Articles tagged Holiday

July 4th Celebrations and Memory Work
by Jennifer
Friday, 03 July, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Friday, 03 July, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
On July 4th, and on other American holidays, do we really pause to reflect on our nation’s history? Too often, for my family, these holidays have become a day of swimming, grilling, and fireworks. Recently, I read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town on the Prairie to my...

Home for the Holidays
by Matt
Wednesday, 24 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 24 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
They say the holidays bring people together. I don’t know who “they” are, but I suppose the statement is mostly true. My own son will be coming home from his freshman year of college, precisely because it is the holidays. And yes, I will use that word, not because it...

Simple Celebrations: The Twelve Days of Christmas
by Jennifer
Thursday, 11 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 11 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
Original Post Date: December 5, 2011
In the bustle of Christmas, sometimes it is good to plan for simplicity. A couple of years ago, I wanted to be...

The Peace Instruction Manual

by Cara
Tuesday, 09 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 09 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
The Peacemaker Monthly
Part Two - Get the Log Out of Your Eye
The Peace Instruction Manual
by Cara McLauchlan
“When we overlook the wrongs of others, we are imitating God’s extraordinary forgiveness towards us.”
- The Peacemaker, page 82
With the holiday season in full...

In the spirit of the holidays, I offer you: The Twelve (CC) Days of Christmas

On the twelfth day of Christmas, CC gave to me: twelve famous paintings.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, CC gave to me: eleven friends in Challenge.
On the tenth day of Christmas, CC gave to me: ten body systems.
On the ninth day of Christmas, CC gave to me: nine...