OK---so every Wenesday I host a mom's rosary group at our house and the kids play while we mom's pray a rosary for world peace! Well, our intentions are more like.....end to abortion, more patience, good health, that Stephanie and Ben would find good Catholic spouses and more patience! ha-ha.
Anyway, since global warming has finally hit us here in Michigan we have Justin and his friends play outside during our prayer time. (There is big open field behind our house and the kids love to go 'hunting' for treasures. There is a paved road because there was suppose to be a huge surge in home buying, but that didn't happen--it's all vacant.) So, Justin and two other 7-year old boys put on their backpacks and headed out back to the field area this past Wenesday. About 10 minutes later us mom's were chatting and I look out the back window and see this police car going down that road in the grass area towards the boys. My friend, Jane, immediately goes out the deck door and heads over to where the boys are.
It takes awhile to walk to the boys and the rest of us--in the house--can see the policeman get out of his car and start talking to the boys. We, of course, think we might be getting in trouble for letting the kids run around back there; or maybe he's wondering why they are not in school! Finally, after about 10 more minutes the cop leaves. When Jane gets back in the house she said that the police showed up because they received a phone call from one of my neighbors saying.."There are 3 little boys with back-packs wandering around in this big open field area and I'm not sure if they are trying to run away or what is going on." !!!!!
Now, let's all remember that it really does take a village to raise a child! So, the boys come back and I asked Justin what the policeman was asking them...He says, "He asked us what we were doing." Well, what did you say? "We told him we were looking for crystals & fossils." Uh, the joy of homeschooling....going on a treasure hunt on Wenesday morning at 10am to look for crystals and fossils!! "Then he asked us where we go to school and Dominic told him that we are homeschooled." What did the policeman say about that? "Nothing. He just said OK." So, Justin had his first, and hopefully last, encounter with the police at age seven!
Anyway, since global warming has finally hit us here in Michigan we have Justin and his friends play outside during our prayer time. (There is big open field behind our house and the kids love to go 'hunting' for treasures. There is a paved road because there was suppose to be a huge surge in home buying, but that didn't happen--it's all vacant.) So, Justin and two other 7-year old boys put on their backpacks and headed out back to the field area this past Wenesday. About 10 minutes later us mom's were chatting and I look out the back window and see this police car going down that road in the grass area towards the boys. My friend, Jane, immediately goes out the deck door and heads over to where the boys are.
It takes awhile to walk to the boys and the rest of us--in the house--can see the policeman get out of his car and start talking to the boys. We, of course, think we might be getting in trouble for letting the kids run around back there; or maybe he's wondering why they are not in school! Finally, after about 10 more minutes the cop leaves. When Jane gets back in the house she said that the police showed up because they received a phone call from one of my neighbors saying.."There are 3 little boys with back-packs wandering around in this big open field area and I'm not sure if they are trying to run away or what is going on." !!!!!
Now, let's all remember that it really does take a village to raise a child! So, the boys come back and I asked Justin what the policeman was asking them...He says, "He asked us what we were doing." Well, what did you say? "We told him we were looking for crystals & fossils." Uh, the joy of homeschooling....going on a treasure hunt on Wenesday morning at 10am to look for crystals and fossils!! "Then he asked us where we go to school and Dominic told him that we are homeschooled." What did the policeman say about that? "Nothing. He just said OK." So, Justin had his first, and hopefully last, encounter with the police at age seven!
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