2-- Your favorite Christmas gift was a gift certificate to a book store.
3-- Your kids think that reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog.
4-- The principal can give the teacher a pat on the behind and it’s not harassment.
5-- Your kids will actually talk to grown ups at a family gathering and are actually patient with kids half their age.
6-- 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.
7-- Your neighbors think you are insane!
8-- You can take the time to look at a tiny spider on a log.
9-- You can listen to your child’s favorite hilarious passage from Hank the cowdog 47 times.
10-- Your daughter, who is practically a vegetarian, is begging her dad to shoot some starlings so she can pluck them and clean them up to make a “blackbird” pie just like the Ingalls family.
11-- Your kids learn new vocabulary from their extensive collection of Calvin & Hobbes books.
12-- 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.
13-- You have meal worms growing in a container ...on purpose.
14-- You’re almost afraid to put your hand in your purse because you not sure if your 6yo has put something that’s alive (or possibly not alive, but once was) to take home to view under the microscope.
15-- Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference.
16-- You have a line item in your budget for overdue book fines.
17-- You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear.
18-- You have to add the words: “homeschool, homeschooler, and homeschooling” to your computer’s spell checker so it will stop marking them as wrong.
19--Your house in on the Parade of Homes List - for educational merchandisers.
20--You can’t make it through a movie without pointing out all the historical anachronisms.
21--You step on math manipulatives in your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom.
22--Your children refer to the neighborhood kids as “government school inmates.” Bahahahaha.....I love this one.
23--You can’t make it through the grocery produce department without asking your pre-schooler the name and color of every eggplant, tomato and carrot.
24--You can’t put your produce in the cart without asking your older student to estimate its weight and verify accuracy.
25--Your closet contains more than three jumpers -
26--When visiting a strange town you see a parking lot full of mini-vans and station wagons and wonder if it’s a homeschooling conference.
27--Your friends don’t want to help you move because you have so many books.
28--Your school clothes have more holes in the knees than your play clothes.
29-- You live in a one-house schoolroom.
You mean this is normal?? I do this with my preschoolers. In fact, if I don't they get really upset. We live in a small town and the lady who works in the produce department thinks we're a riot.
LOL! Love it. I'm printing it out and putting it on our bulletin board 8-)