Feb 022026

Introduction to Busy Books

Felt busy book pages. They are bound together on one side, and are in rainbow colours left to right. Some details can be seen, like holes cut out on the yellow page and grass shapes on the green page.

When my best friend told me she was pregnant, I immediately started making a list of things I could knit and sew for my first godchild. The list quickly got out of control, and had…Continue Reading

Jan 262026

Now we wait

A long wooden box containing 5 small burlap planters. They are full of soil, and there is a plant tag in each with the plant names hand written on them. Left to right: Jacaranda, Crape Myrtle, Pigeon Pea, Locust, Delonix Regia. They each say "sowed on 01/25/26".

This morning I planted the seeds I had been soaking. Now we just have to wait for them to sprout! I forgot to take a photo of the soil before I rehydrated it. The bonsai…Continue Reading

Jan 252026

Seeds are soaking!

A bonsai growing kit. The image shows a wooden box, an instruction manual and some seed packets on a wooden table, in the box there is some burlap, plant tags and dehydrated soil pucks

This is going to be a very long project, but I plan on posting updates. I got this bonsai kit for Christmas, and I’ve been looking forward to getting the seeds started. I don’t have…Continue Reading

Jan 232026

Repurposing

I’m going to be repurposing this blog. I’ll leave the homeschooling and COVID stuff up because it’s a nice little record of that time (though not as complete as I’d like, I never post consistently),…Continue Reading

Jan 062022

Grade 7

Obviously I’ve been great at blogging this school year… I just realized I never actually gave an update when I was done planning the year. But if you click on “resources grade 7” at the…Continue Reading

Jul 312021

Looking forward to next year…

I was too busy, or maybe too overwhelmed, the last few months to keep updating here. I have a tendency to make projects for myself. If I don’t have enough to do I get restless,…Continue Reading

Feb 212021

Flying Lessons & Other Stories

Mental Health I’ve missed posting here for a few weeks. I’ve been struggling with some mental health stuff. It’s just that time of year for me really. But dragging myself through work has been all…Continue Reading

Jan 242021

Flight

Homeschooling We started on the flight unit this week. My work schedule right now isn’t very good time-wise for in-person teaching, so I assigned Steven some independent work this week. I started the week with…Continue Reading

Jan 172021

Unprecedented

Trump’s second impeachment I don’t think there’s really anything else to say there. Trump is now the first president to be impeached twice. His trial can’t happen until inauguration day because the Senate is out…Continue Reading

Jan 102021

Mindfulness, Growth Mindset and ANTs

Homeschooling I talked about this in last week’s post when I was planning this week, but I wanted to go over what we actually used. Steven liked the idea of the monthly tracker that I…Continue Reading