A year ago, I asked for book recommendations for my year of Attend! One of the books recommended was Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung. I started in in December. But, now, I’m thinking it is almost as perfect for my year of }pacify{. Can we really be at peace when our schedules are so chock full…
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Own. Wow! I expected fantastic things after reading The Good Master and A Tree for Peter, but I didn’t really expect this. We read this as our “fun readaloud” at the end of Whatchamacallit (Morning Time) and it was a hit with the…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling My rating: 4 of 5 stars Kindle Unlimited I think Order of the Phoenix is dealing mostly with the mind and the heart. How do we make choices taking both into account, and are there times to make one inferior and the other inferior….
With Uncle Sandor and the sheperds to help him, there was very little for Father to do. One morning he brought in his woodworking tools. “We need some new chairs, Mother,” he said. Jancsi helped him find well-seasoned, dry maple planks in the woodshed. Uncle Sandor shook his head and smiled. “So you still make…
Finally, I get to write about this week. phew. Three Weekly Ambles in one week is a lot. I’m glad to catch up, though. Monday was awful. Everything took so very long. Children were still doing lessons at 6:30. Jason was coming home after bedtime. I was frustrated and upset and just do your work…
As you likely know, we use AmblesideOnline for our homechool curriculum. One knock AO gets is that it occasionally uses old, sometimes racially insensitive (at best) or downright racist (at worst) books. There are books to offend many groups – Roman Catholics have issue with Trial and Triumph and Westward Ho!; This Country of Ours…
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…
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…
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…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling My rating: 4 of 5 stars Library. We enjoyed listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on a recent drive to (and from) the beach. There was much to enjoy about this book. We liked the exciting plot. I liked the ways Rowling…