So I'm adding my voice to the ranks of countless other bloggers - namely the homeschoolers, parents, readers and thinkers. I hope this blog will become I place for me to chronicle my and our lives, particularly the intellectual/educational aspects. I'm not at all sure I'll add anything profound to the larger conversation but I do hope that the discipline of regular writing will help me clarify my own ideas about how we and I do things.
So, who are we? A mother (me) and father and 2 kids, ages 3 and 9, a boy and girl. We've been homeschooling since the fall of 2005 and plan to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. We live in the upper midwest, but won't be here indefinitely. In fact, we'll be moving to India for a year, within the year. Beyond teaching my own kids I also teach childbirth education. And beyond just teaching about birth, I support birthing families as a doula. Mr. Reason is slogging through graduate school at one of the many excellent universities here in the upper midwest.
And what's with the blog title? First and foremost, its from a song I like a lot by Mason Jennings. The chorus runs through my head a lot lately and I thought it'd be suitable for a blog - when we get right down to it, *I'm* all there is here, so I must be the reason you're *here*! But really, I choose it mostly because its a good reminder for me, and also a good descriptor of why I am at this place in my life - it is because of the people around me. I hear my children and my husband and my students and my clients and so many others in that line - I am here because of and for them. And now, for you too.
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