Pinterest

Yes, it's been awhile since my last post. (Early December, I think.) The busyness (in a good way) of the holidays coupled with the post-holiday return to "normalcy" has kept me occupied and away from the blog. But, full disclosure, the lack of topics has also kept me at bay. Don't get me wrong. I love posting and writing on a regular basis, especially since sometimes it feels like the only intellectual outlet available to me, but there are times when there's simply not much to say. (Hmmm, I seem to remember that being a concern when I first started blogging.)

But all of that is neither here nor there, especially since I do have a few comments about something today: Pinterest.

LOVE IT! Yes, I'm sure all of you who discovered Pinterest in the early days might be saying "told you so!" I love the ease of finding and organizing activities/ lessons for PSL. It definitely makes lesson planning go a bit more smoothly (as compared to Googling activities/ topics). The only challenge is limiting what I'm going to do. There are so many great ideas, but I only have so much time (or so many resources). How do people do everything? (Hypothetical. I know people don't do EVERYTHING.)

I do wonder, though, if some people become so obsessed with pinning that they just pin; they don't actually do anything with the information they find. I know that the boards help organize information and ideas, but if you have 100+ pins, do you actually revisit them, or do they just sit there? (Yes, this applies to me, too. I've pinned a few "quiet time activities" but I have yet to make them a reality. I'd like to... when I have time. Guess I just have to make it happen, right?)

See, I don't like clutter... of any kind. So even the boards of completed units bother me. I moved all of that information to a new board (completed PSL units), but I wonder if I even need that. There's a part of me that says I should keep those pins in case I use the units again when little man is older. But there other part of me says to get rid of them; I can find new activities. Now that I've combined all of those units into one folder, though, I have quite a few pins in one place. Pins that I might not revisit. (Makes me wish I could create sub-boards in each board, or at least in some boards.) So, I'm trying to weed/ revise regularly so as not to become overwhelmed (visually) by all the options. It seems to be working (though I do get distracted at times. After all, there's lots of interesting "stuff" there!).

All that to say, thank you to my friends who introduced me to the world of pinning. It appeals to my personality and quirks, and though I lament the lack of time I have for it (or sometimes the amount of time I "waste" on it), it helps me stay organized (and reduces the amount of torn-out magazine pages on the desk).