More Signs of Spring

When I woke up this morning I heard geese honking their way back north, a welcome sound around here! If the geese are flying back to the north, then spring is surely just around the corner...

I have been kind of in a funk lately, I think that it's mostly just the usual end-of-season cabin fever type of thing, I can't wait to get my hands in the earth and get things started.
I did buy a few herb seed packets to get started. I have a rather large southwest facing window with a shelf under it that runs it's length. Perfect for a couple of window boxes with my herbs in them. To start with I got Cilantro, Sage and Chives. I also plan to get Oregano, Dill, Thyme and Mint. The window is just  a few seconds from my kitchen so gathering fresh herbs while I am cooking will be so much fun and sooo convenient!

I have also started making my paper beads again, I am thinking of maybe setting up a booth at a few local festavils and see if I can sell some. I will post some pictures soon, right now I am just in the make them stage which can get rather tedious but it is so worth it in the end. Once I get them made the fun of deciding what to make comes into play...mostly necklaces and earrings sometimes keychains or decorations on other things I have crafted. I try to use either natural or recycled things to create with. My paper beads have been created from magazines I have gotten from friend and a couple I read. The beads turn out amazing with all sorts of different colors and patterns on them!

I am also beginning to put together a lesson plan for summer, I am going to begin "all the time school" Bubba now gets about an hour and a half a day, and I plan to stay with the hour and a half, it seems any longer and it is a fight to keep him focused. So to help I am only going to school every other day thru the summer and see how that goes. The subjects for this summer are going to be geography, (real geography not the social studies that passes for it nowadays) science (his main interest) and writing (something else most schools today neglect due to use of keyboard) I am hoping the year-round learning will eliminate the transition problems that happen when he is used to summers without school, then suddenly it seems school starts and he can't handle it. It usually takes a couple of months to get him in a routine so I hope this works.

I am looking forward to tomorrow because something will happen that hardly ever does anymore, I will be ALONE for an hour or so! It's my "day off" of babysitting the grandgirls and Bubba will be going out for socialization with his wrap-around facilitator to the gym and he is looking forward to that.  I don't know what I will do but wow, I have not had a moment of being by myself in several months.
I found out recently also that he has been approved for some respite care, so I have to call and find out the details and set it up, then the time to get things done without worrying about him will be much easier!!

Well, that about does it for today, I hope the weather stays nice, we are supposed to get rain the next few days but hopefully not like we did last week! I am planning to clean out the storage shed and pitch out a lot of stuff we don't need, I am de-cluttering again, so if it hasn't been touched in over 6 months and it's not something like records or tax stuff it's outta here either to the goodwill or the trash!

Until next time~