Our Homeschool Family Update

Hello. Our homeschool family is so happy to share our experiences and hope that they will be of interest and value to you.

Like the pro-life cause which embraces all people who believe in the sanctity of life, we join with all who support homeschooling. This website welcomes and is grateful for each and every visitor!

First, the introductions...we are a homeschool family of ten, Dad, Mom, two girls, three boys, one son-in -law who is as dear as a son and two granddaughters. Last but, not least, is Max, our border collie, who actually rules the house. We are Catholic, and our faith is the foundation, the motivation, the constant in our lives.

In 1987, when our two oldest children were in kindergarten and fifth grades, we began homeschooling. What prompted this (at that time) radical decision? The school in which they were enrolled, decided to initiate an explicit sex education program, in K through 8th grades. My husband and I couldn't believe it; nor could we allow innocence and natural modesty to be stripped from our children.

We tried to persuade officials and other parents to stop the change. That failed. So out of necessity, we took our children out of school at the semester. Immediately, we ordered our boxed curriculum. We were on our way and never looked back.

It didn't require much time to discover the many advantages of home education...academic, spiritual, moral, and yes, even social!

Today, through God's grace and the prayers and support of home educators like you, the labors of homeschooling are coming to fruition.

• Our two daughters graduated from the University of Dallas. It is a conservative, challenging liberal arts college with a core curriculum.

• Now our oldest is married to a wonderful man; they are blessed with two daughters.

• Our second daughter is an admission counselor at the University of Dallas and the one who dubbed us "The Fam!"

• Our third child, a son, has begun his first year of graduate studies at a major seminary in the East. After four years, with God's help, he will be ordained.

• Our fourth, a son, is a college sophomore. He is studying at the UD campus just outside of Rome. (To refute any naysayer who claims homeschooling is weak in math and sciences, last year the school gave him a summer scholarship to study college Chemistry I and II.)

• Our youngest is seventeen and a high school senior. He has the unenviable job of keeping his parents on task.

Again, thank you for visiting our website. Homeschoolers are a community of dedicated, thoughtful, selfless people of which it is an honor to be a part. You are in the thoughts and prayers of our family...and we humbly ask that we be in yours.

Our 2008 Homeschool Family Update--Our youngest child is now a sophomore at the University of Dallas Rome campus.

Our next oldest is a UD senior majoring in politics with an eye on the five year MBA program.

Our oldest boy is still in the seminary (two years to go to ordination! Please keep praying.)

Our youngest daughter is the college counselor at a new, parochial high school here in the Kansas City area.

Our oldest daughter and her husband began homeschooling September 2007. This year their daughters are in first grade and preschool.

Gary and I are enjoying life. He is the Human Resource Director of a non-profit agency.

...and I? What could be better? Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Dog Lover. Website owner.

(Check out about how I built this website--with no HTML knowledge at all!)

Please keep our homeschool family in your prayers; you are in ours.

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