For anyone interested, we are currently super busy with ducklings and chicks and gardening, and I’m blogging about it over on my other blog.
I’ve been finding some time to actually sit down and blog most days, and I’d really like to start keeping this one up again too. Especially since technically Meredith starts kindergarten next year. In reality, very little will change, except that she’s already starting to get asked all the time about it. I was reading back older posts and some of the funny/cute things Meredith did, as well as funny things she has said, and I wish I’d done a better job of writing these last two years. It’s as good as a diary for me. So my goal is at least once a week. That said, I don’t think I am going to go with Self Design for school (which involves weekly reporting). I called and had a chat with another school, and the reporting is way less stringent and they are still very open and unschooling friendly (we discussed it at length), so I think I will give them a try instead and see how it goes.
I have said before that I am going to try and blog more, but I think looking back through the old posts has really motivated me. As much as I don’t want to take too much time away from family to be on the computer, I think dedicating some time even just once a week to record my thoughts and what we’ve been doing will be worth it down the road.
On that note, I’m going to share a couple of cute things Meredith has said recently.
We were in the grocery store, going up and down the aisles, when she noticed the big Koolaid display in the juice aisle. She got a really confused look on her face and asked me why there was Koolaid in the drink aisle. As far as she’s concerned, Koolaid is for dying wool and cloth (and hair, though we’ve never actually done that yet).
The other day, I went to get her a glass and she said “No Mama, no no! I want to be a real hippie!” I asked her what she meant, and she told me real hippies only drink out of jars.
I am so enjoying being the mama to two little girls. They are fascinating, and wonderful, and I love to be with them. I have wonderful conversations with Meredith now, and she is so amazingly sweet and thoughtful and caring. I love to watch her and Fiona play together and Meredith show Fiona all she knows.
Fiona is definitely going through the two year old’s more wanting to be independent phase, but is still so much fun. She chatters constantly and loves to do whatever her big sister is doing. She is also so sweet. She is going through a bit of a phase where she hits sometimes, but she almost always catches herself right away and then wants to give the person a big hug and a kiss. She’s incredibly gentle with the baby ducklings. She also already seems to have a great sense of humour, and can be cheeky (in a good way!).
I look forward to perhaps adding some posts about things we’ve done in the past I’ve been meaning to blog about, but if I don’t get to those, I’ll at least hopefully start keeping track of what we are doing from now on.
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