Sniff sniff

Well Joffre and I have decided to combine efforts and have one blog, The Mountain and the Mole. We are going to do some things on it for the store like book reviews and some tutorials. So you must move there and stay with me (all 5 of you)! But I must say goodbye to A Modest Garden...sniff, sniff. I have to tell you this was not easy for me. I have a ridiculous attachment to this little blog but it will be fun for Joffre and I to blog together. Now I have to come up with a good image for the mountain and the mole. Moles are rough to make sexy because of course if I am to be the mole it needs to be a sexy mole. I will leave you with that thought.

The Resurrection of the Silver Chair

We are reopening the Silver Chair!

I have been very busy trying to spruce the place up and bring in some good homeschooling books. We are putting more of an emphasis on homeschooling books now. We have been working on our website www.silverchairbookstore.com and Joffre and I are starting a new blog together called the Mountain and the Mole. It is still in it's pathetic stage so I refuse to link to it yet. More on that later.

I also have a son with a fever. Poor guy, we are so busy. It is such bad timing.

We will be reopening next Wednesday. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Quiet Game

My kids have a new game they love...The Quiet Game. Joffre has qualified for "Husband of the Year" for teaching them it.

So today we picked Joffre up from work and he boisterously greeted the children.
They immediately told him he had lost.
"Lost what?", he asked and was answered with, "The Quiet Game!."
He said, "But I didn't know we were playing."
They replied, "We wanted to surprise you."
Uh...how messed up is that.

Fall Love

My begonias look beautiful all the sudden. We have been having beautiful sunny weather with cool breezes. And look, my raspberries are fruiting again. These were planted this spring and they are all ready fruiting. I definitely want to plant more this spring.

These Boots Were Made for Walkin'

My Mom sent Ward these cowboy boot slippers. He liked wearing them but he has such a fat foot it is hard to keep them on him.
We are going to Renata's friend's party shortly. I used one of the kid's old coloring pictures of mermaids as the wrapping and then added this pocket from some clothes I cut up to use for sewing as a gift tag. There is going to be sack races, egg and spoon, and other games. The kids are really looking forward to it.

The Silver Chair Website

I just want to give a shout out about our www.silverchairbookstore.com website. We had a few technical problems but they have been ironed out.

You can go on there and order books just like amazon and we even offer the free shipping on orders over $25.00 just like amazon. You pay through paypal. When you search for a book the search results are alphabetical ( just an FYI).

The front page is a blog. Click on "shop" and you can put in any book title or author in the search engine and order.

We are working towards putting up some of our used inventory as well on there.
I am planning on putting up a bunch of my recommendations up soon too. I am making lists upon lists. I know you are excited.

Dandelion Fire

I just finished reading N. D. Wilson's Dandelion Fire. I loved it. He has these great insights in it I love. I just loved it and don't feel like being a good blog writer and telling you all the specific examples of why I loved it.
I do want my boys to read it because it brings up things like needing to stand up for things even if you might be defeated/ beat up. I like the magical world he is creating. So much good fun. It helps to see good theology in a story too ( in the midst of a battle they stop and have a feast and laugh a lot.) Ok, maybe I am not such a bad blog writer. I gave you somethin'.