Ancient Path

It is important to give credit where credit is due. Ask any artist how offensive it is when someone else takes credit for their work. That's why teaching my children about who the author and creator of the universe is important to us.  "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth ... When I consider thy heavens, the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained." Psalms 8:1 and 3 Home School Curriculum For this unit we are using The Good and the Beautiful curriculum. The best part about it .... we got ours F.R.E.E. for download. It isn't for free anymore, but the PDF is still super C.H.E.A.P ... which is the next best thing to free. Get it here:  Space Science ☆ The Good & the Beautiful is a Non-denominational Christian curriculum that we have come to love very much! • The book that we are reading alongside the unit is, "Space: God's Majestic Handiwork" by Susan Windsor  This book is pe...

"A thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."  William Blake ~ Growing your own pumpkin patch is fun and exciting with delicious returns that provide a ton of activities for the children. Planting Pumpkins at Garden School: A Summer time activity When the days are long and hot midsummer, the last thing you may be thinking about is the cool days of fall, but that is precisely when thoughts of pumpkins should begin. For a pumpkin patch to be well established by the time Mr. Jack-O-Lantern comes on the scene, the seeds must go into the ground around the 4th of July. While everyone else was running around blowing up things, we were putting our seeds into the ground. We planted our pumpkins inside one of our raised beds about an inch sow depth.  My 2nd graders love helping in the garden. The pumpkins were a great crop for them to plant because the seeds are large enough for their little hands to control.  Garden School Fall Harvest Fast forward to fall ... I now fully under...

Online is a tough place to be right now. So many hurting people. This momma here really needs to guard her heart from all the noise. There is much important work to do. 🕊 Above all else, guard  your heart, ❤      for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 I do not have any plans to be on social media for the summer, but  I still needed a place to share our sweet memories and this seems like the right place to do it.  Garden Schooling on the Homestead Our garden is growing and so are we. We have been keeping a small garden for two years now, only two raised beds. It has been a work in progress for many years. The garden patch was heavily wooded when we started and had to develop the whole thing.  This Spring we finally closed it up. Since the garden was closed we could finally grow as much as we wanted to without worrying about losing anything to the animals. 🌱 Since our winter was so mild, ...