Even after four years of homeschooling, I am unsure what method or style is ours.  I have spent sometime...maybe not enough, just looking through different books to see where we fit best.  I think I still like Charlotte Mason the best, and Teaching the Trivium a very close second.  For me, they have so many beautiful qualities that I like.  I like Charlotte Mason's gentle approach, and I love how Teaching the Trivium is so Christ centered.  They both could keep me rooted....it I just learn to stay rooted.  I keep getting side tracked by colorful books that look so interesting lol.  There are alot of good ideas out there.  If you aren't careful, you get swamped. 

For me, I think some of the reasons that I get swamped, is because :

1. I tend to worry too much about what other people say or do.  I worry that they say we aren't doing enough....so I try to do more to balance it out, but it doesn't balance me out.  It unbalances me.  And if it unbalances me, then it is going to effect my children. 

2. I try to cover too many bases.  Reality is.....I can't do everything.  So I really should make a list and then choose from that list what is the most important.

3.  I can't keep up with what someone else does.  What works for someone else, just might not work for me lol.  I need to leave it there. 

4.  And this is the big one....I need to stop looking at all those curriculum catalogues lol. 

Blessings from acraisydaisy