I’ve had a lot of new readers on the blog lately, many of them not homeschoolers (and some of them not even parents at all).
I don’t think I over-glorify homeschooling. I really try not to. I know I have a strong pro-homeschool bias and that comes out in my posts. We’ve been through multiple different school settings before coming to homeschooling as the best option, so I feel like I’m usually writing from a good basis of experiences. If I make homeschooling seem easy or a constant stream of enlightenment and super-duper fun, please forgive me for presenting it thusly. It ain’t necessarily so.
Here is the blog’s honest truth: Sometimes it really, really sucks to be a homeschooler. The last two days have been those days. For the record, trying to homeschool with a pounding migraine is far from fun. Basic parenting stuff is difficult with a migraine; now add teaching lessons and checking work and driving around signing up for homeschool soccer on top of that. Not fun. Homeschooling does contain a lot of fun and enlightenment, and sometimes it’s even a little bit easy, but it also has a whole stinking heaping of “suck it up.”
I really wanted to write something else riveting to keep my new readers coming back for more, but right now I think I’d rather prefer my new readers coming over and taking turns pouring shots of scotch down my throat…and I don’t even like scotch. It’s been that kind of past two days.
I am running dry of brilliant new ideas, y’all. Migraine-brain isn’t very good for that. Any suggestions? How about y’all talk amongst yourselves?
