It’s always difficult to slip back into normal routine after a week away. One week of vacation really just whets your appetite for more, doesn’t it? It takes almost a week before you’ve settled into the groove of relaxation, but it’s about that same time you need to start mentally preparing to return to life…
Welcome back for #3 in our series "This Term's Feast". So far we have looked at Memory Work and Singing. This week it's time to turn our attention to the fine arts. Charlotte Mason said that... "much and varied humane reading, as well as human thought expressed in the forms of art, is, not a…
This is instalment #2 in a series taking a look at our family's feast of ideas this term. If you missed the first one, you can find it here. So, continuing on with Charlotte Mason's idea of ideas... "Education is a life. That life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are of spiritual origin, and God…
I absolutely love Charlotte Mason's analogy of a child being born with a mind ready and able to "digest" ideas just as his body naturally digests and is nourished by food. Exposing children to these ideas that will nourish their minds requires laying a varied feast before them. That's one reason we incorporate so many…
Does this not look like the most regal dog on the planet? Well, let me introduce you to Lancelot. He is a monster...a nipping, barking, food stealing, garbage rummaging, pushy monster of a standard poodle who has been threatened with rehoming more times than I care to count. After three torturous years, he is slowly…
My Peace in the Puzzle 