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Plumfield Moms

We are sisters in Christ who became friends over a shared love of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, found especially in good and great books. Our primary vocation is that of marriage and motherhood, but we feel a secondary call, as educators and homeschool moms, to walk with families who are seeking to help form souls who are capable of responding to the vocation God has called them to. Our objective is to form our children and grandchildren to the best of our ability, and in so doing share what has been

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04:30

Book Review: A Mathematician's Lament

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/07/15

“The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art. The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it as such.” There is an astonishing amount of power and truth packed into this 140-page book. If, like me, you feared and resented math in school because it made you feel stupid, perhaps you will understand why Lockhart’s lament almost had me crying by the end of the second chapter. Crying for “what if?” What if I had had

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09:45

Plumfield in Person: Why Libraries?

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/07/10

"Through a series of extremely fortunate events, over the past nine months or so, I have become acquainted with several women scattered around the country who run private lending libraries. The ones I know are homeschoolers or former homeschoolers who collected good books for their children’s education and edification. At some point each of them began to share books with other families. Along the way they developed their own process. Each has her own method of storing books, cataloging them,

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04:15

Book Review: Team Burger Shed by Tavin Dillard

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/07/08

Team Burger Shed by Tavin Dillard made my reserved and faintly aloof husband snort and then laugh out loud. And I wasn’t even reading it to him. In fact, he was sitting on the couch reading his own book while the kids and I were talking about Tavin Dillard’s latest antics in the chapter I had been reading. I reached for my phone and turned on the audiobook to play a section for my boys. Before I knew it, I was laughing at my husband, because he could not resist laughing at Tavin. I don’t know what

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05:35

Reflection: Dressed for Action

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/07/06

"Peter later elaborates on this. “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 1:13). “Preparing your minds for action” is one way to translate the Greek words that mean, “girding up the loins of your mind.” Picture, then, gathering up extraneous thoughts and fastening them out of the way, preparing your mind for exertion.The book of 1 Peter is full of instructions for

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01:04:26

Our Reading Life: June 2024

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/26

Welcome to our June 2024 episode of Our Reading Life where we chat with our dear friends, Tanya Arnold and Sarah Kim from Biblioguides about our reading lives. We are so glad that you are here!Show Notes: https://plumfieldandpaideia.com/show-notes-our-reading-life-june-2024/

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02:50

Book Review: Kensuke's Kingdom

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/24

"In this story, there is an accident while Michael is sailing, but he is with his parents at the time. They are a small, happy family on a trip around the world in their yacht. It’s not an every-day situation, to be sure, but I found it refreshing that the parents aren’t the bad guys.It isn’t long before Michael discovers that he is not the only human on the island. But the other person isn’t at all happy to see Michael. Why the man is there and why he doesn’t appreciate company is a mystery that

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Our Librarian Life: June 2024

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/17

This summer we are making more time to play with our books and spending less time in the editing chair. But, we didn't want you not to have an episode... so here is a short episode on how we choose which book format(s) we prefer when trying to be good stewards of our resources. Check out the show notes here: https://plumfieldandpaideia.com/ask-the-librarian-book-formats/

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02:59

Book Review: Bellwether by Connie Willis

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/17

I decided to listen to Connie Willis’s Bellwether while my seventeen-year-old and I were doing a renovation in my library. He loves science and is starting to love Connie Willis’s writing. This novella was especially fun for us to listen to together. Chaos theory, trends, group behavior patterns, and human nature are all part of the dynamic human experience. And it is fun to poke at the synchronicity and see what falls out. Sandra Foster is a scientist at HiTek corporation and studies fads

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07:15

Reflection: Longing to Gather You

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/15

After God had brought the Israelites out of Egypt, he told Moses to tell the people, “You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel” (Ex. 19:4-6). Think

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04:55

Book Review: The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/10

"Huck is terrified when he first sees the stegosaurus. He goes as quickly as he can to Chief Whitewater to tell him there is a monster someone needs to kill. Of course, the chief doesn’t believe him. So, the next time Huck goes to the spring to wash clothes, he takes his grandfather’s gun with him. Before Huck can shoot the dinosaur, he learns that George is friendly, and he also learns that the two children, Joey and Joan, already know George. Huck goes to the resort to swim with them, and they go

