Considering Homeschooling in NC?

Here are my top 10 helpful tips and ideas if you're just opening, thinking of, or have already been a homeschooler and are just looking for more information or fun/free ideas!

**Disclaimer - there are external links, I do not accept responsibility for anything you may find when you stray away from my blog.

1. http://ncadmin.nc.gov/citizens/home-school/file-intent-operate-home-school

  *** You will find EVERYTHING you need using this website, this link takes you to the intent to start a homeschool but once you're finished reading that click on home and go throughout the whole website, its catered to NC homeschooling so all of your questions should be answered there.

2. http://www.ncll.org/files/statelaws/2013/NCPacket.pdf

  *** This has the letter of withdrawal I used for taking the kids out of public schools, just the letter layout, and wording... DONT READ MORE INTO THIS BECAUSE ITS FOR A DIFFERENT STATE. This will be done after you have applied for your Homeschool with the first website.

3. http://ncadmin.nc.gov/citizens/home-school/high-school-graduation-unc-entrance-requirements

  *** this tells you what NC thinks your child should be learning by grade level

4. http://www.nwf.org/Kids.aspx

  *** This has games, recipes, activities and all sorts of things that help teach while being fun

5. http://www.tfhsm.com/ultimate-list-homeschool-for-free-resources-printables

  *** This has all kinds of websites and printables you can use to homeschool or supplement the Easy Peasy (EP listed below)

6. http://nchomeschoolinfo.com/testing-requirements/

  *** Testing requirements and all that are accepted by NC

7. http://www.onlineschools.org/homeschooling-guide/

  *** Just a simple laid out guide to all things you can do with homeschool and all kinds of good stuff

8. http://homeschoolerology.com/2015/09/travel-the-world-for-free-with-over-400-virtual-field-trip-virtual-tours-ideas-for-homeschoolers/

  *** Virtual fields trips to places all over the world

9. http://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/free-online-homeschool-curriculum/

  *** All kinds of free curriculums out there that you can use ********* sign up for her newsletter - she sends free things weekly and discounted stuff too and she's bible based as well (if you're a secular school, I however am not!)******

10. www.allinonehomeschool.com

  *** This is Easy Peasy I used this up until Christmas of my first homeschooling year and I loved everything about it other than the religious stuff (but we just skipped it) She has all kinds of answers for you and even a FB group you can get in with other families to talk with about her curriculum. It matches with NC standards even though she's from a different state.

I lost myself for a while...

I lost myself for a while...

I lost what it felt like
to be at peace with myself
to be one with myself
to be in control of my own mind
to be calm
to be loving/loved
to be spiritual
to be me.....


I drifted so far away from what I had taken so long to come in contact with that I'm not sure how I did it or how I even allowed it...

I had grown to meditate daily, to be calm and reserved, to not get caught up in control dramas, to just be and just like a snap of your fingers I lost it all completely.

For almost two years now, I have drifted I think just about as far away from that as I possibly could without getting completely lost. I did this all because I thought if I drifted from me then I could be more helpful for another. I forgot that I needed to look out for myself because I didn't think that I would need to during this time.

I was wrong, theres no need in getting into the details of what happened because it no longer matters. It's in the past and for me to move forward I have had to forgive, almost forget, and let it go..

I. Let. It. Go...

I done what I needed to do to better myself and to be able to move on in my life. I haven't felt this alive and like myself in so long that when I felt it again I was in an awe. It came on so suddenly and I was able to finally breathe, not that I wasn't breathing the entire time but I could focus on my breath I could feel it on my nostrils as I inhaled I could feel it touching every part of my lungs inflating them with the oxygen my body needs to live. I could feel my core, my center and I could feel the prana I was taking in. I felt it when it left my body when it touched the last of my nose before it was gone. I took a breathe for the first time in two years.

It was euphoric, it was amazing, it was beautiful. So beautiful.

I am finally becoming me once again after completely loosing who I was and I needed to share this somewhere to hopefully encourage someone else to find themselves again and to breathe for the first time in only they know when..

Take that breath, go to nature, gather the energy from Mother Earth and The Universe, find yourself <3