+I'm rebranding Friday Recommendations into Friday Things. I had Stuff and Things on Thursday for years. At some point I couldn't do both Thursday and Friday. And Friday Favorites isn't really my thing, mostly because half of those who ever write the abbreviation for favorite spell it "fav" with the short /a/ and I struggle to get past that. But also because I'm a glass half-empty kinda person and picking out favorites from the week when I'm completely worn down by Friday isn't my thing. I could do it on a Tuesday, I bet. So anyway, just Things for Fridays now. Some favorites, some not, some whatever.
+I remain unimpressed by the Stranger Things finale, mostly because some of the fan theories were so good that the actual thing was a letdown. Either way, we enjoyed watching it through the years.
+Maverick found the empty dog food bag in the basement yesterday about 3am, got stuck, and Scott sent me this picture. Said he was banging into walls trying to get out. This is after he ate a bag of cough drops the other day. He has been on a tear lately, and seems to have a death wish.
+I made it back from Pennsylvania with these two items from my parents' house because they don't use them. This heavy metal weapon ice cream scoop is at least 40 years old. I have broken two or three ice cream scoops in the last year. We had the same one for 13ish years and it finally gave out and, apparently, they don't make them as well as they used to. I considered buying a heated one but they're like $40, so that was a no.
And this wooden cutting board was my aunt's and is probably 50 years old. I don't have a wooden board right now so maybe this is just what I need for all that sourdough I don't see myself being successful with this winter.
+I read that dark showers are supposed to calm. your nervous system. We put in this exhaust fan with different colored lights and connects to bluetooth to play music or whatever too. The kids love that in the bathtub but a dark shower with just this blue light on is really relaxing.
My parents' bathroom (the one I grew up with) has a window right over the tub and the difference between showering in the dark and showering in bright natural light is really obvious once you compare!
Scott thinks bathrooms should not have windows.
Do your bathrooms have windows? It's probably been 50/50 on all the houses we've lived in.
(don't mind the mess)
+I am constantly going back and forth on my feelings concerning homeschooling and
I wrote this the other day on substack. I tend to put more substantive topics over there. What I realized later that I completely forgot to include: a lot of moms I've talked to think of homeschooling as an option only *if* they can find a "co-op" that meets "2-3 days a week". .....that's not homeschooling. That's hybrid schooling. That's part-time schooling. And you pay thousands of dollars for it every year. They will admit that it "still costs $3,000 a year" to "join a co-op" so why bother?
...because that's not homeschooling. Our co-op was $50 for the year. It's literally just an extracurricular day most weeks. It has nothing to do with their actual schooling.
This is what I mean when I say that moms just don't *want* to homeschool. It's fine not to want to, but let's be honest about it.
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