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40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40 | #8-15

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 (Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2026)
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I’m continuing my series of 40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40. 8. Time does heal most wounds, but not all and not completely. 9. It is easy to measure success in life. Simply ask yourself, “Am I more Christ-like now than I was a year …

Category: Our Family LifeTag: 40 Things I've Learned By Age 40

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 (Updated: Saturday, April 25, 2026)
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As promised, here is the requested recipe for Cream Cheese Frosting. This is delicious on cinnamon rolls! A couple of recommendations for when you make this: A half of a box of confectioner’s sugar is 8 ounces. You can use up to an entire box …

Category: Desserts & Treats

Classic Books You Hate or Have Never Read | Literature True Confessions Time

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Cindy at Dominion Family has an interesting and funny discussion going on (archived link). People are admitting the books they absolutely hate that are considered to be “classics” within the culture, the church, and/or the homeschool …

Category: Our Family Life

40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40 | #1-7

Monday, February 19, 2007 (Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2026)
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1. A woman is complete in Christ – nothing more and nothing less. Marriage and/or motherhood may change her worldly status and role, but they do nothing to make her more complete in Christ. Salvation, wholeness, and meaning are found in Christ …

Category: Our Family LifeTag: 40 Things I've Learned By Age 40

Keeping Your Children With You In Church

Thursday, February 15, 2007 (Updated: Sunday, June 28, 2026)
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I’ve been having fun around home working on de-piling the past week or so. It isn’t as though there were huge piles of stuff all over the house. Just little ones here and there, in this drawer and that, on this desk and that desk, in the …

Category: Children & Church | Our Family Life

Living The Life I Used To Read About

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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The tension I feel in writing about a topic such as this is that some people might be quick to be offended. They will think I am criticizing them and their life choices. Or they will think I don’t understand their situation and so they write …

Category: Contentment | Our Family LifeTag: Making Wise Choices
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Woo Hoo! She Slept Through The Night!

Thursday, February 1, 2007 (Updated: Thursday, March 30, 2023)
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We fed Caroline around 10 p.m. and she slept until around 6 a.m. Sweet relief! I have 25% less brain fog this morning! Thank you for your prayers. I can list several other possible contributing factors, but I count first among them the power of …

Category: My Pregnancy & Baby Stories
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In Which She Writes About Long Babies, Sleep Deprivation, and Tarjay, While Insulting At Least Four Demographic Groups

Monday, January 29, 2007 (Updated: Thursday, March 30, 2023)
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First of all, I have no idea why I am naming my entries what I am the past two days. Well, yes, I do. I think it is called sleep deprived. Gee, I can’t even think of the word. You know that word when you are wacky from lack of sleep? Well, it …

Category: My Pregnancy & Baby Stories

If You Don’t Have Time To Do That Which You Love

Friday, January 26, 2007 (Updated: Saturday, April 27, 2024)
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When was the last time you did something you truly loved, but no longer have the time for? (This is going to be kind of rambly. Consider yourself forewarned.) I’m still thinking about some of the things I wrote last time regarding coping with …

Category: Margin

Living A Quiet Life

Thursday, January 18, 2007 (Updated: Saturday, November 15, 2025)
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My favorite books have usually centered around living a quiet life at home. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Grace Livingston Hill, Grace Richmond, Sydney Taylor (author of the All-of-a-Kind Family books) and Maud Heart Lovelace (author of the Betsy-Tacy books) …

Category: Contentment | Our Family Life | Simple LivingTag: Laura Ingalls Wilder & Little House Books
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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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