I have a confession to make– I usually hate holidays, even silly fun ones like Halloween. I always have to jury rig a costume in under 24 hours because of my procrastination– cursing over the sewing machine. Sewing is all about the finished product for me, there is no zen purpose to it [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Lovely Halloween
Posted in sewing, unschooling on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
No Ro Tooth!
Posted in unschooling on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
She’s lost her first tooth. It was so tiny in my hand, so much smaller than I thought it would be. She giggled as though she understood this milestone– I think she does.
I did the whole tooth fairy thing but felt a little weird about it. She was really excited when she [...]
Yum.
Posted in unschooling on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rowan often “gives me a birthday.” She did this today, and I was the proud recipient of this stellar Playdoh cake!
I’ve been stressed. Due to a lot of factors. Mostly my issues with depending on others, my feeling of helplessness due to not having a car. I lost my temper with [...]
I was in a slump.
Posted in unschooling on October 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It was obvious to me. Everything I said or did seemed stupid, trite, empty. It branched out even more frighteningly when I realized that I could no longer connect to anyone. I didn’t see the beauty in people anymore, I didn’t look them in the eye, and so I thought the same [...]
Introductions are in order
Posted in unschooling on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I thought you guys might like to meet my family, if you haven’t already.
My little Boo Bear
RoRo making some sort of mystical gesture
Me, in a typically fidgety stance
My Owl is so Sleepy
Posted in knitting on October 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I made this little dude for my MIL’s birthday. She’s all crafty and awesome and likes owls a bunch. He’s from the Snoozing Ned pattern, heavily modified.
For instance, I didn’t want to fool around with tiny gauge and pieces of felt, so I used green Bernat Softee Chunky held together with some purple [...]
Give ‘em some slack.
Posted in unschooling on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s funny how when I give my kids some slack, I get some slack in return.
I get a mellow relief from the guilt I’ve felt for so long. I still feel bad for the experiments in punitive punishment that went horribly wrong, the yelling, all the irritation and above all the indifference I displayed. [...]
It’s wild.
Posted in unschooling on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Part of “growing up”– or the part that has hit me lately– is that I can get rid of the running away from childhood, and just… remember. Now I am grown, and I don’t have to prove that anymore.
I remember what it felt like to be a little kid now. I’m not sicked [...]
Party for Tommas at the Down Home
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We laughed, we cried, we played music, ate food, had some beers.
Tommas would have been proud. He was a dear, dear friend of mine, truly the most rare kind of person. We played a lot of music together and also sat in a wealth of silence together.
I handled the kids very [...]
Why am I starting yet another blog?
Posted in unschooling on October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m in a real period of growth. I have decided to homeschool my son, who is 18 months. I feel like learning has been going on since birth, much longer than I’ve been reading about homeschooling. His sister is 4, and in Head Start now. I don’t think she’d take kindly [...]
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Baby Boy frets, I strum.
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