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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...

more on Charlotte Mason

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...

more on O’Brien

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...

God and the Internet

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...

What I’m reading now

A Landscape With Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind by Michael O’Brien has sparked some interesting conversations in our household so I thought I’d write about it. (Unfortunately, I finished it Thursday but didn’t get...

News or Yellow Journalism?

Up early this morning, feeding Bella, my mother-in-law had the tv on while she was getting ready to go to work. The morning news show had one of those typical stories they use to fill in on a slow news day. They went around to a bunch of hotels and...

Isabella Updates

She’s now six weeks old! I can’t believe it. Today we went to the hospital for a hip ultrasound. Evidently the breech position tends to force the ball of the hip out of the socket, predisposing to dislocation after birth. Our doctor had...

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