Plumbing the Depths: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer
Lenten Reading: On the dedication page of the book, there's a quote from Blessed John Paul II, which he addressed to the Austrian bishops, but is quite applicable to us as parents. "Your first duty as pastors is not projects and organizations, but to lead your people...
Unschooling Resources
From the 4Real Forums: What Is Unschooling?: " We choose to live in ways that keep us conected and involved in each other's day to day lives. ..We believe that learning will happen in its own time and is not more important than loving or hoping or laughing. We live...
“In-Spite-of-Mom” Schooling
A friend at our Catholic Filipino homeschooling forum asked, "What is unschooling?" In years past I've shied away from answering this question because the pioneers already have, and I didn't feel I had anything to contribute. Of course this was years ago at the...
An End-Of-Year Examination of Conscience for the Family
Continued from this post on Raising Pro-Life Children Amid A Culture of Death. There are many versions of an examination of conscience out there. I wrote this for our family, but I share this here in case it might be helpful to anyone else. Are we praying more? Have...
In the Quiet of Advent, the Call
Image: Daiga Ellaby Well, it's done. The RH Bill has passed in the Philippines. Now the real work begins. Some thoughts on this dreary Monday afternoon, as I ponder what my fellow Catholics and Filipino friends and family are facing: I've been thinking of everything...
Where I’ve Been
Faith: From Project: Sowing Seeds: 101!! Books to Read in this Year of Faith -- includes some of my favorites, some that I've been meaning to read, and many that I've never heard of before. Poll: Catholics want pastors to blog. Yes, Father, we do. It would be a great...
Soulmates / Soul Mates in Catholic Doctrine
Our online pro-life group started a discussion over the weekend on "soulmates". It took several interesting turns, and many participated, but I don't know that we completely addressed the gist of the OP's question: He asked: The popular saying goes: may nakalaang tao...
Logic/Philosophy for Kids
Now that the whole curriculum planning thing is over, I looked at our Logic text and it just looks so boring. So we're either supplementing, or totally changing the plan. These may be what will occupy our Sunday afternoons. Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical...
Nino’s Favorite Books, August 2012 Edition
Watch Me Hop is geared more for younger kids, I think, although at 3 Nino still enjoys moving it back and forth to see the pictures move. The book features "lenticular technology" which is a really fun phrase to teach toddlers who can't quite say their Ls and Rs yet....
GTD For Kids
The last few weeks I've been re-applying the lessons I learned from David Allen's Getting Things Done. I have managed to whittle my piles quite a bit that I can now sit at my desk and not be so overwhelmed with the stuff surrounding me. I still have a few more weeks...
Musings for Aisa
Well, Ais, since I've missed more than a week already, this will be more like another brain dump. I know you don't mind. 🙂 Paco was all excited with the paycheck he got before we left for Migi's NYLT. Wow, his second paycheck (the first one was from Google) and just...
Let’s Not Waste The Jacuzzi!!
We moved into this house 6 years ago, and to this day we have not used the jacuzzi the way it was intended. We just use it as a playtub for Nino and never let the water get past the jets. Today I finally found a non-toxic way to clean it. Hooray! Found it here. 1....
Curriculum 2012-2013 6th Grade
Finally done with curriculum planning! This is for our 10-year-old, going into 6th grade: Religion: Following Christ Reading and Language Arts: Classical Writing Aesop and Homer + her booklist: The Master Puppeteer The Story of a Bad Boy Aunt Vinnie's Invasion Aunt...
Nino’s Favorites, July Edition
These are some of the books that we've been reading and reading since spring. I considered posting others that he liked but weren't as good and to put my "Not Recommended" notes on them, but thought it might be more productive to post books here that are KEEPERS....
Blogging for Aisa, Day 2
It's actually 1:34 am as I write this. I wasn't planning on writing it 'til this morning around 6:30, but Nino (because of his very weird day) is still awake and asked to come downstairs and play. Guess what he's playing with right now: staple wire. Don't ask me why....