Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Category: Family

Homecoming 2009

A Very Nearly Wordless Wednesday

As homeschooled students, my girls wouldn’t normally have a homecoming dance to attend, but every year their public-schooled friends from church thoughtfully invite them. They always go as a group and that  makes me feel a little better about the situation. This was Clara’s first homecoming dance. She was very excited [...]

I’ll Fly Away

Will, the girls and I are taking a little family vacation this week. I wish I could tell you about all the educational aspects of our little foray and include photos, but that will have to wait. We are first and foremost getting away to have some quiet time together as a family. Since the [...]

Wild Violets

A Very Nearly Wordless Wednesday

What is it?

It’s Clara’s own springtime perfume concoction.
God’s Will
I know, I know where violets blow
Upon a sweet hillside,
And very bashfully they grow
And in the grasses hide—
It is the fairest field, I trow,
In the whole world wide.
One spring I saw two lassies go,
Brown cheek and laughing eye;
They swung their aprons to and [...]