Hello, welcome to our family's homeschooling page. You may notice that this page is
                                fairly empty. Trust me, there is a good reason for this. Seeing that our sons are only
                                four and two years old, we haven't actually done any official homeschooling. Yes, we do
                                a lot of reading, art work, nature walks and such. Just nothing official.  All this will change
                                this fall when we begin to do "real" homeschooling. After almost three years worth of
                                research I believe we have finally chosen a program that would work well with our
                                family.  It is called Five in a Row and it is a literature based curriculum using the
                                unit study form. I have included a number of links below if you are interested in
                                learning more about FIAR or about the basics of homeschooling.
                                And now for that question that I am so often asked: why homeschool? Why not be like
                                everyone else, why not send your kids to get a "real" education and the most redundant
                                question of all; what about socialization.
                                So here are my answers. I believe that education is not limited to a classroom setting,
                                it is everywhere, anytime, not between the hours of 8 and 3 and that friendships are not
                                meant to be divided into age groups.  The love for learning, enjoyment of learning is what
                                I want to instill in my children, and whether that learning is done at the kitchen table, in
                                the backyard garden or cuddled up on the couch with mom and dad, it does not matter. It
                                is still learning.  I believe that children should be allowed to learn in the way that they
                                do best and not necessarily in the way everyone else does. I want them to learn about
                                helping the neighbors and volunteering as well as math and reading. I want them to know that
                                expensive sneakers and video games are not the most important things on earth.  Most of
                                all I want them to love learning and to never want to stop because that is what matters.