MOTHERHOOD

"About every true mother there is a sancity of martyrdom-
and when she is no more in the body, her children see her with
the ring of light around her head."

Godey's Lady's Book, 1867

THE ART OF DOMESTIC BLISS

.....in a time lacking in certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of it's lost heart. -Louise Bogan
“And there are my children!
My darling, precious children!
For their sakes I am continually constrained
to seek after an amended, a sanctified life;
what I want them to become
I must become myself”.

~ Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Childrens Leprechaun Hunt


We had a lovely day today....everyone wore some green of coarse. We had our traditional dinner and then our Leprechaun Hunt. We found footprints in the dirt...and some gold 1$ coins. With lots of green candy. In a little change purse. We must have been a little bit too noisy, because we didn't actually catch a leprechaun this year.I wore my lucky Shamrock socks..but still no luck! After dinner we watched Darby O'Gill and the Little People. What a perfect way to end a splendid St. Patrick's Day celebration!















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  1. Clay & SaraMarch 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM

    Such a cute idea! I am taking so many notes for when my kiddo's get a little bit older, since 15 months is still a little too young ;)

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An Island of Security....A Mother at Home

Very largely does the wife hold in her hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness and the highest good of the hearts that nestle there. In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife.
  • Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere.
  • Her hands fashion its beauty.
  • Her heart makes its love.
And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be . . .

the light,
the joy,
the blessing,
the inspiration,
of a home.

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness.

God sends many beautiful things to this world,

many noble gifts;

but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows

in a mother

who has learned love's lessons well,

and has realized something of the meaning

of her sacred calling.










~ J. R. Miller, "Secrets of Happy Home Life, 1894" ~

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