Homeschooling Confessions

Someone in a homeschooling forum recently described me as having "her daughter in about twelve things a day and STILL finds time to cover everything academic, all while being perky and well-rested to boot."

I cracked up. I am generally pretty confident in my homeschooling and parenting. Maybe I'm just in denial. But perky? Most definitely not!

So, some of my homeschooling/parenting confessions:

• I hate long, involved projects. We're making a chicken mummy right now. Why? What the flip are we going to get out of this? Will she even remember it in a few years? Plus, The Kid wants to make canopic jars for the innards. Seriously? Do you actually think we're keeping mummified chicken innards long term?
• When the woman who is wonderfully heading up an American Girl book club asked parents if they would like to help, I said no. I'm sending my kid to the book club specifically so someone else can plan projects and I don't have to. I did offer to help furnish any supplies needed.
• I'm intentionally holding my daughter back in gymnastics. The level she is in meets during the daytime, when the center is nearly empty. All the later levels only meet during the evening, when the center is crowded, noisy, and has extremely limited seating and parking. She can stay with the daytime preschoolers, thank you very much.
• We barely "do" academics. Seriously, it looks like a ton of stuff when I post about it, but it's somewhere around 90 minutes a day. Plus random educational things to watch on tv and lots of books.
• My child is a great reader. Okay, that doesn't sound like a confession. But you know those history lists I put together that have a bunch of books listed? And you're maybe thinking that I read them all aloud to her? Or we read them together? Nope. She takes a stack to her reading space and reads them. We read maybe 10% of them together.
• We never did get signed up for Girl Scouts. There were a ton of roadblocks in the way. They didn't make it easy. They're all based around the schools so that girls are with their classmates. The school near us mixes all the girls ages 5-12 together and is poorly organized. The school where most her friends ended up going would be a pain to get her to. And there is no way I'm starting my own troop. No Way.
• We're one and done. The Kid will forever remain THE Kid. There will be no Next Kid. There will be no Third Kid. Yeah, we still do a bunch of activities, but I have ONE KID. If we didn't do a bunch of activities, she would want me to be her playmate and that just isn't happening. Five year old's games aren't really that interesting to me. So we go to gymnastics and book club and dance and soccer and music and park day and this and that and the other thing. Then someone else can keep The Kid occupied for a while. Bonus points if it's a drop-off activity and I can go run errands in peace!

There. That's what I can think of off the top of my head, which means there's at least five times this amount that I'm not listing :)

How about you? Any homeschool confessions?