Support Group

I am involved with a great group of moms!!! The support group is more than just a cooperatives of moms working together to provide extra classes for our children. It is a true support group. We are working to support each other as we walk this road called homeschool. As we walk in this way we are discovering that our lives are not revolved around home school, but rather our home school is revolving around our lives.

For me everyday is an adventure! I woke up this morning thinking that I would have my son spend a couple hours with math and spelling. Then I would go and spend the afternoon with another home schooling mom, our children would play and we would chat.

Before that could happen, my dh called to tell me that a lady from church was having a last minute lunch at her house. I thought “why not?” so I loaded up my little guy and off we went. Turns out one other home educating mother was there, and we were able to catch up a bit.

I left, and went on to my friends home and another friend met us there. We were able to visit for a bit. She was in need of hugs and encouragement, not particularly about homeschool, but about life. We laughed, we cried, we hugged and fellowshipped. This friend is a member of the Homeschool Support Group that I am in.
Because of some of the things she is facing in life, we needed to make some changes regarding up and coming classes. She didn’t want to disappoint anyone but I assured her everyone would understand.

Later in the evening, I message all of the other moms and told them about the change being made and explained the reasons why. Within a matter of minutes, they were all supportive and quickly came up with a plan to redifine the up coming class, then 2 moms volunteered to teach it. Just like that a plan was born, a friend was relieved, and I was encouraged.

As moms, we all need support from our friends. We can’t walk this road alone. I find is so disturbing that so many people think that we isolate ourselves and our children. The truth is quite the opposite. We reach out to others in a way that few people these days do. I see more and more people focused so much on work, home, sleep, work, home sleep that they never have time to build lasting relationships.

Over the past several years I feel that I have begun to build a supportive network of friends who have grown to support and love each other on this road that we travel called home school, but as we travel it parallel to each other we are finding that we support and love each other while on this road that we call life. It’s a marvelous thing.