Eclectic Lotus

 This past week with birthday planning, nature walks and homeschool have been a lot but great to reflect on it all. The Boy Birthday This has to be one of the times where I actually used Pinterest for planning This was not my son's birthday set up. I pulled up pictures of cakes to get one close. While contacting bakeries, they ranged from $50-$150 Well, here are the pictures that we came out with. So, if you have not guessed, my son is very much into space. He has been very specific that he wanted to be an astronaut for Halloween. Since there is a possibility that there will be no trick or treat, let's get him dressed up for his birthday as an astronaut. We all wore NASA shirts and had balloons that had the infamous symbol on them: Boy Astronaut Costume Birthday candles Set up package  (I had so much stuff. I did not use the solar system hanging decorations due to the ceiling being really high in our place. The cupcake sticks were not used either.) NASA balloons Another balloo...

 To go from homeschooling my oldest to putting him into school, remotely, this meme is a bit of an understatement. All the preparation was not for naught. So, here it is- one month in and we are getting the hang of it. . .most days. Unlike the masses, I did not set up a whole station for him. He is in the kitchen with the whole kiddie table to himself. While he is there, it is space between him and his sister who is a bouncy 3-year-old. We began to get frustrated as I seemed to have to remind him where to go and what to do next. He seems to not listen to the teacher at times and after school, he seemed drained. Between breaks, he is outside and I have enforced the "schedule" on the kitchen dry erase board. The schedule gets changed twice a day in case I am in a meeting or busy with the girl. He is mostly on his own and some days are better than others. If he thinks the material is too easy, which happens a lot, I bring out some second or third-grade work for him to work on. O...

  "They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysteriously spooky, They're all together hooky. THE ADDAMS FAMILY" A true classic. In the 1960's and 1970's there became this genre of "dark comedy" that seemed to rile the senses and give us a laugh of things scary. The Addams Family was released in 1964 and shortly after, the Munsters and Bewitched. Dark Shadows was released in 1966. How we currently conceptualize monsters living among us can be traced to these early TV shows as we now have, "Vampirina" and "Monster High" which is for little kids and let us not forget about the more recent "monster" shows that have taken our hearts and minds for a ride such as "Supernatural", "Vampire Diaries", "Charmed", and "Lucifer" with many being those shows being the ones you want to hate and wondered when they would end, like "Sleepy Hollow" and the ones you wonder what happened to them s...