Welcome to our Living Books by Living Authors series where we get to interview authors and illustrators of modern day living books.

We are so elated to have award winning illustrator and author, Eric Velasquez, in this special episode.

Some of you may be familiar with some of his books such as: “Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library,” “Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” “The Other Mozart: The Life of the Chevalier Saint-George,” “She Was The First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm," "Grandma’s Records and Grandma’s Gift" and many more.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful conversation that Erika had with Mr. Velasquez!

Show notes: https://charlottemasonforall.com/episode-39-eric-velasquez/

Where to find Eric Velasquez

www.ericvelasquez.com

Twitter: EricVelasquezNY

Welcome back and thank you for joining us as we wrap up our mother culture series. This is Erika and we have a special guest we’d like to introduce you to who is a dear friend of ours. Her name is Ana Vargas, and she is the Lead Moderator on the Support Team of Life-Giving Motherhood.

I met Ana my first year homeschooling. At that time, she was already a powerhouse for the Lord, running the children’s ministry at her church as well as a co-op for homeschooling families. But there was a longing for more for her children and she found it when she learned about Miss Mason.

She’s currently co-leading the Charlotte Mason book club for our local area of the Bronx in NYC as well as Westchester County, just outside of the city.

Be encouraged as she gives her testimony on how God has been working in her recently to cultivate life-giving habits into her home.

Find Ana on Instagram @learning_to_feast

THE MANY BEAUTIFUL FACES OF CM MAMAS

Today's episode is for those mamas who may not have started homeschooling from the beginning. Maybe you're struggling wiht the transition from traditional school to homeschool or maybe you're contemplating removing your child from their current school in orer to home education them.

I've been there before and it is by no means an easy endeavor or transition. Our guest today has also been down this road before, which is one of the may things that drew me to her.

We'd like to introduce you to Monica Erwin, who some of you may recognize from Instgram as @sweetwaterhomeschool, and she has done an amazing job with her kids using Miss Mason's philosophy.

We pray you will be encouraged! Come on on over to CharlotteMasonForAll.com or on Instagram @CharlotteMasonForAll to let us know.

For the King and His kids,

Erika Alicea

Welcome back to our Living Books by Living Authors series where we get to interview authors and illustrators of modern day living books.

We are so excited to have award winning author, Anika Aldamuy Denise, join us at Charlotte Mason for All.

You may know Anika as the author of some pretty wonderful picture books such as: “Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré,” “A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno: Actor! Singer! Dancer! Trailblazer!,” “The Love Letter” and many more.

We hope you enjoy this wonderful conversation that Erika had with Anika!

Show notes: https://charlottemasonforall.com/episode-40-anika-aldamuy-denise/

Where to find Anika Denise

www.anikadenise.com

@anika_aldamuy_denise

Twitter: @AnikaDenise

As we begin to connect on this motherhood journey together through this podcast, each of us would like to share more of our story and heart with you - to invite you in to what God has been doing in HIS narrative of which we all are a part. In so doing, it's our hope that you might find YOUR story reflected in some way, and that you would find fellowship with us in this pilgrimage, and in this holy task of raising intelligent, disciples of JESUS.

Meet Simone Moradi!

Do you relate to any of the following?

• Former private school teacher
• Immigrated to the U.S. as an adult
• Blended family
• Found CM through a friend (Mariana!)
• Working from home while homeschooling
• Spontaneous personality, working on consistency :)
• Helping to build a CM community in her home country
• Mom of girls
  

We have been greatly encouraged by your messages and your reviews! We read each and every one. Please keep them coming!

For such a time as this,

Min, Simone, Erika, & Mariana

WHERE TO FIND US:

Podcast: @charlottemasonforall, www.charlottemasonforall.com

Erika Alicea: @cmcityliving, www.charlottemasoncityliving.com

Mariana Mastracchio & Simone Moradi: @fe.e.cafe.com.miss.mason, www.feecafecommissmason.com.br (Portuguese CM Community)

Min Hwang: @min.j.hwang, www.minjunghwang.com

Erika, Mariana, and Min discuss some challenges our mama-friends are facing when trying to keep to their "Mother's Timetables."

For the King & His kids,

Erika, Mariana, and Min

WHERE TO FIND US:

Podcast: @charlottemasonforall, charlottemasonforall.com

Erika Alicea: @cmcityliving, charlottemasoncityliving.com

Mariana Mastracchio & Simone Moradi: @fe.e.cafe.com.miss.mason, feecafecommissmason.com.br (Portuguese CM Community)

Min Hwang: @min.j.hwang, minjunghwang.com, life-givingmotherhood.com

Mariana and Min would like to extend an invitation to a special community - OFF of social media - with like-minded, Gospel-reliant mothers from around the world.

Listen in as they share the vision, mission, and description of this unique space in the online world.

To learn more or join go to Life-givingmotherhood.com.

We hope to see you there, friend!

(Doors close on March 14th Midnight ET (USA) - Afterwards, there will be a place to join the Waiting List.)

For our King and His renown,

Mariana, Simone, Erika, and Min

We are about to embark on a journey around the world.

Introducing a new series called “Charlotte Mason Mamas Around the Globe!"

Have you thought of the many families who live all over the world who, like you, are working to implement Miss Mason’s method of education in their homes? How do they make it work? How can a CM education be relevant and applicable in different countries and cultures? Is it possible to use this philosophy of education if you are not native to the country in which you currently live?

Our hope, as we talk to fellow CM mamas in various nations, is to explore some of those questions and also to celebrate the diversity of the body of Christ. We pray you will be encouraged!

“We cannot live sanely unless we know that other peoples are as we are with a difference, that their history is as ours, with a difference, that they too have been represented by their poets and their artists, that they too have their literature and their national life.” ~ Charlotte Mason, Vol.6