I was busy with a birthday cake today, and only read a few pages of School Education. But with Charlotte Mason, you don’t have to read very far before you find something worth noting. 🙂 Authority is alert; she knows all that is going on and is aware of tendencies. She fulfils the apostolic precept –… Continue Reading
Today’s quote is a sobering reminder to myself as a homeschool mom, and an excellent reason I need this summer’s Teacher Training. It’s also a good excuse to share a sweet picture of Little L from our recent time in Canada. 🙂 Also read/listened to this past week: Hubby: The Ology: Ancient Truths Ever New by… Continue Reading
I’m enlisting audiobooks again this week to make the drive to and from VBS a little more pleasant. We first listened to the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily A New Hope by Ian Doescher, which manages to be both fun and cheesy at the same time (there is some strong language, which I had forgotten… Continue Reading
On the way home from our vacation in Canada, we listened to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I wasn’t too fond of it when I read it to Miss A several years ago (and there are still things I don’t like), but Jim Dale’s narration was wonderful, and several passages stood out to me… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, my husband and I celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary, and I’m feeling a bit sentimental 😉 – and also very grateful for my wonderful husband. 🙂 I thought this quote, from Shakespeare’s Henry V (which I read a few weeks ago), appropriate for the occasion. I found this photo on Unsplash (my favorite place… Continue Reading
I usually put off my Charlotte Mason study group reading until a day or two before the meeting. Yes, I’m a procrastinator, but I do like having it fresh in my mind for the discussion. However I realized today in looking at the required reading (we’re using Brandy Vencel’s Start Here study guide) that we… Continue Reading
Several of Francis Bacon’s Essays are scheduled in Ambleside Online Year 8, and the one for this week was his well-known and oft-quoted, Of Studies. The most famous is the “Some books are to be tasted…” passage, but I wanted to share the sentence that immediately precedes it today: On the Center for Lit podcasts, the… Continue Reading
So the book I mentioned “foolishly” getting from the library on Monday is Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. I had heard about the book before, but Anne Bogel’s post pushed me over the edge – not that I need much pushing. 😉  Unfortunately it’s a new book, so… Continue Reading
Miss A and I are reading Alessandro Manzoni’s novel The Betrothed (although I’m a bit behind), and I wanted to share this comforting quote. In the context, the heroine, Lucia, has been forced to flee her home, and she is reflecting on her dashed hopes and uncertain future. Her conclusion is to remember the omnipresence and… Continue Reading
Beauty was a recurring theme, either explicit or implicit, in several of the sessions I attended last weekend. Martin Cothran (Memoria Press), in his talk What is the Christian Worldview, pointed out that in the decline of a culture, beauty is the first thing to become subjective (hence the famous but false saying:”Beauty is in the… Continue Reading