The Little House in the Highlands While the Little House books were not quite as much a favorite as Narnia or Anne of Green Gables, still, they were a prominent feature of my childhood landscape. Recently I stumbled across Melissa Wiley’s...
Breastfeeding and reading When I was reading books and blogs on pregnancy and when talking to people (everyone has advice for you when you’re pregnant!), I frequently came across the truism that once the baby came I’d not have time to...
I checked out Homeschooling for Excellence by David and Micki Colfax with little expectation of actually liking the book. Mostly I wanted to be thorough and I’ve seen it on lists in some of the homeschooling books and blogs whose philosophy of...
Woke up at 1 to a chorus of alarms going off upstairs. They couldn’t figure out what set them off so we bundled up the baby and I stumbled out into the rainy night barefoot and disoriented. Bella woke up, of course, so I sat in the car and we...
My former roommate Shanna was in town this weekend with her finace and stopped by this afternoon. She brough a gift for Bella and how well she knows me… she gave books. The classic: and a book I’d never heard of, but that looked very...
intp �The �Love of Learning� Mother �I keep the encyclopedia in the kitchen so we can look up things together while we eat.� * Intellectually curious and patient, the INTP mother relishes those times with a child when they are learning...
Ok maybe it wasn’t the excedrin… the past few nights I’ve gone back to bed around 3am after waking up to feed Bella and have laid there for an hour or so, wide awake, until she woke up again for another snack. Is it just that...
Yesterday afternoon (doesn’t really feel like yesterday, but since the sun is now up, I guess it must be) I was in the grocery store with Bella. A woman waiting at the deli counter with a one-year-old in her cart turned and oohed (as everyone...
Oops. I must have nodded off while ordering my books. Though to my credit the book I ordered had the same name as the one I wanted, but a different author. I intended to order For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay because...
from Dale Ahlquist’s Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton “There is indeed something that children seem to grasp about eternal life that the rest of us have lost. They have abounding vitality; they are in spirit, fierce and...
