Poetry and hymns are a carry over from my childhood homeschool days. My mother encouraged us to memorize the works of poets like Joyce Kilmer and Strickland Gillilan, and also took the time after lunch to serenade us at the piano with Blessed Assurance and other traditional hymns of the south. Now in my home, […]
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At The Foot Of The Cross: A Musical Journey Through Lent {Week 5}
We’ve made it to Week 5! I hope this Laetare week gave your family the respite and final push that I know ours needed to finish out Lent with rigor. If you are just joining us, I’m so glad you are here! Take the plunge and begin this devotion with today’s two listenings and music […]
At The Foot Of The Cross: A Musical Journey Through Lent {Week 4}
I’m so glad you have joined us on this Forth Friday in Lent. It’s hard to believe that we are now official half-way through the season! It is sailing by for out family and I need to stay on top of things. I hope this devotion and any other disciplines your family has taken on this […]
At The Foot Of The Cross: A Musical Journey Through Lent {Week 3}
The third Friday of Lent is upon us! Hopefully your family has found its rhythm and is now in the full swing of the season. It always takes our family a little bit to reacquaint ourselves with the discipline of Lent. To those who may be just now starting this musical journey with us, feel […]
At The Foot Of The Cross: A Musical Journey Through Lent {Week 2}
Here we are, Week 2 of our Lenten journey, At The Foot Of The Cross. I hope your family was able to ease on into this penitential season last week with the aid of Our Lady of Sorrows and Antonin Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. If you are just now finding us, go ahead and jump in […]
At The Foot Of The Cross: A Musical Journey Through Lent {Week 1}
Welcome to Week 1 of our musical journey through Lent, At The Foot Of The Cross! I’m so thankful your family will be joining us! Each week we will visit a movement or two of Dvořák’s cantata Stabat Mater. YouTube videos of each week’s selection(s) will be provided, along with the sung Latin text from the […]
At The Foot Of The Cross: A Musical Journey Through Lent {Overview}
For years music had been one of the simple ways our family reflects and prepares our souls for the greatest feast of the Christian year. With so many littles, employing music in our Lenten devotions it is an easy, no-cost way to help tune their hearts to the sacrifice of our Lord and prayerfully await […]
Music for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 150th Birthday
Laura Ingalls Wilder always brings to my mind the words of Bilbo Baggins, “… it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” To say our family is keen on the classic writings of Wilder would be a gross understatement. Right now we’re almost half way through On the Banks of Plum Creek and […]
Music for Candlemas
Also called The Feast of the Presentation or The Purification of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Candlemas marks forty days after the birth of Jesus. To help your family commemorate today, I have created a Candlemas playlist for y’all to enjoy while dipping candles, taking down Christmas decorations, or just savoring your supper. The playlist […]
A Burns Day Teatime Treat
Tomorrow is the 258th birthday of the renowned Scottish romantic poet Robert Burns. In Scotland, Burns Day is traditionally commemorated with haggis and whiskey, however, the Bairns and I will be having a wee poetry tea party to enjoy his works of music and verse. “To a Mouse” is one of their favorite poems and […]