Like most of you, I have spent the last month or so reviewing curricula ad nauseam, poring over brochures that manage to litter every shelf in my house, and racing through myriads of internet pages comparing prices. I even went so far this year as to list all the items I wanted in Excel - to tally the cost as I ordered ( I love spending money).

Just when I thought I had found a suitable book for either kid, I found something else that looked better. I was playing on the never-ending merry-go-round that did not even start out in a happy state, and was not getting any merrier.

Once I spied the Tapestry of Grace threads on the A Home for Homeschoolers forums, I checked out the site. www.tapestryofgrace.com (BTW, the TOG site is a horrible thing to navigate your way through, sort of like walking through the Hampton Court maze without a map, but a redesign is in the works)

I borrowed a core 3 and unit 1 folder from a friend who owns a homeschool library to see if I could make any sense out of the program, and after spending at least 200,000,000 unbillable hours on the darn thing, I THINK I understand it all now….

I’ve printed off so many pages for the first few weeks of school that my printer will no longer print anything that requires black ink. The online manual says that the printer head is worn out – forget the printer, what about ME?????

To those of you sane mothers who love all things homeschool, I salute you. You would have given up on this long ago. The only reason I am still going with this is because I already know I am insane. My children have told me this many times, so I know it’s true. I think my husband tried to tell me once but I gave him “the look” before he got the words out. He did say the other day,

“And the reason you are going with this curriculum is because…” so I gave him “the look again”, and he went back to his computer.

If any of you were reading this in the hopes that you would learn something helpful about Tapestry of Grace, THINK AGAIN!!!, but maybe next week, when my hormones settle down, I will write something coherent and sweet.

Hasta le vista!