Welcoming us to the 105th Annual Stilesboro Chrysanthemum Show were the members of the Stilesboro Improvement Club. Each year the ladies raise funds by providing lunch in one of the two Stilesboro Academy classrooms, dubbed the Tea Room for the day.…
Ray and I recently enjoyed the 105th Annual Stilesboro Chrysanthemum Show. The setting for the show is Stilesboro Academy, built in 1859. The Stilesboro Improvement Club has been hosting the show in teeny Stilesboro since 1912. Several of the volunteers I…
On our way home from Canada in August, Ray and I did what we enjoy so much — we stopped at historic sites on the way back home. One of our stops was the home of President Franklin Roosevelt in Hyde…
Once upon a time, I was a frazzled, worried, weeping homeschooling mama — so frazzled and worried and weeping that we did what would be unthinkable to me now. We quit homeschooling — for two whole years. I regret it. I grieve the…
Each moment you spend with your children is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live that moment together. The same is true for each moment you spend with others you hold dear — your husband, your parents, your grandparents, your friends, your…
Our Mary Evelyn is a writer. Yesterday I told you about the new edition of her book Katy. Tomorrow we are scheduled to release its sequel, Katy’s Box, the sweet story about Katy’s family’s first year of homeschooling. Every homeschooling mama can identify…
