This blog is a place for you!

If you are a homeschooling mom this blog is for you! It is not about curriculum. It is not about "classroom management" or how to create lesson plans. It is about survival. It's about maintaining your uniqueness both as a woman and as a human being. It is a place for you to receive advice, feel supported, be reminded that you are not alone and read about how other moms in your own position are surviving and even thriving as whole people. A place to help you answer for yourself the question that everyone asks (or wants to ask) or would ask if they weren't busy worrying about how your kids' spelling is since they aren't in "real" school, the question of, "How do you do it all?"

If we are telling the truth, many of us (especially those of us who are still fairly new and are still just flying by the seats of our pants) we will not yet have a real
answer for that question other than, "We just do." Maybe, together we can hone that answer or at least grow in our perceptions about how we can make this experience all that it can possibly be... and on some days just get enough support to make it to bedtime!

How do we do this and come out on the other end looking better than something that somewhat resembles a homosapien. There are places all over the internet devoted to how homeschooling develops our children and grows them into the wonderful people that we know they are going to be (or have become for those who have been at this for a long time.) But how does it develop us?

Do we do this thing purely as a sacrificial act or is it possible that we can reap some benefits that might be found in few other ways than spending daily time nurturing the minds of our children and our own minds (while simultaneously feeding gaping hungry mouths, washing unfathomable amounts of laundry, changing poopy diapers, keeping husbands happy, exercising, eating right, maintaining spiritual well-being, and making sure to be shower-fresh and clothed [as much as possible]).

I want this to be a blog with multiple contributors. This way we will have people of all flavors and personality types, thereby being more user friendly and helpful to a greater audience. Bring your personal style to it. Be yourself. If you are funny, be funny. If you are serious, yet encouraging, we need that too! If you ocassionally write a wonderful post on your homeschooling message board that people swear up and down that they are going to print and have turned into a plaque to hang in their school room, copy it to a post here! If you are a voice of reason or a woman who knows how to find the resources that we need to know about but you stink at writing, join in anyways! We need your resourcefulness!

If you feel you have something to add and can make a valuable contribution -- even if it's something small, please e-mail me (e-mail link located under the coffee image) and tell me just a little about yourself and if I feel fairly confident that you are not a psycho stalker weirdo sycophant I'll see what I can do about adding you to the list of contributors! In your e-mail please include a link to your blog as I'm sure you will want a link back to your own place!


Edited to add: Once you are approved as a contributor, please make an introduction post and put the introductions label on it. Any other posts you make, feel free to label as you see fit. To keep our labels to a minimum though try and use something that is already there if it fits what you have written. :^D