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Our Cozy Home No. 19

Sunday, March 8, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Sunday! I’m thinking of moving this weekly post to Sundays because I’m also moving my newsletter to go out on Sunday afternoon or evening. For people who like to organize their week on Sunday, they will have it then. For people who …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Edmund Blair Leighton (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 18

Monday, March 2, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy March! The sun is shining and I’m ready to jump into another week of creating a home filled with peace, understanding, joy, beauty, and faith for my family. I won’t do it perfectly, but I’ll do my best and that’s all any …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Laurits Tuxen (Artist)

Caroline’s Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Muffins Recipe

Friday, February 28, 2020 (Updated: Saturday, April 25, 2026)
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I originally found this recipe via Brenda at Coffee Tea Books and Me. It’s a flexible muffin recipe called Muffins My Way (on her recipe blog) that can be made many different ways. In our home, however, there is only ONE way to make it. LOL! …

Category: Breads & Muffins | Breakfast & BrunchTag: Chocolate Recipes | Muffins Recipes

Our Cozy Home No. 17

Monday, February 24, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Update: This post has an extensive discussion about a product I no longer sell in my shop. I am keeping it for personal archival reasons. Happy Monday! We just had a glorious three days in a row of 100% sunshine. I knew it had been a long time since …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Jacques-Émile Blanche (Artist)

The Hours and Days Create Your Life

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 (Updated: Friday, April 24, 2026)
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Last week I wrote about Letting Go of Who You Were to Find Out Who You Are Now. I’ve been thinking about these topics quite a bit lately. In the process, I ran across this quote: Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our …

Category: Our Family Life | Simple Living

Our Cozy Home No. 16

Monday, February 17, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Monday! I hope you have a good weekend. I spent quite a bit of time working on my basement cleanout project and made some great progress. I decided in order to simplify my life, I’m not going to do a separate Friday update post each week. …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: William Worchester Churchill (Artist)

Our Cozy Home No. 15

Monday, February 10, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Monday! I hope you had a good weekend. We had a lovely, snowy weekend. We’ve had very few days of pretty snowfall all day this winter. Yesterday was one of them and we thoroughly enjoyed it. So it’s time to jump into the week with …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Edmund Blair Leighton (Artist)

Letting Go of Who You Were to Find Out Who You Are Now

Saturday, February 8, 2020 (Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2026)
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I’ve written before about sentimental items. It’s a fairly common phenomena that people have a difficult time letting go of things because of the emotions attached to them. It might be a special gift from someone or a memento of a …

Category: Simple Living

God’s Restraining Hand of Love

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 (Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2026)
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Before I got out of bed this morning, I was thinking about everything going on in our family life, the life of my country, and the world. I came back to a truth I’ve written about time and again. Trusting in God’s restraining hand of love …

Category: Our Family LifeTag: Trusting God

Our Cozy Home No. 14

Monday, February 3, 2020 (Updated: Friday, May 16, 2025)
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Happy Monday! I hope you had a pleasant weekend. Ours was quiet. Caroline came down with something midweek and was still trying to work through it this weekend. We finally had some sunshine! During the first 32 days of 2020, we had 21 days of zero …

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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