First rounds of changes

on my blog have been to some of the various pages.  I've spent the most time on "Home School Thought" trying to express why we've chosen to home school our boys.  I will probably take another look at it, in a few days as it is kind of like writing a paper.  The more you look at it, read it, mistakes just get over looked and your brain automatically fills in the gaps.  Anyway, the choice to home educate is such a personal choice and to put it our there, in black and white, is a bit scary.  Not looking for debates on why one school enviroment is better than another.  Each has it's own merit and short comings.

Other pages I've tweaked is my reading page, the boys reading page, and 1,000 Gifts (I've added more ~ I am grateful for things, I just don't always write it down).  May end up deleting the acronyms page, unless I hear it is helpful, and my bucket list page.

At some point will try to work out a why statement, for this blog, and will work on tweaking all those tags ~ way to many of them.
 

Wind is blowing

and change is coming!  Which leads me to think of the scene from "Mary Poppins" where they are talking about the wind changing and in flies Mary!  Love that show!

   ~ but I digress (which could lead into another movie "Elmo in Grouchland"!  How many of you have seen that movie?)

Again, back to my point ~ changes.  The Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines changes as follows:

CHANGE, v.t. 1. To cause to turn or pass from one state to another; to alter, or make different; to vary in external form, or in essence; as, to change the color or shape of a thing; to change the countenance; to change the heart or life

 that is is what needs to happen here.  Been feeling that I blog about way to many things and that it is not organized or well laid out!  I'll be taking some time to figure out what it is I want the focus to be here and then begin to format the blog as such.

Off the top of my head though, key elements will be:

1. homemade things - cooking, baking, and possibly things I create as I enjoy crafting and on occasion building things.  The more I make from scratch (with regards to baking and cookie), the more I find I stay out of the center of the store, for the most part.  There are still "good" things there ~ the single ingredient items ~ but am trying to move toward more homemade.
2. school - funny that I mention this as I created the blog about 6 years ago to gather data for a math assignment for our oldest
3. occasional randomness - yes, randomness!  There may be a time something comes up, that doesn't tie into homemade or school that is blog worthy

If you have read this blog for awhile or stumbled upon it, what have been your favorite type posts?  Do you use the tags, along the right side, to find something you want to read about?  Have you search something and come across this blog?

 

Blog updating

I am in need of updates around here! Reading lists need to be changed, pages tweaked, a basic overhaul. Possibly tweak my tags (think I might have to many!).

Not sure when these changes will fully start showing up, but know I might add an American History page to hold onto links.