Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
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Understood Betsy was one of my favorite novels when I was girl. But (to be perfectly honest) I didn't read it for a very long time and in the process kind of forgot why it was a favorite. When I read it again, it all came back to me why I loved it so much as a girl and even as a young woman. It was an easy choice to include in A Month of Cozy …
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Do you like old-fashioned books? I do and I've downloaded many of the titles below. I thought I would put together a post of 100+ free old-fashioned cozy books for Kindle for others who might enjoy discovering some new titles and new-to-them authors. This is a great way to stretch your book budget and still have lots and lots of things to …
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Confession time. In addition to my love of cozy picture books, I enjoy young adult fiction from around the turn of the century. I especially enjoy reading novels set in high school and college as well as vintage adventure books from the 1910s through the 1930s. Books like the Anne of Green Gables series, the Betsy-Tacy books, the All-of-a-Kind …
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When you held that little baby in your arms, did you ever imagine you would get to the day when you had to think about how to talk with your daughter about puberty? And yet here it is. I think it is especially important to discuss hormones and the emotional aspects associated with puberty if you have a highly sensitive daughter. These girls feel …
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Finding wholesome books for girls and early tweens can be challenging. So much of what is being published today is drivel at best to downright concerning or even abhorrent. If you have a sensitive girl, it's even more challenging. In an effort to help, I've compiled a list of books for girls of various ages that would fall into the category of …
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In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen by Cynthia Rylant is the first book in The Cobble Street Cousins, a series of six books about three young girls. I had no idea when I ordered them for Caroline how much they would come to mean to her. This series of books has an honored place on her bookshelves. In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen The Cobble Street cousins are …
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The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a must-read American pioneer children's novel. It is one of my favorite novels in the Little House series. My husband, David, didn't read the Little House books growing up and decided to read them all a few years ago. He thoroughly enjoyed them! So you are never too old to add them to your collection …
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Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a look at her husband's childhood in upstate New York. It covers the time period of when he was a boy just beginning to mature into young manhood. Of all the Little House books, Farmer Boy is perhaps the coziest as it shares so much about family life, homemaking, character development, holidays, and the …
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Teaching Caroline about Jesus and the Bible is very important to us. We want her to have a faith of her own that grows and develops at an appropriate pace and level for her as an individual. Part of that has been finding children's Bibles that work for our family. (By way of background for new readers, she's seven and a half, very right brained and …
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Watching the Kit Kittredge: An American Girl DVD opened up the topic of the Great Depression for Caroline, my seven year old daughter. Although it offers a somewhat happy and sanitized view of the Great Depression, it does hit on a lot of the major topics in a way a small girl can understand. Kit Kittredge Kit is living a lovely middle class …
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A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. I think this is definitely the case with helping children understand the Great Depression. Children of the Great Depression is another great book for teachers and parents who are teaching on this topic. The book is full of remembrances and comments by those who were children during the Great …
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Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie are five sisters growing up in a poor Jewish family in New York City in the early 1900’s. The classic read-aloud All-of-a-Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor includes five chapter books that follow the joys and sorrows, faith and celebrations of the special family. This was by far one of my favorite …
