I apparently qualify as an unschooler. I tolerate textbooks as a last resort(say for math!), mud is my friend(with 5 boys whod'a thunk it?) and I prefer hands-on for everything. I think that sums me up pretty well  I always thought school was sooooo boring. I love to learn. I just hated school. As Albert Einstein said "I tried not to let school get in the way of my education." Rock On Albert!! I have the 1942 Red Cross book of Home Nursing. I love to read that. It's soooo interesting. I realize medicine has come a long way but good old fashioned health and hygiene don't. This book describes in detail how to deliver a baby, make an incubator if the baby is small, etc... Did you know back then most children were potty trained before they were 1 years old?!?!?! Now if you told me I HAD to sit down and study this book, reading so many pages a day, tests, blah blah blah I'd probably HATE the book.lol. Maybe I didn't hate school. Maybe I hated being told what to do So many things I want to do before this life is over and so little time. I'd love to learn about cars. I know NOTHING about how they work. Maybe the boys and I can buy a junker and figure it out. I want to deliver a baby. I just don't think there could be anything cooler than that!! I thought I was going to have to talk my friend Kelly through the delivery of my last child he came so fast lol. I want to learn how to knit. I used to know a little bit but I've forgotten. I made soap once with lye. It was fun. I'd like to do more of that. I'd love to live on a mini farm and have some animals. I'd like to deliver animals too   I'd learn how to play the violin and cello. I'd like to learn how to draw and paint. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler! I'd like to build a log cabin, butcher an animal, shoot a gun, sew more(ok I guess I need a sewing machine for that first), write poems, oh and if I could do ANYTHING I wanted in the whole wide world....I'd take off and land F-16's on an aircraft carrier. That would be the biggest rush!  Ok I'm sure I'll never get to do that but a girl can dream can't she?!?!?