Introduction

Welcome to my blog, my thoughts, my ideas, my feelings. Homeschooling five children provides for plenty of "bloggable" moments. Much of this blog will be about our homeschool adventures. I feel you cannot separate learning or education from life. I cannot comprehend why a parent would choose to do so.

I have many reasons why I am writing this blog. One of them is because people consistantly ask me "How do you do it?" And I usually respond "Do what?" And they inevitably ask me a question pertaining to my children.

This blog is not intended to brag, although I am quite proud of my children, I cannot take complete credit for why they are the way they are.
There are many things contributing to the successes and failures of my children. For the failures I take complete responsibility, for the successes I owe completely to God. He gave me my children, for a time. They are ultimately His. He only entrusted their early years on this earth to me. He felt I would be the the best mother for them. If not, he would have given them a different mom.

I feel it is important to readers that they understand my point of view. If you aren't Christian, you will probably not enjoy reading this blog.

With all that being said, let me introduce myself:
My name is Jane and I am the mom of five children. Their ages are 11, 8, 6, 3, and 6 months.

Ever since I was expecting my first child I have been almost obsessed about early childhood education. My husband wishes he could have just $1 for every book I have read on the subject and just a penny for every "educational" toy I've bought. He swears we'd be millionaires.

Over the past 10 years I have read and researched many "professional" opinions when it comes to raising and educating my children. I don't feel that I am an expert, but, after five kids I would say I do have enough experience to form an educated opinion.

Feel free to post your opinions and ideas. I don't mind a good discussion with someone who agrees or disagrees with my ideas and opinions. Of course I hope we all can play nice together. :) I respect anyone who has personal experience and/or who have gone to great lengths to understand why they believe what they believe.

I look at every experience as an opportunity to learn. I look forward to hearing from everyone.