Summer is just around the corner so today I wanted to take the time and share with you my mother culture plans for the summer!
If you haven’t already, you can read more details about what mother culture is, and how I implement time for my mother culture in the beginning of this blog article.
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“What we need is a habit of taking our minds out of what one is tempted to call “the domestic rag-bag” of perplexities, and giving it a good airing in something which keeps it “growing.”…if we would do our best for our children, grow we must; and on our power of growth surely depends, not only our future happiness, but our future usefulness.”
THE PARENTS’ REVIEW: MOTHER CULTURE BY A.
Books I’m Reading
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
- The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
- Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Plan for the World by Timothy J. Keller
- Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes
- Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation by Nancy Guthrie
- The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
- Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel by Shelby Van Pelt
- Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Other Reading Material
- Common Place Quarterly (my copy of volume 5, issue 2 just arrived in the mail!)
- Most of A Mother’s Education Booklist by Beth from Little World Wanderers
- Inductive Bible study from the book of Ephesians
- Attributes of God study by Daily Grace Co.
Restful Learning
- The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling by John Muir Laws
- The Art of Cursive Penmanship by Michael R. Sull
- Tree nature study using field guides and the Handbook of Nature Studies
- Crochet
- Educational workshops from Delightfully Feasting (I’m enjoying her Principles over Practices workshop right now and always love to revisit the Schole workshops!)
We begin homeschool lessons towards the end of July and now that I’m mostly finished up with homeschool prep for the new year, I can spend the next month or so enjoying a slower pace in my mother culture plans as well as soak up the time with my family.
How about you? I’d love to hear from you in the comments about what you’re reading, and what kinds of restful learning are you enjoying this season!
