Print Friendlyby Vyckie “Just SMILE, okay?” This photo was taken on my 18th anniversary before church. Warren was in a terrible mood that morning ~ and all I wanted was to get family pictures taken which made us all look like such a happy family. It’s like the more unhappy we were, the more determined I was to put on a good face and show the world how exceedingly happy we were. Ack. Okay ~ I’m trying to work on writing the next installment of my story ~ but now I’m distracted with another topic Full post …
What It’s All About
It’s about SUPERSTITION
Print Friendlyby Vyckie At the CYIA Spring Retreat ~ all weekend long, I fought the fear that I had just invited disaster upon myself and my children… Laura’s story, Three Lilacs and a Statue made me think about another topic which Laura and I have discussed on several occasions ~ so I talked to her about it again and we decided we would write this post together since “superstition” was such a HUGE part of both of our experiences. I’ll go first… Vyckie: Part of my “submissive wife” mindset included the belief that unless Full post …
It’s about STRONG WOMEN
Print Friendlyby 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 …
It’s a KID COLLECTING COMPETITION
Print Friendlyby Vyckie Hazelle with her little lamb collection. When I was “trusting the Lord with our family planning.” I never called my children “kids” ~ they were PRECIOUS LAMBS, because as Nancy Campbell explained, “kids” are what neglectful goats have while lambs are the offspring of sheep. A few random thoughts on the topic of having lots of kids: *** Recently I took my children and a neighbor girl to the theater to watch Race to Witch Mountain. Sitting in the dark watching the previews, I noticed a lady coming up the aisle with Full post …
It’s about MARTYRDOM
Print Friendlyby Vyckie Just look how self-indulgent I’ve become! LOL No, seriously ~ I didn’t eat that entire funnel cake by myself ~ I had six helpers, so we got two pastries (one Bavarian creme and one strawberry) to share As much as I like to say that I’m pretty clueless these days ~ “I can tell you what I don’t believe, but as far as knowing anything, I really don’t see how I could” ~ there is at least one thing that I’ve learned which I’ll hopefully hang onto and try not to forget: Full post …
It’s about SUPERIORITY
Print Friendly by Vyckie (Hey, Berea & Chassé ~ don’t kill me for posting this picture, okay? LOL!) Now, I never would have admitted this before ~ not to myself and certainly not to the general public ~ but the really big draw of the whole Quiverfull/patriarchy movement was the hope of living such an exemplary life that my husband and my children would one day rise up and call me “Blessed” ~ and that in The End, the Lord Jesus himself would say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” I wanted to be Full post …
Michelle says, Never enough babies!
