
Archive of ‘personal’ category
I just want to write a short and sweet post.
I found some things out about… someone that I had known online (and am wishing that Facebook would have shown me these things in the algorithm sooner, or that people would have reached out to me telling me rather than assume that I knew about them and did not care about them), and as a result I chose to unfriend that person, block that person, and excise them from my life… even if it was “just online”. Perhaps the biggest “line in the sand” that I have is abusive contact toward another individual, especially when the person does not take responsibility for their own actions, feel remorseful for them and take active steps toward changing the thought processes that led up to that behavior — even still, it is a deep line in the sand simply for happening. I do not want to surround myself with people who… have engaged in these behaviors or are engaging in these behaviors without the already mentioned remorse and responsibility. For someone to want my trust refusing to divulge this to me is a violation of the trust that I had previously placed in them.
That is all that I’m going to say for now because I want to, and do, respect the person that this happened to.
We found Waldo in the worst possible way.

Wordless Wednesday: February 8th, 2023

At this point, I am convinced that my child is a cat.

He yawns like a cat. He stretches like a cat. At this point, I am convinced that Bub is actually a cat.
I’ve spent the last day and a half doing this, so…
I’ve spent most of the last day beginning to work on the kids’ course and goal notes for the next homeschool year since I want to get that out of the way… I like getting things out of the way whenever I can, so this works to my benefit. So far I know which books we’ll begin using once they’ve finished with the textbooks they are currently on, and I’ve written out developmentally appropriate goals for each subject that I intend to teach after the midway point in the year. We functionally homeschool year-round so that if the kids are sick, have a lot of appointments on one day, or need a mental health day (“mental health day”, however you phrase that), they can take those days and we can make them up later on in the year. The kids always make up the days that they need to because school is, as it has been framed, a positive experience in our house.
In a few weeks, I’ll write up progress notes so I have more than a few sentences to summarize for each kid!