“You know, Mom, I really want school to be over with now.” “How come, sweetie?” “Cause you seem too stressed out lately and I want you to be on summer break.” Sigh. Out of the mouths of babes and all that. (She’s still my baby, even if she is 15.) As I explained to her,(…)
Well, Rita and I got through week 1 of our online design class pretty well. (You can read all about what we’re doing and why here.) At halfway through week 2, though, neither of us had had time to look at the assignments for this week. (There are 4.) We’ve now briefly looked at the assignments and some(…)
This week Rita and I started a MOOC. What is a MOOC, you say? It stands for massive online open course. The course is being offered through Coursera, an online hub for free and paid courses covering all kinds of subjects–everything from English composition to physics, nutrition, thermodynamics, design, and more. Currently there are 100(…)
I cannot remember the last time I felt bored. Tired, cranky, anxious, overwhelmed? Yes, more often than I care to admit. But bored? Never. Sure, there are lots of minutes in every day that I have to do things I find boring, but I think I will never have enough time to do all the(…)
More than a year ago, Cane and I realized that, because of our priorities and our schedules with our kids, breaks from school are the only time we’re going to be able to make large progress on any of our home projects. (You can see the time analysis here.) As last week’s spring break approached,(…)
This weekend I heard the words from Rita that I’d been waiting to hear. “Why don’t we start ripping out the carpet downstairs?” Or something like that. We have a kid-friendly family room downstairs with a big, old L-shaped sofa, lots of pillows, blankets and a TV with Netflix. I tend to not venture down(…)
Before we get to our spooky clock–which is about as Halloween as it’s going to get around here–we want to say something about the bathroom projects we’ve promised to post about (but haven’t yet): We are going to get to them… …just not today. We are discovering that once the rush of a project is(…)