You know you are a home school mom when.......

You get to change more than diapers, you get to change their minds.

When a child busts a lip, and after seeing she's okay, you round up some scotch tape to capture some blood and look at it under the microscope! We need a microscope :)

You find dead animals and actually consider saving them to dissect later.

Your children never ever leave the "why?" stage.

When your teenager decides to take one community college course, and comes home and asks you why the teacher wrote "At" on his paper. (A+)

You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary. This is actually on my "wish list"

Your kids think reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog. They also love having school on the deck watching the fish - IN THE SPRING of course!!!

Your husband can walk in at the end of a long day and tell how the science experiment went just by looking at the house.

You never have to drive your child's forgotten lunch to school. Yippee - its cold out there ya'll!

The only debate about the school lunch program is whose turn it is to cook. and what to have.

You never have to face the dilemna of whether to take your child's side or the teacher's side in a dispute at school.

If your child get's drugs at school, it's probably Tylenol.

Your neighbors think you are insane. Yep they do throw adoption in there the think we need white coats :)

Your kids learn new vocabulary from their extensive collection of "Calvin & Hobbes" books.

Your formal dining room now has a computer, copy machine, and many book shelves and there are educational posters and maps all over the walls. This is an "arguement" at our house.

You have meal worms growing in a container....on purpose.

Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference. This one makes me laugh!

You can't make it through a movie without pointing out the historical inaccuracies.

You step on math manipulatives on your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom.

The teacher gets to kiss the principal in the faculty lounge and no one gossips. Maybe not gossip but there is "ewww" heard.

If your child claims that the dog ate his homework, you can ask the dog.

You can't make it through the grocery produce department without asking your preschooler the name and color of every vegetable.

You can't put your produce in your cart without asking your older student to estimate it's weight and verify accuracy.