You Know You are a Homeschooler When...
-- You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary.
-- Your favorite Christmas gift was a gift certificate to a book store
-- Your kids think that reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog.
-- Your kids will actually talk to grown ups at a family gathering and are actually patient with kids half their age
-- Your husband can walk in at the end of a long day and tell how the science experiment went just by looking at the house
-- Your neighbors think you are insane
-- You can take the time to look at a tiny spider on a log,
-- Your daughter, who is practically a vegetarian, is begging her dad to hunt some starlings so she can pluck them and clean them up to make a "blackbird" pie just like the Ingalls family
-- Your kids learn new vocabulary from their extensive collection of Calvin & Hobbes books
-- Your formal dining room now has a computer, copy machine and many book shelves and there are educational posters and maps all over the walls.
-- You have meal worms growing in a container...on purpose.
-- You're almost afraid to put your hand in your purse because you not sure if your 6yo has put something that's alive (or possibly not alive, but once was) to take home to view under the microscope.
-- Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference
-- You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear.
-- You add the words: "homeschool, homeschooler, and homeschooling" to your computer's spell checker so it will stop marking them as wrong!
--You can't make it through a movie without pointing out all the historical inaccuracies.
--You step on math manipulatives in your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom.
--Your children refer to the neighborhood kids as "government school inmates."
--You can't make it through the grocery produce department without asking your pre-schooler the name and color of every eggplant, tomato and carrot.
--You can't put your produce in the cart without asking your older student to estimate its weight and verify accuracy.
--When visiting a strange town you see a parking lot full of mini-vans and station wagons and wonder if it's a homeschooling conference.
--Your friends don't want to help you move because you have so many books.
-- You live in a one-house schoolroom.
