What I needed to read tonight!

One thing I hate hearing from my husband (although I hear it more often than I like) is that I can’t have money for XYZ, because the business is running it close this week. (Think taxes)

I read this at Mama T’s and she got it from Donna at Quiet Life. I’m so glad I saved it!

Here’s the quote from a 1914 issue of Women’s World.:

Suppose you are a housewife. Your home is small. Your means are limited. Your “things to do with” are meager. Your children are trying. Your work is hard and monotonous….There you have a stream of events bearing you down. If you yield you become nervous, irritable, discontented, perhaps eventually careless and slovenly, a physical wreck and spiritual misery. And now, suppose you make up your mind not to yield. Suppose you say to yourself, “I will think beautiful thoughts. I will make my surroundings cheerful. I will be happy and strong and brave and make my husband and children even as I am.” That you reply, is easier said than done. It is very hard. Wait!…it is not so hard as you imagine. Cease pitying yourself. Say, when you awake in the morning, “The world is beautiful. There are many great, noble, unconquerable souls. I am one of them….I shall make this house glow with peace and good will.”

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If you are here for the Carnival of Homeschooling, take a look at this conversation I had about the inadequacies of homeschoolers with a young blogger. Feel free to comment!

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