Truely Loving Homeschooling

Homeschooling is going great!! So far the biggest bump in the road is just getting Samuel to do stuff. He told me he does not like to color. He is telling me some of the same stuff that Benjamin used to say when I was doing preschool with him. (my little hands are getting tired, see how tired they look) He is getting better about it though. He knows that if he does his coloring and handwriting practice that he gets to do his math. (I think there must have been a mix-up at the hospital or something-MY CHILD would NEVER be excited to do MATH!!)
One of my biggest concerns has been our local library. We live in a small town. That's okay, we've lived in small towns before. We kind of like the peace and quiet. However, our town's library is a big disappointment. As far as the staff goes, you could probably not find a better one. When Mark had his sinus surgery, we forgot to take some books back. When we did take them back, the librarian asked if I realized they were overdue. I apologized and said that I stuck them on a shelf intending to bring them back before the surgery and then forgot about them. She looks and me says "Your husband had surgery? Oh well, we make exceptions for that" and TOOK OFF OUR FEE!!!!! Amazingly nice, just not a lot to offer. When Nathaniel decided that he would read a biography about about Stonewall Jackson, there was not one. We are in Alabama. I thought this was the Confederate hotzone or something. I mean there are people around here that salute the Confederate flag over the US flag. They had biographies on Ben Stiller and Beyonce, just not Stonewall Jackson. The directors of our cover school recommended that we try the Huntsville Library. We were already in Huntsville at the time so we decided to just go and take a look. Oh. My. Goodness!! I have never in all my life seen a library like this one. Their children's section alone is enormous compared to our entire library. We asked about getting cards, but since we are outside of Madison County we would have to pay a fee and show a piece of mail that has our address on it. Since we do not generally carry around mail with us, we had to wait. We did however case the joint, uh, I mean discover what the library had to offer. WOW!! We went back the next day (even though it is about a 35-40 drive).
So far this week, we have not had a "normal" day of school. Monday and Tuesday we made trips to Huntsville. Monday we waited about school until we got back. Tuesday we did our morning lessons (Bible, Handwriting, Math and English) before going to the big library and did our other stuff afterwards. Yesterday, Benjamin needed to leave by 1:00 to go spend the night with my sister. So we started school early, he did two Math and English lessons and we did all of our Konos for the day, getting finished by lunch time. Today Samuel and Nathaniel are going to really only do a half day of school because we do not want Benjamin to be behind on learning about the presidents. Samuel can focus more on phonics than usual, and Nathaniel can read his Stonewall Jackson book(from the big library). When Benjamin comes home on Friday, he will not have missed anything. Why did we not start homeschooling sooner??????