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05:15

Book Review: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/03

In the middle of the 21st century, historian Ned Henry has a severe case of “time-lag.” Exhausted from fruitless time-travel jumps to Coventry Cathedral in various times before the WWII bombing and fire, Ned has not been able to satisfy his boss, and find the hideous but elusive “Bishop’s bird stump.” Lady Shrapnel is on a mission to have every detail perfect for the Cathedral reconstruction and dedication, and she doesn’t seem to care whatsoever how exhausted her team is, just so long as they

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06:20

Reflection: Just Plant

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/06/01

“The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” One last thought, in case I’m still wondering if I couldn’t just give up and go watch ducks in the park. Paul says

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01:01:55

Our Librarian Life: May 2024

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/28

Join us as we discuss barcodes, book tape, inventory, summer reading programs, and renovations!Picture Book Preschool Five in a Row Biblioguides Book Tape Book Tape Dispenser Label Protectors Shelf Notes Barcode Generator Barcode Scanner Dymo Label Printer Library Thing Barcodes The Card Catalog

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09:52

Book Review: Wolf Hollow (CAUTION - NOT FOR LITTLE EARS)

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/27

In the last few years, I have heard the great American classic, To Kill A Mockingbird, frequently being recommended for middle-grade readers. I staunchly disagree with the general practice of recommending that tough book to readers below eleventh grade. Could there be a particular child for whom it is a good fit? Maybe. But, it is my opinion that that essential work of American fiction was written for adults and should be considered worthy of waiting for. Even if a middle-grade reader could handle

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05:50

Reflection: Stand in the Breach

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/25

"We know that not everyone is called to stand in the spotlight before crowds. In fact, few of us are. We are not all called to fill the same holes in the wall, but we are all called to do something. There is no checklist of day-to-day activities for a breach-stander. However, the more we read the word, pray, and listen, the more the general commands become astoundingly specific and personal. You are the light of the world, you are the salt of the earth (Matt. 5:13-14). You are called to be saints

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55:52

Our Reading Life: May 2024

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/22

Join us for our May 2024 Our Reading Life episode where we talk about spies, codebreakers, and geeky grammar. Tanya’s References The Pink Refrigerator by Tim Egan D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose Sarah Kim’s References Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk During World War by Louise Borden The Dolphin Crossing by Jill Paton

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04:00

Book Review: Good Luck Duck

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/20

"When the Ferris wheel seems to be running again, Timothy and the duck get stuck at the top. 'Up above, the duck on the seat whispered excited little whispers to Timothy. He liked it far above the noise of all the crowd. He was glad to be away from all that noise. He flapped his wings and whispered. He quirked and jerked his stubby tail. He was proud to be so high.' Throughout Timothy’s adventure, several people think the duck has brought them luck. In the end, Timothy is lucky to have a pet, and

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01:13:13

Special Project: 1924 Books

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/14

Taken from Sherry Early’s blog: It was indeed a different era. What was going on in 1924 when these books were being published and read? The 1924 Paris Olympics, Leopold and Loeb murders, the premiere of Rhapsody in Blueby Gershwin. Vladimir Lenin died, and Mallory and Irvine disappeared while attempting to summit Mt. Everest. Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and crossword puzzles were all the rage after Simon snd Schuster published their first book of crosswords. As far children’s

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06:20

Book Review: Virginia Hall, an Extraordinary Woman

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/13

Whether they loved her or hated her, everyone who knew her considered her an amazing and memorable woman. Klaus Barbie, the infamous Butcher of Lyon became obsessed with finding the “Limping Lady of Lyon.” He had posters made and offered a huge reward for information leading to the arrest of “The Enemy’s Most Dangerous Spy.”

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05:56

Reflection: Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals

Plumfield Moms ·

2024/05/11

"Don’t you love this sort of pithy proverb? You can toss the platitude to a teenager whose friends you don’t approve of with the assurance that its truth is indisputable and needs no context – exactly the way we like our favorite Bible verses. Because the maxim is simple to understand and examples of its truth abound, it was a perfect topic for an essay assignment for my writing class. Since I asked my class to contemplate the saying, I thought I should do the same. What, precisely, do the few

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