Dappled Things

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 [...]

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 [...]