Am I wearing a sign?

The funniest thing happened to me yesterday. I took the girls to the park to have a picnic lunch with a friend who has a daughter that is a friend of MB's and is starting K full-time at the end of the week. We had lots of fun playing, eating and feeding the ducks and turtles. The park was all but deserted. Towards the end of the time, EM began to get cranky so my friend took MB, K, her daughter and son to the restrooms while I walked with EM. The mother of a little boy that K had befriended struck up a conversation with me, during which we found out that her two sons were to the day the same ages as K and EM. Then she just looks at me and says "So do you homeschool?"

It stopped me. I tried to think if my friend and I had been talking at all about hs-ing, but no, we had just been visiting. I answered yes and we began to talk about it as she is considering it for her sons and had decided against enrolling her son in preschool this year.

It was a good conversation and I gave her my number to call me if she ever wanted to get together again. But even today I am still left scratching my head trying to figure out how she knew. Because, first of all MB would only be in K this year and they do staggered starts so it takes up to a week before all K's are actually in school. And secondly in this area there are so many year-round schools that one always sees children out of school. Just seeing MB shouldn't raise any signals by itself. So I have no clue, unless I now have an invisible sign around my neck.

Peace,

Amy