You Might Be a Military, Homeschooling Mama When...

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I've seen lots of 'You Might Be a Homeschooler If's...'
and so forth but I've never been able to find
any that were made specifically for Military homeschoolers.
So I've been working on some for a little while
and thought I would share them.



You Might Be a Military, Homeschooling Mama When ...

... you get orders to transfer overseas

and see it as a three year field trip!

... you get orders to another state

and still see it as an extended field trip.

... you find out your next duty station

and do extensive research on all the great field trips

you can take while you are living there

and possible field trips during the move.

... you ask family to send you educational toys

for birthdays and Christmas.

... your husband gets that promotion

and you start searching through your homeschool catalogs

making lists of possible books and supplies to buy.

... you try to order curriculum while living overseas

and the seller can't understand what an APO/FPO

address is, so you spend 20 minutes explaining.

.... your book purchasing is put on hold

because you have no address for them

to send the books to while you're living in the

temporary housing unit on base in between moves.

... you get orders overseas and you barely make it

under your allowed maximum weight due to

all the 'curriculum' you are transporting.

... you spend thirty days 'car schooling' while transferring

to your new duty station.

... your children are heard speaking occasional words

in the native language of the last country you lived in

and other kids, moms, and family members are impressed.

... Daddy sends home dirt, rocks, and other natural things

while on deployment and you count it as doing science

as the children study and gawk over it.

... you can teach geography just by studying

the places you've lived and the places

that Daddy has been to on deployments.

... you don't have to wait until the school year

is over to move.

~ Christina K ©February 2006