Every story has a beginning.

Isn't life funny?

Once a young girl told her mom she "hated homeschool".

She begged her mom and dad to send her off to school.

She dreamed of backpacks, whispered conversations over lunch, homework and all the 

other aspects of "normal" that her homelife didn't offer. 

That girl vowed to not "repeat" that experience, you know, someday when she had kids of her own.

So, off to school her parents finally obliged. 

Hi, let me introduce myself. I am a former young "homeschool hater" who has now found herself

in the thick of excitedly homeschooling my 5 kids. 

 Yeah, that angsty girl is now a mama. 

Hi, I'm Sara, I'm married to a guy I adore named Joe. 

We have 5 crazy, beautiful and hillarious kids. 

Gabryel is 8.5 and in 3rd grade, Averie is 7 and in 2nd grade, Judah is almost 6 and in kindergarten, Ruby is 4 and Olive is 18 months old. 

They drive me bonkers, bring me to tears and have taught me more about myself than I thought possible.

After a journey which took us from church preschool to private Christian preschool to public school, then public at-home charter to now........(drumroll) we are homefree ( I mean homeschooling).

So, that is where we are. 

I have had a blog since before becoming a mama and through it made some dear friends. I wanted a place to chronicle what we are doing, ideas, art projects etc.

At this stage in our journey we are doing alot of topic learning. Reading aloud, exploring nature etc.

We are so truly blessed with being able to live a measley block away from another homeschooling family and we know many more. This has opened up alot of possibilities for us and we live in a homeschool friendly area. 

This is our first week of being out of the at-home charter and so mama is gathering her resources. 

Tuesday- Park day, we gathered leaves, explored squirrel habitats, observed squirrel food, a squirrel pelt (SP?) real glad Joe was there to take that on, and also did some leaf collecting for next week's project! Plus while we were there it was only right that we played on the park equipment, it looked so lonely.

Wednesday- we headed to another park a bit father out of town to meet some friends. We had a glorious day of running around like crazy, gathering more leaves, pine cones, pine needles, and playing with friends. then the kids headed off to their Kids Klub at church in the evening.

Thursday- Brought errands in the morning, a practical money lesson at the store, then to our friend's house to do a fun fall art project, here are some photos!

(the sitting person is my little artist Averie's work:) 

Huge thanks to our friends for having us over for such a fun day! 

The craft was inspired by Pom Lovely Trees

So now you are up to speed. Tomorrow the older 2 are enrolled in a "Kitchen Chemistry" class at the Paper Discovery Center with a friend and I am excited for them, it looks to be really fun!

I apologize for the seemingly mundane details, we've been able to make a fairly smooth transition and for that we are so thankful! The kids are loving their new "schedule" and the free time especially. We are still using some handwriting/math materials to follow along with as well! 

Stay Tuned!