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Happy last week of January! We’re receiving some lovely snow today. We are still very far behind our yearly average. It will be interesting to see if this is simply an anomaly or if the snow starts to pile up in February and March to make up for lost time. Yesterday we celebrated our 24th …
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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 winter. If we are going to reach anything close to an average seasonal snowfall, …
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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 we’ll take them down this …
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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 Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We took a drive on …
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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 as preparing for Christmas. I’ve also been struggling with some eye fatigue and …
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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 school, did work, and did normal stuff. That’s …
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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 down. I think she’s finally turned the corner and seems …
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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 when she went to bed and I’m thankful for that. …
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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 about in detail here because they involve …
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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, faith, and homeschool. But before I get to …
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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 well. Caroline has found a new volunteer activity to engage in and is …
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We’ve hit peak autumn color here in our area. The color is spectacularly good this year so we are making a point of getting out every day to take a ride somewhere and soak it all in. It’s truly the best foliage display we’ve had in a long time. The oranges and reds, in particular, …
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Happy Monday evening! Today is Caroline’s birthday so I’ve been busy celebrating. We had a good visit with my parents who we haven’t seen since long before the coronavirus lockdowns. It was only a visit for the day, but it made all the difference in the world to do something “normal” on Caroline’s birthday. Caroline …
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Happy Monday! I had to go back and reacquaint myself with what had written in Simple Living This Week No. 41 since a few weeks have passed. As I mentioned in Surge Capacity and Dealing With Difficult Times last week, I’m finding my mental reserves depleted like many other people. That, in turn, has meant …
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It’s the last day of August. Where did the summer go? I know we always ask that question each year, but this year I’m asking it in a different way as I’m sure you are as well. This will be our fourth week of homeschooling. We are off to a good start and I’m thankful. …
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Happy Monday evening! I hope your week is off to a good start. I feel like I’ve been chasing my tail all day. We were up early so we could get a jump on the week, but all day I’ve felt like I could not quite get ahead of everything. So now here we are …
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“Often the wind howled outside with a cold and lonesome sound. But in the attic Laura and Mary played house with the squashes and the pumpkins, and everything was snug and cosy.”
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You probably noticed right off that I’ve changed the name of this weekly feature. I did this for three reasons. One, I’m now using the term Simple Living more than Cozy Living in order to more readily connect with new readers. Two, these posts have evolved into sharing what is going on in my home …
