Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Month: October, 2006

Thursday Thirteen Ed. #64

Ed. #3 Thirteen of Firefly’s Favorite & Soon-To-Be Favorite Fiction Books 1. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn 2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [...]

Blogger Friend School Assignment #4

In honor of the season, I thought we all could do something fun this week! I’d like everyone to share something to do with a pumpkin or pumpkin related. This can be a recipe, decorating idea, or if you are really creative “show” us on your blog Set your tea kettle to boil! It’s time [...]

A Little Levity

Okay, I will admit that the facial recognition scan also pegged me as a Nancy Kerrigan look-a-like, which I did get comments about when she was in the news a lot and we were both quite a bit younger. Ronald Reagan, though? I suppose it could have been worse…

Blogger Friend School Assignment #3

The internet offers a lot of treasures! It may not be in the form of actual gold, although I’m sure some could find some on the internet. Being a Blogger Friend is all about sharing our treasures. The assignment this week is to share your internet treasures. Below is a list featurning things that homeschooling [...]

Thursday Thirteen Ed. #63

Ed. #2 Thirteen of Firefly’s Favorite Educational Games I’ve decided to do my take on Karen’s list of thirteen educational games we enjoy since she so kindly asked what our favorites are. 1. Pilgrim’s Progress (This is sadly out-of-print. Let them know you would like to see it back, if you are interested.) 2. Rummy [...]

Blogger Friend School Assignment #2

Using the First letter of the Alphabet, describe things that are important or that will be descriptive of your personality. The hard part is to use only ONE word per letter.

Blogger Friend School Assignment #1

I just joined a group of blogging, homeschooling moms at the Blogger Friend School. For my first assignment, as a new student, I was asked to introduce myself and to post a picture of my dream home. Since I already live in a dreamy house, I thought I would try to find something that would [...]

Goodbye, Miss A.

Homeschool Resources

I’ve been tagged by Samantha over at Education Is An Atmosphere to list some of my useful things and even some of my most unuseful things. When we started thinking about how we were going to go about this thing called homeschooling, Lily was a toddler. I was blessed to have stumbled across Charlotte Mason’s [...]

Pictures from the Patch

The girls and I went along with some other homeschooling friends to our local, pumpkin patch for our yearly visit. I thought some of you might enjoy a few of the pictures I took. They put up a new slide this year, but I am sorry to say that I was too busy sliding down [...]