what i learned today

homeschooling:

• Homeschooling Disadvantages
  Oh jeez. The same old drivel. BUT, I did find (some) of the comments enlightening and encouraging!
• Fairly Odd Mother: Closing a door

parenting

• Free Range Kids Outrage of the Week: Goggles Banned as Straps Could “Snap”
  Give me a break.
• The Trouble with Bright Girls
  Quoting:
  

  How often have you found yourself avoiding challenges and playing it safe, sticking to goals you knew would be easy for you to reach? Are there things you decided long ago that you could never be good at? Skills you believed you would never possess? If the list is a long one, you were probably one of the Bright Girls — and your belief that you are “stuck” being exactly as you are has done more to determine the course of your life than you probably ever imagined. This would be fine, if your abilities were innate and unchangeable. Only they’re not.

  Wow, that goes along so well with my “cleaning the slate” in my current mid-life crisis. I’m throwing out all of those presumptions and giving it all another go!! But how can I help my girls not get here in the first place?

tech:

• The eBook User’s Bill of Rights
• No Beaten Path: Kindles are not a tool of Satan
  Right on!

work:

• Faking It On Your Wedding Day

music:

• Dadnabbit: A Conversation with Ella Jenkins
• Zooglobble: Rabbit Days & Dumplings: A Dan Zanes-Approved Family Music Album Needs Your Help
  I just about never give money to these projects, but here is one I *really* want to succeed.

travel:

• TSA Bars AK State Rep. Sharon Cissna From Flying
  Have I mentioned how I detest the TSA?? Ugh.

what i’m reading:

• The Doctor and the Diva: A Novel by Adrienne McDonnell

what i’m not reading:

• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, but only because the wait list at the library is so darned long!! I’ve had it requested for eons….

now following:

• I Live in My Van
  I’m going to live in a van down by the river

• @jackieatweelife
  Was a Vancouver 2010 Games designer. Now freelance designer and writer. I love design, travel, photography, cooking and I think it’s about the wee things.

• Motherhood Uncensored and @thatkristen
  The Seedy Underbelly of Motherhood

• @onevoicetweets
  Cultivating and illuminating the creative sparkle that is the the essence of every child

• Kids Music Connection
  Orchestrating a Better World

• @Moonalunamusic
  Bilingual family music from Brooklyn, NY. Your whole family will be singing and dancing along to our accordion driven songs.

wish list:

• new potholders
• bed linens that actually cover my bed