You Might Be a Homeschooling Mother If . . .

My husband is on the emergency management team of our little town. Now we have a number of emergencies to worry about. Our fire department is small and all volunteer, so in the winter we have to worry about house fires, since many people heat with wood, and in the summers we have to worry about grass fires because everything gets so dry. The number one thing we have to worry about though is tornadoes. We live in the middle of tornado country and March 12th of last year we had two hit our town. It was awful. Some places are still a mess.

Because he is on the EMS team and because our biggest worry is tornadoes he has to take a weather class every year. This year he talked me into going with him. It was really pretty interesting. As I sat in the class listening to the National Weather Service guy give the class I could help but wonder how I could use this information in class with my boys.

After the real part of the class was over he started talking about their web site and all the information available on it. I found myself wondering if it had anything on it for young people. I will check it out tomorrow. If not my husband has faith that I will be able, with the help of a few other sites I know, to put it on a level that my youngest could understand. He says "who knows maybe he'll want to be a meteorologist."

The funny thing is that when you homeschool everything you run across gets view with an eye toward whether it is something you could possibly use in class and how you could get it on their level. So as Jeff Foxworthy might possibly say "You might be a homeschooling mother if your kids are afraid of you going off to learn something new because it just might become a class for them as well."