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2025-2027 Christian & Patriotic Holidays List | Free Printables

Friday, September 5, 2025 (Updated: Monday, June 22, 2026)
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Keep track of the various important Christian and patriotic holidays for the years 2025-2027 with these free printables.  The holidays include: New Year’s Day Epiphany Inauguration Day  Lincoln’s Birthday St. Valentine’s Day …

Category: Free Christian Printables | Free Homeschool Mom Printables
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Three Pieces of Christian Parenting Advice

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 (Updated: Sunday, June 28, 2026)
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I met two bloggers online just before I became a mother. Those two godly women changed the trajectory of my parenting. I’ve told my daughter many times that she owes so much to Karen and Brenda because they showed me how to parent in a …

Category: Homeschooling & Family Relationships

Free Fun Fact Cards Sampler for Homeschoolers

Monday, September 1, 2025 (Updated: Monday, May 4, 2026)
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This Free Fun Fact Cards Sampler for homeschoolers includes all sorts of interesting facts about the world. The set includes 18 cards from several of my fun fact card sets. Your children will love learning a fact about Birds, Butterflies, Christmas, …

Category: Free Homeschool Printables

Free Copywork Sampler for Homeschoolers

Monday, September 1, 2025 (Updated: Monday, May 4, 2026)
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This Free Copywork Sampler for homeschoolers combines all sorts of interesting fun facts about the world with handwriting practice. The copywork set includes both print and cursive. There are three line options so you can use whichever ones work for …

Category: Free Copywork Printables

“September” by Helen Hunt Jackson | Printable Poem

Monday, September 1, 2025 (Updated: Saturday, April 11, 2026)
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Get ready for fall learning with this lovely poem from my printables shop. Read “September” by Helen Hunt Jackson with your children and look for similar signs of seasonal change where you live. Print off the lovely page to: read and/or …

Category: Printable PoetryTag: Fall

Think Your Own Thoughts | Cozy Life Reset – Day 20

Saturday, August 30, 2025 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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I’ve spent a lot of time this year contemplating the idea of thinking your own thoughts. I mentioned at some point recently that I had considered doing a year in which I attempted to live a more analog life than the one I’m already living …

Category: Cozy Life Reset

Reading the New Testament Books in the Order They Were Written

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Here’s a new idea for reading the New Testament. Read the books in the order in which they were written. There is a steady progression of certain topics in them that you miss if you only read them in the order of the Bible or chronologically …

Category: Christian Living

The Last First Day of Homeschooling

Monday, August 25, 2025 (Updated: Monday, May 11, 2026)
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Today is our first day of the homeschool year. Our last homeschool year.  The last first day of homeschooling.  Where did the time go?  The saying is so true. The days are long, but the years are short.  Those of you who have been here from the …

Category: Our Family Life | Relaxed Homeschooling
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Already Living My Grandmacore Life

Saturday, August 23, 2025 (Updated: Monday, June 15, 2026)
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The Grandmacore meme below popped up online a few months ago. I thought it was funny because if this is granny style, then I’ve always been granny. While some women have adopted Grandmacore as an aesthetic or lifestyle, I’ve never known …

Category: HomemakingTag: Grandmacore

Free Mother’s Day Word Search Printable

Thursday, August 21, 2025 (Updated: Saturday, April 11, 2026)
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Celebrate mom with a free printable Mother’s Day word search. This is a fun worksheet to add to your May homeschool learning time.   The Mother’s Day word search includes twelve relevant words: breakfast Grandma love phone calls cards happy May …

Category: Free Word Search PrintablesTag: Mother's Day | Spring
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Sallie Schaaf Borrink

I’m Sallie — wife, mother, just-retired homeschooler, and curator of my home. Our little family lives a quiet and cozy life of home education, self-employment, and pithy exchanges. I’ve been writing here for 20+ years about Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. And I like to laugh. A lot. Start here. ♥

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