I am working hard at trying to figure out how this blogging goes.  I have been reading other blogs and trying to think of great things to write about.  This and restructuring, at least in my head, our homeschool  has been the things that play on my mind lately. 

I think I figured out the blogging part, you write about what is on your mind and hopefully it interests people.   Then I wonder if I am intersting at all.  lol... I am sure some part of my life is. 

As for homeschooling, oh I have figured out that well....things are okay the way they are, but it would be nice if we had more fun.  And my son WANTS science, I really need to give it to him.  I am just not sure I am ready for science clutter.  I was all cool with clutter and mess till we tried to sell our house last summer.  Wow!  I loved how clean my home was.  I have never been all that much for neatness...but I loved how clean it was.  Then somewhere in that process we subscibed to more cable channels.  Hmm....home improvment channels.... hmmm, home decorating channels...hmmm I can make my house look so pretty for so little money....So there is the trap...laid out.  So the childrens messes were regulated to only one room and nothing of theirs could come out to the "main rooms" of our house except our texts. 

So every day we sit at the table and do book work.  Toys in the bedrooms or in the yard, but nothing can mess up my perfect living room and my perfect kitchen/slash dining room.  And somewhere a little voice in my head is saying....wait?  What happened to you?  Did you bring them home to live in a sterile environment?  So off goes my brain thinking again.  :)  Remember restructuring things...now only if my dear hubby would get on board.   See he is a neat-nick of his own.  But don't look in his garage, cause well...he is only a neat-nick in his house.  :) 

So halfway through the year I am realizing that even I can't keep up with the clutter.  I need more space if I want the house to be neat.  Hmmmm....Then my son says SCIENCE...oh my, all I see is a volcano on my brand new table?  AHHH.....I don't want to invision that mess! But that little voice is at work in my head....I hear that voice it says "why did you bring them home, yes to make it more fun"  So I am thinking maybe, jsut maybe I should broach the topic of Science with hubby.  Maybe we need space in the garage for it? 

Though I know that this will not work.  That poor garage is FULL.  Tools, toys....hmmm science items?  As I type this and think through my thoughts I think...huh...maybe I should re-look at that garage, but that was not totally where I was going with this post.

Somewhere in all of this I decided that the House, as neat as it is, is our home.  Even if we do try to sell this tiny thing that has 6 people living in it.  (mil lives with us also)  maybe...just maybe those people could look past me turning the living room into the classroom?  I am toying with this thought.  That dreaded cable that makes me think my house must look perfect like all the pretty ones on TV is leaving next week.  Our choice.  So the T.v. is really only going to be for basic needs.  Lets move it into the small lil room in the front of the house.  Put the couch there.  Turn the living room into a classroom.  Mil says "what will you do if guests come over, with no furniture in your living room?"  Valid point....hmmmm gotta think that through....Dh says "are you crazy?"  Hmm....I don't think so.  And all I can think is we need a classroom space in which we can organize our school belongings. 

And that still tiny voice in my head says "be patient, all good things come in time....enjoy what you have now"  And I say okay......thank you tiny voice......And patience is what I am working at.....(though I am not so good at patience, not so good at all)  But I am working at it.