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5 Simple Steps To Replace Holiday Stress With Joy

Thursday, July 1, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Beginning November 1 and on throughout the month of December, reminders of the holiday season are everywhere. Magazines, displays, catalogs, decorations, advertisements, and books all offer endless tips for the most perfect, peaceful, joyous holiday …

Category: Simple Holidays & TraditionsTag: Burnout | Making Wise Choices

Psalm 140

Thursday, July 1, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Morning Hope – Psalm 140 Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Imprecatory Psalms (Bible) | Psalms (Bible)

Psalm 146

Tuesday, June 29, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Psalm 146 Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, O my soul. I will praise the LORD all my life;I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Put not your trust in princes,in mortal man, who cannot save. When his spirit departs, he returns to the …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Psalms (Bible)

Free Address Pages | 3 Printables

Saturday, June 26, 2021 (Updated: Saturday, April 11, 2026)
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This set of free printable address pages make it easy to keep track of all your important contacts. Keeping a hard copy is important in case your digital copies aren’t available or go missing for some reason. These free printable address pages …

Category: Free Homemaking Printables

1 Corinthians 2

Thursday, June 24, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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1 Corinthians 2 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: 1 Corinthians (Bible)

Jesus Calls the Weary

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Matthew 11:25-30 At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your …

Category: Bible Theme CollectionsTag: Matthew (Bible)

Making Hay While The Sun Shines and Storing Your Family’s Harvest

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Even though I’ve never lived on a farm, I’ve always felt very connected to the seasons and agrarian life. Living where I do in Michigan with four distinct seasons and lots of farmland and orchards around me is ideal for someone wired this …

Category: The Prudent & Prepared HomemakerTag: Lockdown

Our Cozy Home No. 74

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy first Tuesday of Summer! It’s almost fall-like here right now, especially compared to the very hot late spring we’ve already had. I’m thankful for the cooler weather although I can hardly believe we are down to the last week …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (Artist)

Blessed Assurance

Monday, June 21, 2021 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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"And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—if indeed you continue in the faith, …

Category: Hymns & Bible ReadingsTag: Colossians (Bible)

More Cozy Blogs I’m Reading

Monday, June 21, 2021 (Updated: Tuesday, June 30, 2026)
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Three years ago I shared a list of cozy blogs I had found and followed called Cozy Blogs I’m Reading. I explained the whys and hows of the list in that post. In short, I was looking for real, old-fashioned blogs. Not sterile, professional, …

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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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