Stephen's post...1/12

Stephen claims his professors think we have some type of super-human strength to have our (large) family in the PhD program. The conversation usually goes something like this…

“You have some kids, right?” (Most of his colleagues have the very appropriate number of 2 children or less.) At Stephen’s response, “Yes, I have 5”, they say, “Wow! Are any of them in school?” When he tells them that we homeschool he gets an even longer, “WOW!!!” And then the inevitable follow-up question: “How do you do it?” Recognizing the double entendre in their question, his initial thought is that “The kids come quite naturally, it’s the raising them that is the hard part.” Even after he explains a little about the structure we use in our home—Sunday planning sessions, evening meals together, story time (leaving out that the downstairs is always a mess)—they still can’t quite fathom it.

It works for us, and we couldn’t be more happy!