Homeschooling

I am going to home-school my kids.  I may or may not send my oldest Cowboy to a charter Montessori school this Fall in addition to homeschooling.  He will be old enough for kindergarten.  I had never considered any alternative forms of education such as charter schools or homeschooling until it came to sending my very own first child off to someone else's tutelage. I guess I thought about it because I am slowly learning to think about things before just jumping in and following what the crowd automatically does in most situations.  (See previous posts on birthing options).  Yes, it is sort of sad that it has taken me until well into my twenties to REALLY start thinking this way.  I guess I have always had a thread of non-conventionalism, but now it is becoming a little more research-based and prayerful. 
This is actually one of the reasons I am so passionately interested in home-schooling: I would like my own children to REALLY start thinking earlier than I did.  I find it a whole lot easier to obtain my own individualized, valuable education now that all that schooling is out of the way (high school diploma, bachelor's degree).  I feel so behind.  My mind is constantly blown lately with how much there is to learn out there.  I can't read enough books.  I feel like I am constantly starving for knowledge.  It is awesome!  Learning is the most amazing, powerful, singularly important thing in this life.
I am so, so grateful that in the frazzled search of "Which school can I send my innocent, amazing firstborn to?" where this whole thing all began, that someone happened to introduce me to a lady who home schools her children and she 'happened' to say one of the most powerful statements I have ever heard: "That book changed my life."  And she was willing to let me borrow that book.  What book?  "A Thomas Jefferson Education", by Oliver DeMille.

Much more to come.