I really had no intentions of making this blog all about homeschooling...but it is what is heavy on my heart these days. As I pray for the future and dream with the end in site...I wonder how my children will turn out because of my "calling" and desire to home-school. I worry a bit. Then I rejoice a little bit. I do feel that being a home-schooling mom (and family) is a calling from God. I have never had the desire to home-school my children...that is before my children were born. But now that God has granted my heart's desire to be a mom...He is changing my desires to provide a strong Biblical foundation for my children. So here I am...wondering what God has in store for me as a wife, mom & child of God. And wondering what our family will be like in 15 years when Mason is 21 and Annie is 19...they will be at the beautiful ages of making their own choices and starting the life of serving God as their own person...they will be starting their legacy story. I sometimes wish that God would let me fast-forward to take a sneak peak and then rewind back to today to enjoy the "now".
With all of these thoughts...it got me curious. Who else was a home-schooled kid? You know, the ones that go on to do great and wonderful things for their communities and beyond. Well, here a few that I think are pretty impressive! And if you are like me, I did not know that many of them were homeschoolers!
Claude Monet...artist
Leonardo Da Vinci...artist
Ansel Adams...photographer
Venus & Serena Williams...tennis stars
Tim Tebow...football (duh)
Louisa May Alcott...author (Little Women)
Jane Austin...author
Mark Twain...author
Charles Dickens...author
Helen Keller...death and blind author and lecturer
C.S. Lewis...author (and apologist)
Beatrix Potter...author
Mary Shelley...author (Frankenstien)
Phillis Wheatly...african-american poet
Timothy Dwight...President of Yale University
Fred Terman...President of Stanford University
John Witherspoon...President of Princeton University
Louis Armstrong...king of jazz music
BarlowGirls...Christian singers
Chris Brown...r&b singer
Charlie Chapman...actor
Hilary Duff...singer/actress
Dakota Fanning...actress
Whoopi Goldberg...actress
Hanson...teen pop singers
Katherine Hepburn...actress
Jennifer Love Hewit...singer/actress
The Jonas Brothers...actors/singers
LeAnne Rimes...singer
Jordin Sparks...singer
Ray Kroc...founder of McDonald's
Colonial Harland Sanders...founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Dave Thomas...founder of Wendy's
Albert Einstein...physicist
John Adams...one of the founding fathers
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Graham Bell...invented the telephone
Peter Cooper...built the first modern skyscraper AND patented JELL-O
Thomas Edison...invented stock ticker, phonograph and electric light bulb
Elias Howe...invented the sewing machine
Eli Whitney...invented the cotton gin
The Wright Brothers...invented the first successful airplane
Clara Barton...started The Red Cross
Elizabeth Blackwell...first US woman to receive a medical degree
John Newton...wrote hymns...Amazing Grace being one of them
Winston Churchill
Davy Crocket
Franklin D Roosevelt...32nd president
Theodore Roosevelt...26th president
Amelia Earhart
Annie Oakley
Will Rogers
Ferdinand Porsche...car designer and engineer
Teresa Scanlan...Miss America 2011
So that is food for thought...each of these individuals have made an impact. Some better than others. But what was brought to my attention...each person has a platform...how they use it is still a personal choice. And it doesn't matter if you "make this list" or not...if you have a strong foundation...you can make a difference!
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