Seasons of Joy Looking for a way to bring peace and joy to your day?
Seasons of Joy is my 10-week seasonal guidebook to add rhythm and fun to your daily routine. Each guidebook has ten weeks' worth of circle times, stories, arts, crafts, and handwork, painting, playtime activities and more!
Seasons of Joy seeks to empower families to create peaceful rhythms and routines and joyful celebrations that follow the circle of the year. The blog also chronicles our adventures in living simply, loving exuberantly, and Waldorf inspired homeschooling.
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The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often awry. (Robert Burns)
Moving at the end of the school year with the whole summer stretched out before us seemed like such a good idea at the time… not that we really had any say in the timing. Instead, we arrived in our new town to find that we missed pretty much every deadline and audition for things that looked interesting to us. To make it worse, many of the friends we had in the new neighborhood were crazy busy with their own summer plans and local support groups had pretty much shut down for the summer. So when we were gifted with a family pool pass by some wonderful church members as a “welcome to Pittsburgh” gift, we were thrilled. And when we found out there was a (FREE!) swim team that met daily at the pool the kids could walk to in 10 minutes, we were ecstatic. Read more...
A few more words on morning routines and then we’ll move onto evening routines… although really, perhaps I should have done evenings first, because I’ve found that a great morning rhythm usually starts the night before!
And not a few words… a few pictures actually.
I find that making little signs to remind us what is expected help the day to roll along more smoothly. Here is a sign that lists our after-breakfast chores and hangs in the kitchen.
And here is a sign that hangs in the boys’ room to walk them through their morning routine.
Pictures help pre-readers stay on task as well. Read more...
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Our Current Read Aloud: When You Reach Me
In the car we’re listening to… The Mysterious Benedict Society and Prisoner’s Dilemma
Character Counts! This month’s character trait is: Courage!!
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." ~C S Lewis Blessed Mother Teresa, Pray for Us! 
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
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