Country Life

Tonight our family planted lots of tomato and pepper seeds. They are sitting on a shelf in the window for now. It will be months before it will be warm enough to trust Mother Nature not to freeze them to death. I am looking forward to planting my garden. It's one of the many things I love about living in the country. Another thing I love? Signs like these.

This one is in front of my daughter's rural Christian school. The whole school has about 120 kids and goes from k-8. There are 10 kids in her class. The school has VERY LITTLE money. Her tuition is $125 per month. They have very few computers and even less playground equipment. And you know what? The kids at this school are not just learning, they are THRIVING. No TV, no sex ed., no government money. Just good 'ol fashioned teaching and learning going on there. When the kids come out of this school and go on to high school they are, almost without exception, ahead of the public schooled kids academically. (And socially, I might add) Gotta love country livin'!