The first entry is this poem from E. Nesbit’s The Phoenix and the Carpet. The Phoenix and the Carpet” is dedicated to her “dear godson, Hubert Griffith and his sister, Margaret” and the poem is as follows: Dear Hubert, if I ever found A wishing carpet lying round, I’d stand upon it, and I’d say…
Yes, she of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest Son, His Wife, Their Baby, Their Toddler, and Their Five-Year-Old Came to Live with Us for Thr… by Judith…
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Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 3 of 5 stars Library. This was my least favorite Lord Peter book so far. 1) I never really understood why they were spending so much time on train travel. The train travel was confusing to one who has never traveled by train. 2) There were…
We’re starting back up with read alouds at dinner. We’ve been reading The Christian Almanac and our family devotion regularly during baseball and soccer season, but it’s good to delve back into a book. We chose Man of the Family by Ralph Moody. It’s the sequel to Little Britches, a book we all loved. I…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… heavy rain, some thunder and lightning, my phone just notified me of a flash flood warning … I am thinking… this is the rainiest summer I remember.I am thankful… for a comfortable, dry house.In the kitchen… the remains from a family reunion haunt me.I am wearing… a much shorter pony…
This turned into a pretty solid week: three complete days of lessons Monday through Wednesday; one day of frivolity with their cousins and grandparents at Jungle Jack’s Landing at the Zoo; and a light morning today because Daddy has the day off! All I required today was math, reading, and piano practices. We started the…
In all the daily routines at home, we were taught This is what we do, This is how we do it, This is where things go. Most of these were routines and habits established simply by the way in which our parents had ordered their own lives. We learned by watching. But what if our…