Home's-cool

I need people. It sounds obvious enough but I really, really, really need people. I am entergized by social interaction, love being connected, relish deep girl-friend relationships but......I am a homeschooler. It's terribly isolating. I've said many times to Mr. Johnson after a hard days work "Just take me some place public so I can feel society around me." It's not just me. Eagle wakes up every morning and asks "Where are we going to go and who are we going to see?"

I've been apart of homeschool groups that are just plain creepy in the past. I've read homeschool mission statements that make me cringe, and I've seen homeschooled children that frighten me.

This year is going to be different. I've signed my children up for every homeschool activity within a 50 mile radius. PE at the Y, CBS, WINGS, MOPS, Morning Grace, ICHE, NCHE, etc....I've gone Christian Homeschool crazy.

While researching 'how to make my life overly full and obnoxiously busy' I came across 7,052 pagen homeschool websites. Really? One yahoogroup site called Homeschoolers Leading Children to Worship the Pagen Devil (or something very similar to that)had an intersting mission statement. I encourage you to google it...wait don't do that it's scary. Must we have a group that is devoted to evil? Another group was called Homeschool Fringe dedicated to non-traditional pagan families. Wow, I didn't know regular Pagan's were so intolerant of non-traditional families that new group was needed. I thought the word 'intolerant' was reserved solely for insulting Christians.

Shocking.