*Sniff* *Sniff* *Cough* *Sniff*

Yep, that's what I sound like today and for the last two days. How is that fair? I want to be 100% healthy and energetic and feeling like myself! Hopefully soon!

Other than that not too much going on around here. We seem to finally be getting into the fall routine. Both kids are enjoying school and enjoying their teachers. I'm so happy about that.

I've been debating leaving my online groups. One I've been with for 8 years but they are just getting on my nerves - specifically one person who is the most outspoken and always has a negative comment to say about anything positive that might be going on in my life. I have just been reading here and there on that group. I haven't posted for more than 6 months - the longest I've EVER gone. Another Mom asked about me recently and this particular out spoken Mom said where I was and what I was doing! That really bugged me - how can you speak for a person when you haven't spoken TO that person? She homeschools her kids and is rather self righteous about it.

Why are so many homeschooling parents that way about it? Honestly, it does not make you or your kids better for you to teach them at home. And just because you're not sending your kids to school doesn't mean I'm not teaching mine at home! I can't tell you the number of science experiments, or museums, or stamp collecting, or researching or other things I have done with my kids all in the name of "enriching their lives." Homeschoolers do the same things and act like they are the only ones doing things with their kids and they're better because they're doing it for "school." I read a blog from a homeschooling Mom recently talking about a spider in their yard they named Charlotte and were checking on everyday. At the end of her tale of the spider she says "only in a homeschooling family." Um, no, sorry - some of us sending our kids to public school have done the SAME thing! You don't have exclusive right to fun creative learning because your kids don't go to a school and sit in a classroom!

Sorry, I got off on a little rant about homeschooling there. Honestly I do NOT have a problem if you choose to homeschool your child but quit acting like you're better than me because of your choice! I'm not better than you because my kids go to public school. OK - done with that!

My other group that I've been with for about 3 years has started to irritate me a bit too - mostly again one particular person who always has the "right" answer and makes me feel like I'm never right and that I'm not as smart and that she is superior. I don't know if she means to make people feel that way or not but it's the way I perceive it. Maybe now that I've got enough "real life" friends it's time to drop the cyber ones.

It's the few women left in the groups who don't annoy me that have made it so I haven't left yet. Time will tell what happens I guess.

Well, I came to vent about my stuffed up nose and went way off on a tangent! Hey, it's my blog and I can vent if I want to, vent if I want to, you'd vent to if it happened to you, dun da dun da dah!