I have always been a journal type of person.  Usually its about my life or my tawg, but I have been looking at others homeschooling blogs.  I have to say that I didn't do this at first because I go about things in a different way.  My kids that homeschool are high school and middle school level. 

I started homeschooling when my oldest son, Ryan, was going into high school and he was proving to be a follower instead of a leader.  I knew that with the things out there that being a follower was not going to be a good thing for him.  So I decided to homeschool him.  He fought me a little and complained about it, but now that he is a junior and is doing really well, I think he is happy with it.  He is on a homeschool baseball team that just got back from TX in a homeschool world series tournament.  His team is playing against regular high school teams, and they are winning.  Which of course the whole team gives all that glory to the Lord, and that is what the coaches teach them to do.  He also recently has decided what he wants to do when highschool is behind him.  He wants to go to a nearby christian college and train to be a youth pastor.  We have already talked to our pastor's at church and they have agreed to mentor him, and help him.  He is showing me on a daily basis that he is no longer a follower, he is a leader.  He has taken the boys of the youth group at church under his wing.  He has also taken the JV team under his wing.  Im so amazed at what the Lord can do.  Where I use to worry deeply about my son, now I see a young man that is going to serve God and the youth. 

My oldest daughter, Beckah, is now in 7th grade.  She asked me to homeschool her at the begining of her 6th grade year.  Which I was more then happy to do.  She is an amazing young lady, and she brings so much imagination to her work.  She has a heart for children, and loves to help at church in the nursery and the preschool room.  She loves to learn and is so excited to start new things.  I am just amazed at what she is already and can't even fathom what she will become.

My other children are in the public school system.  Robbie is in the 6th grade, but in a multi intensive class.  Robbie has Prader-Willi syndrome and functions well below his grade level.  Because of this, I don't feel like I am equipt to homeschool him. 

Raelynn is in the 2nd grade, and is happy and pretty much doing well where she is.  However she has started asking me to homeschool her, and I am considering it.  It would be a new venture for me to homeschool an elementary school child, but I am up for it.

Daniel will be starting Kindergarten this year, but because he is legally blind, I am not comfortable with trying to teach him.  However we might be recieving a scholarship for a special magnifying device for him, and if it goes well and we get it, when its time for 1st grade I may consider homeschooling for him.

So that is where we are at right now.  Trying to make choices for next year.  I like what Beckah is doing, but I also am intrested in something one of my friends told me about.  So I have some praying to do, and some research.