Well, today's school was way cool.  No paper learning, or coercing N to do any work.  I decided on a whim this morning that would would go to the HSC campout for the day.  I packed us up food, changed clothing, and zoomed, zoomed  to the Lopez Lake we went.  Lopez Lake is about 20 miles north of us.  There were lots of homeschoolers there camping out from all over California, even met a lady from Stockton, where we had just moved from 3 years ago.  We also  ran into other local homeschooling families that we often do things with, or our kids are involved in almost the same activities outside of homeschooling.  One family we got to hear about their 2-month trip across the Western United States, they took.  This is the same family that introduced me to York through a postcard they had sent us.  N played in their fort with the girls, and played at the make-shift beach.  Almost got in a swam, I think if I was a bit more skilled at swimming I would have swam.  It was very warm out there, about 90 degrees I would say.  But it was very peaceful and quite.  Nothing like communing with nature.  N enjoyed himself, also.  He told me he really enjoyed that the lake didn't have any waves hitting up against the surf and making noise. Never new that the waves of the ocean bothered him, and he goes to the beach pretty regularly.  We say a deer and by feet got about 10 feet from it.  I was trying to get its picture.  N wants to go camping next time out there.  I think if it weren't for having to tote older high schooler L around we would camp with the rest of the homeschoolers. 

 I talked to a lady who is homeschooling an only girl, and a talking to her about homeschooling an only put me at a bit more ease.