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Dewey's Treehouse

We are a Canadian homesquirreling family. Dad, known as Mr. Fixit, has lined the nest with old copies of Popular Mechanics. Mama Squirrel enjoys reading, scrounging, and raising the squirrelings: The Apprentice, Ponytails, and Dollygirl (formerly called Crayons). And there's Uncle Dewey, who is made of polyester and imagination and has lived in our treehouse for years. Climb up, you're welcome!

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Christmas Past, Christmas Present(s)

Making it Christmas (2012)

Christmas Books Quiz 2012

Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs (ongoing through December)

Plans for Presents (Family Keep Out)  

A Month of Favourite Holiday Books

2011 Christmas Book Quiz
2009 Book Quiz
2006 Book Quiz
"The Homeschoolers' Christmas"
What Christmas Is: From the Mind of a Kindergartner

Our Global Advent Calendar, 2006
All Kinds of Advent Posts

Gift Baskets.  More ideas here.
Making Stuff, 2010
"December Is" posts, 2009
"A Non-Stupid Christmas"
"Keep it Simple, Sisters"
"Christmas is Only Beginning"
"Christmas is About Grace," 2008
"Grace in Shepherds Abiding", 2007
"Play it Again, Eric"
"What a Six-Year-Old Wants for Christmas," 2007
"Frugal Christmas," 2006
"Favourite Things at Christmas," 2005

"What to Give to the Strugglehards, 1886"



Remembering Christmas 2011.  Also here.  And here.  More decorations here.
Remembering Christmas 2009.
2007: The Year We Broke the Rules
Gifts for 2007

Great Holiday Expectations (and keeping your sanity), from 2007
Favourite Treehouse Ornaments
Glitzy Gift Sacks, 2008


Cookies 2010, with links
A Cookie Roundup, 2009
All Kinds of Cookie Posts!
Christmas Day Lunch

Carols and Hymns

New Year's Eve Posts
New Year's Day Posts
Epiphany Posts


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Treehouse Contributors (note: Dollygirl is the Squirreling formerly known as Crayons)

  • Dollygirl
  • Mr. Fixit
  • Ponytails
  • Mama Squirrel
  • The Apprentice

Contact Info: "Ples Ring if an Rnser is Reqird"

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On the Treehouse Fridge

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."

~~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

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On the Treehouse Fridge

"I suppose one must make one's peace with cacophony."--Dr. Fugue (the piano teacher) on Arthur

Dewey Squirrel

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On the Treehouse fridge

"There were never creatures of prey so mischievous, never diplomatists so cunning, never poisoners so deadly, as these masked words; they are the unjust stewards of all men's ideas; whatever fancy or favorite instinct a man most cherishes, he gives to his favorite masked word to take care of for him; the word at last comes to have an infinite power over him,--you cannot get at him but by its ministry."--John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies


Our Homeschool Curriculum


Mama Squirrel's Reading List 2013 (R means rereading, § means done)

  • The King Arthur Trilogy, By Rosemary Sutcliff §
  • The Herb of Grace, by Elizabeth Goudge §
  • The Divine Comedy: III. Paradise, translated by Sayers and Reynolds
  • Over My Dead Body, by Rex Stout §
  • Champagne for One, by Rex Stout §
  • The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder §
  • Through a Glass Darkly, by Jostein Gaarder §
  • The Fields of Noon, by Sheila Burnford
  • No Little People, by Francis Schaeffer
  • Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr
  • "An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit," by George Meredith (free online)
  • MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book, by John Rember
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford
  • How to Read a Poem (and fall in love with poetry), by Edward Hirsch
  • When I Whistle, by Shusako Endo §
  • The Wormling #1: The Book of the King, by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry §
  • "Training of the Imagination," by James Rhoades (free online) §
  • Towards a Philosophy of Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
  • School Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
  • Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, by Barbara Reynolds §
  • Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, by David Coomes §
  • The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner (R) §
  • Euthyphro, by Plato §
  • Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton §
  • Greybeards at Play, by G.K. Chesterton §
  • The Trees of Pride, by G.K. Chesterton §
  • St. Peter's Fair, by Ellis Peters §
  • Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart, by Ellis Peters §
  • The Skeleton in the Clock, by Carter Dickson §
  • The Chinese Nail Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
  • The Chinese Lake Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
  • Till Death Do Us Purl, by Anne Canadeo §
  • Heaven Preserve Us: A Home Crafting Mystery, by Cricket McRae §

