Well, my husband doesn't like me to post too much personal info, so I'm not going to give a lot of info, but here we go.
I, like Karen in the last post, got a late start to my family. I am a 41 yo mother of 3, who will be married 9 years in a couple of months. I have 3 adult step-kids that my dh had custody of when I married him, so I have parented the teenage years before the younger years (unfortunately with teens that hated me on principle!)
My kids are Delta (son - 6), Echo (dau - 4), Foxtrot (dau - almsot 2), and we are expecting little Golf (?) in 3 months. I have grandchildren... Zulu (boy - almost 7), and Yankee (girl - almost 1) [yes, these are code names based on the phonetic alphabet]
We live in Canada, in a pretty homeschooling-friendly province.
When I was a teenager (in the 80's!) I had a family of friends that were homeschooled, which was very unusual. I remember the mom telling me one day that when I was older and had kids that I didn't need to feel that I had to rush them off to preschool, kindergarten, etc. I will admit that this family always seemed a little "wierd" in social situations - but the thought of possibly homeschooling was planted.
I was SO bored in school, and was somehow always the "picked-on" kid from about grade 4 to about grade 10 (well, grade 10, which was the start of high school, wasn't too bad.... I did have some friends and was mostly left alone...) So homeschooling didn't sound too bad. All of my siblings dropped out of high school (from being bored mostly) and eventually had to earn it later as adults. My husband had also dropped out of high school - he joined the military. Our adult kids all had a horrible school experience - and have all dropped out - and learned lots of things we would have rather they hadn't. So we are people who wanted to homeschool before we even had kids. (so to speak...)
I did a lot of research on homeschooling while the kids were younger, and was half leaning towards "child led". I would have loved to do montessori, but it just seemed very expensive to try to get everything just right. I stumbled on Charlotte Mason somewhere - I think there was an AO link on a Homeschooling your child for (almost) free type of site.... and I did a lot of reading and it sounded like it would fit. (My dh wasn't so sure, when I told him that it was from the ideas of a victorian-aged woman)
So there you go - my history.