Today was a very unschoolish day! Bella did her Life of Fred math which involved us all breaking up sticks of spaghetti and eating them raw. Sophie filled in her Saxon calendar and then we played War in lieu of a lesson. Anthony and Lucy played with...
Learning Notes
Monday Knowing this was going to be a week of appointments, I got on the school wagon early on Monday. Well sort of early. Math, reading, handwriting. Read alouds: Francie on the Run. Because we had to dive into the new book. Tuesday Pediatrician...
I found this draft of a post from back in November. Never published because I never got around to adding the links of pictures. But since people like book lists, I thought I’d go ahead and publish it now. A selection of what we’ve been...
[Last week’s notes, not this week’s. I seem to be half a week behind.] Monday Baking day. I made scones for breakfast, baked a loaf of sourdough, and made lemon cupcakes for Sophie’s baptism day– belatedly since the acutual...
Yesterday my firstborn child turned 8. My heart is so full. I want to write volumes about my beloved daughter. But our day was very full and in the end I went to bed without even trying to start writing about it. (I don’t know why I...
(Well, I started writing this last Friday but never got around to posting it, so all the time references to last week actually are about the week before last.) Last week I got the nasty stomach bug of doom that Ben had. I woke up on Wednesday with a...
“Check Your Privilege” I suppose you may have already seen this piece by Tal Fortgang, a Princeton undergraduate: Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege. It is rather clumsy and reads like something written by a well...
I may or may not have shared this before, but this piece by Priest’s Wife reminded me about three articles I stumbled upon earlier this year from the Orthodox Arts Journal and as I can’t find my previous blog post, if there was one, I...
“Look with kindness on those who do not recognize your presence, – reveal yourself to them, so that they may welcome you as Savior. Christ, our life, hear our prayer.” — from intercessions Evening Prayer on Monday, fourth week of...
Somehow it seems I’m never able to find time to sit down and write my thoughts while they are still timely. I think too often I don’t ever post at all because I feel like by the time I have time to write everything has already been said...