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Hello Everyone,

Thank you for taking time to read my blog. I just wanted to post a little introduction about who I am and what you can expect to find on my page. I'll start by telling you a little bit about who I am. My name is Adreanne and I am a mother of 3 children. After getting married, my husband and I wrestled with the idea of homeschooling our children. We both had full time careers before getting married and struggled with the idea of being “stay at home parents”. Growing up, I attended public school systems and had mix feelings about the quality of education they provided. He on the other hand was homeschooled and was completely sold to the idea of providing the same education for our children. When we had our eldest son, we were fortunate enough to have flexible schedules in which I would take care of him during the day and he at night. We also had the help of our parents. For a few years, we stopped debating the idea of education. The dilemma arised when my eldest son was old enough to go to pre-school. At this point, our careers were at their heights. We both were in positions that required us to work full time. We lost the flexibility we were blessed with in previous years. We made a decision to send our first child to a public school. He attended a public school his pre-k and kindergarten years. My husband was unhappy with progress he was making academically and therefore decided to give private school a try. The particular school he went to kept him from 7:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon. We couldn’t deny that they had a great academic curriculum. However, we realized that we were seeing less of our son as he was spending most of his time either in school or doing schoolwork. We were beginning to wonder if the curriculum was too much for a first grader to handle. Not to mention the costs of tuition and extracurricular activities were adding up. One day, I took a look at his syllabus and realized that with some help, my husband and I were capable of giving him the same quality education. We allowed him to finish 2nd grade at public school as we prepared ourselves to homeschool him.

Although being parents/teachers has had its many challenges, my husband and I are very happy with the results. We definitely cannot take full credit for this as we had a lot of outside help. I will be sharing much of this on the upcoming blog posts. Our eldest son is now entering his freshman year in highschool . We decided to homeschool our two other children. Our daughter is now in 4th grade and my youngest son is in kindergarten.

For all the parents debating the homeschooling question, I'd love to hear some of your input.