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Today I took a break from my "homeschool homework". Today I'm thinking it would take a miracle from The Lord Above to get me to homeschool. My dd would be so easy, I wish I could just start with her. I see myself spending all our time with ds and none with dd since she is so independant and loves learning. That would not be fair to her, maybe this was just a bad idea. I'm sick AGAIN! Can't tell if it's allergies or a head cold. I feel horrible. We're supposed to go to R&S's sat and go to church with them which is fine, but the reason I was going was to talk to S about homeschool. I guess by then I might be ready to talk about it again. I don't understand how women just do this without second guessing themselves so much, I suppose alot of them do have doubts in the beginning. I'll just continue to pray for guidance and also see how summer goes, most summers I can't wait for the kids to go back to school (horrible, I know). I plan on doing more activities this summer and do a bit of summer school and see how it goes... |
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My morning didn't start out too great. Dd mentioned to my best friend and only Christian friend C. that we are thinking about homeschool. She called to laugh at me and proceeded to tell me how ridiculous it is. I was pretty upset but tried not to let her see it. I just told her I was thinking about it, she grilled me as to why but I just tried to change the subject. I don't know where this hs idea came from. The only reasoning is it came from God because I never ever thought I would even consider homeschooling!!! When my youngest started K I was beside myself with joy! I couldn't wait to have the house to myself!! Now, when I interact with them I feel different, like we could actually do this and that they would get so much more out of anything we would do. My dd is 10-she has wanted to be a teacher since K. Her entire room is not a little girl's room but a "classroom". Any time anyone gets her a gift, they go to the local homeschool store. I really think she would thrive in homeschool and possibly have her thoughts about teaching and love of learning really deflated the longer she stays in public school. However, I don't want to get too excited about it, I want to be sure it's from God. Like I said, I know it's not MY idea! I have until fall to pray about it and either take these negative comments and really search my motives, or just block them out altogether. |
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Today I joined the wonderful homeschool lounge, really great information! I'm really leaning toward NOT going with a set cirriculum, we'll see. Tomorrow at church I'll talk with Elder Suzette, I'm pretty sure she runs the homeschool group at the church. So we went garage "sale-ing" as I call it this morning, Jessie came with, hubby even came! Didn't find anything good. However, Ben wanted a fish tank and it was 10 dollars but got it for 5. I was ok with t, a fish or two I can handle, but hubby is going to be responsible for the cleaning cuz it was HIS idea! So he takes the kids to get fish and they come home with 2 dwarf hampsters! I was upset at first, we had a guinea pig for awhile and I was the one who ended up cleaning and feeding it! These are so small! So Ben has his in the 10 gallon fishtank he bought and Katie used her birthday money for a cage for hers which they gave her for free cuz someone returned it. If I find hampster poop on the floor-it's all over! I did not get much cleaning done today-tomorrow after church? We'll see...
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I feel pretty yucky today, bad headache after I worked for a few hours, alot of driving today. Needless to say my house is a mess but I don't care, I have all day tomorrow:) Luckily, the girls are over so I had them all make browneies for us! So I have one relative on my husband's side who homeschools but they have a very small group and I'm not sure about some of their beliefs. Then there's a group through my church I'll look into but I'm not sure it's very big. I just have this mindset about the kids being home. I feel bad if they're at home all day, like we always have to be doing something. It's a whole different mindset. I can get used to that but I really would like to find a group where we can interact about 2-3 times a week. It seems like most groups meet 1 time a week or less. Worse case scenario, I can wait 2 years to start if I have to, that's when my daughter should be starting middle school. I like their elem school for the most part, they don't subscribe to any of those liberal ideals Oooooh, Sixteen Candles is on-gotta go! |
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I didn't have to work today, so I ran a bunch of errands and went to the library. Got lots of homework done on the homeschool subject. I feel more comfortable with possibly doing my own lesson plans for the kids and with the Worldbook course of study it seems do-able. I talked with my 7 year old and he's all for homeschool except he says he'll miss his friends. I told him he'd still be able to see them plus meet new friends! I'm still a bit worried about the socialization aspect-I can't find any groups around here accepting new people. My desire to homeschool was heightened today by the "Soc Hop" the girls went to tonight. All they did afterward was talk about who is going out with who, who broke up with who, who cried because of a boy, etc. When I thought about it, they just talk about this stuff too much because that's what they're around all day.
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