Please Don’t Eat the Daises

“We are being very careful with our children.They’ll never have to pay a psychiatrist twenty-five dollars an hour to find out why we rejected them. We’ll tell them why we rejected them. Because they are impossible, that’s why…You take Christopher – and you may; he’s a slightly used eight-year-old… I watch him from the kitchen…

A Mother’s Rule of Life

In the early days of my homeschooling, I discovered a little gem that I have read and re-read throughout the last decade.  A Mother’s Rule of Life by Holly Pierlot is an interesting book which has proved to be a valuable resource in my homeschool and spiritual life. Understanding that the home is not a…

Beauty

Beauty Robin McKinley This will be a summer of reading, rereading, makings lists, and mercilessly shortening them as I plan literature courses for the coming fall.  Over the years, I have seen Beauty, by Robin McKinley, on so many lists of good books that I thought it was high time I read it.  I believe…