School Adaptations

Doing school time in bed as Mama recovers from fever-and-aches that she hopes proves to have been a one-day bug 

One way in which little boys read books--they also do somersaults, headstands, and flips while reading!

Meditation of the day:

“Large families can foster holiness for a variety of reasons.  For the parents, here are three: less sleep, higher costs, and more work. Three great reasons, some might say, for willfully avoiding children altogether.  And many do.  But not if your aim is heaven.  Indeed, the fruits of conjugal love produce the conditions by nature that monks and nuns have to impose upon themselves by grace (i.e., by accepting the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience).  Along these lines there is a famous story from St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s life at Carmel.  Then, as now, within a monastery a bell is the common call to prayer.  So prompt was Thérèse’s obedience that at its first ring she would throw down her pen, leaving behind a half formed word on the page.  Well, in the domestic church, the cry of a child is like St. Thérèse’s bell; it often tolls.” --Dr. Ryan Topping (Thomas More College)