Today was awesome!  I went to my friend's house and she showed me the curriculum that she uses for her children.  She had lots of other homeschooling (HSing) curriculums for me to look at.  I am so excited.  I want to bring home my kids and start teaching them at home tomorrow.  I think that I have picked part of the curriculum...it's called Cantering the Country.  It looks really exciting I have so many ideas.  I am going to take my state boards tomorrow for my license as a registered nurse (*~*YEAH!!!*~*).  So, I have to take a break from this endeavor for the moment (which is hard, because as you see I am here typing my first homeschool blog page).  We have the rest of the school year before we begin HSing, due to the fact that we have already paid their tuition for the remained of the year.  This will allow us to plan ahead, and prepare our home and our bank account for this.  The plan is for Tommy to stay at home and for me for work full-time.  Since I will be working at night, I will be able to rest on the days after I've been at work all night.  We are choosing our studies very carefully, so that we can plan accordingly.  We can't wait to be able to take mini vacations as we want.  That's the glory of working 3 days a week.  Plus, I see things coming home from school with my kids that I just don't want in my house.  The least of these is my baby came home from preschool today (she's 3 mind you) and she says "You're not my friend".  What is that?  I mean it's not that she said bad words BUT having her say this revealed to me that some one at her school has said this to her.  Some people may think this is harmless and frankly, yes it will not kill her to be told this.  But if this is what is being said to my 3 y/o, imagine the things that are being said to my 5 & 8 y/olds.  Speaking of them...my five year old had a melt down a week ago (I'm talk tears, hyperventilating the works) because this girl in her class has told her that she's not pretty.  That she's getting fat (she's almost 6 and weighs 41 pounds, is this kid kidding me).  She also said you need straight blonde hair, your hair is too curly...WHAT??  My children go to a private school...in kindergarten, yes I do expect the children to act different, and I don't expect that my daughter (in kindergarten) would be having the discussion that I used to have with my friends when we were more like 12. HSing will allow us to allow our children to be innocent longer.  The world just doesn't allow for that anymore.  I say let them be little, it doesn't last long enough these days.  So that's where we are in our new adventure called HOMESCHOOL.  Right now, we have chosen to not tell our family and friends because we want to get our ducks in a row first. We are concerned that NO ONE is going to support us on this.  So, for now, this is between us and this blog site...  Til next time...................