The parent who hopes or plans on home schooling probably wonders about it, what it must be like to be a homeschooler.
There are as many answers to this question as there are folks asking it, but the answer we all want, at first, is universal.
Entering the world of homeschooling is entering a whole new world.
It is a new world because immediately, the family realizes new freedom. Since the home school is YOUR school, the sense of liberty is immediate. You realize that you can do whatever you want, and you really like it.
You may choose to do everything just like a little school, but it will be your choice, not something forced upon you.
New Liberty
This new liberty will include the choice of curriculum and subjects. You will have freedom to choose a God-honoring curriculum. You will find yourself free to believe the entire Bible, if you choose, which will be a wonderful new freedom for you.
Along with the freedom to believe and study as you choose will come all sorts of other new possibilities. You could find yourself teaching your children all they need to become a missionaries, Creation scientists, midwives, herbalists, or any other of the fields that are off limits in the public arena.
New society.
As your new world makes these radical changes, your gladness will grow as you discover you also dwell within a new society. You will have new friends who will be happy to help you. You may need help, but it will be ever ready with these new friends.
As you learn to enjoy them, you will join them in their activities, new activities to you. Where you once had to chase ball games, you may find that you have more time to chase Frisbees or butterflies. Instead of hanging out at the school parking lot, you will find yourself hanging out at the observatory or park. You will like these new activities, and as you spend more and more time with these friends, your loving concern for them will grow.
Your concern will grow so much, in fact, that you may find yourself in a car full of folks riding to your State Capital to express those concerns. You may also find yourself enchanted at having the time for expressing such concerns.
You will enjoy these new friends because you will realize that they are a different sort of people. They smile a lot and their smiles are genuine. They reach out to you and you catch yourself looking forward to the next time you see them. You ask them questions because you like the differences you see in their families.
What you will not realize is that the same differences will be gradually appearing in your own family.
Home's Cool! 
Yes. You were homeschooling when I was in high school and I thought, “I want my family to be like that.”. Thank you for living out such a great example.
Hugs and kisses to you and your family, which is turning out even better than ours, in its own way! 😉
When I first heard of homeschooling many years ago, I thought kids sat at desks all day long. LOL
It was a true blessing from God to listen to Him and do as He instructed. He knew what my children (and I!) needed. 🙂
I remember one rather soiled math book that fell out of an oak tree . . . 😳