Home School

(If your trying to figure out what in the world is going on with the window in the background, we haven't finished the trim yet.  Still.  I also have a temporary curtain hanging for privacy.)

We do school at the kitchen counter.  We have a counter height overhang on our island with 4 barstools.  Its a perfect spot for now because we don't have another surface that fits us both side by side.

I love homeschooling.  I love being home.  The schooling part is hard.  School is the last thing I want to do during the day.  But being the good mom I am, we buckle down and get it done.  It usually takes anywhere from 2-3.5 hours for 5 basic subjects.  I need to add some handwriting and an elective soon.  But for now this is plenty.

The curriculum I am using is very self directed.  This can be a good thing.  And for the most part it is a good thing.  Liberty knows the pages she is to finish and she goes to town working on them.  The bad thing about this is I usually just do my own thing unless she has a question.  When I go back and check her work for the day I am noticing a lot of mistakes.  Usually because she isn't reading all of the directions.  We have had to find a balance where I don't have to sit and babysit her the whole time and she isn't on her own 100%.

We always sit and pray over our prayer requests and recite the Lord's prayer together.  I will then go over the directions for Bible.  I intend to go over directions from each subject as she gets to them, but I get distracted and she is very independent so it doesn't always work that way.





I love being able to get laundry and other cleaning done during the day.  You would think that being home my house would be spotless.  I thought it would be too.  It isn't.  I do try and clean the junk that accumulates everyday, but its so hard to clean the toilets when I just did it last week!!

Right now our days are pretty quiet for the most part.  The constant chattering from just one child is more than I can handle sometimes.  Its hard to say what adding another child (or children???) will do to my sanity, but we will cross that bridge later. 

I am so thankful that the Lord has provided an opportunity for me to homeschool and stay home.  I am thankful to Darrell for working so hard to provide for us.