Proud Charlotte Mason mama moment:  When your daughter, during free time, creates a “Tower of Lon-geon” (London + dungeon) out of Lego, complete with 2 hangings and Good Queen Bess locked inside! Also, it is a working candy dispenser!!  High marks for creativity and historical content.  Overheard the same afternoon: J: Is that Queen Mary? A: Yes. J: Are you going to hang her? A: No. Well, actually yes. J: Yeah, she's Bloody Mary. A: Actually I'll put her in the Tower. ... This is Good Queen Bess over here.  ... Why I can't get this kind of detail in required narrations I don't know ..read more

This blog has been on my mind lately. I've neglected it, due in some part to lack of inspiration or purpose. Many days I have the urge to share an aspect of our home education journey, or capture a small moment of our home life. I haven't known what to do with them, or perhaps how to frame them. When I first started this blog, I was a newlywed, living in a tiny apartment over a clothing store on a historic Ontario mainstreet. The name "Little Hearth" came from my desire to kindle a meaningful and beautiful home life, no matter how small our space. Once we moved to Prince Edward Island, go ..read more

Spring is late coming this year. We usually see our first dandelion pop up on the south side of the house sometime in April, but this year, we had to wait till May 2! I bought my very first watercolour set not long ago. I'm trying it out in my nature notebook. I really have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to painting, but I'm having fun with colour. This is a robin I copied from Bateman's Birds of Eastern North America. All the green things bursting out stir a great wonder and longing in me, and when these are turned toward God, I believe it is prayer. I desire the the fo ..read more