We took the encouragement to get a popsicle mold, and the kids have a new favorite way to beat the heat. Our homemade yogurt, some fruit, and a little honey – so simple and so delicious. ?

“The best safeguard against bad literature is a full experience of good.” – C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

You might be the older sibling of a homeschool family if... you regularly go on family hikes that end in rucking a toddler. ??

Barn Kitties ?

And it feels so deliciously decadent to visit Arrakis during a downpour...

“The soil is the greatest connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it, we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” – Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

“If the antiquity of tradition is instead a pale reflection of the eternity of the divine—if tradition draws its very longevity and power from the fount of eternal youth itself, and owes its immense antiquity to the fact that it emerges, not merely from dusty and encrusted hoary old habit, but from the ‘oldest’ thing itself, from the very root of the ‘old,’ from what is perennial and sempiternal and evergreen—then tradition to that same extent embodies a dignity which no secular science can diminish or supplant, and carries a wisdom, though perhaps in secret or esoteric form, which no secular science can unaided attain.” – John Bruce Leonard, “Faith in Folk”

PS – On the subject of favorites, pictured is my favorite board book version of Pride and Prejudice. Cozy Classics feature illustrations of adorable needle felted characters and do an impressive job of conveying the storyline in just a dozen one-word pages.

I've received one of my favorite heralds of spring: the first fistful of wildflowers, a special bouquet for Mommy. ? She picked out which jar we would put it in, and our table is officially adorned for the season of new life.