Wednesday, May 20, 2009

You Know You're a Homeschool Mom When...

I found this on a website and thought it was very appropiate and had to share.... How many can you relate to?

You Know You're A Homeschool Mom When...

*When a child busts a lip, and after seeing she's okay, you round up some Scotch tape to capture some blood and look at it under the microscope. - check
*You find dead animals and actually consider saving them to dissect later. - check
*Your children never, ever leave the "why?" stage. - so far
*You look at every room in your home to try and imagine how to squeeze in another bookshelf. - check
*You turn your china cabinet into book shelves. - don't have one or it would
*When your teenager decides to take one community college course, and comes home and asks you why the teacher wrote "At" on his paper. (A+)
*You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary or Christmas. - check - got one this past Christmas
*Your kids think reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog. - or upside down on the couch
*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. - we usually do them when he's home
*You never have to drive your child's forgotten lunch to school.
*Your child will never suffer the embarrassment of group showers after PE. - but have to be reminded to take showers
*The only debate about the school lunch program is whose turn it is to cook. - only because they don' t want to clean
*You never have to face the dilemma of whether to take your child's side or the teacher's side in a dispute at school. - Teacher is usually right!
*If your child gets drugs at school, it's probably Tylenol. - or Ibuprofen
*Your neighbors think you are insane. - yeaI live next to a public educator
*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. - check
*If you get caught talking to yourself, you can claim you're having a PTA meeting.
*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 can't make it through a movie without pointing out the historical inaccuracies. - LOL
*You step on math manipulatives on your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom. - we don' t get up before dawn and we're still done before 1 p.m.
*The teacher gets to kiss the principal in the faculty lounge and no one gossips.
*Your honor student can actually read the bumper sticker that you put on your car.
*If your child claims that the dog ate his homework, you can ask the dog.
*Someday your children will consider you to be a miracle-working expert and will turn to you for advice.
*Your kids refer to the neighbor kids as "government school inmates." - LOL
*You can't make it through the grocery produce department without asking your preschooler the name and color of every vegetable.
*You can't put your produce in your cart without asking your older student to estimate its
weight and verify its accuracy. - or amount per ounce... even though it's on the pricing sticker, they still have to figure it out
*You live in a one-house schoolroom

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