Archive.org

 I've been using archive.org for a few years now to access books recommended for Charlotte Mason homeschoolers. Many of them are out of print and are free on public domain. Guttenburg and archive are two of the biggest sources I've seen for this. 

But recently, it occurred to me to try books for me. 😀 There are many titles I don't have and haven't read for years. Some I have found on Kindle such as the Dinny Gordon series. So after searching, I found several of my old favorites!! I have dropped most of my other reading completely, temporarily!

So far I've read First Serve, Wait for Marcy and Marcy Catches Up, and Scarlet Royal. Now I'm in the middle of Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children. 

My heart is happy!

Playing Checkers

 

Teaching my grandson how to play chess. But first needs to learn not to touch everything, take turns, and count. Hahaha

New Books

 So I just found out that there is another series of books called Story of the World that is by Margaret Bertha Synge, not by Susan Wise Bauer. I started reading it the same night I heard about it. 

I'm several chapters into the first Volume and I definitely don't like it nearly as much as the SotW that I've been familiar with. It's already covered cultures in Mesopotamia and Egypt but hasn't mentioned anything about their lifestyles, religions, inventions, hierarchy, or anything I would expect. Only a few famous characters but not even all the pertinent ones of that, it seems to me.

Still interesting and I'm looking forward to reading through the entire series.

Snow Fun

 

Winter Crafts

 

Art Class

I wasn't able to attend her destination birthday party, so I took my niece Abigail for a birthday outing. We made portraits out of odds and ends. Mine is of my mom and Abby invented a friend.