Wednesdays with Words: The Olympics Edition
It’s the Olympics, y’all. I love watching the Olympics 🙂 Are you reading? ‘);
Our Weekly Amble for August 1-5, 2016
This was an unusual week. R-girl was scheduled to spend her “Nifty Nine” time with Grammy and Grampa starting Saturday and coming home on Wednesday. In the past, we would not have done formal, academic lessons. But because we scheduled the “Old Enough Others Outing” for M-girl and N-boy starting today through Wednesday, so R-girl…
Wednesdays with Words: Artifact of Making
Another quote from A Delectable Education. This time from Episode 42 the second with John Muir Laws. For me [nature journaling] just forces my brain to lock in on a totally different level, so that’s why I’m using it. I’m not using it ’cause I want to make pretty pictures, I’m making the pictures because…
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for Monday, August 1, 2016
For Today… Looking out my window … the sky is blazing blue. I am thinking … about the coming week and the things we’ve scheduled to do. I am thankful … that the weather has been so nice so I can take my morning walks. Walking the dog early has been a blessing to me … and…
Our Weekly Amble: July 25-29, 2016
We had a good week of school this week, but that’s likely because it was rather light as the school work goes. We’ve now finished Week 8 of AmblesideOnline Year 5. This week was the second of two weeks of swim lessons for the children. M-girl and N-boy both finished the “Fish” level and R-girl…
Wednesdays with Words: Music and Song
I listen to a lot of podcast and had gotten behind this spring, so this summer, while many are on either hiatus or slower schedule, I’ve been catching up. One of the ones I’ve caught up on is A Delectable Education. This summer they’re publishing a little more slowly, which makes the catching up easier….
Wednesdays with Words: Zucchini and Larkspur
I read Cindy Rollins’ new book, Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, & My Journey Toward Sanctification on Sunday and wrote my review on Monday. I’m still thinking about the Zucchini and Larkspur quote. It may have stood out for me because when I was nine, my favorite book was The Password to Larkspur Lane – a…
Book Review: Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey Toward Sanctification by Cindy Rollins
Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification by Cindy Rollins My rating: 5 of 5 stars Own. I must admit, I loved this book from the moment I knew it was coming out. I read Cindy’s blog for years and years, so I knew she could write. I knew she offered…
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for July 18, 2016
For Today… Looking out my window … the thunderstorms have finished rumbling through but the ground and sky shows evidence of their early morning activity. I am thinking … about waking the children up. I’d like to let them sleep in after their week at camp, but it’s swim lesson week, so they’ll need to get…