New blogs

When I don’t post for several days, I usually get phone calls and emails from friends wondering if everything is O.K. here. Yes, we are fine.

When nothing appears on the blog, it usually means life has been busy. We have been working hard on our spring project, planting a bird garden. We’ve also been doing lots of planning for next year’s school, which will start on June 2nd.

I also took some time this week to work on another little project. Counter-cultural Mom has become a ministry site, and it isn’t exactly the “personal blog” that it started out to be in the early days (was it only 5 months ago that I started blogging??)

Frequently I want to write about what we are doing for school. I get asked lots of questions about homeschooling and end up writing copious emails, typically about the same topics. One reason my husband wanted me to start blogging in the first place was to gather all this information in the same place, rather than writing and re-writing it in dozens of emails over the course of a year.

With that in mind, I started two new blogs. The first is Counter-Cultural School. I know, it isn’t a very creative name. But the name is a way of linking it with this site, plus it will be easy for me to remember!!

I also have been wanting to keep a birding journal. Many of you know that it has become a family passion, especially for me and two of my children. I am not very good about keeping life lists (a birder’s way of recording what new species they have seen over the course of a lifetime). I want to keep life lists, but I can’t seem to find my pens or journals when I feel like doing it!

I have often thought that a blog would be a good place to write down memories of our birding adventures, compile our life lists, keep links for directions to our favorite birding sites or equipment we like or want to have, and the like. I also have a passion to teach people about youth birding, and this will also be a forum for that.

The bottom line is, I am not very organized when it comes to my papers. If I remember to write something down, I usually can’t find it later. So it dawned on me that a birding blog might be the way to go! With that in mind, I have also been working on my other new blog, The Birding Family. This blog has some articles of interest to birders, and other material that is just for my unorganized self (you probably don’t care about links to our favorite birding hot spots!)

So that’s what I’ve been doing. No new posts for Counter-cultural Mom, but several on the other blogs. Tomorrow is the Sabbath, followed by Mentoring Moments Monday, so I hope to get back in the swing of regular posting!