the REAL new year

laying down (i do all of my writing laying down) in my room and listening to the wonderful sounds of the neighbours' septic tank being pumped and of a frustrated child that wont let me help him.  sigh.......ash is all registered up with hands-on-home learning and i hope that the double schooling will make luce more inclined to work on projects with us.  we still have some planning worksheets to work through and help us develop a rudimentary plan for the year.  several ideas in the works.  i just made an arctic landscape collage  and the kids are making animals to populate it with now.  we have only searched google once yet today.  looking up the life cycle of crickets. need to do something salmon oriented, the other day we were trying to remember what kind of salmon spawned in our creek. trying to organized but it seems i am better at organizing things rather than actions or events.