I’ve been wanting some tea lately, but I am all out. You tea drinkers out there: where do I go to find good tea? I like flavored teas the best, but any tea would do. What are your favorites? Maggie mentioned Thin Mints on her blog, and that sent me looking for the nearest cookie [...]
“Educationalists…will often agree that there is great value in reading, but will point to the large numbers of books used in education as resource material; children have perfectly adequate access to books, it is often maintained. But that is not the same thing. It was Charlotte Mason’s conviction that the child should work steadily through [...]
It’s time. Mr. Fourthborn is pushing the limits of my patience and diaper budget. I need some time to devote to him, so I’m using this as an excuse to take a bloggy leave of absence. Coming in March- the great Spring Cleaning of 2008! I’m desperate to do things that demonstrate spring is coming, [...]
“Pick up the pretty pebbles, Laura,” Ma said. “and another time, don’t be so greedy.” So Laura gathered up the pebbles, put them in the pocket, and carried the pocket in her lap. She did not mind very much when Pa laughed at her for being such a greedy little girl that she took more [...]
*Meal Planning Boredom is a real condition that affects millions of housewives daily. Consult your spouse or a close friend to see if these solutions might work for you. Raid someone else’s recipe box- I’ve found a handful I’d like to try, including BBQ Texas Ribs, Texas Tacos, and a very intriguing Scrambled Egg Casserole. [...]
“When a baby is picked up, spoken to, and loved, he is starting his education as God planned it. For all our lives we are human beings, in an active state of learning, responding, understanding. Education extends to all of life. In fact, an educational system that says, one bright summer’s day in the dawn [...]
Happy Birthday to two of my favorite people! Head over to Luke’s blog to wish him well!
First Valentine’s Party- You probably wondered what kind of Valentine’s preparations would take me all week and keep me from the blog? Well, for starters it was making and addressing three sets of Valentines for thirty kids, and overseeing the making and addressing of two more sets (by our young writers). That alone took me [...]
I’ve discovered something about my second-born- I don’t know that much about her. Her birthday is in a few days, and when it comes to thinking of what she might like, I am uncertain. Sure, I can ask her. But I know what she’ll say; anything will be a variation of what her older sister [...]
“All our fears represent in some form, I believe, the fear of death, common to all of us. But is it our business to pry into what may happen tomorrow? It is a difficult and painful exercise which saps the strength and uses up the time given us today. Once we give ourselves up to [...]