by Laura I had 9 perfectly normal pregnancies and deliveries. Well, my ninth baby was premature but things worked out fine and we had her at home and kept her at home. She was just a bit on the tiny side but all went fine. Over the course of the next 2 years, I experienced 3 devastating miscarriages. One right after the other. I was stunned. My body had never betrayed me like this before. I never had trouble conceiving or bearing children. Why was this happening to me? I had never felt this kind Full post …
Archive for March, 2009
Vyckie’s Tour de Crap: When I Am Weak
Okay ~ how’s this for the kick-off to my Tour de Crap?!! Actually, I’m not sure if any commentary is needed except to say, “OMG ~ Can you see how thoroughly convinced I was of the martyr mentality?!!” WHEN I AM WEAK by vyckie bennett During a dinner-table conversation a couple of weeks back, Warren was expounding on the children’s song, Jesus Loves Me. He wanted to make the point to our children that when we are weak, Jesus shows Himself strong. Later in the conversation, he commented that we should “make ourselves weak” so Full post …
Patriarchy IS in the Bible … I think it's even in the Godhead which is part of the reason I've tossed Him out of my life ;-)
Okay ~ I’ve noticed that over on my “We’ve been thinking” post about the Birth Control/Abortion Connection ~ you all are already posting comments about just how “Biblical” the whole patriarchy/women’s submission/male headship-thing is … Since I’m such an organized person, I’d really like to have that discussion under a separate post. Only I don’t have time this morning to write my thoughts down on the subject. So ~ I’ve put the summary of my thoughts in the subject title ~ and I’ll be back after a while to write the rest of it. For Full post …
Vyckie’s Tour de Crap
Just thought I’d post a little note to say, “Happy Monday, everyone!” We enjoyed a wonderful weekend with friends and family. Sunday evening we celebrated Wesley’s 6th birthday with a little party ~ pizza, X-box games, presents and yummy strawberry jello cake ~ fun! Angel was here, along with her boyfriend Aaron and another friend ~ she has a new car that she got at a ridiculously low price ~ so we went for a drive and that gave us a few minutes to talk. She’s written her reaction to the “Daughters” section of Kathryn Full post …
I want my Mommy!!!!
by Laura I thought about my mom. I thought about if my daughter was told she was clinically depressed, I would want her to tell me so I could love her up and help her. But I had been estranged from my mom for so long. She would call me about every 3 months just to make sure I was okay. The calls were always hard on both of us. If I was feeling especially pious, I would usually end up arguing with her and saying some negative thing to her. But most often we Full post …
It’s about STRONG WOMEN
by Vyckie My oldest daughter, Angel and my mom, Lou Ann. So many of the visitors who are reading the stories on this blog have left a comment to the affect that, “You & Laura are amazingly strong women.” I’ve actually done some thinking about that ~ and wanted to share a bit of it here. We have been “strong,” yes ~ but is that such a good thing? For myself, I finally realized that being so strong enabled me to live a life that was not healthy for me or my children ~ Full post …
The Amazing Bosch Universal Mixer
by Laura When I was living on the farm we grew almost all of our own food. We planted our own wheat and then harvested it with a pull type combine hooked up to our antique John Deere 70 tractor. We had a hand cranked fanning mill (another antique) to clean the wheat which was quite the operation. One of the bigger kids would crank the giant handle to produce the wind and shaking needed to send that wheat through the fanning mill screens and discard all the impurities. Well almost all. Inevitably there would Full post …
A Great Big "THANK YOU!!!!"
by Vyckie I’ve been reading through the comments which have been posted on this blog ~ and feeling pretty overwhelmed by the kindness, support and thoughtfulness of our readers. I sure wish there was more time to respond ~ much of the dialog going on between posters is incredibly insightful. Nearly every comment makes me think, “Oh ~ I want to write about that too!” ~ and I am keeping a list of topics that I hope to address in the future. I honestly had no idea that there were so many others who were Full post …
Michelle says, Never enough babies!
