Looking in the Mirror....

As an adult, and more so after having a child, and after home schooling, I felt "different". My past, and all my experiences up to now, have shaped me into who I am. (well, GOD used them to shape me into the better person I am today) The fact that my mother has been married three times. Even the person I married. I vowed I would get married, and STAY married. I found a down to earth, good-looking, hard working, country raised and fed, church goin', good-looking man, from a really great family, with strong morals and values, whom I love dearly. (no pressure there to live up to higher standards, now is there?) That description sounded like a country song, didn't it? :) We've been married 19 years, this past May!

As a parent, I started to "judge" things by different standards. What was once okay for me to watch on TV or the movies, is now too vulgar. Why didn't I see that before? What I did as a teen, no way, no how will I make it that easy for MY teen to do. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't the local "bad girl", but neither was I the local "good girl". I say this is maturing, and some people even do it with out GOD as their guide, so why is it, that there are some people who just don't "get it"? They never seem to grow up and be the parent? They still party, drink, cuss like a sailor, ...etc. I feel like I am in the minority, different than everybody else.

After I started to home school our daughter, I became less "sheeple" minded. In other words, I learned I did not have to follow the masses, or do what had always been done, or follow the "gubments" dictates. If someone had told the teen me I would be a VERY conservative, home school mom, I would have said no way!

I was a "good" mom, who kept her baby on schedule, to the letter, for her vaccinations. I am not against them, (the older ones that have withstood the test of time) but looking back, knowing what I know now, I WOULD have had her on a delayed schedule. Some of these new ones, I would not give my daughter.

I am interested in home remedies, patriotism, self-sufficiency, being prepared for political emergencies, natural disasters, etc....you could have knocked me over with a feather had you told me that was who I was going to be. Now, I say I am interested, and to that point, I have not done a lot to be prepared, other than reading about it. It does require some currency to get started. I'm working on that. (By the way, I am a member of a great site where you can learn all about "preparedness, surviving in a down economy, political emergencies, patriotism, or natural disaster type emergencies. It can go a little overboard, in some areas...you know, "the sky is falling". Just message me if ya want to know the site)

In my own opinion, I think a mother/wife should be at home, if possible, and if it is what the husband wants. If that's not different than societies expectations, I don't know what is. I believe in getting back to our "roots". Close extended families, visiting friends and relatives on Sundays after church and staying all day, businesses being closed for the Sabbath, families working together, school mates respecting one another.....simpler times, and yet more difficult in that it required commitment and hard work!

I don't know what made me think about all this tonight. I can't quite put the finger on what I am feeling. Sorry to have rambled....

So, what are your "reflections"? :)

Have a very Blessed Sunday!