“I nearly forgot I was a person.” Somewhere in the middle of 16 years of diapers and dishes, meals and messes, lesson plans and laundry, I misplaced myself. Charlotte Mason once wrote, “If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play” (Charlotte Mason, School Education). But I had long since forgotten what play even looked like for me.
Reading Leah Boden’s Modern Miss Mason has been like hearing an echo of something my soul already knew but had buried under responsibility: play isn’t frivolous, it’s sanctuary. It awakens wonder, refreshes our souls, and guards us from idolizing our role as mothers. As Boden writes, it “awakens our intellect, provokes our sense of wonder, and refreshes our souls” (Modern Miss Mason).
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Delight & Savor 