Beautiful Homemakers

 1)  Happy Resurrection Weekend!   I hope you are keeping Sunday simple, lovely, and full of joy!  Consider inviting someone who might be alone that day home with you to share your meal.  Look through your directory and invite someone!  You will probably make their day. Jennifer Flanders has wonderful ideas for you to do with children and adults, along with links and printables:   Our Family's Favorite Easter Traditions   2)  I went on a walk and passed by a neighbor's house in my old neighborhood, noticed it was for sale, and learned that the owner had died.  He was only 78; a retired doctor.  Our sole conversation took place in his driveway a year ago and he talked a lot about real estate, retirement funds, etc.  He certainly wasn't planning on dying soon.  This conversation took place before I was comfortable in knowing how to share the Gospel, so this week I actually set out on this walk in the hopes of running ...

 Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!   In today's video we continue discussing scenes from William Makepeace Thackeray's story Vanity Fair.   The subsections of Chapter 12 of the 1922 original Fascinating Womanhood pamphlet #6 is called "More of Becky Sharp's Stratagems," "How She Applied the Principles," and "Joseph is Enthralled."   I read you 4 vignettes from Vanity Fair and also cover a few points Mary Rizza brings out in her article Sharp at Heart: Why We Should Resist the Appeal of Becky Sharp .  Becky is adept at using FW principles; however, she is manipulative and insincere, and does not possess the worthy character that a true Fascinating Woman nurtures and develops with her acquaintances, and in her relationships. Becky is also adept in portraying "Beauty in Distress."  The most important sentence is "Could anything be better calculated to emphasize her tenderness, her feminine frailty, her helplessness in a cruel world, and...