The first Tuesday in March is the homeschool rally at the Capitol in Missouri. This was our first year attending, and the deal was sweetened by the fact that we met friends of ours there that moved south last fall!
After getting through the construction and security, we did a guided tour of the capitol, sat in on a legislative session, and then met back in the rotundra for the rally. It was absolutely inspirational to hear from the legislators that quite literally "have our backs" and from those who are successful homeschool graduates!
We got paired with a group of public school JH students for our tour and they were very respectful and well behaved. Kudos to their teachers!
Not too impressed with his ride...but big crowds + lots of stairs (so no stroller)...it was best for all of us.
I baked cookies
for our legislators and when the kids took them into the Governor's office we were offered a private tour of his office. Quite a beautiful historical room! The Page was very sweet and even offered to take our picture!
The Governor's office was the last stop on our scheduled tour so we let Zayden out of the Ergo...he was quite pleased to be on two feet again!
Love this painting - my sister said it was creepy. LOL
Mike took the older ones through some of the museum displays while Zayden and I sat in the rotundra and smuggled some animal crackers.
He supports Home Education.
The homeschool orchestra was lovely!
These legislators made time to come to the rally and wait for a turn to address us. I am so thankful for their willingness to openly support our efforts and right to educate our children. 1. Representative Hannah Kelly 2. Representative Kurt Bahr 3. Representative Dan Stacy 4. Representative Sara Walsh 5. Representative Allen Andrews 6. Senator Ed Emery 7. Senator Andrew Koenig
After we left the Capitol, we ran the kids through for some chow and fed them in the car while we drove back to Columbia. Our friends came back to COMO and we paid for entry into Bonkers, and let them have a blast for 3 hours while we caught up visiting (okay, Mike was a champ and did a lot of climbing). I used a TON of homemade Thieves hand sanitizer because places like Bonkers kinda give me the heebie jeebies. LOL
We were TIRED when we got home (did I mention the wind had blown quite literally like 30 mph allll day?) but it was SO worth our efforts to go. Besides getting to meet our friends, we realized as parents how important it is to show our children their Capitol and to familiarize them with the people who have the power to make a difference in how things are down. It's also important to show ourselves to our legislators and help them remember the faces they are voting for or against when they are making decisions.
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