Month: April 2007

     My boys are now 13 and 8.  The younger one, of course, is still a good age for hearing picture books read aloud.  He’s at an age when he still enjoys sitting right beside me so that he can spend the entire time it takes me to read a page looking at that page’s […]

     “More effective than spearheading a write-in campaign to save the one clean show on television is the more ordinary work of reading a story to your children.  Better than having the liberals hate you, is having your children love you.” — R. C. Sproul, Jr., from Machen’s Warrior Fathers, Tabletalk Magazine, April, 2005   […]

I’m a Homeschooling Grandma. There are two ways that statement could be taken, and both apply to me! I’m a Grandma, but I’m still homeschooling two of my own children; and I’m a Grandma of homeschooled grandchildren. Both definitions apply, and I’m happy to be defined by both!      I’ve already told you about being […]

I’m a Homeschooling Grandma. There are two ways that statement could be taken, and both apply to me! I’m a Grandma, but I’m still homeschooling two of my own children; and I’m a Grandma of homeschooled grandchildren. Both definitions apply, and I’m happy to be defined by both!   Because I still have young children […]

     We’re celebrating Copper’s Dad’s birthday this evening.  I’m preparing dinner for 12, which is a ton of fun for me!  Besides the five of us, we’ll have Copper’s Dad and Meg (his wife), Corin and her husband and the three grandchildren!  I’ve just returned from town with fresh strawberries and greens for our salad.  I’ll be serving […]

Brenda, at Coffee Tea Books and Me, has very kindly awarded me with a Thinking Blogger award.  I am very grateful to her.  I’m glad to know that what I am sharing here is keeping you on your toes, at least from time to time. This award is passed from blogger to blogger, and so it […]