At her web site Literaritea Megan E. Saben reviews some of Johannah’s picture books.

Megan’s baby Henry

We received a most beautiful springtime card in the mail yesterday. It brightened up our day considerably. I hope warm weather comes soon. Helena can’t get out in the yard to work, so she stays in the living room ordering flower bulbs. She has ordered from four catalogs so far and one more catalog arrived [...]

Hand That Rocks the Cradle: 400 Classic Books for Children
by Nathaniel Bluedorn
For more than fifteen years, homeschooling parents have used Hand That Rocks the Cradle as their guide through the mass of classic and modern children’s fiction to find the truly great read-alouds. This completely revised and expanded edition of Hand That Rocks the Cradle [...]

Suggestions on how to treat your adult children:
1. The majority of the time that you are talking with your adult child, you should be doing the listening, not the talking. Real and attentive listening. Respectful listening — not appearing to be listening or thinking about what you need to be doing next or what you [...]

Big sister and little brother “reading” one of our favorite books My Mommy, My Teacher
Attached is a picture of my children looking at the wonderful illustrations in Johannah’s book My Mommy, My Teacher. The vivid colors and rich detail on every page are simply stunning! I chose this as the first of Johannah’s [...]

The Classical Mommy is holding a series of mathematical contests — with lots of prizes!!

Read here below the excerpts from On Water. The first person to tell us “What’s Wrong With This Picture” wins a copy of The Fallacy Detective. Leave your guess in the comments section here.
Frontinus (Sextus Julius Frontinus)
C. A.D. 40-103
Frontinus was a Roman soldier and author. He served as governor of Britain and later as superintendent [...]

Here’s another image from the children’s picture book Bless the Lord: The 103rd Psalm by Johannah Bluedorn.

There are two more days left to bid on the original painting we have listed on eBay.

Excerpt from Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn
Strabo
c. 66 b.c.-a.d. 24
Strabo was a Greek historian and geographer writing in the early days of the Roman Empire under the first two Roman emperors, Augustus and Tiberius. (His history has been lost.) Much of his geographical information is from his [...]

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