Skip to content

  • Home
  • About
    • Our Story
    • Dr J’s Corner
    • Podcasts
    • Publications
  • Homeschool
  • Book Lists
  • Charlotte Mason
  • Classical Conversations
  • Morning Time
  • Homegrown Preschool
  • Beautiful Feet Books
  • Rhythm
  • My Father’s World
    • Kindergarten MFW
    • Adventures MFW
    • Exploring Countries and Cultures MFW
  • Contact

Contact

 

 

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

@Farmhouse_Schoolhouse

These boys are keeping track of our Adoption fundraiser and making signs for our adoption bake sale that they’re organizing. We’ve been tracking donations across the map and recording names of supporters and those offering prayer in the baby’s special book. It’s been a weekend full of encouragement and love and prayer and support and I can’t adequately express how much it’s lifted our hearts. We have watched God, unchanging and faithful no matter our circumstances, move in incredible ways. Our family has grown so much over the last 16 months. Thank you for your kind words, support, prayer and all the adoption stories you’ve shared with us. Thank you. ✨ ——————————————————- If you’d like to join in, the first tab within my profile link tree will take you to our site. We are so grateful for your help. Every dollar brings us one step closer. ❤️
Posted again with a different photo bc it turns out, my boy changed his mind about letting others see his secret thinking spot. The boys know what’s on here and they have a say in what is said and shared. It’s important for me to honor that. Here’s the original post: _______________________________________ A quiet growing time. What a loving and powerful gift to give someone. It’s not just room to be wild, it’s space to think and establish all that they’re absorbing. I’ve watched the boys develop their play over the years. The games have slowly changed, but the heart of it remains the same. They are testing what they are learning. My call is to provide the opportunity for thinking, reflection and connection to happen. I can’t think for them. I can’t connect for them. I simply provide opportunities by securing and protecting their quiet growing time. This boy, for example. Yesterday I read beautiful words that fell upon the shell pink folds of his ears and trickled down through the very core of him. I could not anchor them home simply by speaking them. I had no idea what would become of them. Today they swirled inside him and permeated his being as he sat on salt-slicked ledge and watched the waves roll in. I know because he turned to me and offered a few words of brief contemplation, cracked a joke, then turned his head towards to sea once more. I stored the moment in my heart to rest upon when the next hard day hits. 🌊🌴☀️
8 year old: "You know, when we first started reading all this history about the Romans and Saxons and Britons and Picts, I was surprised that you were ok with me hearing all that violence since you always say no to video games since they are violent. But now that we've read so much I think I can see why." Me: "Ok. Why do think I let you read violent history and say no to violent video games?” 8 year old: "In the video games people die and thats it, no funerals, no one cries, no one makes food to bring to people that are sad. No one digs a grave. But in my book when people die, stuff happens because of the death. People left behind go to war. There are funerals and monuments and speeches. Sometimes good stuff, sometimes bad stuff, but always something happens. Am I saying it right? Death matters in my book."
Started the day reading The Declaration of Independence, ended the day cuddled up watching fireworks by the lake. Let freedom ring! 🇺🇸❤️💥
✨✨ G I V E A W A Y now CLOSED✨✨ congratulations @parkerlauren 🎉🎉🎉 Lets kick off the celebration with some fun. Earlier this year I was gifted a beautiful handmade Turkish towel made by the wonderful @oddbirdcompany. Enchanted by its soft elegance, I started wearing it daily as a wrap. It wasn’t long before my youngest named it “The Mama Love.” He associates it with my hugs, warmth and love, burrowing himself into it when he sits beside me (a few of you guessed correctly on yesterday’s post! 🇹🇷❤️) Today the boys were all wrapped up in their @oddbirdcompany beach towels while birdwatching in our favorite mangrove, and my heart was doing a happy dance thinking of one of you winning this giveaway and choosing a lovely new robe or a set of Turkish towels, sustainably and ethically made. Teaming up with @oddbirdcompany to give one winner a $250 gift card 💃🏻 💃🏻 TO ENTER: 1) Follow @oddbirdcompany 2) tag your friends! Each tag is an entry ❤️ winner announced Saturday 7/6 🎉🇺🇸Ready? Set? Go!
“Mama! Let’s read one from my heart shelf.” Can you guess what that means? He told me once. “It’s the spot in my heart where I keep OUR books.” Meaning the books our hearts have connected together over. (Melt!) Guess what? Today was technically a not so great day. Alllll the personalities rubbing wrong while the sun blazes outside and the lightning hits just when we’re getting ready to unleash all the wild children out to play in the sprinklers. When things are bad I pull out a book and start reading. I think that’s a tip I got from Sarah Mackenzie (@readaloudrevival ) awhile back, it sure does sound like something she’d recommend. It’s a tip that’s never failed. When things got tough today I reached into that heart shelf and picked a book so often read that it reminded us of all the times we’ve laughed over it and before long we were laughing again. Book power! Tomorrow we’ll be back with a special treat/giveaway for you all as we celebrate the 4th. There is a hint in the picture. Can you guess what it is? Stay tuned! 😉 🇺🇸 🇹🇷

Follow us on Facebook!

Follow us on Facebook!

Currently using Student Intensive A!

Advent adventures art beautiful feet books bible birds booklist boys classical conversations Exploring Countries & Cultures Friday Exam geography giveaway homeschool inventors kindergarten Language Arts Morning Time motherhood my fathers world nature walk pin it! maps pioneers poetry rhythm sensory needs the homegrown preschooler training Uncategorized wild and free

Fresh on the Farm

  • Summer Book List- From the Youngest on Up. July 15, 2019
  • Once a Homegrown Preschooler, always a Homegrown Preschooler July 6, 2019
  • Picture Book List: Beaches and Oceans July 2, 2019
  • A Charlotte Mason Approach to Classical Conversations Cycle 2 Quarter 1 June 17, 2019
  • Medieval & Renaissance Book list + A GIVEAWAY! April 23, 2019

Enter your email for direct updates from Farmhouse Schoolhouse!

Join 1,496 other followers

Farmhouse Favorites

  • A Charlotte Mason Approach to Classical Conversations Cycle 2 Quarter 1
  • Summer Book List- From the Youngest on Up.
  • Classical Conversations
  • A Charlotte Mason Approach to Classical Conversation Cycle 1 Quarter 1
  • Book Lists
  • 100 Books that Shaped Their Boyhood, Part 1
  • Homeschool
  • Back to (Home)School!
  • Medieval & Renaissance Book list + A GIVEAWAY!
  • How We Blend it All Together

Farm Flurries

advent adventures all about reading american revolution Art Art Appreciation Audubon beautiful feet books benjamin franklin birds blessing hour booklist books boys childhood Classical colonists columbus constellations exploring countries and cultures frontier geography george washington giveaway homeschool education homeschool in the woods inventors jamestown kindergarten montessori Morning Time my fathers world nature walk pilgrims Pin it! Maps play reading review rhythm science sensory play The Homegrown Preschooler vikings wild and free

Follow us!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
Blog at WordPress.com.
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
%d bloggers like this: