As I mentioned last week, I helped out at the Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat this last weekend in Colorado Springs. It was truly, truly an honor to be able to help this year and I can’t even begin to express how thankful I am to be part of the homeschool co-op that is behind this event. I love these women…
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Hello friends. I had every hope of being able to post a new picture study aid for you this week (specifically for the Michelangelo selections from AO) and finding information for this one hasn’t been an issue at all (in fact…I’m actually kind of running into the opposite problem). But…well….life, you know? It gets in the way of plans. Most…
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(You can see our Term 1 plans here and a recap of Term 2 here.) We actually started Term 2 the first week of December, but I wanted to have a full term under my belt before I wrote a review post and December was just a busy month….so here we are. 🙂 We’ve definitely had ups and downs this…
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In new years passed, there were a few times that my one-word resolution was grace. I was going to show myself more grace and others more grace and my life was going to generally be…well….more graceful. I’m not sure how successful I was in that resolution, but I’m going to show myself grace for getting this post up later than…
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So obviously time got away from me during the holidays and all the posts I had planned (including another free printable calendar for 2018) floated away into the ether, never to be heard from again. The most important post, though, is this one and it is about books. The lesson here is that books are the most important thing. 🧐…
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I know there are about a million posts floating around on the internets with holiday gift suggestions this time of year. I actually wrote a very thorough one last year with some ideas for Charlotte Mason-inspired gifts that still applies (lots of handicrafts!), as well as a post from a few years ago with links to 30 printable gift tags….
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Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of Black Friday. A few weeks ago, I was sitting with some other moms at church and they were talking about how they went out at midnight on Thanksgiving and stood in line and how much fun it was and the deals they got and they made it sound like it was all…
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If you’ve been reading here for a while, you know that Love146, a group that fights child sex trafficking and exploitation through various programs around the world, is close to my heart. Before kids and a little while after B came along, I volunteered for the local Love146 taskforce in an administrative role as well as working booths and tables…
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Right around this time of year recently, I’ve been seeing more and more posts in my various Facebook groups/online forums/etc. asking if anyone can give a little guidance on Jesse Trees. How does your family do a Jesse Tree? Where can I find ornaments for a Jesse Tree? What books are there to walk you through doing a Jesse Tree?…
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As I was making my way through this post, I realized that I wrote ONE post the entire month of October. ONE. I don’t necessarily feel guilty about that, especially considering that that ONE post was a picture study aid (which do take time) and I kept up on prints. Still…. I think it’s more sadness. It’s an indication of…
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(To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other aids I have available, click here.) The next picture study aid for Winslow Homer is now available! Hopefully, most of you haven’t started Ambleside Online Term 2 just yet, but even if you have, I hope this can still be at least a little helpful. This one took…
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