Category Archives: Home Library

Build Up Your Home Library {The Lilac Library}

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”  – Cicero   One of the best words of advice in my motherhood and homeschooling journey was to build up your own home library.  In a world of every changing politics and morals and seeing history literally being erased or changed, a […]

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My Reading List

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice   The August rain was pouring down, my […]

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Wonder & Enthusiasm of Childhood

“Society is giving more and more entertainment to children that is adult planned … it actually robs them of what childhood means. That is spoiling them. I always thought letting children be children to mean ‘preserving their innocence, wonder and enthusiasm’. Yet today, we begin when they are babies to dull that fresh eagerness with […]

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{Home Library} A Faith-filled Life & Faithful Wife

“According to my judgement the most important point to be attended to is this: above all things see to it that your souls are happy in the Lord. Other things may press upon you, the Lord’s work may even have urgent claims upon your attention, but I deliberately repeat, it is of supreme and paramount […]

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Home Library Additions {& Why You Should Read To your Children}

“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” — Roald Dahl   As I have posted in the past about building up a home library for you and your children, I thought perhaps I should add […]

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