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Here's a post that began as a reply to Small World, but that I wanted to share with everyone. It's about my interest in home schooling, which is a very "out there" idea to me and, I'm sure, to just about everyone I know and probably even to everyone they know.
In fact - this sounds very silly - but I'd never even heard of home schooling until I watched that special on the Duggar Family on Discovery Health. I was fascinated at how Mrs. Duggar could manage 16 children, especially since I come from a family of four children and we had a really difficult time "holding it together" without distress.
So from watching the few specials on television I began to seek out some information online, and that's how I discovered home schooling. Right away I noticed that everyone seemed to be from the southeast, heartland, south central, or northwest parts of the country, and almost no one was from New England!
Another embarassing confession: at the same time, I felt curiosity about these parts of the country about which I knew absolutely nothing! So, in a move called "bizarre" and "campy" by friends, family, and co-workers alike (who also thought it was interesting), Alex and I took our annual 4-day vacation celebrating our (two-year) anniversary to ... Eureka Springs in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas! (If any of you have seen the Duggar specials, this location is somewhere near their home - we chose it because we didn't know of anyone or anywhere else in that part of the country!) This was a big trip for us, and I can tell you that we found things and people to be even more different than we imagined! But: we liked the differences!
Now we are asking ourselves: what are we missing out on, commuting to Boston everyday and living here? As I said, I'd like to find out more about how others are living, what is important to them, and how they are making their children and spouses into families. |
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