In February, an awful cold virus was going around and took us all out one by one (perhaps it was going around where you live, too? The one with the residual cough that lasted for like three or four weeks). Ephraim had it the worst, making my gradual night-weaning attempts fly out the window (hello all night nursing sessions!) Poor baby.
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Charlotte Mason says,
About the child hangs, as the atmosphere around a planet, the thought-environment he lives in. And here he derives those enduring ideas which express themselves as a life-long kinship towards things sordid or things lovely, things earthly or divine.
I think that “atmosphere” is made up of everything that surrounds the child: the actions, moods, routines, words, and yes, even the physical things. It’s easy to assume that the only material things that matter in the raising of our children is that their basic needs are met, and to think that their spiritual formation is somehow divorced from their surroundings. If we suffer from such thinking, we must admit to our Gnosticism! As persons, we are embodied; we are physical beings.
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Just popping in to say hello, and that I hope you had a pleasant holiday. All of these pictures are pre-Christmas (the apple pie was for Thanksgiving!), though I guess they're a pretty accurate representation of our winter days: tea and chores and food and knitting. I took a picture of the stacks of clean towels because Indigo folded all of those herself and I was very impressed!
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