Friday frolics at the beach

With home ed friends.

When the older children were young, we were part of a network of early years home educators, built around Merry’s Muddlepuddle site. Perhaps because there were so few of us we worked hard to build relationships that are still strong 10 or more years later. (I’ve known Merry online for more than 12 years. I met her in person at a home ed camp when Small was just a few weeks old. )

While the email list is still pottering on, there are so many ways and means to build networks now that none of them seem to be quite as strong, if that makes any sense, and I’ve despaired of finding a group for my younger children. But now we seem to be doing it – this was our second meetup locally and I’m hoping we can go on making friends. Absolute bonus is that one family is walking distance from us – not had that before!

It would be so lovely for my younger children to grow up in a network of home educated peers, preferably not quite so virtually as it’s sometimes been. Here’s hoping.