Get Ready...Get Set...Homeschool!

Or something like that. :) I'm definitely getting ready (finally!). My head has been swimming with things that I have to prepare so that we can start school. And of course there's TONS of people who mean very well (I love all of you!) and keep telling me not to worry or stress about it. But, in reality, whats the likelihood that I won't stress out? Umm, none. Thankfully my wonderful husband is willing to give up part of his vacation time so that he can help me prepare....anything! In fact, he told me today, just to give him a list of what needs to be done and he'd do it. Thats great! Now if only I knew what needed to be done. Thats the real problem. So lets see, where I'm starting is this: getting my Notice of Intent to Homeschool done (which btw, what does your curriculum descriptions look like? not too sure about what I should or shouldn't put on that). That has to be sent in by August 15 (about a week away).

After that I have to look at all the curriculum and figure out how much of each subject we will be doing each day and for how many days. Oh yea, before that I have to figure out if we want to school 5 days a week or 4 or 3 or whatever. I also have to find out if there is a requirement on HOW many days we actually school (anyone know the answer to that one?). I need to set up our "school area" so that we have a place to work at and I need to go through the curriculum so I know how to use it before I start to teach it. Yep. I'm just a little overwhelmed by it all. Figuring it out though, and I WILL figure it out.

Just a little insight for those non-homeschoolers as to the things going on here right now. So if you think about it, say a prayer for my sanity and that I can get it all done soon so we can start school.

Hopefully this is the kids when we start!