Adventures at Avalon

Amateur Hour at Avalon

Amateur Hour at Avalon

One of the hardest parts of homeschooling is the freedom and flexibility. Oh yes, it's *wonderful* to enjoy the occasional pajama morning, to organize lessons around a tyrannical toddler's nap...

Amateur Hour at Avalon

One of the hardest parts of homeschooling is the freedom and flexibility. Oh yes, it's *wonderful* to enjoy the occasional pajama morning, to organize lessons around a tyrannical toddler's nap...

Harvest Time on Apple Island

Harvest Time on Apple Island

More and more, I find our lives shifting away from the modern grind of the 9-5, with two weeks off for good behavior, and towards the natural rhythms of the...

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Harvest Time on Apple Island

More and more, I find our lives shifting away from the modern grind of the 9-5, with two weeks off for good behavior, and towards the natural rhythms of the...

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Introducing Peregrine

Introducing Peregrine

Peregrine Arthur Good entered the world in the middle of May, when spring in Michigan was at its finest and the apple blossoms were just beginning to fade. A Macintosh...

Introducing Peregrine

Peregrine Arthur Good entered the world in the middle of May, when spring in Michigan was at its finest and the apple blossoms were just beginning to fade. A Macintosh...

Mary's Month: Celebrating Our Blessed Mother

Mary's Month: Celebrating Our Blessed Mother

Happy May Day, friends! It's the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, patron of our little shop, and the beginning of a month set aside for devotion to Mary. A...

Mary's Month: Celebrating Our Blessed Mother

Happy May Day, friends! It's the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, patron of our little shop, and the beginning of a month set aside for devotion to Mary. A...

Odds and Ends: New Kitchen Rosary Release and Spring on the Homestead

Odds and Ends: New Kitchen Rosary Release and S...

Spring break is off to a monumental start here at Avalon! This is our dedicated spring homesteading week: the first time Zach has extended time at home during daylight hours...

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Odds and Ends: New Kitchen Rosary Release and S...

Spring break is off to a monumental start here at Avalon! This is our dedicated spring homesteading week: the first time Zach has extended time at home during daylight hours...

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The Fittingness of Wood

The Fittingness of Wood

"I always like wood," he remarked. "Modern things are made with steel and tin, hard, sharp, cold things without smell. Or worse, there are things of plastic, spineless gooey stuff...

The Fittingness of Wood

"I always like wood," he remarked. "Modern things are made with steel and tin, hard, sharp, cold things without smell. Or worse, there are things of plastic, spineless gooey stuff...