Proud home-educating dad this morning.

Oldest son, 16, cleaned up on all his school-leaving exams, all 'A+', hardly dropped a few marks across the board.

Middle son, 14, took one exam early, just to get ahead of the game, also bagged an 'A+'.

Friends and family mocked us for jeapoardising the children's chances by taking them out of school. Gossiped us like we just sat in our pyjamas all day watching daytime TV and playing XBox.

Our vision was faith, character, and skills. We were already proud of their grounded faith and character and their broader uptake of skills. But I guess we had a little doubt whether they would still 'ace' the papers needed to access 'the system'.

This morning, doubt evaporated.

And my heart is swelling with a good kind of pride... way to go lads, and what a woman I married who joined me in this vision and helped to make it happen.

Putting it out there 😄