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Here's my entry for the contest at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/JacqueDixonSoulRestES/178599/:

• What type of homeschooler are you?How do you homeschool? (Do you plan??)  Yes, I'm a planner (well, my dh is a planner and insisted that I be one too as far as homeschool goes!)
• Are you using a specific curriculum or a conglomeration or none?  This year we are using Sonlight as our base and then adding or subtracting things as needed.  So, I would say I add a conglomoration to a specific.
• Are you making it up yourself? No way!  I tried that a few years ago, but it was HARD!!
• Do you have a plan or just use ideas as you go? I have a long term plan, but it is subject to revision at any time.  Initially, we planned to use Sonlight all the way through high school, but then I discovered TOG and will use that starting next year (I just couldn't resist Sonlight's Eastern Hemisphere for this year).  Of course, if it turns out that the Lord isn't going to bless us by growing our family through adoption, we will seriously look at Veritas Press' Omnibus.
• Do you homeschool in desks, at the table or anywhere it works?? It depends on the subject!!  Math is done at the breakfast table, most every thing else is done on the loveseat in our "school room" (except the things that have to be neat, which are done at the table in there - we don't do math there because we only have one chair in that room)
• Tell me what you are excited about that you will be doing!  I'm super excited about doing Sonlight's Eastern Hemisphere Explorer!!  I really don't know too much about that half of the world and it's cultures and I can't wait to explore them.  I'm also excited about Le Français Facile since we plan to visit France next spring or summer and it would be great if at least one of us knows something of the language (we definitely don't want to pull a Clark Griswald there!).  Finally (whew!), I'm really excited about doing Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space.  I've always loved rocks and now I get to pass that love along to my daughter!  Woohoo!
• Are you going to teach each child in their own grade level or do you multi-grade teach? I only have one so this doesn't apply to us except in the sense that Bean works each subject at the grade level that's right for her even if it doesn't match the "grade" she would be in public school.