Okay, post yo’ Feminine Self!:)
I sorta cheated and had my son take a pic of me after church Wednesday night. I love this top…it is so feminine and comfortable. :)
PS I will announce the winner of my giveaway hopefully tonight or in the morning…grocery shopping today…all day.
I would LOVE for you to link up!!
YOUR turn….:)
Budgeteer couldn't get her link to work, so I'm going to post her pic for her. Doesn't she look feminine and lovely? Thanks for sending the picture, Leslie! :)
Barbie
Before my little girl was old enough to play with Barbies, I didn’t really give Barbies much thought as to whether or not they would or would not reside in my home. If someone would have asked me, “Are you going to let your daughters play with Barbies?” I would have just sort of looked at them blankly like, “Why wouldn’t I, I did!”
One day, right before my oldest daughter was old enough to play with Barbies, but definitely not interested (remember we did pigs for forever a couple of years), I came across this article in a No Greater Joy magazine (be sure to sign up for their free magazine). I started out thinking about it some, but this article didn’t really convince me totally. What did convince me is that I started noticing these hoochy mama Barbies were dressed in a way that I would never want my daughter to dress. Need another picture or two?
My daughter has had a few Barbies that were bought for her by other people. We have since trashed all of her Barbies and she has total understanding of why we have done so. We have discussed this with her and she is supportive somewhat. :) I know she will completely understand when she is older.
Maybe I could buy only modest Barbies? (I tried to find a modest Barbie picture, but after 6 Google Image Pages I really couldn’t find one I thought was modest). What happens when the Barbies are undressed? If your little girl is like mine, you will find the dolls without clothes more than with. Have a look…
If you have sons in your home (as I do), is this the image you want them to see on a daily basis—or even an occasional basis—or even a once a year basis? Please, if you do decided to continue with Barbies in your home, at least make sure they stay covered.
Speaking from experience, Barbies are sources of imaginative play for young girls and this can result in a form of idolatry. I have watched little girls play with Barbie and Ken and immediately that would get still and just sit and hold Barbie and Ken for many moments, somewhat lost in their own play. Young girls can and will pretend they are Barbie and Ken is, well, their boyfriend and then they will act out certain scenes, which will depend upon how ‘educated’ the little girl is. Is. this. Healthy?
Little girls will want to dress like their Barbies (or the correct term is undress like their Barbies). Teenage life will not come soon enough for your precious little girl.
I know you are like me in wanting to preserve your daughter’s girlish years. Her innocence. Her femininity.
Pray about what God would have you do. I would encourage you to make sure that godliness reflects in what your children watch and with what your children play. You will not be alone in your decision. My brother’s wife had on her last 2 year’s Christmas lists, No Barbies! She has 3 precious little girls to preserve. I recently talked with this mother of 10 and she mentioned that she never allowed Barbies to be played with by her daughters. Dolls help young girls learn to be mothers, not Barbies. Barbies teach young girls about having a Ken/Barbie relationship and about how to be a teenager.
I would love to hear your comments yay or nay.
PS If you are looking for great, wholesome toys for your children, check out www.visionforum.com.
Today it’s time to take those photos of all things feminine—YOU! Link up with us by clicking down below and pasting in the link of the post that directly links us to your picture/post. Thanks for all who have participated in the past few Feminine Fridays! If you have yet to participate, I would love to see you start today! :)
I am feeling like the Headless Houseman wife, so please allow me to post as such. This is my way of covering up the I.could.never.get.a.good.shot.of.my.face fact…so anyway, it’s just a rough day. Because, it was indeed a rough night. I had not one, but THREE kiddos who decided that sleep was not ‘for them’ on the hours between 2 and 5.
Yeah.
Lady in Red. Down to my shoes.
I love these shoes. I got them at a burnt-out type store where you will find me if I have extra money I love to shop. They are Land’s End and are great outdoors shoes. Very warm and durable.
Not that I’m going to be outdoors today.
Now for the giveaway. I’ll make it short and sweet. If you are a fairly regular reader, please leave me a comment telling me something in which you would like to see me blog, and I will enter you in this giveaway. Now, this giveaway is in honor of my wonderful twenty followers, but you don’t have to be a follower to enter.
This little loot reflects me, Natural Mama, because I love to use natural products for my skin (I’m currently using another ‘flavor’ in this same lotion), including Burt’s Bees and Jason products. I like to garden, hence the little packet of flower seeds. I LOVE to read helpful books for women.
I ask that if you win and the Organic Pregnancy book doesn’t/won’t apply to you that you let me know and I won’t include it in the loot for you. I will save it for a later giveaway.
So, what’s in the loot?
*Hand & Body Lotion in the Orange Cranberry Flavor by Jason, Pure Natural & Organic
* Burt’s Bees Lip Stash Pack
*Gypsophila Flower Seeds
*A flower pin for your lapel :) or hair (not sure what color I will send)
* The book Homeschooling with a Meek & Quiet Spirit by Teri Maxwell and/or The Complete Organic Pregnancy by Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu.
(If you have read these books or don’t think you could benefit from them, pls let me know…)
Okay! Have a great weekend. I have another wedding to sing/play at tonight and I hope that’s it for ever awhile.
Well, thank the Lord it is Friday. As you have read, I have been really sick this week and as of right now, it is truly a miracle that I haven’t broken a rib from all the coughing I continue to do. Ugh. I have felt so weak (sorry, folks, it’s my blog and I have a right to tell you my complaints) that I’m just wondering around with a baby on my hip trying to do something but not really get anything done, yk? Ella is 7 months and not walking, but not crawling really well, so I’m having (choosing to over her crying…i.e. spoiling) to hold her a lot.
