100 reasons to homeschool

i'm feeling kind of a blogger's block. not too inspired to write much of anything. i think all my inspiration has been focused on the new etsy shop.
i do, however, from time to time, think of reasons to be thankful that we homeschool. it's not going to be an entirely serious and somber list. it'll be peppered with some lighthearted mirth. and they won't be in any order of importance- just in the order i think them. and so i begin.

reason to homeschool your children #100-
if you are at all green- or have the desire to be green or more green- homeschool your child/ren.
the amount of dead trees that would pile into my house every friday was unbelieveable. we'd recycle it of course, buy why kill the forest in the first place? now here at home we use WAY less paper. i kind of miss all the scrap paper we were loaded down with (we just finished emptying the drawer we filled with school paper). but we use old calendar pages cut up for notes and such.
during the gas crisis the kids brought home a letter from the gwinnett county superintendant. it had facts and figures about schoolbuses around the county. one fact was so sobering. during a normal schoolday, gwinnett county schoolbuses collectively log the amount of miles that one car would rack up driving to los angeles and back SEVEN times.
plus, the kids have SO much more time to actually get out an build a relationship with the environment that we are trying to protect. they aren't in school getting some obscure lesson about rainforests half a work away. they are learning the intricacies of their backyard ecosystem and as they grow, so will their eco world view.