Our Beautiful Earth.....what have we done?

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.


~George Carlin


Reading this and seeing it happen before my very eyes (Oil spill 2010) Makes me feel like,What are we leaving for our children,What did are parents leave us???



I do not want my children growing up thinking that because of the sins of the parents that it is okay to keep on destroying their Earth. I am focusing very much this year on,How are actions and lack of actions have and are and will effect the earth and because of how the earth is changing will effect us and future generations to come.



I think that the ol' saying "being to old to change" might have some truth to it...But luckily we have a whole new generation before us and new one being born every day..So all is not lost because they are defiantly not to old to be taught new ways of thinking .



I know that our world has become so dependent on the advancements we have made throughout time,and I realise that it would be impossible for us to go back to a time before this ..I dont expect this to happen...but just because we can not today change the "BIG" things doesnt mean we should not try and change the small ones,and educate ourselves and our children on the bigger issues at hand ,Because who knows if are child maybe the next president ..and with that sort of foundation placed early on who knows what they may do to make this world a Better place to live!

Moments that make you Smile :)

SHOCKED!!!! PROUD!!!!THANKFUL!!!!
All words that i can use to describe what i felt today ...


This morning i woke and decided to get on the computer....I had not been on 20 mins, When my daughter who is 8 comes in..MOM!!! can i get on and do some Science? (grinning from ear to ear)

Part of me was thinking ,Dang't just signed on to check my mail..but ,the mom in me was like i suppose i can do that later..

Okay..I will turn on your Time4Learning..Yay!!! she says ..LOL ;)

I am not kidding,It had Not been 1/2 an hour..I hear the kids Gripping & whining!..
I run in What's going on!!!!  Mom,she says.....He's messing with my work!!!.(he is my son who is just 3 BTW)......Then he starts yellin,I wanna do MOUSE!!!!I wanna do MOUSE!!!!I wanna do MOUSE!!!!

Okay ..now i know sibling fights are not good..aggravating to say the least..Yelling at mom was defiantly something that deserved a time out....but I have to admit this one time  i let it go......
I mean How many parents get to say that their children actually fight over who gets to do their school work :)

Why all the work is so worth it!

When anyone start this "Adventure" into homeschooling there will be many hurdles to jump,
I know for me it was when I saw my own child learning that It made all the work I had put in all worth while <3
Last night My daughter and I were hanging out in her room and she was reading me one of her books....I was just so proud of her !!! Especially since last year she was having so much trouble..Isnt funny how one minute they are so lost and and the next they are pros ,acting as if it was no trouble at all ;)
What I love about homeschooling is you dont have to keep to a specific anything..I mean yes she does Time4Learning but we kinda wing it alot ...
Like right now outside of T4L we read a lil everynight &
I just bought "The Story Of the World vol 1" For History..
And my hubby has been getting her into astrology lately which is so interesting and she really having fun with it :)
My son he is turning 3yrs in a few days and I have been getting him into "homeschooling" Makes me wonder how smart he will be in 5 yrs ...They say that your 2nd,3rd ect are always quicker at picking things up because your older ones are there as Special Teachers <3..I tell you if thats the case as smart as my daughter is ....I can only imagine what he will be like at her age..sigh :)

Children are Amazing!

We all think our child is the smartest..Cutest...ect ect ect..That just part of being a mom <3
But sometimes they really amaze you and you know they are truly more special then you already knew :)

My Daughter for instance..she has always been so creative..She has such a imagination..The storys she comes up with..She will create these detailed story lines for her dolls,since she was old enough to talk..Someimes i think she may be a writer when she grows up....But then i think may be she might be a curator of a muesum or actually go out and discover the history of our worlds all on her own...I am not kidding you she can tell you what ever dinosaur is ..and she loves to sit and watch documentarys,all day if she could ;)

Then there is my son..He is still a baby in my eyes..thou he tells me he is a big boy now lol ;)
He isnt even 3 yet..but already he can tell you his ABC's ,read some words and count  up to 10 sometimes...Today he was doing his pre-school work on our online school program Time4Learning...anyways we were doing colors ..it just amazed me how he knew them all already ...

Sometimes i miss being a kid..having all that mystery of what you could be ...I look at both of my kids and wonder about thier future..but i am sure about one thing..and that is no matter what they acheive in their life i will always love them and be proud of them <3
As i sit here and write about today and the days before,It makes me that more excited about what tomorrow may hold .........

What made me decide to Home School

When I came across these 2 statements, It was like WOW! This is exactly how I feel. I am sure everyone has their own reasons why they chose to home school...For me this was my main reason .
The world around us is not what it should be,Our children our at the mercy of who ever gets hired to "teach" them.They are vulnerable to ,too many different types of people adults & children, Who may or may not be ideal for building good self esteem and/or molding young minds.
I am not saying all schools are awful or all people are bad,That would be Crazy! The problem is knowing which is which and who is who!

I am sure you have all heard the remarks people can make about us "home-schoolers",One that sticks out is the ol'sayin ,"well you went to public school and you turned out fine".....
Yes ,I may have turned out okay,But why should my child settle for okay ,When they deserve Extraordinary!
I really wanted to start this Blog off with what drove me to Home-school....The Educational opportunity goes with out saying..That of course was a BIG reason..
I love knowing that my kids learning doesnt start or stop by a clock or day of the week..They can learn when ever and where ever they fill Inspired...............
Journey of a  Home school mom ;)