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A Lullaby & The Introduction to My Book, The Light Gatherers {New Music Monday}
This is a very special New Music Monday, and I appreciate that you’re here, visiting my website. I’ve been working on a book for a little over a year, called The Light Gatherers. (You can read the Prologue to the book here, which I wrote as a writing exercise as part of The Habit.) I don’t feel like any book is complete without a poem or a song; most of my favorite books include at least one or the other. The Hobbit includes the songs in which the dwarves sing about helping Bilbo with the dishes and the Lonely Mountain. The Princess and the Goblin includes Curdie’s rhymes, which scare…
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A Snarky Retelling of Winnie-the-Pooh, and Our Favorite Poem
A Bear of (Supposedly) Very Little Brain Once upon a time there lived a bear. Some of the bear’s friends made a point of constantly telling him that he had no brain. This, of course, could simply not be true because somehow he managed, time and time again, to think and feel and wonder about his life in the woods. One day this bear (who clearly had to think in order to come up with this plan) wanted to get some honey from a beehive swinging from the top of a tree. First he tried to climb the tree, which resulted in much physical discomfort. Nobody likes to land in…
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A Day in the Life of a Homeschooling Family
My alarmed blared at 6:30am just as my kids came into the bedroom. Samuel had probably been awake since 5:45am when Brian left for work, and Ruthie still looked slightly sleepy. She sucked on her two fingers and pulled gently on her wispy blonde hair. “Can we have a snack?” asked Samuel. I sleepily rolled over and looked into his brown eyes. “Not yet,” I said. “I’ll get up and get ready and then make breakfast.” “Mommy?” asked Ruthie. “Can I have a snack?” “Not yet, girly,” I said. “We’ll have breakfast soon.” “Okay,” Ruthie said. She and Samuel shuffled off to play with their stuffed animals. I slid out…
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Quotes From Our Current Reading Material
“Little Sal picked three berries and dropped them in her little tin pail…kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! She picked three more berries and ate them. Then she picked more berries and dropped one in the pail–kuplunk! And the rest she ate. Then Little Sal ate all four blueberries out of her pail!”Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey *** “They came round the corner, and there was Eeyore’s house, looking as comfy as anything.‘There you are,’ said Piglet.‘Inside as well as outside,’ said Pooh proudly.Eeyore went inside…and came out again.‘Its a remarkable thing,’ he said. ‘It is my house, and I built it where I said I did, so the wind must have…