A Healer’s Geste

Percolate

I know, I know, I’ve been nonexistent in these parts lately. I hope to catch things up this week.

1. I have vacation pictures to post.
2. I have garden pictures and commentary to post.
3. I have been consumed lately with the planning/scheduling bug. After discussion and musing, we have decided to do “Kindergarten” officially this year — Hans is ready for first-grade level phonics and math instruction and I need to learn the habit of self-accountability and self-denial and actually prove that I can follow any great plan or schedule I might make. The schedule (or flow-chart, really, since it has few hard times set) is refined to practical perfection, the management lists are revised and beautified and printed, the school materials are ordered, and it’s all ready to be implemented (with only “preschool” items until mid- to late-July) this Monday. And my motivation for keeping it is that I shall not post about it until I have kept to it three days consecutively. Then I can post it.
4. I have also made a pact with myself that I must make full disclosure on the progress and outcome of all my lofty preschool plans before I can post about my wonderful Kindergarten plans.
5. I might toss in an aside about my opinion of grade-levels.
6. My blog is my place to converse with the adult world without detectable interruptions or fumblings. I communicate better in writing than in speaking. So this is my place to communicate, and my imaginary audience is another woman sitting across the table from me sharing a pot of coffee. However, most of my friends keep more family-album-type blogs and I feel a little bit guilty for not posting any real information about Ilse for a couple months or anything about Jaeger as he has now turned three….So I’ll probably get around to doing that.
7. Matt is well on his way to becoming a cop, and so my mind has also been full of planning for life while he is at academy (in early August if he is hired) and for adjusting to a bizarre work schedule. Things like this have to mull and brew and percolate before a plan emerges, but little buds are forming and will bloom in season. How’s that for a mixed metaphor? :) Things like this have to percolate before the plan gains its full strength. Things like this have to grow and branch out and take root before the plan blooms. Anyway, rest assured, when the time has fully come, I will have a schedule and it will be a thing of beauty, a strong brew.
8. I want to make short summary reviews of the homeschool books I have read over the last couple years and have that as a permanent page on my sidebar.
9. I want to revamp my sidebar because it’s too cumbersome to update the Amazon widgets, but I just discovered new customizable Google widgets, so my sidebar will be its own little mini-blog and it will be fun…but you won’t see it if you only read the posts in aggregate. Click through! :)
10. I haven’t decided yet how much “school” will become a part of my blog. I have tossed around the idea of a school-journal “records” blog, an official blog with an official school name complete with opinionated statements of vision and purpose, just as if we were our own little classical ACCS school (embarrassed cough, yeah, I already have all that on hard copy, actually), or just post on education-related themes in the same way I post about everything else: all my airy-fairy philosophical musings and my plans for 6 months (or 6 years) down the road will continue to get the most air-time until real-life rudely interrupts.
11. After at least 4 years of trying out various home-cooked systems, I am planning on digitizing my recipe collection (only of recipes I regularly use) and menu plans. A blog is the easiest format to keep up and interact with, so that will be my project for lonely fall nights while my husband is off 200 miles away doing 200 push-ups a day. My chief desire is the ability to search my entire collection for anything — category, ingredient, cooking method, prep time. So the best solution I could come up with was to offer it all up to Google.

So, now you know. Now, we hope, posts of substance will follow.