"Parent's ability to communicate their worldview to their children is mostly bound up in their personal relationship to each other. If Mother and Father have a romance that is visible, a joy that is uncontained, and a passion that is enviable, their children will want to travel the same road in hopes of reaping the same fruit in their own lives."

– Jumping Ship, Michael Pearl 

I am no expert and I have not finished the book yet.  This excerpt spoke to me however and I think that only good things can come from unbridled joy and visible romance, so those are excellent places to start. 

Visible romance this week? While I was blogging the video yesterday, husband had already run to pick up flowers, just because, on the way to the ball field to cover practices for a sick wife. In blue. Why? Because he thought that they would go with the dishes I love – though he loves them less. : ) 

  thank you 

Look who followed me home from the flea market. 

He earns his keep. 

A straggler which didn't get uploaded.  

 Her father has decided to lock her up til she is 30 <g>  

Pretty girl, we love you. 

Maybe consider the option of extending your childhood another ten or fifteen years.  We might be used to the growing up idea by then.    

"This is the first lesson for the Christian wife and mother today: to let go of what may once have been – and under other circumstanes might now be – a recollected self, and take on, with both hands, the plan of God. Indeed it is the lesson for every Christian in every age:

it is the gospel of dying on one plane in order to live in another." 

– Dom Hubert Von Zeller, Holiness for Housewives

I found this over a break midday today, book in hand, mug nearby, and this pottery before me.  There is rest to be found in letting go of what might have been and embracing what is.  What is, is very good. 

Places I have been visiting lately:

School room tour extravaganza from last summer

and more and more from this year.  

Parisienne Farmgirl's new kitchen.  Though I am contrary I guess, because I LOVED the cabinets just as much green.  

Bloesem – I always smile here.  Love their rooms, so very unlike mine – which I also love. : ) 

Revisiting St Cupcake's shop.  Food schmood.  Look at this place.  

Calvert School's new little blog  Cause why you ask?  Cause it's like the tide, every summer this time I feel this inexplicable pull to the Calvert catalog.  Ask those who know me and have tied me to the mast time and again when the sirens call reaches my ears yet again.  Sigh.

Speaking of siren calls – be watching for the  great article by Memoria Press in this issue of Classical Teacher to be posted online.  I think the analogy has implications far beyond those used in the article.  He makes compelling points about laying the foundation academically.  His main pt being that those things that are more important do not (should not) necessarily come first in sequence when teaching.  Contemporary edu-methods often put the horse before the cart and end up toppling the whole thing in the end. 

Ok, off to dinner.  This blog may well be disintegrating into miscellaneous jottings and pretty pictures.  ; ) 

Baby Tess. 

Not ours, but close enough to my heart to be one of the family.  Our friends Rebecca and Mike welcomed baby Teresa Mae into their family.  Please go see this beauty.  We are so happy you are here Tess!