We long for the Shining Isle, and we long for the Home that is prepared for us. I hope you will read these books with your children and be inspired, encouraged, and enlivened.
Tag: Family
Poetry: Shakespeare – Sonnet 98
From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smellOf different flowers in odour and in hue,Could make me any summer’s story tell,Or from their proud …
Review: North and South
I first heard of this book several years ago from watching a BBC mini-series based on the book. I loved the story but soon forgot about it until I saw a copy of the novel at a library book sale. I finally decided to read it (and listen to it) this year as part of …
Children’s Church Part 2 – Let the Little Children Come
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Poetry: Hamilton – Song for a Fifth Child
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,Hang out the washing and butter the bread,Sew on a button and make up a bed.Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking. Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).Dishes are waiting …
Madelyn Rose Craig 