Answering machine - Use it. Talk on the phone less.

Bookshelves - You'll never have enough of them.

Charity - Love your fellow homeschoolers.

Don't dilly-dally - Decide and do it.

Encyclopedia - Not everything is on the web.

Forego your email - Just for one day.  Your kids are waiting for you.

Grass - It always looks greener in someone else's homeschool.

Home - Cut down on outside activities.  Stay home and put the 'home' back in homeschool.

Institute for Excellence in Writing - Try it.

Jacques, Brian - Redwall Abbey series - a must for boys!

Keep your eyes on your own paper.  You will go nuts comparing your homeschool with others.

Library - Your librarian is your best friend.  Bring her cookies.

Miracles - "They can read!  I taught them to read!"

Natural - Homeschool should not be forced.

Outside - As in get…

Privacy - Your children have a right to it.  Keep their lives, test scores, abilities and deficiencies

to yourselves.

Quest - Homeschooling is an adventure!  Your course is unchartered.

Rest and Recreation - The latter, yes.  The former, never heard of it.

Share your curriculum with friends.

Television - The more they watch, the dumber they get.

Unique - Each of your kids is different.  Don't compare them.

Vinegar and baking soda - Basic explosive elements in all geologic science experiments.

Walk - Don't run through your day.

X-tra credit - Give the credit where it's due…to God!

Yesterday -             All my children seemed so far away. 

                        Now I homeschool and they're here to stay.

                        I sometimes long for yesterday!  (Beatles, sort of)

Zone - In the homeschool zone you are one-on-one.