
FINALLY...I have found you all!!!

A thread for home schoolers AND DISNEY ADDICTS!!

Well, let me introduce myself....
My name is Jennifer and I am a first year home schooling mom to 3 awsome kids! We have had the benefit of experiencing all 3 "schooling choices"; private(loved it

, however our pocket book did not

), public (hated it for MANY reasons

)and now home school(we LOVE this choice

). I should have done this from the beginning!! Now here we are with a 5th grader, 2nd grader and PreK.
Now let me elaborte on myself and our family.....
I am a DISNEY LOVING, scrapbook doing, love sewing disney boutique clothes sewer, home schooling MOM. Did I mention I also run an in-home daycare

!!! I watch 3 additional outside children ages 2,2,4....ALL BOYS

. Hilarious, I know

!! So, how do I do it you ask? Well....

. Actually, the truth is that it takes A LOT of planning ahead!!! And LOTS of caffine of course

. I've already learned that the hard way!

If I don't keep to a strict schedule, we crash and burn every time. Needless to say, all the "built in" days off I had (due to starting early) are ALL GONE

My day starts at 5:30 AM with my first daycare child arriving at 6AM!! It ends with the last child going home at 6pm. In between is when we fit it ALL in. Sometimes we may have to extend into the evening with school because of daycare.

I am hoping to be coming to an end with daycare hopefully by the end of this year though!

AMEN

I'll explain all this on another post.
On to my husband.....
He is my best friend and husband of 15 yrs!

He was a bit schepticle of the home schooling idea, only because he didn't want me to stretch myself too thin. Since starting he has been on board 100% and even helps with teaching if I need a break!!!

What an awsome guy!! He is a computer geek at heart (IT Security Admin) and thought, initially, that most of their studies could and should be done via the computer. I, on the other hand, disagree given the age of my kids. But to please him, we tried a few subjects. Crashed and burned with SOS

but teaching txt book works with oldest and we are currently using that. Everything else I teach for now. Bless his heart for trying to lighten my load

Our kids......well their the usual. Ya know...shy...talk tooooooo much, out going and weird like kids are.

But they LOVE home schooling

. I am sooo blessed. It does take a lot of energy keeping them on task sometime and for a split second on those days I reach that point....ya know the one....where for a split second we look at the clocks and wonder what time that school bus picks up...

First years are rough, but I would't have it any other way
Well I guess we'll start with that. I'll save more for later.
Thanks for letting me share!
Blessings,
Jennifer