Chess

We believe in getting our kids off to an early start. It's never too early for academic pursuits!





As I remember, I think she won that game. ;)

This makes me mad!

I'm told that vile peddlers have started posting their garbage via comments on blogger blogs. Therefore, I've switched our blog so that nobody can post comments anymore. I don't need my son finding that kind of trash being left as a comment to one of his posts. I hope internet spammers are prosecuted to the extent that the general public doesn't have to continue taking more and more steps to keep them at bay. In this case, their rudeness is limiting my freedom, and that makes me mad!!

New Chair!

Miss M has a new chair for eating in. I'd say she likes it!

Trying Again

As promised, more pictures.

Pharisee's Prayer

Dear Father,

Thank You for Your infinite mercy, O Lord! It is times like these when I see what I could have been that I am most grateful. I am so glad You didn’t make me a liar and cheat like George. Thank You, too, for not making me slow-witted like poor John. And thank You for giving me Faith so that I won’t doubt like Tom. But most of all, Lord, thank You for not making me like that horrid, stuck-up woman I met today. I’m sure glad I don’t look down my nose at people like that. But forgive me for my anger, Lord. Please give her humility. Oh, and one more thing, God. Thank You for not making me proud.

Amen

Taught is Fate

Several weeks ago I started writing a poem. It was about a man who gets a visit from some sort of spirit: perhaps an angel, perhaps not. I made it to four verses before I quit (complete lack of plot might have had something to do with it). The first three weren't good, but the last was better. The man asks the spirit why he has come, "I called thee not, why art thou here? / Why come unbidden now to me?" The spirit replies:

"Unbidden call me not, nor aught
That happens in thy mortal land:
Ordered all things are, and taught
Is Fate to follow unseen hand."


Yes, I've been reading Faust recently. How could you tell?

A Rose

Rose, thou art the sweetest flower
That ever drank the amber shower;
Rose, thou art the fondest child
Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild,
Even the Gods, who walk the sky,
Are amorous of thy scented sigh.

- Thomas Moore

What is an Atheist?

An atheist is a man standing in a room with God. The room is covered with dirty mirrors. The atheist tries to turn away from God, but no matter where he looks he can still see Him. And the more he cleans the mirrors and sees the world better, the clearer he sees God, and the more absurd he becomes in trying to deny it.

"From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God." - Romans 1:20

Conference Pictures

I put my conference narration on a page with pictures which can be seen here.

Let me know what you think -- leave me a comment!

AO Conference!

Thanks to Lisa's daughter, who made these cute figurines!


I had a great time at the conference! Everyone was so nice, I loved finally meeting people who had been a name on an email list for so long. To all the Advisory members, you're as wonderful in person as you are in email. What an honor to work with you!

I took loads of pictures! Here are just a couple -

Ambleside Advisory Babies


Busy With Walk-in Registrations


When my head stops buzzing, I'll be able to think more clearly and post a little more. But for now, it's back to work, which means enlisting the help of our kids to select books for AO's year 11.