Cherished Hearts Favourite Books and Lists

Countdown, Craft and Activity Books for Advent and Christmas

2011-12-02T05:57:00.000-08:00

These are our current collection of books we use for ideas, countdowns and activites and gifts to make.
I hope you find them useful ♥

Before After Christmas

Thirty Days with Mary and Joseph

A children's alphabet of Christmas prayers

101 Advent Activities for Kids

101 Simple Holiday Craft Ideas

Advent & Lent Activities for Children

The Sugar Plum Christmas Book

The Oxford Christmas Book For Children

Let's Celebrate Christ's Birthday

Advent and Christmas With the Saints

BOOKS THAT CONTAIN CHRISTMAS IDEAS~
All Year Round

The Children's Year: Seasonal Crafts and Clothes

Festivals Family and Food

Sarah Ban Breathnach's Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations Of Comfort & Joy

Saints and Feast Days: Lives of the Saints

The Birthday Book

Celebrating the Gospels

Holidays and Holy Nights

A Treasure Chest of Traditions

The Big Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions

15 Minute Family Traditions & Memories

The Big Book of Family Fun

Around the year with the Trapp family

Companion to the Calendar

Catholic Traditions in the Home and Classroom:

The Joy of Family Traditions

Let's Make a Memory

How to Raise Good Catholic Children

The Year & Our Children

The Catholic Cook Book

Cooking for Christ: the liturgical year in the kitchen

PAMPHLETS OR ON LINE PRINT OUT BOOKS~

How To Make your House a Home- Rev Bernard Stokes
Our Children's Year of Grace - Therese Mueller
A Candle is Lighted - P Stewart Craig
Homemade Christmas -Mary Reed Newland

The Year of Our Lord in the Christian Home - Rev Francis X Weiser
Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs - Rev Francis X Weiser
The Christmas Book - Rev Francis X Weiser
A Recipe for Christmas Joy - Marybeth Whalen
Home Catechesis Manual for Ages 3-5
Home Catechesis Manual for Ages 6-9
Home Catechesis Manual for Ages 9-12 ( we don't have this one yet but will be getting soon)

Blessings to you and your homes,

Advent and Christmas Chapter Books

2011-11-25T06:33:00.000-08:00

These books are ones we have enjoyed reading in our home. I must admit that some of them cause me to cry every time we read them BUT they do inspire me to be a better person living the 'CHRIST'mas message in my daily life.
I am sure we have some others but just can't find them at the moment!
The Christmas Shoes

The Christmas Blessing

The Christmas Hope

The Christmas Promise

The Christmas Note

The Christmas Journey

The Christmas Secret

A Lakes Christmas

Christmas Story Book

The Happiest Time of the Year, Warm Thoughts About Christmas, with Illustrations By Norman Rockwell

The Christmas Box Miracle

A Christmas Acorn

Miracle on 34th Street

The Crazy Christmas Angel Mystery

'Twas the Fight before Christmas

Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories

Merry Fairy Holidays

Different Sort of Christmas

Christmas in Wales: A Homecoming

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Christmas Candle

Papa's Angels: A Christmas Story

The Light at Tern Rock

The Family under the Bridge

Christmas After All

Felicity's Surprise

Addy's Surprise A Christmas Story

Kirsten's Surprise

Josefina's Surprise

Kit's Surprise: A Christmas Story, 1934

Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story

Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story

Story of the Other Wise Man

Blessings,

Board Books Advent and Christmas

2011-11-17T04:30:00.000-08:00

Our current board books at the moment. Not sure I have them all as the children started reading them as soon as I brought them out.

Blessings,

February Liturgical Book List

2011-02-17T22:00:00.000-08:00

Our List of Febraury Liturgical Book lists:
Late again for this year but a resource for next year too.

Blessings,

January Liturgical Book List

2011-01-12T06:22:00.000-08:00

These are the books we will be trying to read through out January, based on the Liturgical calender and what we have on hand.

Blessings,

Advent and Christmas Book List 3- 2010

2010-12-06T05:42:00.000-08:00

Here is finally the last of our Christmas picture books. I hope I have covered all our books but I have a feeling I have missed some.
I still hope to do our board books and chapter/novel books soon.

Blessings,

Advent and Christmas Books: List 1 -2010

2010-11-14T05:23:00.000-08:00

This is a second book list of our Christmas books I randomly picked out of our book case.
Look out for list 3

Blessings,

Advent and Christmas Books from 2009

2010-11-13T23:47:00.000-08:00

This is a list of books form our collection that we were very partial to last year.
We often read the same books again and again but I am trying to document them here for future use.
Next instalment coming up soon.
As always these are books we own and read and recommend to others

Blessings,

November Liturgical Book List

2010-11-13T20:51:00.000-08:00

Well once again I am late with this list of November books, and I have not completed so I will add some more soon.
I really need to get September and October completed soon but the next lot will be the Advent and Christmas books first.

