My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
Baby K is sleeping, DH and the boys are at the YMCA swimming. I could do lots of mother culture type stuff. I think I’m too tired to think of which though: I could organize my craft desk. I Continue reading What to do? What to do?
Spinach actually grows nicer for me in the Fall than in the Spring. I was wondering last week: why hadn’t I grown any last Fall? This week as I was trying to get ready to start school and/or Continue reading So that’s why we had no Autumn Garden last year…
I’ve been thinking about how we sort and organize ideas, and wondering how to present the information to the children who will be taking my research paper class this Fall at Co-op. Planning a bulb bed is like making Continue reading Outlines, Gardens and Chilling Out though Sleep Deprived (with pictures)
"Mom, What is the difference between an illusion, a phantasm and a hallucination?"
We held a play date today: a family of 3 boys from the Lego club came over. After exploring M & B’s room, and eating cookies, their Mom and I herded them over to the new playground at the Continue reading Better Questions or Blame the Prolactin
My Children’s Librarian back in Nyack when I was a girl said that I read so much, I could afford some dumb books. My Mom mostly agreed, but rationed out the Judy Blume books, those she said were like Continue reading Me and Twaddle
I wonder if we all give advice to counterbalance our own habits. For instance, I love order, structure, and plans, when I can get them! Does that mean my house is clean? No, but I can find things. Continue reading Homeschool Advice
I have so far cried about: -My un-gracious rebukes of M and B -How foolish I am to care more about my weight than my sins -Will I ever communicate to my family and helpers my goals for their help Continue reading My Emotions: dump in blender, press frappe.
Today we had 3 seasons. It started off with warm fog with steam rising from telephone poles and piles of wood. Then the fog burned off to bright sunshine, then it rained mightily during church, then we had more sunshine, Continue reading Bizare Weather, I’m still here
So much for focusing on the later due date, I’m ready to go NOW. Yesterday I had lots of contractions, they’d get regular, then quit. Bummer. Today I saw the nurse practitioner, she said I’m good to go any Continue reading Could this be real labor?