Bartering

I've started to tutor a few days a week at the school where I used to teach. It is great to have a good reason to get out of the house and an added bonus to continue to have contact with so many of the teachers and students that were such a treat to work with.

It is a cool community and it is possible for me to bring Timothy and have a student watch him while I'm tutoring. What is also interesting about this place is that the students who go there all, pretty much, have everything they could ever ask for, so money isn't a huge draw for them. Really, there are a number of girls who would watch Timothy just for the fun of being around a baby, but I'm going to recompense them by baking. Some home cooking that they just don't get at a boarding school. It's nice for me, too, as I've kind of cut out some of the baking I normally do--better for the grocery budget and our waistlines! But, now I have an excuse to bake away! Anyway, I kind of like the fact that money isn't part of the equation here--I can do something for them and they can do something for me.

The biscotti above were just for fun, though. I'll have to make something else for Wednesday!