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"There is no getting around the fact that to give yourselves wholeheartedly to the rearing of children will eliminate you from a lot of activities your friends are enjoying and often from activities that seem to be obligations - not merely social, but perhaps church, family, business and civic ones.  You will have to ask God for wisdom to choose and the guts to stick to the choice. (Don’t pay attention to you-owe-it-to-yourself talk.  You own nothing to yourself, everything to God.)"

~  Elisabeth Elliot

This probably is unrelated but I found it interesting & it sort of goes with this quote.  We spent the morning helping our senator at his campaign office folding flyers.  It was something we could all do and it was interesting for the boys to see another side of a campaign.  The gal in charge at the senator’s campaign office also home schooled her kids until high school (many, many years ago - her kids went to a private high school for their upper grades).  She said she always found it funny that the question we always get about home schooling is about our children’s socialization but she was sad that nobody ever asked about "her" socialization (i.e. being home all day, and having very little adult contact ---- remember too, she home schooled about 30 years ago when home schooling was fairly new so it wasn't the network that we have going now a days).  I never looked at home schooling as “my” lack of socialization but it is true and this quote just made me realize that the "sacrifice" that I choose to make is sooooooo worth it for my kids but it is a sacrifice.  Just a pondering thought.