How very nice!

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AwardbmpMany thanks to Patience for bestowing this nice award on me! I happen to think Patience is very nice as well, never mind those shopkeepers in New Zealand. An aside Patience, my husband thinks everyone in New Zealand is infinitely nice and he is determined to migrate there. I keep getting New Zealand travel information from him in my inbox. Now, at least I feel like I have a friend there should he follow through on his plans.

I'd like point out some people who are just as nice in person as they are on their blogs:

Dawn is nice, nice, nice,. I love Dawn's blog. It continually inspires me. Dawn has said she blogs because she loves her life: her family and her faith. And she just wants to share it. That joy is so effusive both on the blog and in person. Dawn is genuinely nice.

Cindy is nice, too. Cindy is my neighbor for a week or so more. Then, she's moving her nice family to Florida (which is a very nice state). Then my children and I will be sad because a nice corner of the neighborhood will never be the same. Last night, as we drove past Cindy's house, I remarked to my daughter that I'd miss them. I said I really couldn't remember a time when they weren't there. And Mary Beth said, "Yes, I think that's what we'll miss. Whenever we need something or we just want to be friends with someone, they're always there.'

"Oh, and,"  she added "you can always count on her to go and get a latte if you really, really want one."
Well, yes dear, there is that. Very nice.

Kim is nice in person, too. She is smart and wise and warm and ever-so-committed to holiness. With Kim, I know that only a phone call away, there is good common sense, warm-hearted inspiration, and a swift kick in the pants if necessary. And there always is the offering of her rosary--the nicest thing she could do. She lives what she believes--and blogs-- and she blesses us abundantly in the genuine sharing.

Bridget is very nice in person--and very tall. I am very short. We look funny together and our height difference belies the fact that our hearts are really in the same place. From Bridget, in real life, I have learned more than I could ever share about being a nice wife. And really, those might be the most important lessons of my lifetime.

Finally, Mary is nice. She's just so way nice I think she might be my dear husband's favorite person of the summer. I so loved meeting Mary in Denver and then having the unexpected joy of having here in my neighborhood with her children just a few weeks later. Mary is a glowingly nice combination of gentle mothering and brilliant home educating. That's one nice mom!

So there you go! Have a very nice Sunday! I'm off to swelter on the sidelines again today. Four soccer games and a football game today. Please pray about the heat index. It's exceedingly difficult to be nice when one is hot.

Point of Information

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The www.4reallearning.com site is down. I'm not sure why...
Anyhoo, if you use that site as a portal to the message boards, the address to get to the message board directly is www.4real.thenetsmith.com.
And if you use it to get to the booklist, the address is http://charlottemason.tripod.com/4real_learning_booklist.htm

If you are looking for specific content from the site, I'll do what I can to dig it up around here somewhere and post it on this blog.

Christmas in August?

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Angel_print_200_2Look at these beautiful Christmas items from a vendor who believes that it's about time someone incorporate Waldorf with Christian faith. And Advent calendars (same folks, different site)... Scroll down here for saints and festivals in wool art. Here is an angel print and a Mother and Child, And...what brought me here initially, alphabet cards for our learning room to go with my ABC book of the year (and they're already laminated so they won't count against that free deal). Mother_child_300_3 An added bonus: A Child's Dream Come True appears to be fully stocked with art supplies (I heard we'd made a run on Paper, Scissors, Stone;-)

While I appreciate the beauty, the materials and some of the methods of Waldorf education, I am not a follower of Rudolf Steiner, his educational philosophy, or his religion. I am a practicing Catholic who is very clear in teaching the faith to her children. Please see this post for any further explanation of incorporating methods or materials that might also appear in Waldorf schools into your home. Take inspiration from what is good and what in in harmony with the true faith and leave the rest. If you can't discern, then leave it all alone.