After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and limitation of interests. When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we are then old, it […]
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It is hard to describe how incredibly satisfying it is when you make a new discovery. When a light of truth comes on as a result of your very own digging – it is nothing less than thrilling. I recently had just such a discovery. In YR4, we read both Poor Richard – a biography
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As I was browsing through The Magic Catalog of Gutenberg E-Books on my Kindle for Christmas books to download, I came across the name ‘John Muir’. John Muir, 1912, courtesy of Wikipedia I’m embarrassed to say I’ve lived in California for almost twenty years and the only thing I knew about him is that he
The Handcraft Fair we had earlier this year in the Spring worked out so well, we decided to have another one for the Holidays. It turned out to be another great event with so many different creative handcrafts. My son made homemade artisan bread – crispy crunchy crust, and oh, so soft inside. You must
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Well this is a bit late, but I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We’ve had Grandma from Vancouver for a visit this Thanksgiving so the kids have been thoroughly stuffed and spoiled which means Grandma’s done her job well. The turkey was dry this year, but an improvement over last year’s undercooked bird
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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
Our dear friend Isabella from South Africa, who has the most delicious South African accent, who has spontaneously brought us dinner several times – months after we’d had our baby, bless her! – who has had us for tea, rooibos of course, and home-made scones with whipped cream – oh, she’s a lovely friend to
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My latest absorption… Here’s the book that shows you how. If you need additional help, I’m sure YouTube has plenty of tutorials on every stitch in the book. These could be hung on the wall as is or framed and given as gifts, you could make Christmas tree decorations, aprons, add embroidery to a plain
Some time ago, I read about a site called Heritage History, it must have been a discussion over on the AO list. Interested to see what they had, I visited the site and found it a valuable resource, so I added a link to it from our Charlotte Mason social network (www.charlottemasoneducation.ning.com). Then last month,
Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ~James 1:19-20 Do you ever lose sight of the person that your child is in the process of training them? Day in, day out, do this, don’t do that… it’s
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