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Is School Closed for Harvest?

So, here we are, almost a month and a half after beginning our school year.  How has it gone?  Well, we garden…and we understand intimately why pioneer schools were often rather empty during harvest season. Between salsa making, picking squashes, canning applesauce, and more, we have had many fewer full school days than we wished.   […]

Leave Some Good Books Lying Around

Recently, Miss 13 spent an afternoon on the couch reading 100 Maps.  It was hard for me to see her lying there, ‘taking it easy’ when she had so much schoolwork to do.   I needed to remind myself several times that this was the best kind of education; because she wanted to read that book […]

German Family Persecuted for Homeschooling

Please pray for the Wunderlich family whose children have been taken away because they homeschool. The HSLDA article begins: At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers, and special agents stormed a homeschooling family’s residence near Darmstadt, […]

Review: The Sparrow Found a House by Jason McIntire

It’s not often that practical Christian lifestyle ideas are successfully presented in a novel, but Jason McIntire makes it work in The Sparrow Found a House: a story of family transformation. From the back cover: What if your new stepdad was a Bible-toting Army Sergeant? Fifiteen-year-old Jessie Rivera is living every teenager’s nightmare.  Her widowed […]

Portraits of Integrity, Volume 2 by Marilyn Boyer

Last month, I wrote about Portraits of Integrity, Volume 1 by Marilyn Boyer.  You can read that post here to find out more about the Boyers and the Portraits of Integrity series. Now Portraits of Integrity, Volume 2 is on sale for $1.99 from today until Friday at midnight. Because I found out about the […]