“Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.” 1 Kings 1:1 My mama knew how to hold back my hair in just the right ways. She was the kind of mama who brought tea on trays, who spread sheets on the couches and […]
How We Do: School Schedules with Ambleside Online (part 3)
Click here to find Part 1, and Part 2. While I am eating up all the constructive comments happening over at this post (if you have thoughts to add, please don’t be shy!), I thought I’d switch gears tonight and tidy up a few final thoughts on school schedules. You’ve seen how our schedules appear on paper, and you’ve heard how […]
Brave
See the beautiful woman front and center, seated with legs crossed? That’s my mama. She was surprised by her colleagues last week with a show of support for her current battle with breast cancer. A woman strong in faith who carries most burdens quietly, it has been a joy to see not only the courageous […]
Should The Writer Write?
(The comments on this post are excellent and profound. They bless me again, years later, and offer a better answer than my own post to the question “Should The Writer Write?”) When these 31 days of writing have ended I will do a follow-up post about what I’ve learned–and I have been learning. But I want […]
Sand: thoughts on change and how we grow
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. – William Blake My heart has been broken a dozen times this evening; broken, restored, broken again. The heavy things of life laid anchor, pulling my self-ship to […]
Nature Study
Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I have been having a good week. How has your week been doing? Although, it has been a really hard week with school and today I did not have much to do of school work but we played outside for a long while. We went to the Wildlife Refuge and, […]
A Few Thoughts
1. This post at Copperlight Wood. Read it. 2. The Ambleside community. I am continually blown away by their graciousness and generosity. Each time I visit the robust online forum, or read one of the many blogs by Ambleside users, I come away blessed and informed. These women have helped shape not only my homeschooling but also my life […]
How We Do: School Schedules, part 2 (Ambleside Online)
Last Sunday I showed you our weekly school schedules; today I’d like to give you some follow up pictures as well as an explanation of how these schedules work for us. If you look below, you will notice that I divide each child’s schedule into five categories, the headings begin rather self-explanatory. Daily Alone: The majority of these […]
Quiet
Pardon me, but I’m hanging out with my husband. No words tonight! (Day 18 of the Writing Challenge; where I’m “Just Writing” daily for 31 days.)
Morning Thoughts: Christ and Humanity
I am up early with my girls today. One wakens with the after-affects of a bloody nose spread across her skin, the other wakens with a belly full of giggles. We bathe, share bananas, and I brew a cup of coffee – a real treat, something I don’t usually get to consume. The sunrise is […]
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