This most unusual year has led to the most unusual and wonderful birthday celebration of my life.
We started building a new social group from scratch: veteran unschoolers and home educators, new homeschoolers, crisis, virtual, isolation, and all types of schoolers came together to provide the personal contact that we all knew pur children needed to develop into healthy individuals.
What the parents underestimated was how much we needed personal contact.
These friendships have saved me from (at least) two periods of depression in the last year. Our Thursday meetups have been a lynchpin in my sanity.
When someone started a record of birthdays days before my own, I knew I was in for cupcakes from our resident master baker and probably a song from everyone.
What happened was the biggest show of appreciation I have ever received.
