To Be "Unshy" One Fine Day

What a wonderful experience it has been!

( This photo courtesy of TMA Homeschool)

So these posters were attached to the email I received from our homeschool provider two weeks ago. I felt my heart leaped as I read all the statistics and how the homeschooling movement had grown in the Philippines over the last half a decade. Then The Hunny and I decided right there and then we won't miss this TMA Family Convention for the world! It happens on a Thursday and our car is on number coding and aaah, we're homeschoolers, we'll figure out how to get there without our car. And so we ended up borrowing my sister's car to get to our destination first thing Manila-morning.

( This photo courtesy of TMA Homeschool)

Here's a screen shot of a txt message I received from our academic consultant from TMA two days before the event. Now my heart melted as I felt the butterflies flew like crazy in my stomach, ugh. What to say? How to say? Okay, we're homeschoolers, we'll figure it out.

And it felt like I was hyper-ventilating right after I sent out this short txt reply! Dear God, what did I get myself into?

Pastor Gerry Argosino, our managing director, as he spoke words of encouragement to homeschool moms and dads.

The ladies in photos below are just a few of our academic consultants and prayer partners in our homeschooling journey. 

These wonderful ladies on stage help us make it happen!

We've always felt we're in good hands...

Yep. This is The Mom being "unshy" today as she shares about their own homeschooling experience with other Filipino homeschooling families. And among the hundreds of them that have their own wonderful homeschool stories to tell, she was chosen along with three others to testify and be heard. She embraced the rush, took it as a challenge, took it as an opportunity, not as one to boast but as one grateful and humbled to testify of God's faithfulness---holding her family together. YES it can be done, by God's grace.

And a home-made video to boot? Hehe... thank you for being easy on her... and thank you for your time.