I wanted to follow up on last week’s post where I asked Henry’s grandmother a few questions by asking my own grandmothers the same questions. Here are the answers my paternal grandmother (also in her 80s) gave me:
Q: If you could go back in time, what would you say to yourself in your 30s about being a wife?
A: I would be more loving, caring and less … I would want to be less uptight.
Q: What would you say to yourself about being a mother?
A: Almost the same thing. I would’ve like to be more caring and watchful of my children. Teaching them more. Being a better mom.
Q: What would you say to yourself about being a woman?
A: Now looking back, I think I was under stress my whole life. With my parents, with family… and now I’m able to look back and see the Lord brought me through it anyway. Maybe me not always feeling the best, but the Lord always did the best [thing for us].
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (2)
I think I would answer that last question a little differently. I think I would “FEEL” more like a woman. I would wear more dresses other then church, I would take more bubble baths and take time to make myself feel prettty.
Sometimes I get so cought up in the being a mommy and a wife that the girl in me gets forgotten. I am running at full tilt to make the famiy fun smoothly, and ha just to spite me there are many bumps in my paths.
To cut this novel short I want to feel and look like a woman :0)
I think no matter how good of a mom we are, we would answer that we would want to be a “better mother”. What is it about motherhood that makes us create such high (and sometimes unreasonable) standards for ourselves as a mom?
God bless us.