1. My post on why I don't do MNO was shared this week at I Am Not the Babysitter. I wrote this for Connected Mom a few months ago and to date it is my most viewed post ever. (Confession: I wrote it in about 20 minutes and barely edited it, so unlike me. It ended up with a few thousand page views, which is, let's just say about a bazillion more than I usually get. Go figure.)
2. Eva's quote of the week: "Julia is not very good at being quiet." You said it, sister.
3. This week I started rereading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I first read it over 20 years ago as a college student. (Wait . . . was I seriously in college twenty years ago?) Anyway, reading it as a parent gives me a whole different perspective on this text.
4. Agent J is eating us out of house and home. She's four-and-a-half and very tall but a skinny little thing . . . who eats like a linebacker. Actually, Agents E and A have been putting away ridiculous amounts of food recently, too. Not sure if this is some sort of Conspiracy Growth Spurt or just our new normal. Time will tell.
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| Agent A modeling his new jammies |
5. Last week I made the mistake of running errands on a Saturday late morning/early afternoon. Never again. As I told my husband, I would rather eat nothing but cereal crumbs off the living room carpet than brave the grocery store on a Saturday again.
6. We actually survived an entire church service last Sunday morning for the first time in forever, and so we're going back. Assuming we can get out of the house way earlier than our usual two Sundays in a row. Senior Agents are excited to start Sunday school.
7. I'm quasi-seriously considering a semester of homeschooling based on the Little Einsteins. Bear with me; I'm not crazy. Think about it: They visit countries all over the world, major cities and world landmarks, many of which we've also been to. So that would include geography, languages, and historic sites. It would also cover music (composers, instruments, classical music) and art (paintings, sculptures, museums). Not to mention the science we'd use to illustrate the complete lack of plausibility of Rocket's travels. (Ahem.) Okay; maybe I am a little crazy.
Thanks for reading and have a blessed day.
All of these are awesome, but #7 is my favorite. I think that's quite an inspired curriculum you've devised. That would have done well with my kiddo as a younger child, for sure!
ReplyDeleteI definitely think the Agents would go for it :-) And it would be a lot of fun for me, too.
DeleteWait...you got a few thousand page views on a post?...ok, you're the newest person I will be stalking. I'll take all the tips I can get.
ReplyDeleteAs for home schooling via Little Einstein, I say go for it. Anything to avoid making lunches, right!
Ha ha!! Full disclosure: The post was written for Connected Mom, which has way more readers to begin with, and it was also shared by KellyMom (very popular parenting and breastfeeding site) before it was reposted by I Am Not the Babysitter (Time magazine, anyone?). So a lot of it was luck that those bigger fish happened to see it and enjoy it. On my own (meaning on this blog only) the most views of any one post has been in the 750-800 range, and that's only a handful. My norm is way lower, and this whole Facebook debacle with posts not getting seen by more than a small percentage of followers is not helping. (Ahem.) But I love to write and I know *someone* is reading it so I keep at it. :-)
DeleteAnd this morning in the car my daughter pointed out that the Tchaikovsky song on the classical station was in a particular episode of Einsteins. So maybe we will run with this one after all!
Not understanding the lunches reference. Perhaps I didn't have enough coffee this morning.