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ABOUT ME 

       Home Schooling Hosts

    NCACS in Virginia, on to Raleigh.

    Some of the wonderful home schooling families that hosted my kids and I.

My son, Eric was a student member of the NCACS (National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools and needed a ride to Virginia for the yearly conference.  Since we had all lived in Raleigh before, I decided to drive him and then go on to Raleigh and show my daughter the home and the people where we lived when she was born.  The picture on the right was taken in June of 1985, a month before Serena was born.  The family that hosted us (from our church, not home schoolers, this time) and two of their 3 children along with my Eric and Anna are shown around the joint birthday party.  Four of the kids had birthdays within the month. This was another great family that hosted us for over two months until after Serena was born and we had found a little place to rent outside of Raleigh. So this is the house and family I wanted Serena, who was almost 7 to meet, the reason why I was so willing to drive my son to his conference. 

I will soon have another page with pictures and stories from the days spent there, in Raleigh and the little place we rented about 60 miles out of town.

So in the Fall of 1993 my two daughters and son headed south from N.W. Ohio, first to the Roanoke, Virginia, area, leaving Eric there and then on to Raleigh. 

The first family the girls and I had arranged to stay with, pictured on the left, had a last minute emergency and couldn't host us at that time. But if I remember right, they contacted the second family and arranged with them to host us at first. 

This family took us to a downtown concert in Raleigh and to the opening of a new museum. We are sitting in front of it here. Serena took the picture and if you look closely you will find Anna hiding in the back of the picture.

A really funny thing was we found out was that  these interesting and fun people had moved to Raleigh from Boston, where my brother lives and it turned out they were all friends.  Small world. They knew my brother from his playing in a band, not from home schooling.

This family invited the kids to go out to their place and ride their horse and pony.  Here's my girls, with Serena on the pony and Anna standing towards the rear of it, and the hosting family's little girl standing in front of Serena.

So the first place we stayed in Raleigh was with another one of the three families that wanted us to stay with them. The parents both teach European dance.  They had four kids and all of them were nice kids.

Here they are with my Serena on the far left. This was a screened in patio and it was perfect weather to have supper out there.  They had frogs singing in their backyard all evening long.  It was beautiful. And their yard was full of interesting things, such as this hammock.

 On the left is one of their daughter's with my Serena. 

That's my two daughters on the right, trying to avoid spilling out of it. .

Here is the third family, all together in the woods they lived in outside of Raleigh. We stayed there a couple of nights and their two older kids became good friends of Anna's.  They were members of a home schooling group that was getting ready to have a huge get together at a North Carolina park and invited us to join them.  The other family we stayed with were also members.  I have another page that includes pictures of that place.  It was gorgeous and relaxing and had so many interesting home schooling families to meet.