Honest Bread

I made homemade bread yesterday. The kind that takes all day to make. It had to rise 3 separate times throughout the day. I was so excited to be making things from scratch again, it really felt good. During dinner I noticed that my hubby only had a small piece of it. I encouraged him to get a second piece and he said “no, he was full”. I pressed him and he admitted he really didn’t like it. He said he enjoyed it but it was just bread. I don’t know why but I felt the need to tell him about how long it took and how much effort it took on my part to make it. He grabbed me by the waist, looked deep into my eyes and said, “Honey, you can keep telling me about the effort it took you but it’s not going to change how much I like or dislike that bread.” I laughed and laughed. My honest funny man! He was so right, I was trying to make him like the bread more by ranting about my effort. Thank the Lord that he can be so open and honest with me and even call me out on my bad behavior. I would hate anyone to treat me like that just because I didn’t like something they had made. I’m so blessed to have a husband who loves me enough to tell me when I’m misbehaving.

 

Truthquest The Wild West!

These are the books I’ve chosen to use from the Truthquest AHFYS III topic #3 Westward The Wild West. I manly selected these ones because my library had them all or they were available through Inter Library Loan. {I haven’t yet had the chance to preview these, so this list may change}

Books I will read aloud:

• The Book of Cowboys
• Wyatt Earp US Marshal
• Wild Bill Hickock Tames the Wild West

Books Jake will read aloud to me:

• Mr. Yowder and the Train Robbers (OWN)
• Buffalo Bill
• The Value of Humor: Will Rogers
• The Real Book About the Texas Rangers

Books Jake will read on his own:

• Cowboys
• Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy
• Butch Cassidy

Extra books for pleasure and as time allows:

• Cowboy Sam and Porky
• Secret Tunnel
• Stagecoach Driver
• The Art of the Old West
• Westward HO!
• The Cowboy’s Handbook
• Wild West Days

 

Truthquest Westward Ho!

These are the books I’ve chosen to use from the Truthquest AHFYS III topic #2 Westward Ho! I manly selected these ones because my library had them all. There are a couple that are long, so I may drop those. I put a [*] next to the books I don’t want to miss.

Books I will read aloud:

• Song of the Pines
• *Story of the World Vol 4
• *Orphan Train Rider
• *The King of Prussia and a Peanut Butter Sandwich
• Grasshopper Summer

Books Jake will read aloud to me:

• The Treeless Plains
• Train to Somewhere
• *Frontier Surgeons

Books Jake will read on his own:

• All the Places to Love
• *Heartland
• Dakota Dugout
• Clouds of Terror

 

 

 

CM Narration Thoughts and Quotes 1

I’m currently working my way throught the Charlotte Mason’s Original Homeschooling series and as I do I need a place to organize my notes and ideas. What better place than my hardly used Blog! I will eventually have a full page here about narration but for now I’ll just do posts until I have accumulated enough and have time to organize them.

This Quote from CM has got to be the “light bulb” moment for why some people say they are struggling with CM. I wish I could have read that last year, it would have saved me a ton of grief.  I’ll list both the Original and the Modern English version.

The reader will say with truth,––”I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles”; and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ‘more or less,’ but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated. I suppose the difficulties are of the sort that Lister had to contend with; every surgeon knew that his instruments and appurtenances should be kept clean, but the saving of millions of lives has resulted from the adoption of the great surgeon’s antiseptic treatment; that is from the substitution of exact principles scrupulously applied for the rather casual ‘more or less’ methods of earlier days. (Vol 6 pg 20)

 Some readers might say, ‘I already knew all of this before and I’ve always acted more or less on these principles.’ All I can say is, the incredible results we’ve had didn’t come from adhering to these principles ‘more or less,’ but by following them strictly in practice. Joseph Lister must have had this same difficulty to contend with. Surgeons in his day knew that their instruments should be sterile, but it was only those who actually acted on that knowledge and sterilized their instruments each time with his chemical solution who saved millions of lives. That’s the difference between scrupulously following exact principles, and casually using them ‘more or less.’