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10 Books You Must Read to Your Son

January 31, 2012 By Haley 75 Comments

After 10 Books You Must Read to Your Daughter, I thought the boys were getting rather left out. Having never been a boy, this list didn't come as naturally. But, being the mother of a boy it seems equally important. Basically, I want my son to be a confident, thoughtful, compassionate, strong-minded, and virtuous man like Mr. Knightley, not a weak, desire-driven, selfish cad like Willoughby. So … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Children, Motherhood Tagged With: beowulf, books, boys, c.s. lewis, Harry Potter, jane austen, Lord of the Rings, moby dick, narnia, reading, the iliad, the once and future kind, the yearling, tolkien

10 Books You Must Read to Your Daughter (Or How to Keep Your Daughter From Ending Up Like That Horrid Girl in Twilight)

January 29, 2012 By Haley 866 Comments

So now we have a baby daughter. Look how she slumbers. She doesn’t even know that I stay up at night worrying about her self-image. And, oh horrors! What if someday she wants to read Stephanie Meyer’s literary atrocity, the Twilight series? You know the one, the books featuring a non-descript female protagonist who, in addition to having no interests or talents of any kind (other than smelling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Children, Motherhood, Popular/Favorite Tagged With: anne of green gables, books, daughters, girl of the limberlost, Harry Potter, jane austen, jane eyre, kristin lavransdatter, little house on the prairie, little women, Lord of the Rings, Motherhood, read, till we have faces, twilight

Our Bright Star

January 15, 2012 By Haley 3 Comments

Our Lucy. Her name means light, pure, bright. And we named her after St. Lucy, a courageous virgin martyr. One virtue that I am perpetually lacking is courage and I pray that my precious one will be brave for Our Lord like St. Lucy. We were on the fence about her middle name for a long while after we were dead set on "Lucy" as her first name. Then, while reading Lord of the Rings for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children Tagged With: Baby, Bright Star, Elanor, Lord of the Rings, love, Lucy

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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