“…Mother Sandy Cherryholmes home schooled her children growing up, thus fostering a bond and closeness with them that was reinforced by the music she taught them as part of their education.
“We ended up choosing to home school when our older daughter, who eventually passed away in ‘99…was 13 [and] had an open heart surgery which led to a post-operative stroke,” Sandy explains. “So she was disabled at age 13 and we started home schooling her because we thought we would only be doing it for about six months. I knew nothing about it, had no intention of doing it, but I had these other — you know I was pregnant and I had four other kids, and the ones that were in school…were going to Christian school, and then the boys were taught. And it just came to be a road we took. She never was able to go back to school and then [my husband] Jere had job cut backs and the other two children had to come home, and we figured, well, we’ll home school them too. And we figured we’d do it a couple years, but then after about three years it became a family lifestyle and we did it by choice then, because of all the good things it was offering our family.”…”
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