Your child will label each part of the gingerbread house using the word bank. The words include:
- roof
- window
- door
- candy stick
- gumdrop
- chimney
- frosting
This is also part of my Christmas Themed Learning Pack.
Merry Christmas!
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Your child will label each part of the gingerbread house using the word bank. The words include:
This is also part of my Christmas Themed Learning Pack.
Merry Christmas!
Happy Thanksgiving Friday! If you are an American, I hope you are having a lovely holiday weekend. We are still planning on making our Thanksgiving meal this weekend when Caroline feels more like enjoying it.
Other than that, it’s a quiet weekend around our home with puttering and making the most of the days.
Today I’m featuring another oil on canvas by Albert Anker. This is Knitting Girl Watching The Toddler In A Cradle (1885).
I covered Anker’s bio in Simple Living This Week No. 102. I believe these are all Anker’s paintings I’ve used to this point. I didn’t make a note of the artist when I first started using different artwork for posts. A few of them I need to go back and have David redo because we were using a different source when we started. But I think this is all of them. There is something wholesome and real that I appreciate about Anker’s work.
Since this is a holiday week and we’re still recovering from sickness, I’m going to keep this simple today and put everything under home life.
David spent a lot of time yesterday dusting, vacuuming, etc. in preparation for Christmas decorating. He moved all the furniture and did a thorough job. We are hoping to have all of the Christmas decorations out before Monday. A lot of it will depend on energy levels.
I’ve been doing behind the scenes work on my website since I haven’t felt like doing much else. I added four new posts, republished some archived posts, and kept the forum up-to-date with new info for the members.
There are so many sales going on right now. These are all affiliate links so if you use one of these links, I get a small amount back at no extra cost to you.
The Old Schoolhouse & SchoolHouse Teachers
If I find more sales, I’ll add them on!
What is up in your home? Did you have a nice Thanksgiving? Are you decorating for Christmas yet? I hope you’ll leave a comment!
Welcome to the first Friday of November. I hope your month is off to a good start. Today all three of us are all healthy and I pray that continues.
I’m very much experiencing the change fatigue I wrote about this week. I cannot remember the last “normal” week we had as a family. Honestly. Every week it is something or a number of somethings, usually caused by people or circumstances beyond our control. We weren’t created to live like this. It’s not natural and it’s exhausting. When I consider that our life is fairly simple compared to that of so many others, I can only imagine how difficult life is for many people right now. But I keep going, asking the Lord to lead and protect us. I return time and again to Psalm 91.
I happened on today’s featured painting last night while I was searching for a piece to use. I believe it’s called The Prelude by Edmund Blair Leighton.
I’ve used Leighton’s works before but have never included a biography.
Edmund Blair Leighton (1852 – 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specializing in Regency and medieval subjects.
Leighton was the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton. He was educated at University College School, before becoming a student at the Royal Academy Schools. He married Katherine Nash in 1885 and they went on to have a son and daughter. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1920.
Leighton was a fastidious craftsman, producing highly finished, decorative pictures, displaying romanticized scenes with a popular appeal.
…played a distinguished part in aiding the public mind to an appreciation of the romance attaching to antiquity, and to a realisation of the fellowship of mankind throughout the ages.
I did a quick skim of my past posts and I believe these all feature Leighton’s work. I’m basing a few of these on how they are labeled online in image searches because not all of them show up in his artist wiki.
This week I did a bigger grocery shopping trip. I hadn’t been to the store since Caroline got sick in late September. David has been doing the shopping (and he does a very good job). But I wanted to go myself and see the state of the shelves and prices. Some things that were always out in the past were stocked fully. Other things that were always available were not. More than a few things were not purchased because they are just too expensive now. I cannot fathom what is going to happen in this country if prices continue to rise, especially when we haven’t even reached the worst of the financial system collapse.
I also did a lot of mindless paperwork and organizing on my computer. When I’m tired it’s something I can get done without too much effort.
