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! 
