Mee My Mo: My life as I know it, breathe it, live it and love it!

There are several reasons I love each of my sisters uniquely but one of the reasons I love my sister Kim is because she doesn't follow rules of "how to's" in life. She homeschools, used cloth diapers, is a vegatarian, has adopted a child from Ethiopia, has started a non profit organization that promotes adoption, and the list continues. But watching her kids can be the most fun and most transparent look into who Kim is. Here is just a glimpse. Some of us sisters and sister-in-laws met at the park for a picnic lunch. The rest of us have our strollers, our hats our packed lunches. My lunch has organized compartments for paper plates, napkins, and ice packs to keep things cooled. Each child has a beverage, a sandwich, chips and a dessert. I bring extra food for snacks for everyone (I like order). We are already eating: enter Kim and her kids. They run into the ramada area from 3 different directions somehow all commencing in one spot at the table. There was plenty of room for them to all be spread out but they all stuck together like glue. They wait for their lunch and Kim comes with a handful of lunch literally in her hands. All frazzled looking she is holding a large cup of water that is spilling, a whole cantaloupe, a large ziploc bag full of I don't know what, and some sandwiches. She plops it all down on the table and I examine the contents closer, as I provide her some paper plates. The large ziploc bag is full of sliced bell peppers and the hugest portabella mushrooms I have ever seen. The cantloupe is unopened and there is nothing to open it with, and the kids are all sharing the "big glass of water". I laughed inside thinking what in the world kind of crazy lunch is this?! But to my surprise and enjoyment I watched as her kids shared with eachother, and each chimed at their mom, "can I have some nature's candy?" They were referring to the mushrooms and peppers. No junk food, no special drinks, no organization and order of each child knowing what belonged to them. It was refreshing to watch these children eat their food happily accepting what was handed to them, all sitting and eating in unity while sharing their lunch with one another. Kim can have one of the craziest lives I know of, but she chooses to live outside the box and make the extra efforts, giving up comforts to make and teach these oh so unique kids.