David finished up the leaves for the year and gave the lawn what he thinks is the last mowing. It’s always so much work for him for about a month because we have a number of large trees in the back of our yard. I’m always glad for him when that task is done.
It was a fantastic year for color and I’m truly thankful for that. It’s such a letdown when it isn’t and you’ve looked forward to it all summer. There was no letdown this year!
Caroline is already making and shopping for Christmas presents for her friends. She loves to give gifts and is so excited. On the other hand, I’m trying to not think about the approaching Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays as One. More. Thing. To. Do. for her sake. But that’s a bit how it feels at this moment. I don’t want to feel that way so I need to adjust my thinking.
We had a low-key week. Caroline was still sleeping later this week as she seemed to be lagging a bit. I don’t think she ever fully recovered from the first cold and ear infection before the next cold hit her or she relapsed. In either case, I didn’t push her very hard. We’ve done some work and that’s fine. Yesterday she seemed to be back to normal so hopefully it will be full-steam ahead now.
I’ve been thinking a lot of education and homeschooling. Observing the parent uprisings against local school boards/systems, seeing higher education condemned and ridiculed for what it has become, and watching many Americans finally begin to utterly reject what we call education in this country is truly fascinating. If only a portion of the good people of this country would unplug from it all and reject it, the entire rotted shell would collapse much more quickly. The education systems are so wicked and compromised at every level that I honestly don’t think they are redeemable. This transition time from what we have now to whatever is to come is going to be a rocky ride for many families, but there is no way around it.
I did a lot of website writing this week.
I added a daily entry to my Michigan 2022 Election News series so that was seven posts. Please pray for our elections here.
I wrote two posts and updated one:
I wrote three Morning Hope posts:
In addition to keeping up with posting information in the forums, I also recorded two podcasts.
Sallie’s Rebuilding America No. 51
and
Sallie’s Rebuilding America No. 52
The one thing I have been terrible at the past few months is getting out a weekly newsletter. I have utterly failed in that regard. I tell myself that I’m doing the best I can and that’s all I can do. That’s all any of us can do. But if you were wondering if I’ve abandoned my weekly newsletter the answer is – not intentionally. Hopefully it will resume.
What happened in your world this week? I hope you’ll leave a comment and share.
Although I am not Catholic, I have a great deal of respect for Archbishop Vigano as he speaks out against the evil we are fighting. These are highlights from Abp. Viganò: Globalist doctrine is essentially ‘satanic’; we must ‘rebuild’ Christendom.
Well, since we cannot expect the Great Reset conspirators to tell us clearly what their final goal is – since it is something unmentionable and criminal – we can nevertheless reconstruct the mens, the thought that guides their actions by knowing the principles that inspire their actions and backing them up with their own words. And we are also able to understand that the reasons given are only pretexts. And yet the pretexts, as they are presented, demonstrate malice and premeditation, for if their plan were honest and good, they would not need to disguise it with illogical and incoherent excuses.
But what is this Great Reset? It is the forced imposition of a fourth industrial revolution that will lead the present economic and social system to implosion, and will allow, through a general impoverishment and a drastic reduction of the population, the centralisation of power in the hands of an elite of aspirants to immortality and world domination. They would like to reduce us to an amorphous mass of clients/slaves confined in boxes and perpetually connected to the network.
Through the Great Reset, they want to erase Western Christian society in order to establish a liberal-communist synarchy on the model of the Chinese dictatorship, in which the entire population is controlled and manoeuvrable at will.
and
The globalist world has no future. Or rather: the future it intends to give us is the darkest and most terrifying that the human mind can conceive. The future it presents to us is false and unrealizable. “I don’t have a house, I don’t own anything, and I’m happy,” Schwab and the promoters of Agenda 2030 try to convince us. But their aim is not to make us happy – which will not happen in time, of course – but to take away our homes and possessions. When they talk to us about pacifism and disarmament, it is not because they want peace, but because, being disarmed and without ideals, we will let ourselves be invaded and dominated without reacting. By imposing welcome and “inclusiveness” on us – adopting an insider’s lexicon – they do not want us to really welcome and integrate people from other cultures and religions, but they want to create the premises for social disorder and the consequent disappearance of our traditions and our Faith.
