This will be our third annual SoCalCM event, supporting and encouraging Charlotte Mason homeschooling moms in the local area. This time, it will be uniquely outdoors and also available via live streaming for those who prefer to join us from home. Which potentially means people beyond our local area can join us too! The amazing […]
Note: This post was originally published on August 26, 2011 and is being re-posted – because I think we can all afford to hear it again and again. And because I haven’t blogged in a very, very long time… I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty
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Do you ever find the truths behind the Charlotte Mason method peering at you in your books through the lives of others? I do. They really aren’t her truths after all, she herself would say so; they were, and always will be, His truths. “Shelley offers us the key to education when he speaks of ‘understanding
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My husband and I finally sat down and watched Les Miserable after hearing many mixed reviews about it. We loved it and blubbered ridiculously together. My favorite scene had to be Jean Valjean’s (Hugh Jackman) turmoil in the church after he is given the candlesticks. His moment of coming to terms with his sin and
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I recently heard a very liberating discovery dug up in the May 1914 edition of L’Umile Pianta. But before I mention it here’s part of Redeemer’s description of the ‘magazine’: In 1895 the House of Education Old Students’ Association was formed to provide current and ‘old’ students who were scattered abroad, opportunities to keep in
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Have you heard? AmblesideOnline is in the process of transitioning to a new forum community! Previously, the hub of AO’s curriculum support was their Yahoo group, now they have put together a full fledged forum where there is room for conversation to expand beyond curriculum support. The forum is organized by Form (School Year) and
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A kindness is like a flower that has bloomed upon you unawares, and to be on the watch for such flowers adds very much to our joy in other people, as well as to the happy sense of being loved and cared for. ~Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, p.109 For all the books we’ve read to
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We know wisdom comes from God, scripture and good counsel. I’ve also heard someone put it this way: wisdom comes from two places – your mistakes, or the mistakes of others. I providentially landed on this MUST READ post over at The Common Room tonight. And I do prefer to learn from the mistakes of
We spent the day under a thick marine layer that never burned off at the beach for nature study today. The kids didn’t seem to notice as they dove in, testing the current in the cold foamy ocean waves. (Shaw’s Cove, Laguna Beach – a not quite finished sketch!) Their more sensible Mothers sat on
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Kristine framed this poem for me for my baby shower last night.It was one of our favorite poems from YR2, one of those things that just warms a Mother’s heart. Enjoy! Pittypat and Tippytoeby Eugene Field All day long they come and goPittypat and Tippytoe;Footprints up and down the hall,Playthings scattered on the floor,Finger-marks along
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