Monday April 24 Ben got up early and finished all of his school work before I was even out of bed (Dom checking the math and giving him a sentence for copywork) except the reading a Bob book which he did after I’d had breakfast and done math with...
The Castle All through that summer at ease we lay, And daily from the turret wall We watched the mowers in the hay And the enemy half a mile away They seemed no threat to us at all. For what, we thought, had we to fear With our arms and provender...
Yet they felt the sea-wind tying them into one nation of eyes and shadows and groans, in the one pain that is inconsolable, the loss of one’s shore with its crooked footpath. They had wept, not for their wives only, their fading children, but...
Monday April 17 Took a post-Easter holiday to rest and relax, since Easter Sunday, while joyful, is also very busy and far from relaxing. Tuesday April 18 Ben did math and letters and copywork. Anthony did math, reading aloud (life of St Martin of...
Yeah, we did some school work during Holy Week. But a lighter schedule. Same with Easter week. Moderation and balance in all things. I really feel like I’ve been slipping and I need to keep one toe in the water lest we lose all momentum. At...
Monday April 3 Dentist first thing this morning and then we went clothes shopping. Afternoon stories: St Patrick’s Summer, Akimbo and the Elephants, Story of the World. Bella wrote a little one page guide to trees and began a little handmade book of...
Monday March 27 Bella did math, copywork, picked a dictation sentence. Sophie did math, copywork, read me Geography. Ben did math, copywork, letter workbook, and read a Bob book with me. Anthony did math, read me a chapter from Great Americans...
Finished: 1. The Underrunners by Margaret Mahy A juvenile novel set in New Zealand. A boy who lives with his father on the edge of the wilderness whose mother has left for Australia. Meets a girl who is living at a local home for children because...
I’ve been reading a book about St Elizabeth Ann Seton. Last night this passage caught my eye: Death in desire has many advantages… 1st, it is very agreeable to God, because by it we submit ourselves to Him as His creatures and offer...
Two weeks ago I took the kids to our homeschooling group’s annual Lenten retreat. The theme of this year’s retreat was The Seven Sorrows of Mary. A young priest, Fr. Anthony Cusak, (himself a homeschool graduate) gave a meditation for the mothers...
