The Journey Begins

I've horribly neglected this blog and my scrapping for the past few months.  No excuse.  Just Tired-Mommy-Itis and my almost 4 year old would diagnose me with, thanks to Doc McStuffins.  (By the way, thanks Disney! I love seeing her pretend to be a dr now instead of another princess.  Not that I have anything against the princesses, but a little variety is awesome.)

Tomorrow is the first day I am homeschooling the children.

I know this is going to be a huge step.  It's not one that I am committing to for the next 18 years currently.  I'm doing it for a few reasons.

First, my son has a late summer birthday.  With the deployment, the new baby and his birthday, plus the trend of red-shirting which is prevalent in the town we're currently in, he didn't go to Kindergarten last year.  Add on to that a school district, like many, strapped for money.  To make ends meet, and be within the state regulations, Kindergartens are on alternating full day schedules.  Why not just have half day, 2 sessions you may ask?  They can't afford the mid-day busses.  I could buy that he could get used to the school and try it, but we move next year.  And my son is a good reader.  He's a high energy boy who can read and answers questions at the doctor's office like "How do you feel?" with "Well, I should feel like a 10 and I only feel like a 6 or a 7."

I love the idea of homeschooling.  I do.  But I don't know that I would have jumped in to without all that in front of me.  So, we're going to try it this year.  I got my approval letter just last week in the mail and I have everything ready from the awesome Sonlight curriculum ready to go.  (If you check it out, I'm referrer: AH20349417).

So, I thought I'd show you our room.  I'm excited for the kids to be starting tomorrow.  We are using P 4/5 with 1st grade readers for my son, Handwriting Without Tears K for both, and Saxon Math K for my son.  My daughter will be 4 in October and I am going to pretty much let her do as much or as little as she's interested in.

And with that...  I am off in hopes of getting at least 3 hours of sleep in a row before we start tomorrow.  My sweet littlest babe is getting 3 of her top teeth so it's much easier said than done, but dare to dream!  I promise soon the scrapping and recipes will return!