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 […]
Parenting
The Myth of the Mom Who Has It All Together…
This week I read an absolutely FABULOUS post over at Preschoolers and Peace titled, “I Can’t Do This Homeschool Life” where she answers a reader’s question about what to do when everything seems to be crashing in and there is no one to talk to, especially those homeschool mom’s who ‘have it all together.’ That […]
Learning the Value of Work
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? —Ecclesiastes 2:24-25 Meet the newest addition to our family… I’m kicking myself for […]
Cultivating Compassion
I have not been able to stop thinking about the concept of explaining poverty and instilling compassion in our children since my post last week on the topic. Sure it may be a little OCD, but once I’m thinking about something I do so pretty obsessively… Where does it start? What are things I can […]