Blessings,

August Liturgical Book list

2010-09-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

I have finally put together our August Liturgical books, even though it is now September. As before I only post books we actually kown.

Blessings,

July Liturgical Books

2010-06-27T06:37:00.000-07:00

Our Liturgical books for July the Month of the Precious Blood

Blessings,

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June Liturgical Books

2010-06-02T07:50:00.001-07:00

These are the books we will be reading through June....the Month of the Sacred heart for our Liturgical Reading.

Blessings

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Blessings,

May Book Basket

2010-05-30T07:22:00.000-07:00

These are the books we use liturgically for the month of May that we own.

Blessings,

April Book List

2010-04-13T22:20:00.000-07:00

Books we rotate for the Month of April to fit in with the Liturgical Year

Blessings,

March Book List

2010-04-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

Books we rotate for the Month of March to fit in with the Liturgical Year

Blessings,

Lent and Easter Book List

2010-04-13T20:42:00.000-07:00

Books we rotate for the Lent and Easter Season to fit in with the Liturgical Year.
These are usually during the months of March and April.
Lent

Easter~

Blessings,

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Spring and Summer Book Lists

2010-02-21T06:50:00.000-08:00

Once again these are books we own that we bring our of the bookcases and read in the Spring and Summer Months.

Blessings,

Winter Book Lists

2010-02-21T06:43:00.001-08:00

Our Current winter Book List that we enjoy.

Blessings,

Autumn Book List

2010-02-21T06:37:00.000-08:00

These are the current books we own for the Autumn season. We get these out and enjoy them each year.

Christopher's Harvest Time

Woody, Hazel and Little Pip

Fall Is Here!: I Love It!

Weaving the Rainbow

In November

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves

Winter Awake!

Four Friends in Autumn

Charlie Needs a Cloak

Ox-Cart Man

The Story of the Wind Children
Children of the Forest
Children of the Forest

Why Do Leaves Change Color?

Every Autumn Comes the Bear

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

Autumn [Board book]

Blessings,

Educational and Board Games we Enjoy

2010-02-21T06:34:00.000-08:00

One of our the sacrifices we are making this Lent is to not watch any DVD's during the week. To only allow Friday and Saturday night viewing and some viewing for the younger children on Saturday and Sunday.

As we watch no TV at all this part is not an issue.

However I have found that gradually we have been watching more DVD's, together as a family, but non the less it has led to us not doing other things together such as board games and parlour games that we have played in the past.

During the day when we are busy or doing older kid lesson work it is easy to put on a DVD to keep the little ones entertained. This is not what I want to do with the children so we are making a concerted effort to change this.

As this was on my mind I thought I would share our favourite educational/mind games and board games. Some we have had since the older boys were little and some we received as gifts for Christmas 2009.

I pray that this is helpful for you and perhaps you will find some new games for your own enjoyment.

If you have any questions about them, please just ask.

Blessings,

Blessings,

My Reading List for 2010

2010-01-06T13:43:00.000-08:00

In an effort to have a more disciplined reading programme for this year I have chosen these books to read. These are books I own and some I have had for so very long and have read time and again.
I hope to grow in many directions from this reading list.

I am not going to link to these as I believe if you are interested they are fairly easy to find.

The Spirit of Loveliness - Emile Barnes
What is a Family - Edith Schaffer
St Katherine Drexel - Ellen Tarry
How to Raise Good Ctholic Children - Mary Reed Newland
Open Heart Open Home - Karen Mains
Keeping House - Margaret kim Peterson
A strong Start in Language, An Easy Start in Arithmetic, A Home Start in Readidng - Ruth Beechick
The Shaping of a Christian Family - Elizabeth Elliot
Raise happy Children through a Happier Marriage - Mary Ann Budnik
The Christopherus Waldorf Curriculum Overview for Homeschoolers - Donna Simmons
The Secret of Mary - St. Louis DE Montfort
Holiness for Housewives - Hubert van Zeller
Storytelling with Children - Nancy mellon
Seasons of a Mothers Heart - Sally Clarkson
Splendor in the Ordinary, Your Home as a Holy Place - Thomas Howard
The Catholic Family Handbook - Lawrence G Lovasik
A Woman after God's Own Heart - Elizabeth George
Mitten Strings for God - Katrina Kenison
Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman - Anne Ortlund
Guiding your Catholic PReschooler Kathy Pierce and Lori Rowland
For the Children's Sake - Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Home-Making -J.R. Miller
A Charlotte Mason Companion - Karen Andreola
Pocket ful of Pinecones - Karen Andreola
Oak Meadow Kindergarten Introduction

Read through the Entire Bible this year

Blessings,