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Thankfulness

Posted by Marye

May 1, 2008 |

 
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There are so many things that I am thankful for in my homeschooling life.  Sometimes it is hard to see the really beautiful sprouts amongst the weeds that seem to tenaciously dig in to my life.

So here they are.  Things that I am thankful for.

  • My family
  • The salad we are harvesting daily from the garden
  • The goats that give pure, organic, raw milk for our health
  • The chickens that are laying eggs like crazy
  • The snakes that eat the eggs but also eat the mice in the barn area
  • The fact that God has blessed my blogging hobby so completely
  • My online friends as well as my IRL friends

There.  Those are the things I am thankful for today.

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I am also thankful for posts like Sebatian’s at Percival Blakeney Academy. She asks:

What if your family were offered a job transfer to a far away country. It might be Germany or Kenya or Ukraine. You ask about school. You are assured that you don’t need to worry. The company has educational allowances that generally cover the cost of a private school. But what about our homeschooling. That’s ok too. You can homeschool instead, and even receive an allowance for that. In fact we’ll give you over $5000 for each elementary school aged kid and over $7000 for each high school aged kid that you are homeschooling.

First of all, with 6 kids still at home I am now a wealthy, wealthy woman. On children alone I have now 34,000 dollars.  WHOOOHOOO.

I am not sure what I would do differently. I would certainly get microscopes,a nd telescopes and owl pellets…but I think that that amount would just about keep me in drawing paper and printer ink at the rate my kids go through it. :/  I would use it to get a country property because alot of our learning is hands on.  We would, I think, do field trips to Rome, and Paris, and the Great Wall of China.

Head over to her site to read the whole post and do some dreaming.

What would you do?


Comments

2 Comments so far

  1. Shari Ellen on May 12, 2008 1:26 am

    What a neat thankful list. We used to have chickens, too. But then they got naughty and starting eating their own eggs.

  2. asd on May 28, 2008 5:57 pm

    >IRL

    I didn’t know you were a channer…

    Strange times.

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