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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

That's part of the point, Marie.  I don't have to break into youngest's 
time.  She knows what has to be done and she does it.  I don't have to 
remind her to take care of her turkeys and her lambs.  She choose to have 
them, she did her research and she knows what owning them entails.  That is 
part of the package.  She knew it going in and she decided that's what she 
wanted.

She wants to go to Germany.  She is teaching herself German.  She has looked 
into what it will cost her.  She has already made arrangments with a family 
to stay with.

She decided that raising market livestock would be the easiest way for her 
make a lot a money.  So, she has lambs and turkeys.  She will have to kill 
and dress the turkey herself (that is part of how our fair works).  She's 
never done it but she'll do it.

She studied up on sheep.  She heard about an essay contest from a feed 
store.  Wrote her essay and won the price of a lamb and all the feed for the 
lamb.  Found a local ranch and went out and picked out a lamb.  According to 
the rancher, she picked one of the top 3 lambs from this year's crop AND the 
full sister to the lamb that won the carcass contest last year.

She will earn the money for her trip to Germany!  I won't have to hound her 
or interrupt her or anything else.

And I don't have to hound her or interrupt her to help with the dehydrating 
I'm doing right now.  She's doing one dehydrator and I'm doing the other. 
She wants banana chips, so she's making them.  And two days ago she made 
brownies.  DH bought her a CD when we were in the "big city" and the next 
day she made him brownies.  It is all part and parcel of the give and take 
and we all live together that is unschooling.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> O crap, my whole life has been like that. Mom was always breaking into
> my reading time to get me to pick beans, do the chores, yadda yadda
> yadda.
>
> I'd say, that's life.