Splendor in the Ordinary

Charlotte Mason writes, "Never be within doors when you can rightly be without." With this warm weather, we've tried taking he...

I grew up with poetry: my grandfather quoting it; my mother writing her own; memorizing it in school; a 4th grade teacher reading us "...

Two links on beauty one for surrounding ourselves with beauty in our day and the other for seeing it in ourselves .

One way we attempt to follow the life of Christ with our children is by celebrating the church year in our home. To that end, we have b...

On leaving behind an old self and finding I like the new self better. I used to try to get everything done. Used to think I could. I w...

This past week we took the morning off from school to go Apple-Picking at Linvilla with my parents. We had so much fun! And there are so ma...

A brisk and early Saturday morning in the woods... After a week hard-worked and well-spent, we needed to shed our heaviness in a blessed pla...

We have been so busy lately, I haven't had time to post but I wanted to write about finishing G's first week of Kindergarten Homesch...

There are moments when my two older children, just 17 months apart, have a hard time getting along, can't find anything to do, and set o...