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I can’t stop with the politics

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Politics

Andrea’s Who Gets Your Vote? series at Li’l Kid Things asks readers to share some thoughts about politics. It’s been very interesting.

“Superman Comes to the Supermarket” is a super-long read by Norman Mailer about the Democratic National Convention in 1960.

Regardless of your political affiliation, Julian Castro’s DNC keynote address is a beautifully written speech.

And also

Rivers. It’s about parenting, philosophers and high school. It’s not G-rated.

A few regular reads

Meyser at A Cat on the Window Sill said she’d like to take a peek at the blogs I read, so I’m going to start adding a few of them to my weekly link roundup. (Which was going to be every Friday, and then I think it was Saturday once, and today it’s Thursday. We like to keep you guessing here at Butterscotch Sundae.) (No we don’t, really. It’s probably going to be a Thursday thing.) (Probably.)

Kottke.org is not a small, obscure site. It’s been around for nearly 15 years, and it’s popular for good reason. Jason Kottke scours the internet for interesting content, and then he shares the links with a little bit of commentary. He and the occasional guest editor never fail to find great stuff, and I like the site’s simple, clean design, too.

I’ve been reading All & Sundry for a long time. Linda has two adorable little boys, and her family enjoys things like hiking and camping and being generally rugged and outdoorsy. Linda is not afraid to write raw and honest posts about parenting (see: “Mishandled“) and other facets of her life, which makes this one of those blogs that makes me feel like a weirdo stalker if I think too deeply about it.

Heather, on the other hand, doesn’t often get personal at Home Ec 101. The site is “designed to teach real skills as they apply to real lives,” such as how to cook cabbage and how to mop a floor. And if you were to do something like melt a plastic bag on your flat-top stove? Heather would be the person I would turn to for an answer. This is not to say I did that, but … OK fine, I did that. And she knew just what to do.

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The posts people read in August

Last month was the busiest month visitor-wise that Butterscotch Sundae has seen since I changed to this URL way back in 2009. That’s thanks in large part to the critique of my About page at MomComm, having one of my posts syndicated on BlogHer and iHomeschoolNetwork.com’s curriculum blog hop. I don’t expect to be getting any attention from big sites again soon, though, so I’m steeling myself for September’s numbers to be back to normal. All the while hoping, of course, that the numbers at least settle into a slightly-higher normal.

The top 5 most popular posts in August

  1. What kindergarten looks like in our house. Version Pete.0.
  1. What second grade looks like in our house
  1. Maybe FDR was right about that unreasoning, unjustified terror
  1. It’s an all-new and very exclusive list of bloggers!“
  1. It’s time to shed the flip-flops and backpacks, kids!

August’s top 5 search strings

  1. “ikea kura”
  2. “ikea kura bed”
  3. “fun places in Atlanta”
  4. “how to decorate a pink room”
  5. “how to quiet a cough”

I’m not sure if people are just searching for pictures of the Ikea Kura or if they’re looking for assembly help. I’m thinking about taking Pete’s bed apart so I can make a video showing how to build it, in case they do need help. That would require remembering how to put it back together, though, because I’m 98 percent sure I no longer have the instructions.

People searching for “aquarium make me have bad dreams,” “great booty control” and “dreams about snakes and zombies” also found their way here in August. Hm.

menu plan Monday

On the table this week

Monday

OK, this sounds weird. But I can’t divulge what we’re having for dinner tonight, because it’s part of this month’s Daring Bakers challenge and if I tell you what the challenge is they’ll probably kick me out of the group.

Tuesday: Cube steak

I have to go to a meeting for our homeschool co-op on Tuesday night, so Rockford will mostly be in charge of dinner. I’ll probably start it for him, though.

Wednesday: Grilled cheese

I will be astonished if ever Poppy chooses something without cheese in it for kids’ choice night. Rockford and I will be having grilled ham and cheese, because we’re very sophisticated and carnivorous.

Thursday: West Indian rice & beans

I check out cookbooks from the library pretty often, but I usually just flip through them and then never actually make any of the recipes. This time I decided I’d at least try one of them, and this is it!

Friday: Pizza