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Formation of Habits
I am so excited to share some of the things I’ve been reading lately about habits. Some of the information I’ve heard countless times but it’s just now starting to sink into the ol’ grey matter. I have been reading the book When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy of Today by Elaine Cooper. The contributors to this book are ones who are running Charlotte Mason style schools. The formation of habits is education, and Education is the formation of habits. vol 1 pg 97 When we see a bad trait in our children we may think, "That’s their nature." or "They’re still young, they’ll grow out…
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Southwestern Bean Soup
It’s Saturday but who cares? The original recipe I got from Cooks.com here. I tweaked it a little to fit the ingredients I had on hand. My family really liked it. It’s definitely a ‘keeper’ here at my house. Serves 6 adults. Southwestern Bean Soup 16oz. dried black beans 1 can red kidney beans (although I would use dried kidney beans if I had them) 20oz. frozen corn 3 cans diced green chile’s 1 – 28oz. can green enchilada sauce 3 – 8oz cream cheese 1 1/2 tsp. ground cumin Cook dried black beans until tender. Add salt to taste. Drain and reserve bean juice. Add cream cheese to beans and melt or…
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Gone and Back Again
I’m back! In the week since I posted we’ve been to Saskatchewan, Canada and back. We travelled 36 hours non-stop going and since it was so much fun the first go-around we travelled 30 hours non-stop returning. (pant, pant) We stopped about 6 hours from home to visit my parents for the night and was able to get some shut-eye. Sunflowers in Utah Montana Wildfire Bobbie your comment, "It is the less visible evils of enjoyment that steal you away from us." in response to my last post, gave me a chuckle. We went to Canada for a church camp but I have to say I’m quite glad to be home again. My kids are…
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Blogging Break
Just wanted to let you know I’ll not be posting for about a week. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with this quote my son read in one of his geography readings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson. "Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security."
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Choosing the Better Part
And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Luke 10:39-42 So many times I awake in the morning with my mind spinning with all the things I need to accomplish…
