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Simple Living This Week No. 41 – Schoolhouse Teachers, Homeschool Reading, Preparing for Autumn

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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. We're still adding subjects in, but we're solidly into most of them. I'm going …

AQSL 005: Bringing Peace to Your Life and Home

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I define a cozy life as one that brings greater peace, understanding, joy, beauty, and faith to you and your loved ones. Today we're going to take a look at peace, the first item on the list. We'll look at a definition of peace and the specific parts of our life that it includes. I'll share five choices we've made over the years that have …

A Day in Our Cozy Life #1

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As I've been looking through old posts, I realized that I've actually shared very little from our family life. I've written more about issues, things I'm learning, helping people solve problems, and encouraging others. But I haven't shared much about our day to day activities of pursuing a cozy life and bringing peace, understanding, and joy to our …

AQSL 002: Creating a Quiet Simple Life

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Are you ready to create a quiet simple life? If you are looking for encouragement and ideas, you are in the right place. In this episode we are looking at both quiet and simple. We'll examine what they mean and what they can look like in our home. Please feel free to leave a comment about the content or ask a question. I'd also love to hear what …

100 Books from Our New Home Library

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When we did our cozy home remodel, we changed our learning room into a library. In my dream home, I would have a large library filled with built-in bookshelves from floor to ceiling. Instead, we have several places where we keep our books including what you see below. Because our book space is limited, we've had to be ruthless in keeping our …

The Cozy Attic in “Little House in the Big Woods”

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This is one of my favorite passages from "Little House in the Big Woods" The attic was a lovely place to play. The large, round, colored pumpkins made beautiful chairs and tables. The red peppers and the onions dangled overhead. The hams and the venison hung in their paper wrappings, and all the bunches of dried herbs, the spicy herbs for cooking …

100 Wholesome Books for Girls and Tweens

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Finding wholesome books for girls and early tweens can be challenging. So much of what is being published today is drivel at best to downright concerning or even abhorrent. If you have a sensitive girl, it's even more challenging. In an effort to help, I've compiled a list of books for girls of various ages that would fall into the category of …

The Long Winter {A Month of Cozy Children’s Books}

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The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a must-read American pioneer children's novel. It is one of my favorite novels in the Little House series. My husband, David, didn't read the Little House books growing up and decided to read them all a few years ago. He thoroughly enjoyed them! So you are never too old to add them to your collection …

Farmer Boy {A Month of Cozy Children’s Books}

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Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a look at her husband's childhood in upstate New York. It covers the time period of when he was a boy just beginning to mature into young manhood. Of all the Little House books, Farmer Boy is perhaps the coziest as it shares so much about family life, homemaking, character development, holidays, and the …

Winter Days in the Big Woods {A Month of Cozy Children’s Books}

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It was a foregone conclusion that Winter Days in the Big Woods would be a book I would add to my cozy collection. When fall begins to approach, my mind always turns to Little House in the Big Woods. There is something warm and cozy about the scenes described in that Wisconsin log cabin that draw me back even decades after reading it for the …

Hibernation Homeschooling

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Many of you have probably heard the term carschooling which is about homeschooling on the go. But I would guess you've never heard of the opposite - Hibernation Homeschooling. That's because I made it up to describe what Caroline and I have done this winter. Rather than going through a detailed telling of all the events over the fall that led up …

My Little House in the Big Woods Fantasy

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As we wrestle through the issue of what to do next regarding housing, I find myself returning to what I call My Little House in the Big Woods Fantasy. I'm smart enough to know that life for the Ingalls family was not simple. It was hard work to do all that they did in Little House in the Big Woods. I have no illusions of having a cow and making my …

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