“Run down and get the cinnamon, will you, Joey?” said Polly. “It’s in the ‘Provision Room.’” The “Provision Room” was a little shed that was tacked onto the main house, and reached by a short flight of rickety steps; so called, because Polly said, “It’s a good place to keep provisions, even if we haven’t […]
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers…” -Anne Shirley October is one of my favorite months for so many reasons … and it is also Lovelyn Angelica Joy’s birthday month! This year, we celebrated her sixth birthday. How she became a little six year old is beyond me […]
Almanzo ate four large helpings of apples ’n’ onions fried together. He ate roast beef and brown gravy, and mashed potatoes and creamed carrots and boiled turnips, and countless slices of buttered bread with crab-apple jelly. ‘It takes a great deal to feed a growing boy,’ Mother said. -Farmer Boy What’s […]
“The cellar began to have its winter smell of apples and preserves. After all the perfect apples had been picked, Almanzo and Royal could shake the trees. They shook the trees with all their might, and the apples came rattling down like hail. They picked them up and threw them into the wagon. These were […]
“We cannot measure the influence that one or another artist has upon the child’s sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sights of life; he is enriched more than we know in having really looked at even a single picture.” -Charlotte Mason The girls were working on […]
