I am sitting by myself in my study, typing away. One of my sons is in the kitchen clattering around, but aside from that I am all by myself. I did not call out any spelling words today, or check anybody’s work. I’m done. After homeschooling both of my boys k-12, I came in on home stretch. It took about 2 years for my brain to stop spinning! It’s a miracle. I can actually go out to lunch with somebody if I want to. (Funny, I usually don’t want to. I thought I would!)
Now that my head has stopped spinning, I have reflected on how much I learned while homeschooling, and how dear all of those days really were. As my “thank you” to God, I want to help and encourage homeschool moms who are still schooling. We have lots to talk about! Let’s see, there’s curriculum, discipline, housework, teaching methods, activities, college, skeptical family members, recipes, crafts, co-ops and so much more. So I hope you stop by often and visit.
There are so many miracles when I look back on my years as a homeschool mom. First, God led me to an obscure book in our church library about a lady who homeschooled her kids in airports and hotels because her husband had a traveling job. That was the initial spark for my homeschooling fire. Mind you, I started back in the old days when everybody thought we homeschoolers were REALLY weird, when NOBODY else hardly on the planet did something so strange! : ) Then He led me to two other women in my church who were homeschoolers. Then I found Mary Pride books. I was hooked after reading Mary. She even wrote me a precious personal response one time to a question I sent her. (This was before email, friends!)
When I look back over my sixteen years of homeschooling, I have no regrets. I did not do everything perfect. But I tried. I prayed. I started over and changed my mind and didn’t follow through on everything. But God blessed my effort. My boys both earned college scholarships, (in varying amounts) and my eldest has even graduated. Whew! When he graduated, I really wanted to wear a t-shirt to his graduation that said: “Told ya’ so! I told you I could do it! I told you it would work! I told ya’ I told ya’ I told ya’!” But that would have been totally rude and nobody would have even liked it, but that’s what I felt like doing. 
So, now I want to encourage you. I have been where you are. I have gone into the bathroom and locked the door and prayed for strength in the middle of a school day. I have called spelling words from my bed. You can do this. Keep on. You will be glad one day.
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