5th of June? Wow - that's pretty soon. I bet you're excited though! :3

I bet! Are your friends going too?

This is a local, smaller convention, though, right?

Cool. As long as you have fun, right? I know you were bummed about not being able to go last year.

So it's all bonus! It sounds like it'll work out just fine - even if you had to 'skip' a year :3

LOL. Yes, earning money does tend to have that effect! XD

@Wildfire: I have edX pulled up, I've been snooping through that site, seeing what they offer. I do enjoy learning. Thank you for the site recommendation, I have a feeling my husband will enjoy this site too.

@Wildfire: Recently, I've been on a philosophy kick. I'm trying to understand reasoning and higher education/learning.
lol, my husband and I were talking recently and he made the comment "yeah, our son is more Vulcan than I am." and I laughed, then realized he's right.
My husband is intelligent, but his childhood was a mess, so he was an angry kid. Our son has a comfy childhood and is absorbing knowledge like candy.
I've been dipping my toes in philosophy and reasoning to better understand how to educate my kids. Well, And the topic of interest helps keep my emotions at bay.
What classes have you taken? OR interested in doing? whats' your favorite topics?

@Wildfire: Thank you for the recommendation. <3 I put The Well Trained Mind in my amazon wishlist. Don't worry too much about getting me info. You can finally relax and take a break from the homeschooling stuff. I imagine it was an exhausting route to take.
I decided to send my daughter back to public school next year and keep my son home. My daughter learns much better at the hand of others. I get frustrated too easily with her learning style.
We have a lot in common then. I love philosophy [as of recently], but I did focus heavily on psychology in college, art, and literature. Marketing is something I'd like to do, but I'd rather focus on business management. That was my work history. My work history is mostly small business management, marketing, and salesmanship.
"clean up and get organized" is a good mode to be in. C:

@Koah: Cathy Duffy is another name that comes to mind for basic homeschooling information - curriculum, I think (again, I haven't thought about this stuff in years, really... got that "true homeschooling veteran" thing going on, and with my kids ageing out of the co-ops (+pandemic), I haven't even been asked about this stuff by the younger moms in forever XD ). I'll think of them, though, and you can always run stuff by me - even if I don't remember off the top of my head, it's likely that a question from you would bring it allllll back. Use my experience to your advantage! UUUuuuuuse meeeeEEeeee XD

Homeschooling definitely had its exhausting moments (just like parenting) but it had sooooo many more positive and enriching moments and opportunities... it was sooo worth it (unless I was fighting with my youngest about doing even the bare essentials of his work for the year /eyeroll/). It sounds like you understand your kids pretty well already on the "how do they best learn" level, so that's a big plus (you'd be surprised at how many parents apparently do not)!

Yes, I love literature too. It does sound like we share a lot of similar interests (at this point, is that really a surprise? LOL!)

'Clean up and get organized' is a lot of work! But we have a compost bin being delivered today, and I just sold a step climber thing that we had an extra of (don't ask *points at hubby*), and I'm hoping somebody is interested in my son's "old" F150 work truck so he can at least recover the new transmission he put in the thing (this is the one he fishtailed in to a ditch /eyeroll/)