Welcome Prof Beth and Classmates!

This is my first blog- since two weeks ago I didn't even know what a blog was! I would love to get some color and "spice" on here, but since it took so much just to set it up, I am happy just to have it.

I am very intrigued by this class- it turns out that it is nothing like I had imagined at all. It is a required course for me, but one I would have chosed no matter what.

Today I finally got to go out and "play in the dirt". I can't even begin to explain what that means to me. When I am down on the ground clearing out an area to plant and pulling out weeds from the clumps of earth I have shovelled it is almost a spiritual experience for me. The earth is so rich and dark brown from all the leaves and compost I have been pouring into it for the past several years. There are no chemicals there at all, I would rather just pull the weeds by hand. Today, I moved some flowers and planted spinach plants and tiny baby onion seedlings. They were do delicate and small- it's hard to believe that they will grow into such beautiful orbs! AAAAAAAhh enough about that!

My son called me today to ask if it was normal for his son to pick up a blueberry and announce it was an orb? Or if he should tell his teacher that he wanted to go to Mt Rushmore and see George Washington because that was his favorite head? Or should he be able to do simple subtraction? Well, probably it would be.... if he wasn't 2 and 1/2!! That's that little boy in the picture with me.. scary smart.

And I thought it was crazy when my daughter told me that he little one came in and told her that one of her many LaLaLoopsies behavior was "despicable" right now!! Oh my, these two are going to give their teachers a run for the money! 
S.