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Encouragement for the vocation God entrusted to you.

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    Thoughtful ways to help children grow in courage, charity, discipline, reverence, and love of the sacraments.

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    Fifteen pages to help a real family with many ages begin from peace, not pressure.

    • A letter from my kitchen table, and your first gentle week: seven days, one small step each
    • A family prayer for around the table, and a three-minute reset for the mother
    • Our Gentle Weekly Rhythm and Our Family's Minimum Day — pages you print and fill in
    • Charity, one virtue for the week, with a lesson for little hearts and one for older children
    • A Confession page and an Adoration page for you, and a page to keep for your family name
    • Our family saint, a letter to tuck in his coat pocket, and a kitchen-table coloring page
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    Letter · Encouragement

    For the mother who wonders if she is doing enough

    For the evenings when everything that did not happen seems louder than everything that did.

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    Letter · Beginnings

    I got out of the boat

    Every August the fear comes back. What a sixteen-year-old heard in a Denver field in 1993, and why I still step out of the boat every fall.

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    Letter · Rhythm

    When the week falls apart, the formation has not

    A fever, an appointment, a toddler who needs more of you. The lesson may not be the one in the planner, but it is not a lesser lesson.

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    Maria, smiling in a summer field
    From my kitchen table

    "If you had told me in 2008 that I would one day be writing letters to other Catholic homeschooling mothers from my kitchen table, I would have laughed. Actually, laughter is exactly how our story began."

    I'm Maria. My husband and I have raised seven children and taught them at our own table. Veritas & Virtue began as the printables I made for our own family — Catholic doctrine dressed in the beauty it deserves. The Well-Ordered Letter is where I write to you the way I would talk to you over coffee: plainly, warmly, with prayer before lessons and plenty of beginning again.

    From my kitchen table to yours, MariaMother of sevenHomeschooling since 2008Grandmother of five, one on the way

    "Come to me, all you that labor, and are burdened, and I will refresh you."Matthew 11:28

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      A kitchen table at evening: a statue of Our Lady, a teacup of roses and a sunflower, a candle and the family Bible by a lace-curtained window

      "For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee."

      Isaiah 41:13