Words for Wednesdays I know better than to start a highly-recommended book at 10 PM, but that’s when the house is quiet, and so this month, I cracked open Tessa Afshar’s book, Harvest of Rubies, after the kids were fast asleep, and I didn’t put it down until I read…
Teaching Tuesdays Books, books, books! We take a literature approach to history, which means I scour half.com, paperbackswap.com, and amazon.com’s used books to find deals on all the books we’ll read during the school year. The ordering has been completed for fall 2012, and now it’s like Christmas almost every…
On my path to simplification, I just read a great book: Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider. Can I just say that this is a must-have on every book shelf? Not only is it very readable, it’s practical and inspiring, without being over the top. She has a chapter about finding…
Jon Acuff just wrote a blog about the books on his bookshelf, so I thought I’d steal his idea. (One of his books is on my shelf, so I figured it would be okay!) I will confess that my books are not always this tidy–I took a moment to…
I love reading. I hate baking. But, in honor of finishing the book Toliver’s Secret, the kids and I baked 2 loafs of white bread. I used this recipe. The dough was so sticky and gooey it was impossible to kneed. I was getting very frustrated until the girls and…
We just read “Three Weavers” as a family to my kids last night. It was WONDERFUL. It is a quick read, and if you have girls, it is a perfect introduction via a fable of how to talk to them about saving themselves for marriage. It’s gentle enough for my…
I’m reading a great book, “A Beautiful Offering,” by Angela Thomas. (Author of another book I’ve mentioned, “Do You Think I’m Beautiful.”) It’s about the beatitudes. I’m through ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’ and am loving it. I think it’s a book I could keep beside my bed and re-read occasionally.…