...shareables...

Just a quick pop-in from over here at Crafter's Chaos,

where last minute Costume Catastrophes

have this mami running around like a headless chicken!

Over on the margin, you'll find that the "shareables" have been updated with this year's

"Spooky Poem Lunchnotes" 

(the step-children edition!)

so give it a look and be inspired!

Hope you are all enjoying your Halloween festivities, and that the weather complies with Us All for a frightfully fantastic night of Trick-or-Treating!

 

...Happy Halloween...

 

...a day to reflect and honor: Indigenous Peoples' Day...

Remembrance, reflection, and recognition

 

...25 (in days gone by)...

 In Days Gone By:
 8.October.2022

Tap tap tap.

Fingers on keyboards.

Across the table.

Am reminded, just now, of sitting across the table from Johannes (a different table, with different tech) as he worked on homework and I worked on work (editing) in companionable silence. Chat windows popping up on both screens occasionally, as we politely interrupted one another. The scent of herbal tea steaming into the air around us.

Now we work in silence, together.

Both logged into the same doc.

His cursor kicking mine out of the way.

Occasionally, one or the other of us breaks the silence to "read aloud" (the best editing tool!) and we stop to take a sip and crack those finger joints.

This.

More than I knew to hope for.

...October : The List...

Rain, rain, go away...and take September with you!

We're a few gorgeous days into October and thank goodness for that!

Delayed by rain...then illness...we're finally getting back in the game.

The month ahead is already filling up with 'big things' that must be done,

so, I'm all the more eager to find little pockets of fun and adventure.

Mid-month, we'll be heading out on the road for a long car trip to Ohio.  It's a trip fraught with emotion, even this far in advance.  A goodbye, and a hello, and a...'oh, I remember you' all wrapped up in one.  And it will be Henri's first long car trip...so, I've planning to do for sufficient breaks.

Homeschooling has been chewing up the majority of my time...if I'm not actively in teacher-mode, then I'm trying to create resources and recycle thrift finds into unit-themed activities.  Henri is flourishing in these early days and for as often as I may feel defeated by the things that went undone, I am buoyed right back up by his love for learning and challenge.

You'll note the final item...  So long overdue...

...october plans...