big, honkin', deep thoughts

So this morning I read a book about Thanksgiving to the girls. There are things that public schools do that sometimes homeschoolers over look..like teaching the months,or days of the week lol. They aren't so revelent in my life so it hit me last year my little kids didn't know them! How embarassing. Fire safety,stranger danger and roman numerals also things that are easily overlooking in an official 'teaching' sense. They know all the religious meaning and siginificance to our holidays and they know Thanksgivingis about thanksfulness. However, they were woefully ingnorant about the history behind the first thanksgiving. So to the library we go for a week and a half worth of info on thanksgiving, pilgrams, colonists and native americans. Today we read a cut little book that covered some info on thanksgivings around the world and then focused primarily on the colonists and such. There was a line in the book that said that the Pilgrims left England because of a disagreement with their church leaders. I mean thats BIG. They got ticked at the church and went and founded a whole country! They clearly were not United Pentecostals. Pentecostals would still be in England murmuring,bitter and angry at the church but convinced that to go contrary to leadership would send them straight to hell. They couldn't go somewhere else,they'd still be there waiting on a transfer letter from their pastor.