[Siobhan]

I didn't know how well I would do at homeschooling since my grown children had all gone to Catholic schools, and most of them had had the very best Catholic education while we were in India. But I find great joy in homeschooling Mairead, and it is delightful for us both, and I intend to do the same for the two little ones (unless I am near one of the schools that will arise from Mother Assumpta Long's new Order of Dominican Sisters).

[Notwithstanding]

My kids were at one of Mother Assumpta's schools.

Amazing.

For the first few weeks I would go to the daily Mass with the kids and I would just start crying at how blessed I was to have such a wonderful school where the Catholic faith and Catholic values came first and foremost.

Now only homeschooling will do.

[Notwithstanding]

I should ad - we moved away once I re-entered active military duty and are now in Germany.

The German's are stupefied when we explain that we home-school.