So, after having dropped off the face of the earth recently, we regained our footing and cracked open the books for the new school year.

It always seems so new and exciting, for the first three minutes. Then my youngest pouts because he doesn't want to do math, my oldest whines because he has to write more than two word responses in his narratation and at some point as I watch my hair fall to the ground I wonder what the @!#$ possesed me to do this?

My sweet children unexpectedly gave me that answer. Unprovoked by yours truely we became engaged in a conversation with an aquaintence as to our motivation for homeschooling. Both my children responded without hesitation, "Oh, because we like to learn and we don't need to know how to school."

What a profound statement. We like to learn, we don't need to know how to school.

Well ladies, raise your glasses, here's to another year of educating our darlings at the kitchen table under our wings. May the lord bless us and keep us...from all of that, if you know what I mean. (Anyone ever met a good gypsy? I'm lookin' to sell one...kidding, I'm kidding.)