I recently joined a local band of rowdy homeschooling mommas. Okay, so we aren't really rowdy. We're all rather reserved actually... unless you hit our hot topic or favorite curriculum buttons... then we may have opinions to share... or mildly suggest. But, rowdy or no, we are banded together birds o' feather
(who like to maintain our autonomous natures, thank you kindly.)
The important thing is we are 'banded together' - something I had let go of for awhile
(Sometimes my 'autonomous' overflows and I forget that I'm not an island adrift nor The Lone Ranger.)
It is nice to be back in community with like-minded yet completely unique folks again.
It has been a little while since we were last plugged in with a group.
Between my overflowing autonomy and busy, bustling every day life, it just didn't seem like we had the time. But alas, as is usually the case-some of the best things are things we MAKE TIME for.
Like French Pressed coffee and homemade Croissants.
Worth every second.
This group is one of those things, and we are looking forward to making time for our new NCHE family .
After the first few meet ups, I was so anxious to get to hobknobbing with our new found friends, I created a Facebook group so that we could congregate and well... hobknob.
(Hobknobbing is a top secret homeschooling thing...for initiates only)
I can show you the group, but I cannot let you in unless you are a NCHE initiate...because we're hobknobbing in there. And we like our privacy.
(If you are a local homeschooling family in need of a group you can join HERE. Then come over to Facebook, perform the *secret door knock and we will teach you hobknobbing.)
Having the constant presence of the group via Facebook should also help me to interrupt much less at Mrs. Janie's house. But I best not make any big promises... I think of so many things that need to be shared when I get around real life people... and homeschooling folks at that! I'm just not sure I can keep it all to myself--even if I try.
Aside from the happy proof of socialization that yammering on about our wonderful new group provides, I'm also making this entry to save a sample of the group's 'interim logo'. I couldn't find one on our website, so I created a quick one for the time being.
Because, you know.... I tend to logo the people I love ;)
Well, I really should be going now. These lessons won't plan themselves... oh! and it looks like there's a new message in the Facebook group.
(Ha!- not really...but I'm sure the struggle to balance priorities is 'only a day away')
((HaHA! As if I have ANY idea how to balance priorities...I really like to sound as if I have it all together, don't I?))
Come on back another day, when we will talk about Mrs. Janie and The Matriarchs, a very important alpha-flock of homeschooling birds who teach us how to keep our wits & feathers as we tend our modest nests and nudge our fledglings along.
*There is no secret knock, we just check the member roster