Our New Journey....

Our Little Kurt will be six years old on July 6th. He will be starting Kindergarten this year. Jason and I have tossed around the idea to Home school, when we first started talking about it, it seemed very unrealistic, i don't have an education degree for goodness sake, i hated school, the only part about school i enjoyed was recess and visiting with my friends. However, the more we began talking about it, naturally my ears keyed in to any conversation i heard mentioning the words "home school". Come to find out i don't need a education degree to home school, i don't even have to love school! So what you're telling me is i don't have to watch my baby boy walk into this big huge school daily and leave him there for most of the day? (some days that sounds too good to be true, but for the most part it breaks my heart) We would have loved to been able to send him to a private school, but i'm not sure if you have looked at the cost of private schools?!?!? we don't have an envelope for that in our budget. We have several close friends here in TN and also in AL  and even a family member who also home schools so after talking with them and going to different seminars and exploring all the curriculum out there we have decided to DO IT!!! We are very excited for our Journey. I haven't really learned all the home school lingo, so bear with me, but we have decided to join a "tutorial" which means we will meet with a local group every week and have "class" both of the boys will actually be a part of this time and of course i will be there with them, working beside them. Each class has a teacher or as they say "tutor" in every class and this is where they review the work for the following week. The Tutorial we have chosen is called Classical Conversations, which i may refer to as CC. I have friends who do this same tutorial and they have been very happy with it. I have also attended several meetings and met other families who love it also. Just from the families i have met and the meetings i have been to i am very impressed and looking forward to working along side Kurt as we learn together!
I have no doubt there will be frustrating days and days i think i must be out of my mind even considering such. But i figure if there is a grade to try Kindergarten is a good one to start with.
I grew up thinking that home school kids were weird and had zero people skills, that these were the kids who didn't fit in at public schools. This may have been the case back then but today its becoming the normal thing to do. Kids can play sports with public schools thanks to Tim Tebow. And with classical conversations they put a very big focus on the kids speaking. Every week the family has to stand up and give a family presentation in front of all ages, and then at the end of the class the child has to get up and do a "show and tell" type presentation to their class mates.
We are excited and looking forward to this next year!