The Titus 2 Homemaker

This is a (cleaned-up) copy of an e-mail I sent to one of my lists about a year-and-a-half ago.
My husband and I went the other day to rent a movie for our anniversary. The man who checked us out struck us as rather effeminate and when we got to the car Michael asked me, “Was it […]

A friend sent me the following GK Chesterton quote today, and I really like it.
“I can understand how [mothering] might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.  How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about arithmetic, and a small career to tell one’s own children about […]

Excerpted from the first day of Pierced by the Word, by John Piper:
“We have absorbed the world’s definition of love.  It says: You are loved when you are made much of.  The main problem with this definition is that when you try to apply it to God’s love for us, it distorts reality.  God’s love […]

This book, by Valerie Bendt, is a compilation and update of several earlier books: How to Create Your Own Unit Study, The Unit Study Idea Book, For the Love of Reading, and Success with Unit Studies.  Because there are four books in one, there is some repetition; however, I found it to reinforce and encourage […]

I’m going to attempt my first trackback with this post, as I got this idea from my sister’s buddy’s blog. Ruth got the idea from another friend’s blog, and who knows how far it goes. Anyway, the idea is to Google “Somebody needs…,” where “somebody” is one’s own name. My search […]