Late April Updates

Last week turned out to be one of those 'work on Snorzy's sweater' weeks, since Sweet Hubby was on vacation from work and we were too busy having fun for me to want to plan or execute a new craft.  I'm totally okay with that because since I can knit only a few rows at a sitting, this sweater is going to take forever to complete!  For this week, I'm going to sew a plastic bag caddy as my project.  I found a bunch of tutorials on Pinterest, now I just have to narrow down which one I like best, and get to work.

This is our last full week of our April break from lessons, we'll get back to it next Thursday when May begins (can't believe it's already almost May!  This year is flying by!).  I've previewed most of the curricula that we're going to use, and I'm cautiously optimistic that the kids will like the new things.  Primo will be using History Odyssey, which references Henrik Van Loon's Story of Mankind as a textbook.  Last night I started reading reviews of SOM on Goodreads, and overall they were positive but some people criticized the book and said they would never use it with children.  I've started reading it myself, but I'm not enough of a history buff to know if the history is accurate and comprehensive (I guess I'll have to get Sweet Hubby, history teacher that he is, to read it too).

I'm still in the 'product testing' phase of looking into starting a home baking business.  I tried out biscotti but found them too fussy to make, with too much waste (added to that, I noticed that there is another small business that makes biscotti just a few towns over, and I think that not having an Italian name or heritage might be a drawback).  Now I'm planning to bake some chocolate oatmeal cookies, costing out the recipe and giving it to testers to see if it would be a tempting enough product to sell in local shops.  Lovely Mother suggested I make something pretty, but I'm not sure I want to sell quantities of things that have to be carefully crafted and fussed over.