Once Upon A Time
"Once Upon a Time...." In honor of the upcoming season of love, I decided to do a series on how my little family came to be, in my own little fairytale of a story. I suppose I should begin this tale as all good fairytales begin.... "Once Upon a Time, there was a young girl who dreamed of herself as a princess...." I was homeschooled from age four through high school, and the homeschool community around where I live generally organizes a graduation ceremony for those graduating that year. My parents had been the head of organizing the ceremonies for many years, and it happend that the year I was to graduate there were no other graduates interested in participating. So, while I really wasn't too terribly excited to have the entire ceremony center around me, I thought it would be good to continue planning the ceremony and leave it open incase there were any late-comers. About a month before the ceremony, a family contacted my parents and asked if we still had...