So Leslie reads all these wonderful homeschooling blogs by these mothers who spend all their time loving what they do. And all I can think when I read them is, "I'm so not that mom". I don't want to read about how wonderful they are at everything and how much they love it all. Not when I spend so much of my time wondering why I'm doing this, if I'll ever be good at it, and if my kids are really learning anything. I don't want to hear from moms who can do it all and do it all brilliantly. I'm a complete disaster most of the time. I can't keep my house clean to save my life. It takes me a week to get the house clean enough that we can have people over. We seem to fall further behind our school schedule every passing day. Furthermore, I don't want to be that mom. I'm good with who I am, warts and all. I may not like my children every minute of every day, but I do love them more than words can ever say. That's why I homeschool. Like public school teachers and politicians everywhere say, "it's for the children!".
(Just needed a moment to vent!)
Sooooooo good! And so true! I never understood why I read those blogs anyway. They always left me feeling bad about myself. Well, I don't read them anymore, and I think those ladies are full of crap and lying to the world. They know they aren't getting it all done. No one is! And we know this because we are very hard working and we can't do it.
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