Well, this morning’s Not Back To School Breakfast was an unmitigated success.  The kids had a great time and the moms got a chance to visit and even begin to plan field trips for the coming year.  It looks like we’re underway!

Posted: August 8th, 2008 under celebration.
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Tomorrow is the first of our Not Back to School Breakfasts.  We are really looking forward to getting together with our friends and celebrating the fact that our schooling is part of our family lives and isn’t compartmentalized.  We’ll meet this week at a local restaurant and then next week, when more people can come, we’ll meet at a park for a BYOB(reakfast) picnic.

Our children feel a little sad for the kids in school who don’t get to do this.

Posted: August 7th, 2008 under Uncategorized, celebration.
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This past Saturday was the graduation ceremony for my son.  I have to say that it went incredibly well.  I introduced him (and his accomplishments) to the gathering of his friends that he had invited.  His sisters then sang a song (I Hope You Dance) that he had chosen, which made me cry–just like it had every time they rehearsed it.  Then one of his teachers and mentors gave a short, but very moving, commencement address that had me in tears.  Then we had another sweet and short address by another ones of the people whom he most respects in the world.  Then he gave a speech that had his sisters and me all in tears.  Then we just celebrated the end of one stage of his life and the beginning of the next.

It was wonderful, and exactly what Joseph wanted.  One of the beauties of homeschooling is that you can always create the exact ceremony that you want, instead of having to fit into the school’s version of what a graduation should be.

He is leaving our homeschool now to begin again at UL. 

Posted: June 9th, 2008 under celebration, emotions.
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