Planning for the Year

This is my cute friend Aja.

(Stole this from her facebook page. Hahaha)

This is my cute friend Aja and me in April in at a homeschooling convention in Cincinnati.

(Pumped, rejuvinated and feeling like supermoms! And somehow we were so busy that’s the only picture we managed to take!)

And this is my cute friend Aja and me in August at her dining room table planning for the school year.

(Overwhelmed, and coping with Diet Dr. Pepper.)

Just in case any one wonders (’cause I get this comment/question all the time), nooooo, I’m not an incredibly patient saint–I’m just a regular mom. We have good days and bad days and this homeschool thing takes daily re-commitment. I question myself and I wonder if I can really do it, and I cry and pray and wish for a perfect system in which I could send my kids to school. But for us it’s not an option right now, and so while I realize homeschooling is definitely not for everyone I feel strongly this choice is the best for our family for now.

And so because of that we’re jumping in full-time this year and I’m so grateful to have a good friend to lean on for support. I know I’m going to need it–probably about October when the pencils are no longer sharp and the notebooks are no longer crisp and my routine has been replaced with a sink of dirty dishes and a pile of laundry. . . . Bring it on.

(Some of our curriculum for this year)

(School felts available here)