We read the Chapter on John Bunyan today in Trial and Triumph. Although we had read Pilgrim’s Progress over a two year period, I had never heard Bunyan’s story before. There was a lot that came to mind as we read through it. Bunyan had been a foul-mouthed tinker until one day a woman rebuked […]
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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I had hoped to post here about our monthly meeting topic of Rigor. Unfortunately, we were hit by the stomach flu and missed the discussion, which I heard was wonderful. We also had a dead rat, discovered by its lovely stench, that had been festering in the wall behind our downstairs bathroom removed this week.
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As I’ve been focusing this past week on reading, spelling and writing and feeling a bit of the sting from comparing my kids’ progress in these areas to others their age (I should know better!!), I was glad to find the following section in Vol. 6 today. It reminded me to ‘major on the majors’.
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My 9yo daughter and I read Chapter 76 of Our Island Story today. The Chapter talks about King James, successor to Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to be a despot and claimed ‘The King can do no wrong. What he does must be right and the people must obey and ask no questions.’ Portrait of James
Inspired by a recent blog post over at Ambleside Reflections, our topic of discussion at this month’s meeting was JOY. Regarding joy, Charlotte Mason wrote: The happiness of the child is the condition of his progress; that his lessons should be joyous, and that occasions of friction in the schoolroom are greatly to be deprecated.
My husband took this picture at the pumpkin patch the other day – I just love it. Everyone is looking at the camera, we’re all smiling – these are the moments we like to remember; the ones we love to share with everyone. The ones we frame and hang on our walls. Here’s the one
We are currently reading ‘The Golden Touch’, the story of King Midas in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book at bedtime in hopes of being able to enjoy most of the YR2 ‘free reads’ (books read at any pace, any time, without narration; described as “books no child should miss”). From the looks of it and
I read today a brief snippet about a woman named Madame Guyon, who was persecuted for her faith and imprisoned in a dungeon lit only by a candle at mealtimes. My ‘struggles’ faded by the wayside and my heart was gripped by her obedient words in this poem she wrote of her experience: A little