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mellyrose
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Could I please ask for prayers to help me deal graciously and patiently with the multitude of snarky comments directed towards me and my family in the last couple months?
If I have to hear how my children should be sent to boarding school, or how my kids would be much better off in school, or how my baby would be happier and smarter and calmer and probably magical or something if I would put her in daycare, or how my house would be cleaner if I didn't homeschool, or how I don't deserve any help because I chose to have children and stay home / homeschool them, or how I'm being unfair to my husband by expecting him to earn enough money for my apparently lazy self, or how I am doing my kids a disservice because there's no way i could teach middle school math (um, they're 6 & 7 . . . we're a few years away!) and I could go on and on but you get the picture.
I'm feeling very attacked and my DH is out of town and I just am worn out extra by all the judgment.
My mom goes back to WI in another month . . . and then I have a year of peace before they move next door permanently. Mary, help me.
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Melanie, your patience, courtesy, and generosity is amazing, I know. It can be so hard and draining to walk the high road, knowing we have been blessed with wisdom and understanding about something (in this case, homeschooling and mothering littles) that others don't understand. Praying for your protection (St. Michael, pray for us) and that you will find ways to continue to be the holy woman you want to be.
Love,
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Dear Melanie
I am praying for you - for peace and patience and love.
The road less travelled is never easy - I am often the target for similar comments.
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Prayers for you.
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Melanie, praying for you. It is so hard sometimes especially when loved ones say hurtful things. This is one of the crosses that homeschoolers have to endure so many times! May the Good Lord give you strength!
Blessings and praying!
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Prayers here. I hope you have at least one good homeschooling friend nearby.
Mary
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Praying for you!
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Offering prayers!
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I'm sorry you're enduring this, Melanie--praying here.
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