I am a country mouse, I always have been. I grew up in a small town. When I played house as a child my house was in the middle of a big meadow far away from town. Now I live on the outskirts of an even smaller town. I love it. I love my land, I love building my home from the ground up. I love knowing everyone in my community. I might even love everyone in my community on some level or another, just because they contribute to the way things are.
My only problem is what to do, if you have city mouse offspring? Bigger towns have so much to offer children. Our school doesn’t even have enough kids to have a soccer team. IF I were in town I could have my pick of wonderful alternative schools. My kids could have music, dance and swimming lessons, tutors, and team sports. They could walk to a friends house or at least ride their bikes. We would have greater access to museums and theater. Oh, it would be divine.
Wouldn’t it? Or would we be so busy we would forget about our family? Would we garden together, or go on hikes? Would we eat or read or listen to music together? Would we have horses, chickens, dogs, cats and maybe someday goats? Would we remember the beach or the river? Would we trust every parent at the school, or an event to have our child’s best interest in mind, to be looking out for them? Would we know every teacher or instructor on a first name basis? Would our kids hug them?
It is so difficult to know if you are doing the right thing. Is the right thing for you the right thing for your child? If it is not, is it still ok to trust that they are learning valuable things form where they are, and they will have plenty of chances in their life to experience what they love? Should we sacrifice the way of life we have chosen and built, for a brief interlude of convenience? Or is it more important for our children to 
learn how to be centered and sure of themselves, and therefore able to accomplish anything they set their mind to even if they have to wait until they are grown?
In Retaliation 