Real Life Homeschooling #3

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Today we are blessed to have our 3rd post in the Real Life Homeschooling series. This post and picture is shared by Dianna, a homeschool mom to 3 girls, who you can find blogging at Aspiring To Be…

This picture above is very rare indeed. Normally that table is covered in books, papers, art and sometimes even a sewing machine. It is so funny how some people think that homeschoolers are neat freaks and hardly ever have messes but in most cases we are not. We have piles of books, papers and stuff all over.

I will be honest, the only reason that table looks even that good is because I had a friend visit and I wanted us to have a place to sit and talk. Amazingly, enough it’s actually quiet in my dining room. We are usually doing book work at that table. The rest of the house is where we do everything else. We homeschool in the WHOLE house. There is not one room where there has not been some kind of schooling going on at some point in time. In the past we’ve even schooled outside, at the park or even in the car. But, that is real-life for us.

We are not the type to get up and get dressed and be at the table by 8am. In fact its 8:14 right now and my babies are still asleep. I don’t force them to get up unless we have to be somewhere. I mean that is the beauty of homeschooling isn’t it? As long as the school work gets done and they do their chores, I’m pretty lenient.

That’s just how it is. Our days are not the same every day. Life happens all around us and homeschooling is part of it.

What’s real-life homeschooling look to you?

Click over to read all of the Real Life Homeschooling series.

This homeschool mom {and so many others like me} don’t have our acts together. We aren’t as patient with our kids as we need to be, we don’t have the organizational skills of Martha Stewart. In fact, most days my husband comes home and I tell him that I just can’t do this another day.

And most of all, we are in desperate need of His new mercies…every day, every morning…every single moment.

Guest Posters wanted: the response to this post has been so great. ya’ll are great. 🙂 SO, I’m going to open up this series for GUEST POSTERS!! If you are a homeschooler and want to contribute your own “real like homeschooling” post, please email me with your post! I would like to have a picture to go with it. And if you have a blog, I will link back to you! 🙂 If you want to “grab” the picture in the top of this post, I will let you know when your post will go live and you can use this graphic as a teaser and point people here to read! I really think these will be encouraging to all of us as homeschooling mamas! I hope to share one post per week on this series!!

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Stacie says

April 23, 2013 at 1:51 pm

Candace,

I love the idea of this series! I completely identify with it. Hopefully I’ll be able to participate. . . I homeschool and I have 5 children–2 of whom are 16 months and almost 5 weeks. Yeah, my homeschool situation is not perfect!

Carrie says

June 18, 2013 at 9:29 pm

Glad to read I’m not the only one who doesn’t wake her children! It must be those residual feelings from when my oldest attended public school and we were forced to wake her and feed her before 0630! I l-o-v-e the slow, and yes sometimes later mornings!

Tonya M. says

August 6, 2015 at 2:20 pm

I let my daughter sleep in, as well. One of the many reasons we homschool is to allow her to get her much needed rest. We try to start our day around 10 a.m. as much as possible, but that’s even flexible.

I’m totally feelin’ ya when it comes to clearing off the table so somebody can sit down to talk or eat. 🙂

Tonya M. says

August 6, 2015 at 2:20 pm

I let my daughter sleep in, as well. One of the many reasons we homeschool is to allow her to get her much needed rest. We try to start our day around 10 a.m. as much as possible, but that’s even flexible.

I’m totally feelin’ ya when it comes to clearing off the table so somebody can sit down to talk or eat. 🙂

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