Mothering Many

Do you that picture over there? That my friends, acquaintances and casual readers is a florescent light and I want one. I want it in the kitchen, between the stove and the sink, so I can plug it into the gfci outlet. Right now there is a panel under the cabinets, and I am not sure why, because it’s the only one in the whole kitchen that’s not open. I’d like to put the florescent up in there and have recessed lighting. And then I could see to cook. In fact, one above the counters on either side of the kitchen would tickle me near ’bout to death. I’ve had fluorescents in a couple of my kitchens and they are really awesome there. I don’t particularly care for them in other rooms, but in the kitchen, fluorescents rock.

Hmmm, now I have myself thinking about using fluorescents to replace the incandescents totally….. We just started using those “energy smart” bulbs as the ones we have burn out. Do you think DH will think I’m crazy if I change my mind again? Well, crazier than he already thinks I am? I mean, I just want to be able to see to cook his food. Is that such a bad thing? Really, it would all be for him, see.

My children are getting so excited about the approaching “specials” day. “Isn’t it today, Mama?” “Is today that day you said?” “Have you been to the hobby shop yet, Mom?” I think this may be the best idea I have had in my years of home-schooling.

Well, that combined with only writing three weeks of plans at a time. See, today slipped away from me. I was in the middle of something that I thought I had time to finish before school, but I got interrupted, and then by the time I had finished, the children were already off pursuing their own interests. They were working together on a project, and it was a marvelous thing, and I hated to pull them from it. Ordinarily, this would have messed me up for 2 months, but instead, it’s just going to put me a day off the calendar for 5 school days (including specials and my work day). And I did do a couple of assignments I had missed with the littlest scholars, and we’ll be watching a movie on DaVinci after lunch, so it will not be a total waste.