Baby Steps Resources

What is it with my brain when I am on holidays?

I use distraction purposefully during work times as a means of procrastination but when, after a week and a half of downtime, I tick over into holiday mode my brain sort of goes a little haywire.

All week I have been meaning to work on Baby Steps Resources but for some reason I just never got there. There was lots of other happenings, mostly involving the use of my laptop whilst simultaneously ignoring children's requests for DVD's and the like. (Well, their father was home also).

So, what happened to my week? I caught up on 500 odd emails from whilst I was away, worked on Organic Learning, got myself moving on the Home Educator's Picnic in the Park on Saturday week, I jumped onto Facebook and even had some time for Essential Baby.

I was also stoked to be able to add Australian Secondhand Homeschool Curriculum and Books as an official partner to Organic Learning. They are an excellent resource for us and I thank Jill and her family for all the work they have done on their forum as well as looking forward to see their service expand to more in the home education community in the coming year. Thanks Jill!

Hopefully, I'll improve my 'two months between blog posts' situation soon...

Finally! I have finished reestablishing Baby Steps Resources as a taxonomy driven web site (on the most part). Hopefully people will now be able to easily find the Green Cleaning Resources as well as the more recent Recipe Section.

One must be suspicious when the house is quiet of a day but night time and sleeping children comes around it is the time when I get to relax and work on my own pet projects (somewhere between housework and dawn). Tonight I have given Baby Steps Resources a thorough review. It has been a project of mine that has been quite neglected, barring upgrades, over the past year and it was time to give it some work on structure to make contributing to it just a little easier. I hope to have the structural changes completed later *yawn* today but bed is calling at this moment in light that I need to be at a session with my trainer in less than seven hours.

The good news is that Baby Steps Resources will have purchasable resources sometime into the future which will be great! Just negotiating on pricing at the moment and I am looking forward to it.

Well, I certainly have been busy this weekend with Baby Steps. Why?

I got sufficiently annoyed with the squashing of my posts at Essential Baby. They are now commercial to the point where my putting a link to the Playtime! sessions that are run by my church for the local community is considered a threat.

In addition, the moderator who removed it didn't even give me the courtesy of contacting me to let me know. It was a poor choice really as the whole point was to make just some of the activities that we run in the sessions available free to the wider community. It is sad that commercialism gets to the point where nett public benefit is lost.

Hmm ... anger can be a good motivator!