HOW
ONLINE
PROGRAMS
CHANGED
MY LIFE
by Donna Ashton
E
arly on, I discovered that homeschooling was
my family’s path. We loved it! My twin girls
were blossoming and I was enjoying doing
activities with them and watching them learn.
Then the 2009 recession hit our family- my husband was laid off his job in the building industry.
We couldn’t make it on his unemployment, and
luckily we had a bit of savings to hold us for a few
37
months. But as our account quickly drained, we
were in trouble.
If I took a job, we would have to put the girls in
school and that was not an option for me. Suddenly, the security we had felt was gone and I was
scared. We live in a tourist resort town, so I began
cleaning beach houses on the weekends. My hus-