Well, it’s finally here. It’s time to put my money where my mouth is. This fall my eldest will start kindergarten and so begins my homeschool mom career. I graduate from seeing myself as a homeschool student to embracing the role of homeschool teacher.

It’s exciting and overwhelming at the same time. I have all these ideas of projects I want to do with the kids that I’ve collected over the past few years, but putting ideas into action is a whole other bird. And lets not forget that it’s been 14 years since homeschooling has played any part in my daily life.

Thankfully, I’m not left to the wolves to figure out what I’m doing. I am so fortunate and excited to be able to attend the 2014 Teaching Parents Associations Homeschool convention! It’s May 30th and 31st at the Century ll Convention Center in Wichita, KS, and you can check out TeachingParents.org to register.

I always wanted to go as a kid, but alas, mom always left us home. I can’t say that I blame her though. I’m not taking my 5, 4, and 2 year old with either (though the 5 month old gets to tag along this year.)

The workshops look amazing! A couple of the breakout sessions that I’m looking forward to are Combining Homeschooling and Unschooling and Hands on Kindergarten & First Grade. You can go here to find the schedule for the weekend

And I am SUPER excited to get to hear Tim Tebow’s mom Pam Tebow share with us from the wisdom she’s gathered over her many years as a homeschool mom as well as her ministry with her husband.

I can’t say that I have too many expectations for the convention since it’s my first year, other than getting two days without kids to get recharged and fired up about the upcoming school year!

I’ll be tweeting throughout the convention, highlighting some of the the amazing information and products I come across. You can follow me @ComingupGreen and I’ll be using the hashtag #TPAConvention. You can also follow me on Facebook!

Are you going to a homeschool convention this year? Any tips for this newbie?!