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…
School Disguised as Gifts: Geography Games
Games are a fantastic way to learn about the world we live in and the location of various places. We have a lot of Geography games that we enjoy. The first is The Scrambled States of America game. There’s a related book by the same name that I kind of hate, but I do like…
Wednesdays with Words: Oops …
I don’t have a quote for you today, do you have one for me? I do have a question for you, though. Which of Little Women’s March sisters did you wish to be when you first read it and why? My husband thinks most women would choose to be Meg while I aver that most…
