New Ground

1- I got my first comment (audience?) thanks to my friend UmmRahmah

2- I’ve been contemplating sending my 3 year old to school. So far, I’ve been so pro-homeschooling that partly the thought of sending him feels like cheating.  However, him being a boy and a very active one at that, hedges the guilt for me a bit.  I’m simply not the ‘let’s do crafts all day and play lego’ kinda gal.  Although I can be with enough ’stuff’ that makes ME feel like I’ve fulfilled myself.  Which is precisely where the challenge is I need LOADS of stuff to fulfill me.  Before I ever was a stay-at-home mom, I was the kinda sister who attended 3 halaqas on average a week in addition to family and friends and homework and other extracirriculur MSA activities.  I doubt cooking and cleaning is ever going to rival w/ all that and fulfill me in quite the same way

Most of the times these ’school thoughts’ appear when I’ve been IN the home for days due to sickness or something and haven’t gone out…  So that gives me hope.  I’ve been at home for what seems like forever, having only gone out here for maybe half an hour and there for another half.  But no serious ‘outing’ according to me    So perhaps once we get back in the swing of things, the thoughts of school will once again go rest at the back of the class…for now they’re kinda hanging out right in the front.

3- Another thing that makes going out a bit challenging sometimes is that my little one doesn’t quite get out as soon as he used to.  Since he’s turned 3, he’s very opinionated about what he wants to wear, and sometimes that means beachwear in the middle of fall.  Ofcourse, at that point, it occured to me, uhhh why do i still have his shorts and t-shirts out in the first place.  My reason of ‘well we can use the tshirts for the purpose of layers’  wasn’t such a great reason after all

I hate to rant on MY OWN BLOG but I think thats what I’ve done. *gasp*

On to brighter topics…I’ve made yet another schedule for me to follow starting monday and I plan on going to the toddler gym tomorrow(insh’allah).