We’re finally feeling semi-normal this morning! We all still have coughs and need some more rest, but things are looking up.
I’ve always been so inspired reading other homeschooling blogs that I decided to try and polish up some of my sidebar widgets. I’ve been working with LibraryThing this morning and so I’m working on that widget first.
I have, for a long time now, collected a weekly book basket in a very casual way. Sunday afternoons often find me reshelving the many books we’ve read that week, returning books to their rightful shelves so we can find them again when we need them. And most weeks I also am pulling out books, choosing things I might want to read aloud that week. Our book basket (which is sometimes a basket, often a bag, occasionally just a pile, and this week a heap) is usually full of seasonal or holiday books for the week or month, or books by an author whose birthday is coming up, and sometimes just full of books I haven’t read in a while that I want to read again. I love to see what others have been reading each week, so I’m going to try using a “basket” tag for the books in my basket/bag/pile/heap for the week so that you can see in the sidebar a selection of books for the week. (I have the widget set to show 8 random titles from the week’s basket, which is usually much more than 8 - so each time you come back you should see new titles.)
This week’s book basket heap is all of our Halloween titles - we’ve read something like 30 different Halloween books just since I pulled them out yesterday afternoon, and that’s only about half the heap!
I’m also finally ready to jump on the fall/Halloween bandwagon and wasn’t happy with the sidebar presentation in my last site theme, so I’ve changed to this strikingly fall theme! The sun is out here after several days of rain and it just feels right, since our heads & bodies are finally starting to clear after several days of illness. We’ve got to get out and enjoy this fall!
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