for the past few weeks, rowan has been asking for a “day off of school” to which i always responded, “you get TWO full days off every week!” i think it was beginning to dawn on him that “snow day” meant NO SCHOOL for those who go to school, and not just “it’s snowing today!
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monday…we celebrated martin luther king, jr and during the course of the week, i’ve heard adam yelling, “i have a dream!” and then he goes off in a poetic nature about mountains and stars. he remembers, as a four-and-a-half year old can. swimming at the Y after dinner. we all fell into bed tired and
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we kept class as normal today. we’re chugging along and will be done with school in late april at this clip! we did change up our history lesson (on Benjamin Franklin) today and jumped forward to the 1960′s to talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. it’s a touchy subject: slavery, and the civil rights movement.
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I was so excited when I heard that I was selected to review a product from Classical Academic Press, a company for which I already have much respect. This summer, after sorting through many curriculum web sites searching for a long time for a solid bible curriculum, I finally landed at Classical Academic Press‘ web
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once i get past the fact that everything given to me isn’t mine, this last resolution is one of the easiest to accomplish. i don’t necessarily mean being more generous with our money. i am referring to generosity of time, of self, of “things” that own too much of our desires. i certainly need a
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i recently linked to two political-in-nature news stories at facebook and then participated in discussions about the articles. one of the discussions escalated a bit, and while it wasn’t completely heated, emotions were running high and i just felt a bit sick about it. i was turning into the person that i’m trying hard to
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i know i talk a lot about liturgy and the liturgical church calendar and you might just wish i would STOP already! but i can’t. it’s not that i think it’s the ONLY way to worship. after all, we worship in a non-liturgical, non-traditional church. but my days and weeks and years still observe the
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the last day of christmas has come. the boys and i spent the afternoon preparing our family 12th Night. their stuffed animals became key players in their own manger scene complete with three paper crowns for their favorite animals. we three kings: a shepherd (that’s the shepherd’s hook at the far left), and a sheep:
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