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Category: Homeschool

We are delighted to have finished our homeschool journey with the graduation of our student in May of 2019! Posts in this section reflect nine years of homeschooling, primarily but not exclusively, applying the Charlotte Mason educational approach. We found a great deal of time-tested wisdom at Higher Up and Further In, as well as Ambleside Online. We also recommend a new source of information on Charlotte Mason and her Philosophy of Education: A Delectable Education podcast. Older posts will refer to our experiences with Sonlight, which we enjoyed for American History in fourth grade, and Eastern Hemisphere Studies in fifth grade.

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October Snapshots

November 5, 2016October 21, 2018 Rabbit Trails

October is my favorite month.  The southern coastal humidity dries up and the air is crisper, the night skies are clearer, the acorns are dropping, and the sycamore leaves continue to drift down, yet the flowers are still blooming, and … Continue reading October Snapshots

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The Dignity of Farming, in 19th Century Art

October 19, 2016December 4, 2017 Rabbit Trails

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar … Continue reading The Dignity of Farming, in 19th Century Art

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September Snapshots

October 2, 2016December 13, 2016 Rabbit Trails

It seems the longer we homeschool, the more I resist a “hard start” to back-to-school.  For one thing I was feeling burnt-out in August, and while the Charlotte Mason conference did wonders to re-ignite my enthusiasm, we all know the … Continue reading September Snapshots

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Fall Term Book List and Schedule

September 15, 2016December 12, 2016 Rabbit Trails

Sometimes I’m stunned that we have made it this far with our homeschooling, but most of the time, I can’t imagine our life any other way, and just harbor regrets that I didn’t offer this education to my #1 Son. … Continue reading Fall Term Book List and Schedule

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August Snapshots

September 5, 2016December 4, 2017 Rabbit Trails

Recollections of August usually include mornings at the beach, lazy, hazy afternoons with a book, and sticky evenings on the back porch with the ceiling fan on hurricane speed.  The wooshing of the blades and clacking of the pull-chain accompanied … Continue reading August Snapshots

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July Snapshots

August 3, 2016November 3, 2016 Rabbit Trails

June was such a gift of gorgeous weather, that I simply refused to be annoyed with July. The Daughter’s summer schedule picked right up where we left off in June, with weekly AHG Bible Study, a weekly painting class, and … Continue reading July Snapshots

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Two Thousand X One

“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Truth is eternal,
knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them.

Madeleine L'Engle

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course, it is the cross.

Flannery O'Connor

How is it possible?

How is it that God permeates the universe, that everything that is - comes from his hand; that every thought and emotion we have - has significance only in Him yet we are neither shaken nor inflamed by the reality of His presence, but able to live as though He did not exist? How is this truly Satanic deceit possible? Romano Guardini

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