Home School Back Up!

I know that like other moms, I find sometimes I am just burned out. 

I need some help and as much as I know there are home school groups out there. 
That are meant to help I just feel out of place with them.
I don't like feeling like I am not able to care for my own children's educational needs.
It's as if I am being judged by everyone I come in contact with. 
I know that might not be true at all. 

However I am so blessed to have a family and friends who have reached out to help. 

My  younger sister has now offered to help me out. 
She will be video chatting with my children and helping with their spelling list. 
She will handle all of their class work when it comes to spelling. 
My kids can video chat with her at any time.

It takes so much off of me when I don't have to worry about their spelling class work and test.

My kids needed a way to be able to have more time with their Aunt and this gives them everything they have been asking for.

I never thought that I would be reaching out to my family members and friends.That I would be the woman who wants out side help. 
Yet here I am questioning why there isn't a free or cheap way get help. 
There should be with as many home schooling families as there are. 
THEN I found it!

A free site that my kids are loving that actually is FREE
It is all about home schooling and helping us parents out.

The site has daily things posted for each kid to do. From Reading, science, history, math, English, and everything in between. They have elective classes that are so wonderful.
classic books online for the kids to read.
Spelling list and you can start at day one or work from any of the 180 days. 
Each grade helps the child explore so many things and honestly I could not love it more. 
My kids love the school so much that they fight to be able to do class work on SATURDAYS! 
Here is the information on the site. I highly recommend you check it out. 
It doesn't matter if  your child is home schooled, in public or private school. If you want to help your child keep up where they were or catch up during the summer time. It tracks everything and keeps it in on simple location. 

Great for home schooling as all of your records can be kept in the same place and you can simply print it out if need be. 

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At War With Your In Laws

I have been married for 2 and a half years. 

From the start my in laws have not liked me in any way whats so ever. 

No matter how much I try I just can not get those people to like me.

I understand I was married and had two kids with my ex husband.

I understand that I am not a perfect person. 

I could understand if my in laws were the kind of people who have been married forever and had two kids and divorce had never happened to them.

However that is NOT the case! 

My father in law was divorced with two kids when he remarried my Mother in law. 

They decided to never have kids of their own and so my husband and his brother were the only kids. 

They did not have full custody of the boys when they were growing up.

So for my in laws to tell me how to raise my children. Well this is driving me crazy. My in laws think that I should  not being home schooling my children. 

When I say my in laws well my father in law is the kind of man who doesn't have a back bone. 

My mother in law runs everything when it comes to my in laws. 

She believes that " home schooling is not a good way to teach children. That we to put our children back into public school where they can ' learn the best.'

That the children need to be able to learn from a real curriculum." 

She goes out of her way to not only tell me face to face what her opinion is. 

She goes out of her way to post it all over every status I post that has to do with homeschooling. 

Making sure that my whole world knows just how awful she believes home schooling really is. 

We have been " at war " before over pretty much everything. From their wanting my husband to divorce me. 

To their opinion on if we should or should not have more children.

Every topic from Christmas dinner to buying

 a house has caused a war. 

My husband is the kind of man who doesn't care about what his family thinks or says. 

Home Schooling is the one thing that my husband and I both believe in. The only way I would want to put my children back in public school is if we got moved to Texas.

As Texas does not have common core and we very much dislike common core. 

We have shared links and explained why we think home schooling is better than any public school. 

I feel like I am all alone in this never ending battle against not only my in laws but everyone. 

I feel like everyone wants to attack us over our choice to home school. 

Our kids love home schooling, they enjoy being able to have a say in what they learn.

I never had an idea of how much drama we would have to go through just over deciding to home school.

These wars will never end I know that no matter how hard we fight. Their will be another battle right around the corner just waiting for us to think we can breathe.

I have read other blogs and books that all say that you have to stand up for your self. 

That their will always be people who want to fight with you for the   decisions you make. Some battles are worth fighting and some battles aren't.

I haven't been a home schooling mom for as long as some of those out there. However I know my kids are getting a great education. 

I know that even through the hard days it is all worth it. 

Watching my children grow and explore the world around them. Seeing the excitement in their eyes when they learn something that blows their minds. 

Those moments makes all the fights with my in laws and random strangers worth it. 

This battle is far from over, it may never be over. 

That is okay with me because I will never back down.

I will never allow anyone to try to make me feel bad for not wanting my kids to deal with common core.

I am proud of how my kids are turning out and the relationship I have with them. 

Home schooling might not be for everyone but right now.

 It is for my family at this point in time.