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Free Merry Christmas Word Search Printable

Friday, July 25, 2025 (Updated: Saturday, April 11, 2026)
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  Make this free printable Merry Christmas word search part of your homeschool activities in December. It features a cheerful little marshmallow guy.  The word search features twelve important words for your children to practice:  Christmas gifts …

Category: Free Word Search PrintablesTag: Christmas

James 3

Thursday, July 24, 2025 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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James 3 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: James (Bible)

Free Apples Word Search Printable

Thursday, July 17, 2025 (Updated: Saturday, April 11, 2026)
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Welcome the arrival of fall with this free printable Apples word search. This is a fun activity to add to your homeschool learning time. It features a cute basket of delicious red apples.  The colorful apple-themed word search includes: apple pie …

Category: Free Word Search PrintablesTag: Apples

Free Apples KWL 

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 (Updated: Wednesday, April 22, 2026)
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This free Apples KWL is perfect for your themed unit study. Understand what your children know, want to know, and learn with this easy-to-use printable. If KWLs are new to you, see my post here: Use a KWL in Your Homeschool Unit Study. Preview the …

Category: Free KWL PrintablesTag: Apples

Free Europe Map Printable for Homeschoolers

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 (Updated: Wednesday, April 29, 2026)
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This blank map of Europe is perfect for geography studies, unit studies, or hands-on learning projects. Your children can label the countries, mark cities, add research notes, or use it however fits your current lessons. I’ve found blank maps to be …

Category: Free Map Printables

Don’t Rush | Streams in the Desert

Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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Don’t Rush by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman “Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? He that walketh in darkness and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah and rely upon his God” (Isa. …

Category: Streams in the Desert DevotionalsTag: Isaiah (Bible)

Ordering Your Home for Your Life Now | Cozy Life Reset – Day 18

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Two weeks ago I shared a video with David about the importance of creativity, especially that which we do with our hands. Although he received his graphic design education doing everything manually, he makes a digital living using a screen and a …

Category: Cozy Life Reset | Homemaking

Make a Way | Streams in the Desert

Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Make a Way by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman “I will make all my mountains a way” (Isa.49:11). God will make obstacles serve His purpose. We all have mountains in our lives. There are people and things that threaten to bar our progress in the …

Category: Streams in the Desert DevotionalsTag: Isaiah (Bible) | Job (Bible)

Changing Homeschool Curriculum Without Guilt: The Relaxed Homeschooler’s Guide to Letting Go

Monday, June 30, 2025 (Updated: Thursday, June 25, 2026)
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Have you ever bought what you thought was the perfect homeschool curriculum, only to discover a few weeks or months later that it just isn’t a good fit for your family? This almost always leads to a back and forth with yourself about what to do. You …

Category: Relaxed Homeschooling Basics

Cultivate Your Interests | Cozy Life Reset – Day 17

Friday, June 27, 2025 (Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2026)
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Cultivating our individual interests should be a core part of the cozy life. If creating a cozy life is the coming together of purposeful living, simple living, and faithful living, then it should follow that we focus on the things that mean the most …

Category: Cozy Life Reset
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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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