So......I never planned on being a mommy when God decided it was apparently time. I never planned on being a stay at home mom, BUT God mapped it out just perfectly to put me here----at HOME. And I PROMISE that home-schooling my children was never even a thought, much less an option. Until about maybe a year ago.........
I have a dear friend (whom I love!) and she told me she was going to be home-schooling. She invited me to a few events and talks, that sort of thing. Of course I never went. Why would I? Because clearly I am NOT a home-school mom. I am completely unorganized, suffer from mild ADD-whatever that thing is and I am very unorganized......so unorganized I had to say it twice, or was that because of the ADD? Well.......anyhow!!! We talked a few other times and the topic would come up and I would quickly change the subject. I wasn't fully comfortable with sending my sweet baby girl out into "the world" just yet.......let's face it, there is so much out there that I would just prefer to shield her from and I don't want her growing up too quick. Kids are smacked in the face so much now with worldly junk at such an early age! Their little minds cannot comprehend or process it and they shouldn't have to! So we looked into a local magnet school and signed her up to test to see if she could get in there......this was just a happy compromise for this mommy's heart and soul. So we went, she tested, she didn't get a spot. So at this point I am telling myself that the school I am going to sign her up for is a good school, I always hear such great stuff from other parents about it, she is going to love it AND I am going to love the "break" every day.
Summer came......and summer was almost done and I was tuning in really closely to things I was hearing. Just "stuff" that goes on "out there" and things that our children are being exposed to much earlier than I would prefer and insert the ACLU stomping it's nasty boots in our county lately regarding prayer and God-------let's just say I could hear God trying to get my attention. I began learning that several of my friends were going to be home-schooling.......how did I not know this??!! AND then my dear friend mentioned (that I mentioned at the start) shared one more of those "stuff" kind of stories and it literally shoved me over the edge! I started asking her questions.......lots and lots of 'em! And I realized quickly that home-school was SO NOT what I had made myself believe it to be. I was imagining long drawn out days at the kitchen table doing worksheet after worksheet after worksheet. And having a strict schedule and spending tons of money on I don't know what! And the whole scheduling thing and my organizing shortfalls would totally clash! And my sweet friend set me STRAIGHT!!! I came to learn that what was in my head, was ONLY in my head!!!
Home-school could be whatever me and Mae want it to be! It can be planned, set up and changed as need be to keep her interested and learning and growing! We can move at her pace and speed without any extra pressures. If it takes her 5 days to get something, great! If she gets it in 5 minutes, we move on! She can still take her usual 1 1/2 hour long nap (my girl is a sleeper) and she can sleep til 7 and if we aren't home in time for bedtime on occasion........NO BIGGIE, cause she can sleep in and nap the next day! I love it! The freedom for us to be the one's in charge is wonderful especially when your husband runs his own business. We need to be able to plan trips and family time and vacation around his work......not what the school district sets in place. This just works way better for US!!!!!
SO YES!!!! YES I am a home-school mom!!!! And I am proud and loving it!!!! I love that I will get to keep spending these fleeting days with my sweet girl! I love that I get to mold and shape her much more than if she was away for those 30+ hours per week. I love that me and Tony still have the upper hand on what she is learning about the "world" and YES keep her in a bubble for a bit longer. Just call her The Bubble Girl. Hehe! She is going to be thrust into the world soon enough and I am loving that I get to keep her innocent and sheltered just a bit longer..........yes, I said sheltered.
So here we are..........so here we go.........it's going to be an amazing year of KINDERGARTEN AT HOME!!!
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