Overall, we accomplished a lot this week. We had four solid days of lessons, two days with Keeping Hour, and one Nature Walk. Woo-hoo! Monday and Tuesday were the best days we’ve had in a long time. Jason was working from home because he was sick and things just go more smoothly when he’s here. …
From Susan Hill’s Jacob’s Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading. I so enjoyed her Howard’s End is on the Landing a few years’ ago at Cindy Rollins’ recommendation. I really enjoy reading about readers and their reading. This book has caught me in fits and starts. In some ways it’s perfect for…
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For Today… Looking out my window … it’s still dark, although the navy sky is starting to overtake the darkness. The shining lights on the deck are dispelling gloom. I am thinking … about Mansfield Park which I read over the weekend. It is a re-read for me – my favorite Austen novel – and…
This was not the second week of school I had in mind. I was still pretty sick Monday and Tuesday – and not feeling grand Wednesday through Friday, in fact today was the first morning I woke feeling mostly well. But still with the cough. However, the children all managed to get sick up and…
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{This year as I run across quotes, verses, ideas, etc that fit with [conform] I plan to just put them here with the graphic above and little to no commentary} From Wednesday’sCloud of Witness: He who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king; Which ev’ry wise and virtuous man…
I’m reading Beauty in the Word with a group of Reformed friends on Voxer. It’s an interesting dynamic as Caldecott, Beauty’s author, is stridently Roman Catholic and we find places of both profound agreement and disagreement (and, let’s be honest, confusion). There is much to love about the book, I find I’m marking every page…
For Today… Looking out my window … the world is washed out as the snow falls steadily. I am thinking … about how much school we can accomplish. I am thankful … for Jason and his dedication to our family. One of my favorite things … buttered toast. I am wearing … pajamas, but I…
It was our first week of a new year! Our first day we traditionally get something sweet for breakfast, but the weather was such that I didn’t want to go out, so Cinnamon Rolls and scrambled eggs it was: I realized this morning that we didn’t do our traditional self-portraits or interview pages. I’ll need…
“… He is so close to Nature every moment that he has become part of it. He is as honest as Nature itself; and as big and clean and as simple. He has grown, with roots deep in the soil, as naturally as that tree. He can’t be wrong, he doesn’t know HOW to be…