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.
|
I know, I know– when you think “Andy Warhol” you think soup cans, not kitty cats and puppy dogs. But on our recent outing to the Carnegie Science Center we saw these little cuties.

Matthew and Molly especially liked them!
So this week for art appreciation, we learned a little more about Andy Warhol’s cat and dog series. We followed it up by creating our own Warhol cat drawings following these directions from Art Projects for Kids, an awesome web site.

Source: Art Projects for Kids

Our little art museum
Read more...
Since my awesome news about my heart’s recovery from peripartum cardiomyopathy this week, I decided to feature beautiful lovely hearts on this week’s Thursday Treasure.
“The first step toward creating balance is to accept responsibility for your child’s imbalances,
and to accept that the only way you can change them is by changing yourself first.”
(Oak Meadow, The Heart of Learning)
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
(Philippians 4:13)

I read these words from The Heart of Learning early this morning while sitting in on Daniel’s speech evaluation at our local elementary school. While I’ve known for quite some time that Daniel had issues with articulation, seeing a trained speech pathologist struggle to understand him really drove home the point that the boy has issues. Read more...
|
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.
~Mother Teresa
|