"If chivalry is dead, women have killed it. They have killed it by becoming capable, efficient, and independent, able to kill their own snakes. They prove by their strength and ability that they don't need masculine care and protection, that they are well able to take care of themselves. They commonly display their capacity to solve their own problems and fight their own battles. To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be, women who need masculine care and protection. When we do, men will delight in offering their chivalry."

                                ~ Helen Andelin

G.K. Chesterton likened wifely duties to those of a monarch, a powerful merchant, and a teacher of theology, manners and morals---all performed simultaneously.

"I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it," said Chesterton. "How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about [arithmetic], and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness."

---So Much More by Elizabeth and Anna Sofia Botkin

I just wanted to share with you some of my favorite blogs and sites.

The first is Ladies Against Feminism www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com . They have lots of great articals on just about everything.

Then there is www.noblewomanhood.com and http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com they have alot of great articles about keeping your home and homeschooling and lots of other things.

Anyway I just wanted to share in case you wanted to go check them out.

"Lord if you will forgive me for marrying him. I promise I will never do it again."-Ruth Bell Graham

That prayer was prayed by Ruth when she and Billy Graham were first married after their first real married dissagreement. Isn't that funny. Don't we all feel like that once in awhile. Come on ladies admit it. Once in awhile we all feel that way. I always say sometimes I just want to shake David till his teeth knock together. lol  I just finished reading It's My Turn by Ruth Bell Graham. I love reading her stuff. Here is someone who was married to someone like Billy Graham and admits that they were both human. They have the same arguements we all have. She has the same fears and challenges as a mother as I do.  Ruth also says that a Christian wife must balance delicately between knowing when to submit and when to outwit. Now she is not suggesting we be manipulative. Just that we take advantage of our God given differences and use them. She says never to argue with your husband when you are not looking your best. She says a woman who argues with curlers in her hair in her housecoat already has ten strikes against her. On the other hand I wonder if we look too good how much our husbands really hear of our arguement. lol But at least they will be paying attention. lol

She never says that their won't be dissagreements just that it is important to know your opponent. lol

Anyway I just wanted to share some of the things she said that I found interesting.