Vaccination Needs to Remain a Prudential Decision
Do you know how hard it is to be a parent these days? Oh goodness. The multitude of decisions we need to make on a daily basis, ON TOP of just living daily life and deciding what's for dinner. To illustrate, today's parent is often confronted with these choices: -...
Further Up and Further In: The Adventure of Raising Catholic Teens
I started this post days ago. A discussion at the 4Real forums called my attention to this article, and I quickly typed up some notes -- things I wanted to cover in response. That very night, with this post still in my drafts folder, I got a long email from our...
It’s Not About Rabbits, But Maybe It’s Not About You Either
It's been a little over 24 hours since I woke up to Facebook hopping (pun unintended) because of a remark the Pope made on the plane to Rome from Manila, where he spent four days with the Filipino people, celebrating, teaching, loving. Many are upset because once...
What Nino Read, October 2014
Religion The Monk Who Grew Prayer New Catholic Children's Bible - he reads this on his own Catholic Children's Treasure Box Books - he now reads these on his own, and asked me for sacrifice beads, though he hasn't used them much History/Geography Abe Lincoln Remembers...
What Nino Read, September 2014
Corduroy Makes a Cake It's Milking Time (didn't like this one that much -- maybe he can't relate since we hardly ever drink cow's milk here) Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Carnival Prize The Best Kind of Kiss by Margaret Allum *** The Little Piggy's Book of Manners (a...
Nino’s First Grade (After-the-Fact) Curriculum, 2014-2015
(the STARS ***** = Nino's rating) August 2014 Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough ***** I loved it because it was funny and he didn't fix anything. Mr. Popper's Penguins * audio book read by Nick Sullivan I didn't like it because they were penguins and I didn't like Mr....
Nino’s Kindergarten Curriculum, 2013-2014
WHAT WE DID AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO At the beginning of the year, I thought of putting together a Kindergarten curriculum for Nino (4 1/2).... I had bought a really neat book using 26 letters, but then I looked at the booklist and eventually decided......
Ten Ways to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage
My hubby and I will be married 25 years in December. While we don’t claim to know everything there is to know about divorce-proofing a marriage, we do have some experience with growing a marriage to its 25th year. Hope this helps. 1. Start by eliminating DIVORCE from...
How I Didn’t Teach Science 😀
A close friend and fairly new homeschooling mom recently asked, "How do you teach science?" I told her the truth. "I don't." Read the rest here.
God Picks My Lenten Penance
Image: Josh Applegate I suppose jumping right into the writing part will have to be good enough for now. I'm reading another book and having another blog conversation this year. I asked my friend to pick this year and he picked St. Faustina's Divine Mercy in My Soul,...
Help! We’re having a baby! How do I homeschool the toddler/older child(ren)?
Candice, dito ko na ia-address 'yung concerns mo ha, so it can hopefully bless others as well. I was working on a blog post but it got too convoluted. I figured having a specific audience will help me get my thoughts out better 😛 How to homeschool an older child (or...
Fiat and The Family
An entry for Filipinos for Life's December Blogging Event, What Child is This? Bearing Children as the World's Salvation Christmas season is the perfect time to discuss the bearing of children. That today is the Feast of the Holy Family makes it particularly...
Book Organization: Our Shelves
I promised some people a while back that I'd do a post on how we organize our books. The truth is it's a bit hard to do this since our shelves are constantly in flux, but this should give a general idea of how we do things. The actual contents of each shelf changes...
Where Have All The Men Gone? The Quest for Authentic Fatherhood
Have you ever thought about the word "father"? It is so commonplace, and yet has such profound import as to signify the initiation of a man into parenthood: "He FATHERED a child." We don't say, "She mothered a child" until later. Fatherhood is attached to the...
Chopped Horiatiki Salata / Greek Salad
I make no claims at all about the authenticity of this recipe. I've read in places that romaine lettuce does not play a part at all in traditional horiatiki. All I know is that our Greek foodie friend who married a Greek foodie gal are two of the coolest people...