tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post3148240850437190598..comments2024-03-18T18:45:59.168-07:00Comments on Home Living: When Children Are GrownLydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-2461651112537215412009-05-28T16:34:34.488-07:002009-05-28T16:34:34.488-07:00Dear Lydia,
Thank you for your continuing encoura...Dear Lydia,<br /><br />Thank you for your continuing encouragement! I am a stay-at-home wife without children. After many years struggling with the issues raised in this post I can finally say that I do not feel the need to justify my existence to anyone anymore. My life as a 38 year old stay at home wife is full and productive. <br /><br />Our home is a warm and inviting place where we are Kellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12213310707886579746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-26013403180659755432009-05-28T16:33:24.423-07:002009-05-28T16:33:24.423-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12213310707886579746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-4573880754658208382009-05-27T18:07:11.660-07:002009-05-27T18:07:11.660-07:00I just wanted to compliment your lovely blog. Abso...I just wanted to compliment your lovely blog. Absolutely wonderful. My children are still young and I am enjoying them as much as I can. Because before you know it they will be all grown up. <br />Hugs,<br />Janet Bernasconi<br />Janet's Creative PillowsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799791082384157346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-49891781705800917112009-05-25T22:38:02.133-07:002009-05-25T22:38:02.133-07:00I can remember when the shops were open from 9 to ...I can remember when the shops were open from 9 to 5. In the evening, the stores were closed and no one went out to town at night. This was when most women were home, during the day. The loss of daytime business, when women went to work outside of the home, has caused the shops to stay open in the evenings. People have to work late shifts to accomodate those who work outside the home, so they canJannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-15504932655431330752009-05-19T19:05:12.330-07:002009-05-19T19:05:12.330-07:00Daytime shopping used to be common when more women...Daytime shopping used to be common when more women were home. We could get our shopping done before 3 o'clock and be home before the rush of all the people who shop after work. The shops nowadays seem silent and empty during the day, but with more women deciding to be homemakers, maybe the shops will pick up more daytime business. I remember when the day time shopping was busy, and the night Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-1043882908341525242009-05-17T09:01:00.000-07:002009-05-17T09:01:00.000-07:00Please pardon the typing and spelling on my commen...Please pardon the typing and spelling on my comments--they are atrocious, I know. I am adjusting to a very tiny keyboard!Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-72675397942306518132009-05-17T08:31:00.000-07:002009-05-17T08:31:00.000-07:00Alexa,
I am so happy to see a friend in Switzerla...Alexa,<br /><br />I am so happy to see a friend in Switzerland.<br /><br />If the position you held as a lawyer is really needed, it will be filled by someone else quite easily. Your position at home can never be adequately filled by anyone other than the mother of the children and the wife of the husband.<br /><br />If the position is not filled and the company you belong to goes out of Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-24079373912248759352009-05-17T08:23:00.000-07:002009-05-17T08:23:00.000-07:00Janice: You stated that you had scrimped here and ...Janice: You stated that you had scrimped here and there all your married life, and I wanted to make an observation about that. Your careful amd frugal ways have created luxury around you. When ever we attended a tea at your house, you always had prepared the best food and spread the best table and created an atmosphere of high living. Tat is the way it is supposed to be. SOme of the things that Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-8797746143192486872009-05-17T06:58:00.000-07:002009-05-17T06:58:00.000-07:00Dear Lady Lydia,
I just wanted to tell you, what ...Dear Lady Lydia,<br /><br />I just wanted to tell you, what a blessing you are for me. I so much enjoy your articles and am so inspired by them. You are a great help for me, and make me feel much better and sure about my role as mother at home.<br />I was searching for a justification for my decision to quit my job as a lawyer for such a long time. I was always at a loss of words, when other alexanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-61556078684236066662009-05-16T10:02:00.000-07:002009-05-16T10:02:00.000-07:00I belong to a church that does not do well at enco...I belong to a church that does not do well at encouraging the wives and mothers to be stay at home keepers... but because of this.. I look to all you wonderful ladies for advice and encouragement and I pray that the Lord will make me a better wife and mom even though I feel I fail so much at( my mom was pretty much a single parent raising 5 children so I didnt get taught some things that which I Jeannie Jo Annhttp://www.homesteadblogger.com/TheBarnSwallow/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-86814532757151435322009-05-16T08:03:00.000-07:002009-05-16T08:03:00.000-07:00If you only think of the role as one of staying ho...If you only think of the role as one of staying home minding children, then we degrade the rest of it. And then of course, you open yourself up to all kinds of self-doubt about still being home once the children are in school, grown, etc. never mind attacks from the rest of the world.<br /><br />For me, I'll be about 50 when my youngest is 18. Why would I want to go schlepping out back into the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-78733464260503510492009-05-15T01:52:00.000-07:002009-05-15T01:52:00.000-07:00I do agree with alot of what you have said, I stay...I do agree with alot of what you have said, I stayed at home for 18 years bringing up my 3 children and I do not regret a minute of that time. When they were much older I did return to work for 3 days a week as a palliative care nurse in a hospice. We prayed about whether this was the right thing to do and that God would open the door to a staff nurses job in a hospice if this was right (Hospice Gooseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12551343997218901422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-41402914774637294772009-05-14T20:01:00.000-07:002009-05-14T20:01:00.000-07:00the name of the article is "How Women Were Re-Engi...the name of the article is "How Women Were Re-Engineered."