Here's something new for the kiddos!

Go to http://www.vocalpoint.com/mottsfortots

 

 

for a free sample while supplies last!

A Beautiful Spring Day

Here's some fun we had today

Ummm....I'm not too sure guys......

Ok, that's better!

 

Reading Plan for 2011

Here are my reading selections for 2011 (some are children's - I'm working through what I missed when I was a kid):

Fiction:

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Avonlea

Anne of the Island

Anne of Windy Poplars

Sense and Sensibility

Emma

Mansfield Park

Northanger Abbey

Persuasion

Lady Susan

The Magician's Nephew

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Horse and His Boy

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle

The Forty-Two Tales (Edgar Allen Poe)

Robinson Crusoe

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Black Beauty

Gone Away Lake

Return to Gone Away Lake

The Secret Garden

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Winnie-the-Pooh

The Hobbit

Johnny Tremain

The Borrowers

The Railway Children

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Non-fiction:

The Bible (I'm not trying to get through it all, just reading each day)

Desiring God

My Life for Your's

Passionate Housewives Desperate for God

Spiritual Mothering

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

The Holiness of God

The Power of a Praying Wife

Shepherding a Child's Heart

The Age of Opportunity

The Book of Virtues

The Valley of Vision

Total Truth

Twelve Extraordinary Women

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

Beautiful Girlhood

For the Children's Sake

For the Family's Sake

The Hidden Art of Homemaking

Open Heart, Open Home

Disciplines of a Godly Woman

Family Practice

A Charlotte Mason Companion

Home Education (Charlotte Mason)

A Philosophy of Education (Charlotte Mason)

I'll be updating my side bar as I complete a book, let's see how far I actually get......8-)

A New Year

I am excited to be in a new year. Shortly after my previous post, our lives took an unexpected turn last year - during which time I did not post to this blog. A number of factors were involved in not writing at the time and now looking back I'm glad for the absence of posts. It's nice to look back on our time in Iowa through the pictures and writings that are here and remember the happiness and joy of the children, how wonderful it was to have our first home, to see our garden, etc. without any of the negative time documented. 8-)

Now, here we are in a new year with hopeful expectations for the time ahead of us. 2010 closed with great provision from the Lord and the blessing of hope renewed, I look forward to the year ahead!