Is this a repeat? Guess you can tell where my mind is!

What do you do, when in the middle of the day you have a great idea for the blog space but no opportunity to put  fingers to keys? I know I'm new to this but I think I have let some great ideas slip away! I suppose, I could sneak away to an unpopular aisle in the grocery store. When I get there, I could pretend to have a conversation but secretly use the voice record feature on my smartphone? Or better yet, send myself a text message? YES! That sounds great! We all text,
no matter the time or place. <--- I would appear normal... Problem solved. :)

Okay, now on to more important thoughts!

In addition to being a new blogger, I am also a first time home educator. Yikes! :O I absolutely believe that it is the best thing and right thing for my family. I am more than committed to the craft. With anything undertaken for the first time, there is a learning curve. With something as dynamic as four (which includes mine) personalities, there is a lot to be assessed, diagnosed, planned for, implemented and evaluated (this is aka the nursing process:)).

I have chosen a curriculum that I really like. The best way to describe it is to liken it to a house that you have purchased. However, that house that needs your own touches before you can call it your home. I guess that's both what's so great about it and what can be frustrating about it at the same time. As a first timer, sometimes I long for something that is more ready made. I will say that there is a Day By Day Planner that I have yet to use. In my ignorance, I purchased this set used and sight unseen. Unfortunately, My Day by Day Planner is missing the first thirty pages! So right from the start, I have had to dive in head first-- and sink or swim!

This is the end of the third week and I know that I must be a lot more organized. I have to be armed (sounds like I'm going battle, huh?) with a plan for drawing the best out of my kids and making the lesson come alive. And unfortunately, I have to do this covertly (more battlefield talk :). This is because I know that if my kids know that that is the goal, they will take no prisoners and have no mercy in giving me the pass/fail. And I'm under enough pressure already! LOL 

In addition to my being a novice, I am coming to realize that my children have to be "unschooled". Although my oldest is only a second grader, she has attended 4 schools! Poor kid! She has been a student of traditional education for four-and-a half years. Even my youngest, who is just 3, has had a year of preschool! They've heard for so long that they had to go to school and that going to school was good for them. And then were sent to the building around the corner and down the street. In that building, the staff did things a certain way and the children are told and grow to perceive this to be the best way. On top of that, when they come home, we reinforce what they have been taught at school. So I believe it is fair to allow them an outlet, a voice and the time necessary to change their point of view and thought processes.

With all of the above on my mind, we are off to the Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow. A light day in the way of planning :) Wish us well!

I plan on using this weekend to gird up in order to  be strong in the Lord (and in the lesson LOL)!