Dec 21 2009
the countdown is on
Alice asks me at least three times a day how many days until Christmas. I’m not sure if it’s a memory thing (Calvin would attribute it to the brick that the neighbor kid threw at her head when she was 2) or just wanting confirmation that I wasn’t just tricking her the first time I answered. Whatever the reason, it’s making me very aware that we’re in the home stretch. I’m mostly done shopping for the very modest Christmas we’re having this year, though I have quite a bit of sewing still to do. I decided to make knitted gifts “bonus” presents this year, which makes it okay if something doesn’t get finished in time (which it likely won’t.) I’ve been wanting to post pictures of my projects (I just finished a beaut!) but, well . . . you know.
Today I watched over a few children in aftercare while parents went shopping. We made Christmas cut-out cookies and decorated them. It was great fun and at the end of the day all of the kids were raving about how much fun they’d had. Just as I’d taken the last batch of cookies out of the oven the power went out, so we decorated by the light of the windows, which made for a lovely subdued afternoon. Again, wouldn’t pictures be wonderful? Alas. . .
My biggest, latest news is that I’ve started a new blog called Waldorf Reviews. While I was teaching I was always trying to come up with a way of collecting and organizing the school’s resources. At the beginning of every block I would ask all of the teachers at the school who had taught that block before me what resources they found most valuable. There was almost always just one or two really valuable, prime resources that people used and we always had to go out and hunt down who owned them (the school didn’t always own them so teachers’ personal libraries were raided regularly) and ask if we could borrow them. Finding and using the best information was much harder than it needed to be.
This new blog represents my attempt to do a touch of that organizing on a larger, more public scale. Check it out. And if you’d like to contribute a review, click on the link at the top of the page. I’ve become an Amazon Affiliate so if you buy something from Amazon click there from a link on my page and I get a small slice of the pie.
Back to the workshop.
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