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Our Cozy Home No. 54

Monday, January 18, 2021 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Monday! It’s a lovely winter morning with small flakes floating down outside my office window. We received a thick dusting of snow over what was on the ground so everything looks fresh and nice. We’ve hardly had any snow this …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Helen Allingham (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 53

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 (Updated: Monday, October 6, 2025)
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Happy New Year! I hope your 2021 is off to a lovely start. We still have all of our Christmas decorations up. For some reason I am in no hurry to put them away this year. I love all the cozy lights and am content to keep enjoying them. Maybe …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Helen Allingham (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 52

Monday, December 28, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Week Between Christmas and New Year’s Day! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. Ours ended up being very nice. We got some snow! Not a lot, but enough to make everything white and to have lazy flakes floating down off and on during …

Category: Our Cozy Home This Week

Our Cozy Home No. 51

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Did you think I’d abandoned this place? No, I haven’t. I’ve tried to write this post a number of times in recent weeks and it simply wouldn’t flow. I admit that I’ve been preoccupied with the state of our nation as well …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Jenny Nyström (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 50

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Our little family is hoping to enjoy a boring week. Monday was boring and normal. Yay for normal and boring! Well, as normal and boring as life can be in the midst of Christmas and history defining events in your country and the world. But we did …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Albert Chevallier Tayler (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 49

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 (Updated: Sunday, September 21, 2025)
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Happy December! I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend. We still have not had our meal. Caroline is slowly picking up steam, but she has had one of those two week colds that doesn’t want to go completely away and has been dragging her …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Albert Chevallier Tayler (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 48

Monday, November 23, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Thanksgiving Week! I hope you have many blessings for which to be thankful this year. Ours will be a quiet week at home. Caroline came down with a sore throat and fatigue thing over the weekend. She was definitely on the up-swing last night …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Jenny Nyström (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 47

Monday, November 16, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Monday! I hope you are ready to make it a good week. I’m choosing to push forward in the midst of these uncertain times and try to make the most of each day. There are a couple of big things happening this week that I can’t write …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Frederick Morgan (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 46

Monday, November 9, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Monday! I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. I tried to sit down and write a few times, but my head was in other places. Yesterday I realized I’m ready to get back in the saddle again of posting and creating about all things home, …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Daniel Ridgway Knight (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 45

Monday, October 26, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy last Monday in October! Where has the month gone? I feel like I say that every month, but this month is seems especially true. Overall, we’ve had a good month. We’ve settled into our fall home, work, and homeschooling routine quite …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Helen Allingham (Artist)
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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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