Choosing to Home School is Easy, Choosing Curriculum is Not!

School traditionally starts in our neck of the woods the day after Labor Day. The kids are trained to expect it and typically get antsy around this time of year. But this year it is not the kids who are getting nervous and anxious- it is MOM!

I am very excited, don't get me wrong... but I am finally feeling the panic of not being adequate that I have heard and read about! I have not yet ordered curriculum! It is not for a lack of funds or knowledge- it is because I am scared to death of ordering the wrong one. The Hubster and I narrowed the vast offering down to three companies (which is astounding) but taking that three down to just one is kind of dizzying to me.

The Hubster keeps telling me it will be fine- especially given that this is our first year and there will be time to figure it all out. But it's not really a comfort to me- will he be so calm is I select a set that does not work well for us and we have to rebuy new curriculum?? (the answer to that is no- he will likely be disgruntled for a little while!)

So my goal for this week is to narrow our three top pick to just one pick.

The contestants in our game of life are Alpha- Omega, Spectrum and Saxon.

One is religious and offers different levels in each grade for the different subjects, one is all workbooks, streamlined and simple and the other is a company that makes school textbooks- so it is a familiar format. There is something I like about each one!

-OR-

I can choose a prepackaged kit from an online curriculum site. They are grouped by grade and are pretty generalized but include a years worth of stuff.

Hmmmmm.....

And it is Wednesday.... so I really need to buckle down and choose one.

It may come a fierce round of eenie-meenie-miney-mo.

Despite my angst- the girls are doing very well!! Ains has morphed from being somewhat secluded and keeping things bottled in to sharing her thoughts and feelings freely! She has told me she loves me more this week then probably the entire year! Quite remarkable really. That alone is pulling me through this process!