I can't believe I haven't blogged in so long, but that's what happens when you go on a trip. I finally got to go home to Mid Missouri to visit my family and friends. I was so pumped up about it I could hardly sleep last Thursday night.
This was my first visit in almost 2 years and the first Homecoming I had went to since 1991. Now, when you haven't seen some of your classmates in 18 years it can be quite a shock. Some I wouldn't have recognized if I passed them on the street and others were just the same.
It was very emotional for me watching the boys' basketball game and the homecoming queen and her court. It seems just like yesterday that my niece and I were walking across that gym floor in our gowns, nervous as hell, and waiting to hear the name of the 1990 homecoming queen. It turned out to be her, not me thank goodness. I just wanted to get to the dance and the parties.
Our Junior Varsity won their game but our Varsity lost. Such as the way it goes in our hometown. Our boys always seem to be so small up against the Amazons from the other towns.
Anywho, we ended up staying up way to late every night visiting, and getting up early to go to my nephews basketball games. We got to seem them play 5 games Saturday. 3 for the oldest and 2 for the youngest. Whew, we were on basketball overload. But it was so fun watching the kids of my niece and other classmates play ball.
It was a fun trip and an enlightening one. Up until then I had been thinking that to move up there to my small town would be the answer to my prayers. It is so nice to know everyone you see, and the parents of the kids your child would go to school with. But then I got to thinking and talking with my family on the way home. We come to the conclusion that we liked our life just the way it is. TT wouldn't mind going to school there if he had to, but he is so much happier doing what we are doing. Poogie knew all along she didn't want to go anywhere to school no matter what.
I also found that I do miss my friends from home desperately, but I also missed my friends from here. In the last year we have made some of the best friendships of our lives. I'm just not ready to give that up. I want my kids to enjoy having friends who like them for who they are, not what they wear, where they live or who their parents are. Homeschooling is the right fit for us. No matter how hard it gets at times I know this is where I should be. And that feels pretty good.
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Hey I came across your blog while looking for moon phase information (thanks for the links, btw). We have a few things in common--I scrapbook (digitally--and design for a few stores) I homeschool and grew up in MO (still in the Kansas City area). Just thought I'd say hello, too many coincidences, lol.
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