We are knee deep in Christmas prep here and trying to stay close to our schedule.  Makes for little blog time.  I often think what a blessing it is that we came to homeschooling in the late 80s/early 90s. At that time the selection of materials was pretty straightforward due to the limited quantity available.  The messages circulated were about simplicity, practicality, and sensible homeschooling.

Elizabeth and I had this discussion a couple of years ago.  We asked, who/what inspires us now? There have been new names added to our lists but by and large we found ourselves very grateful for those authors who influenced at the beginning.  I thought it would be fun to revisit some of those resources – hence the first installment of Blast from the Past. This one comes with gratitude to Jen who found the Davis’ again. For many years they ran Elijah Company which was hands-down one of my favorite catalogs. They had a down to earth, living books approach coupled with the experience of raising lots of boys. Elijah Co is no more but there are back issues of their articles here and several books that were compiled and written as a result of those catalog essays.  Not to be missed.