I love a new notebook, any kind of new notebook is just so inviting! From journals to binders, they call to me, they invite me in, they tug at the creative strings of my heart. Notebooking is half creativity, half academic. Let’s look into Notebooking with our children, what has worked and what hasn’t and…
Teaching our children geography can be such a daunting task! Especially cartography, the art of drawing maps. Where to start? Should they know everything by heart? Which curriculum to use? So many options and questions it can get quite overwhelming. A few years ago, after baby #6’s arrival, I was tired, very tired, but school…
The scientific method is an essential life skill in our children’s tool belt. As moms we wear many, many hats, and scientist is definitely one of them, therefore it is important for our children to develop this life skill as well. Let’s explore this wonderful skill, whose big name is just that, a big name….
Happy New Year! As Anne would say: “isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” It is the same for this new year! It has no mistakes in it yet! How truly refreshing and enticing. Let’s lay the foundation for our best year yet! At the…
The waiting is over, we have welcomed our King and now we celebrate His Incarnation. The Christmas season is one of the most joyous seasons in the Catholic Church. How can we live it well and keep Christ at its center?This is the second post on the living the Liturgical Year well. The first post…
The Night of Las Posadas is one of our favorite Christmas picture books that we have turned into a tradition. We read it every year, on December 16th. We love the beautiful story of the miracle that might have taken place on a snowy December 16th near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tradition This is a…
Jolabokaflod is a wonderful Icelandic tradition has recently made a grand entrance in our American literary world. The tradition is to give others books on Christmas Eve and to spend the evening reading, sipping hot cocoa and munching on cookies. Our Christmas Eve is too crazy for that, therefore we have started doing this on…
Every fall, they start popping up in craft and home decor stores, they are collected by many and embraced by all. What are they? Nutcrackers, of course! Everyone knows and can hum the tune of the famous ballet. Many of our little girls have had at least one experience of being on stage as a…
Happy new Liturgical Year to all my fellow Catholics! We are less than a week away from Advent and the beginning of a great liturgical season. It always seems easy for me to follow the Liturgical Year during Advent and Christmas, but the rest of the year does not seem so easy… So this liturgical…
Advent and Christmas Picture Books and Traditions I always feel a little disgruntled that Thanksgiving and the first Sunday of Advent are the same weekend! It’s just so much goodness in such a short time! I always want to enjoy the last little bit of fall a little longer, but Thanksgiving is the death knell…
