In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education by Karen Glass My rating: 5 of 5 stars I started in February with reading and I restarted via Audible on May 1 and finished the audiobook today. I do plan to finish reading the print book as well. I’ve come, this year, to…
This past week was Break Week at the Garrett Academy. We worked hard for six weeks and were ready for something different. I kept telling my kids that Break Week does not equal vacation, and it doesn’t. Break week is still work – it’s just different work … and this week proved it. There’s a proverb…
I chose this quote from the Kindred Conference because in many ways it summed up the overarching theme I heard there. Both Cindy and Angelina presented this idea, although in very different ways. The idea of a philosophy fits well with education – and with mothering as well. Cindy’s talks were about realistic family life…
For Today… Looking out my window … it’s a dark night. I am thinking … about all the things from the weekend. There were a lot of them. I am thankful … that I got to go to the Kindred Conference with Cindy Rollins and Angelina Stanford. They were amazing. I got to drive with…
Last week I had you all ready for another quote from Norms and Nobility. Then, I was reading from Nancy Guthrie’s Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, and found a quote I’ll probably use at some time because, whew, it’s dense with meaning and beautiful. But also long. Then, my copy of A Handbook to Morning Time…
I started this blog a long time ago and one of the first things I included was my favorite Bible passage which is still on the header today, 2 Samuel 14:14: Like water poured on the ground which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life, instead He devises…
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…