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Picture-Books in Winter

Picture-books in Winter
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer fading, winter comes–
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books.Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story-books.

All the pretty things put by,
Wait upon the children’s eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
In the picture story-books.

We [...]

Book Recommendation: I Love to Draw Horses by Jennifer Lipsey

I picked this book up for Lily (9) at the library. She has derived many hours of pleasure from this book and is reluctantly returning it to library after multiple renewals. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival (via interlibrary loan) of other drawing books in this series. I highly recommend this book for your budding [...]

Our Morning Basket

Well it has taken us a while to get back into our routine after the holidays. It’s been a particularly slow go due to illness. But inspired by Mary Ellen’s posts (here and here) that I had saved in Bloglines, we are back into our “morning basket routine”. This routine includes reading aloud [...]

Jumping into Advent… a bit late

I’ll admit it. I tend to have an “all or nothing” personality. So when Advent started on Sunday and I hadn’t gotten my rear in gear, I figured, “Ah well, there’s always next year!!!” Well a well-timed email from a blessed friend and mentor encouraged me to jump into Advent. She, of course, didn’t know [...]

Small Successes – Jan. 22, 2009 edition

I saw this over at Ten kids and a dog and thought that it would be great for lifting my spirits during these dark, cold days of winter. Thanks Joann!!! You can check out more over at Faith & Family Live!

Here’s my list:

1- Getting back on track with formal school work this week [...]

Perfectionism is the Death of Homeschooling!!!

That’s my new motto: “Perfectionism is the Death of Homeschooling!!!” What was my old motto you ask? I’d have to say it was, “Parenting is a humbling experience!!!” LOL

Over the last ten years I have read MANY, MANY books on homeschooling. Most of them have been helpful. Most of them have been inspiring. I usually [...]

Monday Fun in the Kitchen with the Littles

This afternoon, “the Littles” (Lily and Peter) and I had some fun in the kitchen making Cranberry Apple Muffins. This is a new recipe for me that I found at allrecipes.com through a google search. I modified the recipe with Whole wheat flour (hard white wheat) and sucanat (a type of raw [...]

Some Semblance of a Schedule

OK, I admit it. The last couple of months have been a wonderfully crazy blur, full of many blessed events (hence the reason that I have been blogging so infrequently and also the reason that I encouraged you to add me to your Blogreader —Bloglines is my personal favorite). While wonderful, these last few [...]

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

We have been very busy over the last month or so. My sweet 16 year old daughter, Hope, was the costume seamstress and left stage manager for the home-school production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. She is very talented and I am quite the proud mama. You can check out pictures at Alice Gunther and MacBeth [...]

Home Education: Delicious and Nutritious by Melissa Wiley

I just read a wonderful post over at “Here in the Bonny Glenn” by Melissa Wiley about homeschooling and the concerns of well-intentioned nay-sayers. It is incredibly accurate and funny!!! I encourage you to take a meander over there to enjoy Melissa’s insight and wit!!!

HT: Michele at The Family-Centered Life

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