In a Few Weeks

Public Schools are starting up.  Homeschools are starting back up.

I am waiting.

All but one piece of our curriculum is waiting for me in the basement.

Words cannot express how excited I am about the materials we will be using this year.

So, in a few weeks, we’ll be starting.

And I’m petrified.

It’s our second year, I do know a little more than last year, but do I know enough more?  Last year, when I was lost, I would look at someone and say, “it’s our first year.”  I’d get all sorts of support, encouragement and help.

For once, it felt great to be the new kid on the block.

Now it’s year two.  My supposed hardest year is behind me.  But there are all these days, all these years ahead of me.

This year I decided to try a planner.  I have a paper one and a digital one (it was a free offer).  I have no idea what I am supposed to do with this planner.

It has an attendance area.  Ummm, don’t they both attend on the days we have school?  It has a cleaning schedule by the week and the month.  Isn’t that called keep the living room and kitchen decent, the bathroom useable and sometimes a path in the girls’ rooms?  There is a place for recipes.  Ummmm, I’m supposed to write them down?  I thought that’s what Pinterest is for???

I am totally lost.  I have these great books, that I am so excited about, but have I planned too much book time?  What about the unit studies I have and the various worksheets and project sheets I have?  They are all neatly put in folders on the computer.  Anybody know how I am supposed to remember what is in each of those labeled folders within the homeschool folder under documents in my computer library?  I have great stuff.  I know I do.  But I don’t know what I have.

Then there is discipling my kids.  Truly, this is why we chose to homeschool, but I’m not that nice, I am a rotten example and Bible is the one subject we always seem to push off.  Am I supposed to plan to cover it every day?  Am I teaching my kids that the Bible is not important if we don’t do it every day?

I want to homeschool.  There is absolutely no question about that.  I’m just a little lost about how not to be lost in this Great Adventure.

And the biggest question is, is the world ready for all the awesome that is my kids????