Thursday, September 1, 2011

Homeschooler's Dreaded O-Word

Organization. Yep, organization. This word has become my mantra. Each year about this time this dreaded word hangs over my head, it follows me around, it calls my name. But this year I have embraced the homeschoolers o-word. It has taken some time to get here but I'm here. I have shrugged my shoulders at the voice telling me there are so many other things I could be doing besides going through my stuff and sorting and putting things were they should have put to begin with, donating the things I haven't touched in a year and packing away the curriculum I know I won't be using - - all this takes a lot of time and hey it's still summer!

But here's the deal, when I do all this my school year is 10 times better. I have more focus, all the books on my homeschool shelf support all the subjects we intend to learn this year. I save money; this year I located seven pairs of scissors, four composition notebooks, paper, pencils, working markers, drawing pencils the list goes on and on. And I return all those materials my fellow homeschoolers have generously shared with me over the previous year.

We are counting down to the school year here and each day embracing the o-word and I can honestly say that homeschooling gets easier each year. Okay, the organizing part at least . . . .

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