Monday, February 5, 2007

Risk Taking

I feel like I am taking a big risk here. I like to post new blogs on Mondays. It feels like a good way to start the week.

Occasionally, my child falls asleep on the couch unexpectedly. This gives me time to just relax and chill, read up on all my favorite blogs and newspapers and message boards. It is a huge waste of time, but sinfully enjoyable.

The risk is posting at all. The click of the keys could wake him up any moment- probably in a moment of actually thinking of something to say- so, I'll try and make it quick while I tap on the keys ever so lightly (aack, he flinched right then.)

Here is what I want to say:

  1. After being sick as hell for a week, I actually graced the treadmill with my presence this morning. Congratulate me, Pat me on the back. (however, I followed it up by eating left over little smokies from the super bowl "party" I had for my kids last night. I am ashamed on two fronts there- watching the super bowl at all, and preparing little smokies for the kidlets.)
  2. My Langston Hughes service was really well received and I feel really proud of it. Doing research all week for the music was a blast as well.
  3. Today I really am cleaning off my desk and making a master "to do" list for the week. I have GOT to get organized; I can't function like this.
  4. I finished another great book. I don't know if I am just making reading more of a priority or it really is easy to read when your kid passes that first year. It was so good, I want to make a post about it all of its own, but I'll drop the title here just in case that item doesn't make my master list.



Bitterness: A Novel by Malama Katulwende

I highly recommend this book. It has a few faults in style and editing, but its virtues far surpass its weaknesses.

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Bookshelf

Shannon's currently-reading book montage

The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Shannon's read-in-2012 book montage

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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