Can I really do this?

Over the last several days, I've been planning for the new school year to start. The kids and I have really been looking forward to homeschooling and all of it's perks. We've chosen Time4Learning {see this link} as our curriculum. It really is a great program and has a lot of resources and options for teaching. But I have to say, I think I'm at a disadvantage- maybe this would be a lot easier if I had an Elementary Education degree and teaching certificate. ??? I'm really struggling with lesson planning! Really. 

I've created a Homeschool calendar on my google calendars and planned the school year...beginning Monday, August 22nd and ending Friday, May 25th... 36 weeks of school. Holidays include Labor Day, a week off for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Christmas, MLK Jr. Day, 1 week for Spring Break, and Good Friday. 

We have 4 kids in school this year. Katherine is in 5th grade with 5 subjects, unless she does Art, then she'll have 6. Travis is in 4th, with 5 subjects; Olivia is in 1st, with 4 subjects and Ella starts kindergarten with only 2 {very in-depth} subjects. Ella's got a lot of classroom instruction it looks like. Is that optional?

For example, Ella's Language Arts has a total of 199 activities (18 chapters). Divide that by 36 weeks, and she has exactly 5.5 activities to complete per week. That sounds easy enough, but there is also classroom instruction for each of those..a lot of letter recognition- difference in uppercase and lowercase letters...blah blah blah. Sorry, do I sound cynical? :/  Imagine for a second, that I did do the lesson parts with her every day and she did the online activities...then I have to teach Olivia about "Pollution" (that really is her first chapter in Language Arts Extensions. And what does poetry have to do with Pollution? In the FIRST GRADE?!?) before she can do her online activities...then help Travis & Katherine with who knows what (Math!)...  Somewhere in there Bryn will need at least one snack and Samuel will need a diaper change and a nap and will want to eat. (Back to Olivia- the poetry stuff... here's what part of the instruction says: "Read the poem once and ask students to think about it. Then read the poem again and allow students time to reflect. Ask students what they thought about when they heard the poem. Help students understand that even short poems can convey great emotion and imagery." Great emotion and imagery? We're talking to a first-grader. ?A first-grader that struggles with reading. I'm wondering if she ought to sit in on Ella's lessons??)

This is why I've always been afraid to do this! I'm beyond overwhelmed right now since I've looked at the online activities and classroom-type lessons and worksheets and answer guides. I'm sure it'll be fine once I have a schedule I can stick to- it's the getting started and organized part that is killing me.

Am I biting off more than I can chew? Should I not do the classroom-type instruction for Ella? Will the online activities suffice? How much one-on-one instruction will be necessary? Can I do that and take care of Bryn and Samuel and cook and do laundry and dishes? and not stick them in front of the tv with a bag of dry cereal and a sipper cup and let them pass out on the floor? I mean, seriously. I do not want to become a neglectful parent to my preschoolers or my home or myself. BUT the alternative is worse...sending my kids to a less than mediocre school- only to replace these questions/problems with more problems/stress. 

I still think homeschooling my kids is the best answer. I just don't know how to do it. 

Okay, give it to me... leave a comment and give me advice (but don't tell me to do public school- it's not an option).