We met a family a bit ago at the Kid Power workshop and then ran into them again at our PE program. They are friends of friends and invited us to participate in a new program they have started called Roots & Shoots. The program is international (and you can read about it here) but our group meets in our town and actually at the park closest to our house. It’s every other week and the kids, with adult assistance, plan and carry out service activities. Today they made paper cards they’ll be decorating to give away and the grown ups learned how to crochet reusable shopping bags to use and/or give away to others.

It seems like a really, really neat group of families and the kids had a blast. Mo knew some of the kids from PE and was ecstatic to see them again and C quickly made friends with two boys his age. At least two of the families live nearby and most seemed to have “alternative” diets like us (vegan, GF, one raw family, etc.) I think we’ll learn a lot and have a fun time.

While I’m excited to meet more homeschooling friends I’m also really happy that the kids will have a community based group of peers to focus on service activities with – we have some of those opportunities at church but not like this.