As we read of the passing of Maurice Sendak, it brought back memories of a post that my mom wrote for an old blog of ours and I thought I would repost it. Makes me want to go upstairs right now and check on my sleeping ‘wild things’ – all four of them! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Imagine-Lit: Where […]
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Call It Courage – in watercolor
Breathlessly, in his adorable husky voice, this 4 year old son of mine whispers that I should have named him Mafatu. Mafatu – the boy who was afraid. Mafatu – now the killer of shark with nothing but his handmade knife. Mafatu – the boy who encountered adventure while courageously facing his fears. This book […]
The Apple and the Arrow
Does this disturb any of you???? In our quest to learn about courage, we took a dive into Switzerland’s quest for independence and the story of William Tell. And yes, the kids became William Tell while taking aim at the baby doll. Thankfully, they agreed to let the doll stand in for Tell’s son instead […]
Creativity Inspiring
We’ve recently come under the spell of this incredibly creative book. It is always a good sign when an adult is just as captivated by a children’s book as they are. Rich and Greta inspected this book for a good part of the morning a few weeks back. We found ourselves chuckling at the […]
Life Learning: Lessons in Patience…
(photo courtesy of my sister, Bethany) One of the beauties of homeschooling is how life circumstances can lead into so many learning opportunities. When we discovered that I was pregnant back in January, I looked over my ‘plan’ for the rest of the year and decided to make some tweaks. I thought this would be […]
Broaching 9-11 with the kids…
With the 10th anniversary of 9-11 quickly approaching, I’ve found myself pondering how much to address when talking to my kids about this. Since we are ‘out west’ and given that we don’t have the evening news on, there hasn’t been a whole lot of exposure that my children have naturally had. If my children were any […]