We just returned from a family outing, Bella’s first experience of a movie in the theater. With some carefully planning and a strategic feeding just before we left we were able to watch the entire film, X-Men III with no interruptions, no...
I just read a beautiful meditation on the joys of motherhood and children who are not physically perfect by Melissa Wiley of The Bonny Glen at catholic exchange and my eyes are full of tears. The baby inside me kicked and kicked; I felt her foot...
Danielle Bean has a great discussion going on her blog today about why women feel defensive: Why is that some of us get so darned defensive upon merely hearing about others who make choices for their families that are different from our own...
I finished reading A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola last weekend but have not yet had the chance to write about it. At first I didn’t think I was going to like this book. It...
Here we go again. Insomnia. Tossing and turning at 1 in the morning. What? The time stamp says 4? Well, yeah; but I’ve been up since 1ish. My baby girl? Sound asleep. She fell asleep soon after Dom brought her in at 1, sucking sweetly on my...
The Headmistress at The Common Room blog has a great post that explains the difference between Charlotte Mason’s “self education” and “child-led” education. An excerpt: Perhaps some of the confusion comes from the fact...
This is a continuation of the previous post on A Landscape with Dragons. My comment grew to be too long so I decided to make it a new entry. O’Brien does acknowledge the oriental use of dragons, but like Dom says his focus is on Western...
Last night we watched one of Dom’s Netflix picks, View from the Top starring Gwenneth Paltrow as Donna Jensen, a small town girl from Nevada who dreams of becoming a glamorous stewardess. I wasn’t expecting much from this romantic...
Tonight I googled my name (why is a long story, perhaps a future blog entry) and was surprised and gratified by the number of blogs that carried announcements of Isabella’s birth. Many of them blogs by people I’ve never met face to face...
For the past ten months I’ve been spoiled having my husband at home. Now that he’s looking for a job I’ve had to face the prospect that he’ll most likely get a job which will require him to leave the house every day. And...