Seven Quick Takes on Donut Makers, a New Study Guide, Spring Break, and MORE!

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It’s time for my annual Easter Break! That’s right: I take time off for Holy Week each year.  I try to stay off social media, too. We take time to recharge, refresh, have some fun, and focus on what matters. House cleaning is also supposed to happen, but I’m not making any promises.

I plan to be back bright and early on Monday, March 28th!

 

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This week, I bought a donut maker. Breakfasts have been sort of boring around here, and I’ve found myself missing the good old days when Si would pick up a discount pastry at the grocery store and we’d enjoy something sweet with breakfast. That hasn’t been happening because gluten free. And also sugar free. That’s a deadly combo. But then I found a whole bunch of THM donut recipes {such as this one} and I thought that all I really needed was a donut maker.

So, when I found one super cheap as an Amazon Warehouse Deal, I snagged it, and this weekend, we’re having ourselves some donuts with breakfast. Everyone is pretty stoked about it. Treats are nice. Even for sugar free and gluten free people!

 

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This week’s links collection:

• The Ides of March: The assassination of Julius Caesar and how it changed the world from The Telegraph
  • Um, some of this wasn’t in Plutarch’s Life of Marcus Brutus. Or, if it was, I didn’t remember. I’m not sure it was so much that the slaying of Cesar changed the world as it was that Brutus lost the subsequent war…
• How the Reversal of Adult and Child Roles Is Hurting Kids from The Atlantic
  • This reminded me of Charlotte Mason, for some reason. 🙂
• Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones from Brain Pickings
  • Ashley introduced me to the idea of the antilibrary, which sent me on a Google expedition, which turned up this helpful post.
• THE LAST WALTZ? by Carl Trueman.
  • The danced until the world ended, it seems…
• Cure for cataracts: scientists use stem cells to grow ‘living lens’ in eye from The Telegraph
  • This sounds promising!

 

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This month in 2010:

It was my first encounter with Charlotte Mason’s fifth volume. I struggled with the book at first, but it totally changed my life.

 

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So my local group is reading through Home Education, which is Charlotte Mason’s first volume. At the same time, I’ve started receiving emails from those of you who are in groups that have completed Start Here and are wondering what to do next. Guess what that added up to? I’m writing a new study guide! It’ll be a bit different from Start Here — more discussion questions, fewer reading assignments — and yet the same {links to free material and pointers on getting the most from the book}.

I don’t have a timeline yet, but I’m enthused. 😉

I’m also taking recommendations if there is anything you’d really like me to include, or opinions on how you’d like it to be. {Speak up soon, or forever hold your peace. 😉 }

 

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Have you planned out your Spring Break yet? I used to not plan, and then it felt sort of ho-hum. Of course, sometimes ho-hum is exactly what one needs! This year, I want to be intentional with at least a part of each day — ideally I’d find that perfect balance between free time and plans. We’re doing a beach day, of course — with gas prices so low, we can’t ignore an opportunity like this. I need to decide on a movie to rent for one night. We’ll do an evening out for treats that can include our sugar-free guy. Maybe hiking? We haven’t gone in a few weeks. I’m trying to finalize my ideas this afternoon.

You? What’s on your bucket list for Spring Break?

 

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Answering Your Questions:

• Question: Could I trouble you to email me the pages from the Book of Centuries you created? I was not able to download them without having to install some programs which I’m not comfortable with (I’m not tech saavy).
  • Answer: You are not the first one to ask about those! The host I used originally made sense at the time, but totally doesn’t make sense now. So. I updated where I’m keeping the files, and downloading them should now be a breeze — one-click, I think! So, head on over to My Book of Centuries Solution to get them.