Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World
Recently I’ve begun reading Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver. Wow, what a breath of fresh air this book has breathed into my heart! This really is the book I’ve been looking for,...
View ArticleReview: 101 Bible Adventures: The Ultimate Quest for Truth
101 Bible Adventures is an action-packed overview of the Bible (based on the New Living Translation). Just like the name, there are 101 different stories from both the Old and New Testaments. Each...
View ArticleReview: Beyond Molasses Creek
Book Description “Having traveled to the ends of the earth as a flight attendant, Ally Green has finally returned to the Lowcountry to bury her father as well as the past. But Vesey Washington is...
View ArticleReview: Ballet Magnificat!
What It Is: “Ballet Magnificat! was founded in 1986. Magnificat is Latin for “to magnify Him.” It’s derived from “Mary’s Song” of praise in the 1st Chapter of the Gospel of Luke when she first learned...
View ArticleHomeschool Mother’s Journal
In my life this week… My mom came to visit this week and we surprised the girls! They had no idea she was coming, and it was great. We spent Monday and Tuesday doing a serious deep cleaning of the...
View ArticlePippi Longstocking – Our Homeschool Book Review!
Pippi Longstocking was one my absolute favorite books as a child, and now my girls adore it as well. Can you believe it was actually considered controversial when it came out? We are also using this...
View ArticleFrance, and the Madeline books
We squeezed in a quick unit on France while we were still finishing up Heidi. I say “quick” because I didn’t have a long chapter book to focus on for France. Instead, we used the Madeline book series....
View ArticleHeidi – Our Homeschool Book Review!
Heidi is a great book to teach about “themes.” I explained to the girls that themes are like the lessons the writer might be trying to help us understand by telling the story. All on their own they...
View ArticleTeaching Your Child About Their Personal Testimony
Our girls will finally be getting baptized in a few weeks, and the pastor of the church has asked they give (or at least write for him to read!) a brief testimony before their baptism. (We will be...
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