So, I’ll start back with Lucy, our youngest Narnian heroine. The others had their victories. Peter, in particular, learned a powerful lesson in the essence of manly wisdom: humility. Susan had a brief May-December romance with a man 1/1300 years her age (smile). Edmund, no longer the self-indulgent, self-absorbed brat we met in The Lion, […]
Trusted With Trouble (Part 1)
It’s an odd title for a day-after-Christmas post, but walk with me, if you will. We had a wonderful Christmas Day. I think the kids were generally surprised as they got a few of the gifts that they listed, but they also received some surprises that they weren’t looking for. Our son was desperately trying […]
Tidbits, Trusting–our world this past couple of weeks
I looked at the date of my last post–December 12th. Where on God’s earth did the time go? That’s been the kind of week , er, week-and-a-half, that we’ve had. Days have flown by, but I’d have a hard time articulating what we did in a way that would justify the time. Well, I’ll give […]
No Shoe-horning them into the Schooled Box
Antoinette over at HaflingerHorses asked me about, as Paul Harvey would say, ‘the rest of the story’ regarding the unschooler and her reservations about how to package her child’s animal studies into a well-crafted course description (see my December 1st post). This thread was quite extensive—I won’t share it all, but there was wonderful advice […]
In the Right Place
It’s amazing how much we Americans tie into our sports. In the midst of a struggling economy, we laud sports athletes and pay ungodly sums of money to people for, in essence, succeeding at playing children’s games. So I feel bad about my euphoria these last two Sundays after seeing the Steelers and the Colts […]