Tuesday 5 May 2009 - Sending You Places
And here is the real motivation for my return yesterday (er, early this morning) to blogging: a guest post over at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
(If you don't immediately love that blog just for its title, you'll love it for its content. Besides, Kris homeschools way too much like I do.)
Me, a guest post! So yes, I suppose I have now "arrived" as a blogger. And by the way, if you've been reading my blog for a while, the post over at W.U.H. will probably sound familiar to you. That's because it's a rewrite of something I posted here last September.
I should clarify that this is not the reason I returned to blogging. You, dear readers, are the reason I returned to blogging. Well, and my love for writing, and the fact that I like blogging and I like my blog, and... The guest post was simply my motivation for returning when I did. It was a good deadline. I wouldn't want people jumping over here from there and finding a blog hanging in limbo-land with its most recent post 3 weeks old already.
Oh, and if you are one of the people who clicked over from my guest post, Hi! I mean, welcome! (That sounds more professional and all.) But I hope you aren't thinking that you are going to find a veritable treasure trove of helpful homeschooling hints here, because you won't. My KWAD-schooling post on Kris' blog today is not my typical post. Even my homeschooling posts are primarily anecdotal rather than informational. Makes for more entertaining reading. And after KWAD-schooling all day, I am all about writing for my own entertainment. Stress relief, you know. I'm not like Kris, who actually posts helpful stuff. Sorry. I do hope you'll find enough good stuff here to keep you coming back.
Back to my regulars-- While I am doing public service announcements and sending you to other people's blogs, I'll send you here as well. This is a brand new blog written by a real-life friend of mine. My blogging so inspired her that she finally took the plunge and started one of her own, as I have been encouraging her to do for some time! She's doing a good job, too, so go over and encourage her by reading her stuff! And let it not be said of me that I never inspired anyone.
(I think I have inspired my kids to do chores and schoolwork a few times as well, but that is generally accomplished via threats external motivations and therefore doesn't quite count.)
Happy reading. I'm off to try to get some school done.
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After 16 years of homeschooling, I have yet to really figure out how to do it. So we muddle along, overemphasizing history and almost sort of neglecting science, and I spend way too much time making plans that we don't stick to anyway. We read a lot, and we like words, and we don't manage our time very well, and sometimes I yell.
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