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Introductions from E - J

Intro - Kimberly H.
1) Your Name-Kimberly
2) Your children's ages and names (if you feel comfortable)Tyler-7, Kaylan-5

3) How many years you have homeschooled -This will be the 2nd year
4) What you love about homeschooling-Being able to teach my kids myself (the way I want to) and watch them learn to read..being there for the whole process, not just hearing, "Look what I did today at school".
5) What you hate about homeschooling-Not having enough time for the rest of my life (I'm a RN part-time nights in the NICU and on the transport team there, PartyLite consultant part-time, wife, mom and homemaker, and when is there time for just me?)

6) Do you have a business or interest you delve in on the side? See #5 -Anyone need candles? :)
7) Your pet's name or most interesting animal you have ever owned? I just have a dog and two cats, but I have a friend who owns a skunk- does that count? Ha, Ha

8) Your favorite color-Blue

9) How would you describe your homeschool style?-???

Learning as I go (I'm using Rod and Staff curriculum-did I spell that right? And I'm trying to teach who??)

10) Schedules - thumbs up or thumbs down? Most definitely thumbs up -I'm anal.:)

Intro - Tammy H.

1) Your Name - Tammy
2) Your children's ages and names (if you feel comfortable) - Danielle, 14, Stephanie, 12
3) How many years you have homeschooled? 4 years
4) What you like about homeschooling? I love the flexible schedule and the freedom to choose how and what to teach. I love being the one to 'see' the light bulb go on when the get it!!
5) What you dislike about homeschooling? Having to answer negative questions about it. Dealing with 'well meaning' relatives and friends critical remarks. Worrying I'm not doing enough.
6) Do you have a business or interest you delve in on the side? Well, I have 2, I work from home for Kforce as a coding consultant and I sell Tupperware on the side.
7) Your pet's name or most interesting animal you have ever owned? We have a beaglemation dog (Purdie) and 2 cats, Tarzan and Sara
8) Your favorite color I like Blues, but any warm color is nice too, there aren't many I don't like.
9) How would you describe your homeschool style? Tired mom meets teenagers!! No really we are more traditional like a private school would be.
10) Schedules - thumbs up or thumbs down? We have schedules, but following them is sometimes difficult.

Intro - Catherine H.
1) Your Name- Catherine
2) Your children's ages and names (if you feel comfortable) - Brian-14 1/2 and Matthew-8
3) How many years you have homeschooled - This is our 10th year.
4) What you love about homeschooling - I love having the children with me, I especially enjoy it when my husband can be with us. I also enjoy learning new things with the boys.
5) What you hate about homeschooling - Well, it's really more of a parenting issue. Those days when a child constantly tests the limits and challanges you. Because we homeschool and always have the children there, sometimes it seems those difficult days (or months;-)) will never end.
6) Do you have a business or interest you delve in on the side? - Yes, I work one to three days a week in the Emergency Room at East Ridge Hospital. I work my schedule around Tim's work days so one of us can always be home with the boys.
7) Your pet's name or most interesting animal you have ever owned? - We have one dog, Sam. Matthew got an aquarium for his birthday last month. He has 18 adult tropical fish and two baby Mollies born Friday AM. This week he wants to add 2 catfish and an algie eater. It's been a great science unit study-he's even learned to check and adjust the PH of the water. Both boys have enjoyed watching for the baby Mollies to be born.

8) Your favorite color - Pink
9) How would you describe your homeschool style? - Very relaxed in the early years, pretty traditional by high school.
10) Schedules - thumbs up or thumbs down? - We have a very flexable schedule.

Name - Angie J.

My name is Angie Jordan

My children are Christian (age 8), Maria (age 9), Jonathan (age 12) and Amanda (age 14)

This is my 4th year homeschooling

I love the freedom and rewards homeschooling has to offer

I hate the way some of our society perceives homeschooling as negative or "not good enough"

My husband and I own a video production studio

We have 3 pets: Freckles (Springer Spaniel) Lady (Jack Russell) CoCo (Cat)

My favorite color is purple

Teaching style is mainly traditional

We try to maintain a set schedule, but I don't "sweat it" if we get off the beaten path every once in a while.

Intro - Sheila J.

Name: Sheila

Children - Brian is 10 years old and his favorite color is green. Lilly is 8 years old and her favorite color is pink. Heidi is 7 years old and her favorite colors are pink and purple. Audrey is 4 years old and her favorite color is yellow. Aaron just turned 1 August 31. Miles is 20 and attends Chattanooga State and Joshua is 17 and is a student at Collegedale Academy.

Homeschooling has been a gradual process. I would say we started at birth 10 years ago. But we worked with Miles and Joshua at home even before that.

Love about homeschooling - I love being with my children and learning with them. I love the close family we have and the real socialization process. They interact with all types of people. Being able to take vacations at non peak times. We like shopping for great books and going to the library.

Hate about homeschooling - NOT ENOUGH TIME! Distractions and clutter. Both the Grandmothers and two Aunts are shop aholics, Grandpa is an auction addict, and Daddy is a packrat. I declutter our home and send stuff to the Samaratin Center and missions. If I am not decluttering or teaching or cleaning (which is never)I would love to work on our family albums, photography, cross stitch, crafts, cook, read, hike and be outdoors.

Pets - Our dogs name is Paddle. We would like to have chickens and Nubian goats. The children want a cat and a puppy and a hamster.

Color - I like all colors. Our home is decorated mainly in blue with lots of flower colors. Red is my favorite color to wear.

Homeschool style - Our homeschool style is a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

Schedules - I would really like to be on a schedule but nothing has worked for us.