10 Years of Homeschooling

Ten years of homeschooling down, ten to go, all involving teaching High School! I've been wanting to write this post since we finished our 10th year in June, but at least I am getting in 2010. When we first started in Sept. 2000, I had one student and a few littles. Two years later, my second student joined us. I've been teaching all 5 for 3 years. I have just 3 more years teaching all 5 of my kids. My oldest, who turns 16 in a few days, will graduate in 2013. In that year, I will have 3 in high school! One by one, they will finish our homeschool and at some point in their lives, move out on their own. We will almost have 5 teenagers at once, but our oldest will turn 20 just 11 days before our youngest turns 13. That will be in four years, and boy that isn't very long. The time is flying by. May I take full advantage of every minute I have them with me in our home. I better go spend this New Year's Eve with them now.
Here is our oldest in her Kindergarten year, 2000: