbrookinsPhoto: @cmbrookins Read more: