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Review: One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

We are each given one life to live.  How do we live it well?  Homeschooling mom Ann Voskamp addresses this question in her lyrical bestseller One Thousand Gifts as she wrests everyday meaning from a Greek word, eucharisteo. One Thousand Gifts is the author’s journey to understand heartbreak, faith, daily life, and God’s goodness.  After a […]

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 […]

Jay Ryan Discusses Saturn and Venus

I love knowing what all the lights in the night sky are.  Reading the Bible, I’m realizing how closely people lived with nature thousands of years ago.  For example, they had no electric lights to block the night sky, so they understood how the moon and stars marked the times and seasons as God had created […]

Wordless Wednesday: Fruit Harvest

 

Field Trip: Upper Canada Village

Nestled on the St. Lawrence River in Eastern Ontario, Upper Canada Village represents a busy community in the 1860’s.  We visit it every few years with a whole group of homeschoolers, and each year something else stands out.  One year it was the ripe pears falling from the trees, one year it was being handed […]