Introduction

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To speak of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax,
Of cabbages and kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings.”
–from Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

The time had come to write our own book on homeschooling… and so we did it in the form of this blog. This has been a joint effort from my daughter, Jennifer, and my son, Nathan (both of whom bore with me while I learned to teach), and myself. Of course, nothing would have been possible without the continual support of my husband, Kevin, who encouraged us through our trials and rejoiced with us in our successes. It was God, our loving heavenly Father, who saw fit to answer our prayers of “give us the right teacher for next year” by revealing Door #3 — homeschooling.

As we began our own homeschooling adventure, I borrowed books to read, and I asked questions of nearly every homeschooling family we came across. The answers were often disappointing, sometimes misleading, and nearly always frustrating. It has been my prayer that, in sharing what we have learned, we will help you in your homeschooling adventure without forcing you to “reinvent the wheel.”

At the same time, it is my personal hope that you will be freed in finding your own homeschooling “style” to enjoy the experience without the guilt so often inflicted by those around us, intentionally or not. It is the nature of mothers to nurture: God endowed us with that. However, we too often go overboard worrying about every minute detail… to our own detriment. Therefore, this blog and its title are dedicated to every Mom who has ever felt “Am I doing enough? Am I doing it right?”