{"id":1524,"date":"2012-02-07T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatshesaid\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2012-02-07T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:02:15","slug":"22-signs-its-high-time-you-home-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatshesaid\/2012\/02\/22-signs-its-high-time-you-home-school\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Signs It&#8217;s High Time You Home School"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><br>\n1.\u00a0 You wake up in the morning feeling rested.<br>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 You dress cute.<br>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 You highlight your hair and never wear ponytails.<br>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 You find yourself at Starbucks at ten on a weekday morning doing nothing.<br>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 Your bookshelves have room for knick knacks and you actually eat on your dining\u00a0\u00a0 room table.<br>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 You have time to go out for lunch with friends, to put makeup on, and to shave.<br>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 You vacation in places other than Washington D.C. and Gettysburg.<br>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 Your husband doesn\u2019t work from home in his jammies or call you \u2018Mother.\u2019<br>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 Your children wouldn\u2019t recognize a G.A. 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