• After breakfast, whenever that may be the kids and I work through light schedules.  Two of my children are happily working through an assignment based tick-list in their rooms. I wander through and make sure they understand what they are doing and stop for discussion as I have the opportunity.  Einstein sits at the kitchen table where I can more actively nudge and encourage him.
  

• After lunch we head off to our separate spaces for an hour os quiet time - simply time to relax, think, read or create without interruption. It helps to stop the rivalry that was becoming a bit of an issue.  (For me its been a time to re-connect with what a classical education is and isn't.)
  

• The afternoons are a mix of enjoying some family fun, catching up with friends or interactive creative time. its been nice ot set aside some time to be instead of rush.
  

• Finalizing workbooks from my PDF copy of Mother Tongue - which is also my personal grammar study.

• Wisdom And Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm For Classical Learning

• Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin Tracy Lee Simmons;

• "Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education"  James S. Taylor;
  

• "Socratic Logic 3e: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles" Peter Kreeft;

• Composition in the Classical Tradition [Paperback] by D'Angelo, Frank J.

• Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student [Hardcover] by Edward P. J. Corbett 

• The Art and Craft of Poetry by Bugeja, Michael J

Toiling,---rejoicing,---sorrowing,

Onward through life he goes;

Each morning sees some task begin,

Each evening sees it close;

Something attempted, something done,

Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,

For the lesson thou hast taught!

Thus at the flaming forge of life

Our fortunes must be wrought;

Thus on its sounding anvil shaped

Each burning deed and thought.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Retold as

The Selfish Moth.

Hi, I am a squirrel. One summer day I was collecting nuts in the forest, near a hut. It got late and I was about to leave when I saw a moth. She was trying to get at a lamp on the window sill. So I said to her, “What are you doing, Moth? You know you won’t get it.”

 Then she hoarsely replied, “I am getting this flower, and I will get it. You are being silly, to ask me that.”

“Why are you determined to get that lamp? Why don’t you go and get at the flowers over there?”  I said to her.

“No, they are the person’s vegetables and I don’t like them. Anyway I will not leave this flower no matter what you say. This one is bigger and prettier that the other flowers too. You are truly being silly about the matter.” the moth said rudely.  “And what did you say about me getting at a lamp?”
 

  Then I said to her, “You know there is glass between you and the lamp. There is no way around the glass. You see, it is inside a hut. And what do you need a lamp for?”  

“I told you, this is a flower, not a lamp,” she screamed at me.

So I gave up the fight, and I left her because she would not listen to me, and ran home.

Then a cold storm came. And in an old pine tree with my nuts I had a happy time, all warm and out of the snow. But {for the moth} after the storm I was gathering nuts again and I went by the hut. And as I suspected at the window, lying on a ledge, was the poor, dead moth that I tried to save. She had had the most painful punishment. It was too hard to bear for the poor moth, and her lesson was:

Don’t try to get what you can’t, but get what you need to live in the days of need.

THE HUNTER AND HIS SON

One day a man went hunting to collect food for the winter. In the winter he and his family had plenty of food to eat. But when his son grew up he was silly and did not gather food for the winter.  That winter seemed long.  He and his family had no food. He knew he had been foolish and that he needed to:

Prepare for hard times.