My first homeschool convention!

So its been a few months since we attended our first homeschool convention.  I had A LOT of thoughts as I went through that weekend...here are a few...

1. Wow!  Its nice to be in a hotel for 3 days!  With no kids!!
2.  That is some seriously long hair...and long skirts...everywhere!
3.  Oh crap...apparently you are supposed to bring your kids to the convention?!  Really??!
     *You obviously don't have to bring your kids to the convention.
       But a surprising number of  people do. Check out #4 for something even more surprising.
4.  These homeschool kids are really well behaved! Tons of them in every session, and they just
      sit quietly, read, draw, etc...
5.  If I bring my kids next year, they will not be that quiet.
6.  I think I need a rolling cart thingy...
7.  This exhibit hall makes me want to go sit in a corner and cry.  I'm so overwhelmed!  Its
      a good thing Northpoint chooses curriculum for me.
8.  We are a disgrace to the homeschool movement with our tiny little family of 5...
9.  How silly...selling hair clips amidst all this curriculum.
10.  I kind of wish I could pick more of my own curriculum...
11.  Hmm...if those hairclips work for all these long skirted ladies with 10 kids...maybe I need one...
12.  How hard could it be to find the booth selling the Barbie size Prairie clothes?
13.  I am rocking this Flexi-8 hair clip!http://www.flexi8.com/
14.  Seriously...where are these doll clothes? And why did I text my child a picture of the dress I
       saw on the doll of a little girl during one of the sessions and ask if she wanted one?  I can't
       go home without it now!
15. People are so friendly!  Every meal we eat in the hotel restaurant is so...nice!  Even when
      the food takes awhile, the other people in the restaurant are so easy to talk to.
16.  Ahh the connections...that we would talk to an exhibitor while waiting for dinner, whose kids
       are involved in CYT in Texas!
17.  Why do the sessions I want to go to start at 8 in the morning?
18.  I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that 'homeschooling with little ones in the mix' suggests that
       I need to engage the younger kids during school time and not try to put them in another room
       to watch TV...I think I will still try to get them to watch TV during school time.  I guess it will
       take me ending up with a peanut butter sandwich in the VCR (like the speaker) to convince me.
19. Seriously.  Over 300 vendors.  And where did I find the prairie doll clothes?  The last row!  I
       walked this whole hall.  And they are in the last row.  But ohhh...look!  They have bows and
        arrows!!
20.  Who plans the session schedule?  I think I could do a better job.  And don't get me started on the
        room assignments.
21.  I'm tired.
22.  Turns out that the only thing that gives you baby fever more then a True Woman convention...
        a homeschool convention!  Go figure.
23.  At least my husband didn't bring a Ron Paul sign.
24.  Oh look...the guy with the Ron Paul sign is going to sit right next to us.
25.  Eating dinner at the hotel restaurant...a totally different vibe now that the homeschoolers are
       gone.  Its kind of depressing.
26.  Wow.  This hotel was FULL of kids while we were here.  And yet, we never had any problem
       with noise until our last night, when all the homeschoolers were gone.  Interesting.
27.  Oh yes.  I will be that crazy person who calls and asks for security at 3:30 a.m. to get the noisy
       drunks to quiet down.
28.  Homeschoolers are awesome.