The search results taunt me. "Creative homeschool: A lot of ideas" "Great homeschool/education ideas" "Using Pinterest as a free homeschool curriculum" (

I give up. I just can't live up to all the homeschool hype. The mummified chicken. The salt dough maps. The notebooking page for a third grader that has more lines than my kid could fill in a month. He burst into tears over that stupid notebooking page (no, I wasn't requiring him to write on every line) and honestly I felt like crying with him.

Because homeschooling shouldn't be this difficult. Because I am supposed to enjoy staying home with my kids each day. Because it's all my own fault. Listen to hear the rest...