Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles
Another year down, another year past — We’ll wrap it all up, and we’ll wrap it up fast. The first three months were a bit like a dream. On Valentine’s Day, David aged to fifteen With a pinball museum after a week full of snow. Then in March to convention our family did go. After […]
This year as we prepare for the gift-giving season, we’ve been on the search for unique gift ideas for literature lovers. If someone you know enjoys Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Jane Austen, or literature in general, here’s a list of items that have made it onto our gift idea list. You can also […]
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Proverbs 25:11, NKJV Scripture has much to say about what we say. As Christians, we’re challenged to speak righteously, graciously, and appealingly. We are to encourage and edify one another (1 Thessalonians 5:11), to share the Good News with the world (Mark […]
The sixth grader begins his weekly vocabulary lesson. Within moments, two high school students and a first grader drop everything to crowd around him. As I witness this 15-minute blip in our week, a favorite quote from Plato comes to mind: “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” This leaves […]
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have […]
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:17 (NKJV) As we consider the high calling of educating our children, we realize that we’re not just exposing them to unrelated and disjointed facts that have no deeper meaning. We’re teaching our children a worldview […]
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14 What a joy it has been venturing through an integrated study of world history, world geography, and world missions with other homeschooling families over the past few years! Our Mission: Great Commission […]
Sometimes it seems this calling – our vision and desire to help other homeschool families – far exceeds our capabilities. It’s funny how we can so easily default to trusting in ourselves as we pursue God’s call. We’re forced to remember that God is greater. Philippians 4:13. I’m thankful for grace. In the coming years, […]
Twenty-twenty has been quite a year to remember. Let’s recount our adventures from January to December. Discovery Park, Winter Jam, and David’s Fourteen All came before the days of mask quarantine. We visited a museum full of machine pinballs And hopped all around to Tennessee waterfalls. We toured Old Stone Fort while COVID we did […]
