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It only took three months for me to hit a bit of a reading slump and to feel unmotivated by the reading goals I set in January. This is when the rubber meets the road . . . when I have a choice on whether to push forward on my goals or to let theContinue reading “March Reading Wrap-Up”

“Not an hour passes without the enormity of the task I have taken on bringing me to my knees. This work of homeschooling and raising hearts and souls and bodies is hard. It is more than I can do in my own strength. Even so, more than anything else, I desire to teach and motherContinue reading “Commonplace Selection”

Every year I look forward to Resurrection Sunday, one week out of the year where Christians around the world join together in a special remembrance of Christ’s victory over death. While each Sunday is a celebration of his life, Resurrection Sunday is a particularly poignant time for me personally as the reality of Christ’s sacrificeContinue reading “In Preparation for Resurrection Sunday”

March is Women’s History Month. This is the first year that I have wanted to focus on some women’s history with my children. I went through our picture books and found as many of our children’s books that feature women. My desire in reading books featuring women to my children is to provide them examplesContinue reading “Women’s History Month – Picture Books”

“…and since the last time I told it, and since the last time you heard it, the earth’s gone ‘round the sun, the rain’s fallen into the brook, and the brook’s run into the river. Even if you’ve heard the story before, even if I tell it word for word just like the first time,Continue reading “The Importance of ReReading”

Commplacing has been an important addition to my self-education and my reading life. I’d heard of the concept of commonplacing several years before I started the practice myself. I even started a commonplace book once or twice, but I never developed the habit of commonplacing so it wouldn’t take long for my commonplace journal toContinue reading “How to Commonplace”

One of the benefits of keeping a commonplace journal is that I periodically scroll through my commonplace book and read the quotes. The quotes give me good ideas to continue thinking about and to integrate the truth in the quotes into my life. Periodically I will share quotes from my commonplace journal in the hopeContinue reading “Commonplace Selection”

I never thought I’d be one of “those” parents who taught her elementary school aged children Shakespeare plays. But here I am enjoying Shakespeare with my children eight and under.I say that I enjoy Shakespeare’s plays even though I’d only read two of them before beginning the education of my children. The two that IContinue reading “Teaching Shakespeare”

There’s nothing a book lover enjoys more than a good book about books! As a book lover, the books below are ones that made me feel like I was at home. Talking or reading about books is like a beautiful sigh of contentment when you know that you are in a place of belonging andContinue reading “Books About Books”