Comments on: If My Grandma Could Do It http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Cristina http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-113 Cristina Mon, 19 May 2008 21:14:33 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-113 Great post, maybe you could post your schedule? Or others could? Would love to see how others get it done. Great post, maybe you could post your schedule? Or others could? Would love to see how others get it done.

]]> By: Mrs. Parunak http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-110 Mrs. Parunak Mon, 19 May 2008 17:27:12 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-110 Livi, That's am excellent question! I think it deserves a post. Lord willing, I should have one up in a few days. I hope it will give you some ideas. Livi,

That’s am excellent question! I think it deserves a post. Lord willing, I should have one up in a few days. I hope it will give you some ideas.

]]> By: Livi http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-105 Livi Mon, 19 May 2008 08:04:08 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-105 Really encouraging! Thank you. I am 20 years old and i want to be a homemaker when i marry. I was brought up by a VERY feminist mother and i often worry that i don't know enough about keeping a house to be successful at it (as i was never taught by my mother). This has given me encouragement to keep trying! By the way...do you have any advice for making peace with a feminist mother who has a very different concept of what a women's role is from what i do? Really encouraging! Thank you.

I am 20 years old and i want to be a homemaker when i marry. I was brought up by a VERY feminist mother and i often worry that i don’t know enough about keeping a house to be successful at it (as i was never taught by my mother).

This has given me encouragement to keep trying!

By the way…do you have any advice for making peace with a feminist mother who has a very different concept of what a women’s role is from what i do?

]]> By: Janet http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-66 Janet Sun, 11 May 2008 18:34:24 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-66 WOW That was really encouraging. I have been marrid for 10 years and I still fall very short on occasions. I can do more than before and this article is just what I needed to hear to keep on trying. Thanks WOW That was really encouraging. I have been marrid for 10 years and I still fall very short on occasions. I can do more than before and this article is just what I needed to hear to keep on trying. Thanks

]]> By: Sara http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-65 Sara Sat, 10 May 2008 21:05:02 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-65 What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing the encouragement of your Grandmother's life (and your own!) I too hope to have grandchildren that remember eating on Nana's beautiful table. For the time being, I'd like to have enough bibs clean for the baby!! Thank you again for sharing your journey. God Bless. Sara What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing the encouragement of your Grandmother’s life (and your own!)

I too hope to have grandchildren that remember eating on Nana’s beautiful table. For the time being, I’d like to have enough bibs clean for the baby!!

Thank you again for sharing your journey. God Bless.

Sara

]]> By: Alexandra http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-51 Alexandra Tue, 06 May 2008 20:46:11 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-51 I got married at 20 and my mother says she regrets not showing me things I needed to know...she didn't expect me to be off and married quite so soon. (15th anniversary in August!) I'm not the neatest person in the world, far from it, but I'm getting better. As far as dishes...you can do them every day and stay on top of them...or you can let them pile up and spend your days fretting over it. I also have a laundry schedule and try to stick to it...so I don't have Mount Washmore in the bathroom. I'm glad to be a housewife...I can make better meals for my family instead of poison in a box. I got married at 20 and my mother says she regrets not showing me things I needed to know…she didn’t expect me to be off and married quite so soon. (15th anniversary in August!)

I’m not the neatest person in the world, far from it, but I’m getting better. As far as dishes…you can do them every day and stay on top of them…or you can let them pile up and spend your days fretting over it. I also have a laundry schedule and try to stick to it…so I don’t have Mount Washmore in the bathroom.

I’m glad to be a housewife…I can make better meals for my family instead of poison in a box.

]]> By: Deborah http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-50 Deborah Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:03 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-50 Your words are such an encouragement to me...and I'm a GRANDMA! I have worked outside the home for many years, but have a heart-tug to be at home, caring for my husband and being available to my grandchildren and their moms. I DO feel totally inadequate in the role of homemaker, but I also know that this is the role God made me for. I'm praying diligently that we can move in the next year to be closer to our grandchildren. Then I will have opportunity to stay at home and learn all the things you said your Grandma was. With God's help I know He will make me into that kind of woman. Thanks again for your story and the encouraging words to those of us who struggle. Your words are such an encouragement to me…and I’m a GRANDMA! I have worked outside the home for many years, but have a heart-tug to be at home, caring for my husband and being available to my grandchildren and their moms. I DO feel totally inadequate in the role of homemaker, but I also know that this is the role God made me for. I’m praying diligently that we can move in the next year to be closer to our grandchildren. Then I will have opportunity to stay at home and learn all the things you said your Grandma was. With God’s help I know He will make me into that kind of woman.
Thanks again for your story and the encouraging words to those of us who struggle.

]]> By: Michelle http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-48 Michelle Tue, 06 May 2008 03:28:28 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-48 What a lovely encouraging article! Tamsin, I agree with you. My mum works while my dad stays at home, and we have a beautiful house and garden, and my dad has always been there for my brother and I. Why should we lose him to a senior management position? What a lovely encouraging article!

Tamsin, I agree with you. My mum works while my dad stays at home, and we have a beautiful house and garden, and my dad has always been there for my brother and I. Why should we lose him to a senior management position?

]]> By: Tamsin http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-44 Tamsin Mon, 05 May 2008 21:09:33 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-44 I loved this article (found the link at LAF) - especially since I'm worrying a little about how well I'll keep our home when I get married in 10 weeks :) Ms. Johnson (above comment): it's such a shame you feel that way. I could list many counter-debates & reasonings, but will say just this: why should the incredibly precious family of the author's grandmother be less worthy of her efforts than the world at large? God Bless, Tamsin. I loved this article (found the link at LAF) - especially since I’m worrying a little about how well I’ll keep our home when I get married in 10 weeks :)

Ms. Johnson (above comment): it’s such a shame you feel that way. I could list many counter-debates & reasonings, but will say just this: why should the incredibly precious family of the author’s grandmother be less worthy of her efforts than the world at large?

God Bless,
Tamsin.

]]> By: Marquise Johnson http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-42 Marquise Johnson Mon, 05 May 2008 02:59:43 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/04/26/if-my-grandma-could-do-it/#comment-42 Your grandma sounds like she had great intelligence, perseverance, and resourcefulness -- it's too bad she lived in an era when only your family, and not the world, could benefit from her talents. Just think what she could have been with the opportunities afforded to women today. We may have been deprived of a researcher, a benevolent politician, a Nobel prize winner.... Men hardly confine their considerable talents to tablecloths and banana bread. Your grandma sounds like she had great intelligence, perseverance, and resourcefulness — it’s too bad she lived in an era when only your family, and not the world, could benefit from her talents. Just think what she could have been with the opportunities afforded to women today. We may have been deprived of a researcher, a benevolent politician, a Nobel prize winner…. Men hardly confine their considerable talents to tablecloths and banana bread.

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