The End of the Fiery Sword: Adam & Eve and Jesus & Mary by Maura Roan McKeegan, illustrated by Theodore Schluenderfritz. Do you know about Adam and Eve? About Jesus and Mary, too? Two are from the Old Testament, Two are from the New. Their...
I had planned to try to get back into the school groove today after taking last week as a holiday. A little math, a little reading, not too much, but trying to re-establish some routines. But Bella has developed a rash around her mouth. Saturday we...
Catching up on posting old learning notes from before Christmas. The final week of Advent we did no school work. We all needed a Christmas break. Monday I got the kids in gear this morning by promising we could make cookies if they finished school...
. . . we took a hike. It was sunny and warm– in the 50s, if you can believe it on the 28th of December– so we went for a hike at Borderland State Park. It’s not far away, but we’d never been there before. Never even heard of...
On the day before Christmas Eve Dom came down with some stomach bug, or maybe food poisoning. That night after we tucked them in, while I was settling Lucy down to sleep, I overheard Bella and Sophie praying the rosary for the intention of...
Yep, you know it’s getting closer to Christmas, things are getting busy. Is anyone else still doing school work? I’m thinking of just giving the kids this week off. Then again, maybe it wouldn’t kill them to do a bit of math…...
The kids and I have thoroughly enjoyed every Marigold Hunt book we’ve read so far so we were all very much looking forward to this book and it did not disappoint. Hunt is so very good at breaking open the Bible for kids, making it...
Five years ago we bought Bella a rag doll for her birthday. I wanted her to have something soft and cuddly, something that evoked Laura’s rag doll in the Little House books, the one I always wanted as a child. Amazon sent the wrong doll, twice...
Listen and read. Dublin by Louis MacNeice Grey brick upon brick, Declamatory bronze On somber pedestals – O’Connell, Grattan, Moore – And the brewery tugs and the swans On the balustraded stream And the bare bones of a fanlight...
Sorry to anyone who was looking for this yesterday. We had a busy, busy day. First, I got up and started mixing up our St Lucia bread before I even ate breakfast. Then I vacuumed and tidied. Dom and the kids went to get the tree and came home and...
