A little background. My kids and I moved 3000 miles about two years ago, from the Mohave Desert in Southern California to St. Johnsbury, Vermont. We packed our lives into a 28 foot Budget truck, corralled the cats, dogs and ferrets, sold the house and set off on an adventure. It was time for a change. The kids and I had home-schooled for most of their lives.  I had been a stay at home mom – a job I ADORED, but with my divorce, in 1998, I became a home-schooling, work-from-home mom. In 2010, my oldest daughter was going to college in Putney, Vt., my middle daughter was ready to leave the…