Week 5 down. One more week then break … Woo-hoo! As much as I am loving the work we’re doing with AmblesideOnline Year 4, I think we will all enjoy a week to reset. Each of these first few weeks I’ve been gushing about how much I love what we’re working on. It really has…
Every other Thursday, our group of homeschool friends gather together for lunch, play time, and studying art. We are a group of five families of homeschoolers from ages 12 down to a new little one expected this summer. There are 20 children currently wandering about, though. We also generally have one lady who has adopted…
On Monday, we had our first CM Group meeting. We’re using Brandy’s study guide, Start Here. In it, she assigns readings from For the Children’s Sake and A Philosophy of Education. In For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay says some pretty profound things. One of the first, for me so apropos, is, We have to…
Celeste asked us to share our favorite place of Commonplace Keeping. I love keeping a Commonplace for a couple of disparate reasons. First, I love keeping Words. If you’re new around here, you may not know that every Wednesday I post a linkup called “Wednesdays with Words.” Cindy Rollins graciously allowed me to take over…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it is still quite dark. I am thinking… about calling up to the children who are still abed. I am thankful… for y extended family and the fun day we had yesterday; wish more of them could have been there! I am wearing… exercise clothes for pilates. I am creating… lesson plans for my kiddos….
Our week started out somewhat shaky. Monday morning, R-girl felt sick first thing. Oh, no. But she got it out of her system (literally) and was feeling her normal perky self by the afternoon. She was mad at me because I made her stay quiet in the afternoon, but I really didn’t want her to…
Periodicals: All editions of the CiRCE Magalog (I was cleaning out the paperwork and periodicals). I finished with the Classical Academic Press Catalog last night. Memoir/Biography: The Narnian by Alan Jacobs. This is really very good, I posted Words from this yesterday. Devotional: For the Love of God by D.A. Carson. I’m behind again after…
On Monday, I shared a quote from Alan Jacobs’ book The Narnian about Christianity being true myth and promised more today. I’m glad to be back into Jacobs’ biography of C S Lewis. I’m at a particularly exciting point: Lewis’ conversion to Christianity. We had seen how for his whole life, Lewis enjoyed myth. Here,…
