Over the past few months, I’ve missed blogging. I would love to continue Bona Vita, but simply don’t have the time to post and network regularly. However, after several months of brainstorming, I think I have discovered a solution.
My daughter, Emily, an occasional guest blogger here, has agreed to take a more active role in [...]
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Changes are Coming!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Power In Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This school year, I was introduced to an educational resource that has proven invaluable: The Homeschool Buyer’s Coop. This is a purchasing cooperative for homeschooling families. One family started this co-op so that individual homeschooling families could gain the purchasing power of a larger group. Similar to a school district, their size allows this coop to [...]
Angels We Have Heard On High
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Christmas season has definitely arrived in our home. Decorating has finally begun and it’s shaping up quite nicely. Our little guys enjoy the entire decorating experience: the music , the tasty treats and the festive activities. Of course, they always add such a delightful air to the moment. Every ornament that we hang on the [...]
Photographic Friday
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Here I go again!
The theme for today’s meme is “Just Outside Your Door“. Please remember the rules:
1. Photograph an object, room, or person in keeping with the posted topic.
2. Post one picture on your blog.
3. Include a link to Bona Vita’s Photographic Friday in your post.
4. Through Bona Vita’s Mr. Linky, link to your Photographic Friday blog post [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!”
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Get Ready For Photographic Friday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged home life, Photographic Friday, photography on November 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I want to encourage others to capture the beauty of simple objects in their lives through photography. Consider the loveliness in a bowl of fruit, a basket of eggs, a table setting, snow laden branches or even a stack of wood.
Hopefully, this meme will inspire you to perceive charm and artistry in the routine. Here’s how it works:
1. Photograph [...]
Food For Thought
Posted in Education, Home Education, children, tagged Books, children, Classics, Jim Trelease, reading, Veritas Press on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our children have not been given the opportunity to read much in the way of pop literature. They have missed out on ”The Babysitter Club”, “The Saddle Club”, and even the “Harry Potter” collection. They rarely read Christian pop-literature such as “The Mandie Series”, Janette Oke’s ”Women of the West”, and Tim LaHaye’s ”Left Behind: The Kids” series.
It’s not that [...]
The Prevailing Tone
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tone is an author’s attitude toward her work or audience. It may be formal, informal, sad, satirical, humorous or serious. This tone creates the mood of the entire piece. The mood created from the tone is the prevailing feeling or the emotional state of mind throughout the work. Tone is fluid and thus can change [...]
Home Life
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am often amused by the preconceived ideas some have about our life at home with nine children. Concern has been raised that we might be overwhelmed with chaos, clutter and crayon marked walls, not necessarily in that order. This supposedly all occurs as we serve our family non-descript casseroles and fish sticks on a regular basis. What [...]
