Hi There!

Hey everybody, I'm Carla, a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) to Abagail, age 3.  I'm so glad you stopped by, there's so much I want to tell you.  Let me start first with a little welcome tour.  I started this blog so that I could have a place to record all of Abagail's homeschooling adventures, projects, lessons, and struggles. 

Florida law requires a record of all homescooling efforts be cataloged and recorded.  When we check out books and movies from the library, I save the receipts and put them in an envelope with the current year written on the front.  Same goes for any outings, I save the receipts from admission fees.  Craft projects? I save the receipts for materials.  Classes, toys, science equipment, musical instruments, anything that we spend money on for her, the receipt goes in an envelope for the year.

It sounds like a lot, but I got into the habit of saving receipts for everything a long time ago, so really it's just a new envelope in the tax folder.

Also, whenever we look something up in the encyclopedia, we write down the date and the headings of the subjects we looked up, as well as the bold print captions under the pictures, graphs, and charts that she takes interest in.  The record stays right there on the shelf so it never gets lost, and we just keep adding to it.

That's the skinny on how we got started with our record-keeping.  Just one small step at a time.  Now I have this blog to record more of her adventurousness, and I'm sure one day soon I'll be one of those mothers who takes her camera everywhere to snap a photo of every completed project, every found frog, and every new discovery.  Not a bad way to live, in my opinion.  Now I just have to convince my daughter that I should be allowed to take pictures whenever we're out together!  Yes, one very small step at a time.  ;)

I hope you like it here.  If you have any questions about anything, I would really love to hear from you.  My goal is also to make homeschooling and unschooling more accessible to parents worldwide, through a real-time connection to others who are out there doing the same thing as you.  Even if you've been rejected by all the homeschooling groups in your area (been there, done with that), I want you to know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!  You have chosen to undertake one of the most precious, most admirable, most exhausting missions of your life: homeschooling your children.  Take it one step at a time, just like me, and we'll figure it out together. 

Are you in?