Last Day of the "Normal" Life

I walked away from work today for the last time as a full-time, benefits carrying, earning my own paycheck kind of girl.  Today was my last day clocking in (I'm pretty sure I forgot to clock out....), and my last day actually managing people.  Today was my last day going to meetings, running reports, and helping people solve problems.

However, today was my first day as a real "homeschooler".  I enrolled in a church-related school on my way home, and perused the curriculum options at my local little homeschool shop.  When I got home, my stepson and I had a little "hooray" moment.  Today I went from normal to homeschool mom.

These past few weeks have been a little surreal for me.  I am so, so, so excited about homeschooling.  My stepson is so, so, so excited about homeschooling.  It's a little frightening, however, to no longer be earning my own paycheck.  For the first time since college graduation, I will not be primary on my health care.  And I have six days (6!) to finish assembling my curriculum, decide how our school days will look, and figure out how I am going to take on the awesome responsibility of my stepson's education.

For the last year, as I talked about homeschooling and all the things I wanted to do when I was (finally!) a homeschool mom, I mentioned more than once that I wanted to blog.  I wanted to blog about more than just the minutia of my days.  I wanted to blog about educational issues, strategies, the ups and downs of homeschooling a child I didn't meet until he was 10, and the many, many facets of what a homeschooling life can look like.  So here is the blog.  I'm kicking it off on my final day of work and my first day of being an official homeschool mom.