last day of year one

today is the last official day of our first year of homeschooling, overall it was okay. it took alot of adjustment on everyone's part and there were a lot of intense days. days where i wanted to send everyone back to school as quickly as they could get dressed but in the end, it was totally worth it. even up to this week i questioned the sanity of trying this for another year but my next big task is ordering curriculum, so it is in my court if i want to change things. the kids overall seemed to enjoy homeschooling, they were healthy most of the winter, and we got through a lot of work, went on a lot of field trips. pendarvis, the first capitol, the frog exhibit, the harley museum, olbrich gardens, the varsity band concert, homeschool camp, the milwaukee public museum.. a 2nd time for the mummy exhibit and the mining museum/jameson museum in platteville. we read some really good books together, the Education of Little Tree (that one was kind a snooze for mom), The Witches, Al Capone Does My Shirts and the one that i think was the favorite and most likely the longest; Percy Jackson and the Olympians.  we met lots of cool people through a number of homeschool groups and i learned that we cannot do it all, and that it is okay to not do it all. we dropped out of holy family homeschoolers midway through the year, and started spending more time withe the stateline homeschool group. next year we are looking forward to more field trips, a better science curriculum and lots more reading.