I love this image. I found it on Doug's Blog.  Doug Phillips is one of my favorite speakers.  You should check out the company he endorses Vision Forum and his blog there called Doug's Blog.

Plans for 2012-2013 school year

I love homeschooling.  I can not tell you enough how glad that God lead us down this path about 3 years ago.  And surprisingly, it has had its effects on at least one of our children in a surprising way, you can catch a glimpse of that in his blog post here.

We are moving to AZ next week and look forward to living in a state that is more relaxed in its legal homeschool requirements, not that KY was difficult by any means.  I am looking forward to next school year.  We are really doing a mix'n'match with our choices which I have laid out for you here:

UPDATE:
Tim and Tori's English to Easy Grammar, Easy Writing, Soaring with Spelling and Vocabulary, and Daily Grams.
Tyler's Electives take off the Entrepreneurial Training and add Switched on Schoolhouse-College Planner, and a computer programming course author TBD... suggestions welcome.

3 Fs I wanna share with you

Freedom. Homeschooling has offered my family a freedom that has been such a blessing.  We are able to school on weekends if we want, not school on weekdays if we want.  Take shorter or less holiday breaks.  Take longer or more holiday breaks.  School year round with more breaks.  Have a longer summer break with less breaks throughout the year.  As long as we put in the 180 days of instruction, we are good.  It has allowed us to do our schooling upstairs, downstairs, on a couch, in the floor, at the table, at our desks, on our computers, outside, in a tent, at a picnic table, in the car, on vacation... really, the possibilities are endless.

Faith.  Homeschooling has strengthened our Faith.  We have more time to work on developing our relationships with God and less damage control from unwanted influences.  We use Biblical curriculum written from a Christian world view.  We have a Bible class as part of our daily life.  We go to a Christian Homeschool Co-op and have built wonderful, encouraging relationships there. We work on building Biblical character.  We have truly been blessed by God on this journey.

Forgiveness.  What? Yep, forgiveness has been needed many times when mommy gets a little short..  Forgiveness has been needed when one child or another has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of answering their science questions and left the little cursor blinking on the screen and the seat empty when mom comes in to check on their progress. But at the end of the day.... its all worth it.  

Those are my three Fs for today.  Maybe next time I will bring you the letter A... or maybe not?????