and
Never expect the truth from the Great Reset advocates. For where there is no Christ, there can be no Truth, and we know how much they hate Our Lord. A hatred they cannot hide, which they display in the inauguration shows of European events (think of the inauguration of the St Gothard tunnel in Switzerland or the London Olympic Games, and very recently the inauguration of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham), in the “recommendations” not to celebrate Christmas and not to use Christian names for our children. Their hatred becomes murderous when they theorise abortion as a “human right,” hiding its atrocity behind the hypocritical expression of “reproductive health:” because it is life that they hate, in which they see the image and likeness of that God they have lost forever.
and
It is therefore not surprising that transhumanism is one of the key points of Agenda 2030. Behind this crazy project of getting hold of creation and even daring to alter the sanctuary of consciousness into which only God descends with His Grace; behind this plan to violate the human being in order to “make him more efficient” there is, once again, a doctrinal aberration, a lie opposed to the Truth of God. To create an immortal being – as some would have it – is the technological reissue of an infernal delirium, at the base of which is the presumption of being able to erase in man the consequences of Original Sin. Where Adam’s sin brought death and disease, the deception of transhumanism promises immortality and health; where it led to the weakening of the intellect and the evil inclination of the will, the fraud of the machine-man promises access to knowledge and the possibility of being one’s own law. Where sin led to work fatigue, war and epidemics, the globalist dystopia promises a universal income, peace and the prevention of all diseases.
Welcome to Friday. I hope your week was a good one. This was a difficult week for our family. Rather than discuss it here, I’ll simply point you to the post I just published this morning: Occam’s Mirror and Surrounded By False Reality.
Today I’m featuring a new artist. Peasant Girl is by Norwegian painter Hans Dahl.
Wikipedia tells us (edited by me for brevity):
Hans Dahl (1849 – 1937) was a Norwegian painter. Hans Dahl was most known for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes.
Hans Dahl was born in the village of Granvin, on the Hardangerfjord in Hordaland, Norway. His talent was already evident when Dahl was 16 years old. However, it was only after service in the army that Dahl received artistic education.
Dahl resisted the transition in art from Romanticism to Modernism. In the 1890s a new school of art arose, and artists like Dahl were not very popular in the leading circles in the capital. He was particularly criticised by the art historian Jens Thiis. He was severely criticized by fellow artists especially by Christian Krohg, who was one of the leading figures in the transition from romanticism to naturalism which characterized Norwegian art in this period. Throughout his life, he increasingly narrowed his range of topics. Dahl often described the scenery of the western part of Norway in brilliant sunshine with smiling people in national costumes. His vibrant colors and charming portrayals of young Norwegian girls in their national costume have always been very popular.
I’ll be sharing more by Dahl in the weeks ahead. He has some beautiful, cheerful paintings.
I had originally planned to start some things with Caroline this week, but she wasn’t feeling well when the week started and I was all out of sorts as explained in the other post so I decided to wait.
I wrote earlier this week about some of the work I was doing in Make The Most Of Your Pantry. I won’t repeat that here. I will say I’ve continued to work for 20-30 minutes each day on the other parts of the basement after the big slider puzzle and I’m happy with the progress I’m making.
I have also been working on the kitchen. It’s not going as quickly as I wanted, but I’m okay with that since I got a lot of other things done.
The vacuum sealer has been getting a bit of a workout this week. I like seeing the finished product.
David harvested the potatoes we grew in buckets. We got a LOT of them, but many of them were very small. I need to ask my brother what we can do to improve their sizes the next time around.
David and I finally finished updating two products in the shop. It feels good to have them done! If you have previously purchased them, you can get a new copy in your shop account. See the website menu bar for a link.
I did write a few posts this week including:
I added quite a bit to the Forum.
That’s it for now. I’m off to send out the newsletter. I hope you’ll share what you’ve been working on in your home. ♥