Big plans getting small minds thinking big!

The system is sucking us in and in doing so destroying us as a family!

We seem to be stuck!

Everyday the same - the Great Struggle out of bed after getting-to-bed-too-late and not-sleeping-at-all desperately seeking the alarm - which in modern day is a mobile phone of sorts and upon finding it shutting it up as if there are still hours ahead before really having to get up.
Our eldest, Oscar fortunately manages getting up fairly swiftly most of the time.
It's dark though.., it's winter and cold.
It's 10 to 7.., it's crazy!
Oscar catches his bus an hour later and only returns 10 past 4.., and it's getting dark again!
He is 11 and we never see him!

When Oscar leaves.., Dawied is woken up. He sleeps really well and if he should hear Oscar getting up he'll be awake for a very long day.
Dawied is 9.., he walks to his school at 20 to 9 and sometimes only gets back at 5!
He is 9 and we never see him!

We do not have money. We work hard trying to get some.., but it never lasts. We are not alone.., there are many like us out there all over the world!

Why?

Why bust our bones trying to earn enough to provide in the basics and something extra to spend on the boys when we never see them?!

It's taking its toll on our marriage as well! Loads of misunderstandings leading into feverish arguments which in a prison would have been dealt with as if a riot!
''Teargas!'' I shout pointing at my wife, while her argument-warden beat the crap out of me with their batons!
I seems hopeless.., if we agree we will both be wrong...!

OK!
STOP!

We need to save this!
We love each other and..,  need each other more than we collectively might think!

Step 1 - I must find out what the vacuum cleaner looks like!
Step 2 - the boys need to be taught that their beds do not actually rest on their toys and dirty clothes, but on their own legs!

No more serious...... THE RESCUE PLAN!

We will commence as off the end of this school year to Home Educate!
This program will set the stage for the Family Play!
It will take time.., time we now don't have.., but time we'll find by scaling down!
We must find some sort of equilibrium between everything else while home education stays priority...

Will we fall off the ends of the earth like early seafarers thought or will we just go round and round in circles as later seafarers proved possible?

We'll have to see.....

Today 2 Jan 2014

We asked our boys to write down why the would like to and why they won't like to be home schooled.
This roughly where we stand at the moment!

Dawied

I don’t like it because we won’t play with our friends for long.

We won’t have anytime to look around when we travel

I can spend more time with Oscar

We can do your dream – travel and see places

We can go to places travel

I won’t become a year 5

Oscar

We get to travel

More time to play

Less school

More time with parents

Get to see more places and more school trips

Won’t see any of my friends

Won’t meet any new friends/girls

We probably will move

I won’t be a year 8

We won’t know new the places

Might miss out on seeing my cousins

Sure, I've thought it through, but as it seems I'll have to think a lot more before we get there!