This week I wrote a guest post as part of Tom McDonald’s How I Pray series. You can read it here at Tom’s excellent blog God and the Machine. The whole series is really worth checking out.
Thanks to Tom for hosting. It was fun to write.
Monday March 16 Sophie did her math and copy work before breakfast was over. She read me a silly library book about a kid who retires and goes to Florida. After breakfast Bella put away the laundry that was in the dryer, put dirty clothes into the...
On Friday we decided to check out the MFA’s classes for homeschoolers. Children are divided into four different age groups: 3-5 years, 6-8 years, 9-11 years, and teens. i enrolled Ben and Anthony in the 3-5 class and Bella and Sophie in the 6...
Monday, March 9 I didn’t get the books out Sunday night so we got a late start on the day. Sophie did her math and copywork with a minimum of fuss, though. She read me the book whose name I suddenly can’t remember about Max and the tractor. Bella...
Well, we got more snow on Sunday, so Boston has officially had a record year. Most snowfall ever recorded. And most of that was in a thirty day period. It’s been crazy. We’ve had a lot of melting, and I managed to get most of the front...
Recently I checked a Mother Goose collection out of the library, My Mother Goose by David McPhail. I’m not sure why since we already own several nursery rhyme collections. But I like looking at new anthologies. This one had an attractive cover...
I received an Amazon gift card for Epiphany and used it to buy a whole lot of Rumer Godden books. So far I’ve read The Peacock Spring, A Candle for St. Jude, and Thursday’s Children. I liked the first one quite a bit, a haunting story...
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Monday, March 2 I forgot to put the books out. After Sunday’s break Sophie didn’t pull them out. The girls did copywork and math and then went back to their game. I was too tired to hound them to do more. So no reading practice. Afternoon stories:...
At the end of last month I received a present from my friend Jocelyn in New Zealand, sent to lift my heart during these dark days of a winter which has been particularly difficult and unforgiving this year. Well, actually, I received an empty...