Well I’m glad it was refreshing 😄 I love to read a variety of things, for fun, for challenging my mind and faith, for building family culture / inside jokes, and now for learning French too. If you’re not reading, you’re not thinking! As a Christian, I think of a lot of literature as puzzle pieces. When authors write, they see and reveal different parts of the puzzle of life, but often they’re missing certain pieces, and sometimes they’re trying to force in a piece that doesn’t belong. Sometimes they’re seeking hope in things that can give temporary pleasure or relief, but not ultimate hope and joy. I think the truth that Christians have can fill in some of those pieces. Thinking and talking through these things is so fun! It makes me feel alive, reminds me of the hope I have, enriches my faith and my relationships with my husband, children, and friends.

Trying to think back to that time, I think it was “Fais dodo, Colas mon p'tit frère”. It’s a very sweet lullaby

Yes, we are still using it and enjoying it! About to add a 2nd student. I just don’t have time to make videos right now, life is too full, haha!

@garlandofbooks4494 I've been thinking about getting a consultation from them. You're the only channel I've found that has shown any of their book recommendations. When you add your second child, will they both be studying the same time period? Or will they be completely separate?

@@michellecalais2482 we will do the same time period across all forms, that’s really something I love about ADE vs AO (lots of people in my area follow AO). I even read 2 family reads that included my student child and not quite student that were WWII books that they were both able to enjoy, while were doing the 1900s-present this year. It’s really enjoyable to all be following the same time period, including me! I’ve read a couple of books myself for this time period too. I’m also about to have my first consultation in anticipation of adding another student. I want to join as many subjects as possible. My children are between 2-3 years apart, so they’ll be in forms with each other sometimes, and not at other times.

@garlandofbooks4494 that makes my heart happy! That's exactly what I was hoping, thank you!

I liked it a lot, we are now halfway through the 2nd book from SCM / Richele Baburina. We have added more Soroban abacus and are liking that too. I plan to do first year of math with my 2nd child the same way, I thought it was very successful and pleasant.

@Garland of Books Thank you, this is great to hear and very encouraging!

That would be a fun topic! My number 1 way I organize them is probably size. Some of our shelves will only fit small books, so if I want everything to fit then the smallest books must go there 😂. Likewise some larger books will only fit on certain tall shelves. I should do a shelf walk through sometime though. I love organizing the books. I do like categories, I have a chronological history & biography section, lots of categories that are more free reading, and some things are specifically for certain years of home education and I have those separate, mainly on the shelf in this video actually.

I have seen that! I have been able to buy used hardcovers for books 1-3, but plan to buy the paperbacks of 4 and 5 from Purple House when they come out. Used copies of 4 and 5 are way too rare!

I really like it! I ended up getting a 2nd one in the other translation they offer, NET, to be my beginner reader’s 1st Bible - after considering a ridiculous number of options!! NET has an easier rated reading level thank NKJV. I think the devotional engagement will be the perfect type of prompting as he grows and reads better. The amount of notes in a study Bible can be overwhelming, so I think this and the pictures and the single line text will make for easier reading for him for many years, and I may introduce him to a study Bible once he gets to the teen years. He already loves the pictures, and I love them for him rather than the cartoonish bibles I’ve seen presented for children which I don’t like as much.

@@garlandofbooks4494 thank you for your feedback! I’m trying to decide between this one and a journaling bible.

Haha 😆 I love that music too!

Thank you for your comment, I am so glad for your heart. Yes, we can have spiritual mothers and we can spiritually mother others - Romans 16:13 is a perfect example. I think it is good for single Christians to be open to either way of what God has to them, neither closed to the possibility of marriage nor focused on it. Singleness is a wonderful time to use for the glory of God, when familial obligations are not there. Nancy Demoss Wolgemuth is beautiful example of mothering many younger women, and she was single until her 50s I believe, so she had given up any expectation of marriage and served the Lord in her singleness for many many years.

It will definitely always be better to have better people on school boards 👍🏼 But there’s a lot more to it than that, if that makes sense. I am not at all familiar with the ace curriculum 🤷🏼‍♀️. I never went to private Christian school, but had several friends who went to different ones where I grew up - and I wasn’t impressed :/. He talks about all that in the book, and how sadly many Christian schools copy the progressives model for school at the core, and just add a Bible class / make it a little more Christian. There’s so much more to be done than that.

There are also teachers who take pledges to teach certain things no matter what school administrators or school boards or anyone says. They have an allegiance to certain doctrines above anything else, and they specifically aim to deceive parents as part of their indoctrination of students. They view parents as outsiders, obstacles, intruders, enemies.

@@garlandofbooks4494 - ACE = Accelerated Christian Education. It was definitely not based on a progressive model - they were a series of self-paced workbooks that relied on rote memorization. It was terrible. I graduated in 1981, so ACE may be a thing of the past.

I don’t. I basically just drew lines and circles or whatever shapes I used on a Word document.

Sometimes. I have a hard time underlining or adding marginal notes in pretty hardcovers. So instead I will make stars in the margin or put in a sticky tab, or write page numbers in the back extra pages, and then I’ll write out my thoughts in a notebook, or good quotes in a commonplace book - I’m trying to build my memory of books with the discipline of writing after reading as much as possible. Books I consider information style I tend to underline and write in - modern nonfiction type usually.