Book #7 for 2025 “Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakable Peace” by Sarah Mackenzie Here are my favorite takeaways… “Not an hour passes without the enormity of the task I have taken on bringing me to my knees. This work of homeschooling and raising hearts and souls and bodies is hard. It is … Continue reading Teaching From Rest
Book #6 for 2025 Holy Hygge (HYOO-guh): Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow by Jaime Erickson I really enjoyed this book. It was difficult to select which excerpts to share with you. I highlighted A Lot of sentences and paragraphs. I’m choosing only 2 quotes to share. The first … Continue reading Holy Hygge (HYOO-guh)
Book #5 for 2025 I started this book several months ago and it finally came up in my TBR queue to finish reading. This book is all about why reading aloud is beneficial to children. My husband started our family read-aloud journey as a “reluctant reader”. We’ve been going strong - reading aloud about 5 … Continue reading Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition
Book #4 for 2025 I found this at a library book sale and bought it because I loved the title. It’s a collection of 60 devotionals by Kerri Pomarolli. At first, I felt like because I didn’t totally identify with the author and I didn’t totally agree with everything that she said, I didn’t know … Continue reading She Rises Late and Her Kids Make Her Breakfast
Do we need any more books? Well… I don’t know. Perhaps, and then again perhaps not. There is definitely no room on any of the bookshelves. There are books in boxes on the floor and on several shelves in my linen closet. But that does not necessarily mean we don’t need any more books, it … Continue reading Another Day, Another Book Sale
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