Venture into Homeschooling

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was thinking about homeschooling the boys this year.  Well, the Supremo and I decided to take the plunge and do it.  I spent weeks and weeks researching online and at the library to see if it was going to work for us.  With a new baby on the way, right when school is supposed to start, I wasn't sure.  After lots of prayer and fasting we felt good about it.

The reasoning behind this decision.  First off - The Noodle-.  While he enjoyed getting to spend time playing with friends; recess was the only thing he mentioned he liked about school.  We had a few times that he came home with a fever, just to find out that he had an anxiety attack and it was gone by the time we got home.  Lots and lots of fighting over having to finish homework.  I didn't blame him on this one.  Who wants to spend 7 hours a day doing work, only to have to do more when you got home.  There was no time to be a kid.  I was also not enjoying my son.  I felt terrible.  While I missed him when he was gone, I would almost dread picking him up from school.  He was always so tired, and we just seemed to not like each other much.  There were also some other issues he had.  Which I won't mention here because I don't want him to look back on this and be mad at me.

#2 - Chief-.  He is one smart cookie.  He was placed in an advanced reading group when we first moved to this area, and then was moved up again.  Not that that is a bad thing.  Why I didn't like it...  They did it without getting my permission to do so, and when he got moved up he would come home with an hour of homework.  HE WAS IN KINDERGARTEN!!!!  It wasn't cutting and pasting or simple math equations.  It wasn't even sight words.  It was writing in complete sentences and answering questions from a book.  I slowly watching this boy who couldn't keep his hands off books to a boy that didn't want to be read to or even go to the library. We started the fighting just like his older brother.  Not fun.

#3 - B.WO.A.N- (Baby WithOut A Nickname)  Like I mentioned earlier.  We will have a new addition right about when school starts.  I know this might seem lazy, but I didn't want to have to get everyone ready to be out the door by 7:35.  It was making me feel stress and we still had another month left.

That is why we are going to homeschool this year.  Yes, I said this year.  When we are done we will evaluate and see what we think.  It may be the best thing of our lives, or we may never do it again.
This summer has been spent practicing a shortened homeschool day, and I have loved it.  The boys penmanship has come a long way, and I am actually learning a new way to do math.  So cool.  Best of all I am enjoying my kids!  I will keep updates of how things are going here on this blog.  Until the next update... Happy Schooling!