I first started hearing about homeschooling when Faith was two and a half. This was from a mother of 9 and I was thinking it works for her because of the size of her family, there was no way it would work for an only child. I liked the concept of the work and the Bible being a part of her everyday life but there was no way I could teach her.Faith started her journey in a Private Christian School, that used ACE, so I thought I had the best of both worlds, someone to teach her and friends.

Our journey to where we are in homeschooling today, was very rocky.  Words of me not being capable of homeschooling were always ringing the back of my mind. It didn't take me long to stop using the Paces that we brought home with us from the school, it just wasn't working for us. I then bought some workbooks for Kindergarden level, thinking I would get our curriculum in 6 months when the Homeschooling Fair came into town. Boy. was I wrong!! That was when I realized HOW BIG homeschooling was. I figured I would walk in there and look at a few curriculum's there are and come home and start teaching grade one. I came home overwhelmed with all the catalogues I had in my bag. It was around this time when I realized that I need to get one of those homeschooling books at the library. For grade one I bought more workbooks.

I am really glad that is the route that I took because this was the year that I grew so much, that I learnt that I was a good mom and I could homeschool regardless of what people thought of me. At the end of grade one I not only had Faith reading at a grade 4 level. I had my husband 100% sold out on homeschooling, you see this was only to happen until grade 7, 8 at the latest, this or the Private School. He now says that homeschooling will happen as long as both Faith and I want it. Praise the Lord!! God is so good. He used this time to show me that I could homeschool and that I could teach Faith. It was the bonus that Harvey was now completely on board. I have come a long, long way.

My childhood memories of school I can't say are the best. I am sure that there are good memories in my mind some where, but it seems that it is the bad memories that stick out. I have no memory of being happy that summer was out and school was starting. I have memories of not being able to do a lot of things. I am one of those kids that you hear about that the school would say, is few and she must have fell through the cracks some how?? I have good school memories in grade 4 and in grade 8, why those two grades, those were the grades that the teacher in grade 4 and the teachers in grade 8, notice that I wasn't at grade level and set out to help me learn. All the other grades the teacher's didn't notice I needed help. Here's the other story that I have yet to tell, and that being the social one. I was bullied from Grade 5 until 10. I was pick on by the same group of girls, until the ring-leader got pregnant and drop out of school. See I was different, I was 6 feet tall. When it came time for filling out of colleges applications I wasn't and when friends came around my house saying they got in here and there, my parents asked about me. That was when I told them that I could not read or write. My mom march right in to the high school by then it was to late. I had a learning disability, this whole time. Once we learnt that and how I could learn, college was a total different experience. I got A's and B's and loved school.

I want to be a mother that is there for her, I want to help her or challenge her which ever it is she needs. I want her to LOVE to learn, to enjoy school, to think that reading books is the best thing since slice bread. I believe that God gave me His daughter for a reason and homeschooling her is one of many. I don't have the best memories of school, and now with the schools are believing that no child left behind, meaning they fail no one is their best policy. With bulling at a all time high. Let's not get started about the Bible being taken out of the school. I believe that Faith being at home with me safe, reading her Bible, Praying and learning at her level is the best place for her to be. For this I am forever thankful to God. We are heading into grade 2 using our first curriculum, Rod & Staff. Faith is now six and I feel that we have found what being home together is all about, joy, learning and growing.