Two years ago we spent a wonderful week at a beautiful house on Great East Lake in Maine. This year we got to go back for another week-long vacation. It was even better the second time. I didn’t write a single word while we were there, but I did get...
“Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature. One attitude is alien to his spirit: taking things for granted, regarding events as a natural course of things. To find an...
Monday June 5 Day off from math and copywork as kids recover from a very busy Sunday with Ben’s first communion and a graduation party for Dom’s nephew. The kids spent the morning playing and reading. We did get in afternoon stories: More All of a...
A friend asks: “What is distinctive about the grace we receive in confession? How is it different from the grace we receive in communion? Communion forgives venial sin too, right? So how is confession different? How is the grace I get by going to...
Benedict made his first communion yesterday. It was at our regular Sunday Mass and he was the only child to receive. As homeschoolers, we do sacrament prep at home. Mass was beautiful and Ben was so very composed and reverent and full to bursting...
Saturday May 27 Our usual summer farmer’s Market and beach day. We saw horseshoe crabs mating and the kids picked up a bunch of seashell treasures. Sunday May 28 The kids and I took a nice nature walk around the block and heard a hawk screech and...
Monday May 22 Everyone did math and copywork. Afternoon stories: All of a Kind Family. Bedtime story: Drop Around the World (after we read the book, we went and traced the drop’s journey on the map. I was really tired and fell asleep during...
When I see that I only finished one book in May, I feel a bit disappointed. But it certainly was not for lack of time spent reading. Nor have I failed to make significant progress in any of my books. I’m actually quite pleased with how much...
