I came across a tiktok
late at night
that fired up the little
butterflies in my belly…
there is a girl on there
(parmesan princesss / elizabeth jean)
who talked about
how she creates a
monthly curriculum for herself
and I was all
I WANNA DO THAT TOO!!!

(surprisingly, even though I was
awful in school, I actually love
learning new things…I just didn’t love
school as a place that I had to be…)

anyway! so I decided (with the help of
chat gbt) that I would narrow down the
thirty two ideas I initially had
into the following:

Subject - trees 🌳🌳🌳
Related creativity project - paper mache
Side hustle project - create a calendar with illustrations
Side quest - find a recipe book for “single person cooking” (yeesh, doesn’t that sound sad, haha) and COOK ONE THING A WEEK FROM IT

I am so excited.
I am going to study trees
for three months (I am doing it quarterly instead of monthly)…
this might sound like a little nutty 😁
but there are lots of things
I can do to fill that 3 months…
I have a list of books to read,
a crisp new notebook and school supplies,
a glue stick…
there are leaves to press,
and pictures to be taken,
drawings to make,
bark rubbings!
field trips!

and because I am 110% dorky,
I named my curriculum project
the “Curiositas Academy”
cause latin sounds geeky-awesome-professional

Drogo gave me a full lesson plan…this is the first week. :)

so yeah.
I am pretty excited about this.
So….expect to hear more about this…
whether you wanna or not.
Just be happy you don’t live with me.
Pugsley is already sick of hearing about trees.

This was exactly the distraction my brain (& 💔) needed.