Written by Michael
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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!
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9. Because he sat in a large room with a whole bunch of his peers and wasn’t allowed to talk. That’s the socialization thing people are always whining about, right? 8. Because after watching it, we had a stimulating discussion comparing and contrasting the book and movie versions of The Hunger Games, the Harry Potter series, and The Lightning Thief. (Spoiler Alert: The Hunger Games wins.) I’m the guest poster over at Homespun Waldorf today, and I’ve shared the Winter Lights Circle from Winter Seasons of Joy. Stop by and check it out!
True story: I was working on writing this last night (Valentine’s Day) and Ms. Molly just would not go to sleep! My husband happened to be passing through the room just as I said, rather exasperatedly, “Please, Molly, stop climbing on Mama. I’m trying to type.” He looked at us and said “Yeah, Mama is too busy writing about how much she loves you to love you right now.” Um… ouch. So of course I turned off the computer and snuggled my sweet little girl. And now here I am tonight with a little boy on my left and a bigger boy on my right, completing yesterday’s Valentine post. I hope your day was full of love! I have a little project in mind for the next 7 months or so, starting now in February. The plan is to use this space both to tighten up our rhythms and routines as well as to (hopefully!) give you some practical ideas and inspiration as well. This month, we’ll have a month of Mondays. During the first week of February, I’ll introduce you to our Monday homemaking rhythms. In our house, this means laundry and caring for clothes. During the second week of February, we’ll look at Monday homeschooling rhythms. This includes our planning meetings, assignment sheets, and crafting for others, among other things. Molly is sick.
She’s not very happy about it either. What started out as a simple cold has morphed into bronchiolitis, and we ended up in the emergency room last night for a breathing treatment and a chest x-ray. It’s not RSV, thank goodness, but seeing her struggle to breath and feeling her baby heart race was certainly scary! Even having a stuffy nose can be frightening for a baby. Infants are obligate nose-breathers, God’s design for allowing them to breathe and nurse at the same time. So when little noses get stuffed up, things can get very difficult very quickly! My lack of blogging speaks to two ongoing issues in my life right now. First, no camera. It hasn’t been the same since Michael accidentally spilled his drink on it at the Little League World Series. It hung in there for a bit, but finally gave up the ghost right after Christmas. I had my eye on a really nice replacement until my hubby decided to renew his on-again off-again relationship with Dave Ramsey and pay off our two remaining credit card bills and the remainder of my student loan instead. So instead I have a cute little purple point-and-click Nikon on its way instead. Ah well- easy come, easy go.
You know, typically if I had arrived at Wednesday night and still not posted this, I’d just skip it for the week. But as we’re attempting to transition to real/whole foods, it feels important for me to document our progress in this space. So… away we go! Happy Thursday! Here is a peek inside our day. Daddy had to leave early– 7:30, that’s early for us!– for a doctor’s appointment, so the early morning routine was a bit crazier than normal. And on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Michael walks up to the middle school for chamber orchestra from 7:30 to 8:00, so I was missing one of my big kid helpers. I usually get my shower the night before so that’s out of the way in the morning. I got the babies dressed up in the bedroom and by the time I was finished, Katie Grace was dressed and helped me take them downstairs.
I was so excited to review this book, not only because I’m a music geek and love finding new ways to share music with my children, but also because I know one of the authors! I went to college with Melissa, sang with her in our choirs, and know what a wonderfully fabulous person and musician she is. So how could I pass up an opportunity to check out the book she wrote? |
Rain on the green grass,
Rain on the trees, Rain on the rooftops, But not on me!  Sincerity
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
~Mother Teresa |
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10. Because in our house, you’re not allowed to see the movie until you read the book, which my 13-year-old did… 4 times.
