This entire family has been down with a nasty bug since last Sunday. I tried on Tuesday night, despite my medicated funk, to update but my server crashed taking with it my access to email and a half written post. I took that as an omen–maybe you didn’t want to read about all my mucus afterall!
We are finally on the rebound–but in the past week so much has happened I find updating a daunting task! I will address all the "news"–especially the Pink kind–later. First, I just want to say "Thanks" for all the support I’ve recieved regarding Boy Wonder…
Taking him out of school has not been an easy decision. We have talked about it for many years–it’s just something I’ve chosen not to blog about because so many people have such strong opinions! I’ve yet to meet a person who says, "Homeschooling? I could take it or leave it!" I know from personal experience that the decision to take anything but the regular route with your child’s education can be perilous. It’s like stumbling into a La Leche League meeting with a Gerber bottle full of formula in your hand. This little family is "different" enough already, do we really want to walk down this particular path and announce to the world just how different we are?
Hand me the blow-horn.
Because ultimately, we are different. Boy Wonder has known this for ages. Adults who interact with him, even strangers, always comment on how unique he is. Sometimes they mean that in a good way, most often they mean that in a good way. Yet, there has always been this edge, this unspoken sense that he is not like the rest of his peers. While all the elderly ladies at Peet’s were charmed and told him that he was "Special", all the experts–and there have been many Pediatricians, Pschologists, and Educators–have said, "He probably won’t find peers until Graduate School." His peers? Well, they sense one not like their own a MILE away–and that’s where they’ve stayed… Which makes for a lonely existance within a crowd. One on one, he is charming and sweet and far too innocent. But in a crowd, he simply does not know how to fit. And further more, he doesn’t want to. Boy Wonder figured out early on that he wasn’t like everyone else and he didn’t want to be like everyone else. He has gone out of his way to be as much "himself" as possible.
