Wordless Wednesday: Downtown Christmas Adventure
Wordy Wednesday: What Money Can Buy
Yes, it’s Thursday, but I read it late on Wednesday … Still in Wolf Hall. I don’t find it very quotable; the clever turns of phrase seem mundane without the backstory. The whole of the backstory culminates into thoughts and ideas which are bigger than the phrase. I did think this story was more self-contained…
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
We Gather Together We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; He chastens and hastens His will to make known. The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine; So from the…
Book Review: A Couple of Georgette Heyer books
I read two Georgette Heyer books this week: The Black Moth and False Colours. The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own. I didn’t know this was her first book when I read it. I liked it. I liked the multiple story lines weaving in and out of one another. …
Yuletide Session 2013
We enjoy our Yuletide Session. This week, for Thanksgiving, we’re mostly off. No school except piano practice & lesson. (Here are our plans and thoughts from 2010, 2011, and evidently nothing from 2012!) Starting Friday, we’re going to read The Handel’s Messiah Family Advent Reader. I must find the CD, though I have some suppositions…
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for November 25, 2013
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it’s c-c-c-cold. Like 26* cold. [brrrr] I am thinking… about Yuletide Session Plans. I hope to post them this week seeing as they start on Sunday. I am thankful… for a time of Thanksgiving in our cultural consciousness. That a day is still set aside is a blessing. In the…
Weekly Report for November 18-22, 2013
We’re done! Our 2013 Academic Year finished today. Hooray! Yippee! It was a tough week, I won’t lie. We did a pretty good job getting school work accomplished, but maybe not as good as I might have hoped. We finished our science book in the car. We read about caves and the Grand Canyon. Earlier…