For many years now, I’ve spent a couple of days in November gathering family photos from the previous months that year and then create a calendar for the upcoming year for my parents, siblings, and in-laws on Shutterfly. The calendar has become a treasured gift...
One of the many beautiful aspects of Orthodoxy is the rhythm of seasons year after year. As the buds start appearing on the trees and bushes outside, I know it’s time to start thinking about my little garden and to remember the story of Saint Helen’s...
I’ve heard many times over the years, “It’s too hard for my kids” when someone brings up the topic of fasting and children. Let’s consider for a moment our children’s education. I don’t know of any parent who would present a...
I spent the weekend preparing our home for our journey to Pascha as Great Lent is on our doorstep once again. We received our Pascha Passports in the mail along with the new companion booklet, Raising Lazarus Project Booklet, which is intended to help prepare our...
This was part of my presentation at the last IL webinar. For the foreseeable future, Illumination Learning will not be hosting anymore webinars. As time permits, I will be archiving as many resources as possible from these past webinars on the website. The following...
The Our Patron Saints Unit below is a much smaller spin off from the unit I put together on “Special Agents for Christ” by Annalisa Boyd for my presentation during the previous webinar. I had originally created this mini unit for my boys as part of our...
All summer long we’ve watched our basil grow in anticipation of harvesting it for today. My youngest child is particularly fond of nature and especially of plants. As he helped me cover the basil seeds with dirt in our garden, we talked about where Saint Helen...
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