Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Category: Home Education

On the Drawing Table

When Clara was six years old, she was very interested in birds.

Hits & Misses

My accidental New Year’s resolutions list.

Frontier Girls

Ed. #6 Thirteen Pictures From Our Field Trip The girls and I went on a field trip this Tuesday to a “frontier settlement”. Here are our thirteen pictures from the year 1725. 1. Off to do chores!

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 [...]

Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program

Since autumn is officially here and we have started back to our lessons, I thought I would do something really different! I am actually posting about homeschooling! I know that most of you know that I am a homeschooling mom and that I use Charlotte Mason’s methods. A lot of you may know me from [...]

Oh, Susannah!

Okay, I didn’t come from Alabama and I didn’t go to Louisiana, but I did cross several state lines and came back with a Banjo on my knee. Yes, our new puppy’s name is officially Sebastian’s Blue Banjo, but you can just call him Banjo. While in the land of the Blue Banjo, we had [...]

Book Meme

I was tagged by the Headmistress over at The Common Room to answer this question: Imagine that a local philanthropist is hosting an event for local high school students and has asked you to pick out five to ten books to hand out as door prizes. At least one book should be funny and at [...]

Books that Sit and Books that Prick

For those of you who have asked about my progress in reading the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, I must confess that I haven’t gotten past the first chapter. I promised our preacher I wouldn’t start reading the books without him and it seems as though we just can’t find a convenient time to start reading simultaneously. [...]

Books

We’re halfway through February. I am sitting here wishing for spring like a child wishing his most desperate wish before he blows out the birthday candles. This is the time of year that I seek out all the good books I can find just to get me through these cabin-feverish days. I am going to [...]