This is a very hard story to tell, a very emotional and personal story. I’m turning off comments for this post because I am thankful for the happening and for God’s intervention, but I really don’t need any recrimination or love or feedback. I’m also not promoting this one anywhere on social media. This is…
Yesterday was our last day of the Academic Year for 2016? We did a relatively big day: These kids worked so hard over the last 10 weeks – 9 weeks of lessons. We did a whole 12-week term of AmblesideOnline to finish Ambleside Online Year 5, Term 2 by the end of the school year….
It’s that time of year again … maybe even a little late for this post, but I’m just now getting everything planned for our “break.” The first thing I do is remind myself of all the things we plan to do over YuletideSession by looking back at last year’s plan. We had a great YuletideSession…
I recently rewatched Andrew Pudewa’s master class “Fairy Tales and the Moral Imagination” in Read-Aloud Revival Membership. I’ve heard this talk a number of times now and it never fails to impress. This time, I heard this: “The rewards of sin is that you get what you want.” Andrew Pudewa and I thought that there…
For Today… Looking out my window … the trees are bare, the ground is frosty, and the sun is slowly rising. I am thinking … about the YuletideSession 2016. I always look back at the previous year. I should have a post in the next day or three. I am thankful … for AmblesideOnline. As…
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Own. Wow! I expected fantastic things after reading The Good Master and A Tree for Peter, but I didn’t really expect this. We read this as our “fun readaloud” at the end of Whatchamacallit (Morning Time) and it was a hit with the…
We are two chapters from the end of The Singing Tree, the sequel to The Good Master by Kate Seredy. The Good Master was a little more fun with happy stories about managing a family and farm in Hungary. This book, while also quite good, is more involved with events of the day – well, of…
I was really excited to be asked by Jen over at Practical, By Default. She was asking questions about how busy moms make this homeschool thing really work – the what, the why, and the how. Jen asked about struggles, but she also asked about wins: Question 5: Share a homeschooling win with us that…