•golden• {Day 26}
Category: Thankfulness
Cozy Week…🍁🎃🌲🖤🧡💛💚🤎✨🌾🍄🌞🌻🍂 {Day 25}
Happy Autumn, 🍂 my dear Friends!
I’m hoping this week to hunker down into a bit of coziness. Nothing like the end of September, early October, easing into gratitude November, to foster a sense of richness and comfort. These are truly some of my favorite months. My family and I had a wonderful time with our annual apple 🍎 orchard visit, as well as our first bonfire 🔥 🪵🍄🟫🍂🍁. Sigh. 😌 So much to be grateful for! So curl up with a hot cup of tea 🫖 or coffee ☕️ and come chat with me.
“I am a child of the Earth and heavens. I find myself at once skipping like a schoolgirl full of wonder, and hushed in awe, something like the monks whose vespers follow the unfolding of the holy hours, and the turning of the globe, away from, then toward the sun.
I am humbled by this call to take in the autumnal majesty. To sit beneath the wind-blown boughs, to listen to the acorns plonking on the roof above my head.”
~ Barbara Mahany, from Slowing Time, p.152
I hope you’ll join me in your homes, journals, or own online places enjoying the season’s gifts! 🖤🍂🐿️🍄🟫🍁🖤
What’s bringing me joy lately… {Day 24}
I could go on! God’s gifts are never-ending. How about you? Anything bringing you joy recently?
🍂♥️📬🎃📚🌿💌🌅💕🍁🕸️🕷️
Monday Ponderings {Day 23}
Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.
I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep water,
and a flood sweeps over me.
But as for me, LORD,
my prayer to you is for a time of favor.
In your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with your sure salvation.
~Psalm 69:1-2, 13 CSB
“Ease your whiskers, rest your paws,
Pies and puddings fill the stores.
Sweetly dream the night away,
Till sunshine brings another day.”
~ Jill Barklem
♥️📚🌿☕️✨🍂🍁🍄🌝🦉🕷️🕸️🎃
Saturday Examen + Homeschool Snapshots week 2 {Day 22}
Prayer for the coming week…
“The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me, his word was on my tongue.”
King David, from 2 Samuel 23:2
Hello, Friends! ♥️☕️🌻I realize I’ve been a bit scarce as we dive into our new home educating year, I hope to get back to my 180 Day Project soon. Here’s a few shots from our week…
How was your week? Ours was good, albeit looong! 😁♥️☕️🌻🌿
Tuesday Tidbit {Day 21}
Beware of any hesitation to abandon to God. It is the meanest characteristics of our personality that are at work whenever we hesitate, there is some element of self-interest that won’t submit to God.
🌿🍂Oswald Chambers🍂🌿
Saturday Examen + Homeschool Snapshots ~ first week {Day 20}
“No one ever cared for me like Jesus
His faithful hand has held me all this way
And when I’m old and grey
And all my days
Are numbered on the earth
Let it be known in You alone
My joy was found”
~Stephanie Gretzinger
Song that has been carrying me through this week. 🥹♥️✨
We had a great start to our homeschool year this week. I changed our multiple journals that we’ve used in the past to one (plus a group one) for each of us and that is going very well! We so far are enjoying our books…the clear favorites of the week are our continuing a summer read of Jane of Lantern Hill by LM Montgomery, By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Around the World in 80 Days audiobook by Jules Verne. I attached some things to meal/tea time and it’s working well. I so enjoy reading public library picks with my youngers in spare moments. I’ve worked out a rhythm for working through individual work my youngest to oldest and it’s working wonderfully. We still have some wrinkles to iron out as my 12th grader 😭♥️ is working two days a week this year and we haven’t hit the co ops we are in yet. They start next week! Overall, I’m pleased with the forward motion. How was your week? Bless you as you put your hand to YOUR plow! ♥️✨🌻📚🥰☕️💌🖤
•supply• {Day 19}
Let the child himself do that which the teacher usually does for him. Let the child by narration supply both question and answer.
from Karen Glass, Know & Tell, quoting the P.N.E.U
Always learning… {Day 18}
Happy Back to School, friends! 🌻
I’m usually deep diving into some topic I’m currently interested in. As a stay-at-home-homeschooling-mom, it’s important for me to be learning, too! That’s what I love about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of education. All of us involved are learning to live, be curious, and prioritize relationships with God, people current and past, the natural world, and so much more. My current interest is communism and the different countries and people involved in it.
Bookstagram/Booktube have a month long focus called #RedSeptember, but I’m just going as my interest leads. I have one book on hold at the library related to North Korea (is North Korea really Communist? There’s some debate on that?). I read a lot this past year about Vietnam and a couple chapters on Laos. I’m currently reading The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix because my older children had liked it. Wow! 😮 it’s intense but I love the illustration style. I listened to a memoir called Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang and learned so much of the Chinese cultural revolution.
I also listened to Animal Farm by George Orwell which was fascinating and a bit unnerving about how quickly we believe propaganda. The character Boxer! 😭 Such a sobering story and fascinating way of explaining! I was able to chat a little with my older who has read it before.
I do have an interesting book I found on my public library shelves called Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse by Lawrence Scott Sheets. It is the memoir of a journalist traveling through a few of the various countries that were part of the Soviet Union. So far it’s good!
I also have the historical fiction A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles sitting here and a children’s graphic novel called Escape from East Berlin. So plenty of options! Do you have any recommendations that would give me some knowledge on Cuba? Or any favorite books on communist history? What are you currently deep, dive studying? I have plenty more of interests, but this is my focus now! ♥️📚
Monday Ponderings {Day 17}
Monarchs are “tough and powerful, as butterflies go.” They fly over Lake Superior without resting; in fact, observers there discovered a curious thing, instead of flying directly south, monarchs crossing high over the water take an inexplicable turn towards the east. Then when they reach an invisible point, they all veer south again. Each successive swarm repeats this mysterious dogleg movement, year after year. Entomologists actually think that the butterflies might be “remembering” a long-gone, looming glacier.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, p.258
{God’s creation astounds me! It inspires and encourages me. Happy Back to School week and Happy September! }📝🖤📚📓🌿🌻🐈
•faithful• {Day 16}
But I will sing of your strength
and will joyfully proclaim
your faithful love in the morning.
For you have been a stronghold for me,
a refuge in my day of trouble.
To you, my strength, I sing praises,
because God is my stronghold ~
my faithful God.
Psalm 59:16-17 CSB
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Saturday Examen {Day 15}
“Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is a spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life.”
Thomas Merton 🌿
Music for for your weekend . 🌿
A.M. Pine - Hearth Ridge Reflections 