Post-Conference Update

Last week was the 7th Annual Charlotte Mason Conference at Gardner-Webb. I was so touched by the outpouring of support for this little school.

Some comments:

"I am so proud of you!"
"I am so excited about your little school!"
"This is like birthing a grandchild!"
"Can I send my grandson to live with you so he can go to this school?"
"What do I have to do to teach here?"
"An hour is not such a long commute--maybe I should consider sending my son."
And best of all--"What do you need? What can I do to help?"

On Saturday, a few of us went over to the church building where Willow Tree will be housed to pray. When we finished, we looked up and there was another wave of people coming. So we prayed again. And again, when we finished there were still more people coming. So we prayed a third time and took some pictures to chronicle the event as part of the school's history.

I would like to thank Kerry for gathering books from the curriculum at library sales and selling them to me CHEAP! I would also like to thank my mom for donating books. I spent most of yesterday going through about 18 boxes of books (many were from my classroom collection and my personal library) looking for books that are in the curriculum and sorting them into boxes by grade levels. I'm also boxing up some books that just are not going to make the cut into the school library to be used in community service projects this year. (Thank you to the "bees" who sat in my dining room helping a few nights ago who gave me that idea!)

Please continue to pray for Willow Tree. We will host a parent information session on the 20th, and there should be an article coming out in the local newspaper in the next couple of days. Everything is in place to open an excellent school on August 26. Now we just need a few more students.

Thank you for your support!