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In Preparation for the Winter …

    Today, I thought of something a little bit different. I was prepping for a canning session and thought I’d just give a word of encouragement to anyone out there who wants to start canning or filling up their Provision Room for the winter. If you have any questions about canning, just leave a […]

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Study to Be Quiet

        {Wildflowers picked for a tea table, set out for a Grandmother visit}       11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that […]

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Sonny

  “Everyday a child should have something to do, something to think about and something to love.”  The Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola It’s been a long wait (this is something we thought would be wonderful for our girls when we moved from town to country) … but with much patience and tender care […]

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Gentle Outside {School} – The Younger Years

“No, I don’t want any more elaborate Kindergarten materials… if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely. Let him touch real things, and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at the little round table, while a sweet voiced […]

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The Little Things

“Life is made up of little things. He who travels over a continent must go step by step. He who writes books must do it sentence by sentence. He who learns science must master it fact by fact . What is happiness of our life made up of? Little courtesies, little kindnesses, pleasant words, genial […]

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