Mariana on Homeschooling

I am currently writing this after out family had a "family ice cream and game night". I have to say that I do really enjoy these nights, just because of the humor that in contained within this small... Or... Should I say large family. 

I am not funny.

As I say this to my friends, they smile and joke with me about how I really AM funny. 

They don't understand the rest of my family.

When we sit around and tell jokes and enjoy each others company (or attempt to), we always end up laughing so hard that I start crying and mom has the need to sneak off to the restroom (she must have birthed too many children). We love to laugh.

Or should I say... I laugh as the rest of my older siblings can Have a nice verbal word play with my mother. 

They truly are hysterical. But I was blessed with my most of my fathers gifts and sadly, a dry sense of humor doesn't really seem to be one. That is, compared to my family.

To fit in this blog, I feel the need to be... Shall I so elegantly word this... I need to be able to be "my mothers daughter". I do however, seem to share my mother's feelings about many things. One being homeschoolers and another being the type of person who doesn't easily become offended so I have have a hard time understanding that I could possibly offend others (although my mother can usually figure it out but I am not that intone with my mind yet to do so). 

I do warn you, that if you are easily offended and a homeschooling mother, a Homeschooler or one who was previously homeschooled, please understand that I mean no offense, only truth and I have every right to poke fun because I am also describing myself (with the occasional exception)  within this list...here is my attempt to be funny... 

"You Know You're A Homeschooler When..."

You know you're a Homeschooler when...

When you have had off school because your mother doesn't feel well...

When you are perfectly used to matching your large amount of siblings 

When you are perfectly used to driving around with said siblings in a fifteen passenger van

When you have a fifteen passenger van

When your weekly trip to the library is "exciting"

When Mavis Beacon taught you how to type

When you go to McDonald's and count it for Math, Health, FCS, Social Studies, English, Science, etc.

When you can describe the different "types" of home schoolers

When you take long intervals in the bathroom every hour to get out of doing school with mom in the family "school room"

When you have a family "school room"

When you have opinions on whether or not cyber schooling is home schooling 

When you had Math with dad

When the school bus is your alarm clock

When you read all the Narnia books and counted them for school

When your family has its own opinion on the Harry Potter series

When you wear pajamas all day even when you say you don't 

When you get used to your friends making homeschooling jokes

When you often tell homeschooling jokes

When you make fun if your "sheltered friends" who must sit in school all day

When you still have to participate in school after a little "blizzard" 

When you finished reading this list... Then my friend, you must be a Homeschooler