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Prone to Wander: days go by
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. April has been full of life, New life outside and creative life inside. We are delighting in the new season of spring although winter seems to want us to remember it by sending some brief snowflakes this week. I appear to have unjinxed myself from the curse of messing up hard-boiled eggs. I have been using, as one friend jokingly called it after she heard the process, the hard-steaming. Method which I first heard about from Heather Bruggmann of Beauty Moves. Very pretty pictures...
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Prone to Wander: a gaggle of girls
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. A gaggle of girls. Sunday morning. Kate only wanted to hug and squeeze Laura and not look at the camera. She also was done taking photos. So Laura took the spotlight for the last four seconds. Gotta get 'em while you can. Theyre so sweet, Heather. And I love their little matching outfits. :). Thanks, Stacy. ♥. I enjoy reading your comments and try to reply as much as I can. Thanks for reading here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). How we home educate. Books read in 2012.
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Prone to Wander: Milne and Mason
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015. The child's world is a single indivisible world in which all creatures, human and animal, live together as equals. Instinctively he feels this to be the truth - as indeed it is. Christopher Milne, The Open Garden: A Story With Four Essays,. Quoted from The Egg, The Fox and the Dagger. In reference to the way that children know the world around them, natural or man-made before they study it in their lessons. Oops I missed that paragraph [blush] I was reading at organ . I enjoy r...
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Prone to Wander: March Book List
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015. Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. By Lynne Cox, illustrated by Brian Floca. What happens when a seal loves your city, your sidewalks and your streets? You make a seal crossing sign and let her be. This is a true story of a seal in Christchurch, NZ who was determined to make her home in the city. My animal-loving five year old enjoyed this story and the illustrations are cute. One Frog Too Many. And Then It's Spring. By Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead. Series myself....
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Prone to Wander: improving my reading habits
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Wednesday, March 04, 2015. Improving my reading habits. I don't remember how the idea occurred to me, perhaps it was my January reading of Karen Glass' Charlotte Mason book, Consider This. Which is quite likely. Whatever it was, I realized that I had to do better keeping up with Seth's reading and making notes for myself to keep it all organized in my head. I do try to read many of the books I give to him each week for his free reads, but the books I ask for narrations from often fall by the wayside.
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Prone to Wander: it never gets old
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. It never gets old. New life is gloriously appearing everywhere and suddenly I cannot concentrate on our studies. It's supposed to be the kids who have the problem, but right now it's me. I just want to lounge around and do nothing structured, for about 24 hours and then I will want our routine back. Were just heading into winter. Thanks, Carol. I dont know if I can handle hearing the w word for a few months. :). Such lovely photos again! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If we...
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Prone to Wander: moving on from the Tudors
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Moving on from the Tudors. Beverley Nichols, Merry Hall. So there. We can romanticize life in a quaint Tudor home, but reality sinks in every time the low beams make their point. I read the second book in this trilogy, Laughter on the Stairs. Without knowing it was a sequel) as my first introduction to Beverley Nichols and his writing. He paints such clear scenes with his words, even if there is only a sliver of truth to it. Heidi at Mt. Hope Chronicles. Books read in 2015.
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Prone to Wander: the mind made attentive
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The mind made attentive. So did Roger Deakin: 'Why would anyone want to go to live abroad when they can live in several countries at once just by being in England? Robert MacFarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Spring growth colors from our cedar tree on a rainy day. Or Maltbie Babcock's This Is My Father's World. On a Sunday and be apathetic by Monday. But then I read Anthony Esolen's words a couple of years ago. I could go on and on quoting his words. Read them for y...
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Prone to Wander: unexpected things
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015. I said something about a camel and the eye of a needle and she rose happily to the point. She said, 'it's very unexpected for a camel to go through the eye of an needle, but the gospel is simply a catalogue of unexpected things. It's not to be expected. That an ox and as ass should worship at the crib. Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of saints. It's all part of the poetry, the Alice-n-Wonderland side, of religion.". Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited.
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Prone to Wander: ambitions and practice
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Monday, April 27, 2015. When you want to learn something that seems mostly impossible and at best, barely attainable, it is quite easy to be discouraged at every turn if you know where to look. And I know where to look. Sometime after I became a mom I realized that I wanted to know how to draw and help my kids know how to draw. I bought a book and tried my hand for several weeks and then another hobby, interest or baby took my attention away from my goals and my efforts. Yes, for better or for worse, I d...