Month: February 2009

Plane Tickets

Sarah Bringhurst Familia

Happily, happily, after several more calls to AirOne Airlines, we are now in possession of four beautiful confirmation numbers (one for each of us) on return tickets to Italy. March 26 is our lucky day!

Everyone here tells us how lucky we are to live in Italy, and I heartily concur. We’ve just been away way too long.

Tony and I started reading our first literature in Italian today. Cuore, by Edmondo De Amicis. Wish us luck! We only got through a couple of paragraphs, and we didn’t understand everything. But it made us miss Italy.… Read more

Casteluzzo Academy

Sarah Bringhurst Familia

My first Charlotte Mason term during October-December of last year was not what I would term a great success. Perhaps I was overambitious. But that’s not such a bad thing. I learned some important lessons about nearly every subject we attempted. We began a new term this week, and I’m quite pleased with the results so far.

We’ve worked out family scriptures quite well. Raj quietly looks at pictures in the Friend magazine with Daddy while I read aloud two or three verses from the Book of Mormon. Before we start, I ask a brief question to recall what we read yesterday, and one of us answers with a short recap.… Read more