<br /><br />The Bible says that young women must be taught how to take care of their homes and husbands and children. Some women will say they are not interested in that, but their interest could be developed by learning more about it. People tend to believe the things they listen to or read the most. If they will read more about the Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-11048196569832801952009-05-14T19:57:00.000-07:002009-05-14T19:57:00.000-07:00Emmarinda, That woman can be replaced at work, bu...Emmarinda, That woman can be replaced at work, but no one can replace her as a mother. Holdingher baby is more important than helping a company make money.<br /><br />On the "education for feminists" section of my sidebar, somewhere there is an article about how the Rockefeller Foundation funded the feminist movement in order to get women out of their homes and create a broader tax base to Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-57058122603126048192009-05-14T18:35:00.000-07:002009-05-14T18:35:00.000-07:00Lydia, I remember your friend, Mrs. Alexandra, use...Lydia, I remember your friend, Mrs. Alexandra, used to comment often that the idea of all women working outside the home was a pillar of the Marxist movement under which her country was subjected for so long. How foolish can women be, that they do not realize they have been put under subjection while the State undermines their homes and takes over the rearing of their children?<br />There is no Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009819584864535929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-49336402916715813562009-05-14T18:15:00.000-07:002009-05-14T18:15:00.000-07:00Linda in Australia, I took your suggested and did ...Linda in Australia, I took your suggested and did that a moment ago.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-52444685375049510212009-05-14T16:52:00.000-07:002009-05-14T16:52:00.000-07:00Dearest Lydia, I was wondering if you might consi...Dearest Lydia, I was wondering if you might consider printing your excellent comments to Brenda(listed at 5.43 am and 5.49am on my computer anyway)in the main body of your blog? Some readers may miss out on this wisdom. To have this information and encouragment more readily accessible would be wonderful. Just a thought.. God bless you and many thanks for sharing your convictions and ideas. LoveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-13438986992323843672009-05-14T05:49:00.000-07:002009-05-14T05:49:00.000-07:00Brenda, The 19th century forefathers would have b...Brenda, The 19th century forefathers would have been puzzled at the modernists striving for "self-esteem,"--feeling good no matter what, and instead would have endeavored to do good, in order to feel good. They left behind a huge culture of their works in their cities and neighborhoods, their architecture, art, poetry, fashion design, and thousands of inventions. Most of that generation cared Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-81794162250329125092009-05-14T05:43:00.000-07:002009-05-14T05:43:00.000-07:00Brenda, You are right about the over concern that...Brenda, You are right about the over concern that we are "working." Our own mothers and grandmothers were so much more natural in their roles that they saw more to it than work. Work was just a part of it. However in high school and some colleges, even guys are taught that a woman at home is just freeloading and that she should pull her fair share of the load. That is how perverted the woman's Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-90505801937166692982009-05-13T21:45:00.000-07:002009-05-13T21:45:00.000-07:00A very fine post, Mrs. Sherman....& I've c...A very fine post, Mrs. Sherman....& I've certainly enjoyed the comments as well. I have been thinking about something lately that bothers me, concerning all the emphasis put on having women in the work force (in addition to the very valid observations made here): it's as though we've allowed our pride in the well-known "work ethic" to be perverted in some cases, & toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-92199549478995269712009-05-13T20:23:00.000-07:002009-05-13T20:23:00.000-07:00I read the article and all the comments again. Thi...I read the article and all the comments again. This is so refreshing and encouraging to me!!! It really comes down to our trust in Him when faced with adversity over our decison to be keepers of the home. Are we pleasers of men or pleaser of God? We cant serve both. I have never in my 20 yrs of being a Christian have never heard one sermon on Titus 2. I thought about that today. I am convinced Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-47808426164666765292009-05-13T18:50:00.000-07:002009-05-13T18:50:00.000-07:00Emmarinda, If a lot of women at home go to work, ...Emmarinda, If a lot of women at home go to work, it will contribute to ruining the local economy. Shops will sit empty and it will cost them more money just to stay open. Businesses ought to be happy for the homemaker's business during the day. It keeps their business alive.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-78054614319785474392009-05-13T18:24:00.000-07:002009-05-13T18:24:00.000-07:00Unless you can go out and make at the very least $...Unless you can go out and make at the very least $50,000, it's not worth it! I was making close to $40,000(social service/L.E. field), and it barely made a dent. BTW, the women in the office(same position) were all paid less than the men! People talk; I found out, but that's another story. Another reason working was not worth it for me.<br /><br />We are doing much better financially on my Alexandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12356420873078531863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-64444349179764096432009-05-13T18:17:00.000-07:002009-05-13T18:17:00.000-07:00Re: the stores being open. What a joy to shop dur...Re: the stores being open. What a joy to shop during the week in the daytime. My mother always told me if was wise to be done with shopping and errands early, and to be home by 3 o'clock in the afternoon. After that, she warned, the clientele in the stores tended to change into the rougher element, including worn-out people in a rush! Besides, after that was tea time!Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009819584864535929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-82083218424868952482009-05-13T10:03:00.000-07:002009-05-13T10:03:00.000-07:00Janice: what a good idea to tell them how you feel...Janice: what a good idea to tell them how you feel, when they ask questions for your reasons for being home. "It is where I do best", or "I am more fulfilled tending to the home and family," and "My family still needs me at home." Even if there are no children, someone always needs a woman to be home. Women can relate to this when their husbands call from work wanting the women to get to a storeLydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.com