On the Treehouse fridge

"To try to teach literature by starting with the applied use of words, or 'effective communication', as it's often called, then gradually work into literature through the more documentary forms of prose fiction and finally into poetry, seems to me a futile procedure. If literature is to be properly taught, we have to start at its centre, which is poetry, then work outwards to literary prose, then outwards from there to the applied languages of business and professions and ordinary life."--Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."--G.K. Chesterton

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Other Links

  • PlanetJune (crocheting)
  • Penny Ann Poundwise (Food and other frugal stuff)
  • Redfly Creations: crafts, homemaking and more
  • The Prudent Homemaker
  • Budget101.com: Liss Burnell's (mostly food) site
  • Book Sleuth on AbeBooks
  • Stump The Bookseller
  • The Why Homeschool blog - owners of the Carnival of Homeschooling

Carnivals We've Hosted

  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Perspectives Edition
  • Festival of Frugality #386: Promises, Promises
  • Festival of Frugality #371: True Confessions Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #364: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
  • Festival of Frugality #355: What, We Worry? Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #334: Floatin' Down the River
  • Festival of Frugality #330: Before You Take Out a Lion
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: It's About Time
  • Festival of Frugality #309: Don't Be a Cash Potato
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #304: Rollerskating in a Buffalo Herd
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #280: Ten and Counting
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #253: Singing a Happy Song
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #226: Wrinkly Superhero
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Stuff CMers Like
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #194: Creatures and Critters
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #162: Identity Crisis Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #130: Homesick Campers' Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #101: Snowed-In Edition
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival #4
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #85: School Stuff Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #70: The Yes No Yes Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #55: Parents' Meeting Edition

Nominated for Best Thrifty Homeschooler and Best Encourager

The Homeschool Post

Nominated: Best Methods Blog

Nominated: Best Methods Blog

Nominated for Best Thrifty Homeschool Blog

Nominated for Best Thrifty Homeschool Blog

Winner of "Best Cyber-Buddy Blogger"

Winner of "Best Cyber-Buddy Blogger"

Nominated for "Best Cyber-buddy Blogger" and "Best Thrifty Homeschool Blog"

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Nominated for "Best Canadian Homeschool Blog"

Nominated for "Best Canadian Homeschool Blog"

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      • From the archives: New Year's Eve 2006
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs: Day 31, and a P...
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      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day 30: Grandpa...
      • Dollygirl's winter term plans
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      • Favourite things at Christmas
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      • Do you want a Charlie Brown Christmas?
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      • Another twist to a zero-budget Christmas
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      • We weep with those who weep.
      • Dewey's Favourite Not-Christmas Songs, Day 15
      • What's for supper? Food that cooks by itself
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day 14
      • Frugal giftwrapping ideas (link)
      • What's for supper? Cranberry pork chops
      • Thrift store Wednesdays: I can't exactly say
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      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs: Day Twelve
      • Three Carnivals This Week, and a call for posts
      • Uncle Eric and Limited Liability
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day Eleven
      • What's for supper? Odds and ends, mostly ends
      • This is TOO funny: Vintage Sesame Street
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      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day Ten
      • Dollygirl's Grade Six: Term Two, Week Two
      • Thrift shop Wednesdays, now with photo
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      • Growing up in the Seventies
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      • What's for supper? Fajita night
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      • I'm officially an educator--I think
      • What's for supper? Pizza potatoes
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      • What's for supper? Schnitzel night
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day Five
      • What's for supper? Soup night
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day Four
      • Do you like old radio shows? And Christmas?
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day Three
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day Two
      • Dewey's Favourite Christmas Songs, Day One
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