Life is like a box of chocolates.  What would our lives be like without chocolate?  Homeschooling!!!!  Oh...argh...ugh...and love it!!!  The hardest part of my day is just getting started.  My two boys are gems, and are flourishing.  Living in a small town with limited resources does affect the quality of my sons education.  My oldest son struggles with Dysgraphia and some of his behaviors fall into a high functioning Asbergers.  He spent many recess days inside at his desk completing assignments, but it wasn't laziness, he just couldn't get the information from his head to a piece of paper.  He loves to read, and if he had his druthers he would spend all day in a book or solving a soduku.  Learning to teach him has been a trial in patience and love.  Handwriting has been so difficult, until I discovered a book called Handwriting without Tears.  I am beginning to see a bit of light, but its very far away.  My youngest son, I homeschool only out of principle because the school principal of the local elementary school, felt I needed to leave the education to the professionals.  My son had 4 different fourth grade teachers.  It was a disasterous year.  The principal was shocked my son passed the CRCT because there were sections completely blank on the test.  It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how, even the school psychologist said because he scored perfectly on the questions already answered.  I didn't want to deal with that woman ever again, even if my youngest was an 'A' student.