Three Plus Two

Oops...

I had some problems with spam comments recently that were making it through the Typepad filters, so I put my comments on moderation.  The only problem... I keep forgetting that I have to approve comments now!  So I apologize to everyone who didn't see a comment appear for real for days!  It wasn't you, it was just me being scatterbrained as usual...

Working on...

For some reason I feel the need to tell you that even if a week goes by and I don't post anything, I really am working on several posts.  It's just that July is so busy.  I think I feel this need to advertise the fact that I am writing because I just spent a fair amount of my "free" (cough) time today figuring out to make a slideshow in Photoshop and now I can't figure out how to add it to my post.  I also can't seem to get certain of my children to do their chores in under an hour because they cannot stop talking and goofing off.  I may be just a wee bit frustrated.

So, to brighten up the situation just a little, let me tell you what I am trying to work on this month:

• Painting with little ones

• A garden/homestead tour

• Montessori Erdkinder and a teen's education

• A first grade plan

• A day at our house

• The "Honest Scrap" I was tagged for by Sarah

• Our Insect nature table

Will I get them all written in July? Well... probably not.  I have to write out our plans for the school district by the end of the month, and I'm mostly either in the car or doing laundry the rest of the time.  I'm also still trying to kick this cold/stomach virus "thing", which seems to not want to let go.  But I'm trying!

Catching up: Comments and Country Diary

First of all: I just wanted to thank everyone who leaves comments.  I know that it must feel as if you are dropping your words into a vacuum, I so rarely respond, but your comments really do make my day.  I need to ask again, though: if you leave comments, do you come back to see if the blog author has responded in the comment section?  I always wonder whether anyone does that, but then if I decide, well, I'll just respond in an email, it seems like time gets away from me and I never actually respond.  So maybe I will start responding more often in my own comment section.

Unfortunately, however, blogging is going to continue to be light, at least for the next few weeks.  There have been quite a few changes brewing around us, and it's just a very busy time of year anyway.  We're wrapping up summer soccer, but Andy's travel schedule is filling back up, the garden is actually starting to produce (not as much of the things I'd hoped it would - sigh - but that's another post), I'm writing IHIPs for the school district (almost finished!), and I seem to have picked up a cold/virus thing, which -- thankfully -- I'm starting to get over.  I have another post on berry picking I'd like to put up, a review of July, and a report on the garden (such as it is), but I imagine those posts will all be rather strung out.  (Also, Theresa has got me thinking about how to keep chickens in Alaska! LOL)

Something I have been doing... I set up a daily journal for myself.  I called it Country Diary, and you can find the widget in my sidebar.  I liked doing Peggy's daybook, but I found that it just highlighted the way that all the little details were slipping away from the other days.  I also found that, while I could write down my plans in Peggy's meme, my plans and reality were often two different animals. ;-)  So I decided to start up my own little boring journal where I could record the weather, and how many squash I got out of my garden, and where I saw the first monarch, and whatever else was happening on a daily basis.  Describing it as "boring" is probably not the best sell in the world, but really, this new journal is for me.  If you would like to see some of my day-to-day... or if you simply have tremendous curiousity as to what comes out of my garden on a daily basis -- go ahead and pop on over. :-)

Breaking Radio Silence

Things have been busy, busy, busy around here lately without a lot of time to stop and blog.  I started working on a post about our attempts to eat local-er considering that it is January (and snow falling again as I type) and another post about organizing and planning when you were born without executive functions. (Ahem.  I seem to post quite a few of those posts.)  The Loveliness of Planning Fair is January 16, and I hope to participate.  Better yet, I hope that lots and lots of you out there in the blogosphere participate so I can read your posts.  I need all the help I can get.

And I am a thinker.  You wouldn't believe how much time I have to spend thinking before I can put anything into action without it being a total flop.  I am working on putting together a couple of circa notebooks right now (I have wanted one for years, but this post by Lorri pushed me over the edge.)  The problem: I am a terrible categorizer.  I can generally think up dozens of categories for one piece of information, and then to have to decide!  Oh, the agony. 

We're getting a slow start this morning -- recovering from a birthday party, coffee and donuts after Mass yesterday, an unexpected trip to Wal-Mart for me Sunday evening, a few rather sleepless night, and Andy waking up with the beginnings of a migraine courtesy of our nor'easter.  But it appears as if three of the kids are ready to get going, so my time here is through. 

Hope you all have a happy (and warm!) day!