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What’s going on here? My two youngest are toasting marshmallows in the kitchen over a candle. “It’s okay,” they said, “daddy’s been letting us do this all afternoon.” (Don’t worry. They’re well supervised.)
My two littlest were chatting and carrying on as if around a real campfire, but without all the hassle. Carry on! Lynn Here is probably my favorite right now.
Yes, this book has so much in it. Everything from “The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World” to “Latin Phrases Every Boy Should Know.” The book starts out:
And so we are hoping our boys (and our girl) will pick this book up and learn to appreciate the simple, vital things in a boy’s life. This book has many “boy” things in it, such as artillery history, how to build a tree house, how to make a battery, and stories of courage — as in the Wright brothers and Robert the Bruce, but it also has lessons on grammar and Latin phrases, of course something boys should know, but how often do you see grammar paired with boyish, ”dangerous” things? Prepare yourself. This book has the 10 commandments in it. It’s a book I think every homeschool library needs. Who wrote it, you ask? Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, “two men who would have given away the cat to get this book when they were young.” Lynn Why, no! My husband was the recipient this Christmas of a gift card from a client. It was a Barnes and Noble gift card for 100 dollars. (Be still my beating heart!) There was a message in the card attached. Apparently the gift-giver and my husband had agreed upon something that some others thought was incorrect: one can never have too many books. So I married the right man. In our home, there’s a certain sight that makes my heart glad. It’s children reading books.
Anyway, I want to share some of the books we bought for our children for Christmas and why. Here begins a series of book reviews over the next few days. Lynn |
I am the mother of four delightful children: a 23-year-old son, a 20-year-old son, a 17-year-old son, and a bright and bubbly 13-year-old daughter. I share an apartment home with my 17-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. My little home on the internet is called Rose Cottage because of my love for gardening, roses, and all things romantic and Victorian. Welcome. I'm a North Carolina girl and I love sharing North Carolina links and information. I do medical transcription from home. My hobbies include making sweet little dolls from clay who are named and have their own stories to tell. I also make old-fashioned brooches. These are for sale in my Etsy shop. For 13 years continuously, I homeschooled some or all of our four children, but the time came that our homeschool had to be closed. It was the end of a beautiful chapter in my life. I will always be a strong supporter of homeschooling and I will continue to review books and maintain my homeschool website, The Healthy Homeschool.    
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
I would
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