St. Andrew’s Home School

I’ve been blogging for a while now. I know there isn’t much on this blog yet, but it’s growing. I can’t even get you readers to leave me comments, even after I blogged about it. Your a hard audience.

Anyway, as I said, I’ve been blogging for quite a while (since 2005). I’m not even new to the home educating front either. Our oldest will be 13 in a few days (wow) and we’ve been on the home schooling band wagon since she was in first grade. There has been some time in school (traditional) as well, but this is nothing new to us.

What is a bit newer to me though is the plethora of home school blogs, bloggers, and online blogging resources out there. I mean I knew they must be out there because every other genre and platform of the blogging world exists so why not one for this. And when I say ‘online blogging resources’ I don’t mean all the companies that I’ve ordered from or places like ABCteach and EdHelper type resources I mean places of community like Heart of the Matter and Homeschool Blog Awards and The Homeschool Lounge. I’m not completely naive to them being out there. I just haven’t had the time to really explore them all and find where I fit in. I’m trying to do a bit of that now.

In doing some link hiking and jumping I came across HOTM about a month ago. This year we aren’t going to be able to go to any homeschool conferences or book fairs. I will miss that. The gas for travel is just way too high. Although we are in Louisiana our state’s homeschool conference is at least a five hours drive away because apparently our states conference doesn’t ever think about those of us in the northern part of the state. We’re like the “red-headed-step-child” or something. We usually attend the CHEF conference in Alabama instead. As grandparents live just down the road from where the conventions held we get to stay for free even though the drive is an hour longer. This year it’s just all too much.

I found out about the HOTM online conference after we had planned our budget so the ticket price is not available for me this year. It doesn’t cost that much, it’s just $30.00, but living paycheck to paycheck in this economy every single penny is accounted for and I can only squeeze our pennies so far. Know what I mean? Dawn & Sprittibee had 6 tickets to give away for the conference. I entered on the posts to have a chance to win a ticket. So now I’m letting you know about it too. but you really don’t need to go over and enter because that would just decrease my opportunity to win.