Cindy is hosting a Book Club discussing The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer. Please join us! Chapter 2 is an extension of Chapter 1, and a bit of a rebuke: do something! We’ve been reading The Christian Almanac at the table in the evenings. This chapter reminds me of a recent quote from…
Working within the variety and limits of a place reminded me of the following passage from Book 3 of Pride and Prejudice: “Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberly Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in high flutter. The…
The Devil on Lammas Night by Susan Howatch My rating: 3 of 5 stars Own. My friend Jane from the WTM forums kindly passed this book on to me. It is in a Book Club Edition with The Waiting Sands which I read and reviewed in 2011. I did not re-read The Waiting Sands this…
Well, we’ve had better weeks. But this one worked. We had two days of Circle Time. N-boy is working on the final section of catechism. R-girl is on the 7th and 8th Commandments. We’re learning The Church’s One Foundation – six verses! We added Colossians 3:12-17 for our new Bible memory (Put on …) We…
Cindy is hosting a Book Club discussing The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer. Please join us! I read and reviewed The Hidden Art of Homemaking early in 2002. My the-best-mother-in-law-ever lent me her copy (and her copy of What is a Family? Both books I’ve since purchased for my own library.) I devoured…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it’s sunny with blue skies. Birds are chirping.I am thinking… about our week.I am thankful… for our church and its pastors, officers, and congregants.In the kitchen… there are bagels for breakfast. A treat.I am wearing… jeans, and a brown long sleeved t-shirt. I am creating… clean laundry. The washer…
The children and I had a fun start to our week with a trip to the Kalahari Resort and Water Park. My brother and sister-in-law wanted to take their daughter and the children have wanted to go again since we went for M-girl’s sixth birthday in 2010. Unfortunately, Jason was unable to go with us…
It was even harder to get up Saturday morning. We had breakfast again and headed out. We got the parking spot I prefer and got to our sessions on time. I went to five sessions on Saturday. The first session was Dr. Reynolds discussing Medieval Chant and the Roots of Christian Music. She discussed cantus…
My goal this week was to do 5 solid days of lessons. We achieved that. It was a beautiful start to the week weather-wise, so the children were able to be outside a lot. It makes a difference. We did four days of Circle Time. We read a whole chapter of Parables from Nature…
Friday morning was exciting. Trish (my mother in law) made breakfast for us. Above and beyond! The first session I went to was by Michael Clay Thompson from Royal Fireworks Press. He was speaking on Building Vocabulary. His talk discussed the importance of knowing roots and stems from Latin and Greek to growing the English…