Having a blast learning CSS! Thanks to my generous friends at Graphic Goo. I haven't done anything real fancy yet, but it's cool anyway! Sorry my tagboard is out of commission for all of you happy taggers. I'll put it on my list, but I may not get to it for awhile, so you'll have to find fun somewhere else. Bummer.

Well, I am recovering. From my first experience in an online forum/club. I won't say who or give details because that could be hurtful. I have already said enough, me thinks, but I have a few thoughts that will feel good written down. When I started to feel uncomfortable about where the group was going, I tried to extricate myself gracefully. I think that failed. It is unfortunate because now there will be taking of sides and all of that 'stuff'. My decision (and the decision of others) to leave the group wasn't meant to be hurtful or judgemental in the sense that aren't we better than they, but rather, we can't agree on a fundamental issue, so we must leave. It's too bad folks took it personally. Sometimes timing is everything. That's all I have to say about that. (Thank you Forrest Gump.)

Cant' figure it out - it must be a conspiracy!!! Both my tagboard and my comments aren't working! I feel so lonely!

On a different note - I am missing my Partners in Christian Homemaking. Hey, what about Robinson group? Where is everyone? Oh man, another conspiracy. My settings at Yahoo are all messed up and I haven't been getting any posts. What's up with that?! I'll go check in with the gals and see what's happening. It won't let me post. SO wierd.

Cute story. Last night Kaitlin made me read (one of my all time favorite kids books) The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock as a song. The WHOLE book. LOL. I felt really stupid at first, but then I got drawn in to it and lost myself in the story and pretty soon I was almost crying with the beauty of it! Silly momma. When I got all done sniffling, she said, "Now read it again. Regular." Silly sissy.

Ooh ooh ooh - some new designs are up at Glassotica - click now, pay later! Glassotica - New Designs

Here's an adorable wallpaper I "built" after inspiration from my friends at Graphics Addicts and the great source, Pics.Am!


Yah Baby! 1024x768

So to get things started on the homeschool front, we've been playing Kismet in the morning. Similar to Yahtzee, it's a dice game yada yada. The kids have fun: the younger learning to add, the older helping out and also writing various number sentences, one for each turn, based on the roll of the dice. Fun. A nice way to warm up to the math after a 3 month break. After two days, the older is starting to get bored, but likes it better than straight math, which is coming real soon. We'll work a bit more on reviewing/memorizing the multiplication tables, and then it's back to the book - oh division his fav. Not. He is so funny. On the one had he hates starting something new, gets so intimidated, but then is so proud that he's moved on to the next thing. Kinda funny.

On the designing front - found a great css tutorial. I am gonna larn thisun soon. I'll just add it to the list of half-finished web projects I've got going on. Yuck-yuck.

Sickie-poo notwithstanding, I managed to upload some of the new Rigdonia Graphics layout - take a look-see!

Feeling a little under the weather right now, but had to blog this: I am now an official Graphic Addict!! Woohoo I am having some fun now!

In addition, we are starting our homeschool back up tomorrow. I regret having taken such a long break, and the kids watched WAY too much tv over the last few months, but it is going to be a bit tough to get back into the groove. We are using the Robinson Curriculum which is a self-teaching style - I am modeling the self-teaching thing with my web design. (Fun and a good example - great, now if I can just show a little self-discipline by not sitting here all day!!! We'll call that devotion to responsibility, right? ;-P) WE have already seen this work, but we are not doing all of the no tv, no computer, no sugar route. Maybe we should, but I just don't see it. I do try to limit these things, but I'm not sure they need to be completely eliminated. Boy this turned into a long post - I need to move this over to my homeschool blog. What blog, you say? Well I am planning on starting one. Watch for the link if you are interested. This will be a better managed extension of my homeschool notebook. You can see I am a bit behind on that puppy!

I am so excited! I got my first Amazon Referral Check today. OK - never mind that it took nearly a year to get it. It's just cool to get a check for basically nothing but a couple of cool links that flesh out my homeschool site nicely. I'm smiling. I also came up with a neat unplanned re-do on the graphics section of my domain. Watch for the unveiling soon.

Well I am a big hairy copy cat - Miss Kitty mentioned this in her blog and I thought it sounded like a hoot, so here it is: My very own Rigdonia Cafe Shop (Powered by CafePress.com) Come one come all!