If my family’s survival depended upon my perfect homesteading skills, we would surely perish. Admiration is the only word that describes how I feel about women who lived prior to the 20th century. Regret is the only word that I can think of to describe how a man might have felt if they married a [...]
As I ran errands this morning, I heard someone on Christian radio talking about “control“. Being a “recovering control freak” myself, among other things, my ears perked up. We try to control those around us because we think we know how everything should be. Then when everyone in our world doesn’t measure up and/or perform [...]
Do you struggle with anger? To some degree, all of us do. Anger in our lives stems primarily from unmet expectations. I also find that those expectations usually involve people… people who don’t meet my expectations. Most of the time, my expectations seem reasonable. Yet, people continually disappoint. It is only when I [...]
“When Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy” One very old but very true saying. As wives and mothers, we bear a great deal of the burden to regulate the mood, i.e. the temperature of our homes. I don’t always want that responsibility, yet it’s mine. Mothers represent love and nurturing in the family. In many [...]
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