Yes, many creative things that I could blog about this particular morning.  One, that we had a voting on a Referendum last night and I awoke to the news that most of the Province has chosen Liberal ... boo.  Most of my county chose Conservative.  My first sentence is probably wrong, politically, as well.  At least I voted.

Two, my relative happiness with our "new" church is just that ... relative happiness, but I am resigned to the fact that one really must go somewhere, and this somewhere is not half bad, just not quite what we were looking for, and still a bit of a drive.  I have no idea what the Pastor thinks about homeschooling or those eccentric enough to do it, and proclaim to be artists at the same time.  I can speculate that he would be somewhat in favour of homeschooling in general as the church also has a private, Christian school attached.  There are a little less than 100 children who attend this school.  I always thought there were more.  Another private school has less than 50 students (actually closer in number to 30) and there is also a private Christian Reformed school.  The majority of homeschoolers in my area are Dutch and Christian Reformed.  There is a membership meeting in two weeks.  I am not sure I can decide that quickly and, at the same time, desperately want this whole situation resolved.

Three, my youngest just plain hates school.  This certainly challenges my enthusiasm and confidence in teaching.  I have said it before and I will say it again ... homeschooling is not for the faint of heart.  At least I still have his heart, and he is only in grade six.  We still have time ...

Out of approx. 87 families who are registered members of my area (which is pretty huge, geographically speaking) I only know of two who are currently homeschooling high-schoolers.  There is an online program some have chosen for their high-school students, but it is not actually homeschooling as it is a government-run program for those who, for whatever reason, cannot or do not want to be in an out-of-home classroom setting.  Parents do not check the work or assign anything, but help with homework just as they would if their child attended the local public high school.  We would like to homeschool through high school, but God may have a different path for us.  I wonder, sometimes, how eccentric is too eccentric.  You really do get pretty ignored in this wee town if you don't go with the flow.  Friends would be nice.

Four, and last, I leave you with this article my dear friend, bestsister, forwarded to me on Halo3.  I have not formulated an exact opinion on this whole issue yet, but would like to announce that the church we attend, currently, has added WII to the youth room.  The hope is that kids will move a bit and enjoy this type of action/sport gaming over Halo and more passive games.  Apparantly the good, old-fashioned idea of playing outside 'til it is too dark to be safe is just old-fashioned.

Some days, the pull to "the hills" is stronger than others.

Posted by partyoffive

like it is time to move to Tennessee...think of all the friends you already have here!! And I have the house just for you :) (they are installing new carpet in my bedroom) as I type...

Posted by anotherblogonthefire

I think it would be a much longer drive from Donna's house!

Posted by bestsister

you have the fact to consider that you have this wacko friend down the road who just keeps thinking about Timmins. Except I'm pretty sure the church search would be worse there and who could ever grow fresh basil and squash that close to the Canadian tree line? okay it's not really that close but you get my drift. We love our church (mostly) except even there we get comments like "Wow. #7? You're making the rest of us look bad" and "Boy even we knew enough to stop at 5" and "Langs bus depot are selling off some old school buses in Strathroy if you're interested".....nice.
Plus then there is cell tonight where I'm sure to be a blight on at least one lady's evening....
Maybe I need to have a portable invisible fence that follows me wherever I go :-)

Posted by SmallWorld

Perhaps that "pull" occurs each time we say, "We wish Neal and Kristina lived here."