Over a Year!!

I Have not posted in over a year. Needless to say I have not done my challenge. I have not given up working part time. I have forgotten all of blogger. I still homeschool and enjoy being with my kids.

Here is what I am wanting to accomplish for the coming year. I want to blog everyday about our homeschooling journey. I want to have pictures. I want to learn how to better blog and make it popular. I want to be able to help someone someday. I want to have challenges at least every few months to help keep us all motivated.

So starting tomorrow I am going to take pictures of our homeschooling. I will start with what our homeschooling area looks like. I will give a little insight on how we school and what we do.

Happy Homeschooling

I am so ready for tomorrow. I enjoy homeschooling my children. My children are so wonderful to me. I sometimes think I do not deserve them. I want to offer them the world. I want them to know our Savior Jesus Christ. I hope and pray to be the leader I need to be for Christ.

I have changed how I homeschool this year and it has been a wonderful experience. I am more relaxed and more convinced my children are learning. At the time of our schooling it is hard to see them actually learning sometimes. You have those days where you just want to pull your hair out and throw in the towel. You think you are not doing what God wants you to be doing. I know these days very well. I have them often, then God allows me to see my children playing and saying things they have learned that I didn't realize they had picked up as well as they did. I want to offer you encouragement today. I want to let you know that it will get better. You don't have to push everything into one day. Break it up for your family. Each family is different and yes there are some that I do find myself envious of. However I pray and allow myself to think of my family and to think of what God has blessed me with. I then say what can I do better for my family? I then try to do whatever I think of to make it a little better. I hope you too can do this or something to find peace for your family.

Homeschooling

I am going through our school books from last year and seeing how we didn't get as much done as I would have liked. We used the Abeka DVD program and have used it for the last 3 years. I started using it because I have a part time job. I work from January to April managing a tax office. So I wanted something that would be easier for us to use during that time. However my daughter didn't like sitting at a computer all day. She didn't like not being able to ask questions and getting an answer right away. She spent hours in front of the TV or computer screen. I didn't like that fact. It was very easy to get behind and very hard to play catch up. I love Abeka, we used it before the DVD program. I will be using just the curriculum this year. We will see how that goes. We are also going to join a co-op. I will let you know how that goes.

As a homeschool mom, I try my best not to coddle my children to much but it really hurts me when they get upset because they can't learn something in the time frame of when they want to learn it. So most of my time is spent going over something a lot before we have to test on it. That way they can make a good grade and they feel happy because they have actually learned the material. I never test and give them the answers. That is just not going to help them. I want them to learn so much. Life can be so busy.

Learning new things.

I am trying to figure out this whole blog thing. I want to be able to share many things that we do in our homeschooling day but I don't want a long list of post after post. How do you attract followers? How do you add links? How do I have separate click able entries? Are there any kind of sites I can learn from?

I want to be able to get this figured out so I can get my daughter into blogging. She loves to write and can come up with some very interesting things. However as we take our Journey that is one of the things that we need to work on. Her spelling and her grammar isn't that great either. She takes after me, really good at math and science but horrible at grammar. I wonder if it is because she can feel my haste when I am teaching it? I wonder if the reason she is so bad at it is because I have a hard time teaching it because I don't understand somethings? Wow I just had a revelation, if that is the right word. (LOL)

Encouragment

I am sitting here doing a search and trying to find something encouraging. I wanted to get my spirits up because frankly they are down a bit. My laundry is backed up, my bed is unmade, my living room is a disaster and I just don't feel like cleaning it. I have read a few blogs and a few sites but nothing really touched me. So I prayed for a moment and then it hit me. Why not start a blog yourself? Why not you? You can lift someones spirit and by doing so maybe find a way to lift yours. So here I am. I want to give an honest blog about an ordinary mother who has made many mistakes along this journey of life. I don't want to just put a plug in or a shout out about this product or that product. I am not here to make money or to tell you what to use or how to use it. I am here to maybe give you a smile and a giggle to know that someone else is out there having the same struggles you may be having. So I may cover finances, which a lot of people are ashamed to talk about, relationship problems, homeschooling issues, and house keeping. I just want to be able to bring joy into your life.