tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post113691883574235886..comments2024-03-18T18:45:59.168-07:00Comments on Home Living: The Wife, by Washington Irving.Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-606462035867588692012-02-15T05:42:48.180-08:002012-02-15T05:42:48.180-08:00I stumbled upon your blog and this was the post I ...I stumbled upon your blog and this was the post I found first. I wish every woman that I know would read this story you have shared. It is so sweet and it packs a whopping of a lesson in it. Thank you for writing and sharing your own real life example. It will always have a place in my life.Pammiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02070938849410401585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1137168745900725622006-01-13T08:12:00.000-08:002006-01-13T08:12:00.000-08:00What a lovely story! Thank you Lady Lydia for pos...What a lovely story! Thank you Lady Lydia for posting it, as well as your own life example. =) I only hope that, should the Lord bless me with marriage, I would be able to stand strong as "The Wife".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1137036572551689352006-01-11T19:29:00.000-08:002006-01-11T19:29:00.000-08:00I just remembered something else about this incide...I just remembered something else about this incident. I was rather distracted at the time that my husband was so intense with his confession, that I wasn't really at that time, paying much attention to his agony. If you can imagine, as he was speaking, my eyes were travelling to the corners and the walls. His words, "brought you to a place like this" triggered off my imagination and I was Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1137036318749127582006-01-11T19:25:00.000-08:002006-01-11T19:25:00.000-08:00I'm really not that bad a speller but was in a hur...I'm really not that bad a speller but was in a hurry when I wrote this.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1137028864864036302006-01-11T17:21:00.000-08:002006-01-11T17:21:00.000-08:00Oh Lady Lydia.....what a wonderfully-sweet story. ...Oh Lady Lydia.....what a wonderfully-sweet story. Thank you for sharing it and you're right it sure does fit the post.Cherish the Homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09334718202170470399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1137022511277743472006-01-11T15:35:00.000-08:002006-01-11T15:35:00.000-08:00Lady Lydia, Thank you for sharing your personal st...Lady Lydia, Thank you for sharing your personal story. I truly believe a wife sets the tone in the home. She can rightly decide to set a tone of thankfulness, industriousness, and contentment. Or she can wrongly decide to set the opposite tone and ensure everyone is miserable.DonnaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13890459804766354255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1137008205199820192006-01-11T11:36:00.000-08:002006-01-11T11:36:00.000-08:00Ladies, I have kept this story to myself for many ...Ladies, I have kept this story to myself for many years, because it was so sweet, but due to this story, I will share it with you.<BR/><BR/> A similar incident occurred in my life, but at the time I did not relate it to this story. It still remains a milestone in my personal history. I now recognize it as my husband's attempt to keep us all home.<BR/><BR/>My husband always wanted to take care of Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1136984050045944462006-01-11T04:54:00.000-08:002006-01-11T04:54:00.000-08:00Nowadays if the family has financial trouble the f...Nowadays if the family has financial trouble the first thought will probably be for the wife to get a job in order to ease the burden. <BR/><BR/>I know of two families where the wife went to work, having a friend as a babysitter. They ended up divorced, with their husbands marrying the babysitters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1136990577627565252006-01-11T06:42:00.000-08:002006-01-11T06:42:00.000-08:00Thanks once again for a lovely reminder of what it...Thanks once again for a lovely reminder of what it means to be a wife! I read this and the preceeding post last night after some time of feeling down about our housing situation. Both reminded me that it is not the building or the posessions that make a house a home. Thanks again for posting this! <BR/>In many of your posts you focus on homemaking and femininity...these are two areas that I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1136923209798302932006-01-10T12:00:00.000-08:002006-01-10T12:00:00.000-08:00LOVED this story! It is so inspiring and sweet an...LOVED this story! It is so inspiring and sweet and refreshing! We don't need 'things' to make our house a HOME....we just need love and sweet femininity. Like Paul said in Phil 4:11&12a ...'for I have LEARNED, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound:.....'(emphasis mine)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the reminder and for posting such Cherish the Homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09334718202170470399noreply@blogger.com