I have been a little slow about coming around to the world of blogging so this is my first attempt at trying to move forward in our modern age.  I am going to give this a try so that I'll know how to be a help to my children when they decide to investigate this new electronically driven world we live in.

Considering the the title of this blog is Home Learning Explorers, you have probably guessed that we have chosen to home educate our children.  We have been teaching our own children since January of 2002.  We began as a lot of folks probably do by reacting to a lot of things we didn't particularly like about the public education system our children were attending.  I can honestly say that home education wasn't something that had ever crossed my mind as a way to educate our children until the school year 2001-2002.  A friend of mine began teaching her children at home that year and that lead me to begin researching how to homeschool when things started to deteriorate at the school our children attended.

While our home learning adventures did not begin with the realization that it was simply what God wanted us to do, it has wound up being that way.  After a couple of years of struggling with curriculum choices, we learned to turn it over to God and ask for His direction for our home.  We went from the mindset that we had to recreate public school at home; that we had to direct our children's education based on public school standards to just following God and not worrying so much about anyone else's standard.

My favorite Bible Verse over the years of our home learning has become Proverbs 3:5-6  Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.