The huge market for Amish stories is due, at least partly, to the solid home life they portray. Perhaps some of you even wistfully wonder what it would be like to live the simple life. I have wondered that, too. However, after reading Amish Values for Your Family, I realize that much of my […]
August, 2011:
Review: The Governor of England by Marjorie Bowen
King Charles I of England had governed “nine years without a Parliament, contrary to the laws and ordinances of the realm of England.” As liberties, both religious and civil, were being threatened, one farmer, Oliver Cromwell, was called in a vision to be God’s “servant in this work which is to be done in England.” […]
Fit Mommy Friday
Once again it’s been an outside week, interspersed with inside moments…because being outside in the gardens is sometimes just a bit too much exercise. To put it plainly, I overdid it. Although it’s hard to face the fact that I’m not strong, I know my sedentary friends would have been just as tired. I’m grateful […]
Curriculum Choice Review: Comprehensive Record Solution
The prospect of getting homeschooled kids into university can seem quite frightening. I was recently talking with a mom who is going to do online public school so that her children will have ‘the right courses’ to enter university. She was cheerfully determined to follow this course, so I didn’t try to dissuade her, but […]