Nature Study Carnival!

Be sure to stop by and visit Dawn from By Sun and Candlelight today!!  She is holding a blog carnival on nature study….~ Field Day: The Early Summer Edition!:~.  This is a wonderful post to sit back and linger over…  just snuggle up with your ‘puter and a warm cuppa and be prepared for some wonderful [...]

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My Idea of a Perfect Date

What is the recipe for a perfect date?
Alll of the children are sound asleep….you and your dh are alone after a long hard day….
First you need one of these: ….add in one of these: 

and then add one of these:
What is your favorite way to spend quality quiet time with your dh?
I do have one [...]

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Strewing Personal Kindnesses

   
I have been struggling with trying to manage many persons and the kaleidoscope of emotions and struggles that abound in our path towards obtaining truth and unity…and being only one, I felt outnumbered!  >>In Enters –Super MOM!<<  I have the title and the costume…now HOW am I to ACT??!  Aha!  God in his infinite [...]

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Nature Study

I am learning to discover an appreciation of nature as God’s fine art.  I struggle with it because I never really learned it as a child.  I remember being very young and looking at leaves and bugs in my own yard and wanting to know what they were and I had no way of [...]

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20 Great Reasons to Homeschool

Click on this image to read this cartoon by Jim Erskine from Living books for the ears.  He has given permission for this image to be copied and distributed.
What are Living Books for the Ears?  This is from his site:
"Do you want your kids to develop a "taste" for great literature? Do you want to [...]

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Hands-on Geography

  My younger set (3,5,7 yo) are reading their way through their studies of the world now with the older ones (10,12,12) looking over their shoulders.  We want to discover the people and places that are on this great big world that God made.  As we go through different books, we are adding in Montessori [...]

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Curricula and Learning Styles

Be sure and catch Lissa’s post at The Lilting House about picking the best homeschool curricula…she gives a link to a great quiz (What type of homeschooler are you?)….and a few more in the sidebar here.   What did you get?  Here is mine!

What Type of Homeschooler Are You?

Abraham Lincoln  You have a Bible and a library [...]

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Just a “being” Day…

Today is the kind of day where you don’t have the time or energy for deep thoughts… I think it was just a "being"  day….being slower and simple.  I loved being alone painting the trim around the outside of the back door listening to the birds and watching my 3yo dart around the yard looking [...]

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Symbols of the Most Holy Trinity

"Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
     As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
     World without End.  Amen."

"In undertaking our acts and works we bless ourselves, making the
Sign of the Cross, "In the name of the Father and of the Son [...]

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Quotes of the Day

Our care of the children should be governed not by a desire to ‘make
them learn things’, but to keep burning in them the light of
intelligence.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child’s intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

Maria Montessori

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