The next in the Austin Family Series by Madeleine L’Engle is The Young Unicorns. The wiki has a pretty good plot summary. Themes such as individuality, individuality within community, trust, love, the nature of redemption are explored in this book. It was a slow start, but once I got to page 100, I finished the…
FOR TODAY March 8, 2010… Outside my window… the sun is shining! And it is going to be “warm” today and tomorrow. The neighbors have men working on their roof, and the children (and the dogs) have been watching that. I am thinking… about 2011’s curriculum. Trying to plan before the conference. I am thankful…
We had a relatively good week. We got through all our academics most days. We have art and another science lesson planned for today. Memory Work: Bible: The children are doing so well with this. M-girl has even started adding in verse 8! Catechism/Creed: M-girl is very close to having the Nicene Creed down, N-boy…
The local Boy Scout Camp, Camp Lazarus, has an annual Maple Syrup Festival at the end of February/beginning of March. I’ve wanted to go for several years, and we were able to go this year. Hooray! In preparation, we’ve been listening to Little House in the Big Woods and managed to get to the chapter,…
At New Years’, one of my monthly goals was to slowly add to our routines on a month by month basis. January was to start school and do it every planned day. That has gone well except for our sick week, but we started right back up and I think this is going very well….
FOR TODAY March 1, 2010… Outside my window… the snow begins to melt and the puppy is tracking in mud. Is it bad to wish it would remain frozen forever? I am thinking… it feels good to sit down, we’ve been running hard today. I am thankful for… the work that needs done. (I have…
M-girl, sitting on the edge of the couch, “I’m falling, I’m falling, I’m [crash] fallen!”
We took last week off because Mommy and the girls got the yucky cold N-boy had the week before. I was an impromptu decision. The flexibility of year-round homeschooling. It was a little hard to get back into schedule this week, but it went pretty well. Memory Work: Bible: we added Genesis 1:6. Catechism/Creed: Still…
[sigh] I wanted to love the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The title is clever. The letter format is interesting (I want to write letters like these!) The writing was generally good. The story of a post war authoress, Juliet, learning what happened on occupied Guernsey Island was intriguing. The book isn’t a…