Wednesdays with Words: The Internet Was Broken Edition
My husband got home from his annual hunting trip and fixed the internet connection. Hooray! Please link away! ‘);
Wednesdays with Words: The ACK! I forgot it was Wednesday Edition …
One of the problems with being off school is being off schedule. Sorry this is so late, I hope you all post even through the weekend! I’ve been thinking about Thanksgiving this week and I always consider Psalm 136:1-3 during this season: Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for his steadfast love…
School Disguised as Gifts: Arts and Crafts
I’m not talking about all crafty things today, maybe Fine Arts and Crafts would have been a better title. Here are some ideas. All three of my children take piano lessons, so fun repertoire books are always happily accepted. My oldest daughter has particularly liked The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music songbooks….
Wednesday with Words: Unexpected Sources
A number of years ago, I devoured and adored Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s beautiful Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. When I saw she had published a short book, What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, it wasn’t hard to add it to my cart. I haven’t read a lot of…
School Disguised as Gifts: Puzzles
I have always loved giving puzzles as gifts. We have tubs of big wooden puzzles and boxes of puzzles. When my kids were toddlers and preschoolers, Melissa and Doug puzzles like shapes, upper and lower case letters, numbers, hands and feet, vehicles, and animals were in huge rotation. As they got older, geography puzzles became…
Wednesday with Words: The Thing Itself
I’ve long enjoyed Mary Stewart’s gothic romances. I purchased and read a lot of them around the time I was in high school, and have occasionally revisited them. Several of the Hive’s 52 Books in 52 Weeks group recently picked up The Ivy Tree and some struggled with it. Because it is one of the…
