Laurel

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Education
• Occupation: Catholic Homeschool Mom
• Location: Lehigh Valley : Pennsylvania : United States

About Me

I'm a Catholic homeschool mom with two daughters, one husband, and four cats. In addition to being the "teacher" at home, I teach weekly at our area learning center, as well as work at our local YMCA a few times a week.

Interests

• Music
• scrapbooking
• reading
• board games
• old movies
• curling up with a cat on my lap

Favorite Movies

• An Affair to Remember
• Quo Vadis
• Major League
• Much Ado about Nothing (with Emma Thompson)
• The Guns of Navarone
• Lilies of the Field
• most musicals (especially the old MGM ones)
• Cheaper by The Dozen (the OLD one!)
• and Yours
• Mine
• and Ours
• and TV series "Black Adder"
• "Good Neighbors"
• "Faulty Towers"
• "Poldark"
• and "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

Favorite Music

• I have to pick??!! Okay
• a slight lean toward classical
• but I love Christian pop
• country
• spiritual
• broadway/movie tunes
• R&R
• and almost anything else depending on my mood
• My daughters have made me fans of Lonestar and Rascal Flatts!

Favorite Books

• Bible
• Little House series
• Narnia series
• Baum's "Wizard of Oz" complete series
• any book of "Baby Blues" cartoons
• countless homeschool books
• various writings of the saints (esp. Elizabeth Seton)
• "Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
• and these authors: Joanne Fluke
• Diane Mott DAvidson
• Mary Daheim
• Agatha Christie (for all those "free" moments!)

Laurel's Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	My Life as a Catholic Homeschooler
	The Dizzy Disciple
	Plodding Toward Holiness