2012

Resolutions for 2012.

I got's them.

I could rattle off a list of the things I need to get better at doing this year by the bucket loads - like actually getting thank you cards out on time, for once. Or finally losing the weight I gained *cough* almost 2 years ago when I was pregnant. I could talk about my wish to travel to someplace I haven't been this year, my desire to learn the play the ukulele legitimately or finally kick my fear of toilet snakes (they are real people!) I could make the promise right now that I WILL take Sully bowling this year, that we will make more time for family camping trips and that I'll start going to bed earlier and stop surviving on 5 hours of sleep. How I promise this is the year we finish painting the house and finally decide on a color for our master bedroom, that I'll get better about seeing friends ... being on time ... breathing more ...

The list goes on

and on

and

on.

But the one I'm most excited about this year is this. My BIG resolution this year is to incorporate two purposefully planned preschool curriculum activities in our home, per week, and document it, on here, so I can hold myself accountable ... or look totally stupid as I fail trying.

I've spent the past couple weeks reading up on Waldorf and Montessori inspired teaching curriculum's - and needless to say, I feel inspired. Not so much to do their thing, but to bring back my own. I need doing this like I need a hole in my head, especially since he goes to school three days a week - learns a lot and loves it ... after that whole crying through the entire morning thing. Then he loves it.

I juggle working and a family just like everybody else. I have a never ending stack of laundry in my house and dishes that never seem to stop mating with each other and breeding more little dishes every time I turn my back. I struggle to get us all out the door on time in the mornings, dinner on the table at a reasonable hour or an adult conversation in with my husband every now and again that doesn't involve yelling over a screaming half naked toddler wielding a hockey stick throughout our house. I live for the day I don't pass out on my couch at 9:30 PM on a Friday. It would be so, so completely easy to just power down and throw on a movie for him every night while I go around looking for where I left my sanity ... but I don't want that. Not for me. Not for him. I want those days to be the exception, not the rule in our house. I know that there will come a day where he'll want nothing to do with me - a place where friends and sports and girls and sleeping override the coolness of parents. I guess I figure I'll just go hunting for my sanity then.

I don't want to be a back seat parent to his learning. And I guess my point is this: I don't have a lot of free time. If I am capable of pulling this off, then anybody is.

I'm not looking to break my bank, but I also don't have the kind of resources readily available like I use to when I taught. I am looking for thrifty, inexpensive ways to incorporate NEW learning centers/activities for us. Everything I plan on doing will be done at/in/around our house. So, here I go ... throwing up a Hail Mary and ...

Coming Soon ...

A DIY light table to be used for future art and science projects

Science: Ocean animals

Art: Truck paint