Well, here we are, just about a month into our homeschooling and I am feeling very ill-equipped to do this!My "little blonde moments" are turning into full blown days!!

It will help once we have a curriculum, and there is a curriculum fair (make that 2) coming up within the next 2 weeks, so there is light at the end of my current tunnel. But for now, I am holding a fierce pity party! 

Its just that I'm beginning to wonder what I'm really teaching AJ right now - that his mom has no clue? That she makes it up as she goes along?

I mean, we have no schedule, no routine. We do math, we have done one science project, with one more on the horizon, and everyday he clips an article of interest from the paper & puts it in a sheet protector with some basic highlights. Oh - and he has become heavily addicted to Calvin & Hobbes! But thats where his love for reading begins & ends. Sometimes I have him read from a chapter book we picked up from the library, sometimes I totally forget. Lets see, oh and we are good about getting Discovery Channel videos from the library. But thats it. Thats all. Thats the extent of what I know how to do right now. There are amazing historical sights in our neck of the woods...Monticello, Williamsburg, DC just a couple hours north of us...but with gas prices the way they are, I can barely afford to back out of the driveway! I drive a Suburban...I think I get about 4 FEET to the gallon!

I'm beginning to find out things about myself - like I have many delusions of grandeur about homeschooling!  I thought of myself as probably being more the eclectic type, learning from here & there & everywhere, but am slowly coming to the conclusion that I am craving structure. I want, no, I NEED a curriculum, a guideline with timelines. And I have been looking! On a daily basis I am finding a brochure or catalog in my mailbox...and have some ideas...just can't wait for those fair dates to arrive so I can get a hands on peek. I love the internet, but at the end of the day, I want some information in my hands that I can curl up with & read & re-read.

Currently thinking of: Sonlight, Oak Meadow, & K12

OK, thats my monkey business for today...