Well firstly, did you know about this? You might find it helpful to read the threads about books about home education - personally I can recommend the book Free Range Education as a starting point to see if it really does interest you .
I first learnt about it when I was pg with DD1, suggested it to DH who was over the moon that the law didn't say we had to send her to school as he said it had been the one thing he'd dreaded about parenting, having hated school himself. Mentioned it to my mum (a primary school teacher) who thought it was a great idea and wished she'd done it herself. Also spoke to my uncle (a secondary school teacher and father of four) who had the same opinion as my mum. That pretty much decided us and we started learning about it.
We started going to home ed groups and meeting up with other families who planned to HE when our oldest was 2 and our DD2 was just 4m old, so we made a lot of friends with children around our children's age. The more I read, the more convinced I was that HE would be the best choice to make for our children.
We plan to HE until they want to go to school (which I'm hoping never happens!). I really love it, working at their pace. We do what they call 'autonomous education' which basically means trusting in the efficiency of informal learning - learning through life. We don't do any lessons or curriculum or even any planning! We just follow the children's interests.
DD1 (now nearly 6) learnt by herself to read a few months ago and has a fantastic grasp on maths, as well as great general knowledge and knowledge about science - all just by playing, living etc. They sometimes choose to do workbooks, or pick an experiment out of one of their usborne books, or ask to do a craft thing off mister maker or something. They play on the internet - cbeebies, education city, club penguin.
I could go on forever - ask me questions if you like