Friend Family

Our circle of allschooling families is growing like early spring blooms, but our core group is maturing into a mighty magnolia.

We have yet to remember a group photo. We’re too busy playing video games, laughing, praying, and sharing our troubles and celebrations with each other.

Today was a simple escape from the rain. It was an escape from the drama and confusion that seems to weave themselves into life’s banal tasks.

Last March, I wiped my reusable whiteboard calendar clean. I didn’t have the motivation until 12 months later to use it again. Heck, there hadn’t been anything to put there. But now, this month is full of activities, most of them with, or because of, these families.

I thank God for this new tribe based on nothing but some basic human desires for connection in a world that has put social distance on a hierarchical pedestal.