Thursday, February 28, 2008
Love Stories
Do you know what I would love to hear, or read I guess? The highlights, the good things, all the warmth and fuzziness you can offer. If you were homeschooled and didn't hate your mother afterwards, for example, I would really like to know that. If there are moments as a homeschooling parent that make you teary with thankfulness for the opportunity you have been given to educate your own children, please don't hold them back from me. You see on Monday, I am going to ask a different question, one a tad more raw and sobering, so I was hoping to root myself a bit into your fertile soil of optimism before ditching the rose colored glasses and getting down to the business of reality. Your enthusiasm for what you do, I believe, will keep me buoyant when the impending waves of doubt come a crashing.
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4 comments:
Wonderful - I will be watching, cheering and learning along the way. Just so you know, my cousin Kara was homeschooled. She is going to college in the fall, loves her parents and has a really cute haircut (just an aside). Seriously, she has coffe with her mom every afternoon because they are bes friends.
Keep up the good work - love,
Paige
Hi, Molly. I haven't ever commented on your Close to Home blog, but I've really been enjoying it, and your podcasts, the last few weeks as I've been learning about the Orthodox Faith (I'm from a protestant evangelical background).
I want to encourage you and let you know that I was home schooled until high school-- as were my three sisters-- and I consider my parents two of my best friends. I also graduated near the top of my high school and college classes, but that is not my main point. I love my parents, and I am SO grateful that they were brave enough and willing enough to keep me at home and educate me for as long as they did. There were tough times, to be sure, but the good always managed to outweigh the bad. :) Hubby and I are planning to home school our kids when the time comes.
I'm looking forward to reading about your home school experience!
-Sarah
Hi Molly!
A good story where we know a Khouryia (a spititual mentor) and Priest in the Toronto, Canada area who raised 7 daughters! Yes! and he even left his successful business to enter seminary life while they had 5 girls. When that was finished - they had 7 by the time he enter the Priesthood.
Now, I am not saying to have 7 children -- my point -- is that it can be done with 1 to 10...
These girls are "angels", they are so respectful, so beautiful, in the sense of what it really means inside & out, love their parents, love the Church...(2) are married to wonderful men (I believe one is searching the priesthood), and (2) are nuns!
I tell you their story, in a nut shell, because I am still beginning myself, We have HS since the beginning but there is still so much to do...still scartching the surface here - pray for us, as we certainly pray for you...
Hello Molly, I recently was directed to your podcasts and blogs, and I have really enjoyed learning about the Orthodox Church and faith from your viewpoint. It has been very helpful as I believe I am starting on a slow journey of conversion to Orthodoxy from a Protestant background.
I was homeschooled all of my years of school, and I absolutely loved it. My mother and I are now close friends (besides having a wonderful relationship with my father as well).
School was difficult at times, but we (my mother and I) got through it all and now I am studying math at college.
Some of the best times came when my brother and dad would leave for a day for some reason and it would be just my mom and I for a day. Then we could just skip school for a while and have great mother-daughter times and do all the things that it entails. Great memories there.
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