Mothering Many

You know, the internet is a lovely place. You can find anything on it. Stuntman is learning about cottonwoods and Coronado while reading Tree in the Trail, and Country is helping him finding it online (her request). Of course, not every page that comes up in the search result for Coronado is going to be about the explorer. It can take some wisdom to sift through the results to find the relevant information.

Now, Coronado is an innocuous, you can kinda tell from the blurb if a site is worth a visit or not, but what if your search is a bit more.life altering. What if you need information on cerebral palsy therapy, or your teen needs info on STDs for a report? It’s can be a little more difficult to track down reputable sources on the internet than in the library. Any whack job can throw up a website for the price of domain and hosting, but that doesn’t make him an expert, yk? And while I know there are some less than beneficial published books out there, at least they are more or less classified by the Dewey Decimal System. You can at least sort the truth from the fiction from the pure fantasy.

How do you go about teaching children to do that when the internet isn’t broken down into neat little numbered sections?

That’s what I am doing around here. It seems this family of many has accumulates enough stuff to fill several Condo Hotels. At least you would think so if you saw my living room. See, I am “clean sweeping” our house, but I am doing it while we are still living here, and also while I am teaching and working and doing all the other stuff I do. Yeah. Fun times, for sure. But let me tell you, my kitchen sure looks nice, and my room, it’s looking fine, too. Oh, and my bathroom. The rest of the house, well……..it’ll get there.

Yeah, I know I said I did this in December. And at the time, I thought I had. But back in December, I basically just cleaned around stuff. I did send some out, but not enough, and I still had to move this to get to that, stretch over and slide around, etc. I’m so over that. Less is totally more, just like they say.

I did my room this week. It took me four days to get my stuff done, and I did dh’s today. And I sent 5 bags of stuff to trash/goodwill in the process. Life is too short to fight with dresser drawers, and today, when my t-shirt drawer would not close when I put away the laundry?? I put four more in the goodwill pile. I have felt the glide, see, and the glide is good.