Kathleen Desmarais

Welcome to my blog! In this blog I will be commenting on the daily (or weekly as the case my be) ins and outs of being a Mom and home schooling four kids and operating a home-based business. My business is Pandia Press, a publishing company that, at the moment, focuses on history and science courses. I have decided to combine these two aspects of my life and not separate them into two blogs (like I did with my house building project) because they are so intertwined and smooshed together, in a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich kind of way, that to separate them would be impossible and foolish (and messy). So if it drives you insane listening to me go on about my kids when all you really want to know is when is the next HO3 course coming out, I sympathize. But this blog is my outlet, probably my therapy as I have no time or money to pay for the real thing. And you will hopefully get something out of reading about my crazy life. Speaking of that, I would like to set some ground rules with those who will post comments. (And I truly hope you will post comments and that I am not just here by myself, taking out into space, because then I would just be a crazy person who talks to herself.) So here they are:

1. Please don’t correct my grammar (unless you are my mother). I know, I know, I’m a publisher of educational materials for goodness sake! Grammar mistakes are unforgivable. Yet I still make them, and this is not a term paper, it’s a diary. (And I like ending my sentences with prepositions, because! And I like starting sentences with “and.”) But I think it is rude to correct people’s grammar (unless it is your child’s) and it should be against the law or at the very least, socially unacceptable. And if you do correct my grammar, I will think of nothing else all day because I am perfectionist at heart, although I am working on that.
2. Don’t quote me off this blog; place a direct link instead. This is a no-holds-bar blog in which I will be sharing my sometimes very opinionated thoughts on child rearing, politics, business, home education, religion, etc. . I will say things here that you will disagree with. (Heck, I may even say things that two weeks later I disagree with. In which case I will gently correct myself.) I am risking that the things I say in this blog may have a negative effect on my business as an educational publisher. ( “The publisher said this about that!”) Of course, I am hoping for a positive effect. Those of you who are familiar with my philosophy of education know that my personal thoughts and agendas never (never, ever) show up in the products I publish. I think most of you know the difference and will not hold what I say against me. (If you cannot stop yourself from quoting me, then at least preface it with this paragraph so people understand you are breaking the rules.)
3. (That’s it for now. I am sure I will add another one later.)

Thanks for tuning in and please comment if you have something to say.