Hobbit School

Sometimes the little boys like to dressed up for school, today was hobbits. My little hobbits are growing up!

Matthias insisted that he had to use a chicken feather to write with... just like Bilbo. I really didn't want to get into homemade ink this morning, so he is just pretending.

I think they wish they were just pretending!

Except for Felix, once he got over the struggle of learning to read (he is dyslectic) we can't stop him. Here he is reading Richard Halliburton's complete The Book of Marvels, a book recommended in the Mater Amabilis Curriculum.

Not hobbits anymore, but aren't they sweet?

Poetry Friday, September is a Stallion

For Lydia!

September is a Stallion

September is a stallion
With a flowing, tawny mane
Who has never know a bridle
Nor a rider, nor a reign;
A steed of bronze and amber
Whose bright hooves strike the ground
With a sharp staccato rhythm
And an icy ringing sound.
September is a mustang
From wild, untrammeled skies
Who gallops down the earthways
With wind enchanted eyes.

-Virginia Moran Evans

Wordless Wednesday, Fall Breakfast

Worldless Wednesday