This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.It is fun to make your own gifts and usually it is less expensive, too. And you can’t beat the thoughtfulness that goes into…
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“Do you know what pliable means?” my mom said as she looked up from the book she was reading. We were in the middle of Pilgrim’s Progress and had reached the part where Pliable and Obstinate were trying to convince Christian to turn back from his dangerous journey.
“If something is Pliable it means it can be easily bent around– like play-dough,” my mom went on.
Download this free December nature study calendar to help you get outside and explore plant and animal life this winter. The December nature calendar is full of nature tips that give you ideas of what to explore as the world turns colder and snow-covered. There is still much to discover if you know where to look. Enter your email address…
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Sometimes we’re tempted to think that nature study comes to a halt in winter. These winter nature study ideas will remind you that though nature might slow down in winter, there is still a lot going on. Wildlife in winter is sometimes hidden– the gall fly hidden in the goldenrod gall and the downy woodpecker that snacks on them when…
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Charlotte Mason believed that picture study was an important part of a child’s education. She felt strongly that as a child studied a carefully chosen work of art, the child was drinking in beauty and developing powers of observation that would affect them for life. It was part of spreading a feast, as Ms. Mason liked to call it, before…
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One thing I love about nature walks is that you can head out looking for one thing (in this case May Apples) and stumble across something completely different. I was puzzled recently when we came across a fallen log that was stained an attention grabbing blue-green. Don’t you love the contrast between the yellow lichen and the bluish wood? As…
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Thanks for joining us. I’m Suzanna, mom to four boys and now an adorable little girl who’s growing up too fast and who will never doubt that her family loves her. I am in wonder of what God has done for me through His Son, Jesus Christ; in wonder of the precious husband He has given me, and of the family we are raising together by His grace. [Read more]
