Homeschooling

So my husband and I have been thinking about homeschooling our kids. Which apparently according to mainstream America is a crazy idea.. but why is that? Is it because we are afraid to do something that is different from what we may have grown up with? Is it because of the stigma placed on home-school parent (as well as home-schooled kids) that they are different? I grew up being called different, among many other names, and I hated it. I hated school. It prettified me to get on the bus everyday and to walk through those doors. I never really concentrated on an assignment after I started middle school because I was too hurt or scared of what the other kids were going to say to me.
Bur that is not the reason I am strongly considering homeschooling my children.

I am considering it because in the NYS public education system today a child is a number and a test score and nothing more. Their individuality is frowned upon and if they are loud or energetic they are given a prescription and asked to be quiet.

That is not the environment I want my son and daughter spending 40 hours a week in.

New Year... Same me

So here we are in a new year.. 2016. And although I have made resolutions it seems like every year I never seem to keep them beyond February. I feel like most people have this issue... But here's the thing there has to come a time when you do things for yourself. Even if it's little things.. Things for you. Things that make you happy. Honestly as a mother and a wife full time some days it feels like there is no time for me. That there are not enough hours in the day. But I have found that if I do just one thing for me then sometimes it makes the day easier.  Hopefully I can do this on a more regular basis. 

What does it mean to have CP?

I used to get asked about having CP all the time when I was a kid and it would really make me uncomfortable. I didn't want CP to define who I was. I wanted to be Tara... a girl who liked to sing and watch horror movies and read and who also happened to have CP. I wanted it to be an after thought, because to me it always was. I would remember when I would fall down, or trip or have to go to PT or have to put on my AFO's. 

Even as an adult I would get asked "What's it like?" And the reality is.. I have never known anything other then having CP. It's not like I woke up on a random Tuesday and all of a sudden walked 'crooked' or had trouble keeping my balance. This is me, for the last 33 years, and weather I like it or not it's never going to go away. And honestly now I don't know if I even want it to. CP has made me who I am in a lot of ways. It has taught me to never give up, to never judge a book by it's cover and to never be afraid of the dreams I have no matter how big and scary they may seem.

Any person with a disability (or a challenge) is a true miracle. But please don't ever let that challenge define you.

So this is Me...

Hi out there..
  I am writing this blog as a outlet, an inspiration and I way to connect with others like me. I am a Mom, I am 33, I am a housewife, I am a tech geek, I am a music lover, I am a book nerd and I am a woman that is living my life with a "disability". I have cerebral palsy. I have had this condition (as I prefer to call it) all my life. Although I have never really felt all that special, but I have decided to start embracing this unique charitaristic of my being that is know as CP. And it has occored to me that there are many others out there with CP, some younger and some older then myself, that I would love to connect with.


That's all for now. :)