In the online biology class that Sonia and I are taking, there’s another mom student who has four kids. She’s a little bit shy, but when she does speak up and answer questions, I can tell she’s working hard at the class.
I sent her an email to say hi and to let her know I appreciated her contributions to the class, and she wrote back, very delighted to have gotten my email.
So, we’ve emailed back and forth a little, and I think we will continue to get to know each other over the semester.
And in my Bio lab section, there are two other moms who homeschool their kids, are homeschool graduates themselves, and are fellow Christians.
So, we have formed a little online group.
The funny thing is, at the outset of the group, we had no idea we had all this in common; we just knew that we all were moms going back to college!
My dad…….he is a good man – reliable and hard-working. But I know very little of his youth, his family, his homeland. He emigrated from Lebanon in the late 70’s and he didn’t speak of his past for many years. I think it was equal parts painful and equal parts wanting to assimilate into American culture. And now I feel like there is never a good time to dive into the past. I know it is a bit foolish on my part, but I do wish I knew that part of him.
The first thing that came to my mind was the people on this blog! Maybe one day we could do a: share 5 facts about each ourselves. Or Kristen could pose a few questions that we could answer. I always think new people are interesting.
Well — Bee was one! But you’ve helped me with that. But otherwise,, there are several people I would like to know better, so off the top of my head –
Cindy Betsill, a woman who, with her husband, is striving hard to improve the lives of impoverished women in Guatemala, while serving as a missionary. We seemed to have some common interests when we met, and I’d love to have more time to get to know her.
And if we go back in time, my dad’s mother. She died when he was a teen, and I so much wish I could have known her. My dad always spoke so warmly of her.
I guess I will choose all of my ancestors, from my parents to hundreds+ of years ago. Sadly, I cannot directly get to know them, but I hope to be able to do some research, although it’s not the same. I sure wish I had been able to have these conversations with the people I did know, when I could have!