Posted in Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Nov 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
I figured out something about myself last night. Well, two things actually–the second is that I’m apparently a brunette now, and I’m not sure when that happened. The first one is slightly more complicated.
See, I don’t really like beer. In fact, the alcoholic drinks I like tend to be really froo-froo girly mixed [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts on Being Womanly on May 18th, 2009 5 Comments »
I got an e-mail from my mother last week, saying that she thought of me because my nail apron came through the laundry. She knew it was my nail apron because I’d embroidered my initial in the corner. I happen to remember this embroidery. I was quite pleased with the blue and green flowery [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on May 8th, 2009 3 Comments »
Last Sunday a conversation broke out about chivalry in the context of self defense training. These kind of conversations happen at our church. (Have I mentioned that I love my church family?) It all got me thinking about when a certain family moved to Tennessee a little over a year ago, which had [...]
Posted in All About Words, Quotes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Apr 17th, 2009 5 Comments »
“The Valkyries were the shield maidens who kept the halls of heaven. Odin used women warriors as his honor guard because if he’d used men, they might have been worshiped for their own strength and skill and cunning. He could glorify himself through women warriors because he was the source of their strength and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Karen Knight came over today. She and Adiel (oh, did I mention I was in Erie? Adiel had the baby she was pregnant with in September. A baby girl. Zoe Eleanor was 7 lbs 5 oz and 19 1/2 in. I got here Monday and will be here til the 23rd.) and I drank tea [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Oct 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
I have this theory that someday, probably a long, long time from now, I’m going to write a book. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to talk about in my book, hence the long time from now, but I know I want to direct it to people who live in between. I want to [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Sep 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
I know what I’m supposed to want. As a good homeschooler, I’m supposed to want to raise fourteen children while getting up at four every morning to milk a herd of cows and grow acres of fresh vegetables.
I don’t.
With some trepidation I admit that I wouldn’t mind having a smaller family [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Jul 21st, 2008 No Comments »
James and Theresa were in Atlanta from Thursday to Saturday last week. I was home with six children. Now, you should understand that the five older children are all capable of being more help than they are bother. Not they always are, but they’re capable of it. All I really had to [...]
Posted in All About Words, For Amusement Purposes Only, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Apr 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
PURGE, v.t. purj. [L. purgo.]
1. To cleanse or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous,foreign or superfluous; as, to purge the body by evacuation; to purge the Augean stable. It is followed by away, of, or off. We say, to purge away or to purge off filth, and to purge a liquor [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Sep 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Last week sometime Crystal and I sat down with the kids and watched a documentary about early Colonial days in America that was made for children. All in all I thought it was a well made documentary and spoke to children well. Were it not for the glaring biases it would have been a fine [...]