I recently opened my home to another single mom and her homeschooled children.  It might not seem ideal, but they needed a home, and I needed someone to share mine.  They needed a place of calm to facilitate restoration and I needed company to facilitate mine.  So, we filled each other's needs and are going to try to make a go of 8 people in a three bedroom home.
The thing that blows me away is that with these children (five between the ages of 5 and 10 and then a 14 year old) things seem calmer than they did with just my two.  I love the team work of kids helping each other with homework, house work, and everything else.  I find myself continually impressed with the maturity of children educated in the home.  Without losing any of the intellectual stimulation (in fact, usually gaining more), they are unharmed by the dog eat dog world of public schools.
I lift my glass to all of the homeschoolers out there.   Cheers!  You're doing a great job.

One of the beauties of homeschooling is the ability to work on your own time.  Today my son put himself down for a two hour nap.  After waking we had to eat and then go play soccer.  ( A game which we won, I'd like to add. )  It wasn't till we got home and the kids were asking to watch a movie that I realized Caspian hadn't gotten his reading lesson in.  So he and I settled into the Papasan chair with a big yellow book that uses the DISTAR approach and began reading sounds and words and then a story about a girl in a pet shop.  I caught myself deliriously happy at one moment because my son (a fresh five years old) was sitting on my lap laughing hysterically and reading perfectly.  I wanted to bottle that moment.  Not every reading lesson is filled with such joy, but that is exactly the emotion I want him to take with him on his journey of reading.  My daughter has already developed the thirst for the written word and the knowledge it imparts.  In fact, I gave my daughter the option of going to bed at bedtime or staying up to do geography.  She chose a geography lesson.  I feel so lucky.  I may not be doing everything right, but it's those little moments that help remind me that I'm on the right path.