Survival

Here's a video I've chuckled at more than once.

Thanks to Old Fuzzy for finding it for me. Her caution should be heeded. As we were at Big Fuzzy's for his Annual Chili Supper a week ago, there were a number of visiting kids pretending they were part of the 'wild bunch', running with abandon around the small property.

Some of them belonged to my Adorable Cousin, and she informed me later that her group were as happy as bees in the clover. 'We wished we lived here. They have kitties, and ducks, and chickens...'

Those of us who are 'homesteaders' in heart and/or action understand the call of the wild. And yes, kids do enjoy living off the land.

Another caution, however is after you've lived this way for a time, kids can become complacent and forget just how wonderful running free is. Sometimes at some point if you aren't careful they may think they hanker after a 'normal' childhood with like, cell phones and the rest of the amenities.

Don't go there. Move to a more middle of nowhere place. Go deeper. Run. More normal isn't what it's cracked up to be. And you may wait years before your kids say, you know, we had the best childhood...'

We never isolated our kids when we began homeschooling. There were weekly library days, homeschool get together days, church days. Friends visiting days, visiting friends days, and then there was family visiting days.

In the very beginning of the homeschool movement we were still fighting for our right to school our kids at home, and as a group, others right to school their kids. Some people paid a dear price.

During the first few years there was a phone tree. When legislation was being debated at the capitol building, homeschoolers and their kids showed up.

Our family thankfully didn't have legal persecution, but—

Old Fuzzy was a substitute school bus driver back in that day. After we began homeschooling he was never called to drive. We sold produce and baked goods at local farmer's markets. That became less productive. Just small things.

The ability to laugh is always a plus. As this week draws to a close I wish you all well. Take time to worship God tomorrow. Remember from where our blessings come.

Proverbs 17:22 "A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones."