Full to the brim and fast as lightning is my summary of this past year’s days. The first four months were dominated with preparations for the wedding of the year, which was glorious on that last weekend of April. The next third of the year was marked by my husband’s absences from home to attend training for his new… Read More Bookmarking the Year
It’s our New Year Book Sale! The more books you purchase from our sale pages through January 15th, the more you save! 20% off orders of 10 books or more 50% off orders of 20 books or more Check out our offerings here.
As you probably know, each month we post an updated list of living books we have for sale. Selling these books keeps our library doors open. Our library keeps homeschool families reading quality literature. It’s become our tradition each January to hold a special “clean off the shelves” sale to make room for new inventory for the coming… Read More New Year Sale THIS MONDAY
We have a large update of books for sale that will be posted Cyber-Monday morning, December 2nd at 10 am. Check back then to see the books available in all categories.
It is natural I suppose, that as our family’s present concern is ministering to my mother in our home during her last weeks or days of life, I should find myself musing upon the role of books and reading in the sick room. When reading is woven into the fabric of ordinary days, its role is equally important in… Read More Some Thoughts on Reading in the Sick Room
Liz wrote the post over at the Charlotte Mason Institute Blog this week, entitled “The Danger of ‘Safe’ Reading.” Follow the link to read it there.
There are two absolute certainties about death: it is coming to us all, and, no one is ever “ready” for it. Between birth and death there is also surely a “valley of the shadow.” As our family walks through what could possibly be my mother’s last illness, I know the truth of these statements. Though we’ve heard the prognosis,… Read More When that Day Comes
One of the things that keeps homeschooling from ever becoming dull or stale is that I continually make discoveries myself as I prowl about for good literature to breathe life into some subject or other for my children’s sake. I review a fair amount of books before I judge them worth my child’s time and attention. Sometimes I become… Read More My Trip Across the Pacific
I acknowledged in my last post what a vast field is the one collectively identified as “language arts, ” with its consequent instructional challenges which commonly baffle or bewilder the appointed teacher. Blithely I promised some practical instructional advice in my subsequent post, not because I have any new, unique, or simple way of approaching reading and writing proficiency, but… Read More “Can You Help Me with Language Arts?” – Part 2
I acknowledge that homeschooling mothers may be among the most insecure adults in the country. I do not mock them, surely not! as I myself have suffered from every one of the common doubts I hear expressed over and over and over again. Teaching is a bit of a mystery, teaching your own children is more than a bit… Read More Can You Help Me With Language Arts?