Anyway, I can still be sick and by Feminine!! :)
Here I am today:
My shirt is not maternity even though I did wear it when I was 10 months pregnant. :) A black skirt is a modest girl’s MUST have! I think I have 5 black skirts.
Well, cm’on ya’ll and link up today! Link directly to your post so we can see how Feminine and how lovely I’m sure you look! :)
God Bless!
Well, today is another Friday! Can you believe it? Other than the anticipation of Saturday, my Fridays are just like any other day. However, I still remember very vividly being a working mother and what Fridays meant to me. Friday was my favorite day to anticipate my favorite days…the weekend! So, Friday still holds a special place in my heart. :)
Today is the day for you to link up with me and post a picture of yourself looking feminine! :)
Just post a picture to your blog, come back here and link me to your specific post, and check out some others while you are here.
I hope you’ll participate!
I would love for you to link up with me for Feminine Friday! Post a picture of you in all your femininity/modesty and link up here at the bottom. Please link up just the post that you are showing and not your entire blog, k?
I noticed that there are some others doing something like this, so if you want to participate in more than one, that’s great! I’m so glad there is a Revival of Femininity and Modesty in the midst of well, see my post below.
Here I am today. This top looks like maternity, but honestly it’s not. :)
I’ve been making bread this morning, hence the flour on my shirt! ;)
Okay, link away! You have 5 or so days to get your link up if you don’t want to do it today. :)
You know, ladies, do you ever have those moments where something happens and you just want to say, “Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus”? I did today.
I took my kids shopping with me (keeps me an humble mother, ya know, taking all 4 to Wal Mart) and as I got into the checkout line I noticed right off, three immodest magazine covers. One had a super, sexy, skinny, bikini- clad model on it; the second one had a very provocatively-posed, scantily clad (Cosmopolitan, anyone?) young woman (I just can’t say lady); and the third one was just talking about ‘how to bring intimacy to your bed’, yada, yada. I mean, my kid can read, ya know?
I immediately turned the magazines over where the back faced frontwards, but my son saw what I was doing (I mean, a woman can only work so fast turning three magazines around) and when I wasn’t looking, he turned one back around. Yuck. I felt so sick to my stomach. I mumbled something about my turning them for a reason, her body was for her to see only, etc. Not sure what I said, but I wanted to scream and yell and send hate messages to Wal Mart and these magazines for putting these indecent (to put it very mildly) women on the fronts of their magazines for men to gaze upon. I mean, they are women’s magazines, people. What woman wants to see a woman dressed provocatively in a magazine for women? I don’t. Certainly these magazines have underlying ‘messages’ they want to get out to our men. Our innocent boys.
This is my first encounter with trying-to-cover-up-the-mags-at-the-counter-so-my-son-won’t-think-that-there-are-people-who-dress-differently (or don’t dress at all)-than-the-women-he-knows. I hope it’s my last.
I know my children will eventually find out about the dreaded 3 letter word. I know they will find out that there are people who have unnatural affections. I know they might see body parts that were not meant to be seen. But, with God’s help, I’m going to do everything in my (our) power to keep my little ones’ minds as innocent and pure (I like that word better). If it means ordering my groceries online for heaven’s sakes or going at 11pm or whatever it takes, I will do it.
Tonight I just want you, my readers, to know that I hope that on Judgment Day, the good Lord has some special rubies in your crowns because you were a lady. You were modest. You didn’t cause a young man to fall. You were feminine. Oh, if I could hear him say, “Well done, Child, you were a woman of God”. Praise the Lord. This world is not my home.
God Bless my mom who always took a pen or a marker and literally drew sleeves on the pictures of the ladies in the magazines. She would ‘up’ their necklines. She made bikinis into one-pieces. I rolled my eyes at it then, but now, I say, “I understand, Mom”.
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Speaking of Feminine, don’t forget to join us tomorrow for Feminine Friday. Take a picture of YOU looking feminine and link up with us! PS Don’t go to pangs to get extra spiffed…I’m just wearing what I normally would. :)
Candy over at Keeping the Home put up a post entitled, “Feminine Friday” and she has a feminine photo of her in a dress. Well, you can just click on the link and check it out. :)
I have worn dresses all my life, but have just begun to realize just how feminine a dress or a nice skirt outfit makes me feel. I love being a girly woman and I love how I get treated because I wear dresses. Men always just seem to respect a woman who looks and acts feminine.
Now, I have wonderful friends who don’t share my conviction of wearing dresses/skirts for modesty reasons, and certainly I have blogging friends who don’t dress like I do as well. But, here’s a challenge to everyone! Wear something feminine at least on Fridays! See how it makes you feel. See how you get treated at the grocery store. See what your husband thinks. For the next several Fridays, I will be hosting a Feminine Friday here at NaturalMamaX4 (I hope I’m not stealing anyone else’s idea that is already done). So, on Fridays, wear something that makes you feel feminine, take a picture of yourself, and link up to my blog (I will try to figure out the McLinky thingy between now & then).
Now, here is a picture of me today. I absolutely love a flowing (not tight) blue jean skirt. I also love long sleeved t-shirts. Especially in a nice, spring bluish-green color. I also love, love a very feminine flower pin to compliment anything. I make these and give them away with my Ebay orders. They are super easy to make—maybe I’ll do a tutorial soon.
Sorry so blurry—my son took the picture and apparently flashed it before it focused.
On a different note, we are taking a little trip into Florida this weekend. My husband and I sing, so occasionally we get asked to sing at church fellowship meetings, homecomings, etc. We have to sing at a fellowship mtg, so we are planning to make it a mini vacation. My MIL will be going along to help us with the kiddos while we sing. :)
Have a great one!
