Blessings From Home

Taking the First Step

I've been diligently working on taking the first step towards homeschooling my children and now that the public school year is over, I can finally begin. One set back has been that my printer has gone caput, and I don't have the money right now to purchase a new one. This poses a problem because I have decided to use almost all free public domain books off of the internet, so for now, I am going to go to my public library to see what the cost per page is there...not sure what else to do for now. I am going to start this week with getting into the habit of sitting down to "school" about the same time, which for now will be about 9am. At that time we will start by doing our devotionals, reading our bible stories, and possibly doing a hymn. Next week I may try and add something new, but we're taking this slow for now.

My husband has really began to jump on board here lately. He's never really been against HSing, just unsure of it. This is new territory for both of us. I didn't even know what HSing was until I was in high school. He's really been seeing what I had been talking about for so long about some of the other children that our kids go to school with, and he's even seen how it effects our children directly. Like our son trying to imitate his "friend's" actions. He definately got cut off at the pass!

As far as my fear of what others will think, I've decided that I'm going to just have to learn to let what others say and think roll off of my back. They're not living our lives, so if dh and I want to HS, then by all means we'll do it. One thing that has helped me to practice this is as of recently I started trying to wear only dresses and when I buy anything for my daughters or myself, I will only buy dresses. I've gotten several comments from friends and family members, and I just told them this was a choice that I made. I'm not hurting them by doing it, so why do they care. All I know is that I see, and so does my dh, how much the world is changing around us. It's so scary, and although I know I can't completely shield my children from the bad things in the world, I know that I would like the chance to try. I can't tell you all how much prayer has helped me in this. It's like God said, ok, here's your backbone, now use it. Thanks again to all of you for all of your encouragement. You have been such a blessing.

Prayer is the Foundation

{ 06:04, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 } { Posted by gokings13 }

We prayed from Aug of 02 through May of 03 before we pulled our 3 kids out of ps. We wanted to make sure it was the Lord leading.
Prayer is our home school foundation!
As long as you are praying, and letting Him lead, you cannot fail!!
God Bless,
Laura

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{ 04:45, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 } { Posted by SongofJoy }

My oldest dd went to public Kindergarten when the Lord directed us to homeschool. It's been a wonderful journey - admittedly some days have been much better than others! - but one I wouldn't have missed for the world. If you have any questions, please email me. I remember my first year was full of self-doubt and wondering if I was doing enough, or too much, and I wished I could have just sat back and relaxed. (And I was ps teacher before I had kids!) So sit back and enjoy the ride and make lots of memories. You'll never regret your decision!

Blessings,
Carol