The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
You know that the garden is a bit further along than this, right? But it's hard to keep up with a garden, let alone with pictures of the garden. I'm now at the “ignore the brush and giant man-eating weeds on the periphery” stage of spring, when it's gotten warm enough and rained enough to do away with any pretense of gaining the upper hand.
I just try to tend to these bits and be in denial about the rest.
So here's the round up for this week:
- I liked this post about just doing stuff with kids that might not have slickness-appeal but that kids might really like to do, including being a bit bored (which I always claim is the only way that they will ever really become bookworms), even if you don't live what you consider “an ideal life” as depicted in the slickness media. I love this clever space-saving, thrifty doll-house idea, easily modified for non-Barbie use. (My kids, boys and girls alike, loved Calico Crittersfor the doll house, which you can also find on Ebay sometimes. They are also called Sylvanian Families.) You might also enjoy my Pinterest board on which, for lack of a pithier way of putting it, I have collected other Un-crafty-mom stuff kids like.
- You have about a week to prepare for a super-duper moon!
- Everyone committed to following an unconventional path, not just crazy Catholics like us, ask the question about whether we're just in a bubble or what. It's hard to find a balance. Sometimes I hear things about “not raising our children in a greenhouse” and then I go to a greenhouse and see little plants tenderly nurtured there before being planted out in the harsh elements. Seems like the way to go, honestly.
- I share the above author's respect for Barbara Nicolosi, with whom he's disagreeing, and it's good to have the discussion. I liked Nicolosi's rant (and I use that word in the most admiring way possible) about teaching the basics of the faith to children. I fear that I am less sanguine than she. I am wholeheartedly behind resurrecting the The Baltimore Catechism, but I don't think that Catholic schools or the average Catholic parishioner can fix things, being, alas, part of the problem — that is to say, the victim of a failure of education. But there is no question that if our children are ignorant of what the faith teaches, they will not have the faith. Basically, it's up to us.
- If you would like to know how one of the most trenchant philosophers of the last century actually lived (and I will bring you Michael Oakshott at some point in the LMLD Library Project), do read this article. Most encouraging. Library Project poiler alert: We will also be talking about G. K. Chesterton, so you might want to tuck away this reading plan if you've always wondered where to start!
- Rosie suggests you take a peek at this amazing video of a rotating thunderstorm. (She wants you to know that they have a plan to hide from a tornado, by the way. We know that you worry about her and her little neo-Okie family!)
- On various sites I've been alerted to this amazing little cabin, so appealingly presented. Poke around on the blog with its lovely photographs and inspiring story of doing with less.
Enjoy your weekend!
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